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Creator:

Hapgood, Charles, 1904-1982  Search this

Subject:

D'Harnoncourt, Rene  Search this

Collier, John  Search this

Hudgens, Robert Watts  Search this

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)  Search this

Roosevelt, Eleanor  Search this

Citation:

Charles Hapgood papers, 1938-1950. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

American studio craft movement  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Patronage  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7652

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209815

AAA_collcode_hapgchar

Theme:

Craft

Patronage

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209815

Creator:

Faison, S. Lane (Samson Lane), 1907-2006  Search this

Subject:

Carnegie International  Search this

Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section  Search this

United States. Office of Strategic Services. Art Looting Intelligen Unit  Search this

Williams College  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Citation:

S. Lane Faison papers, 1922-1981, bulk 1950-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

Art -- History -- Study and teaching  Search this

Theme:

Research and writing about art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8102

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210273

AAA_collcode_faislane

Theme:

Research and writing about art

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210273

Creator:

Patch, Margaret Merwin  Search this

Subject:

Ayers, Hester Merwin  Search this

Webb, Aileen O.  Search this

World Crafts Council  Search this

American Craftsmen's Council  Search this

Type:

Diaries

Sound recordings

Citation:

Margaret Merwin Patch papers, 1885-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Handicraft  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Art organizations  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8327

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210499

AAA_collcode_patcmarg

Theme:

Craft

Art organizations

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210499

Creator:

Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000  Search this

Subject:

Wittmann, Otto  Search this

Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff  Search this

Stout, George L. (George Leslie)  Search this

Faison, S. Lane (Samson Lane)  Search this

Howe, Thomas Carr  Search this

Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold  Search this

Gonzalez, Xavier  Search this

Willard, Marian  Search this

Swarzenski, Hanns  Search this

Valentin, Curt  Search this

Sabersky, Jane  Search this

Beckmann, Max  Search this

Moore, Lamont  Search this

Parkhurst, Charles  Search this

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Search this

Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section  Search this

Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc.  Search this

City Art Museum of St. Louis  Search this

Type:

Transcripts

Photographs

Interviews

Citation:

Perry Townsend Rathbone papers, 1929-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Museum directors -- Massachusetts -- Boston  Search this

Theme:

Research and writing about art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8353

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210525

AAA_collcode_rathperr

Theme:

Research and writing about art

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210525

Creator:

Withers, Margret Craver, 1907-2010  Search this

Type:

Drawings

Motion pictures

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Margret Craver Withers papers, 1908-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

American studio craft movement  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women arts administrators  Search this

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Women  Search this

Craft  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9358

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211554

AAA_collcode_withmarg

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Women

Craft

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211554

Creator:

Stout, George L. (George Leslie)  Search this

Subject:

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)  Search this

Gardner, G. Peabody (George Peabody)  Search this

Ivins, William Mills  Search this

Marceau, Henri  Search this

Hall, Ardelia Ripley  Search this

Howe, Thomas Carr  Search this

Sizer, Theodore  Search this

Buck, Richard D.  Search this

Warner, Langdon (1881-1955)  Search this

Constable, W. G. (William George)  Search this

Moore, Lamont  Search this

Worcester Art Museum  Search this

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum  Search this

Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section  Search this

Fogg Art Museum  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Sketches

Sketchbooks

Citation:

George Leslie Stout papers, 1855, 1897-1978. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Museum directors -- United States  Search this

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

Art -- Conservation and restoration  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Diaries  Search this

Research and writing about art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13421

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211684

AAA_collcode_stougeor

Theme:

Diaries

Diaries

Research and writing about art

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211684

Creator:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Ducat, Vivian  Search this

Subject:

Archives of American Art  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Robert Brown interview, 1977. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Art organizations  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6434

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)215569

AAA_collcode_browrobe

Theme:

Art organizations

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_215569

Creator:

De Ferrari, Gabriella, 1941-  Search this

New School University  Search this

Subject:

Katz, Ada  Search this

Katz, Alex  Search this

Gund, Agnes  Search this

Gray, Francine du Plessix  Search this

Cuno, James B.  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Brenson, Michael  Search this

