Series contains three groupings of letters: one group of occasional letters (1965-1988)
and two runs of letters received and sent (1941-1982 and 1976-1989). Correspondents
include artists, curators, students, colleagues and friends. Some of the same
correspondents appear in letters filed within other series. Patricia Trenton, a student
of Bloch's during the late 1960s and curator at the Denver Art Museum, kept up a lively
correspondence with Bloch which can be found here and among his research files. Other
correspondents, some with especially thick files, include colleagues, curators,
collectors, dealers, and artists: J. Carter Brown, E. John Bullard, Albert Christ-Janer,
M. B. Cowdrey, Lorser Feitelson, Eva Gatling, William Gerdts, Hans A. Halbey, Edith
Hamelin, Milton Hebald, Bertha Heilbron, Claude (Mac) Jones, Jacob Kainen, Donald D.
Keyes, Stanley Lewis, John McCall, George T. Maxwell, Ruth S. Magurn, Paul Mills,
Annemarie H. Pope, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Karl Schrag, Frederick Shane, Ross Taggart,
Herbert Weissburger, Allen S. Weller, Christopher J. White, Hermann Sapf, Jake Zeitlin,
Jerrold Ziff.
Series I.A. Occasional letters received, , 1965-1988 undated .5 linear ft.
Primarily thank-you letters and Christmas cards received, arranged
chronologically.
box
folder
1
1-4
Thank you letters, Christmas cards, etc. , 1965-1988 undated
1
1
1965-1979
1
2
1980-1984
1
3
1985-1988
1
4
undated
Series I.B. Letters received and letters sent, 1941-1982
2.25 Linear
Feet
Arranged alphabetically with Bloch's carbon or photocopied responses.
box
folder
2
1
A, 1941-1975
2
2
B, 1945-1980
including Leonard Bloch (E. M.'s father; 1957), Dorothy Brown (artist, UCLA
colleague; 1960s), J. Carter Brown (1971- 1973), Edna Buchanan (1949-1962; see also
Anna Erickson), and E. John Bullard (Bloch student at the National Gallery;
1968-1975).
2
3
C, 1949-1975
including Albert Christ-Janer (Bingham scholar; 1972-1973), and M. B. Cowdrey
(historian of American art; 1948-1958)
2
4
D, (for Virginia Downes, see Ethyl Myers) 1952-1981
2
5
E, 1949-1971
including Anna E. (Nancy) Erickson (art collector)
2
6
F, 1948-1978
including Lorser Feitelson (American painter and printmaker; 1963-1978)
2
7
G, 1952-1976
including Eva Gatling (curator Cooper Union and Des Moines Art Center; 1952-1960,
undated), William Gerdts (Newark Museum and CUNY; 1955-1962), and Arnold Gross
(lithographer; 1975-1976); [see also oversize box 87]
2
8
H-I, 1950-1975
including Hans A. Halbey (Kingspoor Museum; 1960-1968), Edith Hamelin ('Dale,' wife
of Maynard Dixon; 1958-1970), Milton Hebald (American artist and collector;
1968-1970), Cornelia Jett Henry (Cooper Union colleague; 1958-1959, undated), Bertha
Heilbron (Minnesota Hst. Society and panorama scholar; 1950-1968); [see also box 44,
folder 3], and Werner Hirsch (Cambridge don; 1972, 1975)
2
9
J, , 1955-1975 undated
including Claude E. (Mac) Jones (UCLA English professor; 1959-1971, undated)
box
folder
3
1
K, 1946-1978
including Jacob Kainen (Smithsonian prints curator and printmaker; 1959-1978),
Francis (Bob) Kelly (artist and conservator; 1961-1969), Donald D. Keyes (art
historian; 1967-1975), Eckhardt Knab (Albertina and Gemäldegalerie, Vienna;
1955-1961), and Joseph Kwiat
3
2
L, 1952-1981
including Stanley Lewis (art historian; 1952-1959)
3
3
Mc, 1949-1975
including John McCall (expert on Japanese prints; 1949-1956), and Dorothy McNeilly
(Charles Lanman descendant; 1974-1975); [see also box 40, folder 4]
3
4
George T. Maxwell (cartoonist, illustrator and collector) 1949-1959
3
5
M, 1949-1978
including Ruth S. Magurn (Fogg prints curator; 1970-1975, undated), Paul Mills
(Oakland Art Museum; 1957-1962), and Ethel Myers (ceramicist) and her daughter
Virginia Downes (1958-1972)
3
6
N, 1951-1975
including Harry Nadler (artist; 19??)
3
7
P-Q, 1954-1974
including Roi Partridge (printmaker; 1974), Clare Elsne Peck (artist; 1960), and
Annemarie H. Pope (National Council on Fine Arts' Traveling Exhibition Service;
1954-1971)
3
8
R, 1946-1972
including Lessing J. Rosenwald (illustrations and book collector; 1961-1970)
3
9
S, 1950-1988
including Karl Schrag (artist; 1955-1977) and Frederick Shane (Univ. of Missouri
art historian; 1958-1971, undated)
box
folder
4
1
T-U, 1958-1975
including Patricia Trenton (Bloch student and curator, Denver Art Museum;
1969-1974) and Ross Taggart (Nelson-Atkins). [See Series IV for other correspondence
with both Trenton and Taggart].
4
2
W, 1949-1982
including Herbert Weissburger (NYU colleague; 1955-1961), Allen S. Weller (Univ. of
Illinois art historian; 1949-1961), Sir Robert Witt (collector; 1951-1953), and
Christopher J. White (Old Masters authority; 1959-1982, bulk to 1965)
4
3
X-Z, 1955-1973
including Hermann Zapf (German graphic designer; 1955-1969), Jake Zeitlin (rare
book dealer; 1960-1973), and Jerrold Ziff (art historian; 1967-1972)
4
4
Unidentified, , 1960-1974 undated
Series I.C. Letters received and sent, 1976-1989 .25 linear ft.
Correspondence of the same nature as the alphabetical subseries above, but arranged
in chronological order.
Series comprises course outlines, syllabi, bibliographies, lecture notes and
correspondence in 5 linear ft. These include courses Bloch took with Otto Benesch,
Walter Friedlaender, Julius Held, Karl Lehmann, A. Philip McMahon, Richard Offner,
Dimitri Tselos and Martin Weinberger, with some notes from lectures by Panofsky, and
Richard Kautheimer. One small file offers administrative documents from his
undergraduate years at NYU. Other files hold materials for his master's thesis
(including the ms.), correspondence regarding his teaching at NYU, and supporting
materials for his dissertation, the manuscript for which is filed in Series IV. Some
correspondence with his professors is here and concerns his dissertation, other
research, and news of his teaching and curatorial activities.
Series II.A. Course syllabi, 1935-1942, undated
2 Linear
Feet
Inventories of Bloch's NYU-IFA course material: "Selected list of [NYU-IFA]
syllabi on hand,"
5
2
Marcel Aubert, Gothic architecture
5
2
-Early Gothic architecture in France, 1936
5
2
- Later Gothic architecture in France, 1938
5
3
Otto Benesch, Fine Arts class, "French Painting from the Revolution to the
Present Time," undated
5
4
Walter W. S. Cook, Research methods, Italian and Spanish Painting -"Fine
Arts class 201-202, Methods of Research in the Fine arts." Selective bibliography on
American Painting, with a bibliography for Fine Arts class 201
5
4
-bibliography of Italian painting
5
4
-"Spanish painting," fragment
5
4
-Reading list for "Spanish painting from Goya to Miro," [see also box 7,
folder 4]
5
5
Walter Friedlaender, Italian painting
5
5
-"Fine Arts 228, Later Venetian painting and Northern Italian painting,"
lectures 1-9
5
5
-"Fine Arts 227, Florentine and central Italian painting of the sixteenth
century," lecture 13 only.
