INVENTORY OF THE JULIUS S. HELD PAPERS, ca.
1921-1999
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INVENTORY OF THE JULIUS S. HELD PAPERS, ca.
1918-1999
Accession no. 990056
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Julius S. Held papers
Date (inclusive): ca. 1918-1999
Collection number: 990056
Creator:
Held, Julius Samuel,
1905-
Extent:
168 boxes
(ca. 70 lin.
ft.)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, Calif. 90049-1688
Abstract: Research papers of Julius Samuel Held,
American art historian renowned for his scholarship in 16th- and
17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, expert on Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van
Dyck, and Rembrandt. The ca. 70 linear feet of material, dating from the mid-1920s to 1999, includes correspondence, research
material for Held's writings and his teaching and lecturing
activities, with extensive travel notes. Well documented is Held's
advisory role in building the collection of the Museo de Arte de
Ponce in Puerto Rico. A significant portion of the ca. 29 linear feet of
study photographs documents
Flemish and Dutch artists from the 15th to the 17th century.
Language: Collection material in English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Julius S. Held papers, ca. 1918-1999, Getty Research Institute,
Research Library, Accession number 990056.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the repository in 1999 from Julius Held. Some letters
and Held's library list were received in 2003 from Held's family. Seven boxes of Held material were received from the
National Gallery in late 2004.
Processing History
The collection was rehoused in 1999. An index to the collection was
made available in the Getty Research Institute's research files. Between
2001-2004, Isabella Zuralski processed the collection and wrote this finding
aid. A few items (letters, a copy of Held's library catalog) were received in
2003 from the Held estate; these were integrated into the archive. Seven boxes
of papers received in 2004 have not yet been processed.
Related material
Microfilm of Held's correspondence with Leonard Baskin, Saul Baizerman, and J. Paul Getty is available at the Archives of
American Art, Smithsonian Institution:
Julius Samuel Held papers concerning Saul Baizerman and Leonard Baskin, 1947-1976, Inv. no. 20560.
In 2002, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. acquired Julius Held's collection of rare books.
Many of the books were collected for their illustrations by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Albrecht Dürer, and Anthony
van Dyck. The collection comprises ca. 280 volumes.
Separated Material
22 publications, including 16 monographs, 5 issues of various periodicals, and 1 auction catalog have been transferred to
the Getty Research Institute's Research Library.
Archives of American Art journal.
[New York, N.Y.] : The Archives, c1971-. Vol. 21, no. 1 (1981)
Baldwin-Wallace College.
The Cosla collection presented by Badwin Wallace College.
[Berea, Ohio : The College, 19--]
C.G. Boerner (Firm)
Ausstellung A. Ostade.
Düsseldorf : C.G. Boerner, [1960]
Charlton, John, 1909-
The Banqueting House Whitehall / John Charlton.
[London] : H.M. Stationary Off., c1964.
Detroit Institute of Arts.
Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of the City of Detroit.
[Detroit, Mich.] : The Institute, Vol. 24, no. 2 (1944)
Held, Julius Samuel, 1905-
The Holocaust, from a distance / by Julius S. Held.
University Park, PA : Jewish Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, c1997.
Humbert de Superville, David Pierre Giottino, 1770-1849.
David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville : virtuose et savant (1770-1849).
[France : s.n., 1998]
Junius,Hadrianus, 1511-1575.
Hadrani Ivnii medici emblemata.
Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1565. 1969 reprint.
Master drawings : people and animals through five centuries.
[New York : Herbert E. Feist, 1971]
Methuen, paul Ayshford Methuen, Baron, b. 1886.
An historical account of Corsham Court : the Methuen collection of pictures and the furniture in the state rooms / by Lord
Methuen.
[Corsham, England] : Corsham Estate, 1971.
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie.
Bulletin du Musée national de Varsovie.
Varsovie : Le Musée, Vol. 7, no. 3 (1966)
Nieuwsbrief.
Den Haag : Mauritshuis, jaarg. 5, nr. 2 (1992)
The Parcae : two marble busts by Michaelangelo for the tomb of Julius II.
New York, N.Y. : Paul Rosenberg & Co., [1980]
Ponce Art Museum.
El Museo de Arte de Ponce / texto, ilustraciones y presentación de René Taylor.
[Ponce, Puerto Rico : Fundación Luis A. Ferré, 196-]
Ponce Art Museum.
Inauguración del Museo de Arte de Ponce : Fundación Luis A. Ferré.
[Ponce, Puerto Rico] : El Museo, 1965.
Ponce Art Museum.
Nineteenth century paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, Fundación Luis A. Ferré / an exhibition organized
by Hayden Gallery Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 17-June 8, 1974.
[Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Committee on the Visual Arts, 1974]
Ponce Art Museum.
Museo de Arte de Ponce.
[Ponce, Puerto Rico] : El Museo, [1990?]
Price, Frederic Newlin.
Edward Hicks 1780-1849.
[Swarthmore, Pa.] : Benjamin West Society, Swarthmore College, c1945.
Robinson, Franklin Westcott.
Gabriel Metsu, the letter.
San Diego, Calif. : Timken Art Gallery, c1985.
El Sol.
Hato Rey, Puerto Rico : Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, Abril 15, 1966
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.
Old master paintings from the collection of Thomas J. Bryan (1802-1870).
New York : Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1971.
United States. Secret Service.
Know your money.
Washington : United States. Secret Service, Treasury Dept., 1946.
Biographical/Historical Note
The art historian Julius Samuel Held is considered one of the foremost
authorities on the works of Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt.
His advice was sought by other art history scholars, private collectors,
dealers, museums, and auction houses in the United States and abroad. For many
years his opinion was the final word in matters of attribution of artworks in
his field of expertise.
Held was born in 1905 in Mosbach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
He died in 2002 in Bennington, Vermont. He was married to Ingrid-Märta
Pettersson (1905-1986), an art conservator, with whom he had a son and a
daughter. Held studied art history at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin,
Vienna, and Freiburg. In 1930 he obtained his Ph.D. from the university of
Freiburg under Hans Jantzen, writing on Dürer. In 1931 he
became assistant to Max Friedländer at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in
Berlin. In 1934 Held fled Nazi Germany to the United States and became a U.S.
citizen in 1940.
Held began his academic career in 1935 as a lecturer in art history at
the New York University. In 1937 he was hired as a lecturer at Barnard College,
Columbia University, where he was appointed assistant professor in 1944,
advanced to associate professor in 1950, full professor in 1954, and served as
chairman of the Art History Department from 1967 to 1970. In 1971 Held retired
from Barnard College and moved from New York to Bennington,Vermont, where he continued
to teach for ten years as Clark Professor of Art in the graduate program for
art history at Williams College, and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute.
Held also lectured at other institutions: as Carnegie
Lecturer from 1936 to 1937 at the National Gallery in Ottawa, visiting lecturer
from 1943 to 1944 at Bryn Mawr College, visiting professor from 1946 to 1947 at
the New School for Social Research, visiting professor in 1954 and 1958 at Yale
University, lecturer with the American College Council for Summer Study Abroad
in 1957, and Andrew W. Mellon visiting professor at University of Pittsburgh
from 1972 to 1973. He also served as academic advisor at Marlboro College from
1965 to 1980, and as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
in 1967. During the 1950s Held was asked by Luis Ferré, the Governor of
Puerto Rico, to advise the new art museum in Ponce. His participation in the
selection and acquisition of important European works of art elevated the
museum to world recognition.
Held published extensively. Among his most significant and influential
works are
Rubens in America (with Jan-Albert Goris, 1947),
Rubens, selected drawings (1959),
Rembrandt’s Aristotle and other Rembrandt studies
(1969),
17th and 18th century art (with Donald Posner, 1971), and
Rembrandt studies (1991). At the age of 75 Held issued his
landmark study, the two-volume critical catalog
Oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens (1980).
Held’s classical education influenced his approach to art history. At the time when the discipline was
favoring iconography and other more "empirical" methods of study, Held
maintained the primacy of connoisseurship as one of the tools of the art
historian.
Held was also actively engaged in matters related to the memory of
the Jewish Holocaust. In 1988 he was instrumental in creating a memorial to his
boyhood synagogue in Mosbach, destroyed during Kristallnacht.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Julius S. Held papers constitute a comprehensive archive of a
preeminent American art historian renowned for his scholarship in sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art.
More then 70 linear feet of material, dating from the mid 1920s to
1999, provides access to a broad and detailed study of Held’s
professional life, his scholarly development, and his working methods.
Ca. 27 linear feet comprises correspondence, of which the predominant
portion constitutes correspondence with distinguished art historians and other
scholars. Also included is Held's professional correspondence with art dealers,
auction houses, museums, publishing firms, and numerous private collectors.
Substantial material documents Held's
research for his publications, his teaching and lecturing activities, extensive
travel notes, and material related to his capacity as an art expert in various
legal cases.
A separate group of files concern Held's long association as an art consultant
with the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. The material details
Held's advisory role building the collection. It also provides insight
into the museum's collection development process.
A major portion of the archive, ca. 29 linear feet, comprises study
photographs and other visual documentation of artwork by Peter Paul Rubens,
Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Rembrandt, and a vast number of other
artists, predominantly Flemish and Dutch from the 15th to 17th centuries.
The original arrangement of material is preserved as it was organized
by Held, especially the frequent inclusion of correspondence, printed
matter and handwritten notes with study photographs and other visual material.
Oversize items, items shelved in cold storage, and publications transferred to other
sections of the Getty Research Library were pulled and are described separately
at the end of the container list.
Arrangement
The papers are arranged in 9 series:
Series
I. Correspondence, 1925-1999
Series
II. Publication research, 1931-1999
Series
III. Occasional papers, 1918-1998
Series
IV. Legal cases and Art expertising (Fake experts), 1927-1998
Series
V. Teaching and lectures, 1935-1991
Series
VI. Travel notes, sketches, and letters, 1925-1983
Series
VII. Ponce Art Museum, 1954-1999
Series VIII. Photographs (Artists' files), ca. 1921-1999
Series IX. Oversize material, color photography and negatives, 1937-1999
Indexing Terms
Subjects: personal names
Aertsen, Pieter,
1508-1575
Allori, Alessandro,
1535-1607
Altdorfer, Albrecht, ca.
1480-1538
Baldung, Hans, d.
1545
Balen, Hendrick van,
1575-1632
Benson, Ambrosius,
1495-1550
Bles, Henri, 16th
cent.
Bloemaert, Abraham,
1564-1651
Boekhorst, Johannes,
1605-1668
Bol, Ferdinand,
1616?-1680?
Borch, Gerard ter,
1617-1681
Bosch, Hieronymus, d.
1516
Bouts, Dieric,
1415-1475
Boyermans,
Théodore, 1620-1678
Bril, Paul,
1554-1626
Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or
6-1638
Broeck, Crispin van den,
1524-1591
Bruegel, Jan,
1568-1625
Bruegel, Jan,
1601-1678
Bruegel, Pieter, ca.
1525-1569
Bruegel, Pieter,
1564-1638
Campen, Jacob van,
1595-1657
Cats, Jacob,
1577-1660
Coninxloo, Gillis van,
1544-1606
Cornelisz van Oostsanen,
Jacob, 1472?-1533
Coxcie, Michel,
1499-1592
Cranach, Lucas,
1472-1553
Crayer, Gaspar de,
1584-1669
Crayer, Gaspar de,
1584-1669
Cuyp, Aelbert,
1620-1691
Dalem, Cornelis van, ca.
1534-1573
David, Gérard, ca.
1460-1523
Diepenbeeck, Abraham van,
1596-1675
Dou, Gerard,
1613-1675
Drost, Willem,
1630?-1680?
Duck, Jacob, ca.
1600-1667
Dujardin, Karel,
1622-1678
Dürer, Albrecht,
1471-1528
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir,
1599-1641
Egmont, Justus van
1601-1674
Elsheimer, Adam,
1578-1610
Eyck, Jan van,
1390-1440
Fabritius, Barent,
1624-1673
Fabritius, Carel, d. 1654
Floris, Frans, 1519 or
20-1570
Franchoys, Lucas,
1616-1681
Francken, Frans,
1581-1642
Francken, Jerome, 16th
cent.
Fruytiers, Philip,
1610-1666
Fyt, Jan,
1611-1661
Geertgen, tot Sint Jans,
ca. 1460-1495
Geest, Cornelis van der,
1577-1638
Gelder, Aert de,
1645-1727
Goeree, Jan,
1670-1731
Goes, Hugo van der,
1435?-1482
Goltzius, Hendrik,
1558-1617
Gossaert, Jan, ca.
1478-ca. 1532
Goudt, Hendrik,
1583-1648
Goyen, Jan van, 1596-1656
Grimmer, Abel, ca.
1575-1619
Grünewald, Matthias,
16th cent.
Haarlem, Cornelis
Corneliszoon van, 1562-1638
Haecht, Willem van,
1593-1637
Haensbergen, Johan van,
1642-1705
Hals, Dirck,
1591-1656
Hals, Frans,
1584-1666
Heem, Cornelis de,
1631-1695
Heem, Jan Davidsz. de,
1606-1683 or 4
Heemskerck, Egbert van,
1634 or 5-1704
Heemskerk, Martin van,
1498-1574
Heimbach, Wolfgang, ca.
1615-1678
Hemessen, Jan Sanders
van, ca. 1500-ca. 1563
Hicks, Edward,
1780-1849
Hoecke, Jan van den, fl.
1653
Holbein, Hans, 1460 or
70-1524
Holbein, Hans,
1497-1543
Hollar,
Wenceslaus,1607-1677
Hondecoeter, Gillis
Claesz., d. 1638
Hondecoeter, Melchior de,
1636-1695
Honthorst, Gerrit van,
1590-1656
Hooch, Pieter
de
Huber, Wolf, ca.
1490-1553
Huygens, Constantijn,
1596-1687
Janssens, Abraham, ca.
1575-1632
Jegher, Christoffel, ca.
1596-1652 or 3
Jordaens, Jacob,
1593-1678
Isenbrant, Adriaen, ca.
1490-1551
Juan, de Flandes, ca.
1465-1519
Keil, Bernhard,
1624-1687
Key, Willem, d.
1568
Koninck, Philips,
1619-1688
Lastman, Pieter,
1583-1633
Lievens, Jan,
1607-1674
Lint, Pieter van,
1609-1690
Lombard, Lambert,
1506-1566
Lucas, van Leyden,
1494-1533
Maes, Nicolaes, ca.
1634-1693
Maître de
Flémalle, 15th cent
Maître de la
Légende de Sainte Lucie, fl. ca. 1475-ca. 1505
Maître de la
Légende de Sainte Ursule, 15th cent.
Maître du
Saint-Sang
Malo, Vincent, 17th
cent.
Master of 1518
Master of the Female
Halflenghtfigures
Master of the Mansi
Magdalene
Meckenem, Israhel van, d.
1503
Meester van de
Magdalena-legende, fl. ca. 1520
Meester van de Virgo
inter virgines, 15th cent.
Meister von Frankfurt, b.
1460
Meister von Messkirch,
1488-1565
Memling, Hans,
1430?-1494
Metsu, Gabriel,
1629-1669
Metsys, Quentin, 1465 or
6-1530
Miereveld, Michiel van,
1567-1641
Moeyaert, Claes
Cornelisz, 1592 or 3-1655
Molenaar, Jan Miense, ca.
1610-1668
Momper, Josse de,
1564-1635
Moreelse, Paulus,
1571-1638
Moser, Liselotte, d.
1983
Mostaert, Jan, ca.
1475-1555 or 6
Mytens, Jan, ca.
1614-1670
Neer, Aert van der, 1603
or 4-1677
Ochtervelt, Jacob,
1634-1682
Orley, Bernard van, d.
1542
Ostade, Adriaen van,
1610-1685
Ostade, Isack van,
1621-1649
Panneels, Willem, b.
1600?
Ponder, Jacob de, 16th
cent.
Poubus, Frans,
1545-1581
Pourbus, Frans,
1569-1622
Provost, Jan,
1465-1529
Quellinus, Erasmus,
1607-1678
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn, 1606-1669
Reymerswaele, Marinus
van, ca. 1490-ca. 1566
Rombouts, Theodor,
1597-1637
Rottenhammer, Hans,
1564-1625
Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir,
1577-1640
Ruisdael, Jacob van, 1628
or 9-1682
Ruysdael, Salomon van, d.
1670
Sallaert, Anthonis, ca.
1590-ca. 1657 or 58
Savery, Roelant,
1576-1639
Schongauer, Martin, 15th
cent
Schut, Cornelis,
1597-1655
Scorel, Jan van,
1495-1562
Seghers, Gerard,
1591-1651
Seghers, Hercules, 17th
cent.
Sellaer, Vincent, fl.
1538-1544
Sittow, Michel,
1468?-1525 or 6
Snyders, Frans,
1579-1657
Steen, Jan,
1626-1679
Stimmer, Tobias,
1539-1584
Suttermans, Justus,
1597-1681
Swart, Jan, ca. 1500-ca.
1553
Sweerts, Michiel,
1618-1664
Teniers, David, 1582-1649
Teniers, David,
1610-1690
Teniers, David,
1638-1685
Terbrugghen, Hendrik,
1588?-1629
Thomas van Ypern,
Johannes, 1617-1678
Thulden, Theodoor van,
1606-1669
Titian, ca.
1488-1576
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir,
1599-1641
Velde, Esaias van den,
1587-1630
Velde, Willem van de,
1610 or 11-1693
Velde, Jan van de,
1568-1623
Velde, Willem van de,
1633-1707
Vellert, Dirck Jacobsz.,
fl. 1511-1544
Venne, Adriaen Pietersz.
van de, 1589-1662
Vermeer, Johannes,
1632-1675
Vermeulen, Jan, 17th
cent.
Vermeyen, Jan Cornelisz,
1500-1559
Victors, Jan,
1619-1676
Vinckeboons, David,
1576-1629
Volmaryn, Pieter Crynse,
ca. 1629-1679
Vos, Cornelis de, 1584 or
5-1651
Vos, Maarten de,
1532-1603
Vos, Paul de, ca.
1596-1678
Vos, Simon de,
1603-1676
Vrancx, Sebastian,
1573-1647
Weyden, Rogier van der,
1399 or 1400-1464
Wierix, Jan, 16th
cent
Wierix, Jeronimus,
1553-1619
Wildens, Jan,
1585-1653
Willeboirts Bosschaert,
Thomas, 1613 or 4-1654
Witz, Konrad, ca.
1400-ca. 1445
Wolfert, Artus,
1581-1641
Wouters, Frans,
1612-1659
Wouwerman, Philips,
1619?-1668
Wtewael, Joachim,
1566-1638
Zurbarán,
Francisco, 1598-1664
Subjects: corporate bodies
Barnard
College
Carnegie Museum of
Art
Christie, Manson &
Woods International Inc.
Christie, Manson &
Woods
Columbia College (New
York, N.Y.)
Dorotheum
(Firm)
Galerie Meissner (Zurich,
Switzerland)
Gruner + Jahr AG.
Heim Gallery
Historians of
Netherlandish Art
J. Paul Getty
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of
Art (New York, N.Y.)
National Gallery of Art
(U.S.)
Newhouse Galleries
Norton Simon
Foundation
Pierpont Morgan
Library
Ponce Art
Museum
Princeton University
Press
Richard L. Feigen &
Company
Sotheby Parke Bernet
& Co.
Sotheby's
(Firm)
Sterling and Francine
Clark Art Institute
Williams
College
Subjects: Topics
Art
historians—Correspondence
Art—Collectors and
collecting—Correspondence
Art
dealers—Correspondence
Art—Private
collections—Europe
Art—Private
collections—United States
Authors and
publishers—United States
Museum
curators—Correspondence
Museum
directors—Correspondence
Painting—Conservation and restoration
Painting,
Dutch—Expertising
Painting,
Flemish—Expertising
Painting, Modern—17th
century—Expertising
Art—Expertising
Art,
Netherlandish—Expertising
Art, Flemish—16th
century—Expertising
Art, Flemish—17th
century--Expertising
Art,
Flemish—Bruges—Belgium—Expertising
Art,
Flemish—Ghent—Belgium—Expertising
Art, Dutch—16th
century—Expertising
Art, Dutch—17th
century—Expertising
Art, German—16th
century—Expertising
Art, German—17th
century—Expertising
Genres and Forms of Material
Black-and-white
photographs
Color
photographs
Color
transparencies
Color slides
Diffusion transfer
prints
Notebooks
Photographic
postcards
Picture
postcards
Radiographs
Contributors: Personal Names
Allentuck, Marcia, 1928-
Alpers,
Svetlana
Ames, Winslow
Anderson, Laurie, 1947-
Andersson,
Christiane
Andrews, Keith
Antal,
Friedrich
Arbitman, Kahren Jones,
1948-
Barnouw, Adriaan Jacob,
1877-1968
Barron, Stephanie,
1950-
Bauch, Kurt
Baudouin,
Frans
Baumstark, Reinhold,
1944-
Bautier,
Pierre
Béguin,
Sylvie
Belkin, Kristin
Lohse
Berend-Corinth,
Charlotte, 1880-1967
Behrman, Cynthia
Fansler
Benesch, Otto,
1896-1964
Bevers, Holm
Bevington, David
M.
Bialostocki,
Jan
Block, Herbert,
1909-
Bober, Phyllis
Pray
Boggs, Jean
Sutherland
Bolten, J.
Boon, Karel G.
Brown, Christopher,
1948-
Burchard, Ludwig,
1886-
Burchard, Otto
Cattaneo Adorno,
Carlotta
Chaikin,
Nathan
Ciechanowiecki, Andrzej
S., 1924-
Colie, Rosalie
Littell
Comini,
Alessandra
Constable, W. G. (William
George), 1887-
Coolidge, John,
1913-
Cunningham, Charles
Crehore, 1910-1979
Delen, A. J. J. (Adrien
Jean Joseph), b. 1883
Demus, Klaus,
1927-
Deutsch Carroll,
Margaret
Downes, Kerry
Dulière,
Gaston
Egorova, K. S. (Kseniia
Sergeevna)
Einem, Herbert von,
1905-
Eisler, Colin
T.
Elliger, Ottmar,
1666-1735
Elsen, Albert Edward,
1927-
Fenyo,
Iván
Fenwick, Kathleen M.
Frankl, Paul,
1878-1962
Freedberg,
David
Friedenberg, Daniel M.
Friedländer, Max J.,
1867-1958
Garlick, Kenneth,
1916-
Gay, Peter,
1923-
Gelder, Jan de
Geissler,
Heinrich
Gerold,
Susanne
Gerson, H.
(Horst)
Getty, J. Paul (Jean
Paul), 1892-1976
Geuer, Gisela
Gibson, Walter
S.
Gilbert,
Creighton
Glück, Gustav,
1871-1952
Golahny, Amy
Golffing,
Francis
Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst
Hans), 1909-
Goris, Jan Albert, 1899-
Grafe, I.
Gregori, Mina
Greindl, Edith
Grigaut, Paul
L.
Grund, Norbert Joseph
Carl, 1717-1767
Gudlaugsson, S. J.
(Sturla J.), 1913-
Haeger, Barbara
Hammer, Armand,
1898-1990
Harris, Ann
Sutherland
Hartford, Huntington,
1911-
Hartt, Frederick
Haverkamp Begemann,
Egbert
Heckscher, William S.
(William Sebastian), 1904-
Held, Jutta
Herbst, Hans, Dr.
Herklotz, Ingo
Hibbard, Howard, 1928-
Hill Stoner,
Joyce
Hofmann, Werner, 1928-
Hofstede, Cornelius
Müller
Hollander,
Anne
Huemer,
Frances
Hugelshofer, Walter,
1899-
Hulst, Roger Adolf
d'
Jaeger, Wolfgang,
1917-
Jaffé, David,
1953-
Jaffé, Michael,
1923-
Janson, H. W. (Horst
Woldemar), 1913-
Jantzen, Hans,
1881-
Kaufmann, Emil, 1942-
Kauffmann, Hans,
1896-
Kahr, Madlyn
Millner
Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta
Keck, Caroline K.
(Caroline Kohn)
Kelch, Jan
Klemm, Christian
Kristeller, Paul Oskar,
1905-
Kultermann,
Udo
Kurz, Otto,
1908-1975
Kuznetsov, IU
(IUrii)
Lavin, Irving, 1927-
Levine, David, 1951-
Liebermann, Max,
1847-1935
Lieberman,
Ralph
Lehrs, Max,
1855-1938
Liedtke, Walter
A.
Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-
Lowenthal, Anne
W.
Logan, Anne-Marie
S.
Lugt, Frits,
1884-1970
Marsh, Reginald,
1898-1954
Martin, John Rupert
Martin,
Gregory
Mathey,
Jacques
Mayer, Annelise,
1906-
McIntosh, Millicent
C.
McCurry, H. O.
McGrath,
Elizabeth
Meiss, Millard
Mellinkoff,
Ruth
Meulen, Marjon van
der
Mielke, Hans
Millar, Oliver, Sir,
1923-
Millen, Ronald
Mongan, Agnes
Mont,
Frederick
Moser, Liselotte, d.
