INVENTORY OF THE ALEXANDER LIBERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE, 1911-1998, undated

Series I. Artists and personalities, 1911-1995, undated

Physical Description: 169.0 linear feet (185 boxes, 4 flat files)

Scope and Content Note

This series comprises 8x10, 11x14 and oversize photographs as well as transparencies, negatives and slides of mostly artists and personalities including some of the most important artists in the twentieth-century such as Braque, Dali, De Kooning, Duchamp, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Matisse, Picasso and Rothko. Also included are some miscellaneous photographs of places and Greek antiquities filed by Liberman.

Some photographs with labels from Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibition, The Artist in His Studio: An Exhibition of Photographs by Alexander Liberman from October 29, 1959 to January 10, 1960.

Number of unique images applies only to black-and-white photographs, boxes 1-80, and is only an estimation of unique images found with duplicates.

Connect to selected digitized images from Series I. Artists and personalities.

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically with unidentified and miscellaneous materials at the end.

Alloway, Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. [Lawrence Alloway and Sylvia Sleigh], 1962-1964

Box 1, Folder 1

Photographs, 1964

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

Some photographs with group of artists including: Helen Frankenthaler; Alexander Liberman; Robert Motherwell; Barnett Newman. 4 unique images.

Box 1, Folder 2

Photographs, 1962

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique images.

Box 1, Folder 3

Amory, Chessy, undated

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Box 1, Folder 4

Archardon [Vidal], Louise, 1929-1930

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Arp, Jean, 1957-1959, undated

Black-and-white photographs, 1957-1959, undated

Box 1, Folder 5

Photographs, 1959

Physical Description: 11 prints

Box 1, Folder 6

Photographs, circa 1957-1959

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 1, Folder 7

Photographs, 1959

Physical Description: 5 items

Scope and Content Note

One is a photocopy. 4 unique images.

Box 1, Folder 8-9

Photographs, 1959

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 81-82

Photographs, 1957-1959

Physical Description: 53 prints

Scope and Content Note

Three photographs with Madame Arp. Circa 12x16 prints.

Box 101*

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 162

Transparencies, 1957-1959

Box 1, Folder 10-11

Bailey, David, and Penelope Tree, 1971

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Balthus, undated

Box 2, Folder 1-2

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 101*

Oversize

Physical Description: 5 prints

Box 2, Folder 3-6

Barbut, Denise, 1995

Physical Description: 33 prints

Scope and Content Note

20 unique images.

Box 2, Folder 7

Bobo, 1964

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

Dolly Goulandris's poodle. 1 unique image.

Box 2, Folder 8

Bouche, Rene, undated

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

One includes Schouvaleff, Tischisner. 2 unique images.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1991

Box 2, Folder 9

With Baryshnikov's son, Joseph Brodsky, and Elena Tchernichova

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Box 2, Folder 10

With Lisa Rinehart and their son

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

11 unique images.

Box 2, Folder 11

Baryshnikov's son

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with Elena Tchernichova. 6 unique images.

Box 2, Folder 12

With Lisa Rinehart with their son, and Joseph Brodsky and Elena Tchernichova

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique images.

Box 2, Folder 13

With Baryshnikov's son, and Joseph Brodsky and Elena Tchernichova

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 3, Folder 1

With Joseph Brodsky

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 3, Folder 2

Joseph Brodsky, Elena Tchernichova, Melinda Pechangco, and two unidentified men

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 3, Folder 3

With Lisa Rinehart and their son, Joseph Brodsky and Elena Tchernichova

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Bazaine, Jean, 1954-1960

Black-and-white photographs, 1954-1960, undated

Box 3, Folder 4

Photographs, 1958-1960

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

Two with labels from Museum of Modern Art exhibition. 5 unique images.

Box 3, Folder 5

Photographs, circa 1956-1958

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 3, Folder 6

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 3, Folder 7

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

Four photographs with his daughter. 8 unique images.

Box 3, Folder 8

Photographs, circa 1956-1958

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of his studio. 6 unique images.

Box 3, Folder 9

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

Each mounted on board. 3 unique images.

Box 101*

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 4 prints

Box 163

Transparencies, undated

Box 4, Folder 1-6

Beaton, Cecil, 1965

Physical Description: 53 prints

Scope and Content Note

44 unique images.

Box 4, Folder 7

Blagden, undated

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Bolger, Ray, circa 1940-1941

Box 4, Folder 8

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 14 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 164

Transparencies

Bonnard, Pierre, 1955

Black-and-white photographs

Box 4, Folder 9-12

Photographs

Physical Description: 19 prints

Scope and Content Note

12 unique images.

Box 101*

Oversize

Physical Description: 18 prints

Color photographs

Box 147, Folder 1

Bathroom

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 154*

Interior of bathroom

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 164, 231

Transparencies

Scope and Content Note

Box 231 contains 11x14 copy transparency of photograph of interior detail of studio.

Box 332

Negatives

Borès, Francisco, 1953-1956

Black-and-white photographs

Box 5, Folder 1

Photographs, 1953

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Frame 5, Folder 2

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

Four photographs erroneously labeled "Bazaine" on verso. 6 unique images.

Box 5, Folder 3

Photographs, 1956

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 5, Folder 4

Photographs, 1953

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique images.

Box 5, Folder 5

Photographs, 1953

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

Each mounted on board. 2 unique images.

Box 165

Transparencies, 1953-1956

Box 5, Folder 6-7

Boston (snow still-life), undated

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Brancusi, Constantin, 1955

Black-and-white photographs

Box 5, Folder 8-11

Photographs

Physical Description: 33 prints

Scope and Content Note

22 unique images.

Box 101*

Photographs

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 166, 231

Transparencies

Scope and Content Note

Box 231 contains 11x14 copy transparency of photograph of studio interior with original plastic sleeve labeled "Retouched 6/87."

Box 332

Negatives

Braque, Georges, 1953-1961, undated

Black-and-white photographs, 1953-1961, undated

Box 6, Folder 1-3

Photographs, 1953

Physical Description: 35 prints

Scope and Content Note

4x5 1/2 prints. 28 unique images.

Box 6, Folder 4

Photographs, 1953

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 6, Folder 5

Photographs, 1953-1958

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 6, Folder 6

Photographs, 1960

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 6, Folder 7

Photographs, 1953

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

One of Madame Braque with label from Museum of Modern Art exhibition. 8 unique images.

Box 6, Folder 8

Photographs, circa 1953-1961

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 6, Folder 9

Photographs, 1953-1956

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 6, Folder 10

Photographs, 1953-1960

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 6, Folder 11

Photographs, 1953-1961

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 7, Folder 1

Photographs, 1956

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 7, Folder 2

Photographs, 1953-1956

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 7, Folder 3

Photographs, 1953-1958

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 7, Folder 4

Photographs, 1953-1961

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 7, Folder 5

Photographs, 1956

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

10 unique images.

