INVENTORY OF THE E. MAURICE BLOCH PAPERS, circa
1925-1989
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INVENTORY OF THE E. MAURICE BLOCH PAPERS, ca.
1925-1989
Accession no. 910003
Finding aid prepared by Neil Hathaway and Jocelyn Gibbs
The Getty Research Institute
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Descriptive Summary
Title: E. Maurice Bloch papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1925-1989
Collection number: 910003
Creator:
Bloch, E. Maurice
Extent:
45 linear ft.
(87 boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: The papers span the life and career of American art historian, professor, curator and collector, E. Maurice Bloch, from his
student days in New York City to his retirement in Los Angeles (bulk ca. 1935-1989). It includes extensive correspondence,
research and lecture notes, syllabi, photographs, lists, manuscripts, minutes, reports, and clippings, detailing his principal
interests (George Caleb Bingham and Benjamin West, and collecting), and his associations with institutions (Virginia Steele
Scott Gallery, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles) as well as with art students,
historians, artist friends, colleagues, and dealers.
Language: Collection material in English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
E. Maurice Bloch Papers, ca. 1925-1989, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 910003.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1991, with additional material received in 1993.
Processing History
After Bloch's death in 1989, his archive was moved from his home to a warehouse. It was acquired by the Getty Research Institute
in 1991. Although there was some disarray among his papers, his filing system was for the most part preserved. Books received
with Bloch's papers are in the Getty Research Institute Library. Of his collections, the Getty Research Institute acquired
only the panorama exhibits ephemera collection. Neil Hathaway processed and arranged the archive in 1992, with assistance
from Jocelyn Gibbs. Hathaway and Gibbs wrote this finding aid.
Biographical/Historical Note
E. Maurice Bloch, American art historian, professor, curator and collector, was born in New York City, October 26, 1916, the
only child of immigrant parents. His mother, who studied to be a singer, was from Austria; his father was a businessman, born
in Holland. His parents, particularly his mother, encouraged and supported Bloch's interest in art.
Bloch enrolled at New York University, first as an undergraduate in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, then as a
graduate student in the Institute of Fine Arts, for which he wrote a dissertation on George Caleb Bingham (not completed until
1967).
He taught at the University of Missouri (1944-1945), NYU's Washington Square Campus (1945-1946), and the University of Minnesota
(1946-1947). He was curator of prints at Cooper Union Museum (1952- ca. 1957). His employment at the University of California,
Los Angeles began in 1956 and lasted until 1982 when he retired. During his tenure at UCLA, Bingham also served as a curator
with the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, from which he also retired in 1982.
Beginning in 1975 Bloch served on the board of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation, and as the Second Vice President for
Art helped transform what had been an eclectic, private collection into a public collection of American art (now the Virginia
Steele Scott Gallery at the Huntington Library). Bloch was involved with the Western Division of the Archives of American
Art since the early 1980s, and helped negotiate a cooperative arrangement between the AAA, the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery
and the Huntington Library.
His scholarly interests were in American art. The majority of his completed projects concern George Caleb Bingham. He wrote
his dissertation on Bingham and the catalog raisonné of Bingham's paintings (1967, revised edition 1986), a catalog raisonné
of Bingham's drawings (1975), numerous articles, and curated at least three exhibits of Bingham's work. His other large project,
never completed, was his work toward a catalog of Benjamin West's paintings.
Bloch's own collecting interests ranged widely. His personal collections contained paintings, drawings (including those by
West), stamps, illustrated sheet music, and autographs, although he limited himself primarily to American artists, illustrators
and topics.
Bloch never married. He maintained an extraordinarily close relationship with his mother and father, who lived with him after
he moved to California, until their deaths.
The Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles published an oral history of E. Maurice Bloch in 1991
from interviews conducted by Bernard Galm in 1987. Bloch died December 1989 in Los Angeles.
Scope and Content of Collection
The E. Maurice Bloch papers (45 linear ft.) document his graduate studies in art history at New York University, touch on
his work as a curator at Cooper Union and the Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts (the University of California, Los Angeles),
and address his teaching and research through extensive correspondence files, student lecture notes and syllabi, and research
notes, photographs and manuscripts for articles and lectures.
His interest in American art, and intensive research on George Caleb Bingham and Benjamin West in particular, are evident
in the archive's research papers which include correspondence, notes and manuscripts. His association with, and the subsequent
development of the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery (at the Huntington Library) are well documented through meeting minutes,
correspondence and in-house reports. There is very little personal material in the collection, although his letters (he kept
carbon copies of most of his letters) to dealers, artist friends and colleagues reveal the cast of his personality and interests.
A few personal documents fill in scant details of his life and his drawings and sketchbooks display an early interest in art.
His own collecting interests are revealed in his large clippings file and extensive correspondence with dealers about his
wants lists. His personal collections of paintings, drawings, autograph letters and printed materials, were not acquired by
the Getty, except for his collection of panorama exhibits ephemera, which may be consulted in the Getty Research Library,
Special Collections.