5
5
-"Fine Arts 229, Italian painting of the late XVI and XVII centuries,"
includes bibliography, lacking pp. 1-12
5
6
Friedlaender, Baroque painting [see also box 6, folder 1]
5
6
-bibliography for "Fine Arts 267...Rubens and the Baroque," and including
"Topics for Reports" for Fine Arts 267 and 339
5
6
-"Fine Arts 226, Painting in the High Baroque,"
6
1
Friedlaender, French painting and drawing
6
1
-"Fine Arts 226, French painting in the XVI and early XVII
centuries,"
6
1
-Topics list for "Fine Arts 278, French Painting," and "Fine Arts 340,
French painting XVI-XVIII," (bound together)
6
2
Friedlaender
6
2
-"Fine Arts 225. . .French painting XVII-XVIII"
6
2
-"Fine Arts 225. . .French painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries" (fuller version)
6
2-3
-"Bibliography of French painting - 17th and 18th centuries"
6
2
-"Bibliography of French painting (late 18th and early 19th
centuries)"
6
3
-"Fine Arts 268, French drawings of the XVI and XVII centuries," lectures
1 and 15
6
3
-"Fine Arts 226, From David to Cézanne," 3 different versions
6
4
Robert Goldwater, "Fine Arts 167, Modern painting," with three leaves of
Bloch's notes
6
5
Julius Held, Flemish and Dutch painting
6
5
-bibliography for Fine Arts 60, "Flemish painting of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries"
6
5
-"Fine Arts 210. . .Dutch painting, 17th century," including bibliography
and slide list
box
folder
7
1
Hans Huth, "Fine Arts. . .Museum training"
7
2
Richard Krautheimer, architecture
7
2
-bibilography for "Fine Arts 274, Early Christian
architecture,"
7
2
-"Fine Arts 274, Gothic architecture"
7
2
-miscellaneous and incomplete lectures on renaissance architecture in
Italy
7
2
-"Fine Arts 248, Baroque architecture" [see also Special Collection accn.
no. 900219]
7
3
Karl Lehmann(-Hartleben), ancient art
7
3
-bibliography for "Classical Greek art"
7
3
-"Fine Arts 254, Greek architecture of the classical period"
7
3
-"Fine Arts 288. . .Greek and Roman painting," with
bibliography
7
3
-"Hellenistic Art," including bibliography, with handwritten
date 7 Oct 1939
7
4
José Lopez-Rey, Spanish painting
7
4
-"Fine Arts 270. . .Spanish painting from Goya to Miro," outline, slide
list (fragment)
7
4
-"Fine Arts 271, Modern Spanish painting," outline, slide list for
lectures 1-11
7
5
A. Philip McMahon, "Fine Arts 11, Outline of the history of art,
1945-1946," 2 pp lecture schedule and reading list
7
6
Richard Offner, Italian painting
7
6
-"Fine Arts 288, Sienese Painting"
7
6
-"Fine Arts 290, Venetian painting," fragment of typescript
7
6
-"Fine Arts 291. . .Venetian painting"
7
7
- bound volume: "Syllabus of Gothic and early Renaissance painting in
Italy," with slide lists for classes "Italian painting and sculpture of the early
Renaissance, 154f[all], 1946" and "Great masters of the high Renaissance,"
155w[inter], 1947"
box
folder
8
1-2
2 bound volumes: "Two made-up volumes of photographs from slides used by
Offner, 'Sienese painting' et al"
8
3
Erwin Panofsky, European art
8
3
- "Fine Arts 336. . .Gothic and late medieval illuminated mss.,"
fragments
8
3
- "Early Flemish painting - syllabus"
8
3
- "Fine Arts 229, German painting," incomplete, lectures 1-6
8
3
- "German painting of the XVth century," with errata sheet
8
3
- "Italian baroque art, syllabus of lectures"
8
3
- "French painting of the XVII and XVIII centuries"
8
4
Rudolf M. Riefstahl, ancient art, furniture
8
4
- "Chronology of Egypt" for "Art of the Near East"
8
4
- chronologies for "Byzantine art" : Roman history, Byzantine history, ,
and "chronology of the Byzantine empire," 1934 1936
8
4
- chronology for "Historic styles," copyright 1935
8
4
-chronologies for "Medieval furniture," and "English furniture,"
copyright 1935
box
folder
9
1
Andrew C. Ritchie, English painting
9
1
-bibliography for and lecture 1 of "Fine Arts 46. . .English painting,
16-18 centuries"
9
1
-"Fine Arts 79. . .English painting," lectures 2, 7-13 [see also box 17,
folder 1]
9
2
William Sawitzsky, "Fine Arts 51, Early American painting," bound with
corrections in Bloch's hand
9
3
Dimitri Tselos, Art of the middle ages
9
3
-"Fine Arts 181, Art of the early Middle Ages," lacking lectures
1-4
9
3
-"Fine Arts 282, Art of the early Middle Ages"
9
3
-"Fine Arts 182, Art of the later Middle Ages"
9
4
Tselos, Modern art
9
4
-"Fine Arts 69, Foundations of modern art," lacking 2
lectures
9
4
-"Fine Arts 36, Foundations of modern architecture and sculpture,"
incomplete [see also box 17, folder 1]
9
4
-"Fine Arts 135, Foundations of modern architecture and sculpture,"
including a "bibliography of American architecture"
9
4
-"Fine Arts 252, American art," slide list
9
5
Martin Weinberger, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture
9
5
-"Fine Arts 279 [sic, 275]. . .Romanesque and Gothic
sculpture"
9
5
-"Fine Arts 274. . .Renaissance sculpture in Italy," with Bloch's notes
dated 1940
9
5
-"Fine Arts 283. . .High Renaissance and Baroque sculpture in
Italy"
9
6
Weinberger, Painting, sculpture, museum training
9
6
-"Fine Arts 206. . .Renaissance art of northern Europe," [see also box
16, folder 5 for second copies of lectures 7-10]
9
6
-"Fine Arts 284. . .Northern High Renaissance and Baroque
sculpture"
9
6
-"Fine Arts 210, Rembrandt and Dutch painting," incomplete
9
6
- Museum training course, "Exhibit: lithographs and sculpture - Honoré
Daumier/ arranged by student in Museum training under the direction of Dr. Martin
Weinberger... " May 13-19, 1941
9
7
Miscellaneous materials without instructors' names, alpha by
subject/title
9
7
-ancient architecture, outline of lectures, 1936-1937
9
7
-Renaissance architecture, outline of lectures, 1937-1938
9
7
-Italian baroque art, bibilography
9
7
-history of forgeries, early Christian and Byzantine art
9
7
-iconography, outline
9
7
-Tuscan communes of 12th and 13th centuries
9
7
-modern art: classicism and romanticism, outline of lectures
9
7
-museum training course: 17th c Dutch prints and Delft ware; history of
painting and sculpture, 1936, in Bloch's hand
9
7
-NYU-Met Museum bibliography for painting in Italy 17th -18th
centuries
9
7
-"Fine Arts 27-28," watercolor class
9
7
-survey of renaissance art - Fine Arts 502, incomplete
Series II.B. Bloch's notes and term papers for NYU classes, 1936-1947, undated ca. 2.5 lin. ft.
Lecture notes, term papers, sketchbooks, and assorted notes, arranged roughly
alphabetically; by professors, then by subjects.
box
folder
10
1
Otto Benesch
10
1
-French painting, 1943
Paper, translation of portion of Thieme-Becker, 1941.
10
2-3
Walter Fridlaender, ca. 1940-1944
10
2
-Florentine painting, 1944
10
2
-Fine Arts 227, Florentine and central Italian painting of the 16th
c.
10
2
-Later Venetian painting, 1941
10
3
-Italian painting of the late 16th and 17th centuries, with term
paper, 1940
10
3
-Term paper on Géricault, for Fine Arts 226, David to
Cézanne, 1941
10
4
Julius Held, Dutch painting of the 17th c., with term paper on
Rembrandt, 1940
10
5
Karl Lehmann(-Hartleben), Greek art of the Hellenistic period, with term
paper on Pergamon altar, 1939-1940
10
6
A. Philip McMahon, Criticism of the fine arts, with term paper on Sextus
Emiricus, 1939-1940
10
7
Richard Offner
10
7
-High Renaissance painting, 1940
10
7
-Venetian painting, 1942
10
7
-Sienese painting, 1944
box
folder
11
1
Dimitri Tselos
11
2
-Early and later medieval art, 1942-1943
11
3
-Foundations of modern art and architecture and sculpture, 1938, 1941, 1947
11
4
Martin Weinberger
11
4
-High Renaissance sculpture, with term paper on Bartolommeo
Ammanati, 1940-1941
11
4
-Term paper on Mantegna for Italian Renaissance sculpture
course, 1940
[see also Bloch's master's thesis, box 14, folder 9]
11
5
Edgar Wind, Iconography of the Renaissance, 1942
box
folder
12
1
American art, 1942
12
2-7
Architecture, ancient to modern, include sketchbooks, 1936-1938
12
8
Principles of design - Met Museum of Art, fragment, 1937
Sculpture, ancient to Renaissance, 1942-1943, undated
14
5
Cosimo Tura, report on condition of his "Flight into Egypt"
14
6-7
Notes on lectures
Assorted notes on guest lectures and symposia given by, among others, Arthur Hind,
Krautheimer, Lehmann, Offner, Panofsky, and Hans Tietze.
Series II.C. NYU School of Architecture and Allied Arts, Bloch's undergraduate
years, 1936-1939
10
items
Bloch's undergraduate administrative records.
box
folder
14
8
Correspondence, grades, commencement materials.
