Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Spark, Victor David, 1898-1991
| title | Victor D. Spark papers, circa 1830-1983, bulk 1930-1970 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Files on clients, galleries, museums, dealers and other business associates; artists' files; financial and legal records; and printed material. Included are extensive files (9 ft.) on clients, galleries, museums, dealers, and other business associates, containing correspondence, business records, and appraisal notes, 1895-1981 (bulk 1950s-1970s); artists' files (9 ft.), containing photographs of art works, clients' letters, and notes, 1905-1983; tax records, 1960-1962; auction price lists, 1976-1979; bills and receipts, 1930-1980; banking records, 1953-1973; check stubs and cancelled checks, 1961-1972; general ledgers, 1948-1971; cash outlay ledgers, 1956-1970; sales ledgers, 1949-1971; consignment records, 1949-1955; restoration and framing records, 1947-1953; ledgers for the account with James Graham and Sons, 1953-1969; stock books, 1951-1960; a ledger for a trip to Switzerland, 1970; legal files concerning Rauch vs. Internal Revenue Service, 1970, and Kaufman vs. Phoenix (Travellers) Insurance Co., 1971; engagement calendars logging appointments and brief annotations, 1948-1973; clippings, 1973-1982; exhibition and auction catalogs, 1949-1973; and newsletters and bulletins, 1948-1982. Also included are miscellaneous 19th century printed items, including: "Essays Upon Art at the Lyceum Gallery", 1849, "On Viewing and Judging Pictures", 1854, "The Ceremony of the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the National Academy of Design", 1864, "Lectures Delivered at the National Academy of Design" by Charles Edwards, "Pictures on Exhibition at Goupils", 1865, an untitled description of a print collection purchased by James L. Claghorn, 1869, and "The First American Art Academy", 1872, which relates the history of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In addition, there is a letter, 1924, from Ruth Moran to Mr. Schultheis enclosing a photograph of a Thomas Moran painting signed and attested by Moran. |
| extent | 19.4 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Appraisals Financial Records Photographs |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.sparvict.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/victor-d-spark-papers-7451 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Purchased at auction jointly by AAA and National Gallery of Art, July 1987. Photographs of works of art pertaining to NGA's collection were retained by NGA. Nineteenth century printed material and Moran letter donated 1954 by Spark.Three letters transferred from National Gallery of Art in 1996. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:23 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Victor D. Spark, 1975 August 5 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Victor D. Spark conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art. |
| extent | 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in. |
| formats | Sound Recording |
| access | Untranscribed; use requires an appointment. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_213108 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-victor-d-spark-13237 |
| acquisition information | Part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958. |
| updated | 06/13/2023 15:16:36 |
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| title | Dealer Photo Archives: Victor D. Spark | repository | National Gallery of Art, Image Collection |
| description | Dealer's Archives, Image Collections: Photographs New York dealer in old master paintings (12,000 photographs and negatives) |
| extent | 12,000 photographs and negatives |
| formats | Photographs Negatives |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.nga.gov/resources/dpadealers.shtm |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:55 |
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| title | The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) | repository | Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti |
| description | The collection contains about 300,000 photographs, many of them collected by Berenson himself from the 1880s until the time of his death in 1959. Many have notes on the back in his handwriting. Many show works of art before restoration, and others show images since destroyed. An important section, "Homeless paintings", contains photographs of works whose current location is unknown. The photographs are almost exclusively black and white in a variety of photographic media, such as albumen, gelatine, or carbon. About 3000 large-format photographs are stored separately. In addition, there is a considerable amount of documentary material in the form of clippings, notes and printed reproductions. The photographs are arranged according to Berenson's original scheme, by school: Florence, Siena, Central Italy, Northern Italy, Lombardy, Venice, Southern Italy. Within each school they are arranged by artist, then by topography, followed by homeless. Paintings and drawings are arranged separately. The main focus of the collection is on Italian painting and drawing from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. This part of the collection continues to be developed through the acquisition of new materials and through photographic campaigns. Later periods are also represented but in smaller scale, without systematic updating. There is also material on medieval painting, arranged topographically; manuscript illumination, arranged according to present location; archeology; Byzantine art and architecture, arranged both by artist and by location; and non-Italian art, arranged by country. Finally a section of 8000 photographs is devoted to the art of the Far East, India and Islam. In addition to the original Berenson nucleus, collections of prints, glass plates, negatives and transparencies have entered the Fototeca. These include the collections of Emilio Marcucci (nineteenth-century projects for the completion of various Florentine monuments), George Kaftal (representations of saints in Italian painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), Henry Clifford (painting thirtheenth to seventeenth centuries), Giorgio Castelfranco (Italian art thirteenth to twentieth centuries), Giannino Marchig (restoration), Frederick Hartt (Michelangelo, Giulio Romano), Giuseppe Marchini (Italian art and stained glass), and Craig H. Smyth (Renaissance painting and drawing). There is a small collection of micropublications and microfiche (162,386 frames): L=index photographique de l'art en France (95,648); Sotheby's Pictorial Archive - Old Master Paintings (45,472); Christie's Pictorial Archive Italian School (9,898); Christie's Pictorial Archive - New York 1977-95 Old Master Paintings & Drawings (11,368). The microfilm of the Bartsch Corpus comprises about 42,000 frames. Notes Most photographers not identified. |
| extent | 300,000 + photographs |
| formats | Photographs Reproductions Microfilm Artist Files |
| access | Contact Ilaria Della Monica the archivist at the Berenson Library for restrictions and appointments. |
| record link | http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=via |
| record source | http://itatti.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Currently, there is no catalog of the photographs at Villa I Tatti. In some cases, Artist Files, can be found school (i.e. Venetian, Lombard, Northern Italy, Central Italy, etc. . .) and some are cataloged in Harvard's online catalog, HOLLIS. |
| acquisition information | Originally formed by Bernard Berenson the Library continues to add to the file. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:10 |
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