Box 161
Container
Contains 23 Results:
"Duveen [Joseph Duveen, Baron]." [1925-1933?]. Ms and notes, undated
File — Box: 161, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
undated
Duveen research. Clippings, 1933-1939, 1946, 1951
File — Box: 161, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
1933-1939, 1946, 1951
Duveen research. Correspondence, 1933-1946, 1951
File — Box: 161, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
1933-1946, 1951
Duveen research. "Profiles: The Days of Duveen." New Yorker. Five-part series, September-November 1951
File — Box: 161, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
September-November 1951
Duveen research. Notes and ephemera, 1940-1944, 1950, undated
File — Box: 161, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
1940-1944, 1950, undated
"The New Museum." [PMA construction and opening. 1926-1928]. Ms and note, 1944, undated
File — Box: 161, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
1944, undated
[PMA acquisition of Thomas Eakins collection. 1926-1933, 1944]. Ms. and correspondence, 1926, undated
File — Box: 161, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
1926, undated
"Spoils of Europe." [PMA acquisition of period rooms. 1928-1929]. Ms, undated
File — Box: 161, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
undated
"The Mellon Collection and the Founding of the National Gallery [of Art (U.S.)]." [circa 1928-1937]. Ms, undated
File — Box: 161, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
undated
Mellon Collection and National Gallery of Art research. Correspondence, clippings and notes, 1925, 1936, 1943-1951, undated
File — Box: 161, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates:
1925, 1936, 1943-1951, undated