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Collection Creator:
D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968  Search this
Extent:
0.4 Linear feet (Box 1, OV 4)
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1928-circa 1970s
Scope and Contents:
Published articles include "Pancho el Juguetero" ("Pancho the Toy Maker") (1928) and "Las Artes Populares de México" (1930), both published in rare editions of Mexican Folkways, the latter including a cover; "The Mexican Exhibition" (Design, 1930); "The Loan Exhibition of Mexican Arts" (Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 1930); "Exposición de Artes Mexicanas" (Boletín de la Unión Panamericana, 1931); "Art and the People: First Steps of Approach" (The American Magazine of Art, 1933); "North American Indian Arts" (Magazine of Art, 1939); "Living Arts of the Indians" (Magazine of Art, 1941); "American Indian Art" (Studio, 1944); and "Arte Indio de Norte America," Parts 1 and 2, written with Frederic H. Douglas (Forma: Revisita de Arte, 1943). Also found here is the 1969 reprint of the expanded catalog for Indian Art of the United States (Museum of Modern Art, 1969), that d'Harnoncourt co-authored with Frederic H. Douglas; a photocopy of a foreword to Music of the Sioux and the Navajo (1953); a catalog written by d'Harnoncourt for the National Indian Institute, El Arte del Indio en los Estados Unidos (1943); and copies of two books of seminars/symposia, The Changing Indian (University of Oklahoma Press, 1942) and The North American Indian Today (University of Toronto Press, 1943) that both include papers by d'Harnoncourt: "Indian Arts and Crafts and their Place in the Modern World," and "Function and Production of Indian Art." Typescripts are a foreword by d'Harnoncourt to Mexican Constume: Twenty-five Color Plates and Text by Carlos Merida (1941), and remarks on the subject of "Problems and Promise of Indian Arts and Crafts" (1958). Writings by others include a draft (numbered #3) of "Ethnohistory of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the Department of the Interior" by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin; a typescript of a paragraph from File on Spratling: An Autobiography by William Spratling; and a typescript of paragraphs from The Daybooks of Edward Weston that relate to d'Harnoncourt.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Collection Rights:
Reels 2919-2931: Authorization to publish requires written permission from Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y. MoMA requires full citation to include microfilm reel and frame numbers, and reference to MoMA as the owner of the Rene d'Harnoncourt papers. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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Collection Citation:
René d'Harnoncourt papers, 1921-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.dharrene, Series 3
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René d'Harnoncourt papers
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
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