Research, Publication, Teaching and Personal Materials

The papers in this series were transferred to the Harvard Art Museums Archives by the Straus Center for Conservation in 2007; their original context is not known. Most of the papers are dated from the years prior to Pope's directorship of the Fogg, Germanic, and Semitic Museums. There is a thematic similarity among the materials, as many of them are related to Pope's research, publication and teaching activities. They also contain some personal correspondence. The order of the folders as they were found has been maintained.

Series II includes drafts, typescripts and manuscripts of published materials (including book reviews); preparatory notes for lectures and course outlines; materials related to Pope's work on color theory and aesthetic value; correspondence with students, potential students, and a range of other people; wall text and labels from a 1948 exhibition held at the Fogg; a bibliography of periodicals on color and theories of color; and various other printed and manuscript materials. Also included is a 1907 letter from Charles Herbert Moore to Pope.

Of note are the letters in folder 429 from Winthrop Judkins, one of Pope's students, during his travels in Italy and France from 1934 to 1936 as a Bacon Fellow. Judkins describes in detail the places he visited and the art he saw. In particular, he writes of travels across Italy with Archdale Kenneth Wickham and F. Mason Perkins, visiting small towns and looking at religious art in its original and intended context. He also writes at length about two exhibitions of Italian art held in Paris in 1935, at the Petit Palais and at the Jeu de Paume des Tuileries.