Box 207
Container
Contains 25 Results:
Sudler and Hennessey, Inc., 1953
File — Box: 207, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
1953
Arensberg, Walter and Louise Stevens. Publicity. "Our Modern Wing." Colorama section. Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 1954
File — Box: 207, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The collections processed here include objects from more than one of the handbook categories. The one example, which comprises most of the material in this subseries, is the art collection of Walter and Louise Stevens Arensberg, who collected modern as well as pre-Columbian art. Their collection files consist mostly of correspondence documenting Kimball's untiring efforts to bring the art pieces to the museum. The papers also chronicle the development of a sincere friendship between the...
Dates:
September 26, 1954
Dale, Chester. French and American paintings. Floor plan [gallery seating arrangement for opening luncheon?], undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The collections processed here include objects from more than one of the handbook categories. The one example, which comprises most of the material in this subseries, is the art collection of Walter and Louise Stevens Arensberg, who collected modern as well as pre-Columbian art. Their collection files consist mostly of correspondence documenting Kimball's untiring efforts to bring the art pieces to the museum. The papers also chronicle the development of a sincere friendship between the...
Dates:
undated
Foulc, Edmond. Plates [from unidentified catalog?]., undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The collections processed here include objects from more than one of the handbook categories. The one example, which comprises most of the material in this subseries, is the art collection of Walter and Louise Stevens Arensberg, who collected modern as well as pre-Columbian art. Their collection files consist mostly of correspondence documenting Kimball's untiring efforts to bring the art pieces to the museum. The papers also chronicle the development of a sincere friendship between the...
Dates:
undated
Rome. Model of ancient city. Other drawings, blueprints and stats, 1932, undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries consists of two groups of files. The first set, in which files are titled by object or collection, documents items that do not fall within any of the handbook categories or those no longer collected by the museum, primarily objects from Memorial Hall. Also included are two scrapbooks Kimball apparently assembled of various period rooms, galleries and painting collections. Many of the photographs were featured in various issues of the museum's bulletin. The second set,...
Dates:
1932, undated
Germany. Tafelung, Nuremberg. Plan and photographs, undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
That this sub-subseries comprises the bulk of material only underscores Kimball's promotion to display period rooms from different countries and civilizations within an American museum of art. These files represent European interiors that the museum purchased or that were offered to Kimball for his consideration. Non-European interiors are documented in other subseries. This sub-subseries also contains files pertaining to George Grey Barnard. A collector of Medieval art, Barnard...
Dates:
undated
Netherlands. Room in the Hague [of Dr. Molhuysen?]. Photographs and related materials, 1917, undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
That this sub-subseries comprises the bulk of material only underscores Kimball's promotion to display period rooms from different countries and civilizations within an American museum of art. These files represent European interiors that the museum purchased or that were offered to Kimball for his consideration. Non-European interiors are documented in other subseries. This sub-subseries also contains files pertaining to George Grey Barnard. A collector of Medieval art, Barnard...
Dates:
1917, undated
Netherlands. Room. [Offered by Sluyterman, K. (Karel)?] Blueprints w/ notes, 1928
File — Box: 207, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
That this sub-subseries comprises the bulk of material only underscores Kimball's promotion to display period rooms from different countries and civilizations within an American museum of art. These files represent European interiors that the museum purchased or that were offered to Kimball for his consideration. Non-European interiors are documented in other subseries. This sub-subseries also contains files pertaining to George Grey Barnard. A collector of Medieval art, Barnard...
Dates:
1928
Cassatt, Mary. "Mother's Day 1935: Three Paintings by Mary Cassatt." Picture section. Chicago Sunday Tribune. [Rotogravure?], May 12, 1935
File — Box: 207, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The artist best documented in this subseries is Thomas Eakins. Most of the correspondence is between Kimball and the artist's widow, Susan Macdowell Eakins, concerning the gifts she and family friend Mary Adeline Williams made to the museum of numerous works by her husband as well as the subsequent exhibition and catalogue of his works. A number of files pertain to the museum's collection of miniatures, most of which were the property of members of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature...
Dates:
May 12, 1935
Art Week. November 17-23, 1941. "A Review of Art Week." Complimentary newspaper, November 25, 1941
File — Box: 207, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries describes various national and state projects. Although these projects did not involve the museum, Kimball or other staff members participated in them in an advisory capacity. Projects documented here include the Federal Art Project, which included the preparation of the Index of American Design, and the Federal Writers Project, specifically its American Guide Series. The file pertaining to "This Work Pays Your Community" Exhibitions Week does contain a small amount of...
Dates:
November 25, 1941