Series II.D. NYU-IFA, Bloch's master's thesis, 1940-1942
1
folder(s)
Bound thesis, associated material and correspondence.
box
folder
14
9
"Iconography of Andrea Mantegna's half-length pictures of the 'Madonna and
Child,'" October 1942
Bound typescript of thesis with supporting materials including a critique by
Richard Offner.
Series II.E. NYU Washington Square campus, correspondence, 1945-1946
1
folder(s)
Seven typed letters, concerning teaching at NYU. [For Bloch lecture notes from this
period, see box 16, folders 4-7.]
box
folder
14
10
Correspondence, primarily with A. Philip McMahon,
Series II.F. NYU-IFA, Bloch's Ph.D. materials, 1944-1959
1
folder(s)
Supporting, administrative materials and correspondence regarding Bloch's Ph.D.and
NYU commencement, ca. 45 items.
box
folder
14
11
Ph.D supporting materials
Records, oral exams, Ph.D. requirements, grades, commencement and other ceremony
programs, letters from Walter Cook, Craig Hugh Smyth, and Martin Weinberger [For ms.
of dissertation, see boxes 23-25].
Series II.G. Correspondence with NYU-IFA professors, others, 1946-1988
1
folder(s)
Letters, post cards, clippings, and other material primarily related to NYU-IFA
professors and alumni
box
folder
14
12
Correspondence alphabetical, 1946-1987
Includes Walter Cook (1947-1959, 1962), A. Philip McMahon (1946), Craig Hugh Smyth
(1956-1957), Dimitri Tselos (1954-1970, 1987).
14
13
Alumni association flyers, letters, etc., 1959, 1972, 1988
Series contains Bloch's teaching and academic materials, 1945-1982, 4 linear ft.,
includes Bloch's lectures for the University of Missouri, University of Minnesota and
UCLA courses, with reading lists and slides lists. Four folders of papers concern his
students' work, exams, and correspondence and support materials for their masters'
theses and Ph.D qualifying exams. Other correspondence and assorted documents relate to
Bloch's employment, personnel actions, and tenure review, especially at UCLA.
Series III.A. Lecture notes, 1945-1982
2.5 Linear
Feet
Class files containing lecture notes and other materials, chiefly for the teaching of
University of Missouri and UCLA art history courses, arranged accordingly.
box
folder
15
1
Introductory course, "Art and Archaeology" Univ. of Missouri, 1944-1945
15
2
American art, undated
Includes Univ. of Missouri stationary.
15
3-4
19th c. American architecture; American painting and sculpture ca. 200 pp.
15
5
American art and architecture, UCLA art history courses 112A-C or
116A-C, 1961-1978
box
folder
16
1
American art and architecture, UCLA art history courses 112A-C or
116A-C, 1961-1978
16
2
American art, graduate seminar, UCLA, 1976
16
3
Medieval art, 1956, undated
16
4-7
Renaissance art, NYU Washington Square campus, Univ. of Minnesota,
UCLA, 1945-1947, 1957
Includes mimeographs from NUY-IFA courses taught by Walter Cook and Martin
Weinberger [see also box 5, folder 4 and box 9, folders 5-6].
16
8-9
Baroque art, UCLA art history course 104C and UCLA Extension, 1957-1962
16
10
French art, typed lecture notes
U. of Missouri? Univ. of Minnesota?
box
folder
17
1-2
Modern art, Univ. of Minnesota and UCLA, 1946-1947, undated
Includes a lecture from NYU-IFA course of Andrew Ritchie [see also box 9, folder
1]
17
3
Museum training, UCLA Extension and USC course 530, 1963, 1981, undated
17
4
History of ornament and decoration, 1963, 1966, undated
Yyped lecture notes, slide lists from UCLA art history course 102.
17
5
Painting, typed lecture notes, undated
box
folder
18
1
Painting, UCLA art history course 118B, 1957-1958
18
2
History of prints and drawings, UCLA art history courses 117D,
121B, 1965-1966, 1969, 1980, undated
18
3-4
Critical and historical studies in drawings, UCLA art history courses 117D,
121B, 121A-B, 1965-1980, undated
With typed lecture notes, ca. 200 pp.
box
folder
19
1-2
History of prints, UCLA art history courses 117A, 120A-B, 1959, 1972, undated
Typed lecture notes, ca. 300 pp; assorted handouts on prints.
box
folder
18
3
The contemporary print, UCLA Extension, 1964-1965
Collaboration with Tamarind Lithography Workshop [for more on Tamarind, see box
65]
18
4
Connoisseurship of prints, UCLA art department graduate seminar
402, 1978, undated
Including mimeograph from Fogg Art Museum, typed lecture notes.
18
5
Sculpture and architecture, UCLA art history course 118A, 1956, undated
With typed lecture notes.
18
6-7
Assorted lecture outlines, reading lists, undated
Not all by Bloch.
18
8
Seminar and thesis topics for American art and illustration, undated
box
folder
20
1-2
Examinations: mid-term, final and Ph.D qualifying, 1950s-1980s
Series III.B. Students' course work for Bloch's classes, 1940s-1980s
0.5 Linear
Feet
Materials related to Bloch's undergraduate and graduate students, including class
rosters, outlines, notes, term papers, bibliographies, and other supporting
matter.
box
folder
20
3-4
Undergraduate: class notes, outlines, papers, 1944-1947, 1967, 1972, undated
box
folder
21
1-2
Graduate: assorted class rosters, papers, outlines,
bibliographies, 1961-1981, undated
21
3
Supporting materials and correspondence for master's theses, 1966, 1973, 1984-1985
Series III.C. Universities of Missouri and Minnesota employment, 1944-1947
2
folder(s)
Correspondence and other materials related to Bloch's early teaching activities as
well as a contemporary photograph of the professor.
box
folder
21
4
Univ. of Missouri, 1943-1945 ca. 20 items
Primarily correspondence; includes a contemporary photograph of Bloch.
21
5
Univ. of Minnesota, 1946-1947 ca. 25 items
Primarily correspondence.
Series III.D. UCLA employment, 1956-1989 ca. 1 lin. ft.
Administrative, professional, and committee correspondence and materials, as well as
student records, related to Bloch's teaching activities at UCLA.
box
folder
21
6
Bloch's personnel action forms, and bio-bibliographies, 1956-1982
21
7
Assorted documents regarding Bloch's professional activities, 1956-1988
box
folder
22
1-3
Assorted documents gathered for promotion process 1956-1988
Congratulatory letters; notices of Bloch lectures, exhibits and appointments to
committees at UCLA and outside.
Series contains papers relating to Bloch's writings, lectures and research on Bingham
paintings, drawings, and biography. Files for Bloch's dissertation (1957) and monograph
and catalog raisonné (1967) include manuscripts, galleys, photographs and correspondence
relating to research and publishing 1942-1987. Other files pertain to articles and
lectures Bloch wrote about Bingham, as well as exhibits he worked on, and include
printed material, correspondence, manuscripts and research notes. Extensive
correspondence about Bingham's portraits includes that with owners, descendants of
owners and sitters, and museums and historical societies. Other correspondence,
photographs and research materials relate to Bingham's genre paintings, landscapes,
drawings, authentication and biography.
Series IV.A. Publications and lectures, 1943-1987
2 Linear
Feet
Correspondence and research matter related to Bloch's writing and lecture activities,
much of it surrounding his dissertation on Bingham, as well as work with various
university presses, including manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, galleys, and
other publication materials.
box
folder
23
1
Bingham dissertation, 1957, and monograph and catalog raisonné,
1967 1944-1971
Correspondence regarding provenance, photograph requests, research inquiries,
23
2
Correspondence regarding permissions, 1945-1963
To reproduce photographs of Bingham's sketchbook at the Mercantile Library,
23
3
Correspondence with UC Press, 1955-1966
[For more correspondence with UC Press see box 25, folder 3.]
23
4
Manuscript, preparatory and front matter, 1946, 1956, undated
23
5
Manuscript, typescript for volume 1, undated
[N.B., fragile]
box
folder
24
1-3
Printers mss. for both volumes
[for photomechanicals to 1967 edition, see box 32, folders 1-3.]
Also letters with U. of Missouri Press. Regarding revised Bingham catalog raisonné,
1979-1987. Also letters 1987-1988 with Univ. of Missouri Press regarding W. S. Mount
drawings book that Bloch was under contract to write [see also box 41, folder 2]
box
folder
26
1
Continuation of folder 5 above
26
2
Ms. and galley of front matter for Bingham catalog raisonné
26
3-4
Photographs of Bingham work,
Not all for 1986 book? see also box 32, folders 1-3.
box
folder
27
1
Bloch's articles and lectures about Bingham, 1960-1978, undated
Also correspondence and notes. For lectures on American artists that include
Bingham, see box 41, folder 5, Box 42, folder 1.