Sischy, Ingrid  Search this

Segal, Martin  Search this

Seator, Glen  Search this

LeWitt, Carol  Search this

LeWitt, Sol  Search this

Pan-American Society of New England  Search this

Wadsworth Atheneum  Search this

Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.)  Search this

Busch-Reisinger Museum  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Diaries

Illustrated letters

Video recordings

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Gabriella De Ferrari papers, 1931-2011, bulk 1975-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women art historians  Search this

Women museum curators  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Research and writing about art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16023

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)306634

AAA_collcode_defemari

Theme:

Women

Research and writing about art

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_306634

Creator:

Ferrin, Leslie, 1958-  Search this

King, Lyndel  Search this

Subject:

Roberts, Susan Stokes  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Michael Simon interview, 2018. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Mingei (Art)  Search this

Ceramicists -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17586

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)395812

AAA_collcode_ferrlesl

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_395812

Creator:

Hall, Lee  Search this

Subject:

Parsons, Betty  Search this

Ajay, Abe  Search this

De Kooning, Elaine  Search this

De Kooning, Willem  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design  Search this

Betty Parsons Gallery  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Diaries

Video recordings

Citation:

Lee Hall papers, circa 1870s-2017, bulk 1975-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Research and writing about art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17601

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)396548

AAA_collcode_halllee

Theme:

Research and writing about art

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_396548

Creator:

Stout, George L. (George Leslie)  Search this

Names:

Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section  Search this

Fogg Art Museum  Search this

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum  Search this

Worcester Art Museum  Search this

Correspondent:

Buck, Richard D.  Search this

Constable, W. G. (William George), 1887-1976  Search this

Gardner, G. Peabody (George Peabody)  Search this

Hall, Ardelia Ripley  Search this

Howe, Thomas Carr, 1904-1994  Search this

Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961  Search this

Marceau, Henri, 1896-1969  Search this

Moore, Lamont  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965  Search this

Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967  Search this

Warner, Langdon (1881-1955)  Search this

Extent:

6.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Sketches

Sketchbooks

Date:

1855

1897-1978

Summary:

The papers of conservator and museum director George Leslie Stout measure 6.4 linear feet and date from 1855, 1897-1978. Stout was head of the conservation department at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, director of the Worcester Art Museum and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Massachusetts, and a member of the Monuments, Fine Art and Archives (MFAA) Section of the U.S. Army during World War II. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with family, friends, colleagues and professional associations. There are letters from fellow Monuments Men who served in the MFAA section such as Thomas Carr Howe, Ardelia Hall, Lamont Moore, Theodore Sizer, Langdon Warner and several other prominent arts administrators. The papers also contain biographical materials, writings, sketches and one sketchbook, military records, printed materials, and photographs.

There is a 0.2 linear foot addition to this collection acquired in 2020 that includes four diaries, 1944-1946, kept by George Stout as a member of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section (MFAA) of the U.S. Army (known as the Monuments Men). The diaries describe Stout's experiences surveying war-caused damages in France, Germany, and Japan, and the recovery of Nazi impounded art works. Also included is a hand-made booklet that includes a "Glossary of Cha-no-yu Terms," which consists of quotes about Japanese art and tea drinking.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of conservator and museum director George Leslie Stout measure 6.4 linear feet and date from 1855, 1897-1978. Stout was head of the conservation department at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, director of the Worcester Art Museum and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Massachusetts, and a member of the Monuments, Fine Art and Archives (MFAA) Section of the U.S. Army during World War II. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with family, friends, colleagues and professional associations. There are letters from fellow Monuments Men who served in the MFAA section such as Thomas Carr Howe, Ardelia Hall, Lamont Moore, Theodore Sizer, Langdon Warner and several other prominent arts administrators. The papers also contain biographical materials, writings, sketches and one sketchbook, military records, printed materials, and photographs.