1983
Müller Hofstede,
Justus
Muller,
Jeffrey
Nash, Ray, 1905-
Nordenfalk, Carl Adam
Johan, 1907-
Noske, Frits,
1920-
Novak, Barbara
Oberhuber,
Konrad
Osten, Gert von
der
Panofsky, Erwin,
1892-1968
Panofsky-Soergel, Gerda,
1929-
Pariset,
François-Georges
Parkhurts,
Chuck
Porter, Katherine Anne,
1890-1980
Posner, Donald
Puyvelde, Leo van, 1882-
Renger, Konrad
Ring, Grete
Roethlisberger, Marcel,
1929-
Rosand, David
Rose, Patricia, 1929-
Rosenberg, Jakob, 1893-
Rosenberg,
Pierre
Sandy, Stephen
Sauerländer,
Willibald
Schade, Werner
Schama, Simon
Schapiro, Meyer,
1904-
Scheyer,
Evelyn
Schilling, Edmund,
1888-1974
Schwartz, Gary, 1940-
Schöne, Wolfgang,
1910-
Schulz, Juergen,
1927-
Serkin, Rudolf,
1903-
Scribner,
Charles
Skutsch, Otto
Slive, Seymour,
1920-
Sloane, Joseph
C.
Sluijter, Eric Jan,
1946-
Smith, David R. (David
Ross)
Spear, Richard E.,
1940-
Stechow, Wolfgang,
1896-1974
Steinberg, Leo,
1920-
Sterling, Charles, 1901-
Stewart, J.
Douglas
Stighelen, Katlijne van
der
Strauss, Walter
L.
Styhr,
Jørgen
Sutton, Peter
C.
Tennenbaum, Silvia
Tharp, Twyla
Thaw, Eugene
Victor
Tietze,
Andreas
Tietze, Hans,
1880-1954
Tietze-Conrat, E.
(Erika), 1883-1958
Varshavskaia, M.
IA.
Vergara, Lisa,
1948-
Veronee-Verhaegen,
Nicole
Vertikoff,
Alexander
Vey, Horst
Vlieghe, Hans
Voet, Léon, 1919-
Volk, Mary
Crawford
Voss, Hermann
Walsh, John, 1937-
Warnke, Martin
Weber, Gregor J.
M.
Weinberg, H. Barbara
(Helene Barbara), 1942-
Welu, James A.
White, Christopher,
1930-
Wilkin, Karen, 1940-
Winkler, Friedrich, 1888-
Winner, Matthias,
1931-
Wittkower,
Rudolf
Wohl, Alice
Sedgwick
Wood, Jeremy
Wolf, Emile E.
Wolf, Robert
Erich
Wright,
Virginia
Wulc, Stanley S.
Wuttke, Dieter
Zimmer, Jürgen,
1937-
Series I.
Correspondence,
1925-1999
Physical Description:
27 boxes
11.34 lin.
ft.
Scope and Content Note
Series I contains correspondence relating to the major areas of Held's professional
activities, those of teacher, author, and art expert. The correspondence is
particularly valuable for Held's frank assessments of art objects. Not included
are letters of private nature, such as letters to his wife and family, or
letters linked to his role as collector of works of art.
Arranged in 8 subseries. Each subseries is arranged
alphabetically by correspondent. Letters from Held are usually carbon copies or
drafts; many are written on discarded proofs for essays and publications.
Series I.A.
Scholars and artists,
1925-1999
Physical Description:
8 boxes
3.36 lin.
ft.
Scope and Content Note
This subseries constitutes the largest portion of the
correspondence series and consists predominantly of letters to Held. Numerous
letters include annotations related to scholarly issues; others are marked by
Held only with the date of his reply. Occasionally included are offprints,
press clippings, handwritten notes, study photographs, and personal family
photographs sent to Held by his correspondents.
The letters reveal a vivid exchange of scholarly opinions
concerning attribution and interpretation of artwork by numerous European
artists from the 16th to the 18th century, principally Peter Paul Rubens,
Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, and Rembrandt. Discussions and references to
Held's books and essays shed light on the reception of his research and the
impact of his methodology on other scholars. Publications by other scholars are
frequently discussed. Held's opinion and advice is often sought by younger
colleagues, particularly during their dissertation work.
Many of Held's correspondents are experts in Dutch and Flemish
art. These include Svetlana Alpers, Kurt Bauch, Kristin Belin Lohse, Jan
Bialostocki, Karel G. Boon, Ludwig Burchard, Klaus Demus, David Freedberg, Jan
de Gelder, Horst Gerson, Creighton Gilbert, Gustav Glück, Amy Golahny, Jan
Albert Goris, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Erich Hubala, Frances Huemer, Roger
Adolf d'Hulst, Wolfgang Jaeger, Michael Jaffé, Madlyn Millner Kahr,
Walter A. Liedtke, Anne-Marie S. Logan, Anne W. Lowenthal, John Rupert Martin,
Elizabeth McGrath, Marjon van den Meulen, Erwin Panofsky, David Rosand, Meyer
Schapiro, Gary Schwartz, Charles Scribner, Seymour Slive , Eric Jan Sluijter,
Wolfgang Stechow, Leo Steinberg, J. Douglas Stewart, Werner Sumowski, Horst
Vey, John Walsh, Gregor J. M. Weber, Robert Erich Wolf, and Jeremy Wood.
Other prominent scholars represented here are Herbert von Einem,
Philipp P. Fehl, Paul Frankl, Max J. Friedländer, Peter Gay, Heinrich
Geissler, Ernst Hans Gombrich, Ann Sutherland Harris, Hans Jantzen, Paul Oskar
Kristeller, Frits Lugt, Ruth Mellinkoff, Hans Mielke, Justus Müller
Hofstede, Christopher Norris, Frits Noske, Konrad Oberhuber, Pierre Rosenberg,
Werner Schade, Otto Skutsch, Hans and Erica Tietze, Karen Wilkin, Matthias
Winner, and Rudolf Wittkower.
Also included is correspondence with visual and performing
artists and literary authors, including Laurie Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter,
Rudolf Serkin, Silvia Tennenbaum, Twyla Tharp, and Stanley S. Wulc. Notable are
the ca. 100 letters to Held from the American writer Rosalie Littell Colie.
Box 1
Early correspondence - Ludwig and Otto
Burchard
Box 1, Folder 1
Early correspondence,
1925-1942
Scope and Content Note
7 items. Letters to Held from Friedrich Antal, Hans
Kauffmann, Max Lehrs, Leo vam Puyvelde, Otto Schmitt at Deutscher Verein
für Kunstwissenschaft, and Friedrich Winkler.
Box 1, Folder 2
Alpers, Svetlana,
1968-1996
Scope and Content Note
23 items (43 leaves): 13 letters to Held and 7 letters from
Held, many extensively annotated; and printed matter. Both scholars discuss
their various research projects, lectures and publications, particularly Held's
interpretation of references to Ovid by Rubens. Included is a typescript of a
lecture Alpers gave at CAA in 1996, substantially annotated by Held; and
reviews of Alpers's book
The making of
Rubens
. With a mention of Catherine Lusheck.
Box 1, Folder 3
Ames, Winslow,
1970-1987
Scope and Content Note
14 letters (on 23 leaves) to Held. The letters concern
Ames's activities as an art consultant and collector of drawings. Ames writes
extensively about his articles on drawings by Sébastien Le Clerc and
Antoine Coypel, his autobiography, and his teaching at the Columbia University
in the early 1920s. He also writes about art patronage of Prince Albert,
consort of Queen Victoria. Several letters concern personal family matters.
Box 1, Folder 4
Anderson, Laurie,
1969-1995
Scope and Content Note
18 items (on 29 leaves): 5 letters from Anderson to Held,
and 1 letter from Held to Anderson. Included are 2 letters to Held from Joan
Breton Connelly at Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY and from Ellen V. Futter at
the Barnard College concerning Anderson. Also present are printed matter and
press clippings, and forms regarding Anderson at Barnard College.
Box 1, Folder 5
Andersson, Christiane,
1977-1996
Scope and Content Note
10 items (on 21 leaves): 8 letters to Held, a curriculum
vitae, and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence concerning mainly Andersson's
interpretation of drawings by Urs Graf for her dissertation
Dirnen, Krieger,
Narren
.
Box 1, Folder 6
Andrews, Keith,
1977-1985
undated
Scope and Content Note
12 items: 7 letters to Held, 3 letters from Held to Andrews,
and 3 undated ms. notes. Both scholars discuss questions of attribution and
iconography in drawings by Rubens and Jordaens. Andrews mentions his plan to
catalog German drawings in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland.
[See also items filed in Box 62, F. 15.]
Box 1, Folder 7
Arbitman [Hellerstedt], Kahren,
1980-1996
Scope and Content Note
ca. 27 items (on 75 leaves): 19 letters to Held and 5
letters from Held to Arbitman, and printed matter. Arbitman writes about her
scholarly research and curatorial work, lecturing activities and participation
in conferences. She often mentions other scholars, including John Williams,
Carol Purtle, Sharon L. Hirsch, Amy Golahny, John Walsh, and the organization
Historians of Netherlandish Art. She describes her visit to the collector of
drawings Frederick Herman in Norfolk, VA. Held reviews Arbitman's dissertation
Hurdy-gurdies from
Hieronymus Bosch to Rembrandt
. Included is an unpublished copy of
Walter Gibson's keynote address presented in 1985 at the International Research
Conference in Pittsburg. Several letters by Held and Arbitman concern Held's
translation of a medieval Latin manuscript. Enclosed is a color photograph of
the original.
Box 1, Folder 8
Barnouw, Adriaan Jacob,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Barnouw comments on Held's book
Rembrandt and the Book
of Tobit
.
Box 1, Folder 9
Barron, Stephanie,
1971
1995-1997
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 4 letters to Held, including two from 1971 when
Barron was a senior art history major at the Barnard College, and 1 letter from
Held. Held comments on Barron's essay in the catalog of the exhibition
Exiles +
emigrés
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997), and provides some details concerning his
collection of prints by Max Beckmann and Werner Drewes.
Box 1, Folder 10
Bauch, Kurt,
1962-1965
Scope and Content Note
11 items: 9 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held. The
letters concern mainly reproductions of Rembrandt's paintings and drawings
located in American collections for Bauch's upcoming book
Rembrandt,
Gemälde
. Both scholars discuss attribution questions related to
Rembrandt. Also mentioned are the artists Peter Lastman, Gerrit Pietersz,
Gerrit Claesz Bleker and Ferdinand Bol. Held comments on Bauch's book on
Rembrandt's painting
Die Nachtwache. Bauch's letters
are annotated by Held.
Box 1, Folder 11
Baudouin, Frans,
1964-1998
Scope and Content Note
22 items (on 27 leaves): 16 letters to Held, 4 letters from
Held, and printed matter. Also included is a letter from Baudouin to Dr. G.
Nordbäck in Stockholm. Both scholars discuss attribution questions related
to Rubens and other Flemish artists. Several letters concern Frans Claes's
interpretation of Joannes Goropius Becanus's
Origines
Antverpianae
[1569]. Baudouin's letters are annotated by Held.
Box 1, Folder 12
Baumstark, Reinhold,
1977-1996
undated
Scope and Content Note
16 items (on 25 leaves): 9 letters from Baumstark to Held, 5
letters from Held, 2 postcards and 1 illustration. The letters concern various
artwork in the collection of the Sammlungen des Regierenden Fürsten von
Liechtenstein, mainly attribution questions related to Rubens, Jan van den
Hoecke, and other artists. Baumstark's letters are annotated by Held. Also
included is correspondence between Held and Lorin A. Uffenbeck concerning the
attribution of a painting to Rubens.
Box 1, Folder 13
Bautier, Pierre,
1951-1953
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning several attribution questions
raised by Held. Annotated by Held.
Box 1, Folder 14
Beguin, Sylvie,
1965-1976
Scope and Content Note
24 items (on 31 leaves): 6 letters from Beguin at the
Musée du Louvre, to Held and 2 letters from Held mainly concerning an
exchange of photo reproductions. A significant portion comprises correspondence
with the lawyer Edwin J. Harragan in New York regarding the permission to
reproduce artwork by Rubens in an advertising brochure for Cadillac. Included
are Harragan's letters to Beguin, Michael Rainbird and Held, and letters from
Held to Harragan and Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé.
Box 1, Folder 15
Belkin, Kristin Lohse,
1982-1997
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 items (60 leaves): 22 letters to Held, 2 letters from
Held, copies of Belkin's research proposal, draft of her paper "Rubens and the
Dance of death", and her curriculum vitae. Belkin's letters are rich in detail
related to her research for
Corpus Rubenianum
Ludwig Burchard
, and other publications. Included are Held's notes for
his review of Belkin's
Costume book.
Box 1, Folder 16
Berend-Corinth, Charlotte,
1952
1960
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a letter and a postcard to Held from the wife of
Lovis Corinth.
Box 1, Folder 17
Behrman, Cynthia Fansler,
1995
Scope and Content Note
11 items: 10 letters from Berhrman to Held, and 1 letter
from Held, concerning the sale of a drawing in the collection of the jazz
musician Bobby Capers. Several of Behrman's letters are annotated by Held.
Box 1, Folder 18
Benesch, Otto,
1951,
1953
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. With a mention of Roger Adolf d'Hulst,
Iván Fenyo, and Franz Martin Haberditzl.
Box 1, Folder 19
Bevers, Holm,
1999
Scope and Content Note
2 litems: 1 letter to Held, and reply from Held. Bevers
mentions a sketchbook attributed to Herri met de Bles. He also mentions Held's
correspondence with Max J. Friedländer in the collection of Staatliche
Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, and the late art historian Hans
Mielke.
Box 1, Folder 20
Bevington, David,
1995
Scope and Content Note
2 item (on 3 leaves): 1 letter to Held, and reply from Held.
The letters concern drawings by Held, including a portrait of Alger Hiss.
Box 1, Folder 21
Bialostocki, Jan,
1963-1987
Scope and Content Note
19 items: 16 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held, and 1
study photograph. Bialostocki's letters are rich in detail concerning his
scholarly research, travel and contacts with other art historians. He writes
freqently about his work on Rembrand's painting
Polish rider. Both scholars
exchange their opinion about a drawing of Mercury and Argus by Rubens.
Box 1, Folder 22
Bober, Phyllis Pray,
1993-1994,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters from Bober to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Bober mentions her work on
Art, culture, and
cuisine
.
Box 1, Folder 23
Boggs, Jean Sutherland,
1966-1969
Scope and Content Note
8 letters to Held, including 1 by Boggs' assistant Richard
K. Graburn. Correspondence concerning lectures given by Held on the occasion of
a Jacob Jordaens exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
Box 1, Folder 24
Bolten, J.,
1967-1968
Scope and Content Note
7 items: 6 letters to Held, and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence concerning a drawing by Abraham Bloemaert in Held's collection,
and Bolten's research on Bloemaert. Bolten's letters are annotated by Held.
Box 1, Folder 25
Boon, Karel G.,
1949-1992
Scope and Content Note
33 items (on 36 leaves): 22 letters to Held, 1 letter to
Frank Robinson, and 9 letters from Held. The scholars consult each other's
opinion concerning their research projects on Rubens and Rembrandt, and
frequently discuss attribution questions concerning artwork by other Dutch and
Flemish artists. Also discussed is a portrait of Charles V in the context of
Erhard Göpel's involvement with Hitler's museum in Linz and the looting of
art during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Box 1, Folder 26
Brown, Christopher,
1978-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
43 items (on 55 leaves): 23 letters to Held, 13 letters from
Held, and annotated printed matter. Correspondence concerning Brown's and
Held's scholarly work and research by other art historians. Discussed are
questions of attribution and provenance, mainly of artwork by Rubens and Daniel
van den Dyck. Brown relates details concerning auction sales of Rubens's
paintings. Also present is business correspondence with the firm Art Life Ltd.
in Tokyo and New York concerning Held's essay for the catalog of an Rembrandt
exhibition held in Japan during the winter of 1986/1987. Included is a letter
to Held from Laura C. Luckey at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt.
concerning a portrait painting by Rembrandt. Several of Brown's letters are
annotated by Held.
Box 1, Folder 27
Burchard, Ludwig and Burchard, Otto,
1933-1951
Scope and Content Note
9 items (on 15 leaves): 7 letters to Held, including 1 from
Ludwig's brother Otto Burchard, and 2 letters from Held to Ludwig Burchard. The
scholars relate details concerning their research of Rubens, especially
questions concerning attribution and provenance. Burchard reviews extensively
Held's essay for the catalog of a Rubens exhibition held at Schaeffer &
Brandt in New York in 1942.
Box 2
Carlotta Cattaneo-Adorno - Gustav
Glück
Box 2, Folder 1
Cattaneo-Adorno, Carlotta,
1988
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held concerning Cattaneo-Adorno's forthcoming
publication.
Box 2, Folder 2-4
Colie, Rosalie Littell,
1957-1982,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Ca. 120 items (ca. 140 leaves): letters to Held and his
family, and ca. 10 letters from Held. Colie's letters are rich in detail
concerning her professional and personal life, especially during the time she
taught at Barnard College, at Wesleyan University, and the University of
Toronto. Several of her letters are annotated by Held. Also present are letters
to Held from Colie's mother, Frederic R. Colie, Held's daughter Anna, Curt A.
Zimansky at the University of Iowa, and Estelle Cohen at the Portsmouth
Polytechnic in Southsea, Australia. Also present is a letter from Held to
Millicent McIntosh at the Barnard College, his correspondence with Harry Woolf
at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, Rosalie Colie's vita, printed
matter, and an undated letter to Held from the Mills College concerning a
collection of letters by Rosalie Colie.
Box 2, Folder 5
Comini, Alessandra,
1979-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
46 items (on 50 leaves): 18 letters and 2 postcards to Held,
10 letters from Held, 8 color photographs (personal), Comini's vita, and
printed matter. Comini relates details concerning her professional life,
lectures, travel, and scholarly work. Held reviews Comini's articles and
comments on her publications. Several letters address Held's personal
experience as a Jew in Mosbach in pre-war Germany. Also included is
correspondence between Comini, Held and Christopher Fulton at the Meadows
School of the Arts in Dallas, TX concerning a self-portrait drawing by Albrecht
Dürer. Comini mentions artwork by Kokoschka and Man Ray in the collection
of Henri-Louis de la Grange in Paris. [Color photographs are shelved in Box
159, F. 1.]
Box 2, Folder 6
Constable, William George,
1996
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Constable mentions the art collection of
the Viscount Lee of Fareham at Chequers, and recommends to Held books by Anna
Jameson and Francis Haskell.
Box 2, Folder 7
Coolidge, John,
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
6 letters (on 12 leaves): 5 letters to Held, and 1 letter
from Held. Correspondence concerning location and provenance of Rubens's
paintings and sketches executed for Maria de Medici. With a copy of Coolidge's
chart of Rubens's artwork located in Saint Petersburg [Leningrad] and in
Munich. Coolidge invites Held to join the Advisory Committee for the exhibition
Classicists and the
classics in the seventeenth century
, forthcoming at the Fogg Art
Museum. With George Hanfmann's text defining the main concept of the
exhibition.
Box 2, Folder 8
Cunningham, Charles Crehore,
1966-1972
Scope and Content Note
10 letters (on 11 leaves): 8 letters to Held and 2 letters
from Held. Correspondence concerning attribution and provenance of several
artworks at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. Some of Cunningham's
letters are extensively annotated by Held.
Box 2, Folder 9
Delen, Adrien Jean Joseph,
1929-1946
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters and 1 postcard from Delen at the Museum
Plantin-Moretus and the Koninklijk museum voor schoone kunsten in Antwerp, and
1 letter from Held. Correspondence concerning a 15th century artist known as
the Master of Frankfurt. Delen's letters are annnotated by Held. Delen also
mentions Erhard Göpel in Leipzig.
Box 2, Folder 10
Demus, Klaus,
1984-1986
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 4 letters to Held, and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence with Demus at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
in Vienna concerning artwork by Anthony van Dyck, and the attribution to Rubens
of a painting referred to as "kleiner Paulussturz". [See also Held's
correspondence with Demus filed in Box 13, F. 24.]
Box 2, Folder 11
Deutsch Carroll, Margaret,
1982-1996,
undated
Scope and Content Note
17 items: 5 letters to Held, 7 letters from Held, and
Deutsch Carroll's vita, which includes a bibliography of her works.
Correspondence concerning Deutsch Carroll's research on Rembrandt and Rubens.
Held reviews extensively several of her publications, especially her
interpretation of Rembrandt's
Aristotle. Also
present is a typescript (9 leaves) titled "Notes", dated Carroll 4/26/96,
related to text on Rembrandt.
Box 2, Folder 12
Downes, Kerry,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Downes at the University of Reading, and 1
letter from Held. Scholarly exchange concerning Rubens's oil sketch
Marriage of Henri IV in the
Wallace Collection in London, the drawing
Brigida Spinola Doria in the
Morgan Library in New York, and oil sketches for the Whitehall Ceiling.
Box 2, Folder 13
Dulière, Gaston,
1980-1983
Scope and Content Note
8 items: correspondence between Dulière and Held, and
between Dulière and Klaus Demus at the Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Gemäldegalerie in Vienna, and a typescript annotated by Held.
Dulière's letters relate details regarding attribution, location,
provenance and sales of artwork by Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. Demus comments
on Wolfgang Adler's work on Rubens's landscapes [in:
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig
Burchard
].
Box 2, Folder 14
Egorova, K. S. (Kseniia Sergeevna),
1967-1977
Scope and Content Note
5 letters, including 1 from Held. Correspondence with the
curator at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, mainly regarding an
exchange of books and photographs of artwork by Rubens and other artists. Held
mentions Armand Hammer in the context of a loan exhibition from Russian museums
in the United States. Egorova's letters are annotated by Held.
Box 2, Folder 15
Einem, Herbert von,
1967-1968
Scope and Content Note
7 letters, including 3 from Held. Correspondence concerning
photographs of artwork by Rubens. Von Einem invites Held to give a lecture at
the Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag in Ulm. Held comments extensively on von
Einem's essay on Rubens's painting
Abschied des Adonis. One of von
Einem's letters is annotated by Held.
Box 2, Folder 16
Eisler, Colin T,
1966-1968,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 letters to Held. Eisler seeks Held's opinion on several
paintings attributed to Rubens, including artwork in the collection of Ludwig
Burchard. One of Eisler's letters is annotated by Held.
Box 2, Folder 17
Elsen, Albert Edward,
1971-1989
Scope and Content Note
6 letters, including 2 from Held. Correspondence regarding
Held's honorary membership at CAA. Elsen writes about his study on Rodin and
his plan to write a book about the concept of "artists' freedom."
Box 2, Folder 18
Fehl, Philipp P.,
1956-1992
Scope and Content Note
10 letters (on 12 leaves), including 1 letter from Held and
1 letter from Fehl to Mrs. [Andette?], and a ms. note. Fehl writes about his
study of the concept of invisible figures in art, in connection with the theme
of Concert champêtre [Fête champêtre]. Held reviews the draft
of Fehl's essay published in the
Journal of aesthetics
and art criticism
. Fehl also seeks Held's opinion regarding Rubens's
painting
The baptism of Constantine, and
writes about the project to preserve on microfiche the Cicognara Library in
Rome.
Box 2, Folder 19
Fenyo, Iván,
1966-1969,
1982
Scope and Content Note
5 letters to Held, and the draft of a letter from Held to
Gyorgy Dosze at the Szépmuvészeti Múzeum in Budapest.
Fenyo mentions recent acquisitions and exhibitions taking place at the
Szépmuvészeti Múzeum in Budapest.
Box 2, Folder 20
Fenwick, Kathleen M.,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 from Held. Correspondence with
Fenwick at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, concerning a drawing by
Rubens and an article by Müller-Hofstede. Held writes extensively about
the attribution of the drawing to Rubens.
Box 2, Folder 21
Frankl, Paul,
1940-1945,
1989
Scope and Content Note
9 items: a postcard sent from Cuba and 5 letters to Held, a
letter to Held from Frankl's daughter Johanna Kalbach [dated 1989] regarding a
painting by Susan Wilk, and a photograph of Frankl at Princeton taken in 1958.
Frankl writes about his attempts to help his son escape Europe from Italy in
1940, and mentions David Dank in this context. He also writes about his and
William Kolodney's involvement with the Young Men's Hebrew Association [YMHA]
in the United States. Several letters concern issues related to research in art
history. Frankl analyzes a 16th century painting of the Virgin Mary, and
comments on Held's essay on Rembrandt's
Polish rider.
Box 2, Folder 22
Freedberg, David,
1978-1994,
undated
Scope and Content Note
14 items (on 24 leaves): 8 letters from Freedberg to Held, 4
letters from Held, and a thank-you card to Held from Deborah Freedberg. Also
included is David Freedberg's vita. Both scholars exchange their opinion
concerning attribution of several artworks to Rubens. Freedberg's letters
relate details concerning his scholarly work, travel and lecturing activities.
Box 2, Folder 23
Friedenberg, Daniel M.,
1984-1992
Scope and Content Note
10 letters (on 11 leaves), including 2 from Held.
Friedenberg seeks Held's opinion regarding attribution of paintings in his
possession, and mentions that his collection of American first editions is on
loan to the Bennington Library.
Box 2, Folder 24
Friedländer, Max J.,
1933-1955,
1999,
undated
Scope and Content Note
45 items (ca. 87 leaves) leaves): 41 letters to Held, an
undated draft of Friedländer's introduction to an exhibition on landscape
painting, and Held's statement confirming that he donated letters from
Friedländer to the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. Also included is Held's
1999 correspondence with Sigrid Achenbach at Kupferstichkabinett (1 letter to
Held, 1 letter from Held), and photograph of a 16th century embroidered and
painted image of Madonna with Child, annotated by Friedländer on verso.
Except the photograph all items are photocopies.
