Search Results

Creator:

Shimomura, Roger, 1939-  Search this

Type:

Writings

Date:

198-

Topic:

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Japanese Americans  Search this

Performance art  Search this

Theatrical productions  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)19678

See more items in:

Roger Shimomura papers, 1965-1990

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_19678

Creator:

Shimomura, Roger, 1939-  Search this

Subject:

Shimomura, Roger  Search this

Type:

Writings

Date:

1989

Topic:

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Soldiers  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)6610

See more items in:

Roger Shimomura papers, 1965-1990

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_6610

Creator:

Packard, Emmy Lou, 1914-1998  Search this

Names:

American Civil Liberties Union  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957  Search this

Edmunds, John, 1913-  Search this

Kahlo, Frida  Search this

Lange, Dorothea  Search this

O'Gorman, Juan, 1905-  Search this

O'Higgins, Pablo, 1904-  Search this

Refregier, Anton, 1905-  Search this

Reynolds, Malvina  Search this

Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957  Search this

Extent:

9.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Photographs

Interviews

Diaries

Date:

1900-1990

Summary:

The Emmy Lou Packard papers measure 9.4 linear feet and date from 1900 to 1990, and focus on the career of painter, printmaker, muralist, and sculptor Emmy Lou Packard. Also found are extensive materials relating to Packard's personal and professional relationship with muralist Diego Rivera and painter Frida Kahlo, with whom Packard lived for one year in Mexico. Papers include correspondence, financial records, notes, writings, exhibition files, photographs, and printed material.

Scope and Contents note:

The Emmy Lou Packard papers measure 9.4 linear feet and date from 1900 to 1990, and focus on the career of painter, printmaker, muralist, and sculptor Emmy Lou Packard. Also found are extensive materials relating to Packard's personal and professional relationship with muralist Diego Rivera and painter Frida Kahlo, with whom Packard lived for one year in Mexico. Papers include correspondence, financial records, notes, writings, exhibition files, photographs, and printed material.

Biographical materials include resumes, personal forms, and certificates. Correspondence is with family, friends, and colleagues, including muralist Anton Refregier, songwriter Malvina Reynolds, and composer John Edmunds. There is one letter from Dorothea Lange. Also found is correspondence with various political and arts organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Russian magazine Soviet Woman. Much of the correspondence discusses personal relationships and political and art-related activities. Additional correspondence with and concerning Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo is arranged in Series 6.

Personal business records found within the papers include studio real estate and rent records, insurance records, price lists for artwork, consignment records, and miscellaneous receipts. There is one interview transcript of an interview with Packard for the Radical Elders Oral History Project. The papers include a series of notebooks/diaries, address lists, and other notes.

Packard's reference files and personal papers documenting her professional and close personal relationship with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are arranged into a separate series. They include her research files for a planned book on the two artists, personal letters between Packard and the couple, as well as several interesting photographs. Also found in this series are notes, writings, and printed materials relating to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and other Mexican artists, such as Covarrubius, Juan O'Gorman, and Pablo O'Higgins.

The collection also includes typescripts and additional writings by Packard and others. Artwork consists of orginal drawings and prints by Packard and others not directly associated with projects. Exhibition and project files for many of Packard's commissioned projects are also found within the collection, including her files for the restoration of Anton Refregier's Rincon Annex Post Office mural in San Francisco and the Coit Tower murals in San Francisco. Many of the project files contain correspondence, reports, contracts, printed material, photographs, and artwork.

The papers also include photographs of Packard, her family, residences, artwork, friends, and colleagues, including Cesar Chavez, Juan O'Gorman, Malvina Reynolds, Charles Safford, Ralph Stackpole, and Tennessee Williams. Two scrapbooks are found, as well as additional printed materials such as clippings and exhibition announcements and catalogs. There are also two artifact items, a vinyl record of Malvina Reynolds and a political campaign button.

Arrangement note:

The collection is arranged into fifteen series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1942-1985 (Box 1; 1 folder)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1919-1990 (Box 1-3; 2.6 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1945-1985 (Box 3; 21 folders)

Series 4: Interview Transcript, 1979 (Box 3; 1 folder)

Series 5: Notes, 1900-1985 (Box 3-4, 10; 1.1 linear feet)

Series 6: Reference Files on Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, 1929-1986 (Box 5, 10, OV 11; 0.9 linear feet)

Series 7: Writings by Packard, 1953-1984 (Box 6; 17 folders)

Series 8: Writings by Others, 1955-1984 (Box 6; 19 folders)

Series 9: Artwork, 1921-1976 (Box 6; 10 folders)

