Finding Aid for the Myron Chester Nutting Papers, 1900-1971
Processed by Saundra Taylor; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid for the Myron Chester Nutting Papers, 1900-1971
Collection number: 2008
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
- Processed by:
- Saundra Taylor, December 1972, revised October 1973
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, November 2003
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Myron Chester Nutting Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1900-1971
Collection number: 2008
Creator:
Nutting, Myron Chester, 1890-1972
Extent: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold
the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Myron Chester Nutting Papers (Collection 2008). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, memorabilia, genealogical material, clippings, manuscript material, and photographs
of the paintings of Los Angeles artist Myron Nutting. Manuscripts include lectures, speeches, and notes by Nutting, holograph
notes about him made by Edward Gordon Craig, and notes and personal observations made by his wife Muriel Nutting of James
Joyce during the 1920s.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Nutting, Myron Chester, 1890-1972--Archives.
Painters--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Photographs.
Items Removed from Collection
Removed from collection for separate cataloging:
-
ATYS. Occasional Broadsheet of Art and Literature. Rome, published occasionally (no.1,
Date: November 1918
- vol.3, no.14,
Date: December 1921
).
Related Material
An artist's life and travels [oral history transcript] / Myron C. Nutting, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, c. 1972. Available at
the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Container List
Correspondence and Memorabilia
Box 1, Folder 1
Letters to M. Nutting, ca. 1898-1971.
Box 1, Folder 2
Letters to M. Nutting from Ramon Guthrie, 1951-1971.
Box 1, Folder 3
Letters to M. Nutting, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 4
Letters from Nutting, n.d.
Physical Description: [2 copies].
Box 1, Folder 5
Letters to Mrs. Nutting, ca. 1919-1930.
Box 1, Folder 6
Miscellaneous correspondence - letters from "Cham" to Nix on
Masses letterhead.
Box 1, Folder 7
Council of Allied Artists - notes, roster of members, copies of
Council News.
Box 1, Folder 8
Photographs.
Physical Description: [l0 pieces].
Box 1, Folder 9
Ephemera.
Physical Description: [4 pieces].
Box 1, Folder 10
Memorabilia.
Physical Description: [6 items].
Scope and Content Note
Includes: drawing (sketch) autograph book; diary volume, ca. 1902-03.
Box 1, Folder 11
Family memorabilia - notebook of MN's mother, Ida Carpenter.
Box 1, Folder 12
Nutting genealogy notes.
Physical Description: [3 notebooks].
Nutting Genealogy and Photographs of MN's Paintings
Box 2, Folder 1
Rev. John Keep Nutting,
Nutting Geneology. A record of some of the descendants of John Nutting of Groton, Massachusetts. Syracuse, New York: Bardeen, 1908.
Physical Description: 277 leaves.
Box 2, Folder 2
Homer Brainard,
Genealogy of First Four Generations and Names of Fifth Generation of Male Descendants of John Nutting of Groton Massachusetts. Faribualt, Minnesota: Walter Nutting, 1927.
Physical Description: 52 pieces.
Photographs of Myron Nutting's Paintings
Note
(for a discussion of the paintings, see Nutting Oral History volume 300/87)
Box 2, Folder 3
Almalfi and Rome, ca. 1914-18
Physical Description: [4 photos].
Box 2, Folder 4
Florence, 1914.
Physical Description: [2 photos].
Box 2, Folder 5
Munich, ca. 1913-14.
Physical Description: [3 photos].
Box 2, Folder 6
Corsica, ca. 1924.
Physical Description: [6 photos].
Box 2, Folder 7
Paris - portraits, ca. 1922-27.
Physical Description: [19 photos].
Box 2, Folder 8
Paris, ca. 1921-29.
Physical Description: [40 photos].
Box 2, Folder 9
Milwaukee, ca. 1933-39.
Physical Description: [26 photos].
Box 2, Folder 10
Los Angeles, ca. 1940-55.
Physical Description: [24 photos].
Box 2, Folders 11-12
Duplicates of above.
Physical Description: [102 photos].
Box 3, Folder 1
Edward Gordon Craig - holograph notes about EGC.
Box 3, Folder 2
Carl Eppert - includes holograph sheet music; autographed photograph of Eppert; and clippings.
Physical Description: [10 pieces].
Box 3, Folder 3
James Joyce - holograph notes and research materials.
Box 3, Folder 6
M. Nutting manuscripts of lectures, speeches, and notes toward an autobiography.
Box 3, Folder 7
M. Nutting manuscript notes on various acquaintances - Wyndham Lewis, Elmer Rice, etc.
Box 3, Folder 8
Journey Through Shakespeare, 1926-1946. Printed, as a manuscript, by Mary O'Dwyer. Limited to 50 copies. Hollywood, 1946.
Creator/Collector: Boris Serge Glagolin, 1879- .
Physical Description: [Presentation copy].
Oversize box 4
2 scrapbooks of Myron C. Nutting clippings, ca. 1923-1958.