Box 2, Folder 25
Garlick, Kenneth,
1983
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, including 1 from Held. Correspondence concerning
Held's donation of letters from Grete Ring to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,
England. Garlick mentions Ring's donation of her collection of early 19th
century German drawings to the Ashmolean Museum, and an exhibition of the
drawings at C. G. Boerner in Düsseldorf. [See also correspondence with
Grete Ring filed in Box. 6, F.6.]
Box 2, Folder 26
Gay, Peter,
1972
Scope and Content Note
3 letters (on 6 leaves), including 2 from Held. In the
context of Gay's lecture "The Berlin-Jewish spirit", Held comments extensively
on the topic of the relations between German and East European Jews in pre-war
Germany. Held's letters also relate biographical details concerning his family.
Gay's letter is annotated by Held.
Box 2, Folder 27
de Gelder, Jan,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held, sent from Utrecht. De Gelder congratulates
Held for his book
The oil sketches of
Peter Paul Rubens
.
Box 2, Folder 28
Geissler, Heinrich,
1961-1990,
undated
Scope and Content Note
38 letters (on 47 leaves), including 14 from Held, and 1
letter to Held from Ulrike Gauss at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Correspondence
rich in detail regarding attribution of drawings in the collection of the
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung. Included is a list of drawings,
annotated by Held. Also discussed is Geissler's book on Reinhold Nägele.
Held relates details concerning Nägele's life in the United States. Held
also writes about his contacts with the city officials of Mosbach, Germany
concerning the renaming of one of the city's squares after a destroyed
synagogue.
Box 2, Folder 29
Gerson, Horst,
1964-1972,
undated
Scope and Content Note
12 items: 10 letters from Gerson to Held, and 1 letter from
Held. Also present is a 1972 invitation to an event celebrating Gerson's
birthday, organized by the Committee for the Gerson Festschrift, and a list of
contibutors to the Festschrift. Gerson's letters relate details concerning the
provenance of artwork by Rembrandt and Peter van Mol.
Box 2, Folder 30
Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul),
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 item: copy of a letter from Held to Getty regarding the
consultation fee for a painting by Rubens [
David and Abigail]. With the
copy of the billing statement on verso. Held mentions a painting by Allori,
offered for sale by the Bennington Museum. Annotated by Held. [Also see Held's
letter filed with correspondence with David Jaffé, Box 3, F. 24; and
Held's letter to John Walsh in Box 7, F. 22.]
Box 2, Folder 31
Geuer, Gisela,
1998,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 items (on 16 leaves): a letter from the editor of
CASH die
Wirtschaftszeitung der Schweiz
, Anton Ladner asking Held to proofread
the enclosed manuscript of his and Geuer's article about Held. The manuscript
is extensively annotated by Held. Also present a letter from Held to Ladner, in
which he relates additional autobiographical information, and a letter from
Held to Geuer concerning the attribution to Rubens of a painting called
Bärenjagt . Also included
is an unsigned note [by Held] concerning Gustav Glück's attribution of the
Bärenjagt to Rubens.
Box 2, Folder 32
Gibson, Walter S.,
1994-1995
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Gibson writes about his essay on
Bruegel's
Triumph of Death. He also
comments on Linda Seidel's book on the
Arnolfini Wedding, and relates
details regarding a possible over-painting of the Christ figure in the painting
Road to Calvary at Princeton.
Box 2, Folder 33
Gilbert, Creighton,
1960-1982
Scope and Content Note
17 items (on 26 leaves): 8 letters to Held, 7 letters from
Held, and photocopies of artwork by Abraham Bosse and Bruegel. Both scholars
comment extensively on Madlyn Millner Kahr's and John F. Moffitt's
interpretation of Velázques's painting
Las Hilanderas [The
Spinners]
, and discuss the iconography of the fable of Arachne. Held
reviews David and Ellen Rosand's article on Bernardo Strozzi [in: the
Art Bulletin,
1981] and Cynthia Lawrence's article on Rembrandt's
Blinding of Samson [in:
Konsthistorisk
tidskrift
, 1985]. Several of Gilbert's letters are heavily annotated by
Held.
Box 2, Folder 34
Glück, Gustav,
1945-1951
Scope and Content Note
8 items (22 leaves): 6 letters to Held sent from Santa
Monica, California, 1 letter from Held, and an offprint of Glück's essay
"Mabuse and the development of the Flemish Renaissance". Scholarly
correspondence concerning Held's research on Rubens and Rembrandt.
Box 3
Amy Golahny - Michael Jaffé
Box 3, Folder 1
Golahny, Amy,
1980-1999
Scope and Content Note
ca. 55 items (on 117 leaves): 30 letters to Held and 13
letters from Held, 2 curriculum vitae of Golahny, offprints of her essays
"Rembrandt's Abduction of Proserpina" and "The Adulteress by Rembrandt and by
Eekhout: variations on an Italian Magdalene". The offprints are annotated by
Held. Also included is miscellaneous printed matter, color photographs of
Golahny's child and mother, and her wedding invitation engraved by Berta R.
Golahny. Extensive exchange concerning Golahny's various publications,
including her thesis. Extensively discussed are her essays on Rembrandt's
Abduction of Proserpina,
Rubens's
Hero and Leander, and Peter
Lastman. Also enclosed is a draft of her essay on Rembrandt's drawing of
The blind Belisarius receiving
alms
. Golahny seeks Held's opinion regarding her cataloging of artwork
at the Marquette University in Normal, Ill. Several of her letters are
extensively annotated by Held. [Color photographs are shelved in Box 159, F.
2.]
Box 3, Folder 2
Golffing, Francis,
1992-1994,
undated
Scope and Content Note
12 items (on 13 leaves): 11 letters to Held, and a photocopy
of a drawing by Horst Janssen [a copy after Bronzino]. Correspondence concerns
reproductions of Bronzino's drawing
Fortuna, Titian's painting
Venus of Urbino, and a painting
by Hans Baldung.
Box 3, Folder 3
Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans),
1950-1972,
undated
Scope and Content Note
27 letters: 23 letters to Held and 4 letters from Held.
Correspondence concerns Gombrich's teaching career and the editing process of
the forthcoming Festschrift for Hans Tietze. Both scholars comment on
contributions to the Festschrift by other scholars, including essays by Rudolf
Wittkower and Jan Bialostocki. Gombrich also writes about his teaching at
Cambridge University, MA. [See also Gombrich's letter to Erica Tietze-Conrat
filed in Box 5, F. 21.]
Box 3, Folder 4
Goris, Jan Albert,
1941-1969,
undated
Scope and Content Note
15 letters (on 16 leaves), including 3 letters from Held to
Goris, and 1 letter from Held to André Schiffrin at Pantheon Books in
New York, regarding the reissue of
Rubens in America [published by
Goris under the pseudonym Marnix Gijsen]. Goris reports on his visit to the
Hermitage in 1960, and mentions artwork by Rubens and van Dyck in a private
collection.
Box 3, Folder 5
Gregori, Mina,
1968-1989
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 3 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held. Held
writes about a Rubens exhibition held in various Italian cities in 1985.
Box 3, Folder 6
Grigaut, Paul L.,
1964-1966
Scope and Content Note
7 items: 5 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Also
included is Grigaut's text describing the paintings
Helene Fourment by Rubens and
Marchesa Caterina Durazzo-Adorno
by Anthony van Dyck, written for his catalog of European paintings at
the Virginia Museum, corrected by Held.
Box 3, Folder 7
Gudlaugsson, S. J. (Sturla J.),
1950-1968
Scope and Content Note
7 letters to Held. Gudlaugsson relates details concerning a
copy after a painting by [Gerard?] ter Borch in Los Angeles. He also mentions
Rembrandt's portrait of Saskia.
Box 3, Folder 8
Haeger, Barbara,
1989,
1996,
undated
Scope and Content Note
6 letters (7 leaves): 4 letters to Held, and an undated
draft of Held's letter concerning his essay on Rubens published by the Dutch
magazine
Simiolus. Haeger seeks Held's
opinion regarding her essay on Rubens's oil sketch of the
Adoration of the Magi in the
Wallace Collection. Also included is a thank-you letter from the president of
the Historians of Netherlandish Art, George Keyes to Christiane D. Andersson in
Williamstown, MA.
Box 3, Folder 9
Harris, Ann Sutherland,
1973-1998
Scope and Content Note
18 items (on 19 leaves): 7 letters to Held, 3 letters from
Held, 2 handwritten notes, printed and illustrated matter, including a 1976
poem "Ode to the retrenchment of art history at SUNYA". Scholarly
correspondence concerning Susan V. Saward's dissertation
Rubens' Medici
cycle
, Harris's essays on the Carracci family and Artemisia
Gentileschi, and a drawing attributed to Jacob Jordaens. Harris mentions a
"Samson" [painting?] at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Also included is her letter
to Anne-Marie Logan at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, concerning
Michael Jaffé's attribution of a drawing of Neptune to Rubens; and
Held's letters to Hunter College and CUNY regarding Harris's appointment to
professor at Hunter College.
Box 3, Folder 10
Hartford, Huntington,
1962-1963
Scope and Content Note
2 letters: 1 letter from Held, and a thank-you letter to
Held from Hartford's secretary Margaret Potter at the Gallery of Modern Art (2
Columbus Circle) in New York. Held expresses his opinion of Hartford's plan to
establish an art museum in New York, and presents his view on how to
successfully maintain a museum.
Box 3, Folder 11
Hartt, Frederick,
1952-1985
Scope and Content Note
5 letters (on 6 leaves): 4 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Hartt writes about drawings at the Louvre that are attributed to Giulio
[Romano?], and comments on a lecture given by Held in 1985. Held declines
Hartt's invitation to give a lecture at the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville.
Box 3, Folder 12
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert,
1953-1989
Scope and Content Note
22 letters (on 25 leaves): 18 letters to Held, and 4 letters
from Held. Haverkamp-Begemann relates details regarding several artworks,
including an
Entombment drawing at Boymans
Museum in Rotterdam, the painting
Fall the damned at Alte
Pinakothek in Munich, and drawings from the "Egmont Albums". Held comments on
the recent Rembrandt research by Alpers, Schwarz, Sumowski, and others.
Box 3, Folder 13
Heckscher, William S. (William Sebastian),
1951-1988
Scope and Content Note
26 letters to Held (on 28 leaves). Heckscher comments on
research and publications by other art historians, and relates details
concerning his teaching at the Kunsthistorisch Instituut der Rijksuniverstet te
Utrecht and at Princeton University.
Box 3, Folder 14
Held, Jutta,
1968-1977
Scope and Content Note
8 items: 6 letters from Jutta Held to Julius Held, 1 letter
from Julius Held, and Jutta Held's curriculum vitae. Correspondence regarding
Jutta Held's visit in New York. In her letters from Osnabrück, Jutta Held
writes about politics and teaching of art history in Germany, and mentions art
historians who have been forbidden to practice, among them Richard Hiepe. Her
letter concerns Julius Held's permission to cite his opinion in a forthcoming
issue of
Kritische
Berichte
. She also mentions the artist Klaus Staeck.
Box 3, Folder 15
Hibbard, Howard,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Hibbard relates details concerning the
relationship between Oskar Hagen and Wolfgang Stechow, and Stechow's
professional career.
Box 3, Folder 16
Hofmann, Werner,
1954,
1988
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Hofmann mentions several of his essays
and research projects.
Box 3, Folder 17
Hollander, Anne,
1975-1990
Scope and Content Note
8 letters (on 12 leaves): 5 letters to Held, and 3 letters
from Held. Held reviews Hollander's essays "Fashion in nudity" and "When fat
was in fashion". He also writes about Hollander's book
Moving pictures
and David Freedberg's
Power of images.
Box 3, Folder 18
Hubala, Erich,
1990-1992
Scope and Content Note
3 letters (on 6 leaves): 2 letters to Held, and 1 letter
from Held. Scholarly correspondence concerning artwork by Rubens, and the
methodology of Rubens research. [See also correspondence with Elizabeth
McGrath, Box 5, F. 3.]
Box 3, Folder 19
Huemer, Frances,
1984-1998,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 items: 16 mostly undated letters from Huemer to Held,
6 letters from Held to Huemer, 1 letter to Huemer from Martin Kemp at the
University of Oxford, England, and letters from Held to Barbara Haeger at the
Ohio State University and to Eugene Victor Thaw in Santa Fe, NM. Also present
are a draft of Huemer's essay on Philip Rubens annotated by Held, a research
proposal, Huemer's curriculum vitae, and 3 offprints, including her "Rubens e
il primo decennio" [introd. only]. Scholarly correspondence in which Huemer
relates details concerning her various writing projects and scholarly career.
Box 3, Folder 20
Hugelshofer, Walter,
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Hugelshofer describes drawings in his
collection that are attributed to Rubens, and a landscape watercolor by Rubens
in the Sammlung Robert von Hirsch. [See also item filed in Box 62, F. 22.]
Box 3, Folder 21
Hulst, Roger Adolf d',
1956-1959
Scope and Content Note
5 letters, including 1 from Held. D'Hulst writes about his
career and scholarly publications, including his book on drawings by Jacob
Jordaens. He also comments on Held's book on drawings by Rubens, and mentions
Ludwig Burchard's forthcoming publication on the same subject.
Box 3, Folder 22
Jaeger, Wolfgang,
1977-1997
Scope and Content Note
32 items (53 leaves), including ca. 20 letters from Held to
Jaeger [carbon copies or photocopies] concerning Jaeger's research and
publications. Held reviews extensively Jaeger's books
Die Illustrationen von
Peter Paul Rubens zum Lehrbuch der Optik des Franciscus Aguilonius,
1613
and
Die Heilung des Blinden
in der Kunst
, and discusses details of Jaeger's translation of
Rembrandt and the Book
of Tobit
. Held also comments on Jaeger's commemorative address for Kurt
Huber [member of the Weisse Rose circle]; and writes about his own
investigation of the persecution of Jews in Mosbach during the Nazi regime.
Also included is Jaeger's correspondence with Charles Parkhurst at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington DC. and with Rudolf Sigmund in Mosbach, 2 letters
to Held from Mosbach residents signing "Rösle + Trudel", correspondence
with Hildegard Jaeger, and obituaries for Jaeger, including a typescript by
Friedrich Vogel.
Box 3, Folder 23
Jaffé, David,
1994-1996,
undated
Scope and Content Note
15 items: 10 letters from Jaffé to Held, 4 letters
from Held, and Jaffé's essay on Peter Lastman for the Seymour Slive
Festschrift. Jaffé relates details concerning the
The Earl and Countess of Arundel,
Renaissance collectors
exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Held
reviews the exhibition's catalog and Jaffé's essay on Lastman. Also
discussed is a Hendrik van der Borcht painting in Held's private collection.
Included is Held's letter to J. Paul Getty, dated Dec. 27, 1972, annotated by
Held. [See also correspondence with J. Paul Getty filed in Box 2, F. 30.]
Box 3, Folder 24-26
Jaffé, Michael,
1952-1986,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Ca. 136 items (on ca. 180 leaves): 120 letters, and 16 items
of printed matter: 2 book reviews, 1 offprint, Jaffé's texts about a set
of tapestries depicting Virtues, Held's review of Jaffé's book, and
paper clippings. Extensive scholarly correspondence concerning both scholars'
research and publications. Also included is Held's correspondence with Denys
Sutton at the magazine
Apollo and with
Oswald Hickson, Collier & Co. in London concerning a book review by Held
and a libel action case. Also included is related correspondence with Held's
wife; Mrs. Jaffé; Julian Agnew at Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd in London;
Colin Anson at David Carritt Limited in London; Richard F. Brown at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art; Guy Delmarcel at Musées royaux et
d'histoire in Brussels; Giorgio Fubini; Mr. Hay; Mr. [Heinz?] Kisters;
Frederick Mont Inc. in New York; Clyde Newhouse at the Newhouse Galleries in
New York; the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla.; E. V.
Thaw & Co. Inc. in New York; and the Italian President's Office. Also
included is a letter from Frederick [?] to Pierangelo Botinelli in Switzerland.
Box 4
Horst Woldemar Janson - Annalise Mayer
Box 4, Folder 1
Janson, H. W. (Horst Woldemar),
1937-1982
Scope and Content Note
14 letters (on 17 leaves), and a note: 7 letters to Held,
including 1 from Janson's wife Dora Jane, 1 letter from Held, and several
letters to Held from Harry N. Abrams in New York. Correspondence regarding
Held's publications at Abrams, mainly the book
17th and 18th century
art, baroque painting, sculpture, architecture
by Held and Donald
Posner.
Box 4, Folder 2
Jantzen, Hans,
1925-1933
Scope and Content Note
5 letters to Held. Also included is a typescript of Held's
letter to Jantzen from April 24, 1933; original not present. Jantzen writes
extensively about Held's dissertation.
Box 4, Folder 3
Kahr, Madlyn Millner,
1966-1991
Scope and Content Note
53 letters (on 69 leaves): 38 letters to Held and 7 letters
from Held, and Kahr's correspondence with Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, van de
Waal, and the magazine
Our Holland.
Also included are a letter from Held to Richard Cocke regarding Kahr's
interpretation of Titian's paintings depicting scenes from the Old Testament,
and copy of Kahr's letter to Creighton Gilbert at the Cornell University,
annotated by Held. Scholarly correspondence, rich in detail concerning Kahr's
research and publications and Held's research of Rubens and Rembrandt. Held
reviews several of Kahr's articles and books, including her study on Erica
Tietze-Conrat. Also discussed is John F. Moffitt's review of Kahr's book on
Velázquez.
Box 4, Folder 4
Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta,
1975-1983,
undated
Scope and Content Note
6 letters (on 9 leaves): 3 letters to Held and 3 letters
from Held. Scholarly correspondence concerning both scholars' research of
European drawings. Kaufmann reviews Held's 1979 article "Rubens and Aguilonius:
new points of contact", and the 1982 catalog of an exhibition of drawings [
Flemish and German
paintings of the 17th century
].
Box 4, Folder 5
Keck, Caroline K. (Caroline Kohn),
1966-1981
Scope and Content Note
8 items: 5 letters to Held; text of Keck's proposal of a
program in art conservation, annotated by Held; and Held's letter to the
director of the Cooperation Graduate Program, Louis C. Jones regarding the
proposal.
Box 4, Folder 6
Klemm, Christian,
1896-1990
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter from Held and 1 letter to Held from Klemm
at Kunsthaus Zürich concerning an oil sketch attributed to van Dyck. With
a mention of Clovis Whitfield. [See also correspondence with Whitfield in Box
19, F. 24.]
Box 4, Folder 7
Kristeller, Paul Oskar,
1936-1998
Scope and Content Note
37 items (on 68 leaves): 25 letters to Held, 8 letters from
Held, and Held's letter to Elisabeth Feist Hirsch in which he recollects time
spent together with Kristeller in Heidelberg before the war. Also included are
a poem by Kristeller, his curriculum vitae, bibliography of Kristeller's
writings from 1929 to 1997 (27 p.), and Held's appraisal of art objects owned
by Edith and Paul Oskar Kristeller. A scholarly exchange concerning both
scholars' research, publications, and scholarly career. Chiefly discussed are
issues related to Kristeller's research of Marsilio Ficino and Bartolomeo
Facio. Kristeller relates details regarding letters by Rubens reposited in
European archives. One of his letters letter contains editing corrections for
an introduction to a book about Carolus Scribanius.
Box 4, Folder 8
Kultermann, Udo,
1966-1984
Scope and Content Note
10 items: 3 letters to Held, a questionnaire, and 2 letters
from Held. Correspondence concerning an article by Kultermann, and the English
translation of his book
Kleine Geschichte der
Kunsttheorie
. Included is an announcement of Kultermann's book
Die Architektur im 20.
Jahrhundert
. Also present are 2 letters to Kultermann from Erwin
Panofsky who writes about Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, and Johannes
Wilde.
Box 4, Folder 9
Kuznetsov, IU (IUrii),
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
7 letters: 3 letters to Held and 3 letters from Held, and a
letter to Held from the Kindler Verlag in Zurich. Correspondence regarding
Held's visit to the Hermitage, and the exchange of photographs and
publications. Kuznetsov mentions a drawing at the Hermitage attributed by Kurt
Bauch to Rembrandt.
Box 4, Folder 10
Lavin, Irving,
1983-1993
Scope and Content Note
5 letters: 4 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding the 1983 CAA conference in Philadelphia. Held's letter
is typed on verso of a draft for one his publications and includes extensive
annotations concerning a Rubens sketch at the Hermitage.
Box 4, Folder 11
Levine, David,
1988
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held, and
illustrated matter. Scholarly correspondence, concerning a drawing by Pieter
van Laer [Bamboccio]. Levine strongly criticizes Svetlana Alpers's book on
Rembrandt, and mentions his review of Gary Schwartz's
Rembrandt.
Box 4, Folder 12
Lieberman, Ralph,
1995
Scope and Content Note
6 items: 2 letters to Held and 5 leaves of Lieberman's draft
for his essay on art history and photography ["Thoughts of an art
historian/photographer on the relationship of his two disciplines"], annotated
by Held. Also included are two e-mails: from Richard Murray and from Gerdien
Wuestman, both concerning Rembrandt, and a note by Held.
Box 4, Folder 13
Liedtke, Walter A.,
1979-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 44 items (on 62 leaves): 26 letters to Held, many with
Held's annotations, 12 letters from Held; and illustrated and printed matter,
including Liedtke's essays "Puerto Rico, Museo de arte de Ponce" and "Letter
from Berlin, Rembrandt at the Altes Museum". Correspondence regarding Held's
expert opinion of art work attributed to Rubens, Rembrandt, and Dürer, as
well as his reviews of several of Liedtke's scholarly essays, mainly texts for
the catalog of Flemish paintings at Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Liedtke
describes a publishing project on Flemish painting for the publishing house
Mercatorfonds in Brussels. Also present is Liedtke's letter to Malcolm
Delacorte in Cornwall, NY concerning the attribution of a painting to Floris
van Schooten; and to Louis A. Ferré in San Juan, Puerto Rico regarding a
painting by Jacob Jordaens. Liedtke relates details regarding acquisitions of
artwork at Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Both scholars frequently mention
Michael Jaffé.
Box 4, Folder 14
Lipchitz, Jacques,
1957
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Lipchitz postpones Held's
visit to his studio, due to preparations for upcoming exhibitions.
Box 4, Folder 15
Logan, Anne-Marie S.,
1976-1998,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 items (on ca. 90 leaves): 44 letters and 2 postcards
to Held, 13 letters from Held, and printed matter, including 2 lists of
drawings for an exhibition held in October 1993 at the Wellesley College [
Flemish drawings in the
age of Rubens
]. Scholarly discussions concerning the attribution of
various drawings and paintings to Rubens, van Dyck, Johannes Boekhorst, and
Gerard Seghers. Extensively discussed is Michael Jaffé's controversial
attribution of Cardiff cartoons to Rubens. Logan's letters are rich in detail
concerning her lecturing and other scholarly activities, including her
consulting job at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1983. Frequently mentioned is the
festschrift for Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann [
Essays in northern
European art
]. Also included are several honorariums for Held for his
reviews published in
Master drawings.
Box 4, Folder 16
Lowenthal, Anne W.,
1971-1998
Scope and Content Note
ca. 90 items (ca. 100 leaves): 63 letters to Held and 24
letters from Held concerning mainly the re-editing of Held's essays for a
publication by Princeton University Press [
Rubens and his
circle
, 1982]. The letters are also rich in detail related to
Lowenthal's research of Rubens, Joachim Wtewael, and other artists, her
teaching career, and professional involvement with CAA and Historians of
Netherlandish Art. Lowenthal mentions films by Laurie Anderson. Included is
Held's letter to Prof. Couvreur in Antwerp, Belgium concerning publication
rights for a reprint, and to Tony Hiss in New York concerning Held's portrait
drawing of Hiss's father. Also included is correspondence with the Princeton
University Press, a photograph of a drawing by Nicolas Poussin at the Detroit
Institute of Arts, a family photo of Lowenthal, and a slide.
Box 4, Folder 17
Lugt, Frits,
1942-1999
Scope and Content Note
ca. 45 items (ca. 60 leaves): Held's correspondence with
Lugt from 1942 to 1964, Lugt's assistant van den Meulen, and Barnard College.
Lugt's letters are rich in detail concerning various auction sales, including
sales of drawings by Rubens. Lugt also writes about the transcription of an
Italian manuscript by Joris Hoefnagel. Also present is Held's correspondence
with Carlos van Hasselt and Mária van Berge-Gerbaud at the Fondation
Custodia in Paris ,dating from 1972 to 1999, concerning Held's editorial
corrections for the catalog
Flemish drawings of the
seventeenth century from the collection of Frits Lugt
, and Held's
review of Karel Boon's
The Netherlandish and
German drawings of the XVth and XVIth centuries of the Frits Lugt
collection
. Other items are: a thank-you note from Lugt, 2 photographs
of Hoefnagel's manuscript and its partial transcript by Held, and 2 offprints.
All except one of Lugt's letters are photocopies.
Box 4, Folder 18
Marsh, Reginald,
1951
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held to John
Hay. Marsh informs Held about a drawing of Saint Gregory Nazianzenus by Rubens,
owned by Clarence Hay in New York, not listed in Held's
Rubens in
America
. The drawing previously belonged to Sir Thomas Lawrence. Held
writes extensively about the drawing.
Box 4, Folder 19
Martin, John Rupert,
1954-1994
Scope and Content Note
17 items: 12 letters and a postcard to Held and 4 letters
from Held. Correspondence concerning Martin's scholarly research, mainly his
work on a drawing of Saint Gregory Nazianzenus by Rubens, a Rubens attributed
portrait painting at New York University, and a painting attributed to van
Dyck. Frequently addressed is Held's review of Martin's book
The ceiling paintings
for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp
. [Also see Held's correspondence with
Princeton University Press filed in Box 12, F. 7.] Held writes about a drawing
of Neptune. Martin's letters are annotated by Held.
