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Information Services Department Records
Collection
Identifier: IS
Abstract
This collection contains records from Jenny Wilker, who was the manager of the Collections Information Systems Project.
Dates:
circa 2001, undated
Isaiah and Julia Zagar Collection
Collection
Identifier: ZAG
Abstract
The Isaiah Zagar Collection contains archival material relating to the artist Isaiah Zagar. Many objects are from Zagar's time in the Peace Corp in Peru as well as other letters, posters, family annoucements, and sketches and drawings.
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1963-1969, undated
J. Stogdell Stokes Records
Collection
Identifier: STO
Abstract
J. Stogdell Stokes was President, a member of the Board of Trustees, and Chairman of the Museum Fund of 1928. Under his guidance the Museum acquired the Barnard and Foulc collections. With WPA craftsmen, period rooms were installed and galleries completed. The records are correspondence covering 11 years of his administration. Subjects include the WPA, acquisitional negotiations, funding the Museum, solicitation of City support and aid from the General Education Board. The records show a...
Dates:
1937-1947
Jean Sutherland Boggs Records
Collection
Identifier: BOG
Abstract
Dr. Jean Sutherland Boggs was a prominent art historian and expert scholar on Degas who served as director of several major North American museums. She was appointed as the first female director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and served from 1970 to 1982. The Jean Sutherland Boggs records contain the general correspondence and administrative records of Dr. Boggs. The records date from 1977 to 1983 and include correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, financial records,...
Dates:
1977-1983
Joan Root Collections
Collection
Identifier: ROO
Abstract
Most of the material comprising the Joan Root Collection consists of correspondence and other materials related to Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch, who amassed one of the world's greatest private collections of arms and armor, which he bequeathed to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This collection also includes a small compilation of ephemera pertaining to the City of Philadelphia, namely the Centennial, Sesqui-centennial and dedication of the equestrian monument of George Washington in...
Dates:
1876-1926, 1969-2000
John G. Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: JGJ
Abstract
The John G. Johnson Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, invoices and legal documents that make evident Johnson's process in building his art collection, as well as the disposition of these acquisitions and other personal belongings after his death. The collection also includes a significant number of photographs Johnson compiled in oversized albums to commemorate his travels to Europe with his wife, Ida, as well as formal portraits of each.
Dates:
1846-1918, 1927-1955, 1973-1993, undated; Majority of material found within 1880-1918
John L. Goldstone Papers
Collection
Identifier: JGP
Abstract
This collection contains the personal files and papers of John L. Goldstone, attorney to the French artist Fernand Léger.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-1954
John Raphael Covert Papers
Collection
Identifier: JRC
Abstract
The painter John Raphael Covert was an active participant in the American avant-garde art movement between 1915 and 1923. He later became a traveling salesman for his family's Vesuvius Crucible Company and pursued his intense interest in cryptography, word games and magic squares. The John Raphael Covert Papers consist of the artist's correspondence, word and number puzzles (such as anagrams, acrostics, and riddles), financial records, photographic portraits, and a few sketches....
Dates:
1919-1976, undated
John Stephen Benezet Diaries
Collection
Identifier: BEN
Abstract
The diaries of John Stephen Benezet offer a glimpse of life in antebellum Philadelphia from 1838 to 1850. By the time he begins to keep these journals, Benezet is already a husband and father supporting a family of at least four children as a clerk at the United States Mint in Philadelphia. In addition to his personal activities, such as attending church, assisting at a school and taking tea and dinner with family and friends, Benezet's entries occasionally give a glimpse of contemporary...
Dates:
1838-1850, 1892, 1949
Johnson Collection Curatorial Records
Collection
Identifier: JCC
Abstract
The Johnson Collection Curatorial Records represent two "generations" of curatorial oversight of the art collection acquired by John Graver Johnson (19841-1917), one of Philadelphia's most prominent corporate lawyers. In these curatorial records, the earlier files reflect the administrative and curatorial activities of Henri Marceau and Barbara Sweeny, roughly documenting their combined years of service, 1926-1972. Joseph J. Rishel succeeded Sweeny as Johnson Collection curator in November...