Box 7, Folder 6

Photographs, 1953-1956

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 7, Folder 7-9

Head and shoulder portraits, 1953-1961

Physical Description: 22 prints

Scope and Content Note

11 unique images.

Box 7, Folder 10

Photographs, 1953-1956

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

Other portraits include one of Madame Braque and two of Braque with an unidentified man. 7 unique images.

Box 8, Folder 1

In his studio, 1953-1956

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 8, Folder 2-3

Palettes, paintbrushes, etc., 1953-1956

Physical Description: 16 prints

Scope and Content Note

11 unique images.

Box 8, Folder 4-5

Details of house, 1958-1961

Physical Description: 13 prints

Box 8, Folder 6

Photographs, 1956-1958

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

Each mounted on board. 4 unique images.

Box 82

Photographs, undated

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

Circa 12x16 print.

Box 102*

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 12 prints

Color photographs, 1953-1961

Box 147, Folder 2

View of beach and cliffs at Varengeville

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

Includes a portrait and a detail of interior of house.

Box 154*

Photographs

Physical Description: 5 prints

Box 167-168, 169

Transparencies, 1953-1961

Box 332

Negatives, 1953-1961

Brassaï, 1963

Box 8, Folder 7

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 7 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 169

Transparencies

Brodsky, Joseph, 1963-1991

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Black-and-white photographs, 1963-1991

Box 8, Folder 8

Photographs, 1973

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Box 8, Folder 9

With an unidentified woman, 1963-1973

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 8, Folder 10

With an unidentified woman, 1973

Physical Description: 7 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Box 8, Folder 11

Photograph, 1991

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 9, Folder 1

Photographs, 1963

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 9, Folder 2

Photographs, 1963-1973

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

Three with an unidentified woman, same as in photographs in box 8, folders 9-10. 6 unique images.

Box 9, Folder 3

Photographs, 1973

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

With William Brui and his wife. 3 unique images.

Box 9, Folder 4

Photographs, 1991

Physical Description: 7 prints

Scope and Content Note

With Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lisa Rinehart and their son, and Elena Tchernichova. 4 unique images.

Box 9, Folder 5-7

Photographs, 1991

Physical Description: 34 prints

Scope and Content Note

20 unique images.

Box 170

Transparencies, undated

Box 9, Folder 8

Brown, Tina, circa 1995

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Box 9, Folder 9-12

Band playing at Patcévitch's party, St. Tropez, 1954

Physical Description: 125 prints

Scope and Content Note

See Box 70, Folders 2-5, for other photographs of this party. Box 9 only contains 24 prints. 6 unique images.

Box 10, Folder 1-2

Bullfight, 1948

Physical Description: 18 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Calder, Alexander, 1959

Box 10, Folder 3-6

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 27 prints

Scope and Content Note

22 unique images.

Box 147, Folder 3

Color photographs

Physical Description: 10 prints

Box 170

Transparencies

Box 332

Negatives

Capote, Truman, 1965-1967

Box 10, Folder 7-9

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 22 prints, 1 original envelope

Scope and Content Note

10 unique images.

Box 170

Transparencies

Box 11, Folder 1

Car in Miami, undated

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

Antique car. 1 unique image.

Box 11, Folder 2-4

Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1961

Physical Description: 25 prints

Scope and Content Note

22 unique images.

Cézanne, Paul, studio of, 1949

Black-and-white photographs

Box 11, Folder 5-8

Photographs

Physical Description: 38 prints

Scope and Content Note

30 unique images.

Box 11, Folder 9

Views of Mont Sainte-Victoire

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Box 11, Folder 10

Photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 102*

Oversize

Physical Description: 2 prints

Color photographs

Box 147, Folder 4

Photographs

Physical Description: 7 prints

Box 154*

Interior detail of studio

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 171

Transparencies

Cesar (Baldaccini, César), 1959

Box 12, Folder 1

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

Labeled as "Cezar". 6 unique images.

Box 83

Color photographs

Physical Description: 25 prints

Scope and Content Note

Six are of unidentified woman shown with Cesar in other photographs. Circa 12x16 prints.

Chagall, Marc, circa 1952-1958, undated

Black-and-white photographs, circa 1952-1958, undated

Box 12, Folder 2

Photographs, 1954-1957

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 12, Folder 3

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 12, Folder 4

Photographs, 1954-1957

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 12, Folder 5

Photographs, 1954-1958

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 12, Folder 6-7

With his wife, "Vava," 1954-1958

Physical Description: 14 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 12, Folder 8

Artworks, details of house and studio, circa 1952-1958

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 12, Folder 9

Photographs, circa 1954

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Box 12, Folder 10

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 1

Photographs, 1954-circa 1957

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

10 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 2

Photographs, 1954-1958

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

10 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 3

Photographs, 1957-1958

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

10 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 4

Drawing, 1954

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 5

With painting, 1957

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with label from Museum of Modern Art exhibition. 3 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 6

In the studio, drawing, making prints, etc., 1954-1958

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 7

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Box 13, Folder 8

With his wife, "Vava," 1954-1958

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 9

Artworks, details of house and studio, etc., 1954

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with label from Museum of Modern Art 1959 exhibition. 7 unique images.

Box 13, Folder 10-11

With his wife, "Vava," 1954

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique prints.

Box 103*

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 22 prints

Color photographs, circa 1952-1958

Box 147, Folder 5

Photographs

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

One photograph of his pallet.

Box 155*

Photographs

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

One mounted on board.

Box 172-173

Transparencies, circa 1952-1958

Box 231

Negatives, circa 1952-1958

Scope and Content Note

Contains 11x14 black-and-white negatives of photograph of drawing.

Chanel, Coco, 1951

Box 14, Folder 1

Photocopies of photographs

Physical Description: 13 items

Box 14, Folder 2-5

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 32 prints

Scope and Content Note

17 unique images.

Box 103*

Oversize

Physical Description: 2 prints

Chase, Edna, Mrs. and children, 1946, undated

Box 14, Folder 6-9

Photographs, 1946, undated

Physical Description: 30 prints

Scope and Content Note

18 unique images.

Box 15, Folder 1-7

Photographs, undated

Physical Description: 68 prints

Scope and Content Note

68 unique images.

Box 16, Folder 1-3

Clair, René, 1951

Physical Description: 17 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Clavé, Antoni, 1953

Black-and-white photographs

Box 16, Folder 4-7

Photographs

Physical Description: 27 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 103*

Oversize

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 174

Transparencies

Colin, Ralph, Mr. and Mrs. [?], undated

Box 16, Folder 8

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique images.