Box 4, Folder 20
Martin, Gregory,
1967-1983,
undated
Scope and Content Note
10 items (on 11 leaves): 8 letters to Held, including 1 by
Francis Russell at Christie's in London, and 2 letters from Held.
Correspondence concerning various artwork, including the painting
Judgement of Paris and the oil
sketch
Jacob and Esau by Rubens,
Titian's
La Schiavona, and a copy of
Correggio's
Zingarella. Held comments on
Wolfgang Adler's work on Rubens's landscapes [in:
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig
Burchard
]. [Held's correspondence with Martin is also filed in Series
I.F. Auction houses, Box 16, F. 1-19.]
Box 4, Folder 21
Mayer, Annalise,
1966-1983
Scope and Content Note
10 letters: 9 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding photographs of paintings in the collection of
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Also discussed is a painting by Rubens
called
Liebesgarten [
Garden of love]. Mayer mentions
a dissertation on Rubens's
Liebesgarten by Annegret
Süberkrüb.
Box 5
Millicent C. McIntosh - Erwin Panofsky
Box 5, Folder 1
McIntosh, Millicent C.,
1961
Scope and Content Note
3 items (on 7 leaves): 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence concerning the hanging of an artwork by Larry Rivers in
the art seminar room at Barnard College. Held also writes about the Spanish
artist Manuel Rivera, whose work was donated to Barnard.
Box 5, Folder 2
McCurry, H. O.,
1936-1937
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held regarding Held's lecturing activities in
Canada.
Box 5, Folder 3
McGrath, Elizabeth,
1979-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 80 items (ca. 100 leaves): ca. 36 letters to Held and 27
letters from Held, handwritten notes, 1 photograph, and printed matter.
Correspondence rich in detail concerning attribution and iconography of
numerous artworks by Rubens and other artists. Held advises McGrafth in her
research of the Aeneas theme in Rubens's work, her work on Otto van Veen's
Emblemata
Horatiana
, and her study of the iconography of "blacks in art". Her
letters are often substantially annotated by Held. Frequently discussed is
Michael Jaffé's controversial attribution of the Cardiff cartoons to
Rubens. McGrath also writes about her teaching at the Warburg Institute in
London. In one of her letters she relates details regarding the fate of several
art historians during the Holocaust. Also present is McGrath's letter to David
Brooke at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA concerning her lecture,
and a copy of Held's letter to Erich Hubala in Munich regarding the Aeneas
theme by Rubens. [See also correspondence with Hubala in Box 3, F. 19.]
Box 5, Folder 4
Meiss, Millard,
1959-1974
Scope and Content Note
10 letters to Held (on 11 leaves), including 1 from Erwin
Panofsky who thanks Held for his contribution to the Panofsky-Festschrift.
Meiss comments on several of Held's lectures and publications.
Box 5, Folder 5
Mellinkoff, Ruth,
1982-1987
Scope and Content Note
ca. 16 items: 7 letters to Held, 4 letters from Held, 4
offprints of Mellinkoff's essays from
Anglo-Saxon
England
and the
Journal of Jewish
art
, and Walter S. Gibson's review of her book
Outcasts.
Scholarly correspondence concerning the allegorical figure representing the
Synagogue in art. Held writes extensively about a panel painting of Synagoga
and Ecclesia in his collection, and comments on Mellinkoff's interpretation of
the biblical Cain in writings by Hermann Hesse.
Box 5, Folder 6
Meulen, Marjon van den,
1982-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 22 items: 14 letters to Held and 5 letters from Held;
and printed matter, including Ingo Herklotz's review of van den Meulen's book
Rubens copies after the
Antique
. Correspondence concerning both scholars's research for the
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig
Burchard
. Several of van den Meulen's letters are annotated by Held.
Box 5, Folder 7
Mielke, Hans,
1978-1994,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 items (on 36 leaves): 18 letters to Held, including
from Mielke's wife Ursula and son Hans, 8 letters from Held, and photocopies of
photographs of the reading room at the Kunstkammer in Berlin. The letters
provide insight into the friendship and scholarly relationship between Mielke
and Held. Mielke relates details concerning his research of drawings by Pieter
Bruegel. Held comments on Mielke's book on Albrecht Dürer. Mielke writes
extensively about the neo-nazis and hatred of foreigners in Germany after
reunification. Held relates details concerning the fate of his fellow art
history students in Berlin before the war.
Box 5, Folder 8
Millar, Oliver, Sir,
1959-1981
Scope and Content Note
ca. 10 items (14 leaves): 6 letters to Held and 1 letter
from Held, and printed matter annotated by Held. Correspondence regarding the
attribution to Rubens, iconography and provenance of a painting of Pythagoras
in the collection of the Buckingham Palace Also present is Held's letter to the
editor of the
Times Literary Supplement in London, Arthur
Crook concerning Millar's review of his
Rubens, selected
drawings
, and Crook's response letter.
Box 5, Folder 9
Mongan, Agnes,
1955-1957
Scope and Content Note
8 items (11 leaves): 5 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held,
and a list of drawings and oil sketches by Rubens for an exhibition held Jan-
Apr 1956 at the Fogg Art Museum and the Pierpont Morgan Library. Correspondence
concerning Held's advisory role in the process of selecting drawings for the
exhibition.
Box 5, Folder 10
Hofstede, Cornelius Müller,
1930,
1967
Scope and Content Note
5 letters to Held, including 1 dated 1930 in which Hofstede
congratulates Held on his doctoral degree and comments extensively on Held's
dissertation. The letters from 1967 regard Hofstede's interest in Adam
Elsheimer.
Box 5, Folder 11
Müller Hofstede, Justus,
1964-1986,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 22 items (on 29 leaves): 11 letters to Held and 7
letters from Held, notes and printed matter. Correspondence rich in detail
concerning both scholars' research on Rubens, their conflicting opinions about
certain artworks, and a controversy caused by Held's essay on an oil sketch.
Also present is a letter to Held from Kurt Meissner in Zurich regarding an oil
sketch by Anthony van Dyck.
Box 5, Folder 12
Muller, Jeffrey,
1977-1983
Scope and Content Note
7 items (on 11 leaves): 5 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held, and typescript notes. Muller writes extensively about his dissertation on
Rubens's collecting activities.
Box 5, Folder 13
Nordenfalk, Carl Adam Johan,
1975
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, including 1 from Held regarding a poem by Jacob
Cats and the theme of the love-sick woman in painting. Nordenfalk mentions a
lost painting by Jan van Eyck, and a kunstkamer painting by Willem van Haecht.
Box 5, Folder 14
Norris, Christopher,
1979-1981?
Scope and Content Note
5 letters (on 6 leaves), including 1 from Held. Norris's
letters are undated. An exchange of opinions regarding artworks by Rubens and
Anthony van Dyck. Held comments on Michael Jaffé's attribution of the
Cardiff cartoons to Rubens.
Box 5, Folder 15
Noske, Frits,
1990-1993
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 items (ca. 100 leaves): ca. 30 letters and 4
postcards to Held, also from Noske's wife, 20 letters from Held (mostly
photocopies), notes, press clippings, and printed matter, including Noske's
vita and a bibliography of his publications. Correspondence concerning Held's
research on a portrait painting of Constantin Huygens, which he attributes to
Jacob van Campen. Noske writes about the musical aspects in Dutch poetry and
painting, mainly the concepts of harmony and concord in Constantijn Huygens's
poems, and various other topics related to his research in musicology. He
reviews extensively the draft of Held's essay "Constantijn Huygens and Susanna
van Baerle", and comments on Held's research on Rembrandt. Several letters
concern Anthony van Dyck's painting
Rinaldo and
Armida
, including a letter to Held from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Frequently discussed are essays and scholarly opinions of other scholars,
mainly Gary Schwartz.
Box 5, Folder 16
Novak, Barbara,
1969-1984
Scope and Content Note
8 items (9 leaves): 3 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held,
and 2 financial documents related to the shipment of an oil painting to Brian
O'Doherty at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York.
Box 5, Folder 17
Oberhuber, Konrad,
1965-1985
Scope and Content Note
10 items (13 leaves): 7 letters to Held, 1 photograph, and
printed matter. Oberhuber thanks Held for his gift to the Albertina, and
mentions artwork by Jacob Jordaens and Anthony van Dyck at the Fogg Art Museum.
Also regarding attribution of a drawing to Rubens. Included is a photocopy of
Oberhuber's letter to Henry S. Francis at the Cleveland Museum of Art
(photocopy) concerning Rubens's painting of St. Catherine in Toledo, Ohio.
Box 5, Folder 18
Osten, Gert von der,
1965,
1976,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters to Held, and an undated list of missing
paintings by Hans Baldung. Von der Osten responds to Held's request for
photographs of a sculpture in the collection of the Schnütgenmuseum in
Cologne. He also mentions his current research project, the catalogue
raisonné of paintings by Hans Baldung, and lists museums and private
collections in the United States and Canada that include Baldung's artwork.
Box 5, Folder 19
Panofsky, Erwin,
1935-1990,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 items (ca. 90 leaves): 49 letters to Held and 4
letters from Held. Panofsky writes extensively about attribution, iconography
and the symbolic meaning of paintings by Roger van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck,
and Simon Marmion. He also relates details concerning his research on the
iconography of Pandora and Creusa for a new edition of
Pandora's box.
Several letters concern Panofsky's essay on Jan van Eyck, his interpretaion of
Vasari's
Libro and Poussin's
Et in Arcadia Ego. Panofsky
mentions Erica Tietze's interest in the theme of suicide in art. A note by Held
concerns a manuscript by Erica Tietze in the collection of the Bibliothek
Warburg. Also included are: Panofsky's correspondence with Adriaen J. Barnouw
concerning Barnouw's essay on Jan van Eyck's
Arnolfini Wedding, with an
offprint of Barnouw's essay; Held's letter to Thomas C. Howe at the California
Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco regarding the art historian Paul
Coremans; Gerda Soergel's letter to Held written after Panofsky's death; and
Held's correspondence with Dieter Wuttke concerning the forthcoming publication
of Panofsky's correspondence.
Box 5, Folder 20
Panofsky, Erwin, Ernst Gombrich, and Otto Kurz to
Erica Tietze-Conrat,
1951-1958
Scope and Content Note
49 items (on 57 leaves). Letters to Held: 34 letters from
Panofsky, 1 letter from Gombrich, and 7 letters from Kurz. Also present is a
letter from Erica Tietze to Panofsky, typescript citations from reviews by Hans
Tietze, and a note by Held. Gombrich writes about the symbolic meaning of
donkeys in art. [See also correspondence between Held and Gombrich filed in Box
3, F.3.] Kurz and Panofsky relate details concerning Erica Tietze's work on the
theme of suicide in art, as well as their own scholarly work. [See also Held's
note filed in Box 5, F.20.]
Box 6
François-Georges Pariset - Wolfgang Stechow
Box 6, Folder 1
Pariset, François-Georges,
1934-1985
Scope and Content Note
ca. 63 items: ca. 50 letters to Held, including a postcard
from 1934, 3 letters from Held (copies), 2 offprints and other printed matter,
a 1948 photograph of Pariset [with daughter Françoise?], a letter from
Françoise to Held, a wedding announcement and an obituary. Pariset's
letters are rich in detail related to his teaching at the Institut d'histoire
de l'art moderne in Bordeaux and at the university of Hamburg, travel and
personal life.
Box 6, Folder 2
Parkhurst, Chuck,
1981-1983
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, including 1 from Held.
Box 6, Folder 3
Porter, Katherine Anne,
1963,
1980,
1993-1999
Scope and Content Note
ca. 40 items: 3 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held (all
photocopies), and press clippings. Correspondence concerning Held's
proofreading of Porter's
Ship of fools.
In one of her letters Porter makes incisive comments regarding her novel. Also
included is a letter from Bernard Malamud to Held declining the permission to
publish Porter's letters; and Held's correspondence with Ruth Moore Alvarez,
curator of literary manuscripts at the University of Maryland Library regarding
his gift to the university. With a photocopy of the appraisal of Porter's
letters. [Two press clippings are filed in Box 145*, F.
1.]
Box 6, Folder 4
Posner, Donald,
1972,
1986
Scope and Content Note
3 items (5 leaves, including photocopies): 2 letters to Held
and 1 letter from Held. Posner complains about printing errors in the first
edition of his and Held's book
17th and 18th century
art
. Held considers a reissue of the book in 1986.
Box 6, Folder 5
Renger, Konrad,
1979-1997
Scope and Content Note
9 items: 8 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Held
inquires about a portrait of the Archduke Maximilian of Austria by Rubens.
Renger mentions an
Entombment
sketch by Anthony van Dyck. [See also correspondence with Renger filed in Box
13, F. 17.]
Box 6, Folder 6
Ring, Grete,
1933-1952
Scope and Content Note
8 items (10 leaves): 6 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held,
a handwritten note by Held. Ring's letters relate details regarding art sales
and exhibitions at the firm Paul Cassirer in Amsterdam, and later in London,
and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner in Berlin, including the sale of the collection
of Édouard Warneck. In her letter from 1939, Oct. 16th she relates
information about the fate of Max J. Friedländer, her father Walter
Feilchenfeldt, [Günther?] Lütjens, and Jakob Rosenberg. [See also
correspondence with Kenneth Garlick filed in Box 2, F.26.]
Box 6, Folder 7
Roethlisberger, Marcel,
1959-1998
Scope and Content Note
23 items (26 leaves): 15 letters to Held, 3 letters from
Held, and a photocopy of a painting by Rubens. Correspondence concerning
Roethlisberger's professional career, including related letters to Held from
the Bollington Foundation and the Dickson Art Center, and Roethlisberger's
research proposals for a catalogue raisonné of paintings by Claude
Lorrain. Several letters regard the art collection at Ponce Art Museum in
Puerto Rico. Included is an unsigned letter [by Held?] to Don Luis [Ponce Art
Museum] regarding El Greco's painting
St. Francis and Brother Leo meditating
on death
from the collection of Derek Johns in London. Also included is
Held's letter to Father Donald F. Rowe at the Loyola University in Chicago
concerning Rowe's proposal to publish a catalog of artwork held in Jesuit
institutions. [See also item filed in Box 63, F. 10.]
Box 6, Folder 8
Rosand, David,
1972-1998
Scope and Content Note
34 items (ca. 60 leaves): 17 letters to Held and 10 letters
from Held. Correspondence rich in detail regarding Rosand's research on Titian,
Rembrandt and Rubens, and Held's work on
Rubens and his
circle
. Rosand mentions Erica Tietze-Conrat's unpublished essay
"Patterns of suicide in literature and art". He also relates details concerning
his teaching and lecturing activities, and the academic events taking place at
Columbia University in New York. Held writes about his relationship to Rudolf
Wittkower. Also present is Rosand's letter (copy) to the New York Review of
Books concerning Hans Ernst Gombrich's review of David Freedberg's
Power of images;
an outline of Rosand's book on drawing, an offprint of his essay
Titian 500, and
press clippings. [Two press clippings filed in Box 145*, F.
2.]
Box 6, Folder 9
Rose, Patricia,
1970-1991,
undated
Scope and Content Note
14 items (17 leaves): 11 letters to Held, 1 letter from
Held, and a list of lectures presented in 1991 at the Art History Graduate
Student Symposium held at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Correspondence concerning Rose's progress researching her dissertation on Wolf
Huber.
Box 6, Folder 10
Rosenberg, Jakob,
1965
Scope and Content Note
7 items (9 leaves): 4 letters to Held and 3 letters from
Held. Discussed is Michael Jaffé's controversial attribution of a
drawing and an oil-sketch to Rubens. Rosenberg writes about Rembrandt and
Held's book
Rembrandt and the Book
of Tobit
.
Box 6, Folder 11
Rosenberg, Pierre,
1963-1996
Scope and Content Note
24 items (25 leaves): 18 letters to Held and 5 letters from
Held. Correspondence concerning Rosenberg's research for a book on Laurent de
La Hyre and the catalogue raisonné of drawings by Antoine Watteau.
Several letters concern Held's essay on Max Friedländer. Frequently
mentioned are various drawings in Held's private collection. Also included are
photocopies of Nathan Chaikin's letter to Held concerning a drawing by Antoine
Watteau, and of Jacques Mathey's letter to Chaikin in which Mathey mentions a
drawing after Michelangelo. Many of Rosenberg's letters are annotated by Held.
Box 6, Folder 12
Sandy, Stephen,
1988,
1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items (10 leaves): a postcard and two letters to Held, and
photocopies of drawings of various mazes. Sandy writes about a poem he wrote
for a "silly sonnet contest". He also describes his impressions of Held's book
The Holocaust, from a
distance
; and mentions Ulrich Pinder's
Speculum
Passionis
.
Box 6, Folder 13
Sauerländer, Willibald,
1970-1981
Scope and Content Note
18 items (20 leaves): 12 letters to Held, 6 letters from
Held, and a copy of a letter signed by Sauerländer and Erich
Steingräber to Dr. Briegel at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn.
Sauerländer invites Held to Munich to research Rubens's paintings in the
Alte Pinakothek.
Box 6, Folder 14
Schade, Werner,
1991-1994
Scope and Content Note
6 items: 4 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held, and a
color transparency of the portrait of Louis XIII King of France by Rubens.
Schade writes about paintings attributed to Rubens at the Norton Simon Museum
and in Dessau; and lists recent aquisitions of drawings for the Anhaltische
Gemäldegalerie in Dessau, including a drawing by Albrecht Dürer. Held
comments on the Dürer drawing. Schade's letter concerning the authenticity
of the Louis XIII portrait is annotated by Held. Schade also writes about
layoffs of art historians in the former East Germany after the German
reunification. [Color transparency is shelved in Box 159, F. 3.]
Box 6, Folder 15
Schama, Simon,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Schama mentions his manuscript on Dutch
culture, and a project on xenophobia in early modern Europe.
Box 6, Folder 16
Schapiro, Meyer,
1936-1996
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 items: 22 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held,
including a letter of condolence on Schapiro's death, printed matter, and press
clippings. Schapiro shares with Held his opinion on recent publications in art
history, including David Sutter's views on Caravaggio and Maurice Walter
Brockwell's interpretation of van Eyck's
Arnolfini Wedding as a
morganatic marriage. He writes extensively on Rembrandt's painting
Artistotle contemplating the bust of
Homer.
Schapiro also expresses his opinion about the private collection
of Dr. Cosla in New York, offered to the Museum of Tel-Aviv. Held comments on
Lotte Brand Philip's book on Jan van Eyck. [Six leaves of press clippings are
filed in Box 145*, F. 3.]
Box 6, Folder 17
Scheyer, Evelyn,
1936,
1986
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held (4 leaves) from the wife of the art
historian Ernst Scheyer. In her letter sent from Detroit, dated Oct. 22, 1936,
Scheyer mentions the art dealer Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner bringing artwork
from Europe, including Rubens's sketch
Abigail and David.
Box 6, Folder 18
Schilling, Edmund,
1950-1963,
undated
Scope and Content Note
10 items: 7 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held, and 2
handwritten notes. Correspondence concerning drawings by Rubens and a woodcut
by Christoffel Jegher, shown in 1950 at Wildenstein & Co. in London.
Schilling relates details concerning his research on the painter Jacob Ernst
Thoman von Hagelstein, and mentions his essay on a drawing by Lotto for the
forthcoming Festschrift for Hans Tietze.
Box 6, Folder 19
Schwartz, Gary,
1986-1997
Scope and Content Note
Ca. 75 items (ca. 100 leaves): 18 letters to Held and 14
letters from Held, printed and illustrated matter (ca. 27 items), including
several offprints, 5 press clippings, and 2 photographs: of the J. Paul Getty
Museum in Malibu and of Gary Schwartz and John Walsh with spouses in 1992.
Correspondence and papers related to Schwartz's research on Willem van Haecht's
kunstkamer paintings, Rubens and van Dyck, Rembrandt's
Polish rider, and Held's
discovery of Jacob van Campen's portrait of Constantin Huygens. Schwartz also
writes about Max J. Friedländer's photographic archive at the RKD
[Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie] in Hague, and comments on
Friedländer's attributions of paintings to Dieric Bouts. He also comments
on an undisclosed author's essay on Adriaen Isenbrant published in
Art Bulletin.
Included are letters from Held and Schwartz to John Walsh and a letter to Held
from Charles Scribner III concerning Schwartz's opinion of Held's
Rembrandt and the Book
of Tobit
. Several of Schwartz's letters are annotated by Held. [The
press clippings are filed in Box 145*, F. 4.]
Box 6, Folder 20
Schöne, Wolfgang,
1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held. Schöne
invites Held to participate in the 10th Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag in
Münster.
Box 6, Folder 21
Schulz, Juergen,
1986
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a letter to Held asking for a review of Schulz's
1967 unpublished lecture on Titian's ceiling in Brescia; and 2 leaves of Held's
handwritten notes concerning the lecture.
Box 6, Folder 22
Serkin, Rudolf,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter from Held to Serkin concerning the
Marlboro Music Festival, and Serkin's reply.
Box 6, Folder 23
Scribner, Charles,
1975-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 70 items (ca. 100 leaves): 44 letters to Held and 8
letters from Held, drafts for Scribner's books, notes, press clippings, an
offprint, and a color photograph of Scribner's sons. Correspondence rich in
detail related to Scribner's doctoral thesis on Rubens's tapestries, the book
Peter Paul
Rubens
, and his essay on Rubens and Veronese for the
Burlington Magazine. Scribner
relates details concerning the provenance of several of Rubens's artworks, the
Johnson collection in New York, and the collection of Count Andrassy in
Princeton. He also writes about the
Medici cycle, and comments on
Held's writings on Rubens. Scribner's letter to Gregory Martin at Christie's in
London relates details regarding his involvement in publishing Held's books.
Also included is Scribner's letter to Walter Persegati at the Vatican Museums
concerning photographs of paintings; and correspondence between Scribner and J.
David Farmer at the University Art Museum in Santa Barbara regarding Scribner's
lecturing activities and the forthcoming exhibition of Anthony van Dyck's
Iconographie. Included are
letters to Held from Elizabeth M. Riley at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Box 6, Folder 24
Skutsch, Otto,
1981
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. An
exchange of opinions concerning early Latin literary sources known to Rubens,
mainly a text by Aurelius Victor describing the appearance of Aeneas to
Ascanius. Held also comments of Michael Jaffé's controversial
attribution of the Cardiff cartoons to Rubens.
Box 6, Folder 25
Slive, Seymour,
1958-1995
Scope and Content Note
14 items (17 leaves): 11 letters to Held, 1 letter from
Held, a note by Held, and an offprint of Slive's essay on Jacob van Ruisdael.
Correspondence concerning mainly the interpretation and attribution of
paintings by Frans Hals and their relation to poems by Jacob Cats. Slive
comments on Held's interpretaton of the painting
Het Pelsken by Rubens, and on
Held's book
Rembrandt and the Book
of Tobit
. He also mentions self-portraits by Jan Gossaert.
Box 6, Folder 26
Sloane, Joseph C.,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
7 items: 6 letters to Held, and 1 letter from Held. Sloane
asks Held for his opinion regarding the Fielding Marshall collection of
paintings, offered to the Ackland Art Center in Chapel Hill.
Box 6, Folder 27
Sluijter, Eric Jan,
1988-1999
Scope and Content Note
ca. 35 items (ca. 60 leaves): ca. 14 letters to Held and 15
letters from Held, including 1 fax, 7 postcards to Held, and typescript of
Sluijter's essay on Jan van Goyen. Correspondence rich in detail related to
Sluijter's research on 17th century Dutch art. Extensiverly discussed are the
theme of the Five Senses by Hendrik Goltzius and the usage of ekphrasis by
Rembrandt. Both scholars exchange opinions concerning Gary Schwartz's
interpretation of Rembrandt's painting
Polish rider. Frequently
mentioned is the art historian Ilya Veldman. Several of Sluijter's letters are
in Dutch; some are annotated by Held.
Box 6, Folder 28
Smith, David R.,
1979-1995
Scope and Content Note
9 items: 5 letters to Held, 3 letters from Held, and a
letter to Smith from the editor of
The Art Bulletin, Kathleen Weil-Garris
concerning Smith's article on Rembrandt's painting
The Jewish bride. Correspondence
concerning mainly Smith's dissertation on the double and pair portrait in 17th
century Netherlands.
Box 6, Folder 29
Spear, Richard E.,
1977-1986
Scope and Content Note
7 items (8 leaves): 3 letters to Held, 3 letters from Held,
and a photograph of Domenichino's painting of St. John the Evangelist.
Correspondence regarding the restoration of Domenichino's painting. Held
comments extensively on William H. Halewood's essay on Rembrandt [
Six subjects of
reformation art, a preface to Rembrandt
].
Box 6, Folder 30
Stechow, Wolfgang,
1939,
1954-1972
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 items (24 leaves): 17 letters to Held, 4 letters from
Held, and an undated draft of a text about Stechow, annotated by Held.
Correspondence concerning artworks by Rubens and Jacob Jordaens, including
Jordaens' drawing
Betrothal of St. Catherine.
Included is a letter from the art dealer Mathias Komor in New York concerning
the sale of the drawing. Komor mentions the names Gimbel [Gimbel Brothers in
New York?], Kende [Kende Galleries in New York?], Calman in London [Crane
Kalman Gallery?], and Ludwig Burchard. Frequently mentioned are essays and
publications by other scholars. Held relates details concerning
The joys of
collecting
, a book about the art collection of J. Paul Getty. [The
undated draft is filed in Box 145*, F. 5.]
