| | Creator/Collector: | Panza,
Giuseppe
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Giuseppe Panza papers  | | | | Dates: | 1956-1990 | | | | Abstract: | Collection documents the Italian businessman's activities in collecting works by some of the seminal American artists involved with abstract expressionist, pop, minimal, conceptual, environmental, and light and space art. The archive contains material dating from 1956, when Panza began collecting. up to the sale of the second part of his collection to the Guggenheim Museum in 1990. Panza's art collection is documented by correspondence with artists and galleries, photographs, small drawings, invoices, loan requests, announcements, and invitations. The archive also includes a substantial quantity of Panza's writings on art; papers and ephemera related to Panza's associations with museums, galleries, and cultural institutions; clippings and photocopies of articles about the collection; and an extensive group of architectural drawings of potential sites for the collection, many with Panza's installation designs. | | | | Number: | 940004 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Patricia Faure Gallery
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Patricia Faure Gallery records | | | | Dates: | 1952-2006 (bulk 1970-2006) | | | | Abstract: | The Patricia Faure Gallery in Los Angeles, which began as Asher/Faure, exhibited internationally recognized artists such as Richard Artschwager, Philip Guston and Morris Louis along with less-known local artists such as Gwynn Murrill, Craig Kauffman and Jack Goldstein. The archive documents the period when the gallery was known as Asher/Faure between 1979 and 1994 and when it was under Faure's own name between 1994 and 2008. The bulk of the records comprises exhibition announcements and photographic documentation of artists' works in the form of prints, transparencies, slides and negatives. Also included are business papers such as sales and inventory lists, correspondence, financial statements and clippings. | | | | Number: | 2010.M.13 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Payne, Oscar Birkett
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Oscar Birkett Payne Views of China | | | | Dates: | circa 1924-circa 1929 | | | | Abstract: | The collection of glass and nitrate negatives contains almost 1,000 views of Shanghai and surrounding areas taken by Oscar Birkett Payne, especially documenting sites and scenes along the waterways going as far north as Ningbo (Ningpo) and Hangzhou (Hangchow). The geographical area represented comprises the provinces of Jiangsu (Kiangsu) and Zhejiang (Chekiang), and includes the towns or districts of Anting (Anking), Nanxiang (Nanshiang), Suzhou (Soochow), Songjiang (Sungkiang), Haining, Hangzhou, Jiaxing (Kashing), and Ningbo, as well as the city of Shanghai. | | | | Number: | 2004.R.2 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Payró, Julio E., 1899-1971
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Julio Payró letters received | | | | Dates: | 1937-1971 (bulk 1940-1955) | | | | Abstract: | The collection comprises 354 letters from 116 correspondents sent to the Argentine art critic Julio Payró between 1937 and 1971. | | | | Number: | 990020 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pearlman,
Judith
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Judith Pearlman interviews with Bauhaus masters and students | | | | Dates: | approximately 1960-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The collection comprises audio interviews by Judith Pearlman, accompanied by some transcrips, translations, notes and printed matter. Also included are two videotapes of Bauhaus films; and the original unenhanced cassette tapes and reel-to-reel master copies. | | | | Number: | 920069 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pecci Blunt, Anna
Laetitia, 1885-1971
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt collection of maps of Rome | | | | Dates: | 1557-1883 | | | | Abstract: | The collection of forty-two maps of the city of Rome dates from the mid-16th century to the late 19th century, and originally formed part of the library of collector, philanthropist, gallerist and patron of the arts, Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt (1885-1971). Included are maps by the printmakers Nicolas Beatrizet, Ambrogio Brambilla, Étienne Dupérac, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Giuseppe Vasi. | | | | Number: | P850002 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pecci Blunt, Anna
Laetitia, 1885-1971
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt print collection of views of Rome | | | | Dates: | 1589-circa 1860 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of 97 prints of views of the city of Rome, dating 1589 to circa 1860, from the library of collector, gallerist, philanthropist and patron of the arts, Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. | | | | Number: | P850003 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pélissier, Georges Constantin
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Georges Pélissier Photographs and Papers | | | | Dates: | ca. 1872-1925 | | | | Abstract: | Art historian, lecturer, and cultural advisor to Tiffany and Company. In his wide travels, Pélissier both collected and created photographic images on diverse subjects, including buildings, monuments, gardens, city views, decorative arts, as well as family and friends. The images in this collection represent various formats and processes, including stereographs, lantern slides, glass negatives, and rare Lumière autochromes. Materials used to present, preserve, and repair stereo views are included, as well as some original stereo view boxes. The small representation of Pélissier's writing includes photocopies of several articles and partial essays, mostly concerning decorative arts. | | | | Number: | 94.R.66 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pesce, Luigi,
1827-1864