Box 332

Negatives

Box 16, Folder 9-10

Cournand, Evelyne, circa 1953

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Croisset, Ethel de, circa 1950, undated

Box 16, Folder 11

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 24 prints

Scope and Content Note

11 unique images.

Box 174

Transparencies

Box 16, Folder 12

Croisset, Philippe de, undated

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique images.

Box 17, Folder 1

Croisset, Jacqueline de, 1963

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

Some images with Philippe. 7 unique images.

Dali, Salvador, 1959

Black-and-white photographs

Box 17, Folder 2

With his wife

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 17, Folder 3

Photographs

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with his wife. 7 unique images.

Box 17, Folder 4

Photographs

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

Four out-of-focus photographs, 6 photographs of Dali's moustache, or eye and moustache, through holes in sheets of paper. 5 unique images.

Box 17, Folder 5

With his wife

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Box 17, Folder 6

Photographs

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 17, Folder 7-9

With his wife

Physical Description: 32 prints

Scope and Content Note

13 unique images.

Box 17, Folder 10

Photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 103*

Photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 147, Folder 6

Color photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

Copyright labels on backs in name of Sorin Radu.

Box 18, Folder 1

Deauville, France, 1947

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

De Kooning, Willem, 1978, undated

Black-and-white photographs, 1978, undated

Box 18, Folder 2

Photographs, undated

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 18, Folder 3

Photographs, undated

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

Two are photocopies. 7 unique images.

Box 18, Folder 4

Photographs, 1978, undated

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 175

Transparencies, undated

De La Renta, Françoise, 1943-1978

Black-and-white photographs

Box 18, Folder 5

Photographs, 1943-1978

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

Some photographs with Oscar de la Renta. 7 unique images.

Box 18, Folder 6

Photographs, 1943

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 176

Transparencies, undated

Delaunay, Sonia, 1954, undated

Black-and-white photographs

Box 18, Folder 7

Photographs

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 104*

Oversize

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 176

Transparencies

Derain, André, circa 1952-1960, undated

Black-and-white photographs, circa 1952-1960, undated

Box 18, Folder 8-11

Photographs, circa 1952-1960

Physical Description: 50 prints

Scope and Content Note

28 unique images.

Box 19, Folder 1-2

Photocopies, circa 1952

Physical Description: 10 items

Scope and Content Note

Possibly copies of mounted 35mm transparencies.

Box 19, Folder 3

Photographs, circa 1952

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 19, Folder 4

Photographs, circa 1952-1953

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 19, Folder 5

Photographs, 1952

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

One in color. 2 unique images.

Box 104*

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 4 prints

Box 155*

Color photographs, undated

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 177

Transparencies, circa 1952-1960

Box 332

Negatives, circa 1952-1960

Dietrich, Marlene, circa 1924 -1965, undated

Black-and-white photographs, circa 1924-1965, undated

Box 19, Folder 6

Portraits, undated

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique images

Box 19, Folder 7

Performing on stage, 1961

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique images.

Box 19, Folder 8

Performing on stage, circa 1964-1965, undated

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

One photograph of her street under snow. 2 unique images.

Box 19, Folder 9

Film still from The Blue Angel, circa 1930

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 19, Folder 10

In theater dressing room, circa 1964-1965

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 19, Folder 11-12

Performing on stage, with evening gown and fur coat, circa 1964-1965

Physical Description: 20 prints

Scope and Content Note

13 unique images.

Box 20, Folder 1

Performing on stage in top hat and tails, 1961

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 20, Folder 2-3

Smoking, 1953

Physical Description: 20 prints

Scope and Content Note

15 unique images.

Box 20, Folder 4

Photographs, 1953

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

Smoking, lying full-length on sofa on some images. 9 unique images.

Box 20, Folder 5

Photographs, undated

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

Smoking, lying full-length on sofa. 12 unique images.

Box 20, Folder 6

Photographs, 1953, undated

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

Show full-length on sofa, with and without cigarette. 9 unique images.

Box 20, Folder 7-8

Portraits, 1953

Physical Description: 22 prints

Scope and Content Note

17 unique images.

Box 20, Folder 9

Portraits, 1961

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

Includes three photographs of Dietrich swimming and five photographs of her with her grandchildren. 11 unique images.

Box 20, Folder 10

Assorted views, undated

Physical Description: 7 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 21, Folder 1

Photograph, undated

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 21, Folder 2-4

Miscellaneous film stills and studio promotional photographs, not by Liberman, circa 1924-1931

Physical Description: 30 prints

Scope and Content Note

22 unique images.

Box 21, Folder 5

Photographs, 1962, undated

Physical Description: 6 contact sheets

Box 21, Folder 6

On stage, with others, undated

Physical Description: 5 prints

Scope and Content Note

Prints each marked "Penn" on verso. 3 unique images.

Box 21, Folder 7-8

In theater dressing room, 1961

Physical Description: 19 prints

Scope and Content Note

19 unique images.

Box 21, Folder 9

Performing on stage in evening gown and fur coat, circa 1964-1965

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

12 unique images.

Box 21, Folder 10

Performing on stage in top hat and tails, 1961

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 21, Folder 11-12

Smoking, 1962

Physical Description: 21 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Box 22, Folder 1-6

Portraits, undated

Physical Description: 69 prints

Scope and Content Note

18 unique images.

Box 22, Folder 7

Swimming, 1945

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

11 unique images.

Box 22, Folder 8

With her grandchildren, undated

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

10 unique images.

Box 22, Folder 9

With her grandchildren, undated

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

One photograph of her street under snow. 10 unique images.

Box 104*

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 13 prints

Box 155*

Color photographs, 1953-1965

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

With an unidentified woman.

Box 178

Transparencies, 1956, undated

Scope and Content Note

35mm transparencies of Dietrich including photographs taken on set of Around the World in 80 Days, some of which also show David Niven, George Raft, Cantinflas; unmounted 6x6cm transparencies including photographs "from her archives," given by her to Liberman.

Box 332

Negatives, undated

Dior, Christian, circa 1950-1953

Black-and-white photographs

Box 22, Folder 10-11

Views and details of his country house

Physical Description: 16 prints

Scope and Content Note

11 unique images.

Box 23, Folder 1

Individual and group portraits, views and details of his country house, and other locations

Physical Description: 41 prints

Scope and Content Note

39 unique images.

Box 23, Folder 2

Group portraits, and one including Liberman

Physical Description: 7 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 23, Folder 3

Individual and group portraits

Physical Description: 7 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 23, Folder 4-5

Views and details of his country house

Physical Description: 19 prints

Scope and Content Note

10 unique images.