Series 10: Exhibition Files, 1950-1964 (Box 6, OV 11; 5 folders)

Series 11: Project Files, 1953-1985 (Box 6-7, 10, OV 11; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 12: Photographs, 1914-1982 (Box 8, 10; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 13: Scrapbooks, 1947-1950 (Box 8, 10; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 14: Printed Material, 1936-1988 (Box 8-9, 10; 1 linear foot)

Series 15: Artifacts, 1984 (Box 9-10, OV 11; 2 folders)

Biographical/Historical note:

Emmy Lou Packard was born in Imperial Valley, California on April 15, 1914, to Walter and Emma Leonard Packard. In the late 1920s she lived with her family in Mexico City where she became acquainted with Diego Rivera, from whom she received regular art criticism and encouragement. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and completed courses in fresco and sculpture at the California School of Fine Arts in 1940. That year and the next, Packard worked as a full-time painting assistant to Rivera on his 1,650 square-foot fresco at the World's Fair in San Francisco. During this project, Packard became very close to Rivera and Frida Kahlo and returned to Mexico with them and spent a year living with the couple.

From then on, except for in 1944-1945 working for a defense plant, Packard worked and grew in various aspects of her art. In addition to her work in fresco, Packard is known for her work in watercolor, oil, mosaic, laminated plastic, concrete, and printmaking, both in linocuts and woodblocks. She received numerous commissions that included installations for ships, hotels, and private homes for which she executed large woodcuts and mural panels. During the 1950s and 1960s, Packard was hired to restore several historic murals, most notably the Rincon Annex Post Office mural by Anton Refregier and the Coit Tower murals in San Francisco.

Between 1966 and 1967 she was commissioned by architects to design and execute a number of concrete and mosaic pieces, one of which went to the Mirabeau Restaurant in Kaiser Center, Oakland. She also designed and executed a mural for the Fresno Convention Center Theater during that same period. In 1973-1974, she designed and supervised a glazed brick mural for a public library in Pinole, California.

Packard had one-woman shows at the San Francisco Museum of Art, Raymond and Raymond Gallery (San Francisco), Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Mass.), Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Pushkin Museum (Moscow), and March Gallery (Chicago). Emmy Lou Packard died in 1998.

Related Archival Materials note:

Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Emmy Lou Packard conducted by Mary Fuller McChesney in 1964.

Provenance:

Emmy Lou Packard donated her papers to the Archives of American Art from 1984-1988.

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.

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 -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Sculptors -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Topic:

Works of art  Search this

Printmakers -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Mural painting and decoration, American  Search this

Mural painting and decoration, Mexican  Search this

Muralists -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Latino and Latin American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Photographs

Interviews

Diaries

Citation:

Emmy Lou Packard papers, 1900-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:

AAA.packemmy

See more items in:

Emmy Lou Packard Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-packemmy

Collection Creator:

Farber, Joan C., Dr.  Search this

Farber, Joseph C., 1903-1994  Search this

Container:

Box 27, Folder 1

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Photographs published in Joseph C. Farber's books are still under copyright. Reproduction permission from the Joseph C. Farber's estate is required. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Collection Citation:

Joseph Farber Papers and Photographs, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Dr. Joan C. Farber.

See more items in:

Joseph C. Farber Papers and Photographs

Joseph C. Farber Papers and Photographs / Series 1: Photographs / 1.9: Antiques Article--- John Rogers's Sculpture

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0520-ref656

Collection Creator:

Farber, Joan C., Dr.  Search this

Farber, Joseph C., 1903-1994  Search this

Container:

Box 50, Folder 2

Type:

Archival materials

Scope and Contents:

Typed manuscript, 1 page, 82 x 14", A Plan to Abolish the Welfare Plan [based on U.S. Commerce Dept. 1966 statistics, Bureau of the Budget 1969]; typescript., 1 p., 82 x 14"; Individual Subsidy, typescript., 3 pp., 82 x 11", Individual Subsidy, with subheadings: Basic Concept, Present Complexity, Current Solutions, Proposal, AIllustration, Results, Areas of Concern

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Photographs published in Joseph C. Farber's books are still under copyright. Reproduction permission from the Joseph C. Farber's estate is required. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Collection Citation:

Joseph Farber Papers and Photographs, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Dr. Joan C. Farber.

