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Collection Creator:
Goldwater, Robert John, 1907-1973  Search this
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet (Box 1)
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1934-1973
Scope and Contents note:
Goldwater's correspondence is with academic colleagues, art museums, arts organizations, publishers, and former students. There is also scattered correspondence with artists and with family. Subjects include: requests to write book reviews and employment references, and to critique others' writings and provide research advice; Magazine of Art and Museum of Primitive Art business; awards and memberships; details about publishing texts by Goldwater and others; and congratulatory letters, comments, and questions about his writings. A small number of letters include comments about the personal lives of the correspondents, usually routine news of family and friends; a few letters are of a purely social nature. There are three letters addressed to Louise Bourgeois: two from Erick Hawkins and one from Ronnie Elliott. Also found here are condolence letters received upon the deaths of Goldwater's mother and father in 1942 and 1958 respectively, and a small number of letters from his parents. Family letters include a few addressed to Clara A. Goldwater (Mrs. S. S. Goldwater). Small amounts of additional correspondence can be found in Series 2: Subject Files and Series 3: Teaching Records. See Appendix for a list of correspondents from Series 1.
Appendix: Correspondents from Series 1:
What follows is a complete list of correspondents (and the years of correspondence) in this series. Abramson, Jerry, 1969 Albright Art Gallery, 1947, 1954-1955 Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 1953 Allen, Harold, 1953 Allert de Lange Verlag, 1952-1954 American Association of University Professors, 1946 American Council of Learned Societies, 1967-1968 American Federation of Arts, 1953 American Studies Association of Metropolitan New York, 1955 Anderson, Wayne V., 1964 Andiron Club of New York City, 1945-1946 Argent Galleries, 1947 Arnason, H. Harvard, 1948 Arnheim, Rudolf, 1945 Art Bulletin, 1940-1945, 1955 Art Forum, 1967 Art Gallery of Ontario, 1970 Art Gallery of Toronto, 1972 Art In America, 1941-1947, 1955 Art Institute of Chicago, 1940 Art News, 1946-1947 Art Students League of New York, 1940, 1943 Arts Magazine, 1964, 1967 Atlantic Transports, 1952 Auchincloss, James C., 1953 Authors Guild, 1947 Baltimore Museum of Art, 1946, 1954 Baltrusaitis, Mr., 1952, 1973 Barnard College, 1954 Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1938-1939, 1949, 1951-1952 Becker, Marion R., 1945, 1949 Bellew, Peter, 1951 Bennington College, 1950 Benz, Helen, 1946 Bernheimer, Richard, 1955 Bernier, Rosamond, 1955 Besson, Mr., 1946 Black Mountain College, 1948 Board of Higher Education, City of New York, , 1944 Booth, Cameron, 1942 Boston Art Festival, 1954 British Council, 1951 British Museum, 1934 Brooklyn College, 1946 Brown University, 1964, 1968 Burlington Magazine, 1954 Busa, Peter, 1946 California Arts and Architecture, 1944 California School of Fine Arts, 1949 California State College, 1969 Carnegie Corporation, 1942-1943 Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1942 Chanticleer Press, Inc., 1955 Chapman, Ed, 1946 Choate, Mabel, 1946 Church, Howard, 1947 Cincinnati Modern Art Society, 1946-1946 Cleveland Institute of Art, 1952 Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952-1953 Colorado College, 1952 Columbia University Press, 1948 Columbia University, 1940, 1953-1955, 1962, 1965 Comité des Arts du Congres pour la Liberté de la Culture, 1964 Cook, Walter W. S., 1942-1943, 1945-1946, 1949-1950, 1955 Criterion Books, Inc., 1955 Critique, 1946 Crosby, Sumner McK., 1942 Dartmouth College, 1942 Davis, Stuart, 1943, 1945 Dersky, Morris, 1966 Dictionary of the Arts, 1941 Direction Départmentale de la Population de la