Box 7
Leo Steinberg - Karen Wilkin
Box 7, Folder 1
Steinberg, Leo,
1971-1992
Scope and Content Note
ca. 75 items (ca. 125 leaves): 34 letters and 7 postcards to
Held, 19 letters from Held, 3 letters to Held from Steinberg's wife Dorothy
Seiberling, printed matter and press clippings, Held's handwritten notes, and
the typescript of Steinberg's paper on Rubens read in 1990 at a symposium held
at the Columbia University. Extensive scholarly correspondence concerning both
scholars' research and publications, including detailed discussions of matters
of iconographic interpretation of artwork by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci,
Rubens, and Rembrandt. A major portion relates to Steinberg's research for his
book
The sexuality of Christ
in Renaissance art and in modern oblivion
. Steinberg also writes about
his interest in popular culture and lecturing activities, including the Lionel
Trilling Seminar. His letters are frequently annotated by Held. Included is a
draft of Steinberg's "Addendum" to Held's essay on Rubens's painting
The holy women at Christ's sepulchre
at the Norton Simon Museum, annotated by Held. Steinberg mentions
artwork purchased for his private collection. Also present is Held's
correspondence with Steinberg concerning the sale of Held's archive to the
Getty Research Institute. [The press clippings are filed in Box 145*, F. 6.]
Box 7, Folder 2
Sterling, Charles,
1976-1982
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held.
Correspondenece concerning both scholars' publications. Also discussed are
aspects of attribution, mainly of artwork by Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, and
an
Assumption of the Virgin
painting by Charles Mellin. [See also Sterling's letter to Vassar College filed
in Box 15, F. 14.]
Box 7, Folder 3
Stewart, J. Douglas,
1985-1998
Scope and Content Note
15 items (16 leaves): 7 letters to Held, 7 letters from
Held, and the photocopy of Stewart's review of David Freedberg's book
The life of Christ after
the passion
. Correspondence concerning Stewart's scholarly research of
Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, including a painting attributed to Rubens in
Arc-et-Senans [France], a self-portrait of Jan Lievens and Anthony van Dyck's
Iconography.
Stewart writes about a drawing attributed to Thomas Willeboirts-Bosschaert. He
also writes extensively on the significance of the Constantine theme for the
British king Charles I, mentions his book on Rubens and the Anglican church,
and
Britannia
Triumphans
. Stewart's letters are often annotated by Held. Held
comments on Stewart's reviews, and relates details regarding drawings from his
collection at the Clark Art Institute, the National Gallery in Washington, and
the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Box 7, Folder 4
Strauss, Walter L.,
1980-1985
Scope and Content Note
14 items (18 leaves): 4 letters to Held, 7 letters from
Held, printed and illustrated matter, and a letter dated 1962, November 25 from
Kenneth Buckingham to Lt. Emery regarding two paintings erroneously attributed
to Rubens. Correspondence regarding Strauss's editing of Werner Sumowski's work
on Dutch drawings [
Drawings of the
Rembrandt school
]. Present is a photocopy of Staruss's essay
"Rembrandt: the Brazen Serpent" (5 leaves), annotated by Held. Held's letters
are rich in detail regarding drawings by several Dutch artists. Also discussed
is the theme of blindness in Rembrandt's paintings. Held writes extensively
about his research for
Rembrandt and the Book
of Tobit
.
Box 7, Folder 5
Styhr, Jørgen,
1954
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Styhr mentions his research on Dutch
drawings.
Box 7, Folder 6
Sumowski, Werner,
1970-1996
Scope and Content Note
12 items: 7 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held, a letter
to Held from Millard Meiss at the Institute for Advance Study in Princeton,
illustrated matter and a list of captions of artworks by Rembrandt.
Correspondence related to Held's and Sumowski's research on Rembrandt. Sumowski
mentions the latest controversies in research on Rembrandt. Also discussed is
the attribution of a drawing to Rubens.
Box 7, Folder 7
Sutton, Peter C.,
1982-1993
Scope and Content Note
13 items (15 leaves): 5 letters to Held, 4 letters from
Held, illustrated matter, a handwritten note, and a photograph of a Crucifixion
painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sutton mentions a technical
examination of a Rubens sketch in the Johnson Collection, and his research of
Rubens's
Prometheus. Held comments
extensively on Gary Schwartz's book on Rembrandt, and expresses his opinion
regarding the attribution of the Crucifixion sketch in Philadelphia to Anthony
van Dyck.
Box 7, Folder 8
Tennenbaum, Silvia,
1980-1999
Scope and Content Note
11 items (16 leaves): 8 letters to Held, 2 letters from
Held, and a page (photocopy) from Alexander Dietz's
Stammbuch der
Frankfurter Juden
. Tennenbaum writes about her stay in Taos, New Mexico
in 1980 and her progress in writing the novel
Yesterday's
streets
. She also describes her impressions of her visit to Frankfurt,
Germany in 1996. She relates details concerning the history of the Jewish
community in Frankfurt and writes about the relationship of European Jews to
Germany after WWII. She mentions pre-war home movies made by the Lewents family
from Berlin. She also discusses with Held Victor Klemperer's book on National
Socialism
LTI [Lingua
Tertii Imperii]. Held comments on Tennenbaum's review of the English
translation of Klemperer's diaries, and mentions his speech about Mosbach.
Box 7, Folder 9
Tharp, Twyla,
1963-1986,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 12 items (19 leaves): 3 undated letters to Held, 2 notes
by Held from 1963 concerning Tharp as his student at Barnard, and several press
clippings dating from 1976 to 1986. Tharp relates details regarding her
husband's teaching at the Hunter College, her dancing career, and events in
personal life. [Four leaves of press clippings are filed in
Box 145*, F. 7.]
Box 7, Folder 10
Thaw, Eugene Victor,
1967-1998
Scope and Content Note
16 items: 9 letters to Held, 3 letters from Held, and a
photograph of a drawing from the collection of Mrs. Murray Danforth.
Correspondence concerning attribution of several artworks to Rubens. Thaw
writes on Michael Jaffé's work on Rubens's tapestries, specifically on
Jaffé's interpretation of an allegory of Virtues. Held expresses his
opinion about the art historian Bernard Berenson. Thaw's letters are annotated
by Held. Also included are copies of Held's letters from 1992 to Margarete
Kühn, curator at Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin and to the conservator
Phebe Dent Weil, concerning restoration of Andreas Schlüter's equestrian
statue of the Great Elector.
Box 7, Folder 11
Tietze, Hans, (also Erica and Andreas Tietze),
1944-1960,
undated
Scope and Content Note
43 items (51 leaves): letters to Held, including 22 from
Hans Tietze, 12 from Erica Tietze, and 3 from Andreas Tietze, Hans Tietze's
unpublished manuscript on art experts, and a note by Held. The letters provide
insight into Hans and Erica Tietze's scholarly activites, travel and their
personal relationship to Held and his wife. Frequently mentioned is Erica
Tietze's manuscript on suicide in art. Hans Tietze seeks Held's opinion
regarding artwork by Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Baldung, and writes about a
collection of European paintings and drawings in Notre Dame, Indiana. He
mentions the significance of Erica Tietze's research on Michelangelo's Medici
Chapel. Included is Held's correspondence from 1984 with Susanne Gerold in
Vienna concerning her interest in researching Hans Tietze's estate.
Box 7, Folder 12
Tietze, Hans (Festschrift),
1949-1952
Scope and Content Note
7 items: letters from Gustav Glück to Held and to Ernst
Gombrich, Held's letter to Glück, and letters to Held from Emil Kaufmann
and Carl Nordenfalk. Correspondence concerning the scholars' involvement with
the Hans Tietze Festschrtift. Also present is an extensively annotated letter
from Held to Otto Loewi concerning Loewi's essay for the Festschrift.
Box 7, Folder 13
Stighelen, Katlijne van der,
1992-1993
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 2 letters to Held and 3 letters from Held.
Correspondence rich in detail related to both scholars' research on Anthony van
Dyck and Cornelis de Vos. With several references to recent publications on
both artists.
Box 7, Folder 14
Varshavskaia, M. IA.,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Mariia Varshavskaia concerning
photographs of artwork by Johann Georg Platzer at the Hermitage. Varshavskaia
writes about her forthcoming catalog of Rubens, and questions the Rubens
attribution of a portrait painting [
Bildnis einer alten Dame].
Box 7, Folder 15
Veldman, Ilja M.,
1990-1993
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Held
comments on Veldman's essays on the iconographic and stylistic development in
Dutch art, mainly by Hendrik Goltzius, published in
Simiolus and
Netherlands
kunsthistorish Jaarboek
.
Box 7, Folder 16
Vergara, Lisa,
1979-1983,
undated
Scope and Content Note
13 items: 5 letters to Held, including 1 from Jan Kelch at
Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz Gemäldegalerie in Berlin
concerning Lisa Vergara's research of Rubens's landscape paintings, 3 letters
from Held, and notes by Held. Correspondence concerning Vergara's dissertation
and her research on Rubens and van Dyck.
Box 7, Folder 17
Veronee-Verhaegen, Nicole,
1949-1995
Scope and Content Note
13 items: 11 letters to Held, and Veronee-Verhaegen's note
regarding Archives de Furnes [Veurne]. Veronee-Verhaegen writes about her
professional and personal life. She also relates details concerning art
exhibitions in Europe and auction sales of paintings by Flemish artists.
Included is a photocopy of a 1956 letter from Edith Greindl to
Veronee-Verhaegen's father Etienne concerning the provenance of a painting
attributed to Jan Fyt and Paul de Vos.
Box 7, Folder 18
Vey, Horst,
1953-1996
Scope and Content Note
15 items (16 leaves): 9 letters and a postcard to Held, and
4 letters from Held. Vey writes about his various publishing activities and
Rubens' painting Wunderbarer Fischzug. Both scholars exchange their opinion
about Wolfgang Adler's work on landscape paintings by Rubens and Michael
Jaffé's attribution of Cardiff cartoons. Vey also writes about the
Rubens sketch
Negro heads [Four studies of a male
head]
at the J. Paul Getty Museum; and the drawings
St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy
and
Madonna and Child with Angels
[by van Dyck?]. Several letters concern the attribution of several drawings to
Jan Wildens.
Box 7, Folder 19
Vlieghe, Hans,
1971-1999
Scope and Content Note
17 items: 11 letters to Held, and 6 letters from Held.
Correspondence rich in detail regarding artwork by Flemish artists, including
Rubens, Gaspar de Crayer, Johannes Boekhorst, Jan van den Hoecke, Erasmus II
Quellinus, Artus Quellinus, Cornelis de Vos, and also 18th century Flemish
painting. Vlieghe mentions his work on Rubens's Saints for
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig
Burchard
, and comments on Michael Jaffé's attribution of Cardiff
cartoons to Rubens.
Box 7, Folder 20
Volk, Mary Crawford,
1979-1985,
undated
Scope and Content Note
7 letters (8 leaves) to Held. Volk seeks Held's opinion
about Rubens's relationship to Titian and the role of copies after Southern
Renaissance artists in Rubens's work. She also mentions her manuscript on the
collection of the Marquis of Leganes and her work on a drawing of Arundel at
the Gardner Museum.
Box 7, Folder 21
Voss, Hermann,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a poem entitled
Die Ballade von der
"Kunstchronik"
.
Box 7, Folder 22
Walsh, John,
1966-1999
Scope and Content Note
51 items (64 leaves): 28 letters to Held, 15 letters from
Held, notes, a typescript annotated by Held, press articles, a postcard with a
photograph by Alexander Vertikoff, and a color family photograph of John Walsh.
The letters are rich in scholarly information concerning artwork by Rubens and
other artists acquired by Walsh for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and for
the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu. They also provide insight into Held's
consulting activities for the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mentioned is Held's letter
from 1972 to J. Paul Getty regarding a painting by Allori; [see correspondence
with J. Paul Getty in Box 2, F. 30, and with David Jaffé in Box 3, F.
23]. Walsh writes about his visit to Holland in 1966, and presents to Held a
detailed outline for his dissertaion on Jan and Julius Porcellis. Both scholars
exchange their views on Michael Jaffé's disputed attributions of
drawings to Jacob Jordaens. Held comments on Gary Schwartz's criticism of
Rembrandt and the Book
of Tobit
. Held congratulates Walsh on the catalog of an exhibition
of Sheridan Lord. [Color photograph is shelved in Box 159, F. 4.]
Box 7, Folder 23
Warnke, Martin,
1977-1982,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Held
mentions controversies concerning Rubens among art historians in Germany, and
thanks Warnke for sending him his recent publications, including an exhibition
catalog of Carl Bantzer. Warnke mentions his review of Held's book on Rubens's
oil sketches for the
Kunstchronik.
Box 7, Folder 24
Weber, Gregor J. M.,
1987
Scope and Content Note
ca. 6 items (ca. 30 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter
from Held. Correspondence and printed matter concerning attribution and
provenance of several paintings by Rubens and van Dyck. Weber relates details
regarding Rubens's painting
Davids Kampf mit dem Bären.
Included are the 1878 auction sale catalog
Galerie du Vte du Bus de Gisignies by
Édouard Fétis, and the 1883 edition of the catalog of the
Suermondt-Museum in Aachen [fragments, photocopies]. [Also see item filed in
Box 80, F. 11.]
Box 7, Folder 25
Weinberg, H. Barbara (Helene Barbara),
1990-1994
Scope and Content Note
5 items (6 leaves): 3 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held,
and a press clipping [photocopy] from the
Chronicle of higher
education
. An exchange of opinions about recent trends in art
historical methodology. Held mentions Max Dvorák, Max J. Fiedländer
and Allan Wallach, and writes about his own methodological approach as an art
historian.
Box 7, Folder 26
Welu, James A.,
1984-1994
Scope and Content Note
8 items: 7 letters to Held and a photograph of a drawing
after Andrea del Sarto in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum. Welu
thanks Held for Swedish books donated to the Worcester Art Museum. He also
seeks Held's opinion concerning the attribution of artwork to Anthony van Dyck
and the workshop of Jan van Hemessen. He also mentions an oral history project
on Held at the Getty REsearch Institute. [See also correspondence with
Worcester Art Museum filed in Box 15, F. 19.]
Box 7, Folder 27
White, Christopher,
1955-1994,
undated
Scope and Content Note
14 items: 10 letters to Held, 4 letters from Held, and an
undated letter from Held to Paul Gottlieb at Harry N. Abrams Inc. concerning
his book
17th and 18th century
art
. Correspondence concerning artwork by Rubens and van Dyck, and the
attribution of Dutch and Flemish drawings in the collection of the British
Museum. Also discussed is the reissue of Held's book
17th and 18th century
art
.
Box 7, Folder 28
Wilkin, Karen,
1980-1998,
undated
Scope and Content Note
18 items (27 leaves): 14 letters to Held, 2 letters from
Held, and an offprint of Wilkin's essay on Rubens from
The New
Criterion
. Wilkin writes about her publications and research on
contemporary Canadian art, including the catalogue raisonné of work by
Jack Bush. She mentions her books on Stuart Davis, Cézanne and Giorgio
Morandi, her visits to art exhibitions, lecturing and workshop activities, and
travel. Held comments on Wilkin's book on Cezanne and her review of an
exhibition of Lovis Corith.
Box 8
Matthias Winner - Jürgen Zimmer
Box 8, Folder 1
Winner, Matthias,
1978,
1986
Scope and Content Note
3 items (5 leaves): 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence concerning drawings by Rubens. Held comments extensively
on Winner's and Mielke's catalog raisonné.
Box 8, Folder 2
Wittkower, Rudolf,
1965-1990
Scope and Content Note
8 items: 1 letter to Held, and 2 letters from Held,
including 1 to George [?] concerning teaching art history at Barnard College.
With a frequent mention of Bill Hinkle. Also included are 3 letters from Margot
Wittkower to Held, in which she writes about her editing work on
Collected essays of
Rudolf Wittkower
. Also present are 2 letters to Held from Mario Witt
from Libreria Leo S. Olschki in Florence, and a photograph of a drawing.
Box 8, Folder 3
Wohl, Alice Sedgwick,
1993,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence concerning Wohl's interpretation of Caravaggio's painting
Calling of St. Matthew.
Box 8, Folder 4
Wolf, Emile E.
1967-1992
Scope and Content Note
32 items (33 leaves): 19 letters to Held and 2 letters from
Held. Also included are: a copy of Wolf's letter to J. Bolten at the
Prentenkabinet der Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden concerning a Dutch genre
painting depicting a scene from a Jewish ghetto; a copy of a letter to Wolf
from Justus Müller Hofstede concerning artwork from Wolf's collection; a
color slide of a drawing by Rembrandt; 7 photographs of artwork by Rembrandt,
Watteau, Greuze, Johann Rottenkammer, Jan Bruegel the Elder, Carl van Loo, and
other artists. Wolf's letters are rich in detail concerning paintings and
drawings in his collection. With a mention of David Farmer, Konrad Oberhuber,
and Wolfgang Prohaska. [See also items filed in Box 63, F. 15.]
Box 8, Folder 5
Wolf, Robert Erich, and Ronald Forysth Millen,
1985-1994,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 90 items (ca. 110 leaves): ca. 35 letters to Held from
Wolf and Millen, and ca. 12 letters from Held. Also present is Held's
correspondence with Eric van Tassel at the Princeton University Press, Dustin
Wees at the Clark Art Institute and Charles Scribner. Included is a letter from
Wolf to Deborah Marrow concerning her review of Wolf's and Millen's book on
Rubens's
Medici cycle. Also present is
printed matter, including a photocopy of the manuscript
Painting in the Low Countries
(with poems by Wolf and drawings by Millen), 2 printed sheets with texts by
various authors translated by Wolf and illustrated by Millen, a photocopy of a
drawing by Millen after Rubens, and several notes by Held. Extensive
correspondence concerning Held's review of Millen's and Wolf's manuscript for
their book
Heroic deeds and mystic
figures
and the publishing process at the Princeton University Press.
The letters are also rich in detail related to Wolf's and Millen's research on
Rubens's
Medici cycle. Wolf's letters
provide insight into his translation work and book collecting activities. [See
related correspondence filed in Box 12, F. 14.]
Box 8, Folder 6
Wood, Jeremy,
1989-1997
Scope and Content Note
11 items: 8 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held, and an
offprint of Wood's essay on Rubens and Rembrandt. Both scholars discuss the
attribution of various artworks to van Dyck, Rubens, and Abraham van
Diepenbeeck. Wood frequently comments on publications by other art historians,
including Sir Oliver Millar's study
Van Dyck in
England
and Felice Stampfle's book on Netherlandish and Flemish
drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Wood also writes about his scholarly
work, mainly his essay on a drawing of Mucius Scaevola in the British Museum,
and on reproductive prints.
Box 8, Folder 7
Wright, Virginia,
1965-1998,
undated
Scope and Content Note
12 items (16 leaves): 5 letters to Held, 6 letters from
Held, and 1 letter to Wright from Jean T. Palmer. The letters include
discussions about collecting of artwork and connoisseurship. Wright writes
about her travel activities, including her visit to the Getty Center in 1998.
Box 8, Folder 8
Wulc, Stanley S.,
1983
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held regarding
Held's visit by Wulc, 1 leaf of printed text by Wulc about his still-life
photographs, and a press clipping of Gene Thornton's article about Wulc's
photographic work.
Box 8, Folder 9
Zimmer, Jürgen,
1964,
1980,
1988
Scope and Content Note
6 letters to Held. Professional correspondence concerning
Zimmer's research on Joseph Heintz the Elder. Zimmer inquires about a
photograph of a drawing attributed to Hans von Aachen. With a mention of
Hendrik van Balen.
Series I.B.
Occasional professional correspondence,
1926-1999
Physical Description:
3 boxes
1.26 lin.
ft.
Scope and Content Note
This subseries comprises occassional correspondance with art
history scholars, graduate students and former students at Barnard College,
private collectors, editors and other staff at art magazines and publishing
houses, curatorial and administrative museum staff, artists, and others. The
topics include commentary on books and essays by Held or other scholars; Held's
publishing and lecturing activities; requests for photo reprints, offprints, or
slides; congratulatory and thank-you letters; and solicitations for financial
support or sponsorship. Letters to Held are frequently marked with the date and
context of his reply, several are annotated.
Box 9
Roya Abouzia - Cockie Hyde
Box 9, Folder 1
Roya Abouzia - Günter Aust
Abouzia, Roya,
1995
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a graduate student at McGill
University.
Abrams, Ann Uhry,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Abrams, George S.,
1964
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the law firm Winer, Abrams &
Hershfang, Boston, MA.
Adams, Pauline DeHaart,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the registrar at Seattle Art Musem.
Adhémar, Jean,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the art conservator at
Bibliothèque nationale in Paris.
Adler, Irving,
1993-1997
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters to Held, and 2 letters from Held.
Ainsworth, Maryan Wynn,
1993
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held from Ainsworth at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and 1 letter from Held. Held comments on Ainsworth's
research of early Netherlandish painting and Dieric Bouts's
Virgin and Child.
Alhadeff, Albert,
1990
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from art history teacher at University of
Colorado at Boulder.
Allentuck, Marcia,
1965-1968
Scope and Content Note
6 letters to Held concerning Allentuck's research on Henry
Fuseli.
Anderson, Kathleen,
1983
Scope and Content Note
6 letters: correspondence between Held (3 letters), staff
at Lamont Library at Harvard College (Arthur Hock, Kathleen Anderson), and
staff at Princeton University Press (Christine K. Ivusic, Kathy Astrue)
concerning Held's book
Rembrandt's Aristotle
and other Rembrandt studies
. Included is a carbon copy of Perry B.
Cott's 1936 letter to Held.
Andres, Glenn M.,
1982-1983
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held from the chairman at Middlebury
College in Middlebury, Vt. and 1 letter from Held.
Appell, Thelma,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the artist.
Arndt, Karl,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the art historian in
Göttingen. Arndt mentions his essay on Georg Petel, and comments on Held's
essay on Rubens.
Artnews,
1985
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 from Held. Correspondence with
editorial staff Margaret Moorman and K. Cullen.
Art
Newspaper,
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, including 1 from Held.
Art
Quarterly
,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the editor of
Art Quarterly
in Detroit, MI.
Askew, Pamela,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian.
Aust, Günter,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian and director of
Von der Heydt- Museum in Wuppertal, Germany.
Auwera, Joost van der,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning attribution to Sebastian
Vrancx of an artwork in the collection of Detroit Institute of Arts.
Box 9, Folder 2
L. Scott Bailey - Per Bjurström
Bailey, L. Scott,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Bajdor, Krzysztof,
1990
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held in behalf of Miroslaw Slowinski. On
letterhead of the Marquette University, Dept. of Chemistry, Milwaukee, WI.
Baldwin, Robert,
1985-1986
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Letterhead of Connecticut College New London, Dept. of Art History.
Barnes, Susan J.,
1984
Scope and Content Note
2 items: letter to Held and 1 photograph. Concerning an
oil sketch by Anthony van Dyck.
Barnet, Sylvan,
1982-1986
Scope and Content Note
9 items (16 leaves): 5 letters to Held, 3 letters from
Held, and a typescript by Barnet extensively annotated by Held. Correspondence
concerning Barnet's book
Short guide to writing
about art
.
Baumann, Edzard,
1972
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held, and
Baumann's text describing his travel project to Europe. Correspondence with
Edzard Baumann and Jan Ostrand concerning Ostrand's research of Johannes
Boekhorst.
Blumenthal, Arthur,
1979
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held: from Regina Rehkamp, assistant to
Arthur Blumenthal and from Regina's mother Alma Schumacher Rehkamp.
Barrio, Raymond,
1965
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 2 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held, and
printed matter. Correspondence concerning Rubens's painting
Diana and her nymphs departing for the
chase
.
Batson, Rhoda M. ,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from an art history student.
Bauman, George F.,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held asking for opinion of a painting. With a
mention of the art conservator Sheldon Keck. Annotated by Held.
Baumgartner, D. W. ,
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning attribution of a painting to
Luca Giordano.
Bealler, Catherine,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. With a mention of paintings by Jacob
Jordaens and Rubens at Noortman & Brod.
Beck, Martha,
1983,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held from the director of the Drawing
Center in New York, and a reply from Held.
Becker, David P.,
1979
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 illustration.
Correspondence concerning a drawing by Jan Goeree.
The Bennington
Banner
,
1992,
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 items (4 leaves): 1 letter to Held from the editor, and
1 letter from Held. Concerning Countess Carla [Karolina?] Lanckoronska.
The Bennington Museum,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (2 leaves) to Held from Richard Carter Barret,
director and curator of Bennington Museum. With a mention of a painting by
Allori.
Bentley, Leonard H.,
1978
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 1 letter to Held and 2 letters and an invoice
from Held. Correspondence with Foster, Bentley & Associates in London
concerning a painting by Anthony van Dyck.
Berger, Robert W.,
1982
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 2 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held, and
illustrated matter. Correspondence concerning the connection between a Brussels
tapestry and Rubens. With a mention of John Walsh. Annotated by Held.
Berman, Avis,
1983
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence concerning Berman's article for
Artnews.
Bernard, Herbert C.,
1962-1963
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 1 letter and a note to Held, 1 letter from Held,
and photograph of a drawing by Guardi.
Bjurström, Per,
1968 ,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Concerning drawings in Swedish
collections attributed to Jacob Jordaens.