There is a 0.2 linear foot addition to this collection acquired in 2020 that includes four diaries, 1944-1946, kept by George Stout as a member of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section (MFAA) of the U.S. Army (known as the Monuments Men). The diaries describe Stout's experiences surveying war-caused damages in France, Germany, and Japan, and the recovery of Nazi impounded art works. Also included is a hand-made booklet that includes a "Glossary of Cha-no-yu Terms," which consists of quotes about Japanese art and tea drinking.

Biographical materials include college and graduate school transcripts, various certificates, four small appointment books and passports.

Correspondence is between George Leslie Stout and family, friends, colleagues, professional associations and fellow Monuments Men. Family correspondence is with Stout's immediate and extended family, the bulk of which is from Stout to his wife Margaret and his son Thomas. Correspondents in the Monuments Men correspondence include Thomas Carr Howe, Ardelia Hall, Lamont Moore, Theodore Sizer, Langdon Warner, and many others. There is also substantial correspondence with friends and professional colleagues in the museum and art world, such as Walter Beck, Richard D. Buck, William George Constable, Earl of Crawford, George Peabody Gardner, Jr., William Ivins, Jr., Henri Marceau, and Paul Sachs, among many others.

Writings by Stout consist of typescript drafts and published articles, speeches, and miscellaneous notes. Most of the writings concern art conservation and the speeches are memorials for two of Stout's colleagues. Notes consists of drafts for the texts of holiday cards Stout designed, biographical notes, and images and captions for The Care of Pictures. There are also three conference papers on art conservation written by other people.

Subject files document Stout's conservation projects as a consultant for museums, universities, galleries and other organizations. Also found in this series are documents relating to Stout's work after retiring from the Isabella Gardner Museum and his membership or participation in various arts programs and organizations.

A separate series contains files relating to Stout's World War II service in the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives (MFAA) Section. Found here are official military records, publications by Monuments Men, and a few scattered photographs. Military records include directives, reports, certificates and a bronze star medal. There are articles and books written by various Monuments Men such as Langdon Warner, Lincoln Kirstein and Theodore Sizer. There are also scattered photographs, only two of which depict tout (including one group photograph with Lamont Moore, Walker Hancock and other Monuments Men.) There are also 12 negatives with 4 prints depicting La Gleize Church and the town of Ambleve, Belgium in 1945. There are also four diaries documenting Stout's experiences in the MFAA Section in Europe and Japan from 1944-1946.

Personal business records include assorted legal and estate papers as well as financial papers such as receipts, travel expenses and donations.

Printed materials consists of news clippings, bulletins, brochures, press releases, conference papers, and magazine and journal articles, most of it related to art conservation.

Artwork includes pencil and ink drawings and sketches, mostly of travel scenes, people, and animals. There is one sketchbook of the human figure. Many sketches were loosely grouped together by Stout with titles such as "Pool Doodles" or "Park and Zoo." The is also one caricature of Eric Brown by Murray Pease.

The papers include photographs and negatives, mostly personal photographs of friends, family, relatives and colleagues. There are also photographs of art conservation conferences and travel photographs. Additional scattered photographs are located in the series containing the Monuments Men files.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged as 9 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Materials, circa 1919-1977 (0.1 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1922-1978 (2.5 linear feet; Box 1-3, OV 8)

Series 3: Writings, 1927-1978 (0.5 linear feet; Box 3-4)

Series 4: Subject Files, 1918, 1943-1978 (1 linear feet; Box 4, OV 8-9)

Series 5: Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives Section Files, 1918, 1942-1955, 1972-1975 (0.5 linear feet; Box 5, 10)

Series 6: Personal Business Records, 1938-1978 (0.1 linear feet; Box 5)

Series 7: Printed Materials, 1926-1977 (0.8 linear feet; Box 5-6, OV 9)

Series 8: Sketchbooks, circa 1924-circa 1938, 1970-1977 (0.1 linear feet; Box 6)

Series 9: Photographic Materials, circa 1855, 1897-1978 (0.2 linear feet; Box 6-7)

Biographical / Historical:

George Leslie Stout (1897-1978) was a museum director and prominent art conservator in Massachusetts. Stout was head of the conservation department at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, and director of the Worcester Art Museum and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Massachusetts. During World War II, Stout served in the U.S. Army Monuments, Fine Art and Archives (MFAA) and played a leading role in the protection, location, and recovery of art work stolen by the Nazis.