Giornde, 1948 Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945 Duke University, 1946-1948, 1950 Edman, Irwin, 1942 Elliott, Ronnie, 1950* Elsen, Al, 1969 Engel, Eugene W., 1946-1947 Exhibition Momentum, 1953, 1956 Falkenstein, Claire, 1951 Farwell, Beatrice, 1968-1969 Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1946, 1950 Fitzsimmon, Jim, 1953 Florida State University, 1953 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1945-1947, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1971 Ford Foundation, 1969 Fox, Milton, 1958 [Frankenthaler?], Helen, 1950-1951 Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1969 Frick Collection, 1941 Fried, Richard N., 1950 Friedensohn, Elias, 1956 Fund for the Republic, Inc., 1956 G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1956 Gallatin, A. E., 1944 Goldwater, Barry, 1966 Goodrich, Lloyd, 1945 Goucher College, 1967 Greene, Balcomb, 1942, 1947, 1951-1953 Guggenheim Foundation, 1945-1946, 1953-1955 Hallmark Art Award, 1949 Hammacher, Mr., 1952 Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 1945 Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 1952 Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1939-1942 Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1953, 1955, 1957 Harvard University, 1949-1951, 1968 Hawkins, Erick, 1950* Herbert, Robert L., 1954 Hollins College, 1950 Hope, Henry R., 1943-1944, 1947, 1955 Horizon, 1949 Hunter College, 1967 Hunter, Sam, 1955 Indiana University, 1966 Ingram Merrill Foundation, 1966-1967 Institute for Advanced Study, 1964, 1966 Institute for Sex Research, Inc, Indiana University, 1966 Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1951 Institute of Design, 1947 Institute of Fine Arts Alumni Association, 1954 Institute of Fine Arts, 1969 Institute of International Education, 1953-1955 Intercultural Publications, Inc., 1953 International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 1954 Janson, H. W., 1952-1954 Johns Hopkins Press, 1966-1967 Joslin, Andrew, 1972 Kamer, Henri A., 1964 Karl, Aline, 1953 Kenyon Review, 1945-1947, 1954 Kerns Foundation, Theosophical Society in America, 1968 Keyserling, Leon H., 1948 Kimball, Fiske, 1945, 1949 Knowles, Edwin B., Jr., 1945 Koch, Bob, 1954 Komroff, Manuel, 1944, 1946 [Krautheimer], Richard, 1944 Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 1944 Lee, Rensselaer W., 1942, 1944 Levy, Adele R., 1956 Levy, Julien, 1944 Leylan, Robert M., 1941 Library of Congress, 1944-1947, 1952-1953 Loran, Erle, 1941 Loshak, David, 1946 Lougee and Company, 1952 M. I. T. Press, 1967 MacAgy, Douglas, 1948 Magazine of Art, 1944-1945, 1948, 1950-1951 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967 Masson, Rose, 1944 Mayhew, Edgar deN., 1944 McGraw, Patricia, 1953 McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950, 1965 Mellquist, Jerome, 1951 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940, 1954 Miller, Peter, 1944 Mitchell, Eleanor, 1945 Moffett, Charles, 1969 Museum of Modern Art, 1942, 1946-1947, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1969 Museum Purchase Fund, 1952 National Arts Club, 1946 Nelson, Kathleen L., 1945 New School Associates, 1953 New School for Social Research, 1949 New School, 1953, 1955 New York Times, 1946 New York University, 1934, 1937-1941, 1945, 1947, 1954, 1956-1959, 1963, 1966, 1970 New York University Press, 1970 Newark Museum, 1944 Okun, Henry, 1967-1968 Old Dominion Foundation, 1969 Ozenfant, [Amédée], 1949 Pantheon Books, Inc., 1944-1946, 1953-1954 Partisan Review, 1946, 1961-1962 Perry, William, 1941 Perspectives U.S.A., 1952 Phillips, Duncan, 1952 Photo Berard, 1951 Pietrantoni, M. L., 1955 Plass, Margo, 1962 Porter, James A., 1942 Prendergast, Charles, 1945 Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1950 Princeton University, 1943, 1949 Princeton University Press, 1947-1949, 1954-1955, 1959 Prior, Harris, 1946 Quadrum, 1956 Queens College, 1938-1957, 