Box 9, Folder 3
Albert Blankert - Wesley M. Burnside
Blankert, Albert,
1992
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 postcard to Held, 1 letter from Held, and
printed matter. Correspondence concerning Blankert's essay for the exhibition
catalog
Rembrandt och hans
tid
.
Blom, Benjamin,
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
5 items (8 leaves): 2 letters to Held and 3 letters from
Held. Held comments on Alan A. Tait's essay for the reprint edition of Rubens'
book
Palazzi di
Genova
.
Blunt, Anthony,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Held.
Boeckl, Christine Maria,
1984
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held from an art history student at
Maryland University in Bethesda, MD, 1 letter from Held, and illustration of an
altar painting by Daniel Gran. Annotated by Held.
Bonfante, Larissa,
1996-1997
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 3 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held.
Correspondence concerning Bonfante' essay on Margarete Bieber issued in
Women as interpreters
of the visual arts, 1820-1979
.
Boskovits, Miklós,
1988
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning a panel painting representing
St. Peter Martyr in a private collection in Ferrara. Letterhead of
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Annotated by Held.
Braham, Helen,
1989
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Helen Braham at Courtauld Institute
Galleries in London concerning a sketch by Anthony van Dyck and an engraving by
Pieter de Bailliu.
Braman, Mary,
1969
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (2 leaves) to Held. Braman expresses interest in
writing a dissertation on Abraham Janssens.
Brand Philip, Lotte,
1979
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence rich in detail concerning Philipp's research on Albrecht
Dürer. Annotated by Held. [See also Held's correspondence with Meyer
Schapiro filed in Box 6, F. 16.]
Branner, Robert,
1954
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Branner comments extensively on
Panofsky's lecture "Gothic architecture and scholasticism".
Brendel, Maria Lydia,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Brendel writes about her work
translating essays by Otto Brendel.
Brochagen, Ernst,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Letterhead of Stiftung Preussischer
Kulturbesitz Staatliche Museen Gemäldegalerie.
Brod, Alfred,
1972-1973
Scope and Content Note
3 letters (4 leaves) to Held from the Brod Gallery (Julia
Kraus, Alfred Brod and C. Frances H. Crabtree) regarding photographs of artwork
by Rubens.
Broeck, Paul van den,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Paul van den Broeck in Puerto Rico
concerning a painting by Jan Bruegel.
Brown, Robert F.,
1986-1991
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held regarding the interest expressed by
Archives of American Art in preserving Held's papers and correspondence.
Büchler, Alfred,
1982-1983
Scope and Content Note
5 items (9 leaves): 2 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held,
Büchler's letter to Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., and illustrated and printed
matter. Büchler writes extensively on his research of the martyrdom of St.
Hippolytus and Brunehaut, and the theme of cruel punishment in the Middle Ages.
Burnside, Wesley M.,
1980-1982
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held and 2 letters from Held.
Correspondence concerning a painting attributed to Rubens.
Box 9, Folder 4
Ann W. Campbell - Kenneth Craig
Campbell, Ann W.,
1995
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Campbell, J. Duncan,
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held.
Canaday, John,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the art critic at
New York
Times
.
Cannon-Brookes, Peter,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the keeper of art at National Museum
of Wales in Cardiff, Scottland.
Capers, Bobby,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with the jazz musician on the concept of Virtues and Vices in theology and
art.
Capon, Moyra,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to
Apollo in
London concerning his review of J. Richard Judson's and Carl van de Velde's
volume of
Corpus Rubenianum
Ludwig Burchard.
Carter, David GIles,
1956-1980
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Carter mentions a painting by Roelant
Savery at John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and paintings by Rubens and
Rembrandt at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Cazort, Mimi,
1997
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Cazort mentions drawings by Adolph
Menzel and Max Liebermann.
Cerf, Walter,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 congratulatory letter to Held.
Chandler, John W.,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Williams College Museum in
Williamstown, MA.
Chappell, Miles L.,
1979-1984
Scope and Content Note
8 items (9 leaves): 5 letters to Held, including 4 from
Chappell at College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA and 1 from Eric
Zafran at Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1 letter from Held, and printed matter.
Correspondence concerning mainly Chappell's research on Cristoforo Allori.
Chastel, André,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Chastel at the National Gallery of
Art in Washington.
Châtelet-Lange, Liliane,
1976
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding a drawing of Hercules by
Rubens.
Chittick, K. A.,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning a copy after Correggio's
La Zingarella. With Held's
reply.
Chomer, Gilles,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning Chomer's research on Jacques
Stella.
Ciechanowiecki, Andrzej S.,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held regarding a bust by Francis Chantrey.
Clark, Anthony M.,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of Minneapolis
Institute of Arts concerning an artwork by Jacob Jordaens.
Clark, Richard (Dick) A.,
1987
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the artist. Clark writes about the
magazine the
Nation, and
the American artist John Koch. One letter incomplete, only 1 page is present in
the archive.
Cleaver, Margaret Ann,
1972
Scope and Content Note
4 items (5 leaves): 2 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held,
and 1 photograph of a portrait painting. Correspondence with Cleaver from
Circulating Library of Paintings in New York concerning attribution of a
painting to Rembrandt.
Clements, Candace,
1982
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence with Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE concerning Rubens' painting
Decius Mus consulting the
soothsayers
.
Clinton, Donald,
1986?
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the architect. Clinton mentions
several of his architectural projects.
Coffin, David R.,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held. Held comments on an essay by Philipp
P. Fehl.
Cohen, Patrick,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Colby, Barbara H.,
1998
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held (2 leaves) from a former student.
Cole, Malvine,
1991
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter from Held and 1 letter to Held. Held
comments on Cole's article on Martha Graham in the
Bennington
Banner
. He also mentions Twyla Tharp and Laurie Anderson.
Colin, Ralph F.,
1980
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from Art Dealers Association of America.
With a mention of Ripon College.
Collins, Christiane C.,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 personal letter to Held from the widow of George
Collins.
Connell, David P.,
1987
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence with a student at University of Leeds, England concerning
current location and Rubens attribution of a painting from the collection of
Temple Newsam.
Conway, Robert P.,
1996
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding attribution of a
Lamentation painting to Jacob
Jordaens.
Cook, Walter,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning Barbara Rose's master's thesis
on Dutch and Flemish painters in Spain.
Copeland, Edward,
1982-1985
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the English literature scholar at
Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.. Copeland mentions his essay on Rubens and
John Dryden.
Corcoran, James I. W.,
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the fine arts advisor at Mildred
Andrews Fund in Cleveland, OH. Corcoran mentions
Triumph of death by Pieter
Bruegel the Younger.
Craig, Kenneth,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held. Held comments extensively on Craig's
essay on Rembrandt's painting
Slaughtered ox.
Box 9, Folder 5
Melissa Dabakis - Duke University Press
Dabakis, Melissa,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a graduate student at Boston
University regarding her research on Saul Baizerman.
Dangremond, Mary,
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the wife of David Dangremond from
Old Lyme, CT.
Davis, Deane C.,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. With a mention of
Louis A. Ferré.
Davis, Mary M.,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New
York.
Davisson, William,
1965
Scope and Content Note
2 letters (3 leaves) to Held concerning attribution of a
painting to Géricault.
Delbanco, Kurt,
1998
Scope and Content Note
2 items (4 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held (2 copies) concerning a drawing by Abraham van Diepenbeeck.
Delbanco, Nicholas,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 congratulatory letter to Held from Nicholas Delbanco
from Bennington College.
Dennison, Elinor G.,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning Anthony van Dyck's portrait
of Jean Woverius. Annotated by Held.
Descheemaeker, Bernard,
1990
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Detering, Klaus,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from Detering at
Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany regarding his thesis
on Jan Massys. Attached are photographs of allegorical images.
Dickey, Stephany S.,
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held concerning a print by Uytenbogaert.
Diemer, Peter,
1981-1983
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
regarding a review of Held's book
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
in the
Kunstchronik.
Dittrich, Christian,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Dittrich at Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett regarding photographs of drawings
by Crispin van den Broeck.
Donadio, Emmie,
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of Middlebury College.
Donadio, Maurene,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Donadio writes about her professional
career and scholarly work.
Donahue, Kenneth,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with the director of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) concerning
artwork in the collection of the late Howard Ahmanson.
Doris, [?],
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Letterhead of Barnard College Department
of Music. With a mention of Held's speech on Mosbach.
Doyle, Mary Ellen,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Doyle mentions her artwork.
Dreher, Faith Paulette,
1972
Scope and Content Note
3 items (5 leaves): 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence rich in detail related to Dreher's research on David
Teniers II.
Dreyer, Peter,
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the art historian concerning
Dreyer's research of drawings attributed to Bruegel.
Du Bon, David,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the assistant curator of decorative
arts at Philadelphia Museum of Art concerning artwork by Rubens and Pietro da
Cortona. Annotated by Held.
Duffy, Henry,
1989
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (2 leaves) from Held to a student at Williams
College. Held comments on Duffy's research on Rubens.
Dulière, Gaston,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning attribution of a painting to
Rubens.
Duke University Press,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held addressed to the manager of the Duke
University Press concerning printing errors in his essay on alteration and
mutilation of works of art.
Box 9, Folder 6
David M. Ebitz - Richard Ettinghausen
Ebitz, David M.,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
concerning Ebitz's book on connoisseurship.
Eckardt, Götz,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Eckhardt seeks
Held's opinion on Rubens paintings in the collection of Staatliche
Schlösser und Gärten Potsdam-Sanssouci.
Einholz, Sibylle,
1997
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (3 leaves) to Held asking for expert opinion
concerning attribution of two paintings to Rubens.
Eitner, Lorenz [?],
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held from University of Minnesota,
College of Science, Literature, and the Arts; and 1 photograph of a print by
Stefano della Bella.
Eldredge, Charles C.,
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence with art history professor at University of Kansas, Kress
Foundation Department of Art History. Held declines to write a letter of
recommendation for Linda Stone-Ferrier due to his lack of familiarity with her
research.
Elliott, Eleanor Thomas,
1977-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
14 items (19 leaves): 12 letters to Held, including 1
postcard from the daughter of James A. Thomas; and printed matter. With
annotations by Held.
Emerson, Isabelle,
1996
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a personal letter to Held and a family color
photograph of Emerson. [Color photograph is shelved in Box 159, F. 5.]
Ettinghausen, Richard,
1966
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Letterhead of Smithsonian Institution
Freer Gallery of Art.
Box 9, Folder 7
Bärbel Fach - Ellen V. Futter
Fach, Bärbel,
1996-1997
Scope and Content Note
6 items: 3 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held, photocopy
of a cheque, and photograph of a drawing of a satyr. Correspondence with the
firm Joseph Fach GmbH Galerie und Kunstantiquariat in Frankfurt concerning
attibution of the drawing to Rubens. Held suggests Annibale Carracci.
Faison, S. Lane (Samson Lane),
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Faison mentions a
Deposition painting by Rubens
and a
Christ mocked painting by
Jacob Jordaens.
Farago, Claire J.,
1991-1994
Scope and Content Note
9 items (11 leaves): 6 letters to Held and 3 letters from
Held. Correspondence related to Farago's research on color theory and Leonardo
da Vinci. Held comments extensively on Farago's unpublished essay on Leonardo's
Battle of Anghiari.
Farmer, John David,
1972
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held from Farmer and Deirdre C. Stam at Art
Institute of Chicago regarding photographs of artwork by Rubens and Held's
essay for Rembrandt Symposium.
Faulds, W. Rod,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Faulds. Draft of Held's text for an exhibition
of drawings from Held's private collection at Brattleboro [Museum and Art
Center?].
Faunce, Sarah,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with the curator at Brooklyn Museum in New York regarding the controversial
attribution of a
Democritus and Heraclitus
painting to Rubens.
Femmel, Gerhard,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning mainly a manuscript by
Cornelius Müller Hofstede. On letterhead of Nationale Forschungs- und
Gedenkstätten der Klassischen Deutschen Literatur in Weimar,
Goethe-Nationamuseum.
Fenton, Barbara,
1988
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with Harper & Row Junior Books Group in New York regarding errors in
Let there be
light
.
Ferber, Linda S.
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from curator at Brooklyn Museum in New
York.
De Fernandez-Gimenez, Elizabeth Ourusoff,
1995
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
concerning panel paintings at Milwaukee Art Museum attributed to Master of the
Joseph Sequence.
Fersen, Nicholas,
1996-1997
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Filipczak, Zaremba,
1969-1989
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held. Filipczak mentions a drawing by Frans
Francken and writes about her research of engravings by Philip de Mallery after
drawings by Anthony van Dyck.
Fischer, Erik,
1967-1983
Scope and Content Note
4 letters to Held (5 leaves). Letterhead of the Department
of Prints and Drawings, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Fisher, Hermann,
1983,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held from the scholar in Bamberg,
Germany regarding Lisette Buchholz's plan to open Persona Verlag. Also present
is a copy of Lisette Buchholz's letter to Fischer in which she writes about her
interest in literary and documentary texts by German anti-fascists and exiles,
and mentions Willy Vogelsinger, Lily Körber, and Henry William Katz.
Fitzgerald, Martin R.,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Department of Corrections in
Waterbury, Vt.
Fleischman, Evelyn,
1964
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held, 1 letter from Held, and a
photograph. Correspondence with Dean's Office at Columbia University, College
of Pharmacy regarding a portrait painting of Wilhelmina Palinc by van
Heemskerck, and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds.
Floch Effland, Jenny,
1983,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 items (6 leaves): 2 letters to Held, including 1 from
Otto Manley, 1 letter from Held to Jenny Floch, and Held's text about the late
artist Joseph Floch. Correspondence regarding the estate of the late Mimi Floch
and a book about Joseph Floch.
Floch, Mimi,
1979-1982?,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters (5 leaves) to Held from the widow of Joseph
Floch. The 1979 letter concerns an exhibition of artwork by Joseph Floch at
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla.
Folie, Jacqueline,
1993-1998
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Folsom, Fred,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items: Folsom's business card inscribed to Held, and 2
leaves of printed matter about a painting attributed to Francisco Pacheco
exhibited at Strathmore Hall Arts Center in North Bethesda, Md.
Forbes, Malcolm S.,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Held. Letterhead of Forbes Magazine.
Foster, Guthrie,
1984-1988,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. With a
mention of Charles Le Clair and Alfred [Foster?]. Also mentioned is the
archivist Paul Sauer in Stuttgart, Germany.
Foster, Philip,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from Philip Foster at Istituto Ollandese
in Florence, Italy concerning Rubens's painting
Hero and Leander.
Fournier-Liberton, Francis,
1937-1938
Scope and Content Note
8 items: 3 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Also
included are 3 letters to Fournier-Liberton from J. van der Veken &
Philippot, Galerie d'etat and from Leo Swane at Musée royal des
beaux-arts in Copenhagen, and a pencil drawing. Correspondence concerning
attribution of a painting titled
Le sacrifice d'Isaac to Jacob
Jordaens.
Fox, Judith Hoos,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a curator at Rhode Island School of
Design Museum of Art in Providence. Fox mentions artwork by Jan Massys, Joachim
Bueckelaer, Claesz [Gerrit Claesz Bleker?], Gustave Doré, and Paul Bril
[Brill]. Annotated by Held.
Franc, Helen M. (Helen Margaret),
1990-1994
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held. Franc relates details concerning
editing the new edition of
Invitation to
see
.
Frankfurter, Alfred M.,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence with the editor and publisher of
Art News in
New York.
Fredlund, Björn,
1980
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence with Fredlund from Göteborgs Konstmuseum in Sweden
concerning Fredlund's visit toClark Art Institute.
Friedenberg, Daniel M.,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Held from the president of
John-Platt Enterprises.
Frinta, Mojmir S. (Mojmir Svatopluk),
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Futter, Ellen V.,
1981-1991
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters from Held and 1 letter to Held. Held
congratulates Futter to her appointment as president of Barnard College.
Box 9, Folder 8
Sean Gallagher - A. F. Grunwald
Gallagher, Sean,
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the pianist.
Garff, Jan,
1968,
1988
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held (1968) and 1 letter from Held
(1988). Correspondence with Garff at Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen,
Denmark concerning attribution of several artworks.
Garrett, Stephen,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif.
Gatling, Eva Ingersoll,
1960,
1967
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning a Rubens sketch at Des Moines
Art Center and paintings attributed to Lucas Cranach, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom,
Martino Altomonte, and Anthony van Dyck in the collection of Heckscher Museum
in Huntington, Long Island.
Gealt, Adelheid M.,
1985
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence with the curator at Indiana University Art Museum regarding
artwork by Jacob Adriaensz Backer and Francesco Zaganelli.
Geis, Darlene,
1973
Scope and Content Note
4 items (5 leaves): 2 letters to Held from the assistant
to Harry N. Abrams, 1 letter from Held, and a photocopy of a letter by Irma
Grabhorn (wife of Edwin Grabhorn). Correspondence concerning the attribution of
a painting to Velázques.
Gerszi, Teréz,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Szépmuvészeti
Múzeum in Budapest regarding a drawing by Hans Friedrich Schorer.
Gifford, Melanie,
1979,
1999
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from an art conservator.
Gillham, Carol C.,
1988
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel
Hill, N.C. regarding the attribution of an artwork to Cornelis Schut. Gillham
mentions a drawing by Jan van [Johannes] Boekhorst at the National Gallery.
Glenn, Constance W.,
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of California State
University, Long Beach.
Gochenour, Carol,
1979
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence with Brattlecoro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vt.
regarding an exhibition of drawings from Held's private collection.
Goldblatt, Emily,
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Goldblatt at the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
Golden, Martha Hester,
1965
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): 1 letter from Held and 1 letter to
Held concerning an unpublished text by Erika Tietze-Conrat.
Goldin, Judah,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning Held's nephew Ariel Bloch.
Golffing, Francis,
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
4 letters to Held. Golffing writes about his various
research projects, including his study of iconography of Lot's wife. Annotated
by Held.
Goodmann, Jonathan,
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondance
concerning attribution to Rembrandt of a painting
Christ carrying the Crucifix,
from a Peruvian collection.
Gordon, Cynthia,
1995
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with a former student of Held's at Barnard College.
Gottlieb, Carla,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning iconography of Christ in
Flemish painting and Neumeister's research on Lucas Cranach.
Grabski, Józef,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held concerning reprints.
Graham, F. Lanier,
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held. Held comments on Graham's book the
Search for the lost
Leonardo
.
Grand Union (Firm),
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held addressed to the Manager of the Grand
Union [supermarket?] in Bennington, Vt. concerning food waste.
Grayson, Marion L.,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a curator at Museum of Fine Arts in
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Grebanier, Bernard,
1966
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held regarding Rubens attribution of a
painting owned by Consuelo U. Ford. Annotated by Held.
Griffing, Robert P.,
1954-1965
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 3 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held.
Correspondence with a curatorial consultant at Honolulu Academy of Arts
regarding a painting attributed to Gerard Thomas and a drawing by Johann Liss.
Glick, Paula,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Capricorn Galleries in Bethesda, Md.
asking for offprints of Held's essays.
Grunwald, A. F.,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held asking for opinion about a portrait
painting of William II Prince of Orange, attributed to van Dyck.
Box 9, Folder 9
Yvonne Hackenbroch - Cockie Hyde
Hackenbroch, Yvonne,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding a portrait rendered in the
manner of Juan Pantoja de la Cruz.
Hahn, Karin,
1970
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Raggi-Verlag in Zurich.
Hall, Helen B.,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with a curator at University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor regarding
attribution of a painting to Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder.
Halm, Peter,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Halm offers for sale a watercolour by
[Johann Conrad?] Dorner. Annotated by Held.
Hamilton, George Heard,
1972-1994
Scope and Content Note
6 items (7 leaves): 2 letters from Held and 4 letters to
Held. Correspondence with the director of Clark Art Institute in Williamstown,
Mass. Discussed is the 1981 Monet symposium in Paris, especially David Rosand's
session on the aging artist. Held's letter from 1985, April 24 is typed on
verso of a letter by Diane DeGrazia at National Gallery regarding Francoise
Forster-Hahn's research on Adolph Menzel.
Hartford, Huntington,
1964
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter from Held to Hartford and 1 letter to
Held from Sally Merz at Gallery of Modern Art in Columbus Circle in New York.
Haug, Ingrid,
1988
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held and 1 letter to Held. Correspondence
concerning Held's article for
Reallexikon zur
deutschen Kunstgeschichte
.
Hausherr, Reiner,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from an art history professor at Freie
Universität Berlin.
Havenith family,
1993-1995
Scope and Content Note
7 items (11 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 5 letters from
Held [photocopies]. Correspondence with the Havenith family (Eliane, Denise,
and Alfred) in Antwerp, Belgium. Enclosed is a note from 1915 about Antwerp by
Adolf Held [typed, in English].
Hawkins, Dempsey,
1994
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters to Held from a prison inmate, Held's
note about Hawkins, and Held's letter to Harry N. Abrams Inc. in New York.
Hechtl, C.,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a former resident of Mosbach.
Hegle, Berit,
1979
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 1 letter to Held, a copy of a letter to Hegle
from Arnout Balis at Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de 16de
en de 17de eeuw in Antwerp, and printed matter. Correspondence concerning the
attribution of an oil sketch to Rubens.
Heinemann, Rudolf,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
regarding copyright permission for images of paintings by [Jean -Etienne?]
Liotard from Heinemann's private collection.
Heisner, Beverly,
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Heisner asks for
a photograph of a drawing attributed to Anthony van Dyck. Her letter is
annotated by Held.
Herbert, Robert L.
1968,
1977
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the charman at Yale University,
Dept. of the History of Art.
Hertzsch, Walter,
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the editor at Seemann Velag in
Leipzig. Hertzsch relates details concerning the privatization of Seeman
Verlag.
Hevesi, Max,
1936
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art dealer in Vienna, Austria
regarding paintings by Jacob Jordaens. With a mention of Otto Burchart and [?]
Mondschein.
Hinnant, Rick,
1983
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and a color photograph of a
painting. Hinnant inquires about attribution of the painting to Rubens.
Annotated by Held. [Color photograph is shelved in Box 159.]
Hirsh, Sharon L.,
1983-1992
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held and a circular from Fine Arts Department
at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. With a mention of Kahren Hellersted's
lecture on Rembrandt. The circular is an announcement of Peter Lukehart's
appointment as director of the Trout Gallery.
Hobson, Joan,
1986
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence with Museum of Fine Arts in Boston regarding Held's
participation in Braillard lectures.
Hofrichter, Frima Fox,
1980
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held regarding Held's advisory role in the
exhibition
The rise of Dutch Baroque: art in
Haarlem 1585-1635
shown at Rutgers University Art Gallery. Annotated by
Held.
Hofstede Müller, A. ,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the widow of Cornelius Müller
Hofstede regarding artwork by Oskar Begas and Paul Meyerheim owned by Held's
family and its significance for the Jewish Museum in Berlin [Berlin Museum.
Jüdische Abteilung].
Houser, Caroline,
1999
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Howard, Edith,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Hunningher, Benjamin,
1954
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the theater scholar. Hunningher
writes about Jan Neuye's 1669 play
De gewroke Lucretia,
of Romen in vryheit
. He also mentions works by Geeraert van Velsen and
Dirck Pietersz Pers, including Pers's 1624 poem "Lucretia, ofte, Het beeld der
eerbaerheydt".
Hunter, Sam
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding Held's services as a consultant
to Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Hyde, Cockie,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from former Barnard student. Hyde writes
about Hyde Collection's interest in collecting art pottery and ceramics. She
mentions the sculptor Toshiko Takaezu, and the ceramists Hui Ka Kwong and
Bennet Bean.
Box 10
Christian Adolf Isermeyer-Diane H. Russell
Box 10, Folder 1
Christian Adolf Isermeyer-Thomas Junker
Isermeyer, Christian Adolf,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the art historian at
Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg. Isermeyer refers to an
oil sketch by Rubens from the Holford collection. He also mentions his research
on altar paintings by Rubens, and his book on hunting scenes in Rubens's
paintings.
Janson, Anthony F.,
1979
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from curator at Indianapolis Museum of
Art concerning a painting by Jacob Jordaens.
Joho, Helmut,
1995-1997
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Jordan, Marc,
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with editor at Phaidon Press Limited in London.
Junker, Thomas,
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding Junker's study of the impact of
Nazi ideology on bio-historical research in Germany between 1933 to 1945.
Box 10, Folder 2
Alice Mannheim Kaplan - Gloria Kury
Kaplan, Alice M.,
1972-1995
Scope and Content Note
6 items: 1 letter to Held from Alice Manheim Kaplan, 2
letters from Held, Held's letter to Kaplan Fund in New York (Joan K. Davidson),
ephemera and a press clipping. Kaplan mentions several drawings in her
collection.
Kaplan, Jack,
1976
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a letter and a note from Held concerning
publishing of his book on oil sketches by Rubens. With a mention of Ted
[Theodore S. Amussen] Amussen at National Gallery of Art.
Kaplan, Sidney,
1964-1990
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning Rubens's paintings
Negro heads [Four studies of a male
head ]
and
The Adoration of the Magi, and
a painting titled
Baigneurs by Michaël
[Michiel] Sweerts. Annotated by Held.
Kaufmann, Arthur,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
concerning Brian O'Doherty's
New York Times
review of an exhibion held at the Barnard College.
Kaumheimer, Elizabeth,
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Kelpe, Susan E.,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with the editor at University of Missouri Press concerning Martin Pops' book
Vermeer.
Kenendy, Ian,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Simon Dickson Inc. in London.
Kent, Mrs.
