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AcquisitionsSource: Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1977), pp. 31-32Published by: The Smithsonian InstitutionStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1556887 .

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Acquisitions

Henry Hudson Kitson (1863-1947) Theo R. Kitson Gift of Dorothy Patricia Cavanagh, 1973 and 1976 About 100 items, all undated, including glass negatives and steel dies of Henry Kitson's work, a printer's plate, and sev- eral books owned by the Kitsons.

Robert Warren Lobert (b. 1927) Gift of Robert Warren Loberg, 1976

Papers, 1955-1976, c. 100 items, includ- ing biographical information and career resume; correspondence with galleries and museums; clippings, exhibition an- nouncements, and photographs and slides of the artist and his paintings.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Lent for filming by Jan Butterfield, 1975 Two scrapbooks compiled by Jan Butter- field for the Los Angeles County Mu-

seum. One contains clippings, announce- ments, other printed matter, and photo- graphs relating to the opening of the new building of the museum, 1965. The other, 1966-1967, is about the censorship con- troversy surrounding an Ed Kienholz ex- hibit at the museum and contains, among other things, clippings and xerox copies of three letters of the acting director, the supervisor, and a trustee of the museum.

Marcia Marcus (b. 1928) Gift of Marcia Marcus, 1976 About 350 items including correspond- ence, 1975-1976, catalogs, announce- ments, and other printed material.

Millard Meiss (1904-1975) Gift of Margaret Meiss, 1976

Papers, c. 1920-1975, 12 boxes, including professional vita; bibliography of Meiss; obituaries, photographs of Meiss; press clippings, awards, and files on commit- tees and special projects; correspondence regarding publications; lectures, reviews and letters about his books, a correspond- ence file, c. 1936-1975; files of letters,

photographs, slides, clippings, and other printed matter regarding the Art Bulletin Committee, International Congress of the History of Art, and the Committee for the Rescue of Italian Art.

Edward Melcarth (1914-1974) Gift of Edward Melcarth, 1971 One thousand two hundred seventy items including photographs of Melcarth and others, of his work, of Coney Island, New York City, parts of Europe, and mis- cellaneous pictures.

Edward Melcarth (1914-1974) Gift of Edward Melcarth, 1971

Papers, 1934-1971, 900 items. Corres- pondence includes personal letters from artists Leif Anderson, Peter Carello, Pa- blo Pristeno, Ernst Teeves, playwright William Inge, and actors George Maharis, Ronald Staba and Joseph Newlin; copies of his critical letters to prominent per- sons and their replies, and letters from Henry Allen Moe, R. Kirk Askew, agent John Schafner, and Charles B. Moses. Financial papers include a list of his works sold by Durlacher Bros., 1948- 1962, with prices and purchasers. Other papers include 142 manuscripts of his short stories, novels, poems, song lyrics, essays, and books; scrapbooks, clippings, catalogs, a sketchbook, and 6 tape re- cordings of interviews and speeches.

Michigan Water Color Society Gift of Maryjane Bigler, 1976

Thirty-three exhibition catalogs and bro- chures, 1947-1976.

Midwest Women's Artist Conference Gift of Johnnie Johnson, 1976

Twenty-seven photographs taken by Krystin Grenon of groups and individual participants in the Midwest Women's Artist Conference, 1975.

Henry Mosler (1841-1920) Gift of J. F. McCrindle, 1976

Papers, 1861-1905, c. 750 items, includ- ing letters from family, friends, and fel- low artists; photographs of the Mosler family; several sketchbooks with notes and writings; articles, newspaper clip- pings, and other printed matter.

Charles Austin Needham (1844-1923) Lent for filming by Robert P. Coggins, 1976 Papers, 1822-1918, 28 items, including 3 letters to and from family members; fam- ily records of births, deaths, and marri- ages; a sketchbook, 1868, and 3 loose sketches; 3 photographs of George G. Needham; a handmade book of verses titled "Somewhere in Old New York,"

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1918; calendar notes containing bio- graphical information; 2 exhibition an- nouncements, 1910 and 1916; a clipping about Needham [1861?]; and an invita- tion list.

J. B. Neumann (1887-1961) Gift of Joy S. Weber, 1976 About 100 items, c. 1920-1958, including lecture brochures and announcements, clippings about Neumann, exhibition announcements, and one form letter.

George Peabody (1797-1869) Gift of Letitia Howe, 1976 A letter to P. H. Bennet, Esq., Baltimore, June 20, 1859, expressing his regret that Bennet had given the wrong dimensions of the picture gallery in the Peabody In- stitute in an article in a Baltimore news- paper. Peabody describes what the gallery will be like upon completion and dis- cusses his own health.

Ogden Pleissner (b. 1905) Gift of Ogden Pleissner, 1976

Papers, c. 1935-1976, 700 items, includ- ing correspondence, c. 1943-1976, bio- graphical information, exhibition cata- logs, periodicals, and other publications, 9 personal photographs, and c. 420 pho- tographs of paintings by Pleissner.

Hiram Powers (1805-1873) Gift of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1975 Six hundred eighty items, including pho- tographs (some taken by his son Long- worth Powers) of Hiram Powers, his family, works by him and others, his studio, Florentine landscapes, personali- ties of the 19th century, and American Indians and animals for an article by his son Preston. In addition there is an album of pictures of Florentine sculpture and buildings, and of sculpture by Powers, his sons Longworth and Preston, Antonio Canova, Pierce Francis Connelly, O. Fantacchiati (?), Joel T. Hart, John Jack- son, and Larkin G. Meade.