27
2
Bingham's "color method" 1963-1970, undated
Article for Apollo (1972/1973?). Correspondence, notes, handwritten
and typed [for lectures?].
Series IV.B. Bingham exhibits, 1910, 1935-1986
0.5 Linear
Feet
Correspondence, notes, inventories, inventories, clippings, catalogs, and other
matter related to Bloch's work on various Bingham exhibits.
box
folder
27
3
Bloch's notes ca. 20 pp.
Concerning 19th-century exhibits which included Bingham's work, with a 1910
catalog.
27
4
National Council of Fine Arts exhibit, 1967 1964-1967
Bingham exhibit which Bloch worked on. Correspondence, inventories, manuscript of
catalog.
27
5
Nelson Atkins and St. Louis Art Museum exhibit, 1975-1976
Bingham exhibit which Bloch worked on. Correspondence, clippings, inventory,.
27
6
Amon Carter Museum exhibit, 1976, 1972-1977
Bingham exhibit on which Bloch worked. Correspondence, mostly with Mitchell Wilder,
and inventories. Exhibit never mounted?
27
7
Missouri Historical Society
Bingham exhibit which Bloch worked on.
27
8
Other modern Bingham exhibits 1935-1986
Catalogs, inventories, correspondence, clippings.
Series IV.C. Bingham portraits, 1940s-1980s
2.5 Linear
Feet
Correspondence, research notes, printed ephemera, and a large number of photographs
related to Bloch's research on Bingham's portrait work, including contacts with
descendants, owners, museums, and dealers.
box
folder
28
1-4
General correspondence concerning Bingham portraits with owners,
descendants, historical societies, museums, 1943-1989
Many photographs, arranged alphabetically by sitter: A-Mc
box
folder
29
1-5
Correspondence and photographs, Mc-W, and names unknown
box
folder
30
1-9
Correspondence concerning authentication/attribution of
portraits, 1944-1989
Many of which were not by Bingham in Bloch's opinion. Correspondence with owners,
descendants, museums, and dealers like Stuart Feld (Hirschl & Adler) and Robert
Vose. Many photographs, arranged alphabetically by sitter: A-N.
box
folder
31
1-4
Correspondence and photographs, O-W, and names unknown
31
5
Assorted portrait correspondence, 1968-1988
Arranged chronologically.
31
6
Research notes and printed ephemera, , undated c1940s-1970s
box
folder
32
1-2
Photographs
Of Bingham portraits, with some transparencies and negatives. Includes photographs
marked for mechanical reproduction for 1967 or 1986 catalog raisonné.
32
3
Photographs, late portraits
Series IV.D. Bingham narrative/genre paintings, 1944-1989
0.5 Linear
Feet
Bloch's correspondence and research notes on Bingham's narrative/genre work.
Photographs, slides, inventories, correspondence, and notes about Bingham's
paintings, (including copies, and prints) and their attribution.
box
folder
34
3
Parintings of doubtful attribution
35 photographs of doubtful or erroneous attribution, keyed to a list "Paintings of
George Caleb Bingham: a catalogue raisonné, Vol. IV - Photographs."
34
4
Miscellaneous inventories of Bingham works, 1944, undated
[see also box 44, folder 5, and index card box 46.]
34
5
Miscellaneous photographs and slides of Bingham's work
34
6
Correspondence and notes concerning copies and prints after
Bingham, 1961-1984
Series IV.H. Bingham biography, 1931, 1944-1988 ca. 1 lin. ft.
Material about Bingham's life, including correspondence with his descendants and
others, notes, printed ephemera, clippings, and other matter, as well as copies of
Bingham's own correspondence.
box
folder
34
7
Correspondence, 1967-1987 ca. 125 items
Including regarding discussion of Bingham's paintings, arranged chronologically
34
8
Correspondence with Bingham descendants, 1944-1974 ca. 30 items
34
9
Correspondence with Harry and Bess Truman, 1947-1976 ca. 10 items
box
folder
35
1
Photostats of Bingham correspondence and a published lecture by
him
35
2
Notes and correspondence regarding contemporary accounts of
Bingham, ca. 1950s
35
3
Notes on Bingham's life
35
4-7
Research notes on Bingham topics
35
8
Printed ephemera, clippings, tearsheets
35
9
Published material on Bingham, , 1931 1981-1988
4
items
Correspondence, catalogs and inventories, research notes, photographs, printed ephemera
and microfilm. The correspondence, primarily with institutions which own West drawings,
is arranged chronologically and includes letters from the British Museum, the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, and the Metropolitan Museum, 1961-1987, scattered years.
Catalogs, photocopies, and Bloch's inventories document his attempt to compile an
exhaustive list of West work. These date from 1821-1987, scattered years. Other research
materials, some compiled by Bloch's students, include photographs, notes, clippings and
a microfilm of the West sketchbook in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Photographs, inventories and a few letters relate to Raphael Lamar West. Photocopies of
auction records and photographs document Benjamin West's own collection of drawings.
Series V.A. Correspondence, 1961-1987
2
folder(s)
Correspondence, primarily with institutions that own West drawings, including the
British Museum, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Museum, arranged
chronologically.
box
folder
36
1
1961-1969
36
2
1970-1987
Series V.B. West exhibit catalogs/inventories, 1821-1987, undated
1
folder(s)
Catalogs, photocopies, tearsheets and Bloch's own lists, 1821. [See also box 44,
folder 5, and index card box 46.]
box
folder
36
3
1839-1987, undated
Series V.C. West research, 1926, 1961-1987, undated
1 Linear
Feet
Research notes, bio-bibliographical and other support materials, ephemera,
photocopies, clippings, and photographs of works (arranged by series and genres).
box
folder
36
4
Notes and bio-bibliographical materials
Most compiled by Bloch students, with photographs and prints of self-portraits and
portraits [see also box 46].
box
folder
37
1
Notes and support materials for the West holdings of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania, 1969, 1987, undated
Including microfilm of its West sketchbook.
37
2
Research, with photographs, on three individual West series, 1965, 1985, undated
Research files on 19th-century art, 1945-1987 comprises 14.5 linear ft. and document
Bloch's research, writings and lectures. Files include published works (mostly
articles), manuscripts, correspondence, research notes and photographs for his
publications, publication projects never realized, lectures, and his own collecting
interests. Unrealized projects include manuscript material on American drawings, Charles
Lanman's art criticism (also, microfilm of the Lanman papers), William Sidney Mount's
drawings, and a history of printmaking. Lectures, 1960-1982, include those given to
LACMA docents. Assorted research notes pertain to individual American artists, the
American Art Union, the Western Art Union, American and English 19th-century
illustrators (also microfilm of newspapers), and to panoramas. Inventories and
bibliographies, some on index cards, cover Bloch's research and collecting interests and
comprise ca. 5 linear ft. Finally, artists and subject files contain collected clippings
and comprise 5.5 linear ft.
Series VI.A. Publications, 1945-1987, undated
2
folder(s)
Publications, book reviews, articles, catalogs, along with mss., correspondence and
some galleys.
box
folder
39
1
1945-1969, undated
39
2
1973-1987
Series VI.B. Never published book projects, ca. 1940s-1988 ca. 1 lin. ft.
Drawings, correspondence, contracts, photographs, research notes, clippings,
tearsheets, slide lists, dealer's materials, inventories, and other material related
to unpublished book projects.
box
folder
39
3
American drawings, a critical and historical survey, 1960
Contract and correspondence with Univ. of Ca Press. Materials culled from "American
Drawings," 1954 Cooper Union / Smithsonian traveling exhibit [for more on Cooper
Union see box 63, folders 1-4; for more about the book project, see box 45, folder
3].
box
folder
40
1
Ca. 200 photographs of American drawings, , undated 1980s
Some with Cooper Union stamp (undated), many identified to Hirschl & Adler
(1980s).
40
2-3
Art Nouveau, 1960-1970
3 files containing lectures (one for LACMA docents, ca. 1961), notes, clippings and
tearsheets, slide lists, dealers' materials, some correspondence.
40
4
Edition of Charles Lanman's art criticism, 1969-1984
Bulk 1981-1984. Typescript of ca. 250 pp ms.; also notes, 1940s; correspondence
with Dorothy McNeilly, [see also box 86 for microfilm of Lanman papers].
box
folder
41
1
"Patterns of Printmaking," 1969-1871 ca. 15 items
Contract with Harry N. Abrams and correspondence.
41
2
William Sidney Mount drawings catalog raisonné, 1971-1982, 1988
Correspondence, especially with the museums at Stony brook and Univ. of Missouri
Press (publisher 1978), some with dealers; research notes; photographs;
clippings.