1981-1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Mrs. Dassau Kent and 1 letter from
Held. Kent relates details regarding provenance of a portrait of John of Nassau
by Anthony van Dyck.
Kessler, Charles S.,
1967
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held regarding Kessler's research on Max
Beckmann.
Kettlewell, James K.,
1957
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with Kettlewell at Department of Art and Archaeology at University of Toronto
concerning attribution of a drawing of St. John and Christ to Rubens. Annotated
by Held.
Kisters, Friedrich,
1997
Scope and Content Note
2 items: wedding invitation with a thank-you letter to
Held; and a wedding photograph.
Kieve, Rudolph,
1981
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held from a former resident of
Mosbach, and reply letter from Held.
Kimpel, Ben,
1987?
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters to Held, and a typescript bibliography
of Kimpel's works. Annotated by Held.
Kirby, Peggy Jo D.,
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the registrar at North Carolina
Museum of Art in Raleigh concerning a landscape painting attributed to
Rembrandt. With a mention of the artist [Hercules?] Seghers and the art
historian Otto Benesch.
Kissinger, Henry,
1985
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to Henry Kissinger in New York. Held
mentions donating his family papers to the Leo Baeck Institute.
Klessmann, Rüdiger,
1983-1992
Scope and Content Note
3 items (6 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 2 letters from
Held. Correspondence concerning attribution of several landscape paintings to
Rembrandt, [Hercules?] Seghers and Joose de Momper. Klessmann invites Held to a
symposium at Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig.
Klosty, Mack G.,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Koch, Georg Friedrich,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding Held's withdrawal from
participation in the 18th Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag in Kassel.
Koch, Robert A.,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian.
Koslow, Susan Rosen,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 item: a wedding announcement inscribed by Koslow who
mentions her interest in Flemish paintings of animals.
Kostyshyn, Stephen J.,
1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
4 items (11 leaves): 3 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Concerning Kostyshyn's research on Peeter Baltens [Peeter Baltens alias
Custodis of Antwerp]. In his letter from 21 Oct. 1986 Kostyshyn extensively
describes his research on Baltens (8 leaves). With a mention of a painting by
Bruegel at Hampton Court.
Kouwenhoven, Gerrit,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the son of John Kouwenhoven; added
in handwriting to Catherine H. Capen's letter to Held. Capen writes about the
progress of her mentally retarded sister and thanks Held for his financial
support.
Kouwenhoven, John Atlee,
1980-1988
Scope and Content Note
9 letters to Held (10 leaves).
Krempel, León,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning a painting by Pieter Verelst
in the Rusche collection [Sammlung Rusche].
Samuel H. Kress Foundation,
1979-1980
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held from Mary M. Davis at the
Samuel H. Kress Foundation and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence concerning
the foundation's financial support to Held.
Kropik, E.,
1977-1979
Scope and Content Note
3 items (4 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 2 letters from
Held, including 1 to the firm Antiquitäten Ernst Kunsthaus am Theater in
Saarbrücken. Correspondence regarding attribution of a painting to Anthony
van Dyck or to Rubens.
Kropik, Heinz,
1985
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning two paintings by Rubens.
Kühn, Margarete,
1965-1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning his essays issued in
Zeitschrift für
Kunstgeschichte
.
Kunin, Madeleine,
1996,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a letter from Held and a card from Kunin.
Kunz, Armin,
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding Kunz's art history studies in
Berlin and his research of Lucas Cranach.
Kuretsky, Susan Donahue,
1981-1982
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held.
Kuretsky invites Held to give a lecture on Rembrandt at Vassar College.
Kurtz, Mary Solimena,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with the collage artist regarding promotion of her artwork.
Kury, Gloria,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a student at Vassar College
concerning Luca Signorelli's painting
Court of Pan. Extensively
annotated by Held.
Box 10, Folder 3
Mary Ellen Lalli - Bridget G. Lyons
Lalli, Mary Ellen,
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
regarding attribution of a painting to Rubens.
Lamas, Luis R.,
1972
Scope and Content Note
5 items (8 leaves): 2 letters to Held and 3 letters from
Held. Correspondence regarding attribution of a painting titled
Judgment of Paris to Rubens.
Annotated by Held.
Landau, David,
1983
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the art historian.
Lanes, Jerrold,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
7 items (11 leaves): 3 letters to Held and 2 letters from
Held. With photocopies. Lanes asks Held to write two books on Northern
Renaissance painting and graphic arts.
Laskin, Myron,
1967
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding Held's opinion of an artwork.
Lauts, Jan,
1964,
1986
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
Lauts mentions his acquisition of a painting by Cornelis van Dalem.
Lawrence, Cynthia,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning her research on the tomb of
bishop Michaël Ophovius in St. Paul church, Antwerp.
Leahy, Patrick J.,
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to Senator Leahy protesting against
national draft for military service.
Lee, Natalie H.,
1995
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning the painting
Allegory of folly by Massys.
Lee, Sherman E.,
1965
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of Cleveland Museum of
Art concerning Raymond Barrio's article issued in
Art and
Architecture
.
Leemans, Hertha,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held with a photocopy of Held's reply on
verso. Leemans relates details regarding her work on an inventory of Saint
Gummarus church in Lier, especially the artwork by Crispin van den Broeck and
Cornelis van der Geest.
Leo, Jane S.,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding a drawing attributed to Paul
Bril at William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Lewine, Carol,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Licht, Ira,
1979
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held and 2 letters from Held.
Correspondence with the director of Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, Fla.
Included are Held's commentary on paintings and sculptures in the collection of
Claire Mendel, and a checklist of the artwork extensively annotated by Held.
Liebaers, Herman,
1972,
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Fürst von Liechtenstein,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held asking for permission to see oil
sketches by Rubens in the collection of the House of Liechtenstein.
Limouze, Dorothy,
1989
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Limouze mentions her essay on Aegidius
Sadeler and the relation of imitation theory to reproductive engraving.
Annotated by Held.
Lindsay, Kenneth C.,
1965
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the chairman of Art History
Department at Harpur College in Binghampton, N.Y. regarding lectures.
Lisser, Carolyn de,
1983
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. De Lisser mentions a painting
attributed to Artus Wolfert.
Löffler, Fritz,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the author of
Das alte
Dresden
. Held mentions watercolors of Dresden signed C. G. Hammer
[Christian Gottlob Hammer?] in his private collection.
Lohse, Bruno,
1965-1967
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning publishing artwork by Johann
Georg Platzer in Held's private collection in
Kindlers Malerei Lexikon.
Lombaerde-Fabri, Ria and Piet,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. With a mention of a terracotta portrait
of Peiresc.
Loridan, Marie Louise,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Lovell, Ellen McCulloch,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Held.
Lücke, Hans-Karl,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the chairman of Department of Fine
Art at University of Toronto regarding an honorarium.
Lukehart, Peter M.,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of Trout Gallery at
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
Luksus, Tzaims,
1996-1997
Scope and Content Note
6 items (19 leaves): 2 letters to Held, 2 letters from
Held, printed matter, and draft of Luksus's essay on Bronzino and Allori (14
leaves), annotated by Held.
Lyons, Bridget Gellert,
1980
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter from Held and a postcard to Held,
extensively annotated by Held on verso. Held comments on a paper by Patricia
Meyer on "Stuart masques".
Box 10, Folder 4
Thomas J. McCormick - Neil MacLaren
McCormick, Thomas J. (Thomas Julian),
1968-1983
Scope and Content Note
4 letters to Held from professor of art history at Wheaton
College in Nortoin, Mass.
McIntosh, Dick,
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
McKee, Lucie,
1993?
Scope and Content Note
1 item: poetic text titled "Seamstress". Annotated by
Held.
McKendry, John J.,
1972
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence concerning drawings by Jan Goeree reproduced in engraving in
François Jacques Deseine's book
Beschryving van oud en
niew Rome
(Amsterdam, 1704) and on the title page of
Acta
Germanica
.
MacKintosh, Millicent,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
MacLaren, Neil,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Sotheby & Co. in London
regarding a Rubens sketch.
Maddalena [?],
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held. In French. Photocopy.
Mackor, Adri,
1996-1999
Scope and Content Note
ca. 11 items (22 leaves): 2 letters and 1 postcard to Held
,1 letter from Held, photocopy of Mackor's essay on Marinus van Reymerswaele's
Tax collectors, and
illustrated matter. Correspondence concerning Mackor's dissertation on the
Dutch painter Marinus van Reymerswaele.
Mallory, Nina A.,
1968-1995
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held.
Mandel, Marianna and Daniel,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Manley, Otto,
1980-1983
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held, 1 letter from Held, and printed
matter (brochure of an exhibition of artwork by Joseph Floch at Galerie
Würthle in Vienna in 1981).
Mann, Dena K.,
1999
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Dena Kranowitz Mann, a former student of
Held at Barnard College.
Maroger, Jacques,
1952
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding
Ajax et Cassandre by Rubens.
Marrow, James H.,
1981
Scope and Content Note
6 items: 3 letters to Marrow from E. de Jongh from
Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, J. Bruyn from Kunsthistorisch Instituut der
Universiteit van Amsterdam, and from Held; 1 letter to Held from Marrow; and 2
color photographs. Scholarly exchange concerning a 15th century engraving.
Mashek, Joseph,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Mayer, Ben,
1987,
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Mayer, Reinhard,
1995
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Mayer
writes about restoration of paintings. His letter is annotated by Held.
Mayer-Meintschel, Annaliese,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to John Walsh at the J. Paul Getty Museum, with
added text addressed to Held.
Mehnert, Karl-Heinz,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning a drawing attributed to Jacob
Jordaens in the collection of Museum der bildenden Künste zu Leipzig.
Melion, Walter S.,
1993
Scope and Content Note
3 items (16 leaves): 1 letter to Held, 1 letter from Held,
and Melion's paper "Self-Imaging and Virtu in Hendrick Goltzius's Pietá
of 1598" (typescript) given at Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference in
Boston.
Mende, Mathias,
1988
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence concerning Mende's research on forgeries of Dürer letters
[fiktive Dürer-Briefe].
Internationale Mendelsohn-Stiftung e.V.,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Held.
Menten, D.,
1973
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held, and 1
color slide. Correspondence rich in detail concerning Menten's collection of
paintings, especially artwork by Peter Lely and Anthony van Dyck.
Middendorf, John William,
1967,
1976
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding two paintings by Frans Hals and a Rembrandt portrait
offered by Middendorf to the J. Paul Getty Museum. Held expresses his opinion
about a painting by Abraham Dircks Santvoort.
Milkovich, Michael,
1979,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding several artworks at Dixon Gallery and Gardens in
Memphis, Tenn.
Miller, Gillian,
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the editor of
Alumni Chronicle
at Southern Vermont College regarding proper usage of Latin language.
Milroy, Lily,
1979,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Milroy writes about her various
research projects. Annotated by Held.
Box 10, Folder 6
Albert P. de Mirimonde - Mary L. Meyers
Mirimonde, Albert P. de,
1979
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held regarding drawings by Theodoor van
Thulden.
Mitchell, George J.,
1994
Scope and Content Note
3 items (19 leaves): 1 letter from Held, 1 letter to Held,
and 1 offprint (photocopy, 17 leaves). Correspondence with Senator Mitchell
regarding a transcript of the "Joint hearings on the Iran-contra
investigation", testimony of Oliver L. North, from July 13, 1987.
Mitsch, Erwin,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
concerning drawings in Graphische Sammlung Albertina. Annotated by Held.
Moffitt, John F. (John Francis),
1974
Scope and Content Note
3 items (7 leaves): 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Scholarly discussion concerning 17th century art in Spain, particularily
paintings by Velázques, and the emblematic meaning of 17th century Dutch
art.
Molen, Joh. R. ter,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the curator at Museum Boymans-van
Beuningen in Rotterdam regarding a drawing attributed to Hans von Aachen. Also
discussed is Molen's work on the Dutch goldsmith Paulus van Vianen.
De Montebello, Philippe,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. With a mention of Walter Liedtke and the
painting
Quintus Fabius Maximus.
Moore, John,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (3 leaves) to Held from John Moore at Department
of Biology at University of California, Riverside.
Moyse, Blanche,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Held.
Jaki Mozetic, Barbara,
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence with the curator of paintings at National Gallery in
Ljubljana, Slovenia. Held declines her invitation to contribute to the
Festschrift for Ksenija Rozman.
Muller, Jeff,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Muller writes
about his scholarly work and reviewing books by other art historians, mainly of
Lisa Vergara's book on Rubens. The verso of Held's letter is a photocopy of
three late 19th/early 20th century photographs showing unidentified sitters: a
young boy, a young man, and a group of three children. One of the photographs
is inscribed in German in Sütterlin.
Mundy, James,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
concerning Mundy's essay on the
Martyrdom of St. Hippolitus.
Munhall, Edgar,
1973,
1986,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 items (7 leaves): 1 letter from Held, 2 letters to Held,
and 2 notes by Held. Correspondence concerning B.P.J. [Bernardus Petrus Jozef]
Broos' essay on Rembrandt's painting known as the
Polish rider.
Myers, Mary L.,
1998
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): a letter and a postcard to Held from
the art historian. Myers mentions an unidentified drawing and her essay on
Christoffel Jegher.
Box 10, Folder 7
Christian Michael Nebehay - Isa North-Hunningher
[?]
Nebehay, Christian Michael,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the art dealer in Vienna. Held
mentions a drawing by Koloman Moser.
Neff, Terry Ann R.,
1974-1995
Scope and Content Note
10 items (16 leaves): 5 letters to Held, 3 letters from
Held, Neff's curriculim vitae, and a family photograph. Personal
correspondence. Neff also details her professional career.
Néger, Jean,
1964
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held. Néger seeks Held's opinion
regarding an artwork attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger or Thomas [Tobias?]
Stimmer.
Nemlich, Keith,
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 letters (3 leaves) to Held. Nemlich writes about his
research on Rubens, and details his professional career.
Neubauer, Darle and Jost,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Neumeyer, Peter F.,
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the son of the German actor Alfred
Neumeyer.
Nevins, John P.,
1985,
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 1 letter to Held, 1 letter from Held, photocopy
of Cornelis Hofstede de Groot's statement authenticating a portrait painting by
Michiel van Miereveld, and printed matter concerning a landscape painting by
George Michel.
Newton, H. Travers,
1987-1991
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters from Newton to Held, and a letter to
Newton from Hans Vlieghe at Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de
XVIde en XVIIde Eeuw in Antwerp.
The New York Times,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (2 leaves, carbon copy): Held comments on a
New York Times obituary for
Max J. Friedländer.
Nieuwenhuis, Eric Domela,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding a seal on a painting by Paulus
Moreelse at Ponce Art Museum.
Nichols, Lawrence W.,
1992
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence concerning Hans Jantzen's article on Jan Gossaert and Hendrik
Goltzius published in 1911 in
Monatshefte.
Nicklos, Gordon E.,
1963
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding a painting attributed to David Teniers.
Nicolson, Benedict,
1968-1973
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held from Burlington Magazine Publications
Ltd. in London regarding various reviews by Held.
Niebuhr, Reinhold,
1979-1984
Scope and Content Note
3 letters (5 leaves) to Held.
Niklasch, Eva,
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Heilbronn, Germany regarding Wolf
Manasse. With a mention of a book on Jews in Heilbronn by Hans Franke.
Nochlin, Linda,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Held comments on
Nochlin's lecture on the image of the working woman in art. With a mention of
Jules Breton.
North-Hunningher, Isa [?]
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a former student at Barnard College.
Box 10, Folder 8
Lisa Oehler - Manuel Ortiz Lopez
Oehler, Lisa,
1969-1984
Scope and Content Note
5 letters to Held. Oehler thanks Held for his advise to
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel regarding a Dürer drawing.
Ollinger-Zinque, Gisèle,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
concerning a sketchbook by James Ensor. Annotated by Held.
Olson, Roberta J. M.,
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Held mentions
Olson's discovery of Halley's comet in Giotto's
Adoration. Annotated by Held.
Oppenheim, Irving J.,
1980-1986
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held concerning drawings in Oppenheim's
collection.
O'Reilly, William Edward,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art dealer [Salander-O'Reilly
Galleries, Inc. in New York]. With a mention of a painting by Alfred Henry
Maurer.
Ortiz Lopez, Manuel,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning Rubens's formula to prepare
paint. Annotated by Held.
Box 10, Folder 9
Bernard G. Palitz - Carol Purtle
Palitz, Bernard G.,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Pancoast, Virgilia H.,
1989
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held regarding a reference published in IFAR
[International Foundation for Art Research] reports.
Parke, Martha Leslie,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the artist. Parke describes how old
masters paintings inspire her own work.
Parkhurst, Charles,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with the director of Baltimore Museum of Art regarding a painting by Joachim
Wtewael.
Parshall, Peter W.,
1969
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian at Warburg
Institute in London. Parshall relates details concerning his work on
iconographic sources in work by Lucas van Leyden.
Parsons, Robert L.,
1960
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
regarding a Rubens painting at DeEtte Holden Cummer Museum Foundation in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Paul, Eberhard,
1995,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held (with photocopy) from an art
historian in Leipzig. Paul seeks Held's opinion on Rubens' painting
Christ carrying the cross.
Annotated by Held.
Peardon, Tom,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Peardon mentions Held's essay on Edward
Hicks.
Peckham, John Ford,
1969
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Pelz, Edward and Caroline Duncombe,
1993
Scope and Content Note
A circular letter.
Perlove, Shelley Karen,
1997
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held. Held mentions that he owns
Vision of Daniel, illustrated
in Menasseh ben Israel's book
Piedra
Gloriosa
.
Perre, Paul van der,
1959
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held and 1 letter to Held. Correspondence
concerning the poor condition of a woodcut by Christoffel Jegher.
Peters, Albert Edward,
1983-1991
Scope and Content Note
4 items (7 leaves): 3 letters to Held from an artist. With
Peters's curriculim vitae.
Peters, Susan D.,
1985
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (2 leaves) to Held. Peters mentions her research
on Elizabeth McCausland.
Placzek, Adolf K.,
1986,
1993
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the art historian.
Pfister, Hermann,
1985-1987
Scope and Content Note
5 items (8 leaves): 3 letters to Held and 2 letters from
Held. Personal correspondence.
Pittman, Geraldine,
1981
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding his lecturing at Marlboro
College in Marlboro, Vt.
Pomerantz, Louis,
1965
Scope and Content Note
6 items (8 leaves): 2 letters to Held, 1 letter from Held,
Held's letter to Robert L. Feller at the Mellon Institute, and a list of
slides. Correspondence concerning Held's lecture held at the ICC [International
Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works] in Philadelphia.
[See related correspondence filed under Mellon Institute in Box 14, F. 20.]
Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham, Sir,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Held accepts
invitation to join the consulting committee for
Age of Caravaggio exhibition organized at
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Preston, Frances Lawrence,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held. Held comments on Preston's
dissertation on Rembrandt.
Prinz, Wolfram,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian regarding Prinz's
essay published in
Art Bulletin.
Promey, Sally M.,
1995
Scope and Content Note
3 items (4 leaves): 2 letters to Held from an art history
teacher at University of Maryland in College Park, Md., and her course work
material. Promey seeks Held's permission to adapt his text
Pictures will
answer
for her teaching of art history.
Purtle, Carol,
1989
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (2 leaves) to Held. Purtle describes the
reception of Held's lecture by art history students at Memphis State
University.
Box 10, Folder 10
André Racz - Michael Rohe
Racz, André,
1983-1986
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Personal correspondence.
Ragle, Thomas B.,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held acknowledging Held's gift to Marlboro
College.
Randall, Julie,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. With a mention of an article about the
"Melnikas art fraud" [Anthony Melinkas].
Rausen, Lili,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (2 leaves) to Held.
Ravenel, Gaillard F.,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with the chief of design and installation at National Gallery of Art in
Washington DC, concerning a copy after Rubens.
Regteren Altena, I. Q. van (I. Quirijn),
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Reichling, Helmut,
1988
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Zweibrücker Kulturgutstiftung
Gehrlein-Fuchs concerning a portrait painting of Mrs. Gravaghi by Johann
Christian von Mannlich. With a mention of the composer Christoph Willibald
Gluck.
Reichsman, Franz,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. With a mention of "Mama and Papa
Tietze".
Reif, Jo-Ann,
1991-1996
Scope and Content Note
5 items (8 leaves): 4 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence with a former student at Barnard College. Held comments on
Reif's dissertation on Thomas Mann and Arnold Schönberg. Reif mentions a
Rubens painting owned by de Gunzburg family in Paris.
Reinecker, Hans A.,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Karen Blake on behalf of Hans A.
Reinecker concerning a Rubens painting.
Reznicek, E. K. J. (Emil Karel Josef),
1964
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
rich in detail concerning Flemish and Dutch drawings. Held comments on
Reznicek's catalog for an exhibition of drawings by Flemish and Dutch masters
at the Uffizi.
Rhyne, Charles S.,
1985
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
concerning Rhyne's research on preliminary large oil sketches. Artists
mentioned are van Dyck, Constable, and Watteau.
Rhyn, Jacqueline van,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from staff at Williams College Museum of
Art regarding the painting
Two heads by Alfred Henry
Maurer.
Ricke-Immel, Ute,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian. With a mention of
Anthony van Dyck and Carl [Karl] Müller.
Riedl, Peter Anselm,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian.
Rikala, Taina,
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held following her interview with Held for an
oral history project.
Riley, Richard,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the governor regarding Ellen
Lovell's candidacy for the NEA [National Endowment for the Arts].
Rinehart, Sheila,
1978-1995
Scope and Content Note
7 items: 6 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Reynolds, David P.,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the Chairman of the Board and CEO of
Reynolds Metals Building in Richmond, Va. asking the firm to establish a
re-cycling plant in the North-East part of the country.
Robbins, Daniel,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the director of Rhode Island School
of Design Museum of Art in Providence announcing a retrospective exhibition of
James Tissot.
Robertson, David,
1983,
1993
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held sent from Dickinson College in Carlisle,
Pa., and from Loyola University in Chicago. [See also correspondence filed in
Box 13, F. 34.]
Robinson, Franklin W.,
1981-1997
Scope and Content Note
5 letters to Held. Robinson mentions acquistion of several
artworks for Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Itaka, N.Y.
Robinson, M. S. (Michael Strang),
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding Robinson's work on a catalog of
paintings by father and son Willem van de Velde. With a mention of Duveen
records. Annotated by Held.
Robinson, William W.,
1979
Scope and Content Note
2 items (5 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Scholarly discussion about the meaning of the gesture symbolizing silence
in art, particularly in work by Nicolaes Maes and Jan Massys. Held mentions an
essay by Waldemar Deonna.
Robison, Andrew,
1997
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the curator at National Gallery of
Art in Washington D.C.
Roedig, Bernd,
1967-1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the director of Museum des
Siegerlandes in Siegen, Germany regardig Rubens sketches.
Rohe, Michael,
1993-1999
Scope and Content Note
19 items (20 leaves): 6 letters to Held, 4 letters from
Held, 8 photographs, including 7 in color, and 1 color transparency.
Correspondence with the art dealer in Munich concerning an Andromeda sketch
sold at Dorotheum in Vienna, an oil sketch by Cornelis Schut, and an oil sketch
of the Christ child sitting on the lap of the Virgin, with a monogram of
Michiel Vriendt on the back of the panel. [Color photographs and color
transparency are shelved in Box 159, F. 7.]
Box 10, Folder 11
Margaret Roland - H. Diane Russell
Roland, Margaret,
1972-1979
Scope and Content Note
5 items: 4 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding Roland's dissertation on Anthony van Dyck. Discussed
are
Negro heads [Four studies of a male
head ]
,
Crucifixion of St. Peter, and
Drunken Silenus.
Romagnoli, Carlo,
1995
Scope and Content Note
11 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence concerning attribution of paintings
Portrait of a woman to
Giovanni Bernardo Carbone and
Loth and his daughters to
Anthony van Dyck. Included are reports regarding both paintings by Maurizio
Marini, Carlo Romagnoli, Giusto Matzeu, and Cesare Bellini; a letter from
Vermont National Bank to Romagnoli regarding a fee; a color transparency; and 2
photographs of the paintings, including on ein color. [Color photograph and
color transparency are shelved in Box 159, F. 8.]
Rose, Anne C.,
1994,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held, 1 letter from Held, and copy of
a receipt. Rose invites Held to participate in a Penn State lecture series
about the Holocaust.
Rose, Barbara,
1981
Scope and Content Note
6 items: 3 letters to Held and 3 letters from Held.
Correspondence with the curator at Houston Museum of Fine Arts regarding plans
for a Rubens exhibition. Rose mentions her talk on the influence of Rubens on
American art and patricularly on the work of Jackson Pollock.
Rose, Eileen,
1973
Scope and Content Note
2 items (4 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence regarding
Antwerp's Golden Age, an
exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution.
Rosen, Susan E.,
1970
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Rosenthal, Donald,
1979
Scope and Content Note
2 items: a letter to Held and printed matter from the
curator at Memorial Art Gallery at University of Rochester regarding a painting
by Jan Bruegel owned by Dr. Geib. Annotated by Held.
Rosenthal, Gertrude,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Rosenthal comments on Held's essay on
aging artists published in
Art Journal.
Rosenthal, Jane,
1981-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters (5 leaves) to Held, including an undated letter
[ca. 1953-1957?] concerning drawings by Rubens.
Rosin, Axel,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Rousseau, Theodore Jr.,
1950
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held and 1 letter to Held. Correspondence
with the curator of paintings at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
regarding a Rubens painting from the Koppel collection. [Also see items filed
in Box 81, F.34.]