1972, undated Rand School of Social Science, 1945 Random House, 1964 [Rattner], Abe, 1945 Redon, Ari, 1951 Rewald, John, 1941-1942, 1946 Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, 1946 Rice Institute, 1954 Rice, Philip, 1952 Richter, H., 1952, 1954 Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller-Otterlo, 1957 Robb, David M., 1946-1947 Robinson, Cortland A., 1945 Rockefeller Foundation, 1946, 1951, 1954, 1956 Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1957-1958, 1965 Roditi, Edouard, 1951 Rodman, Selden, 1946 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1967-1968 Ruksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, 1952 Sachs, Mrs. H. F., 1941 Samuel Kress Foundation, 1968 San Francisco Museum of Art, 1953 Sandström, Sven, 1954 Sarah Lawrence College, 1949-1950 Saturday Review, 1951, 1954 Schaefer-Sinnevenm 1945 Scheeffner, Denise Pauline, 1964 Schmalenbach, Fritz, 1951-1952, 1954 Seeman, Hugh, 1953 Seligman, Germain, 1947 Seuphor, Michel, 1951-1953, 1955 [Schapiro?], Meyer, 1941, 1943, 1952, 1960 Sihara, Laxmi P., 1968 Sloane, Joe, 1941 Smyth, Craig Hugh, 1952-1954, 1956 Soby, James Thrall, 1946-1947, 1950, 1955-1956 Société des Africanistes, 1936 Sokol, David M., 1969 Solomon, Alan, undated State University of New York, Buffalo, 1969 State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1969 Stix, Hugh, 1952 Stokowski, Gloria (Mrs. Leopold), 1952 Sweeney, James Johnson, 1953, 1956 Sypher, Wylie, 1954 Time, 1945 Times Book Club, 1945 Tobé-Coburn School for Fashion Careers, 1947, 1950 [Trilling], Lionel, 1945-1946 Twin Editions, 1944 United States Educational Commission for France, 1951 United States Information Agency, 1959 University Club of Jamaica, New York, 1941 University of Birmingham, 1969 University of Birmingham, 1970 University of California, 1968-1969 University of California, Berkeley, 1948 University of Connecticut, 1950 University of Guelph, 1970-1971 University of Illinois, 1967 University of Iowa, 1968-1969 University of Massachusetts, 1966-1967, 1972 University of New Mexico, 1967 University of North Carolina, 1953 University of Texas, 1947 University of Washington Press, 1967 Valentin, Curt, 1953 Venturi, [illegible], 1941 Viking Press, Inc., 1944, 1968 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1953 Visson, Assia R., 1942-1943, 1947, 1950 Vytlacil, Vaclav, 1942 Walker Art Center, 1954 Walker, Hudson D., 1948 Wardwell, Allen, II, undated Webster J. Carson, 1945, 1955 Webster, J. Carson, 1955 Weller, Allen S., 1958 Werner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1970 Wescher, Herta, 1956 Wesleyan University Press, 1965 Western Illinois University, 1969 Western Reserve University, 1946, 1954 Western Review, 1948 White Art Museum, Cornell University, 1954 Whitney Museum of American Art, 1948, 1954 Who's Who In America, 1952 Who's Who in the Western Hemisphere, 1943 Wiggin, Florence B., 1944 Wilber, Allen S., 1947 Wildenstein and Co., 1949 Williams College, 1969 Withers, William, 1941 Wittenborn, Shcultz, Inc., 1948 Wolff, Werner, 1945 Wurster, E. B., 1944 Yale French Studies, 1956 Yale University, 1954, 1962, 1967, 1972 [illegible], 1943, 1945-1946, 1950-1954, 1962, 1964, undated [unknown], Alan, 1954 [unknown], Annie, 1952, 1954 [unknown], Donald, 1969 [unknown], Eddie, 1950 [unknown], Edith, 1957 [unknown], Ethel, 1955 [unknown], Fred, 1947, 1954 [unknown], Gerry, 1968 [unknown], Joe, 1953-1954 [unknown], John, 1953 [unknown], Marco, 1954 [unknown], Margaret, 1945 [unknown], Roy, 1969 [unknown], Russell, 1946 [unknown], Sarah, 1970 [unsigned], 1942 [unsigned], 1950
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Collection Citation:
Robert John Goldwater papers, 1902-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.goldrobe, Series 1
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Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
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