41
3
Inventories of Mount's drawings at the Museums at Stony Brook
[for an inventory of Mount's paintings, see box 44, folder 5]
41
4
Tearsheets, clippings, 1942-1979
10
items
Series VI.C. Lectures, 1960-1982
2
folder(s)
A run of lectures delivered by Bloch at various venues.
box
folder
41
5
Lectures given to LACMA docents, 1960s-1970s
including, "Spanish prints" (1960) and three lectures on American painting (1973);
lecture "Panoramas," 1962; lecture on Minnich print collection, Minneapolis,
1970
box
folder
42
1
Lectures, undated, 1974, 1982
For American Art Council (LACMA), "American narrative painting" (1974) and "Caitlin
and Western painting" (undated); for Palm Springs Desert Museum, "West as art"
(1982); and at UCLA symposium, "Dutch painting in America" (1982)
Series VI.D. Research files, 1870s-1890s, 1940s-1980s,
undated
1.5 Linear
Feet
Notes, correspondence, copies of primary sources, photographs, tearsheets, printed
ephemera, and other research materials.
box
folder
42
2
Notes on 19th century artists , undated probably 1940s-1970s
From arts magazines, newspapers, archival records.
42
3
Notes on individual 19th century artists, undated probably 1940s-1980s
e.g., Catlin, Cole, Eastman, Inness, Moran, Remington, artists of the West, etc.,
some typed notes, ca. 75 half-pages, for class lectures (?)
42
4
Notes on commissioning artists for the Capitol Rotunda, ( ) undated 1950s-1970s?
including research on J. Q. Adams, S. F. B. Morse, copies of primary sources.
42
5
American Art Union
box
folder
43
1
American Art Union
43
2
Western Art Union and others, 1949-1987
includes some correspondence, [see also Box 86 for microfilm of the Records of the
Western Art Union].
43
3-4
Notes and tearsheets of American and English 19th century illustrated
magazines, ca. 1870s-1890s
including three issues in their entirety, [see also microfilm of Daily Cincinnati
Chronicle, box 86].
box
folder
44
1
Notes and tearsheets of American and English 19th century illustrated
magazines, , ca. 1870s-1890s undated
44
2
Papers on the history of printing, 1950s-1970s
Notes including outline for a book, tearsheets, printed ephemera.
44
3
Papers regarding Panoramas, 1940s-1980s
Notes, tearsheets, offprints and photographs. Offprints primarily by Bertha
Heilbron. Includes price list. For Heilbron correspondence with Bloch, see box 2
folder 8.
44
4
Miscellaneous unidentified notes, undated
Series VI.E. Inventories and bibliographies, 1940s-1989, undated
3.5 Linear
Feet
ca. 7 boxes
Inventories of private collections and museum holdings, index card files, offprints,
reviews, typescripts, and bibliographies.
box
folder
44
5
National Council of Fine Arts inventory, 1977
Of the paintings of Bingham, W. S. Mount, and B. West. A bound computer
printout.
box
folder
45
1
Assorted inventories of private collections, museum holdings, 1940s-1980s? ca. 25
Many compiled by Bloch. Including a typed list, ca. 50 pp., of 19th century
portraits in New England collections; the Gilkey graphic arts collection; Art
Institute of Chicago's American holdings; drawings exhibited by the National Academy
of Design, 1826-1900; the prints in the Free Library of Philadelphia.
45
2
Photocopy of index card file of exhibition catalogs and monographs on
artists, undated
45
3
Bloch's grant applications, 1960-1974, 1977, 1985
Primarily with the American Council Learned Societies, Guggenheim Foundation, and
the Ford Foundation.
45
4
Other scholars' work, given to Bloch, 1943-1989
Offprints, reviews, typescripts, and photocopies of book title pages. Note: books
transferred to the Getty Research Institute Library.
box
46
Provenance index and bibliographies, index card files:
46
-Bingham, provenance
46
-Charles Lanman bibliography and provenance
46
-B. West, provenance, bibliography, inventory
46
-ALS of 19th-century artists - refers to American Art Union
inventory
box
47-49
Bibliographies, note cards and some inventories, 1950s-1980s
Regarding Panoramas, Art Nouveau, painting commissioned for the Capitol Rotunda,
drawings, graphic arts, etc.,
box
49-51
Students' index card bibliographies, compiled for assignments in Bloch's
classes, 1960s-1970s
Series VI.F. Artist/subject files, 1940s-1989, undated
11
box(es)
An extensive series of artist/subject clippings files, arranged alphabetically.
box
folder
52
1
Afro-American art
52
2
Allston, Washington
52
3
American architecture
52
4
American architecture, historic buildings
52
5
American art, contemporary 1930s-1960
52
6
American art and architecture 1940-1950s
52
7
American art, miscellaneous
52
8
American artists, women
box
folder
53
1
American expositions, 1853, 1893, 1915
53
2
American painting
53
3
Anschute, Thomas
53
4
A, artists file Abbey - Audubon
53
5
Banknote engraving
53
6
Beal, Gifford
53
7
Benton, Thomas Hart
53
8
Biddle, George
Includes 1 letter from Biddle to Bloch, 6 June 1949.
53
9
Blakelock, R. A.
53
10
Blythe, D. G.
53
11
Bodmer, Karl
53
12
Brush, George de Forest
53
13
B artists file, Bellows - Brush
53
14
California architecture [see also slides in box 85]
box
folder
54
1
California artists
54
2
Cartoons, political
54
3
Castaigne, André
54
4
Catlin, George
54
5
Chase, William
54
6
Chinnery, George
54
7
Church, Frederick
54
8
Cohen, Frederick E.
54
9
Cole, Thomas
54
10
Cole, Timothy (and Alphaeus)
54
11
Collecting and collectors
54
12
Comegys, George H.
54
13
Conservation and restoration
54
14
Contemporary art
54
15
Copley, J. S.
54
16
Critics and criticism
54
17
Cropsey, Jasper F.
54
18
C artists file, Cassatt - Curry
54
19
Darley, F. O. C.
54
20
Davies, Arthur B.
54
21
Davis, Theodore R.
54
22
Deas, Charles
box
folder
55
1
Dixon, Maynard
55
2
Doughty, Thomas
55
3
Drawings, American
55
4
Drawings, courtroom
55
5
Durand, Asher B.
55
6
Duveneck, Frank
55
7
D artists file, Davis - Dumond
55
8
Eakins, Thomas
55
9
Eastman, Seth
55
10
Edmonds, F. W.
55
11
Edwards, S. A.
55
12
Eilshemius, Louis M.
55
13
Engravings
55
14
E artists file, Earl - Evergood
55
15
Farney, Henry
55
16
Fenn, Harry
55
17
Folk art, paintings
55
18
Foote, Mary Hallock
55
19
Frescoes
55
20
Frost, A. B.
55
21
F artists file, Feke - Frieske
box
folder
56
1
Glackens, William
56
2
G artists file, Gifford - Grosz
56
3
Hahn, William
56
4
Harnett, William
56
5
Haseltine, W. S.
56
6
Hassam, Childe
56
7
Heade, Martin J.
56
8
Hicks, Thomas
56
9
Homer, Winslow
56
10
Hopper, Edward
56
11
Huntington, Daniel
56
12
H artists file, Hale - Hunt
box
folder
57
1
Illustrations
See also drawings, war illustrators, and individual illustrators files.
57
2
Indians
57
3
Inman, Henry
57
4
Inness, George
57
5
Johnson, Adelaide
57
6
Johnson, Eastman
57
7
J artists file
57
8
Keith, Castle W.
57
9
Kemble, Edward W.
57
10
Kensett, John F.
57
11
Koerner, W. H. D.
Includes a typed essay and notes, by Bloch?
57
12
Krimmel, John Lewis
57
13
Kuhn, Walt
57
14
K artists file, Karfiol - Kuniyoshi
Includes printed ephemera by Sister Corita Kent.
box
folder
58
1
Laks, George
58
2
Lane, Fitz Hugh
58
3
Leigh, W. R.
58
4
Leutze, Emanuel
58
5
Loemans, A. F.
With 14 letters of Patricia Trenton and owners of Loemans paintings attributed to
Lanman.
58
6
Los Angeles collectors
58
7
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) collection
58
8
L artists file, Lachaise - Lucioni
58
9
Martin, Homer Dodge
58
10
Miller, Alfred J.
58
11
Millen, Kenneth Hayes
58
12
Monotypes (see also Prints)
58
13
Moran Family (Thomas, et al)
58
14
Morse, Samuel F. B.
58
15
Morton, Henry Jackson
58
16
Moses, Grandma
58
17
Museums
58
18
Museums, University
58
19
Myers, Jerome
With ca. 20 letters between Bloch and Ethyl Myers.
58
20
M artists file, Marin - Motherwell
58
21
Nast, Thomas
58
22
New York City in art
Includes checklist of artists from the Museum of the City of New York.
