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

Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...

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.