Box 23, Folder 6

Portraits

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 23, Folder 7-8

Individual and group portraits

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 178-179

Transparencies

Box 79, Folder 8

Du Plessix Gray, Francine, circa 1941

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

Formerly unidentified photograph.

Dubuffet, Jean, 1952

Black-and-white photographs

Box 23, Folder 9

Photographs

Physical Description: 5 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 24, Folder 1

Photographs

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 24, Folder 2

Photographs

Physical Description: 8 items

Scope and Content Note

Two of mounted color transparencies. 8 unique images.

Box 24, Folder 3-10

Photographs

Physical Description: 97 prints

Scope and Content Note

92 unique images.

Box 25, Folder 1

Photographs

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

10 unique images.

Box 83

Photographs

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 104*

Oversize

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 155*

Color photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 180

Transparencies

Duchamp, Marcel, 1960, undated

Black-and-white photographs

Box 25, Folder 2

Playing chess

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

11 unique images.

Box 25, Folder 3-9

Photographs

Physical Description: 72 prints

Scope and Content Note

62 unique images.

Box 104*

Photographs

Physical Description: 7 prints

Box 180

Transparencies

Dufy, Raoul, 1952-1953

Black-and-white photographs

Box 26, Folder 1

Photographs

Physical Description: 30 prints

Scope and Content Note

18 unique images.

Box 26, Folder 2

Photographs

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with label from Museum of Modern Art exhibition. 7 unique images.

Box 26, Folder 3-5

Photographs

Physical Description: 28 prints

Scope and Content Note

17 unique images.

Box 26, Folder 6

Photographs

Physical Description: 5 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with label from Museum of Modern Art exhibition. 5 unique images.

Box 155*

Photographs

Physical Description: 5 prints

Box 181, 231

Transparencies

Scope and Content Note

Box 231 contains two 11x14 transparencies of photograph, each with original labeled plastic sleeve; second includes label denoting it has been retouched.

Box 26, Folder 7

Emmerich, André, 1968

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique images.

Ernst, Max, 1957-1967, undated

Black-and-white photographs

Box 26, Folder 8

Photographs, 1957

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

Contact sheets, enlarged from strips of 35mm negatives.

Box 26, Folder 9

Photographs, 1957

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 27, Folder 1

Photocopies, 1967

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Box 27, Folder 2

With Dorothea Tanning, 1967

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 27, Folder 3

Photographs, 1965-1967

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with label relating to Museum of Modern Art exhibition. 7 unique images.

Box 27, Folder 4

Photographs, 1967, undated

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with Dorothea Tanning. 6 unique images.

Box 27, Folder 5

Photographs, 1959

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

One with Dorothea Tanning. 2 unique images.

Box 105*

Oversize

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 147, Folder 7

Color photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 182

Transparencies

Scope and Content Note

Several photographs also show Dorothea Tanning.

Box 183

Fairbanks, Douglas, Junior, 1977

Box 27, Folder 6

Faure, Hubert, Mr. and Mrs., undated

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

13 unique images.

Box 27, Folder 7-10

Feeley, Paul, undated

Physical Description: 30 prints

Scope and Content Note

25 unique images.

Feininger, Lyonel, 1955-1964

Box 28, Folder 1

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Color photographs

Box 147, Folder 8

Photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 155*

Oversize

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 183

Transparencies

Frankenthaler, Helen, 1964-1989, undated

Black-and-white photographs, 1964-1988, undated

Box 28, Folder 2

Portraits, 1964

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 28, Folder 3

Portraits, 1964-1965, undated

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

Some with Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newman. 9 unique images.

Box 28, Folder 4

In her studio, 1964-1988

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 28, Folder 5

In her studio, 1964

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

Some photographs with Robert Motherwell. 8 unique images.

Box 28, Folder 6

In her studio, undated

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 28, Folder 7

In her studio, circa 1976, undated

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

Also with Robert Motherwell. 6 unique images.

Box 28, Folder 8

Photographs, 1964, undated

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 28, Folder 9

Pages from Time, 1976 January 5

Scope and Content Note

Article with photograph of Frankenthaler by Liberman, with original annotated envelope.

Color photographs, undated

Box 147, Folder 9

Photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 155*

Photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 184-185

Transparencies, 1964-1989

Flatfile 1**

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

20 1/4 x 1/4 inches, in color.

Box 332

Negatives, undated

Gabo, Naum, undated

Box 29, Folder 1-4

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 58 prints

Scope and Content Note

37 unique images.

Box 186

Transparencies

Box 332

Negatives

Box 29, Folder 5

Gardener, undated

Physical Description: 7 prints

Scope and Content Note

Some prints labeled "Housekeeper and Servants" on verso. 1 unique image.

Box 29, Folder 6-8

Gaynor, Janet and Adrian, circa 1942

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 29, Folder 9

Gausson, Madame, undated

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Giacometti, Alberto, 1951-1957, undated

Black-and-white photographs, 1951-1957, undated

Box 29, Folder 10

With his wife, Annette, and his brother, Diego, 1951

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 29, Folder 11

Photographs, 1951

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 1

Photographs, 1951-1954

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

12 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 2

Photographs, 1951

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 3

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 4 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 4

Shown modelling clay, 1954

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 5

Modeling clay, 1954

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

Some photographs have labels regarding Museum of Modern Art exhibition. 9 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 6

Portraits, 1954

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 7

Portraits, 1951-1954

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 8

With Annette and Diego, and Derain and Balthus, 1951-1954

Physical Description: 15 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 30, Folder 9-10

Assorted detail views of apartment, studio, and artworks, 1951

Physical Description: 27 prints

Scope and Content Note

13 unique images.

Box 31, Folder 1

Painting, 1951

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 31, Folder 2

Modeling in clay, 1954

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 31, Folder 3-6

Portraits, 1951-1954

Physical Description: 40 prints

Scope and Content Note

16 unique images.

Box 31, Folder 7

Miscellaneous details of apartment, studio, artworks, 1954

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 31, Folder 8

Miscellaneous details of apartment, studio, artworks, 1952-1957

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 31, Folder 9

Portraits of Annette, 1951

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 32, Folder 1

With Annette, Diego, Derain and Balthus, 1951

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 83

Photographs, undated

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

One is layout mock-up, formed with small prints mounted on board. Three prints mounted on board.

Box 105*

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 8 prints

Color photographs, undated

Box 147, Folder 10-12

Drawings

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

Mount annotated with photography instructions.

Box 155*

Oversize

Physical Description: 6 prints

Box 187, 231

Transparencies, 1951-1954

Scope and Content Note

Box 231 contains one 11x14 copy transparency of photograph of Giacometti, and 2 11x14 black-and-white negatives of photographs of drawings.

Box 332

Negatives, undated

Scope and Content Note

Box 231 also includes 11x14 copy transparencies.

