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Busch-Reisinger Museum Exhibition Records, inclusive 1930-2007, bulk 1930-1974

Collection Identifier: BRM 7
Overview:

Administrative materials and ephemera relating to the production of exhibitions at the Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Collection of Bauhaus Records, 1928-1965

Collection Identifier: BRM 3
Overview:

Typescripts, class notes, newspaper clippings, magazines, and exhibition pamphlets documenting the activities of the Bauhaus in Germany (1928-1933) and the careers of individual Bauhaus artists in the United States and elsewhere after 1933, with a specific focus on the period between 1950 and 1960.

Records of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1819-2011

Collection Identifier: BRM 5
Overview:

The Busch-Reisinger Museum records include historical information related to the founding and functioning of the museum, from its inception in the early 20th century and extending into the early 21st century. The collection includes scrapbooks, postcards, photographs and slides, audiovisual materials, administrative and historical documents, and published materials.

Records of the Carpenter Center Photography Collection, 1936-2012

Collection Identifier: SC 25
Overview: Correspondence, clippings, administrative materials, printed materials, and other records that document the founding and development of the Carpenter Center Photography Collection, including records relating to the American Professional Photographers Collection, Social Museum Collection, and Boston Elevated Railway Project. The Carpenter Center Photography Collection, including the records that document it, was transferred to the Fogg Museum in 2002. The collection was catalogued and...

Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

Collection Identifier: HC 5
Overview: These papers of Fogg Museum directors John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Most of Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most of Mongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting...

Papers of John Coolidge, 1939-1984

Collection Identifier: HC 15
Overview:

These papers of former Fogg Museum director and Harvard University professor John Coolidge document a portion of his teaching activities, museum administration, and other personal and professional endeavors and interests. The papers consist primarily of personal correspondence, and date largely from 1947-1975. Also included are research materials, teaching materials, lecture notes, speeches, reports, resumes, photographs, and financial records.

Papers of Corita, 1965-1991, undated

Collection Identifier: SC 24
Overview:

Exhibition invitations and photographs of artworks on display by Corita, as well as photographs from a class she taught, and from classes taught by other artists, at Immaculate Heart College in the mid-to-late 1960s. There are also Polaroid prints of Corita, correspondence, and clippings.

Papers of William S.A. Dale, 1946-1949

Collection Identifier: SC 29
Overview:

The collection includes student course materials of William S.A. Dale (Harvard class of 1955)

Papers of Stuart Davis, 1918-1964 Digital

Collection Identifier: 1967.79; drawings 1967.79.1-1165
Overview:

Approximately 10,000 pages of notes by Stuart Davis, including observations on art theory, politics and social commentary, along with discussion and analysis of some of his paintings. Included are ca. 1,200 diagrams and drawings.

Alexander Dorner Collection of Otti Berger Papers, 1937-1955

Collection Identifier: BRM 6
Overview:

Correspondence, original typescripts, and handwritten notes documenting the career and aesthetic theories of textile artist Otti Berger (1898-1944), her life in continental Europe in the late 1930s, and the early reception of her work in the United States.

Papers of Alexander Dorner, 1834-1985

Collection Identifier: BRM 1
Overview:

Notes, manuscripts, clippings and published articles relating to the research interests of Alexander Dorner, German art historian, educator, and museum director.

Papers of Sally Anne Duncan, 1895-2013

Collection Identifier: SC 31
Overview: This collection is composed of materials relating to Sally Anne Duncan’s (née Pickhardt) research on Paul J. Sachs’s course in the Harvard University Fine Arts Department, “Museum Work and Museum Problems,” and its students for her master’s thesis and Ph.D. dissertation, as well as the process of publishing said thesis and dissertation. The bulk of the collection dates from 1932 to 1939 and 1994 to 2000. The materials include photocopies of Sachs’s correspondence, Duncan’s correspondence,...

Papers of Lyonel Feininger, 1905-1998

Collection Identifier: BRM 2
Overview:

Biographical and family materials, personal correspondence, research materials, work images, exhibition catalogues and promotional materials, paperwork and documentation related to Feininger's work, published materials on Feininger and his work, and images and materials from Hans Hess's catalogue raisonné of Feininger paintings.

Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes, 1867-2005

Collection Identifier: HC 2
Overview: These papers of Fogg Museum director Edward Waldo Forbes document his administration of the museum and a wide range of personal and professional activities and interests. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1944. The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including a series of correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, reports, expedition field notes and journals, printed material, newspaper clippings, blueprints, meeting minutes, letters of recommendation,...

Teaching and Research Materials Collection, 1891-1968

Collection Identifier: HC 20
Overview: The papers in this collection document Edward Waldo Forbes’s career as a professor of Fine Arts, Director of the Fogg Museum, and his research interests in the technical study of works of art. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1940. The papers consist of correspondence, lecture notes and outlines, assignment descriptions, visual materials for lectures, student work, recipes, technical notes, clippings, photographs, letters of introduction, paint samples, lists, invoices, and a...

Papers of Frederick Randolph Grace, 1910-2012

Collection Identifier: SC 23
Overview:

Class notes and papers from Grace’s time as a student at in Harvard’s Fine Arts Department, as well as documents, report cards, and student evaluations related to his work as a tutor in the department. The collection also includes varied ephemera he collected, and correspondence received by his widow after his death.

Papers of Walter Gropius, 1930-1972

Collection Identifier: BRM 4
Overview:

Photographs, slides, press proofs, clippings, and a scrapbook relating to the work, travels, and social activities of Walter Gropius, as well as books from his personal library.

Dietlinde Hamburger Collection of Carl Grossberg Papers, 1914-1999

Collection Identifier: SC 30
Overview:

This collection is composed of materials relating to Dietlinde Hamburger’s research on the artist Carl Grossberg for her Ph.D. dissertation, and the process of publishing said dissertation. The bulk of the collection dates from 1926 to 1940 and 1985 to 1992. The materials include photocopies of Grossberg’s correspondence, Hamburger’s dissertation correspondence, printed materials, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, negatives, slides, recorded interviews, and assorted ephemera.

Papers of Catherine Russell Hammond, circa 1928-1975

Collection Identifier: SC 13
Overview:

This collection contains correspondence, sketches, school notebooks, writings, and other papers of Catherine Russell Hammond.

Records of the Assistants to the Directors, 1913-1999

Collection Identifier: HC 21
Overview:

These records of the Assistants to the Directors document the administrative and teaching activities of the individuals who held the position. The bulk of the collection dates from 1927 to 1943 and includes the records of Walter Siple, Henry Sayles Francis, Frederick B. Robinson, John S. Thacher, Frederick Grace, and Louisa Sprague. The collection consists primarily of correspondence.

Exhibition Records of the Harvard Art Museums, 1905-2008

Collection Identifier: HC 6
Overview: These records were created by museum staff in the course of planning and installing exhibitions. They pertain primarily to exhibitions held in the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, but they also include materials related to traveling or off-site exhibitions. The records date from 1905-2008 and include correspondence on a wide range of topics, exhibition proposals, photographic prints and negatives, object lists, loan forms, press releases, clippings,...

Photographs of the Harvard Art Museums, 1895-2003

Collection Identifier: HC 22
Overview:

This collection contains photographic views of the 1895 and 1927 Fogg Museum buildings, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, united under the Harvard Art Museums name in 1983. It includes exterior and interior views, including images of exhibitions and galleries.

Student Works Collection, 1899-1948

Collection Identifier: HC 25
Overview:

This collection contains teaching materials and student works from the Harvard University Department of Fine Arts from 1899-1948. Materials include notes, works on paper, and sample course exercises.

Papers of William Innes Homer, 1953-1960

Collection Identifier: SC 3
Overview:

Class and research notes of William Innes Homer (MA 1954, PhD 1960) and materials related to the 1955 Matisse exhibition at the Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Papers of William James, Jr., 1930-1937

Collection Identifier: SC 10
Overview:

This collection contains correspondence of Mrs. Kathryn A. Hodgman, including letters from William James, Jr.