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Album fotografico della Persia | | | | Dates: | 1860 | | | | Abstract: | The album of photographs taken by Luigi Pesce contains 21 views of Tehran and environs, followed by 21 views of ancient Persian sites including the Achaemenid ruins of Persepolis, the Achaemenid tombs and Sasanian reliefs at Naqsh-i Rustam near Persepolis, and the Sasanian reliefs at Tāq-e Bostān. Pesce took the earliest documented photographs of Persepolis and some of the earliest photographs of Tehran. | | | | Number: | 2012.R.18 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Petronio, Arthur
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arthur Petronio papers | | | | Dates: | 1919-1971 | | | | Abstract: | Small archive of Arthur Petronio, composer of verbophonic works, or works at the intersection of poetry and music. | | | | Number: | 980053 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pettoruti, Emilio, 1892-1971
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Emilio Pettoruti letters to Julio Payró | | | | Dates: | 1924-1957 (bulk 1943-1957) | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains letters from the Argentine artist Emilio Pettoruti to the art historian and critic, Julio Payró (1943-1957). One of the 52 letters is to Pettoruti, 3 letters are from Pettoruti's wife. A one page inventory lists Pettoruti's paintings exhibited at the Witcomb Gallery, Buenos Aires, 1924. Four newspaper clippings are reviews of Pettoruti's exhibition at the San Marco gallery in Rome (October 1953). The letters document Pettoruti's Buenos Aires exhibition in 1924, his European exhibitions in the 1950s, and his move to Paris. They reflect in their content the experience of a Latin American artist amidst the European modernism art movement of the time. | | | | Number: | 2001.M.18 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Nikolaus Pevsner miscellaneous papers | | | | Dates: | 1957-1979 | | | | Abstract: | This collection of papers relates primarily to the work of German-born art and architecture historian Nikolaus Pevsner during the 1960s and 1970s, including publications and speaking engagements, pedagogical research, and his membership on boards and committees, such as the Council of Bauhaus. | | | | Number: | 2003.M.34 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pevsner, Nikolaus,
1902-1983
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Nikolaus Pevsner papers | | | | Dates: | 1903-1982 | | | | Abstract: | Papers and manuscripts of the German-born art and architecture historian (1902-1983). Papers date primarily from the years following Pevsner's immigration to England in 1933, and include written and visual materials used for lectures or as research for his many books and articles. Files related to Pevsner's radio lectures and affiliations document his career as a public figure, and correspondence tracks his relationships with many key figures in 20th-century art and architecture. | | | | Number: | 840209 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pillement, Jean,
1728-1808
Perrins, Charles
William Dyson, 1864-1958
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jean Pillement etchings | | | | Dates: | ca. 1755-1775 | | | | Abstract: | 329 prints designed by Jean Pillement and etched by various printmakers. The etchings of chinoiserie, flowers, and rustic scenes were sources for designs on Worcester porcelain. The collection represents perhaps one-quarter of Pillement's printed designs. | | | | Number: | P830005 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pilter, J. G.
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J. G. Pilter, Tour in Algeria | | | | Dates: | 1872 | | | | Abstract: | A manuscript journal containing texts, photographs, maps, and letters documenting Englishman J. G. Pilter's travels in Algeria in 1872. | | | | Number: | 93.R.33 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Piper, David
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | David Piper papers relating to British museums and art institutions | | | | Dates: | 1916-1990 | | | | Abstract: | British museum director, art historian, and novelist (1918-1990). These papers reflect Piper's tenure as director of the National Portrait Gallery (1964-1967), the Fitzwilliam Museum (1967-1973), and the Ashmolean Museum (1973-1985), as well as his position on various boards and institutions. The collection consists of letters, notes, essays, reports, clippings, and some single journal issues and promotional material concerning the arts in Britain. | | | | Number: | 960020 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham,
Sir, 1913-1994
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Pope-Hennessy papers | | | | Dates: | 1617-1995, bulk 1930-1995 | | | | Abstract: | The papers document John Pope-Hennessy's professional activities as a historian of Italian Renaissance art, museum director, curator, and teacher. The archive contains museum files, correspondence, study photographs, and manuscripts of his scholarly work. Also included are papers from his family, namely his parents, Ladislas and Una Pope-Hennessy and his brother, James Pope-Hennessy. The family papers include letters, clippings, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works. | | | | Number: | 990023 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Porter, Bern, 1911-2004
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bern Porter mail art collection | | | | Dates: | 1953-1992 (bulk 1978-1992) | | | | Abstract: | American physicist, poet, publisher, editor of artists' books, illustrator and mail artist. Collection consists of five collections of mail art preserved by Porter from his own accumulation and those of fellow mail artists John Pyros, Carlo Pittore (née Charles Stanley), Robert Saunders, and Jay Yager. | | | | Number: | 900270 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | José Guadalupe Posada prints | | | | Dates: | 1880-1943 | | | | Abstract: | A largely self-taught artist who produced more than 20,000 prints, his most well-known pieces for the publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo in Mexico City. Most were illustrated broadsides on brightly colored paper and sold by strolling vendors throughout Mexico. Posada influenced the 20th-century Mexican muralists, for whom he was the quintessentially Mexican populist artist. Collection includes newspapers, chapbooks, half-sheet and full-sheet broadsides, all of which are illustrated with Posada's prints. | | | | Number: | 960060 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Potteau, Jacques-Philippe, 1807-1876