Born in Winterset, Iowa in 1897, George Leslie Stout was the oldest of six children and attended Winterset High School and served in the U.S. army during World War I. Following the war, Stout studied at the State University of Iowa, received his B.A. in 1921, worked for a few years, and married Margaret Hayes in 1924 with whom he had two sons, Robert and Thomas. He attended Harvard graduate school in 1926 and graduated with a Master of Art in 1929. Stout began working as a lecturer and conservator at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, later becoming the head of the conservation department in 1933, a position he held until 1947.

During World War II, Stout re-enlisted in the U.S. Navy, having served in the reserves since World War I. Stout was one of the first members of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives (MFAA) Section of the U.S. army. He was appointed to the MFAA Section for the Twelfth Army Group in 1944 and was one of the first Monuments Men to arrive at Normandy, France. He was later appointed Lieutenant Commander of the MFAA Section. Many of the Monuments Men's stolen art recovery achievements were directed by George Leslie Stout. Stout supervised the inventory and removal of looted art hidden by the Nazis in the salt mines of Merkers and Ransbach in Thuringia, Germany. Stout oversaw the organization, packing, and shipping of several thousand objects including paintings by Rubens and Goya, along with precious antiquities. At the Altaussee salt mines in Austria, he was in charge of the unit that recovered a large cache of stolen artwork that included Michelangelo's Madonna and Child and the Ghent Altarpiece or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. There, he also worked very closely with fellow Monuments Men Thomas Carr Howe. Stout went on to locate and recover looted artwork in other repositories in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. He maintained a relationship with many of his fellow Monuments Men after the war.

Stout left Europe in the latter half of 1945, then went to Japan where he served as the Chief of the Arts and Monuments Division at Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Tokyo until the middle of 1946. After the war Stout received the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal for his army service and work as a Monuments Man in Europe.

Stout resumed his position as the head of the conservation department at the Fogg Art Museum when he returned to America. In 1947 he became the director of the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts where he stayed until 1955, when he became the director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston where he worked until his retirement in 1970. Stout wrote numerous articles about art conservation and wrote two books: Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia (1942), co-authored with Harvard colleage R. J. Gettens, and Care of Pictures (1948). Stout died in Menlo Park, California in 1978 and was widely recognized as a distinguished art conservator.

Related Materials:

Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with George Stout conducted by Paul Karlstrom in 1978.

Provenance:

George Leslie Stout donated his papers to the Archives of American Art in 1978. In that same year, Robert Stout, son of George Leslie Stout, loaned four diaries to the Archives of American Art for microfilming. The four diaries were acquired at auction by the Archives in 2020 with generous donations from Paul Neely, David Copperfield in memory of Kelly Asbury, Deborah Lehr and John Rogers, Ambassador Nicholas F. Taubman, The Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Foundation, Jeffrey P. Cunard and Mariko Ikehara; The Elbrun and Peter Kimmelman Family Foundation, Inc.; Peter and Paula Lunder; William and Christine Ragland in memory of William McKenzie Ragland Lt. JG, U.S. Navy, Pacific Theater, WWII; The Kurin Family in honor of WWII Veteran Saul Kurin, Paul and Corine Wegener, and Judy and Bob Huret.

Restrictions:

This collection is temporarily closed to researchers due to archival processing and digitization. For more information, please contact Reference Services.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Conservators -- California  Search this

Arts administrators  Search this

Topic:

Museum directors -- United States  Search this

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

Art -- Conservation and restoration  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sketches

Sketchbooks

Citation:

George Leslie Stout papers, 1855, 1897-1978. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.stougeor

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George Leslie Stout papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ccad7a5c-748e-4881-8fc3-5bf2bf18a811

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-stougeor

Creator:

Hall, Lee  Search this

Names:

Betty Parsons Gallery  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design  Search this

