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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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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