Röver-Kann, Anne,
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Anne Röver-Kann at Kunsthalle
Bremen regarding 362 drawings, including artwork by Rubens and van Dyck,
removed [from Kunsthalle Bremen?] in 1945 and deposited at a museum in Moscow.
Rowlands, Eliot Wooldridge,
1981
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Rowlands, John,
1982
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter from Rowlands to Held and a letter from
A. V. Griffith to Walter Strauss at Abaris Books in New York. Correspondence
with Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in London
regarding photography permit for
Illustrated
Bartsch
series.
Rozman, Ksenija,
1982,
1987,
undated
Scope and Content Note
5 letters (6 leaves) to Held from Rozman at Narodna
Galerija in Ljubljana. Rozman mentions artwork by Francesco Caucig, Van Dyck,
and Paul Bril, and drawings by Ubaldo Gandolfi and Felice Giani from Held's
collection at the Clark Art Institute.
Rubin, Ida Ely,
1982
Scope and Content Note
3 items (4 leaves): 1 letter to Held from Rubin and copies
of Rubin's correspondence with the ambassador of Portugal in Greece Alfredo
Lencastre da Veiga. Correspondence concerning attribution of an
Adoration of the Magi painting
to Rubens, and the topic of 17th century copies on copper.
Russell, Diane H.,
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the curator of old master prints at
National Gallery of Art in washington D.C.: scheduling a meeting with Held at
Clark Institute in Williamstown.
Box 11
Vadim A. Sadkov - Unidentified
Folder 1
Vadim A. Sadkov - Hein-Th. Schulze Altcappenberg
Sadkov, Vadim A.,
1981,
undated
Scope and Content Note
5 letters: Held to Armand Hammer, Dennis A. Gould to Held,
Held to the Russian curator Sadkov, and 2 letters from Sadkov to Held.
Correspondence regarding sending
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
to Sadkov.
Safire, William,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the
New York Times
Magazine
regarding the metaphoric meaning of a bubble or a transparent
container in paintings by Bosch and Bruegel.
Sakowski, Rainer,
1997
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Salinger, Margaretta M.,
1968-1973
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held from Salinger at Metropolitan Museum of
Art concerning Theodore Rousseau's essay on "casket Iliad", and artwork by
Rubens and Titian. With a mention of Michael Jaffé. Annotated by
Held.
Sanguinetti, E. Frank (Eugene Frank),
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Held from the director of Utah
Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City concerning an artwork by Alexander Helwig
Wyant. With a mention of an essay by Robert S. Olpin.
Sawyer, John E.,
1972
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held and 2 letters from Held. Correspondence
with the president of Williams College regarding honorary degree awarded to
Held.
Scallen, Catherine,
1986-1990
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 3 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held. Scallen
writes extensively about her interest in images of scholars by Rembrandt, and
about her dissertation on Rembrandt's etchings of St. Jerome. She also relates
details regarding Rubens attribution of the painting
Four heads of a Negro [Four studies of
a male head ]
at J. Paul Getty Museum.
Schaar, [Eckard?],
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to Dr. Schaar regarding a copy of a
drawing by Titian.
Schleif, Corine,
1993-1995
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Also
present is Schleif's paper on the post-war relations between German and North
American art historians read at the 1993 CAA conference, annotated by Held.
Schnackenburg, Bernhard,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. With a mention of [Joachim?] Beuckelaer.
Schöffler, R[?],
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Darmstadt.
Schöffler, Hans,
1993-1997
Scope and Content Note
3 personal letters (4 leaves) to Held. Schöffler
mentions meeting Held in Mosbach.
Scholz, János,
1969
Scope and Content Note
1 letter [from the cellist?] commenting on Held's essay
about a Jacob Jordaens exhibition, published in the
Burlington Magazine. [See also items filed in
Box 63, F.11.]
Schüler-Kahn, Hanna,
1984,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 items (4 leaves): 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence concerning the text for a tablet commemorating the 1938
destruction of the Mosbach Synagogue. Schüler-Kahn also comments on the
cultural life and the political conflict in Israel. With a mention of Armand
Hammer and the opening of an Armand Hammer exhibition at the Israel Museum.
Schulze Altcappenberg, Hein-Th.,
1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held and 2 letters from Held.
Correspondence concerning various drawings (Joannes Puyttinck, Joannes van
Orley, Poelenburgh) in the collection of Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, including
copies after Jordaens and Rubens.
Box 11, Folder 2
Anne A. Scitovsky - David R. Smith
Scitovsky, Anne A.,
1987,
1992
Scope and Content Note
11 items (12 leaves): 7 letters to Held, 3 letters from
Held, and 1 photograph. Correspondence with a former student at Barnard
College.
Seilern, Antoine, Count,
1959,
1970
Scope and Content Note
2 thank-you letters to Held.
Selig, J. Daniel,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding the Rubens attribution of an
Orpheus and Eurydice painting in the
collection of Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery. Annotated by Held.
Seller, M. Charles,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held scheduling Held's visit to Harrisburg.
Only page 2 is present in the archive.
Shapiro, Michael,
1981
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian. Shapiro writes
about his teaching at Duke University.
Sheon, Aaron,
1979
Scope and Content Note
3 items (5 leaves): 2 letters to Held and Sheon's NEH
[National Endowment for the Humanities] research proposal titled
"Nineteenth-century art and mental illness".
Shestack, Alan,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of Yale University Art
Gallery regarding exhibition of Hans Baldung Grien.
Shickman, Herman,
1990,
1996
Scope and Content Note
2 thank-you letters from Held.
Shifton, Anne,
1979,
1984
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Shifton mentions her artwork in enamel.
Simmel, Rivka,
1998
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
concerning attribution of an oil sketch of Venus and Adonis to Rubens.
Simons, C. A. J.,
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 items: Simons's inaugural lecture "Kiezen tussen
verscheidenheid en uniformiteit", given at Erasmus University in Rotterdam,
published by the Nederlands Normalisatie-instituut. With Simons's handwritten
note to Held tipped in. Also present is Held's reply.
Simons, David,
1979-1988?
Scope and Content Note
5 letters (6 leaves) to Held from David Simons in Hague,
Netherlands.
Sinnott, Francesca,
1993
Scope and Content Note
4 items (10 leaves): 1 letter from Held and 3 letters to
Held. Personal correspondence with the sister-in-law of Fred Noske [Frits
Noske?].
Sip, Jaromír,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to the Czech art historian. Incomplete,
only the first page is present in the archive.
Slatkes, Leonard,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Slatkes writes about his book
Rembrandt and
Persia
, the painting
Polish rider, and mentions his
work for the
Illustrated Bartsch
series.
Souter, David,
1991
Scope and Content Note
Held's letter to the Supreme Court Justice on the occasion
of his confirmation hearings.
Smith, David R.,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian at University of
New Hampshire in Durham. Smith mentions his two essays on Rembrandt.
Box 11, Folder 3
Barbara Bonner-Socarides - C. O. Swayzee
Socarides, Barbara Bonner,
1982
Scope and Content Note
3 items (4 leaves): Socarides invites Held to join the
advisory board of her firm Bonner and Company.
Sonia [?],
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to a student at Barnard College.
Soussloff, Catherine M.,
1985
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with the art historian concerning old age styles.
Spangenberg, Kristin L.,
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
7 items: 4 letters to Held and 3 letters from Held.
Correspondence with the curator at Cincinnati Art Museum concerning attribution
of drawings in the museum's collection to Rubens, van Dyck, and Peter van Mol.
Spangenberg's letters are annotated by Held.
Spear, Richard E.,
1987,
1992
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter from Held to the editor of
Art Bulletin,
annotated typescript of Held's essay "Rembrandt's painting Jacob blessing
Ephraim and Manasseh", and Spear's letter to Held.
Spector, Jack J.,
1968,
1983
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Spiro, M.,
1986
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 2 letters to Held, including 1 copy and 1 letter
from Held. Correspondence concerning attribution of an oil sketch to Rubens.
Annotated by Held.
Sprinson, Mary,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a research assistant at Metropolitan
Museum of Art regarding an inscription.
Stahl, Harvey,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held regarding a symposium on old age styles.
Stampfle, Felice,
1968-1988
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held from the curator at Pierpont Morgan
Library. Stampfle writes about the symbolic meaning of various attributes of
Virtues.
Steadman, David W. (David Wilton),
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Princeton University Art Museum
regarding a manuscript. Steadman mentions the Devonshire Archduchess Isabella
Clara and the Marchesa Lomellini Durazzo.
Stein, Adolphe,
1971
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held regarding attribution of a drawing from
M. van Gelder collection to Rubens.
Stewart, J. Douglas,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with art history professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Held
comments extensively on Stewart's review of Christopher Brown's book on van
Dyck.
Strauss, Alice Hanauer,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 congratulatory letter to Held.
Strauss, Lewis L.,
1954
Scope and Content Note
1 congratulatory letter to Held.
Sühnel, Rudolf,
1984
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter from Held and a press clipping. Held
mentions a drawing by Daniel Chodowiecki which was possibly used to illustrate
James Thomson's poem "Seasons".
Swayzee, C. O.,
1989
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you card to Held from a former student at Barnard
College.
Box 11, Folder 4
Werner Taegert - Eleanor Tufts
Taegert, Werner,
1982
Scope and Content Note
3 items: Taegert's correspondence with Princeton
University Press (Krysia Kolodziej) regarding reprinting of the
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
and 1 letter from Taegert to Held.
Tarica, Alain,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from an art dealer in Paris.
Tatenhove, Janno van,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held to Tatenhove at Prentenkabinet,
Kunsthistorisch Instituut in Leiden concerning attribution of a drawing to Jan
Goeree. Held mentions a drawing by De Wit from his private collection at the
National Gallery in Washington.
Taylor, Sherril W.,
1999?
Scope and Content Note
3 items (7 leaves): 1 thank-you letter to Held, a list of
Taylor's career highlights and accomplishments, and a news release by Coltrin
& Associates regarding Taylor.
Teetor, Katherine,
1984,
1997
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Thomas Elliott, Eleanor,
1988
Scope and Content Note
6 items: 1 letter to Held, a photograph [of Eleanor Thomas
Elliott?] with a male companion, a note, and press clippings regarding the
death of Dorothy Read Thomas.
Tufts, Eleanor,
1980
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Tufts from Maurice Cope, 1 letter
from Tufts to Held, and photocopy of a print by Diana Ghisi [i.e. Diana
Scultori]. Cope's letter is annotated by Held. Correspondence concerning
Ghisi's print in Cope's private collection.
Box 11, Folder 5
Horst Uhr - Charles T. Upjohn
Uhr, Horst,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
rich in detail concerning Uhr's dissertation research on Lovis Corinth.
Union Bank of Switzerland,
1979
Scope and Content Note
7 items (10 leaves): 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Correspondence concerning attribution of the painting
Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of
Arundel
to Anthony van Dyck. Included are photocopies of opinions by
Ludwig Burchard, Max J. Friedländer, Ludwig von Baldass, and Hermann Voss,
and a typescript in German (4 pages) about the painting.
Upjohn, Charles T.,
1973
Scope and Content Note
3 items (4 leaves): 1 letter to Held, 1 letter from Held,
and a photograph of a portrait painting of Lawrence Sterne. Upjohn relates
details regarding the provenance of the painting.
Box 11, Folder 6
R. W. G. Vail - Ary Bob de Vries
Vail, R. W. G. (Robert William Glenroie),
1951
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of New-York Historical
Society regarding Held's article on Edward Hicks.
Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold.,
1955
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding Held's attribution of a painting to van [Jacob?] van
Oost. With a mention of Theodor van Loon and an exhibition of Anthony van Dyck.
Veen, Stuyvesant van,
1971,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the artist. With a mention of
Daniel Goldberg and "the Ullendorffs".
Veldman, Ilja M.,
1989
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held. Veldman mentions his book on Martin van
Heemskerck.
Veronee-Verhaegen, Nicole,
1990
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Vermont Department of Corrections,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held and a press clipping.
Victoria and Albert Museum,
1932
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held, signed by van de Put regarding a
photograph requested by Held. With a mention of Dr. Irene Adler from "Vienna
Museum".
Voet, Léon,
1969,
1979
Scope and Content Note
4 items (6 leaves): 1 letter from Held, 2 letters to Held
and minutes of the directors' meeting of American Friends of the
Plantin-Moretus Museum (typescript). Correspondence with the director of
Plantin-Moretus-Museum in Antwerp. [See also correspondence with American
Friends of the Plantin-Moretus Museum filed in Box 13, F.2.]
Volz, Robert L.,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the custodian at Chapin Library,
Williams College.
Vries, A. B. de (Ary Bob),
1971-1973
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence with the former director of Mauritshuis in Hague, Netherlands
regarding attribution of various artworks to Rubens and van Dyck.
Box 11, Folder 7
Otto Wächter - Michael Wynne
Wächter, Otto,
1985
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 2 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence with a conservator at Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in
Vienna regarding an oil sketch. With a photocopy of the artwork.
Wallade, Ruth,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Walsh, Maureen S.,
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Held writes about
aspects of methodical processes by which attributions and exclusions are made.
Wankmüller, Rike,
1974-1975
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from Oberfinanzdirektion München.
Included is a list of oil sketches by Rubens which the Central Collecting Point
returned to their previous locations between 1945 and 1947. Annotated by Held.
Warburg Institute,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Carla Lord at American Friends of
the Warburg Institute in New York soliciting financial support.
Watering, Willem L. van de,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische
Documentatie in Hague, Netherlands concerning transcription and translation of
a poem by Jacob Cats and the seal in a portrait by Arnoldus van Ravensteyn.
Weber, Bruce,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held and 1 letter from Held. Correspondence
with a curator at Norton Gallery & School of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Held lists several silverpoint drawings in his collection.
Wedenberg, Erik,
1987
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held from the Swedish scientist and a
color photograph of Wedenberg's house. Wedenberg writes about his research on
hearing impairment in children. Annotated by Held. [Color photograph is shelved
in Box 159, F. 9.]
Weeks, Edward F.,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a curator at Birmingham Museum of
Art concerning attribution of a drawing to Rubens. With a mention of Giuliano
Cesari's collection of old master drawings.
Wegmann, Frederick,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held.
Weil, Phoebe,
1992-1996
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from the art conservator. With a mention
of the art conservator Giovanni Morigi in Bologna.
Welliver, Warman,
1960
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held. Welliver relates details concerning his
research on Botticelli.
Wethey, Harold E. (Harold Edwin),
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from an art historian regarding Rubens'
portrait of Charles V in armor from the Zambeccari collection.
Weyman, Todd D.,
1995
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the director of Swann Galleries in
New York regarding prints by Anthonis Sallaert.
The White House,
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held regarding media presentation of
proceedings marking conclusion of peace between Israel and Jordan.
Wiedenhoeft, Ronald V.,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held asking for opinion on a grant proposal
submitted to the NEH [National Endowment for the Humanities]. Wiedenhoeft also
mentions his essay on workers' housing in Berlin in the 1920s.
Wilkins, David G.,
1986
Scope and Content Note
3 items (4 leaves): 2 letters to Held from the director of
University Art Gallery at University of Pittsburgh and 1 letter from Held.
Wilkins writes about his publications and lecturing activities, and seeks
Held's opinion about [Rembrandt's?] portraits of the apothecary Abraham Francen
and the calligrapher Lieven van Coppenol.
Williamson, Mary F.,
1980
Scope and Content Note
3 items: 1 letter to Held, 1 letter from Held, and
photocopy of a drawing. Correspondence concerning attribution of the drawing to
Vincenzo Dandini.
Wilson, Kit,
1984,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 items (3 leaves): 1 letter to Held and 1 letter from
Held. Held comments on Wilson's essay on Rembrandt.
Wilson, William Harry,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a curator at John and Mable Ringling
Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla. concerning attribution of a portrait painting
of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia to Rubens. Annotated by Held.
Wise, Susan,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a curator at Art Institute of
Chicago regarding attribution of two paintings to van Dyck.
Wirtala, Arthur O.,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 letter (2 leaves) to Held from a radiologist at Stevens
Memorial Hospital in Edmonds, Wash. Wirtala explains the capability of
radiography in disclosing images drawn on paper.
Witten, Elaine Franz,
1998
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held on a card illustrated by Witten.
Wolf, Fritz,
1994
Scope and Content Note
4 personal letters sent from Nahariya in Israel, including
1 to Held, 2 letters to Anna, and 1 letter to Ben. With a mention of sAlbert
Einstein.
Woodall, Joanna,
1989
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from an art historian teaching at
Courtauld Institute of Art in London concerning Rubens's painting
Samson and Delilah.
Worcester Art Museum,
1984
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 1 letter to Held from the librarian Kathy Berg, 1
letter to Held, a list of books in Swedish, and a 1936 symposium announcement
(photocopy).
Worklan, Mary Anm T.,
1990
Scope and Content Note
5 items (7 leaves): 1 letter to Held from the director of
MacArthur Fellows Program, and printed matter. Concerning nomination of Barbara
Novak.
Wunder, Richard P.,
1999
Scope and Content Note
4 items: 1 letter from Held, 2 letters to Held, and 1
photograph. Correspondence regarding attribution of a painting depicting a monk
in Wunder's collection.
Wyatt, William Stanley,
1990
Scope and Content Note
2 items: 1 letter to Held regarding attribution of a
painting, and printed matter.
Wynne, Michael,
1970-1971,
undated
Scope and Content Note
13 items (15 leaves): 5 letters to Held and 2 letters from
Held. Correspondence with the assistant director of National Gallery of Ireland
in Dublin concerning drawings and mezzotints by Thomas Frye and the attribution
of Frye's artwork to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Also included are 2 letters
to Held from Seattle Art Museum regarding attribution by Frye of drawings from
the Krautheimer collection, and 2 typescripts concerning drawings by Albrecht
Dürer.
Box 11, Folder 8
Abraham Shalom Yahuda - An Zwollo
Yahuda, Abraham Shalom,
1926
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Held, dated Feb. 19 1926, typed on
letterhead of Kaufhaus M. Held Mosbach (Baden), in which Held offers for sale
18th-century prints. With a mention of Mrs. Garbell, A. Politzer, and Max
Ziegert. [Photocopy of original at Dept. of Manuscripts and Archives, Jewish
National and University Library, Jerusalem. Further provenance information
available in Getty Research Library research files].
Yardley, Michael,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from an art history teacher at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, N.J. regarding footnotes in Yardley's essay on
Rubens's house in Antwerp.
Ypersele de Strihou, Anne van,
1970
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held concerning attribution of the painting
Lapidation de St. Etienne to
Rubens.
Zafran, Eric M.,
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from a curator at High Museum of Art in
Atlanta, Ga. concerning attribution of several artworks in the museum's
collection. Zafran mentions [Oratio?] Peruzzi [Perucci], van Balen, and Jan
Pietersz.
Zeri, Federico,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 thank-you letter to Held.
Zöllner, Frank,
1990
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome
regarding Rubens attribution of a copy after Leonardo's
Battle of Anghiari.
Zupnick, Irving L.,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from the art historian. Zupnik writes
about his various research interests.
Zwollo, An,
1981-1983
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische
Documentatie in Hague, Netherlands. With a mention of Felice Stampfle. Zwollo
also mentions Held's offer to send photographs of Dutch and Flemish paintings
at Ponce Art Museum to RKD.
Box 11, Folder 9
Unidentified,
1998,
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held from two unidentified people: a letter
signed "Jan" sent from Eindhoven in 198?; a letter dated Nov. 20, 1998,
signature illegible.
Series I.C.
Publishers,
1965-1993
Physical Description:
3 boxes
1.26 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
This subseries comprises correspondence with editorial and
administrative staff of several publishing firms. Numerous letters are
extensively annotated by Held. The principal topic is the publication of Held's
own books and essays, though his reviews and commentaries of texts by other
scholars are also mentioned. The largest portion (ca. 280 items) constitutes
correspondence with Princeton University Press, which primarily details the
publication of the
Oil sketches of Peter Paul
Rubens
and the reissue of
Rembrandt's Aristotle and
other Rembrandt studies
. A related group presents correspondence with
Phaidon Press Limited, also concerning the publication of
Oil sketches of Peter Paul
Rubens.
Substantially represented is correspondence with Harry N.
Abrams and with La Connaissance.
Box 12
Abaris Books - Princeton University Press
Box 12, Folder 1
Abaris Books, Inc.,
1981-1984
Scope and Content Note
4 items (5 leaves): 3 letters to Held fromWalter L. Strauss,
and Strauss's letter to Philippe de Montebello at Metropolitan Museum of Art
and to Charles Ryskamp at Pierpont Morgan Library. Correspondence concerning
the
Illustrated
Bartsch
series.
Box 12, Folder 2
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
1965-1993
Scope and Content Note
22 items (26 leaves). Correspondence concerning the editing
and publishing process, reviews, sales and reprinting of
17th and 18th century
art
by Held and Donald Posner. Held comments on Bob Haak's book the
Golden Age: Dutch
painters of the seventeenth century
.
Box 12, Folder 3
Apollo Magazine Limited,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Held from Denys Sutton.
Box 12, Folder 4
Archives of American Art, New England Area Center,
1978-1992
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to Held from Robert F. Brown concerning the sale
of Held's papers to the Archives of American Art.
Box 12, Folder 5
Art Bulletin,
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
2 letters (3 leaves) from Held regarding his manuscript on
Rubens's group-portrait at the Pitti. Held also comments on Walter S. Melion's
essay on Hendrick Goltzius.
Box 12, Folder 6
The Bobbs Merrill Company Inc.,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Held.
Box 12, Folder 7
La Connaissance s.a.,
1968-1974
Scope and Content Note
16 items. Correspondence concerning the English edition of
Max J. Friedländer's
Early Netherlandish
painting
, and the painting
Virgin Enthroned by Jan Provost.
Box 12, Folder 8
Phaidon Press Limited,
1968-1987,
undated
Scope and Content Note
ca. 38 items (52 leaves). Correspondence concerning
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
. With a list of Rubens' sketches, extensively annotated by
Held.
Box 12, Folder 9
Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. Publishers,
1968
Scope and Content Note
6 items: 5 letters to Held and 1 letter from Held.
Correspondence regarding Held's lectures on connoisseurship.
Box 12, Folder 10
Princeton University Press,
1967-1974,
undated
Scope and Content Note
7 items (11 leaves). Included is Held's letter to Ulla
Krempel at Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, and a note regarding
Auferstehung der Seligen by
Johannes Boekhorst.
Box 12, Folder 11
Princeton University Press,
1976
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 items (36 leaves). Correspondence with National
Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and Princeton
University Press regarding
The oil sketches of
Peter Paul Rubens
. Also present is Held's correspondence with John
Rupert Martin concerning Martin's book the
Ceiling paintings for
the Jesuit Church in Antwerp
. [See also Held's correspondence with
Martin filed in Box 4, F. 19.]
Box 12, Folder 12
Princeton University Press,
1977
Scope and Content Note
ca. 45 items (53 leaves). Correspondence with Princeton
University Press, National Gallery of Art, Yale Center for British Art and
British Studies, and Frans Baudouin and Gaston Dulière in Belgium. The
letters detail the editing process of the book the
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
and advertising brochure. Included is related
correspondence with Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY and Patrimoine des
Musées royaux des beaux-arts in Brussels. A letter to Held from Justus
Müller Hofstede at Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Bonn
concerns Rubens' paintings at Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt.
Box 12, Folder 13
Princeton University Press,
1978
Scope and Content Note
ca. 25 items (on 39 leaves). Correspondence with Princeton
University Press concerning the editing process of the
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
. Included are several readers' reports, annotated by Held.
Also present is a letter to Held from John Rubert Martin with a list of works
by van Dyck, extensively annotated [by Martin?].
Box 12, Folder 14
Princeton University Press,
1979
Scope and Content Note
ca. 33 items (45 leaves). Held's correspondence with
Princeton University Press and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
concerning the editing process of the
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
.
Box 12, Folder 15
Princeton University Press,
1980
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 items (23 leaves). Correspondence with Princeton
University Press and National Gallery of Art concerning the final editing
process of the
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
. Also discussed is the selection of scholars who would
review the book when published
Box 12, Folder 16
Princeton University Press,
1981
Scope and Content Note
30 items (35 leaves). Correspondence with Princeton
University Press and National Gallery of Art concerning promotion and
distribution of the
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
, and Held's revenues. Also discussed is the transfer of
copyrights for
Rembrandt's Aristotle
and other Rembrandt studies
to Held. Included is a related letter from
The Everest Record Group to Princeton University Press and Held's letter
addressed to "Charlie".
Box 12, Folder 17
Princeton University Press,
1982-1984
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 items (16 leaves). Correspondence with Princeton
University Press mainly regarding payments for the
Oil sketches of Peter
Paul Rubens
. Two invoices.
Box 12, Folder 18
Princeton University Press,
1987
Scope and Content Note
19 items, including several handwritten notes.
Correspondence with Princeton University Press concerning Held's report on
Felice Stampfle's book on Netherlandish drawings at the Pierpont Morgan
Library. Also discussed is the sale of Gary Schwartz's publishing firm to
Princeton University Press, and the selection of photographs from Held's
personal collection for the Millen/Wolf manuscript [
Heroic deeds and mystic
figures
]. [See related correspondence with Millen and Wolf filed in Box
8, F. 5.]
Box 12, Folder 19
Princeton University Press,
1988
Scope and Content Note
6 items (14 leaves): 3 letters to Held, 2 letters from Held,
and illustrated matter. Correspondence with Princeton University Press