Ajay, Abe  Search this

De Kooning, Elaine  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Parsons, Betty  Search this

Extent:

7.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Diaries

Video recordings

Date:

circa 1870s-2017

bulk 1975-2010

Summary:

The papers of painter, author, and arts administrator Lee Hall measure 7.4 linear feet and date from circa 1870-2017, bulk 1975 to 2010. The papers document Hall's career through biographical material, correspondence, writings, studio records, printed material, photographic material, and artwork. Included is significant documentation on Hall's book projects, including biographies of Betty Parsons, Abe Ajay, and Willem and Elaine de Kooning.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of painter, author, and arts administrator Lee Hall measure 7.4 linear feet and date from circa 1870-2017, bulk 1975 to 2010. The papers document Hall's career through biographical material, correspondence, writings, studio records, printed material, photographic material, and artwork. Included is significant documentation on Hall's book projects, including biographies of Betty Parsons, Abe Ajay, and Willem and Elaine de Kooning.

Biographical material includes business cards, résumé and biographical texts, travel documents, and awards. Correspondence is professional and personal in nature and includes some collected historic correspondence from unknown authors. Correspondence regarding specific writing projects is found in the Writings series. The Writings series includes journals and notebooks focusing primarily on Hall's travels and study of Classics including the Greek language. The Writing Projects subseries includes titles intended for publication as well as college papers, essays, and lectures. Published titles are often accompanied by book proposals, contracts, research material, interviews, and correspondence. Also included are writings by others including reviews regarding Hall's art career. Studio records include artwork inventories, loan paperwork, and the mechanical for an exhibition catalog. Printed material includes exhibition invitations for Lee Hall's art career, exhibition catalogs for Hall's exhibitions and that of Betty Parsons, and general printed material regarding Elaine de Kooning, as well as press clippings on various topics. Photographic materials include images of Lee Hall and her circle of friends including Betty Parsons, images of Hall in her studio, installation images of Hall's exhibitions at the Betty Parsons Gallery, and extensive photographs of Hall's travels to the Mediterranean, primarily to Greece and Turkey. The Artwork series includes sketches, watercolors and other small paintings by Lee, as well as illustrated manuscripts for children's book titles.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in seven series:

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1970-2010 (0.2 Linear Feet; Boxes 1, 7)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1870-2016 (0.3 Linear Feet; Box 1)

Series 3: Writings, circa 1920-2010 (4.0 Linear Feet; Boxes 1-5)

Series 4: Studio Records, circa 1973-2010 (0.2 Linear Feet; Box 5)

Series 5: Printed Material, circa 1914-2016 (0.4 Linear Feet; Boxes 5, 7)

Series 6: Photographic Material, circa 1940-2017 (1.7 Linear Feet; Boxes 5-9)

Series 7: Artwork, circa 1950-2010 (0.6 Linear Feet; Boxes 6-7, Oversize 10)

Biographical / Historical:

Lee Hall (1935-2017) was a painter, author, and arts administrator who served as president of the Rhode Island School of Design from 1975-1983. Born in Lexington, North Carolina and raised in Florida following her parents' divorce, Lee Hall later returned to her birth state to attend the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. She received her bachelor of fine arts in 1955, studying under the abstract painter John Opper. She eventually earned a masters degree in art education and a PhD in creative arts, both from New York University. Hall's paintings shared an Abstract Expressionist sensibility common with many of her peers at the Betty Parsons Gallery, imparted on the figurative tradition of landscape painting. Hall showed her paintings at the Betty Parsons Gallery from the late seventies until 1982 when the gallery closed following Parsons' death, after which she ceased exhibiting her work almost entirely until the last decade of her life. Hall maintained a studio at her home in South Hadley, Massachusetts throughout her life. A few years before Parson's death Hall had agreed to write Parsons' biography, finally released in 1991, on the condition that she and papers were made available for intensive research. Hall published titles on a wide variety of subjects including a comprehensive survey of American clothing (1992), and perhaps most notably the controversial biography of painters Elaine and Willem de Kooning (1993).