58
23
N and O artists file
58
24
Peale Family
58
25
Pene du Bois, Guy
box
folder
59
1
Pennell, Joseph
59
2
Phillips, Walt
Includes 1 letter to Bloch 27 August 1977.
59
3
Photography processes
Includes restoration of daguerreotypes.
59
4
Posters
59
5
pre-Raphaelites, American
59
6
Printmakers, American
59
7
Prints, miscellaneous
59
8
Prints, relief
59
9
P artists file, Parrish - Prendergast
59
10
Quidor, John
59
11
Ranney, William T.
59
12
Remington, Frederick
59
13
Rimmer, William
59
14
Russell, Charles M.
59
15
R artists file, Ramage - Ryder
box
folder
60
1
Saint-Memin, C.-B.-J. F.
60
2
Sculptors
60
3
Shattuck, Arnold D.
60
4
Shinn, Everett
60
5
Sloan, John
60
6
Smillie, James
60
7
Stuart, Gilbert
60
8
Straet, Jan van der
60
9
Sully, Thomas
Includes copies of Sully letters.
box
folder
61
1
S artists file, Sargent - Stella
61
2
Tabor, Walton
61
3
Treiman, Joyce
Includes Bloch's notes for an essay.
61
4
Trumball, John
61
5
T artists file, Tanner - Twachtman
61
6
V artists file, Vanderlyn - Vonnoh
61
7
War illustrators and paintes
61
8
Waud, Alfred R.
61
9
Wayne, June
Includes Bloch's manuscript of an essay about her.
61
10
Weber, Max
61
11
Weir, J. Alden
61
12
Wenzell, A. B.
box
folder
62
1
Whistler, J. M.
62
2
Whitefield, Edwin
62
3
Whitley, Thomas
Includes copies of Whitley letters.
62
4
Whittredge, Worthington
62
5
Wilde, J. C.
62
6
Will, August
Includes correspondence with Jersey City Library Museum regarding Will exhibit.
62
7
Wimar, Carl
62
8
Woodcuts
62
9
Woodville, Richard Caton
62
10
Wright, Frank Lloyd
62
11
W artists file, Wilde - Wright
62
12
Young, Harvey Otis
62
13
Zogbaum, Rufus F.
62
14
Zorach, William
62
15-17
Miscellaneous clippings from art and general interest magazines
Series contains materials relating to Bloch's work with the Cooper Union Museum,
1953-1959, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, 1957-1984, the Tamarind Lithography
Workshop, 1960-1989, the Archives of American Art, 1958-1987, the American Art Council
of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971-1986, and the Virginia Steele Scott
Foundation, 1975-1991.
5 linear ft. of correspondence, notes, printed material and photographs document 2
exhibits Bloch worked on at the Cooper Union: "Prince Regents Style," and "American
drawings."
Correspondence in the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts files includes a detailed
summary of Bloch's work at this collection at UCLA. Other correspondence, notes,
photographs and annotated dealers' catalogs document his acquisitions, and his exhibits,
including "The Special Artists of the American Wars,"(1959) and "Word & Images," an
exhibit of United Ltd. Art Editions prints, 1978.
Much of the correspondence in the Tamarind files is with June Wayne, founder of
Tamarind, and concerns the work and finances of the workshop, the fellows and artisans
in residence there, and the definition of an "original print." Samples of Tamarind press
work, photographs, and manuscripts by Wayne are included.
The two files of Archives of American Art material include correspondence and reports
regarding advisory committees, donors, and the West Coast Center. Bloch was a member of
the American Art Council, a support group of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Less
than .5 linear ft. contain correspondence, which includes letters with Michael Quick,
curator of American Art, and Nancy Moure, assistant curator, 1971-1982, minutes of
meetings, 1971-1981, by-laws, newsletters and press releases, 1973-1986.
The files regarding the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation comprise 4.5 linear ft. and
provide a detailed history of the development of this gallery and its collection, as
well as Bloch's involvement as advisor and trustee. Papers include articles of
incorporation, by-laws, and Board minutes, in-house reports, inventories and photographs
of art works, and correspondence. These files document the establishment of the VSS
Foundation, the assessment and deaccessioning of the original art collection, primarily
by Bloch, the collection development for the VSS Gallery, including offers from dealers,
and the relationship between the VSS Gallery, the Archives of American Art, and the
Huntington Library and Gallery. Much of the correspondence is from dealers (regarding
offers) and between Bloch and Robert Wark (regarding Bloch's role at the Huntington).
One file documents the search for a curator of American art and includes correspondence
and curriculum vitae from candidates. Three files document Bloch's exhibit at the
Huntington in 1989, "Faces & Figures in American Drawings."
Series VII.A. Cooper Union Museum, 1953-1959
4
folder(s)
Correspondence, research notes, and documentation on exhibits, including checklists,
catalogs, clippings, and photographs
box
folder
63
1
Correspondence, 1955-1959
Includes letters relating to Bloch's search for employment in California, and
letters of reference.
63
2
Exhibits: "Prince Regents Style" exhibit, 1953
Bloch's research notes, article and exhibit catalogue.
63
3-4
"American drawings" exhibit, 1954
Bloch's notes, memos, checklists, correspondence, catalogs, press clippings;
documentation (letters and press clippings mounted on boards), and photographs of
installation.
Series VII.B. Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, 1957-1984
0.5 Linear
Feet
Correspondence, notes, and other documentation on exhibits, including press releases,
clippings, catalogs, printed ephemera, inventories, catalogs, and photographs.
box
folder
64
1
Correspondence, 1958-1984
Including a detailed summary of Bloch's work at the Grunwald, 1957-1963, which he
wrote for a Ford Foundation grant
64
2
Notes on exhibits and acquisitions
64
3
Exhibits, 1944-1976
"The Special Artists of the American Wars," 1959; correspondence regarding loans,
artists; notes, exhibit materials.
64
4
Exhibits, 1978
"Word & Images" exhibit of United Ldt. Art Editions prints, 1978;
correspondence, press releases, notes, clippings (especially of Tatanya Grossman),
1978.
64
5
Grunwald exhibits and events, undated
Printed ephemera, two inventories of art works (European and American prints;
Japanese block prints).
64
6
Photographs of Grunwald exhibits, ca. 10.
64
7
Annotated dealers' catalogs
Series VII.C. Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1960-1989
0.5 Linear
Feet
Correspondence, press releases, financial reports, printed ephemera, photographs, and
other materials related to the Workshop.
box
folder
65
1
Correspondence, 1960-1989
Primarily between Bloch and June Wayne, founder of Tamarind, includes a leter from
Bloch to Wayne on preserving Tamarind documents for an archive, and on his own life
as a collector (1972); also correspondence with Clinton Adams, Director of Tamarind
in New Mexico (changed its name in 1970 to Tamarind Institute, Univ. of New
Mexico)
65
2
Tamarind press releases, annual and financial reports, 1960, 1974
65
3
Papers relating to lawsuit over documentary film, 1975
65
4
Samples of Tamarind press work, photographs of fellows and
artisans
65
5
Definition of "original print" 1970s
Printed ephemera regarding criteria, much of it from Tamarind.
65
6
June Wayne's definition of a print, 1966-1976
In letters (to Bloch?) and in 2 mss. by Wayne.
Series VII.D. Archives of American Art, 1958-1987
2
folder(s)
Correspondence, reports, and other materials related to the Archive.
box
folder
66
1
Correspondence, 1958-1987
Including miscellaneous materials from advisory committees, donors. [for more on
the Archives, see box 73, folder 10].
66
2
Reports of the AAA-West Coast Center, 1974-1978
Series VII.E. American Art Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971-1986
0.5 Linear
Feet
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, rosters, by-laws, newletters, and press releases
related to the Council.
box
folder
66
3
Correspondence, 1971-1982
Including with Michael Quick, curator of American art, and Nancy Moure, assistant
curator.
66
4
AAC Minutes of meetings, 1971-1976
66
5
AAC Minutes of meetings, 1977-1981
66
6
Rosters of members and by-laws
66
7
Newsletters and press releases, 1973-1981
66
8
Newsletters and press releases, 1982-1986
Series VII.F. Virginia Steele Scott Foundation, 1975-1991
4 Linear
Feet
Correspondence, notes, minutes, inventories, rosters, lists, reports, dealer and
gallery files, photographs, and legal documents related to the development of the
Gallery during Bloch's involvement.
box
folder
67
1
History of Virginia Steele Scott Gallery and Bloch's
involvement, ca. 1975-1982
A typescript by Bloch of events between 5 Feb 1975 and 28 May 1982, and a portion
of the transcript of Bloch's oral history that covers his tenure at Virginia Steele
Scott [later became the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery at the Huntington Library]
67
2
Articles of incorporation, by-laws, exemption letters, Board
minutes, 1975-1976, undated
67
3
Articles of incorporation, by-laws, amendments, Board minutes, 1977, undated
67
4
Virginia Steele Scott Board minutes, annotations by Bloch, 1977
box
folder
68
1
Minutes, 1978
68
2
Minutes, 1979
68
3
Minutes, 1980
box
folder
69
1
Minutes, 1981
69
2
Minutes, 1982
69
3
Minutes, 1983
69
4
Investment portfolios, submitted to directors, 1977-1980, 1983
box
folder
70
1
Virginia Steele Scott Foundation invitation to Bloch to join the
Board, 1978
70
2
Bloch's assessment of the Virginia Steele Scott collection, 1977-1978
Notes in Bloch's hand, lists of art works, lists of Millard Sheets' acquisitions
for Virginia Steele Scott.
