Correspondence, writings, photographs, and exhibition catalogs, much of it relating to Hans Hofmann.
REELS 4178-4179: Correspondence between John and Monica Haley, 1937-1938 and 1987, and letters received from Earl and Clyta Loran, undated and 1950-1986, Vaclav Vytlacil, undated and 1966-1984, and Glen Wessels, undated and 1960-1982. Enclosed with a letter written by Vaclav Vytlacil in 1966 is a copy of a manuscript by him on Hans Hofmann. Correspondence from 1987 contains materials pertaining to the painter and teacher Margaret Peterson.
REEL 1355: Papers relating to Hans Hofmann, including five letters from Hofmann to Worth Ryder; three letters between Haley and Hofmann; two manuscripts, one in German, by Hofmann, "Creation in Form and Color - A Textbook for Instruction in Art" (1931); lecture by Hofmann; photographs taken in Germany (1927-1931) of Hofmann, Miz Hofmann, John Haley, Alfred Jensen, Ed and Isabell Rupprecht, Joan Hein, Cameron Booth, and the Hofmann School building in Munich; photographs of works by Hofmann students; brochures for the school; Hofmann exhibition catalogs; and miscellany.
ADDITION: Materials documenting Haley's studies with Hofmann, service in the Navy, and his many years teaching at UC Berkeley; letters from Haley to his wife sent from the South Pacific during World War II; sketchbooks; and photographs.
Biographical / Historical:
John: Painter, sculptor and educator. Monica: Art educator; San Francisco Bay Area, California. Haley studied with Cameron Booth and Hans Hofmann. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley with other "modernists" Worth Ryder, Hofmann, Erle Loran and Margaret Peterson. John Haley died in 1991; Monica in 1997.
Provenance:
Material on reel 1355 lent by John Haley, 1978. He and Monica donated the material on reels 4178-4179 in 1987; Monica donated the remainder in 1992.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Letter from Mayer in Paris to Henry R. Schoolcraft in Washington, D.C. affirming his dedication to depicting the North American Indian in his paintings and thanking Schoolcraft for encouraging Mayer to pursue the subject.
Biographical / Historical:
Painter, specialized in North American Indian subjects and colonial themes; Baltimore, Md.
Provenance:
Donated 1955-1962 by Charles E. Feinberg, an active donor and friend of AAA.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
In Indo-American Languages form. From "Notes on the Iroquois", 1847- A(dam) Elliott, informant. "In the languages of the Six Nations or New York Indians."
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 386
General:
Previously titled "Comparative vocabulary."
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Includes: Origin of the term "Algonquian," Schoolcraft, Volume I, page 306; vocabulary- Algonquian and French, 2 pages; Algonquian and English, 2 pages; tribal names, Iroquoian and Algonquian (Cuoq), 1 page. Also miscellaneous extracts relative to the Algonquian and Iroquois, from Cuoq, Gallatin, et al. Extract relative to the Cherokee, from ?
Concerns the Walum Olum" of the Delawares. Also other correspondence from Frank Squier, 415 Lexington Avenue, New York City-- nephew of E. G. Squier and owner of the original. 3 pages.
Schoolcraft's Indian legends : from Algic researches, the myth of Hiawatha, Oneóta, the red race in America, and historical and statistical information respecting ... the Indian tribes of the United States / edited by Mentor L. Williams
The myth of Hiawatha, and other oral legends, mythologic and allegoric of the North American Indians / by Henry R. Schoolcraft ; [illustrations by John Evans]
Narrative journals of travels from Detroit northwest through the great chain of American lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River in the year 1820
Henry Schoolcraft--Expedition into the Indian country : letter from the Secretary of War : transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 24th ultimo, information in relation to an expedition of Henry R. Schoolcraft into the Indian country