Separated Materials:

Three linear feet of Betty Parsons papers donated as part of the Lee Hall papers were transferred to the collection of Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers, also located at the Archives of American Art.

Provenance:

Donated in 2018 by the Lee Hall Estate via Carolyn Crozier and Deborah Jacobson, co-executors.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- Massachusetts  Search this

Authors -- Massachusetts  Search this

Arts administrators -- Rhode Island  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Diaries

Video recordings

Citation:

Lee Hall Papers, circa 1870s-2017. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.halllee

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Lee Hall papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91d411a6e-e1cb-42cd-97de-96d9f710d658

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-halllee

Interviewee:

Faison, S. Lane (Samson Lane), 1907-2006  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F  Search this

Subject:

College Art Association of America  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with S. Lane Faison, 1981 December 14. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art and war  Search this

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12908

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212323

AAA_collcode_faison81

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212323

Interviewee:

Emery, Humphery  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Humphery Emery, 1973 April 25-1973 May 29. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12901

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212653

AAA_collcode_emery73

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212653

Interviewee:

Hatch, John Davis, 1907-1996  Search this

Interviewer:

White, H. Wade  Search this

Subject:

Bloom, Hyman  Search this

Bluemner, Oscar  Search this

Bruce, Edward  Search this

Dows, Olin  Search this

Knaths, Karl  Search this

Levine, Jack  Search this

Federal Art Project  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with John Davis Hatch, 1964 June 8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Interviews  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Arts administrators -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12768

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213549

AAA_collcode_hatch64

Theme:

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213549

Interviewee:

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993  Search this

Interviewer:

Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983  Search this

Subject:

Blatas, Arbit  Search this

Steichen, Edward  Search this

Talbot, William Henry Fox  Search this

United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section  Search this

George Eastman House  Search this

Federal art project (Mass.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Beaumont Newhall, 1965 Jan. 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Photography  Search this

Theme:

Photography  Search this

New Deal  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13299

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213687

AAA_collcode_newhal65

Theme:

Photography

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213687

Interviewee:

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993  Search this

Interviewer:

Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983  Search this

Creator:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

Federal art project (Mass.)  Search this

George Eastman House  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section  Search this

Blatas, Arbit  Search this

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973  Search this

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877  Search this

Extent:

23 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1965 Jan. 23

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Beaumont Newhall conducted 1965 Jan. 23, by Joseph Trovato, for the Archives of American Art. Newhall speaks of his education and first jobs in museums; his administration of the WPA Federal Art Project in Massachusetts; Berenice Abbott's photographs of New York; and the Farm Security Administration's photography project. He speaks of early photography and William Henry Fox Talbot; photography and the Armory Show; the 1937 photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and Edward Steichen; and the George Eastman House. Newhall comments on museums accepting photography as art; the amateur photographer versus the artistic photographer; and his view of photography as a discoverer and a "partaker" of nature.

Biographical / Historical:

Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was an art administrator and art historian from Rochester, N.Y.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 21 min.

Provenance:

Conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews  Search this

Art historians -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Photography  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.newhal65

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e41d7f7d-3b66-4cbf-b01f-ae7ed133ae1e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-newhal65

Interviewee:

Emery, Humphery  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Extent:

26 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1973 April 25-1973 May 29

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Humphery Emery conducted 1973 April 25-1973 May 29, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

Biographical / Historical:

Humphrey Emery is an arts administrator of Boston, Massachusetts.

General:

Sound quality is poor.

Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 34 min.

Provenance:

These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Arts administrators -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.emery73

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw920a20785-34b7-4cb7-a1b5-77319d3a2fa6

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-emery73

Interviewee:

Hatch, John Davis  Search this

Interviewer:

White, H. Wade  Search this

Creator:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Bloom, Hyman, 1913-  Search this

Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938  Search this

Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943  Search this

Dows, Olin, 1904-1981  Search this

Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971  Search this

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 7 in.)

52 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1964 June 8

Scope and Contents:

An interview of John Davis Hatch conducted 1964 June 8, by H. Wade White for the Archives of American Art.