Gill, Leslie, Mrs., and daughter, undated

Box 32, Folder 2-6

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 50 prints

Scope and Content Note

One labeled on verso as "Portrait by Leslie Gill." Four photographs comprise two photographs of mother and daughter marked for cropping to portrait of daughter alone, and one corresponding cropped print from each original. 45 unique images.

Box 332

Negatives

Box 32, Folder 7-9

Gimbel, Adam, Mr. and Mrs., circa 1959

Physical Description: 27 prints

Scope and Content Note

And others: "Gimbel weekend."

Box 33, Folder 1

Gordon, Ruth, 1948

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Gontchariva, Natalia, undated

Scope and Content Note

See also box 1, folder 4.

Villon, Jacques, 1954-1976

Box 76, Folder 4

Exhibition brochure, 1976

Physical Description: 1 volume

Scope and Content Note

At Neuberger Museum.

Black-and-white photographs, 1954-1960, undated

Box 76, Folder 5

Photographs, 1954-1958

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

4 unique images.

Box 76, Folder 6

Photographs, 1954-1957

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 76, Folder 7

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Box 76, Folder 8

Photographs, 1954-1958

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 76, Folder 9

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 76, Folder 10

With model airplane, 1954

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 76, Folder 11

Photographs, 1954-1960

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

Three also show with his wife, and a child; four are of his pallette and hands. 8 unique images.

Box 76, Folder 12

With his wife, 1957-1960

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

5 unique images.

Box 77, Folder 1

Views of house, garden, studio, etc., 1954-1957

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 77, Folder 2

Photographs, 1954-1959

Physical Description: 9 prints

Scope and Content Note

9 unique images.

Box 77, Folder 3

Photographs, 1954

Physical Description: 8 prints

Scope and Content Note

7 unique images.

Box 77, Folder 4

With his wife, 1960

Physical Description: 10 prints

Scope and Content Note

3 unique images.

Box 77, Folder 5-6

Views of house, garden, studio, etc., 1954-1960

Physical Description: 18 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 77, Folder 7

Portrait, 1960

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 88

Photographs, undated

Physical Description: 9 prints

Box 112*

Oversize, undated

Physical Description: 12 prints

Box 158*

Color photograph, undated

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 227-229

Transparencies, 1954-1958

Flatfile 4**

Palette and hands, 1959

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

19 x 27 1/2 inches, in color.

Vlaminck, Maurice de, 1954

Black-and-white photographs

Box 77, Folder 8-9

Photographs

Physical Description: 21 prints

Scope and Content Note

18 unique images.

Box 112*

Oversize

Physical Description: 1 print

Color photographs

Box 149, Folder 1-2

Photographs

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 158*

Photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 230

Transparencies

Box 78, Folder 1-2

Vogel, Lucien, 1938

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images. See also: Le Beau, Jacques.

Box 226

Valentina, 1949

Van Dongen, Kees (Dongen, Kees van), 1959

Black-and-white photographs

Box 78, Folder 3-5

Photographs

Physical Description: 20 prints

Scope and Content Note

6 unique images.

Box 112*

Oversize

Physical Description: 1 print

Color photographs

Box 149, Folder 3

Photographs

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 158*

Oversize

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 226

Transparencies

Box 230

Voznizenski, undated

Box 78, Folder 6-7

Wangenheim, Chris von, 1972

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

2 unique image.

Wiley, Ireva, undated

Box 78, Folder 8-9

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 16 prints

Scope and Content Note

12 unique images.

Box 334

Negatives

Box 78, Folder 10

Winkelhorn family, undated

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

12 unique images.

Wintour, Anna, 1995

Box 79, Folder 1

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

8 unique images.

Box 149, Folder 4-5

Color photographs

Physical Description: 25 prints

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs with other people.

Box 79, Folder 2

Yourievitch, Helene, Princess, 1955

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 unique image.

Box 79, Folder 3-4

Zadkine, Ossip, 1954

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

11 unique images.

Box 79, Folder 5

Zadok, Charles and Genia, 1954

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 79, Folder 6

Zarros, undated

Physical Description: 3 prints

Scope and Content Note

Picasso's assistant. 2 unique images.

Zervos, Christian, 1954

Box 79, Folder 7

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 230

Transparencies

Scope and Content Note

Labeled: "Zerbos."

Box 231

Various artists, 1950-1977

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement of 3 transparencies. One 8x10 transparency, photograph of arrangement of 3 transparencies, 1 each of: Jean Bazaine; Serge Poliakoff; Mikhail Larionov.

Unidentified photographs, 1953, undated

Black-and-white photographs

Box 79, Folder 10-12

Unidentified personalities

Physical Description: 22 prints

Scope and Content Note

17 unique images.

Box 80, Folder 1-6

Unidentified personalities

Physical Description: 34 prints

Scope and Content Note

25 unique images.

Box 80, Folder 7

Unidentified places

Physical Description: 12 prints

Scope and Content Note

One is photograph of Statue of Liberty, taken from on board ship. 9 unique images.

Box 80, Folder 8

Photographs not by Alexander Liberman

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

One photo of Elizabeth Taylor taken by Nick de Morgoli and one possibly of Liberman sculpture on its site; stamped on back as photograph by "Jose M. More" and with pencil annotation, "Bladen."

Box 89

Unidentified photographs

Physical Description: 39 prints

Scope and Content Note

One print is actually detail of Doge's Palace, Venice.

Box 112*

Oversize

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

Unidentified artist's hands more likely to be Derain's.

Color photographs

Box 149, Folder 7

Unidentified places

Physical Description: 8 items

Scope and Content Note

Four prints and four Polaroid photographs. One may be of Liberman sculpture installed on site; one is probably interior detail of Alhambra, Granada.

Box 149, Folder 8

Unidentified room interior

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 158*

Unidentified house and patio

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 301

Transparencies

Scope and Content Note

Transparencies found elsewhere in collection in loose pages, transferred here and placed in single binder. Last three pages contain 40 photographs of Mantegna's The Presentation in the Temple, and three photographs of Giovanni Bellini's Pieta.

Box 297

Miscellaneous personal slides, 1959-1978

Scope and Content Note

"Palm Beach '78--Italy--Dominican Republic--France," and "Personal Slides--G Boat--Tatiana and Francine--Leval, Dec '59--Greece '64--Venice '71--to be sorted."

Box 300

Miscellaneous portraits and personal photographs, 1963, undated

Scope and Content Note

Transparencies found elsewhere in collection in loose pages, transferred here and placed in single binder. Subjects, some only tentatively identified, include: Liberman himself, and family members and friends, including "Grandchild Sophie;" Mabel Moses; plus unidentified child, and unidentified artists. Also: "Circus, 1963;" page of photographs of large green moth; 10 mounted 35mm transparencies, 21 3 1/2 × 5 inch color photographic prints with original envelope, of "Mrs. Bagley-Wright's Home, Seattle WA."