Tina Prentiss (b. 1905) Gift of Tina Prentiss, 1975 Two volumes in a series of exhibition and competition scrapbooks.

Walter Quirt (1902-1968) Lent for filming by Mrs. Walter Quirt, 1976 Papers, 1928-1976, c. 1300 items, in- cluding c. 600 letters from Romare Bear- den, Stuart Davis, Edward Franz, Abra- ham Rattner, Evelyn Scholl, William Steig, Robert Coates, and Duncan Phil- lips, among others; c. 300 photographs of family, friends, and works of art; a sketchbook; notes and theoretical writ- ings on art; catalogs, biographical infor- mation, clippings, and other printed material.

Hilla Rebay Gift of the Art Dealer's Association of America Record of a hearing before the Tax Court of the United States, Hilla Rebay, Peti- tioner, vs. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent, Jan. 1963 (c. 175 pp.).

Francis Millet Rogers Gift of Francis Millet Rogers, 1976

Papers, 1897-1957, 132 items, pertaining to Francis Davis Millet (1846-1912), com- piled by Rogers while doing research for a biography of Millet. Included are corre- spondence, 1897-1955; biographical in- formation; manuscript and notes for Rogers' unpublished book "Francis D. Millet, American of the Americans"; photographs of Millet and of his paint- ings; printed items, including exhibition catalogs, clippings, and bulletins of orga- nizations to which Millet belonged.

Martin Rosenthal (1899-1974) Gift of Mrs. Rosalind Leonard, 1976

Papers, 1933-1962, c. 400 items, includ- ing photographs, correspondence, clip- pings, catalogs, invitations, and other printed material; and a manuscript, c. 1945, of Rosenthal's memoirs of George Luks. Rosenthal was Luks' associate for 5 years at the George Luks School of Painting in New York.

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) Gift of R. L. Ormond

Typescripts of 34 letters, 1895-1923, mostly from Sargent to Emily Sargent, Miss Stephens, and to his sister, Mrs. F. Ormond.

Gertrude Shibley Gift of Gertrude Shibley, 1976

Papers, 1941-1975, c. 200 items, includ- ing correspondence, personal photo- graphs, and photographs of her paintings; exhibition catalogs, announcements, 2 sketchbooks, clippings, business receipts, and 80 handmade greeting cards from fellow artists.

Otto Soglow Gift of Mrs. Anna Soglow, 1976 Seventeen items including 5 books illus- trated by Soglow, 3 photographs (2 of John Sloan's class at the Art Students' League and 1 of Soglow), 7 cartoons, and 2 drawings.

Wolfgang Stechow (1896-1974) Gift of Mrs. Wolfgang Stechow, 1975 Six boxes of correspondence, photo- graphs, printed items, notes, and rough drafts, c. 1948-1974, mostly relating to articles, lectures, and books by Stechow on European artists, including Rubens, Brueghel, Van Ruysdael, Durer, and Rembrandt.

Julia Sully Filmed by the Virginia State Library A card index of portraiture in Virginia, c. 1730-1944, compiled by Julia Sully. In- formation listed includes the name of the artist, name of the subject, size of the work, date painted, owner, and descrip- tion (c. 650 cards).

Richard Thomas Gift of Richard Thomas, 1975 Six hundred sixty-five items including 663 slides of works by former students of the Department of Metalsmithing at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 1948-1974, a catalog of the slide collection, and an exhibition cata- log for an exhibit of metalwork by Cran- brook students in 1975.

Eugene Thomason (b. 1895) Copied courtesy of Mrs. Eugene Thomason, 1975

Twenty-six items including xerox copies of 22 letters from George Luks, 1925- 1936, about personal matters, mutual friends, current activities, and so on. Other copies include a letter from Joseph M. Bryant about his Thomason paintings, a letter from William Luks asking for letters and anecdotes about George Luks, and 2 newspaper clippings about Thomason.

Vickery, Atkins & Torrey, Inc: Lent for filming by the California Historical Society, 1976

Eight undated albums (nos. 20-26 and "jewelry"), numbered albums contain photographs of the galleries at 550 Sutter Street, San Francisco, decorative arts, paintings, and furniture sold and de- signed by the company (designed mostly by Henry Atkins). The "jewlery" album contains photographs and sketches of jewelry made and designed by the gallery.

Charles E. Waltensperger (1871-1931) Gift of Mrs. Beverly Bassett, 1973

Papers, 1899-1931, 300 items, including correspondence, photographs of family members, other artists, and the upper peninsula of Michigan, clippings, Christ- mas cards, sketchbooks, diaries, and miscellany.

Wesley Wehr (b. 1929) Gift of Wesley Wehr, 1976 Papers, 1964-1976, 43 items, including letters to Wehr from Guy Anderson, pho- tographs of Anderson and Pehr Hallsten, clippings, and printed matter.

Women Exhibiting in Boston, Inc. Gift of Tina Prentiss, 1976 A scrapbook of photographs, clippings, catalogs, reports, letters, and other printed material relating to Women Exhibiting in Boston, Inc., 1973-1975.

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