Hatch speaks of his work as the New England area director of the Federal Art Project; the early organization of the Public Works of Art Project in New England; some of the artists and administrators involved, including Olin Dows, Jack Levine, Hyman Bloom, Edward Bruce and Oscar Bluemner, and Karl Knaths.

Biographical / Historical:

Art historian, collector, art consultant, museum director; b. 1907; d. May 30, 1996.

Provenance:

Conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Art historians -- New England -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Interviews  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Arts administrators -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.hatch64

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b4b06bc2-20be-42a0-a3af-f2cb4f14f8bc

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hatch64

Creator:

Bowman, Ruth, 1923-  Search this

Names:

American Association of Museums  Search this

American Federation of Arts  Search this

Brooklyn Museum  Search this

Canadian Museums Association  Search this

Craft and Folk Art Museum  Search this

KUSC (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)  Search this

Long Beach Museum of Art  Search this

Los Angeles County Museum of Art  Search this

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Search this

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

New York University  Search this

Newark Museum  Search this

WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Albers, Josef  Search this

Anshutz, Thomas Pollock, 1851-1912  Search this

Bengelsdorf, Rosalind, 1916-1979  Search this

Bolotowsky, Ilya, 1907-1981  Search this

Burkhardt, Hans Gustav, 1904-1994  Search this

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906  Search this

Diller, Burgoyne, 1906-1965  Search this

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916  Search this

Ferren, John, 1905-1970  Search this

Holty, Carl, 1900-1973  Search this

Holtzman, Harry  Search this

Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003  Search this

Levine, Les, 1935-  Search this

Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973  Search this

MacDonald, Duncan (Broadcaster)  Search this

Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971  Search this

McNeil, George, 1908-1995  Search this

Morris, George L. K., 1905-1975  Search this

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988  Search this

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973  Search this

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967  Search this

Sloan, Helen Farr, 1911-2005  Search this

Wilfred, Thomas, 1889-1968  Search this

Extent:

26.7 Linear feet

21.99 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Photographs

Interviews

Sound recordings

Scripts (documents)

Date:

1936-2006

bulk 1963-1999

Summary:

The papers of art historian and museum educator Ruth Bowman are dated 1936-2006, bulk 1963-1999, and measure 26.7 linear feet and 21.99 GB. Professional correspondence and subject files document Bowman's relationships with colleagues and reflect her interests, activities including curatorial work, and accomplishments as a museum educator. Writings and related research materials include her thesis,"Thomas Pollock Anshutz, 1851-1912" (M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1971), and unfinished projects. Also found are interviews conducted by Bowman with a wide range of individuals for a variety of purposes.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of art historian and museum educator Ruth Bowman are dated 1936-2006, bulk 1963-1999, and measure 26.7 linear feet and 21.99 GB. Professional correspondence and subject files document Bowman's relationships with colleagues and reflect her interests, activities including curatorial work, and accomplishments as a museum educator. Writing and related research materials include her thesis, "Thomas Pollock Anshutz, 1851-1912" (M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1971), and unfinished projects. Also found are interviews conducted by Bowman with a wide range of individuals for a variety of purposes.

Biographical materials consist of certificates, resumes, and a few photographs of Ruth Bowman. Correspondence concerns Bowman's professional activities and interests. Among the most frequent correspondents are: American Association of Museums, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.

Writings by Ruth Bowman, published and unpublished, include a thesis and articles about Thomas Pollock Anshutz, catalogs for American Federation of Arts and The Newark Museum exhibitions, lectures, as well as articles about museum education and visual arts programs. Research relates to her writings about Anshutz, and to unrealized projects concerning Anshutz, Cézanne, Eakins, Picasso, and other subjects. Also found are two brief writings about Bowman.