Dates:
1917-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1927-1992
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- Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 7
- Arensberg, Louise S. (Louise Stevens), 1879-1953 6
- Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954 6
- Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 6
- Marceau, Henri, 1896-1969 6
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- d'Harnoncourt, Anne, 1943-2008 5
- Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 4
- Rishel, Joseph J. 4
- Turner, Evan H. 4
- Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975 4
- Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938 3
- Boggs, Jean Sutherland 3
- Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis), 1891-1973 3
- McIlhenny, Henry P. 3
- Wintersteen, Bernice McIlhenny 3
- Brown, W. Norman (William Norman), 1892-1975 2
- Bye, A. E. (Arthur Edwin) 2
- Cheston, George M. 2
- Clifford, Henry 2
- Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906 2
- Dorr, Dalton 2
- Dubon, David 2
- Duchamp, Alexina, 1906-1995 2
- Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 2
- Etting, Gloria Braggiotti 2
- Fairmount Park Commission (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Garvan, Beatrice 2
- Hathaway, Calvin S. 2
- Hood, Graham, 1936- 2
- Johnson, John Graver, 1841-1917 2
- Kramrisch, Stella, 1898-1993 2
- Man Ray, 1890-1976 2
- Mason, Darielle 2
- McIlhenny, John D. (John Dexter), 1865-1925 2
- Miege, Madeleine S. de 2
- Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art 2
- Philadelphia Museum of Art. Department of Urban Outreach 2
- Philadelphia Museum of Art. Women's Committee 2
- Price, Eli Kirk, 1860-1933 2
- Rice, Danielle 2
- Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 2
- Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial 2
- Scott, Robert Montgomery, 1929-2005 2
- Siegl, Theodore 2
- Strehlke, Carl Brandon 2
- Tancock, John L. 2
- Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957 2
- Temkin, Ann 2
- Von Erdberg, Joan Prentice, 1908-1995 2
- Warner, Langdon, 1881-1955 2
- Wood, Beatrice 2
- Wood, William P. 2
- Woodhouse, Samuel W., Jr. 2
- Agro, Elisabeth R. 1
- Aldridge, Alexandra Q. 1
- American China Manufactory 1
- Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997 1
- Babbitt, Sherry 1
- Bach, Penny Balkin 1
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 1
- Barbour, George C. A. 1
- Bassett, Barbara 1
- Baxter, Nancy 1
- Beale, Joseph Boggs, 1841-1926 1
- Beamesderfer, Alice O. 1
- Bell, Hamilton, 1857-1929 1
- Benezet, John Stephen 1
- Benson, E. M. (Emanuel Mervin), 1904-1971 1
- Benson, Perry, Jr. 1
- Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 1
- Bloch, Julius T. (Julius Thiengen), 1888-1966 1
- Blum, Dilys, 1947- 1
- Borie, Lysbeth Boyd, 1902-1990 1
- Bosbyshell, James Rex 1
- Bosbyshell, John Albert 1
- Botwinick, Michael 1
- Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862 1
- Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942 1
- Butler, Ruth, 1931- 1
- Bye, Arthur Edwin, 1885- 1
- Campbell, William H., 1915-2012 1
- Canaday, John, 1907-1985 1
- Chamberlain, Merle J. 1
- Cheatham, Walter 1
- Colozzi, Carl 1
- Corson, Alan, Jr. 1
- Covert, John, 1882-1960 1
- Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945 1
- Cummings, Hildegard 1
- Curran, Mary Florence, 1885–1978 1
- Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 1
- Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-1978 1
- Dietrich, Daniel W., II 1
- Diskant, Eda 1
- Donato, Giuseppe 1
- Douglas, R. Langton (Robert Langton), 1864-1951 1
- Downs, Joseph, 1895-1954 1
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