Series II. Publications, circa 1925-1998

Physical Description: 42.0 linear feet (41 boxes, 19 frames)

Scope and Content Note

Materials for Liberman's book publications, arranged by publication. Also included are materials for Barbara Rose's book about Alexander Liberman. Boxes 302 to 303A below contain original color transparencies of photographs used as illustrations in four of Liberman's books: Greece, gods and art (1968), Artist in his studio (1960, 1988), Campidoglio: Michelangelo's Roman capitol (1994), and Prayers in stone (1998). Because they were used for reproduction purposes, the original transparencies are accompanied by some other materials, such as duplicate transparencies-some enlarged-copy negatives, prints, and notes of "Plate" and "Slug" numbers. All such material has been retained, and any numbering label is placed with the photograph it refers to. Copies of Liberman's books, glass negatives, oversize framed photographic prints and posters.

Arrangement note

Materials are grouped according to the publications they pertain.

Then : photographs 1925-1995, circa 1925-circa 1995

Scope and Content Note

Prints of some of photographs used as illustrations in Liberman's book Then, 1995, arranged here in order in which they appear in book. Annotations, consisting of page numbers for 1995 edition of Then, and in some cases other, unexplained, numbers, have been transcribed from original plastic sleeves onto backs of prints, where they appear between square brackets.

Book prints

Box 90, Folder 1-7

Retouched prints

Physical Description: 60 prints

Scope and Content Note

Label on original box, some actually smaller than 8x10, arranged here in order in which they appear in book; plus, "jaz" format computer disc, labeled Then.

Box 91, Folder 1-8

Retouched prints

Physical Description: 91 prints

Scope and Content Note

Label on original box. 11x14 prints.

Box 116*

Illustrations, p.1-p.128

Physical Description: 37 prints

Scope and Content Note

1 of Irving Penn and Lisa Fonssagrives; 1 of Yves Saint Laurent.

Box 117*

Illustrations, p.129-p.256

Physical Description: 32 prints

Scope and Content Note

Oversize prints: 1 of Leo Lerner; 1 of Anna Wintour.

Outtakes to be refiled

Box 92

Photographs of various people and places

Scope and Content Note

Binder of 68 8x10 prints. 4 prints in smaller formats.

Box 93

Photographs of various people and places

Scope and Content Note

Binder of 70 8x10 prints.

Box 94

Photographs of various people and places

Scope and Content Note

Mostly 11x14 43 prints, the first three in box mounted on board.

Box 118*

Oversize

Physical Description: 60 prints

Scope and Content Note

16x20 photographic prints of some of photographs used as illustrations for Then; except that: 6 photographs of Tatiana Liberman with Marcel Vertes and unidentified woman; of Tatiana Liberman with Francine du Plessix; of Alexander Liberman with Christian Dior and others; of Henriette Pascar; of unidentified woman and children; of unidentified woman--do not appear in book; others are arranged here in order in which they appear in book, except that there is enlarged contact sheet from strips of 35mm negatives of photographs of Denise Barbut at beach--see p.247 of Then. Bulk of these prints appear in more than one version, many originally in plastic sleeves marked up with cropping/retouching/exposure instructions for printing; any such sleeve is now placed in folder with related print.

Transparencies

Box 298

35mm Transparencies for Then

Box 299

Transparencies and negatives for Then, and others

Scope and Content Note

4x5 transparencies, and some 4x5 negatives. Bulk are photographs used as illustrations for Liberman's 1995 book Then, arranged here in same order as they appear in book. Last 3 pages in binder contain other photographs, including: 3 copies of photograph of Marcel Duchamp's hands on chess board, from The artist in his studio; 5 copies of photograph of Irving Penn; photograph of Liberman holding camera, by Penn; photograph of Liberman with Melinda Pechangco (his third wife); and color photographs of two covers by Liberman for magazine, Vu.

Negatives

Box 328A

A - F

Box 328B

G 1 - M 1

Box 328C

M 2 (Miami)

Scope and Content Note

This envelope contains, amongst others, negatives of photographs of Helmut Newton, taken in Miami and "Z"--"Duchamps Negs"--"Transp. w/ Masks."

Box 329

Negative and transparencies for exhibit

Scope and Content Note

Annotation on box: "Masked Copy Negs--Copy Negs--Digital Negs--8x10 Copy Transparencies--Then/Exhibit 95/96."

Box 378

Publication

Physical Description: 1 volume

Marlene: an intimate photographic memoir, circa 1940-1992

Physical Description: 476 prints

Scope and Content Note

Materials for Liberman's book of photographs of Marlene Dietrich, published in 1992. Not all the photographs were made by Liberman.

Box 95, Folder 1-2

Film stills and studio promotional photographs

Physical Description: 22 prints

Scope and Content Note

Includes one portrait photograph by Liberman. 8x10 prints.

Box 95, Folder 3

Film stills,

Physical Description: 13 prints

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs of Dietrich in theater dressing room, and performing on stage. 11x14 prints.

Box 95, Folder 4-7

Portrait photographs

Physical Description: 430 prints

Scope and Content Note

11x14 prints.

Box 95, Folder 8

Candid photographs of Dietrich and others

Physical Description: 11 prints

Scope and Content Note

11x14 prints.

Box 330

Negatives

Scope and Content Note

This binder contains two sets of original negatives, separated in the binder by a page identifying the beginning of the second set. The first set was originally housed in a box labeled "Dietrich--8 x 10 View Camera--Original Negatives." The second set was originally part of the contents of what is now Box 95. See the entry for that box for information about the material.

Also contains one 8x10 negative bearing enlargements of two original 35mm negatives, and two 8x10 negatives bearing contact duplicates of original 35mm negative strips.

Last page in this section houses two 4x5 negatives of film stills, one of Dietrich in The Blue Angel, one of her in Blonde Venus, which were originally in Ilford photographic paper box labeled, "Negs to be filed--Note: film stills," and in sleeves from Bison Archives.

Rose, Barbara, Alexander Liberman, circa 1981

Scope and Content Note

Relates to Barbara Rose's book, Alexander Liberman, published New York, 1981. The contents of this original box comprise photographic prints, the bulk black-and-white but some in color, and color transparencies in various formats, of photographs used as illustrations for the book. Photographs are undated and many date prior to 1981. The bulk of the photographs are of Liberman's artwork, especially his sculptures, in various settings; some show Liberman himself. Almost all of these items have labels or tags, or both, giving page and plate numbers from the book, and other, apparently technical, information. The photographs were collected in four plastic bags, each labeled with a span of plate numbers, and each of Boxes 96 to 99 now houses the contents of one of these bags, arranged in order by plate numbers; the label from the original bag is the first item in each box. The original box also contained three loose black and white prints, which are in Box 100.