Subject files--general subjects, artists' files, Ruth Bowman activities, and "Sunrise Semester"--contain the majority of Bowman's professional correspondence along with printed material, writings, photographs, and sound recordings. Among the most thoroughly documented general subjects are: The Brooklyn Museum's Trustees Retreat, Canadian Museums Association, a 1981 Craft Symposium, International Network for the Arts, Long Beach Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Museum Directors' Forum", New York University Art Collection, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Council for the Arts. Artists' files are comprised mainly of printed material with a small amount of correspondence and some photographs. The Les Levine file consists of the first issue of Art-Rite featuring a brief article about Levine on its cover; Thomas Wilfred's file includes information about Lumia. Ruth Bowman activities include lectures, radio and television appearances, and participation in professional events. "Sunrise Semester," a collaboration between CBS television and New York University, offered early morning courses for college credit. Ruth Bowman was the instructor for "20th Century American Art," which is documented by general information, scripts, and sound recordings of all 46 classes.

Interviews conducted by Bowman are with English museum administrators and educators; people knowledgeable about a controversial proposal for an Annenberg Fine Arts Center at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; guests on KUSC radio shows "Sounds of Seeing" and "Live from Trump's"; and guests on the WNYC radio program "Views on Art." Interviews with miscellaneous individuals include Josef Albers, Hans Burkhardt, Carl Holty, Isamu Noguchi, and Helen Farr Sloan. Bowman interviewed a dozen American abstract artists, including Ilya Bolotowsky, Rosalind Bengelsdorf Browne, Burgoyne Diller, John Ferren, Carl Holty, Harry Holtzman, Ibram Lassaw, Jacques Lipchitz, Alice Mason, George McNeil, George L. K. Morris, and Ad Reinhardt for a thesis on the subject, but eventually wrote on a different topic. Two interviews with Bowman were conducted by Duncan MacDonald and an unidentified interviewer.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged as 5 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1964-1984 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1963-1996 (Box 1; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings and Related Research, 1942-1999 (Boxes 1-3; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 4: Subject Files, 1936-2006 (Boxes 3-12, 26; 9.6 linear feet)

Series 5: Interviews, 1963-1989 (Boxes 12-25; 9.2 linear feet, ER01-ER70; 21.99 GB)

Biographical / Historical:

Ruth Bowman (b. 1923) is an art historian and museum educator who worked in New York City and Los Angeles. She is known for her interest in using new communications technology for museum education, discovering Arshile Gorky's long forgotten murals at Newark Airport, and expertise in the work of Thomas Anshutz.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College (B.A. 1944), where she had studied art history and classical archaeology, Ruth Bowman began a museum career in New York as an assistant curator at the Jewish Museum in the early 1960s. From 1963-1974 Ruth Bowman served as curator of the York University Art Collection and was involved in its transition to the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center. Bowman wrote her master's thesis on Philadelphia artist Thomas Pollock Anshutz and received a degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1971. During this same period, she was a staff lecturer at The Museum of Modern Art and taught art history in divisions of New York University. She was the instructor for a "Sunrise Semester" 20th century American art course broadcast nationally on CBS.

In 1974 Bowman and her family moved to California and she began an association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as Director of Education. She attended summer courses in arts administration at Harvard University (1975) and similar training provided by the British Arts Council (1976). She taught at University of California Santa Barbara, as well as at California State University at Fullerton and Long Beach. Bowman was active in the Council of the American Association of Museums (vice president), the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles (vice president), and has served as a consultant to several museums and a corporate collection.

Ruth Bowman with her friend Harry Kahn (1916-1999) developed a collection of self-portraits by 20th century American artists, which she donated to the National Portrait Gallery in 2002. Mrs. Bowman is the widow of R. Wallace Bowman and currently resides in New York City.

Provenance:

Donated by Ruth Bowman in 2004.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

Research material including correspondence, writings and notes, photographs, and printed material on Cezanne, Thomas Eakins, and Picasso: Authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce requires written permission from Ruth Bowman. Contact Reference Services for more information.

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Educators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Art, American -- 20th century  Search this

Women art historians  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Interviews

Sound recordings

Scripts (documents)

Citation:

Ruth Bowman papers, 1936-2006, bulk 1963-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.bowmruth2

See more items in:

Ruth Bowman papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9199b569d-b2ba-4750-a774-41b9a20f8264

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-bowmruth2