Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Scope and Contents From the Series: While this series includes Kimball's correspondence with many of the same individuals and institutions represented in the various subject-related series, the bulk of "General correspondence and related material" documents his long-term association with organizations devoted to professional development and scholarship. Kimball's most consistent correspondents include the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Association of Museums (AAM), and the Association of Art Museum...

Scope and Contents From the Series: While this series includes Kimball's correspondence with many of the same individuals and institutions represented in the various subject-related series, the bulk of "General correspondence and related material" documents his long-term association with organizations devoted to professional development and scholarship. Kimball's most consistent correspondents include the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Association of Museums (AAM), and the Association of Art Museum...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains Goodrich's general correspondence related to his studies of Thomas Eakins. The bulk of the material is correspondence with other scholars of Eakins, including Maria Chamberlin-Hellman, Gordon Hendricks, William Innis Homer, Elizabeth Johns, Margaret McHenry, and Elizabeth Milroy. Files with these individuals document the exchange of ideas and information regarding Eakins and his work, as well as the part Goodrich played in the production of publications and exhibitions...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Like the earlier general correspondence processed under the previous subseries, this correspondence documents the interaction of Johnson Collection staff with individuals from institutions based locally and around the globe. City officials, scholars, publishers, collectors and museum colleagues are among the correspondents. Not surprisingly, each Johnson staff member communicated regularly with PMA staff. During processing, such memoranda were collocated and filed in chronological order in...

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This sub-subseries contains routine correspondence with institutions and individuals. Most often the subject of this correspondence is requests for information about Johnson objects, requests for photographic reproductions of objects and permissions to reproduce these images, and requests for publications about the Johnson collection.

The last group of material is correspondence addressed to Henri Marceau after his death on September 15, 1969, handled by Barbara Sweeny.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series represents nearly three decades of Johnson's correspondence with art dealers in Europe and America, as well as with experts and scholars, many of whom acted as liaison and critic to Johnson's acquisitions. Some of the most eminent names in art history are among Johnson's most prolific advisors; namely Bernard Berenson, W. R. (Wilhelm) Valentiner and R. Langton Douglas. A number of receipts and invoices filed along with the correspondence also document many of Johnson's purchases,...

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"Museum Gets Jules S. Baches Art Collection." Clipping from the New York Times.

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Note about William Mills Invins, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Note from Sterling A. Callisen, Dean of the Department of Education and Extension at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to Walter Arensberg.

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Notes related to the exhibition "French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.