70
3
19th c. American art bibliography, undated
70
4
Correspondence regarding development of the board of trustees and 1980
party at Virginia Steele Scott gallery, ca. 1980
70
5
Planning and design of the Virginia Steele Scott Memorial medal with
designer Leonard Baskin, 1979-1980
70
6
Selling the Virginia Steele Scott house and gallery, 1982
Includes clippings.
70
7
Virginia Steele Scott events, photographs of Bloch, his mother,
trustees, undated
70
8-9
Collection development 1970-1983
Regards deaccessioning and development of the American art collection, purchases.
Includes Bloch's typed ms., "Evolution of a Public Collection," his reviews of
previous collection policy, a statement by Virginia Steele Scott on her own
collecting (pre-1975), Bloch's notes and recommendations.
70
10
Inventory of Virginia Steele Scott collection, 1971
70
11
Three inventories of art in Virginia Steele Scott colletion, 1977, 1981, undated
70
12
Inventory of Virginia Steele Scott collection, works annotated for
deaccessioning, undated
Status reports of works deaccessioned and funds for
acquisition, 1979-1982
71
3
Appraisals from dealers for deaccessioning and collection
development, ca. 1970-1980
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, 1970; Christine Eisenberg, 1978; Victor Spark, 1979; O.
P. Reed, 1980
71
4
Auctions and sales: Christies' 1979, 1980
71
5
Auctions and sales: Victor Spark deaccesioning of Virginia Steele Scott
paintings, 1979-1981
71
6
Miscellaneous dealers' sales deaccessioning Virginia Steele Scott
paintings, 1979-1983
Bloch's notes and in-house correspondence regarding deaccessioning.
71
7
Correspondence with art dealers: Coe-Kerr Gallery, , 1979-1980 1982
Primarily offers to Virginia Steele Scott and later the re-named Virginia Steele
Scott Gallery.
71
8
Correspondence with art dealers: Peter Davidson & Co, 1978-1980, 1982
box
folder
72
1
Correspondence with art dealers: Jane and Michael Dunn, 1981-1982
Regarding C. Wynkeep's portrait of Peter Vanderlyn.
72
2
Correspondence with art dealers: Hirschl & Adler / Stuart
Feld, 1978-1980
72
3
Correspondence with art dealers: Hirschl & Adler / Stuart
Feld, 1981-1984, undated
72
4
Correspondence with art dealers: James Maroney, 1979-1982
72
5
Correspondence with art dealers: Ira Spanierman, 1980-1982
72
6
Correspondence with art dealers: Victor Spark, 1960-1980
72
7
Correspondence with art dealers: Victor Spark, 1981-1982, undated
72
8
Correspondence with art dealers: Vose Galleries, 1978-1980, 1982, 1985
72
9
Correspondence with art dealers, alphabetical: Berry-Hill - Wunderlich
& Co., 1979-1983
box
folder
73
1
Photographs of art offered to Virginia Steele Scott with supporting
research material
73
2
Kennedy Gallery photographs of painting
Sold to or for Virginia Steele Scott?
73
3
Papers regarding gift of California art to the Laguna Beach Museum of Art
from the Virginia Steele Scott collection, 1979
73
4
Report by Carrie Repora of 4 paintings in Virginia Steele Scott
collection, undated
Typescript.
73
5
Correspondence regarding loan policy, 1978-1980
73
6
Lawsuit over Inness' "Hudson River Valley" painting, 1977-1979
73
7
Questionable S. B. Morse portraits in Virginia Steele Scott
collection, 1979
73
8
Conservation, 1976-1979
73
9
Papers regarding Virginia Steele Scott Gallery move to
Huntington
Also 1978 document outlining Virginia Steele Scott's early plan to affiliate with
Claremont Colleges.
73
10
Negotiations with the Archives of American Art concerning the inclusion of
AAA's Western office in the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery, 1972, 1978-1979, 1983
73
11
Architectural planning for Virginia Steele Scott Gallery, 1980-1982
Including brief search for an architect, and three drawings.
box
folder
74
1
Search for curator of American art 1983, 1987
Correspondence and vitae of candidates.
74
2
Bloch's position at the Huntington, 1982-1984
Correspondence regarding negotiations, primarily between Bloch and Robert Wark.
74
3
Bloch's position as advisor, 1983-1987
Mostly correspondence between Bloch and Wark concerning collection development.
74
4
Photographs of art work in Huntington collection
74
5
Bloch's exhibit at Huntington, "Faces & Figures in American
Drawings," 1987-1989
Correspondence, research and planning notes.
74
6
"Faces & Figures" exhibit,
19
photographs
74
7
"Faces & Figures" exhibit,
20
photographs
box
folder
75
1
"Checklist of Paintings and Watercolors in the Virginia Steele Scott
Collection at the Huntington"
Series comprises 3.5 linear ft. and illustrates in great detail Bloch's collecting
interests and purchases. Inventories, wants lists and correspondence with dealers
document his collections of prints, stamps, autographs, illustrations for magazines,
pictorial sheet music, paintings, drawings, medals, and panorama exhibits ephemera. The
dealer correspondence comprises most of this series (2 linear ft.) and includes letters
relating to Bloch's work (especially curatorial) and research on Bingham, West, Lanman,
and other American artists. Extensive files exist for several dealers, including
Berry-Hill, Colnaghi, Stuart Feld of Hirschl & Adler, Lucien Goldschmidt,
Goodspeed's, Kennedy Galleries, M. Knoedler, Old Print Shop, R. E. Lewis, Marvin Sadik,
Victor Spark, Robert Vose of Vose Galleries.
Series VIII.A. Bloch's art collection, 1852, 1949-1989
0.5 Linear
Feet
Materials about Bloch's art collection: correspondence, inventories, want lists,
notes, clippings, photographs and transparancies, conservation reports, and other
material about Bloch's art collection.
box
folder
76
1
Bloch on collecting, undated
Typescript essay by Bloch on why he collects.
76
2
Inventory of Bloch's print collection, undated 1 notebook, ca. 150
pp.
76
3
Correspondence regarding Bloch's gifts and loans, 1949-1984
Detail gifts and loans made to schools, libraries, museums, especially the
Grunwald.
76
4
Inventories and wants lists of prints, drawings, paintings, autographed
portraits, medals
Includes 8 letters with Cyril Nast regarding his father's drawings; 1 letter to
Mrs. John Sloan; US Post Office regarding stamp designs using American
paintings.
76
8
Magazine illustrators, clippings undated
With notes and correspondence, especially with Rose family regarding purchases.
76
9
Magazine illustrators, clippings
76
10
Paintings in Bloch's collection
b&w photographs and color transparencies.
76
11
Miscellaneous from Bloch's collections, 1852, undated
A piece of needlework, mounted sepia photograph, mounted photograph of letter dated
2 Oct 1852.
76
12
Bloch's notes about items in dealers' catalogs
Prices, catalog numbers.
76
13
Conservation, 1981-1989
Correspondence and treatment reports (bulk from Virginia Blyth Hill,
1987-1989).
Series VIII.B. Bloch's stamp collection, undated
0.5 Linear
Feet
Materials about Bloch's stamp collection: inventories, wants lists, notes, clippings,
flyers, and other material about Bloch's stamp collection.
box
folder
77
1
Stamp inventories, wants lists and notes
77
2
Stamp lists, clippings regarding covers
77
3-10
Clippings regarding collecting and stamp design, and U.S. Post Office
flyers
Series VIII.C. Bloch's autograph collection, 1935-1989
0.5 Linear
Feet
Materials about Bloch's autograph collection: inventories, correspondence, want
lists, clippings, photographs, and other material about Bloch's autograph
collection.
box
folder
78
1
Two inventories (3"x5" notebooks)
78
2
Correspondence, 1935-1989
iIncluding Bloch's letters soliciting autographs from public people (mostly heads
of state) on portraits drawn by Bloch, with replies (e.g., 10 letters negotiating an
autograph from Herbert Hoover).