See more items in:

Joseph C. Farber Papers and Photographs

Joseph C. Farber Papers and Photographs / Series 3: Textual Material / 3.7: Personal Subsidy Plan

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0520-ref759

Creator:

Nakashima, George K., 1905-1990  Search this

Subject:

New York Herald Tribune Forum  Search this

Type:

Writings

Date:

1953 Oct. 19

Topic:

Art--Philosophy  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Inspiration  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)254

See more items in:

George Nakashima papers, 1950-1991

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_254

Creator:

Reynolds, Sally K.  Search this

Names:

Gonzalez, Xavier, 1898-1993  Search this

Extent:

6 Pages ((on partial microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

1993 Oct. 24

Scope and Contents:

A typescript of Sally K. Reynolds' eulogy at the memorial service for Xavier Gonzalez held at the Art Students League in New York City on October 24, 1993. It includes excerpts from Reynolds' interview with Xavier and Ethel Gonzalez conducted on August 8, 1990, in which Gonzalez spoke of his childhood in Mexico, his move to the United States, working as a fruit picker in Iowa, and stockyards in Chicago, and events leading to a scholarship to the at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Biographical / Historical:

Art dealer; New York City.

Provenance:

Donated 1993 by Sally K. Reynolds.

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.

Occupation:

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

Topic:

Mexican American artists  Search this

Hispanic American artists  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.reynsall

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-reynsall

Creator:

Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest), 1892-1970  Search this

Subject:

Angel, John  Search this

Bacon, Peggy  Search this

Barye, Antoine-Louis  Search this

Beal, Gifford  Search this

Bierstadt, Albert  Search this

Billings, Henry  Search this

Bishop, Isabel  Search this

Blume, Peter  Search this

Bouché, Louis  Search this

Brooks, Van Wyck  Search this

Buller, Audrey  Search this

Cadmus, Paul  Search this

Calder, Alexander  Search this

Catherwood, Frederick  Search this

Congdon, William  Search this

Day, Horace Talmage  Search this

Dows, Olin  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel  Search this

Etting, Emlen  Search this

Evergood, Philip  Search this

Faulkner, Barry  Search this

Fiene, Ernest  Search this

Goff, Lloyd Lozés  Search this

Guys, Constantin  Search this

Hardy, Thomas  Search this

Harnett, William Michael  Search this

Hartl, Léon  Search this

Homer, Winslow  Search this

Hoyt, Whitney Ford  Search this

Inness, George  Search this

Ivins, William Mills  Search this

Johnson, Eastman  Search this

Kirstein, Lincoln  Search this

Kroll, Leon  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo  Search this

Laning, Edward  Search this

Lasker, Joe  Search this

Leighton, Clare  Search this

Locke, Charles  Search this

Low, Sanford B. D. (Sanford Ballard Dole)  Search this

Lucioni, Luigi  Search this

Marsh, Reginald  Search this

Miller, Kenneth Hayes  Search this

Parsons, Betty  Search this

Robus, Hugo  Search this

Saint-Gaudens, Homer  Search this

Savery, Rockland  Search this

Schmidt, Katherine  Search this

Shahn, Ben  Search this

Sheeler, Charles  Search this

Speicher, Eugene Edward  Search this

Stamos, Theodoros  Search this

Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam  Search this

Watkins, Franklin Chenault  Search this

Watson, Forbes  Search this

Watson, Nan  Search this

Weisgard, Leonard  Search this

Artists Equity Association  Search this

American Academy of Arts and Letters  Search this

Topic:

Art, Prehistoric  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Etching  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9102

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211296

AAA_collcode_schnh

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211296

Creator:

Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980  Search this

Subject:

Bacon, Peggy  Search this

Biddle, George  Search this

Brett, Catherine  Search this

Covarrubias, Miguel  Search this

Pollock, Jackson  Search this

Spencer, Niles  Search this

Knee, Gina  Search this

Bouché, Louis  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Watercolors

Sketches

Transcriptions

Scrapbooks

Sketchbooks

Interviews

Etchings

Illustrations

Topic:

Post-impressionism (Art)  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

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

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6833

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208960

AAA_collcode_brooalex

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208960

Author:

Hughes, Jeffrey A  Search this

Subject:

Shahjahan Emperor of India approximately 1592-1666 Homes and haunts  Search this

Lal-Mahal (Bari, India)  Search this

Physical description:

2 v. (xx, 386 leaves) : ill., plans ; cm

Type:

Books

Place:

India

Bari

Baria (Princely State)

Date:

1988

Topic:

Hunting lodges  Search this

Architecture, Mogul Empire  Search this

Palaces  Search this

Buildings, structures, etc  Search this

Call number:

NA1508.B3 H8

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_873353

Creator:

Freed, Hermine  Search this

Subject:

Putzel, Howard  Search this

Topic:

Abstract expressionism  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5775

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208614

AAA_collcode_benhherm

Theme:

Art Theory and Historiography

Art Movements and Schools

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208614

Creator:

Freed, Hermine  Search this

Names:

Putzel, Howard, 1898-1945  Search this

Extent:

0.01 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1945-1966

Summary:

The papers of Hermine Benhaim Freed measure 0.01 linear feet (7 items) and date from 1945 to 1966. The collection mostly consists of material Freed gathered about New York gallery owner Howard Putzel, such as Benhaim's paper on Howard Putzel, "Howard Putzel and the Beginnings of Abstract Expressionism," written for a Modern Art Seminar at New York University. Also included are letters to Freed, 1966, about Putzel from Joseph Allen, Peggy Guggenheim, Kenneth MacPherson and Gordon Onslow-Ford; and a typescript and a clipping of reviews of the exhibition "A Problem for Critics," 1945, organized by Putzel.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of Hermine Benhaim Freed measure 0.01 linear feet (1 folder) and consists of 7 items and date from 1945 to 1966. The collection mostly consists of material gathered about New York gallery owner Howard Putzel, such as Freed's paper on Howard Putzel, "Howard Putzel and the Beginnings of Abstract Expressionism," written for a Modern Art Seminar at New York University. Also included are letters to Freed, 1966, about Putzel from Joseph Allen, Peggy Guggenheim, Kenneth MacPherson and Gordon Onslow-Ford; and a typescript and a clipping of reviews of the exhibition "A Problem for Critics," 1945, organized by Putzel.

Arrangement:

Due to the small size of this collection, the papers are arranged as one series.

Series 1: Hermine Benhaim Freed papers relating to Howard Putzel, 1945-1966 (Folder 1; 7 items)

Biographical / Historical:

Hermine Benhaim Freed (1940-1998) was a painter and video artist in New York City. Freed studied painting at Cornell University and New York University, where she taught starting from the late 1960s.

Provenance:

The papers were donated to the Archives of American Art in 1972 by Hermine Benhaim Freed.

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.

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

Topic:

Abstract expressionism  Search this

Citation:

Hermine Benhaim Freed papers relating to Howard Putzel, 1945-1966. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.benhherm

See more items in:

Hermine Benhaim Freed papers relating to Howard Putzel

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-benhherm

Collection Creator:

Freed, Hermine  Search this

Extent:

7 Items ((Folder 1))

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1945-1966

Scope and Contents:

The collection mostly consists of material Freed gathered about New York gallery owner Howard Putzel, such as Freed's paper on Howard Putzel, "Howard Putzel and the Beginnings of Abstract Expressionism," written for a Modern Art Seminar at New York University. Also included are letters to Freed, 1966, about Putzel from Joseph Allen, Peggy Guggenheim, Kenneth MacPherson and Gordon Onslow-Ford; and a typescript and a clipping of reviews of the exhibition "A Problem for Critics," 1945, organized by Putzel.

Collection 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.

Collection 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 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.

Collection Citation:

Hermine Benhaim Freed papers relating to Howard Putzel, 1945-1966. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.benhherm, Series 1

See more items in:

Hermine Benhaim Freed papers relating to Howard Putzel

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-benhherm-ref4

Creator:

Watsuji, Haruki  Search this

Stout, George L. (George Leslie), 1897-1978  Search this

Subject:

Warner, Langdon  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Place:

Kyoto, Japan

Date:

1946 June 27

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)14539

See more items in:

George Leslie Stout papers, 1855, 1897-1978

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_14539

Creator:

Stout, George L. (George Leslie), 1897-1978  Search this

Stout, Margaret Hayes  Search this

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

1944 December 5

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)16188

See more items in:

George Leslie Stout papers, 1855, 1897-1978

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_16188

Creator:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Subject:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo  Search this

Type:

Writings

Date:

between 1933 and 1953

Topic:

Art--Study and teaching  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)17200

See more items in:

Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906-2016, bulk 1920-1990

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_17200

Creator:

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Associated Press  Search this

Subject:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo  Search this

World War, 1939-1945  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

1941 December 29

Topic:

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)17201

See more items in:

Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906-2016, bulk 1920-1990

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_17201

Creator:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Subject:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo  Search this

Type:

Writings

Date:

1944 December 29

Topic:

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Still-life painting  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)17210

See more items in:

Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906-2016, bulk 1920-1990

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_17210

Creator:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Subject:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo  Search this

Type:

Writings

Date:

1944 October 16

Topic:

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)17211

See more items in:

Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906-2016, bulk 1920-1990

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_17211

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:

1897-1978

1855

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 & 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 & 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.

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

The Stout diaries are currently closed for conservation.

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

See more items in:

George Leslie Stout papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-stougeor