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jacques-Philippe Potteau Portraits of Algerian Soldiers for the Collection anthropologique du Muséum de Paris | | | | Dates: | 1863 | | | | Abstract: | The 20 frontal and profile portraits of ten Algerian soldiers who visited Paris in 1863 were taken by Philippe-Jacques Potteau as part of his larger anthropological project for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, known as the Collection anthropologique du Muséum de Paris (1855-1869). Seven pairs of photographs are of soldiers from the 3rd Regiment of Algerian Tirailleurs, an infantry corps, and three pairs depict soldiers from the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of Algerian Spahis, or light cavalry units. | | | | Number: | 2018.R.27 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Potteau, Jacques-Philippe, 1807-1876
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Portraits from Jacques-Philippe Potteau's Collection anthropologique du Muséum de Paris | | | | Dates: | 1862-1865 | | | | Abstract: | The collection comprises a group of 33 portraits from Jacques-Philippe Potteau's Collection anthropologique du Muséum de Paris. The sitters include soldiers from the Tirailleurs algériens; members of diplomatic staff from French Cochinchina and Annam to Paris; Bohemians; and Swedes. Present are 12 pairs of frontal and profile portraits of individuals; two full-length seated portraits; a full-length standing portrait; and three frontal and two profile unmatched portraits. | | | | Number: | 2017.R.20 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Poupard-Lieussou, Y. (Yves)
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Yves Poupard-Lieussou correspondence and collected papers on Dada and Surrealism | | | | Dates: | 1905-1984 (bulk 1956-1979) | | | | Abstract: | French scholar of Dada and surrealism, and vice president of the Association pour l'Étude de Dada et du Surréalisme. Collection consists of correspondence received by Poupard-Lieussou from artists, writers, publishers, critics, and scholars, mainly 1956-1979. Includes bio-bibliographic notes, drawings, photographs, printed materials, and manuscripts (some unpublished or rare texts) given to Poupard by his correspondents or sometimes hand-copied by himself. | | | | Number: | 930004 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Prat, G., active 1874-1900
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan | | | | Dates: | 1874-1900 | | | | Abstract: | The album, compiled by G. Prat, a French silk inspector working in China in the latter part of the nineteenth century, contains 151 albumen photographs of China and Japan. The album's visual focus is on the ports and trading centers of China's Pearl River Delta. Present are 98 views of Guangzhou (Canton); six of Hong Kong; and 11 of Macau. Additionally, there are 16 images on eight pages depicting the Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) productions, and 20 photographs of Japan, 19 of which are hand colored. Photographers include Lai Fong and Kusakabe Kinbē. Extensive commentary written on the mount borders forms Prat's compendium on China in which he addresses any number of topics from history, geography, climate, agriculture, religion, language and dialects, and business practices to family life, sedan chairs, etiquette, costume and dress, and opium, to a lexicon of colonial Asian terms. The album is accompanied by 21 loose albumen prints and a manuscript listing photographs to be acquired. | | | | Number: | 98.R.14 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Pratt, H. M. (Henry Marsh), 1838-1919
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Henry Marsh Pratt album | | | | Dates: | 1858-1906 | | | | Abstract: | The album, which Lieutenant Colonel Henry Marsh Pratt began compiling in 1868, offers a uniquely personal record of Pratt's professional and family connections in both India and England. Depictions of the Pratt family of Norfolk, England, with frequent appearances by Henry Marsh Pratt, and views of country homes associated with the Pratt family circle made by unidentified amateur and professional photographers, are mingled with views of India by professional photographers such as Samuel Bourne, Charles Shepherd, and William Henry Baker (also represented as W. Baker & Co. and Baker & Burke), and with carte-de-visite-sized portraits and views by photographers working in Europe and India, including André́-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri; Charles H. Reutlinger; Hills & Saunders; the London Stereoscopic Company; and Window & Bridge. | | | | Number: | 2018.R.25 | |
| | Creator/Collector: | Program for Art on Film (New York, N.Y.)
| Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Program for Art on Film records | | | | Dates: | 1951-1999, undated (bulk 1984-1997) | | | | Abstract: | Records include correspondence, memoranda, printed matter, minutes, financial and legal documents, films, CD-ROMs, slides, and ephemera produced and collected by the Program for Art on Film, 1951-1999 and undated. Included in the collection are records created and collected by the Program for Art on Film. Among the records created by the Program are correspondence, publications and related correspondence and memoranda, and films. Also included in the records are interviews with filmmakers, in both audio cassette and transcript format, information on two symposia organized by the Program, and records of the Advisory and Managing Committees. Materials collected by the Program include subject files, primarily on art historical topics and film-related topics; information on filmmakers, art historians and artists; brochures and catalogs from film production and distribution companies; information (catalogs, press releases, brochures) on art-related film festivals, both domestic and international; and published materials. | | | | Number: | IA20008 | |
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