Box 96

Plates 200-299

Physical Description: 28 prints

Scope and Content Note

"Barbara Rose-Cover Art-Chronology-Misc. art not used."

Box 97, 99

Plates 200-232

Physical Description: 21 prints

Box 98

Plates 233-269

Physical Description: 20 prints

Box 100

Plates 200-299

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 152

Color transparencies and prints of Plates 200-299

Scope and Content Note

Arranged accordingly: Front cover, 3 items from "Misc. art not used," 1 item from "Chronology," Plates 212, 246-247, 249, 252, 255, 265-267, 269-276, 280-281, 288-289, 291, 293-296, 298-299.

The artist in his studio, circa 1925-1960

Scope and Content Note

First published in 1960.

Box 114*, Folder 1

Arp, Jean

Physical Description: 1 print

Balthus

Box 114*, Folder 2

Photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 151, Folder 1

Photograph of The Room

Scope and Content Note

One 5 x 7 transparency, with original annotated plastic sleeve.

Bonnard, Pierre

Box 114*, Folder 3

Photographs

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 115*

Photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 151, Folder 2

Transparencies

Scope and Content Note

Two 11 x 14 and one 6 x 6 cm. transparencies.

Box 151, Folder 3

Brancusi, Constantin

Scope and Content Note

One 4x5 transparency.

Box 114*, Folder 4

Braque, Georges

Physical Description: 2 prints

Cezanne, Paul

Box 114*, Folder 5

Detailed photographs of studio interior

Physical Description: 4 prints

Box 151, Folder 4

View of Mont Sainte-Victoire

Scope and Content Note

One 8x10 transparency.

Chagall, Marc

Box 114*, Folder 6

Photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 115*

Photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 151, Folder 5

Derain, André

Scope and Content Note

One 8x10 and one 11x14 transparencies.

Box 114*, Folder 7

Dubuffet, Jean

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 114*, Folder 8

Ernst, Max

Physical Description: 1 print

Giacometti, Alberto

Box 114*, Folder 9

Photographs

Physical Description: 4 prints

Box 115*

Photographs

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 114*, Folder 10

Kandinsky, Wassily

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 115*

Kupka, Frantisek

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 114*, Folder 11

Larionov, Mikhail

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 114*, Folder 12

Larionov, Mikhail, and Natalia Gontcharova

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 151, Folder 6

Léger, Fernand

Scope and Content Note

One 11x14 transparency.

Box 114*, Folder 13

Matisse, Henri

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

Photograph, from Museum of Modern Art, New York, of brush and ink drawing, "The Necklace."

Box 114*, Folder 14

Miro, Joan

Physical Description: 2 prints

Picasso, Pablo

Box 114*, Folder 15-17

Photographs

Physical Description: 19 prints

Scope and Content Note

Folder 15 includes illustration for Balzac's Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu.

Box 115*

Photographs

Physical Description: 4 prints

Transparencies

Box 151, Folder 7-8

8x10

Physical Description: 3 transparencies

Box 151, Folder 9-10

Illustration for Balzac's Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu

Scope and Content Note

2 mounted 6x6cm transparencies, 2 unmounted 6x6cm transparencies; twelve 6x6cm negatives.

Box 115*

Rouault, Georges

Physical Description: 1 print

Villon, Jacques

Box 115*

Photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 151, Folder 11

Transparency

Scope and Content Note

One 4x5.

Box 151, Folder 12

Various frescoes and mosaics

Scope and Content Note

Originally housed with these materials, but not related to The artist in his studio. One 35mm transparency, in annotated reproduction mask, two 8x10 transparencies.

Miscellaneous circa 1940-circa 1960

Box 150

Miscellaneous transparencies

Physical Description: 24 items

Box 150

Transparencies

Scope and Content Note

Two 8x10 transparencies of designs of color strips, labeled "Front of Jacket," and "Back of Jacket."

Box 150

New covers

Scope and Content Note

Folder labeled "Artist in the [sic] Studio - New Covers!" and its contents, comprising: 22 miscellaneous items, including 6 layout mock-ups of cover designs for book, 1 black-and-white photocopy, 17 color photocopies, 4 color photographic prints pasted to backing sheets.

Box 151

Negatives and transparencies

Box 303, 303A

Original 35mm film

Scope and Content Note

Also one 11x14 transparency.

Box 378

Publication

Physical Description: 1 volume

Campidoglio : Michelangelo's Roman capitol, 1994

Box 159*

Campidoglio

Scope and Content Note

21 prints, 10 in color; plus one 11x14 color transparency.

Box 160*-160A*, 161*-161A*

Mock-up sheets for book on American artists

Scope and Content Note

Contain layout mock-up sheets for a projected book on American artists. These sheets measure 10.5x23 inches. Each box also originally contained envelopes of "minis," small-scale versions of the sheets, in various sizes, up to approximately 2.5x5.25 inches. These "minis" have now been rehoused in Printfile pages in slipcased binders in Boxes 160A* and 160A*.

Box 303

Transparency

Scope and Content Note

One 4x5.

Box 377

Publication

Physical Description: 1 volume

Prayers in stone, 1998

Box 303

Original art

Scope and Content Note

Binder of mounted and unmounted 35mm transparencies, 4x5 copy negatives, 8x10 prints, and some related materials.

Box 377

Publication

Physical Description: 1 volume

Box 302-302A

Original art for Greece, gods and art, 1968

Scope and Content Note

Binder of 4x5, 8x10, and mounted 35mm transparencies and copy negatives; each with "Plate" number from book.

Miscellaneous, 1968-1995

Box 379-380

Glass negatives

Frame 1**-19**

Photographic prints and posters

Physical Description: 19 items

Scope and Content Note

Variously mounted or framed; sizes from circa 24x36 inches to circa 46x78 inches.

Box 331

Various subjects

Scope and Content Note

First pages in binder contain negatives of photographs of 1959 exhibition at Museum of Modern Art of photographs taken for Artist in his studio, including photographs of, apparently, the opening reception. Binder also contains: copy negatives of some illustrations from Artist in his studio; 8x10 negatives of photographs of David Smith; 8x10 negatives of photographs of Liberman and his family.

Series III. Prints in edition for exhibition, circa 1994-1996

Physical Description: 49.0 linear feet (26 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Prints prepared for exhibitions related to the publications of the books, Then : photographs 1925-1995 (1995), and Campidoglio : Michelangelo's Roman capitol (1994).