78
3
Wants lists and dealers' offers,
Including lists of autographs Bloch purchased, cartes-de-visite of American
artists, and list of letters from American artists.
78
4-9
Newspaper clippings
Including 1 bound notebook of clippings, mostly of royalty, heads of state,
important events (e.g., Kennedy assassination, first moon landing), and obituaries;
some photographs; various dates.
Series VIII.D. Dealers' correspondence, 1951-1989
2 Linear
Feet
Dealer, print shop/book shop, and gallery correspondence, arrranged
alphabetically.
box
folder
79
1
A-F, 1955-1988
Includes Aldis Browne (re: Bloch's upcoming exhibit at Huntington and Vincent Price
as a collector and friend, 1988); Harvey Brewer (re Bloch's commercial blind
embossing samples and trade cards, 1981).
Regarding stamps, especially space exploration covers.
79
9
Walter R. Benjamin Autographs, 1960-1976
79
10
James Bergquist, 1982-1987
79
11
Berry-Hill, 1960-1986
79
12
Black Sun books, 1977
79
13
Book and Print Shop, 1955-1961
79
14
R. A. Brimmell, 1963, 1966
79
15
William J. B. Burger / Burger & Evans, 1973-1985
Especially Civil War illustrators.
79
16
Catherine E. Burns, 1985
Including Bloch to Burns about some of his collecting interests.
79
17
Childs Gallery, 1953-1989
79
18
Clayton-Liberatore, 1972-1981
79
19
Colnaghi, 1954-1986
79
20
Craddock & Barnard, 1958-1966, 1976
Includes Bloch's 1965 wants list.
79
21
Denenberg Fine Arts, 1983-1984
79
22
Deval & Muir, 1970-1972
79
23
Emily Driscoll, 1953, 1961-1970, 1976
79
24
Eugene Emigh, 1975, 1978-1984
Primarily Aaron Draper Shattuck drawings, also James Smillie, Sam Colman.
79
25
C. & I. K. Fletcher, 1955-1961
Regarding panorama ephemera.
box
folder
80
1
G-L, 1948-1989
80
2
Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc. 1946-1974
Also regarding acquisitions for Grunwald.
80
3
Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1958-1971
Regarding ALS.
80
4
Harry Gordon, 1962-1963
Covers relating to space exploration.
80
5
Graham Gallery / J. Graham & Sons, 1963, 1973, 1985-1986
80
6
Paul Grinke / Grinke & Rogers, 1969-1971, 1974
Artists' ALS and panorama ephemera.
80
7
Gropper Art Gallery, 1970-1974, 1976
80
8
Beverly Hamer, 1978-1979
Illustrations for sheet music covers.
80
9
Frederica Harlow Gallery, 1976-1978
Relief printing, gypsographs.
80
10
Doris Harris Autographs, 1967-1989
80
11
Jane Haslem Gallery, 1975
Political cartoons.
80
12
Hirschl & Adler / Stuart Feld, 1968-1989
ca. 100 letters [see also boxes 30-34, and box 72 for more correspondence with
Stuart Feld].
80
13
Kennedy Galleries, 1952-1986
See also correspondence with H. Wunderlich of Monderson & Wunderlich.
80
14
M. Knoedler & Co., 1958-1970, 1975
80
15
Roger Koerber, 1969-1974, 1984
80
16
Harold Lawrence, 1967-1969
Regarding stamps and covers.
80
17
Leger Galleries, 1976-1977
B. West drawings.
80
18
R. E. Lewis, Inc., 1960-1989
Including consignments from Bloch.
80
19
W. H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1958-1960
Including consignments from Bloch.
80
20
James Lowe, Autographs, 1972-1975, 1985
box
folder
81
1
M-R, 1958-1989
Including John Newton, 1982 (illustrated sheet music); Bloch on his collecting
interests to Elkin Mathews, 1958 .
81
2
M & S Rare Books, 1975-1978
Panorama ephemera.
81
3
Lawrence McGilvrey, 1971, 1976
81
4
Maggs Bros., Ltd., 1953-1960
81
5
Allister Mathews, 1958-1975
81
6
Maxwell Galleries, 1972-1976, 1980
81
7
Joe Merman, 1968-1969, 1987-1989
81
8
Thomas T. Moebs, 1982-1984, 1987, 1989
81
9
Monderson & Wunderlich, 1985-1989
81
10
Morton Morris & Co., 1981
West drawings; list of Bloch's wants concerning British artists with American
connections.
81
11
Howard S. Mott, 1973-1976, 1985
artists ALS.
81
12
Winifred A. Myers (Autographs) Ltd.
Artists' ALS; pioneer aviators; Bloch on his work at Grunwald and his decision to
leave.
81
13
Old Print Shop, 1948-1989
81
14
Galerie Pabst / Michael Pabst, 1967-1984
Art nouveau, Wiener Werkstätte.
81
15
Abe Paskow, 1965, 1970-1974, 1977
Cartoons and caricatures.
81
16
Joseph Petrarca, 1977
Lithographs and illustrated sheet music.
81
17
Potter Books, 1975-1978
81
18
Christopher Powney, 1965-1977, 1982-1985, 1989
B. West drawings.
81
19
Paul Prouté / Hubert Prouté, 1959-1977, 1984-1985, 1989
81
20
Flora M. Ramsay, 1955-1956, 1963-1964
Edwin Whitefield sketchbooks, drawings.
81
21
Raydon Gallery, 1970-1971
81
22
Paul C. Richards Autographs, 1963-1971, 1983-1987
81
23
Lawrence B. Romaine, 1953-1961
Americana, including Bungalow books.
box
folder
82
1
S-Z, 1957-1989
Including offer and description of 10 panorama items and Tortue Gallery's list of
consignment items from Bloch and his mother.
82
2
Schaeffer Galleries, 1959
82
3
Marvin Sadik & Co., 1982, 1987-1988
Includes Bloch's letters regarding his mother's death and their relationship,
1987.
82
4
E. Seligmann, 1951-1954
8 letters regarding panoramas.
82
5
Stanhope Shelton, 1977-1983
B. West drawings.
82
6
R. W. Smith, 1981-1989
Buford panorama, 1989.
82
7
Sothman, 1951
82
8
Victor Spark, 1951-1987
ca. 60 letters, contain discussions of other dealers, auction sales, Bingham
research, sales to the J. Paul Getty Museum, and personal matters [see box 71,
folder 3 and box 72, folders 6-7 for more Spark - Bloch correspondence].
82
9
Kurt Stein, 1977
Illustrated sheet music.
82
10
Erwin Swann, 1968-1970
Caricatures, cartoons.
82
11
Vose Galleries / Robert C. Vose, Jr., 1966-1988
Including much discussion of Bingham and B. West materials and research.
82
12
David and Constance Yates, 1984, 1987-1988
82
13
Zeitlin & ver Brugge, 1959-1987
Only 1 letter, the remainder is bills of sale [for correspondence see box 4, folder
3].
82
14
Unidentified receipts from shops, and correspondence
82
15
Miscellaneous photographs of collectibles offered, undated
Series contains juvenilia (drawings, nature scrapbook and handwriting exercises),
travel notes and receipts, genealogical research, 4 address books (ca. 1940s-1960s), 6
notebooks with notes of art works and prices, personal photographs of Bloch, his mother,
friends and colleagues, and ca. 1500 slides, most taken during his travels, some
documenting Los Angeles architecture, and 7 reels of microfilm relating to his research,
especially on Charles Lanman.
Pencil, ink and pastel, and watercolors. [see also oversize box 87* for Bloch
drawings]
83
7
Portrait sketches, undated
Including copies clipped from magazines that published Bloch's portraits.
83
8-9
Costume illustrations
box
folder
84
1
Personal papers and documents 1951
Travel notes and receipts for trips to Belgium, France, Italy, etc.
84
2
Travel notes, correspondence, receipts for european trips, 1957-1969
84
3
Genealogical research regarding the Bloch family
84
4
Clippings, receipts for Bloch's house, 1950s-1960s
84
5
Six notebooks with notes regarding art works and prices
84
6
Four address books, ca. 1940s-1960s
84
7
Miscellaneous personal documents
84
8
Photographs: ca. 10 of Bloch, his mother, friends and colleagues, undated
box
85
55 boxes of slides
Los Angeles architecture, European travels, U.S. travels contain images of art and
architecture, plus some personal images of family, friends, colleagues
box
86
7 rolls of microfilm (relates to Series VI.)
Daily Cincinnati Chronicle, 1845-1846 (3 reels); Lanman papers from the Library of
Congress (1 reel) and the New York Historical Society (1 reel); Records of the Western
Art Union (1 reel); 2 partial rolls from the Huntington Library.
box
87*
Arnold Gross letters (relates to Series I.) undated
87*
Drawings from Bloch's early years, (relates to Series IX), undated
