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Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-1986

 Person

Found in 159 Collections and/or Records:

Philadelphia Inquirer. "Duchamp Exhibit Extended to Year's End", 1973 December 2

 Object — Box: 15, Folder: 12
Identifier: MDE_B015_F012_013
Scope and Contents

Philadelphia Inquirer. "Duchamp Exhibit Extended to Year's End" [copy].

Dates: 1973 December 2

Picasso and Iberian Sculpture

 Object — Box: 45, Folder: 8
Identifier: WLA_B045_F008_001
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Sweeney, James Johnson. "Picasso and Iberian Sculpture." Reprint from "Art Bulletin," Volume XXIII, Number 3.

Dates: 1914-1955, undated

Return receipt for registered article from Walter Arensberg to James Johnson Sweeney, 1946 January 21

 Object — Box: 13, Folder: 15
Identifier: WLA_B013_F015_002
Scope and Contents

Return receipt for registered article from Walter Arensberg to James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art.

Dates: 1946 January 21

Souvenirs on Marcel Duchamp, undated

 Object — Box: 4, Folder: 23
Identifier: MDP_B004_F023_001
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Roché, Henri Pierre. "Souvenirs on Marcel Duchamp." Translated from French by William N. Copley. Typescript carbon, corrected.

Dates: undated

Souvenirs sur Marcel Duchamp, undated

 Object — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Identifier: MDP_B004_F024_001
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Roché, Henri Pierre. "Souvenirs sur Marcel Duchamp." Typescript carbon.

Dates: undated

Sweeney, James Johnson, and Laura, 1949-1953, 1962-1963

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 78
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: As the correspondents in this sub-subseries make evident, McIlhenny cultivated a social network that reached across noted names in all the arts, as well as titled gentry, royalty and political figures. Whenever celebrities of the stage, screen or concert hall were performing in Philadelphia, McIlhenny would invite them to his home at Rittenhouse Square, just a stone's throw away from the major theatres and hotels. Although they could not always accept the offer, invitees included Noel...
Dates: 1949-1953, 1962-1963

Sweeney, James Johnson, and wife, 1939-1941

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Most of the correspondents in this sub-subseries resided or did business in County Donegal, and thereby suggest the surrounding community and its interactions with Glenveagh, McIlhenny's country estate in the northwest of Ireland. With many written during the early 1940s, their letters give voice to the ways of life necessitated by war. Many are letters of thanks to McIlhenny for sending items from America that were rationed or in short supply in Europe, particularly tea, as well as...
Dates: 1939-1941

Sweeney, James Johnson. "Art chronicle: the bottles were O'Donovan's." Partisan review 11, no. 3 (1944). Incl. annotated photocopy, Summer 1944

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Periodical writings about Thomas Eakins's life and work are the major elements of this subseries. In addition to Alan Burroughs's 1924 catalog for the Arts magazine, which Goodrich often referenced in his research of Eakins, there are several writings each by noted Eakins scholars, Gordon Hendricks and William Inness Homer. Another contributing writer to this subseries is a student of Eakins, Charles Bregler, who later compiled a major collection of his teacher's works....
Dates: Summer 1944

Telegram from Fiske Kimball to Walter Arensberg, 1952 March 25

 Object — Box: 15, Folder: 7
Identifier: WLA_B015_F007_020
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Fiske Kimball, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Walter Arensberg.

Dates: 1952 March 25

Telegram from James Johnson Sweeney to Walter Arensberg, 1946 March 25

 Object — Box: 13, Folder: 15
Identifier: WLA_B013_F015_008
Scope and Contents

Telegram from James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art, to Walter Arensberg.

Dates: 1946 March 25

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