The photographic prints in Boxes 119* and 120* below were originally mixed together in one box, labeled "Prints in Edition for Exhibition, 1995-1996." The two different sizes of prints are now housed in separate boxes. The mounted black and white prints in Boxes 124* to 130* below are all of photographs used as illustrations for Liberman's book Then. The prints are finished to exhibition standards, and were presumably prepared for exhibitions in connection with the publication of the book in 1995. Boxes 130*-143*, 376* hold prints for Liberman's book Campidoglio. The prints are finished to exhibition standards, and were presumably prepared for exhibitions in connection with the publication of the book in 1994.

Arrangement note

According to Liberman's original arrangement.

Box 119*-120*

Illustrations for publications

Physical Description: 29 prints

Scope and Content Note

11x14 and 16x20 prints of photographs used as illustrations for Then, except that one, of Marcel Duchamp, was actually used as illustration for The artist in his studio. Arranged here in order in which they appear in book.

Box 124*

David Bailey and Penelope Tree, Helmut Newton, and Roland and Tony Penrose

Physical Description: 5 prints mounted on foamcore

Box 125*

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Duchamp, Barnett Newman, and Spanish dancer

Physical Description: 5 prints mounted on foamcore

Box 126*

Joseph Brodsky, Tatiana Liberman, Henri Matisse, and Raymond and Viola Loewy

Physical Description: 5 prints mounted on foamcore

Box 127*

Coco Chanel, Iris Love, Betty Parsons, Pablo Picasso, and Bill and Babe Paley

Physical Description: 6 prints mounted on foamcore

Box 128*

Marc and Vava Chagall, Oscar and Françoise de la Renta, Lee Miller, and Jasper Johns

Physical Description: 6 prints mounted on foamcore

Box 129*

Melinda Pechangco, Robert Hughes, Yves Saint Laurent, 1941 party at Sands Point cottage, and Lisa Fonssagrives and Irving Penn

Physical Description: 6 prints mounted on foamcore

Box 130*-143*, 376*

Campidoglio

Box 130*

Iva Patcévitch, Hilda Sturm, and Alberto and Annette Giacometti

Physical Description: 4 prints mounted on foamcore

Box 131*-143*

Miscellaneous

Physical Description: 25 prints mounted on foamcore

Scope and Content Note

Several mounted prints are accompanied with polaroid photograph of print.

Greek sculptures

Physical Description: 4 prints mounted on foamcore

Box 144*

"Olympia, 'Cladeus,' Olympia Museum, Greece"

Physical Description: 1 printed mounted on foamcore

Box 144*

"Olympia, 'The Seer', Olympia Museum, Greece"

Physical Description: 1 print mounted on foamcore

Box 144*

"Olympia, 'Sterope,' Olympia Museum, Greece"

Physical Description: 1 print mounted on foamcore

Box 144*

"Olympia, 'All sculptures from the East Pediment, Temple of Zeus, Parian marble, 458-457 BC,' Olympia Museum, Greece"

Physical Description: 1 print mounted on foamcore

Box 145*-146*

Photographs of water lilies

Physical Description: 6 prints

Scope and Content Note

Mounted on wood frames. Probably Monet's garden.

Box 376*

Wall caption boards

Scope and Content Note

Mounted on foamcore, with velcro hanging strips, for exhibition of color prints of some illustrations from Campidoglio.

Series IV. Benrubi returns, circa 1940-1995

Physical Description: 5.0 linear feet (3 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The photographic prints were originally mixed together in one box, labeled "Benrubi Returns." Possibly an aborted publication project.

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically with various subjects at the end.

Box 121*

Chagall, Marc

Physical Description: 4 prints

Box 121*

Chanel, Coco

Physical Description: 4 prints

Box 121*

Clair, Rene

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Cournand, Evelyne

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Dietrich, Marlene

Physical Description: 5 prints

Box 121*

Duchamp, Marcel

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

His hands on chessboard.

Box 121*

Dufy, Raoul

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Horowitz, Vladimir

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 153

Giacometti, Alberto

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

Detail of studio. Matted and mounted on board.

Box 121*

Léger, Fernand

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Liberman, Simon

Physical Description: 1 print

Matisse, Henri

Box 121*

Black-and-white photographs

Physical Description: 2 prints

Scope and Content Note

One mounted on board.

Box 153

Color photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

Interior of chapel at Vence.

Box 121*

Maxwell, Elsa

Physical Description: 1 print

Miller, Lee

Box 121*

Black-and-white photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 153

Color photograph

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Newman, Barnett

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Newton, Richard

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Paley, William, Mr. and Mrs.

Physical Description: 2 prints

Box 121*

Pechangco, Melinda

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Picasso, Pablo

Physical Description: 3 prints

Box 153

Rome, St. Peter's

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Content Note

Detail of interior.

Box 121*

Rothko, Mark

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Valentina

Physical Description: 1 print

Box 121*

Venice

Physical Description: 1 print

Others

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous photographic prints, up to 16x20 in size, most with subjects identified on verso; prints are of photographs used as illustrations for The artist in his studio or Then, Prayers in Stone, or are of photographs of subjects featured in those books. Box 122* with one print each of 6 subjects: Dietrich, Marlene; Langlade, Francoise de; Liberman, Tatiana; Matisse, Henri; Patcevitch, Iva; Spanish dancer.

Box 121*, 122*

Black-and-white photographs

Box 153

Color photographs

Series V. Places, 1960-1972, undated

Physical Description: 12.0 linear feet (65 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Assorted color slides and other transparencies and negatives documenting Liberman's travels, family, friends. Some images are apparently related to several of his publications. Titles are taken from original binders.

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabeticall by country's names with unidentified places at the end.

France

Box 232-237

France

Scope and Content Note

Box 234 includes original housing for last 9 pages in binder labeled Alphand-House and Gardens. Box 236 includes photographs of Liberman's house Va et Vient.

Box 238

Paris--Versailles

Box 239

Chartres Cathedral--Notre Dame, Paris

Scope and Content Note

Binder of 8x10 transparencies, and mounted 35mm transparencies.

Box 240

Riviera--Perroto--Gassin--Mohestair--Bouillabaisse (Cooking)

Box 241

St. Tropez--Gypsies--South of France

Greece

Box 242

Athens--Acropolis

Box 243-246

Greece

Box 247

Athens/Theseum--Archeological--Athos--Bassa and Athens/Museum--Ceramicus/Museum

Box 248

Includes photographs of Athos

Box 249

Rhodes/Lindos--Samothrace--Santorini--Seriphos

Box 250

1960s--Bassae--Olympia--Siphnos + more--Liberman Choices and Siphnos

Box 251

D Boat--Delos and Delos--Delphi (Museum)--Parthenon

Box 252

Delphi

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