Arrangement
The Papers are organized in 9 series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1941-1989;
Series II. New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1936-1988;
Series III. Teaching materials, 1945-1982;
Series IV. George Caleb Bingham research, 1943-1989;
Series V. Benjamin West research, 1821-1987;
Series VI. Research on 19th-century art, 1945-1987;
Series VII. Curatorial and advisory positions, 1953-1989;
Series VIII. Bloch's personal collection, 1935-1989;
Series IX. Personal and miscellaneous files, 1920s-1970s.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879
Bloch, E. Maurice.
Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895
Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
New York University. Institute of Fine Arts
Tamarind Lithography Workshop
University of California, Los Angeles
Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Virginia Steele Scott Gallery
Art, American
Art—Collectors and collecting—United States
Art—Study and teaching—United States
Art historians—United States
Art museum curators—United States
Drawing—United States—Exhibitions
Contributors
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, 1910-1974
Heilbron, Bertha L. (Bertha Lion), 1895-1972
Jones, Claude E.
Kwiat, Joseph.
Maxwell, George T.
Wayne, June, 1918-
Zapf, Hermann.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Kennedy Galleries
Vose Galleries of Boston
Series I.
Correspondence,
1941-1989
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
4 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series contains three groupings of letters: one group of occasional letters (1965-1988) and two runs of letters received and
sent (1941-1982 and 1976-1989). Correspondents include artists, curators, students, colleagues and friends. Some of the same
correspondents appear in letters filed within other series. Patricia Trenton, a student of Bloch's during the late 1960s and
curator at the Denver Art Museum, kept up a lively correspondence with Bloch which can be found here and among his research
files. Other correspondents, some with especially thick files, include colleagues, curators, collectors, dealers, and artists:
J. Carter Brown, E. John Bullard, Albert Christ-Janer, M. B. Cowdrey, Lorser Feitelson, Eva Gatling, William Gerdts, Hans
A. Halbey, Edith Hamelin, Milton Hebald, Bertha Heilbron, Claude (Mac) Jones, Jacob Kainen, Donald D. Keyes, Stanley Lewis,
John McCall, George T. Maxwell, Ruth S. Magurn, Paul Mills, Annemarie H. Pope, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Karl Schrag, Frederick
Shane, Ross Taggart, Herbert Weissburger, Allen S. Weller, Christopher J. White, Hermann Sapf, Jake Zeitlin, Jerrold Ziff.
Series I.A.
Occasional letters received,
1965-1988
undated,
Physical Description:
.5 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Primarily thank-you letters and Christmas cards received, arranged chronologically.
Box 1, Folder 1-4
Thank you letters, Christmas cards, etc.
1965-1988,
undated
Series I.B.
Letters received and letters sent,
1941-1982
Physical Description:
2.25 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically with Bloch's carbon or photocopied responses.
Box 2, Folder 2
B,
1945-1980
Scope and Content Note
including Leonard Bloch (E. M.'s father; 1957), Dorothy Brown (artist, UCLA colleague; 1960s), J. Carter Brown (1971- 1973),
Edna Buchanan (1949-1962; see also Anna Erickson), and E. John Bullard (Bloch student at the National Gallery; 1968-1975).
Box 2, Folder 3
C,
1949-1975
Scope and Content Note
including Albert Christ-Janer (Bingham scholar; 1972-1973), and M. B. Cowdrey (historian of American art; 1948-1958)
Box 2, Folder 4
D, (for Virginia Downes, see Ethyl Myers)
1952-1981
Box 2, Folder 5
E,
1949-1971
Scope and Content Note
including Anna E. (Nancy) Erickson (art collector)
Box 2, Folder 6
F,
1948-1978
Scope and Content Note
including Lorser Feitelson (American painter and printmaker; 1963-1978)
Box 2, Folder 7
G,
1952-1976
Scope and Content Note
including Eva Gatling (curator Cooper Union and Des Moines Art Center; 1952-1960, undated), William Gerdts (Newark Museum
and CUNY; 1955-1962), and Arnold Gross (lithographer; 1975-1976); [see also oversize box 87]
Box 2, Folder 8
H-I,
1950-1975
Scope and Content Note
including Hans A. Halbey (Kingspoor Museum; 1960-1968), Edith Hamelin ('Dale,' wife of Maynard Dixon; 1958-1970), Milton Hebald
(American artist and collector; 1968-1970), Cornelia Jett Henry (Cooper Union colleague; 1958-1959, undated), Bertha Heilbron
(Minnesota Hst. Society and panorama scholar; 1950-1968); [see also box 44, folder 3], and Werner Hirsch (Cambridge don; 1972,
1975)
Box 2, Folder 9
J,
1955-1975,
undated
Scope and Content Note
including Claude E. (Mac) Jones (UCLA English professor; 1959-1971, undated)
Box 3, Folder 1
K,
1946-1978
Scope and Content Note
including Jacob Kainen (Smithsonian prints curator and printmaker; 1959-1978), Francis (Bob) Kelly (artist and conservator;
1961-1969), Donald D. Keyes (art historian; 1967-1975), Eckhardt Knab (Albertina and Gemäldegalerie, Vienna; 1955-1961), and
Joseph Kwiat
Box 3, Folder 2
L,
1952-1981
Scope and Content Note
including Stanley Lewis (art historian; 1952-1959)
Box 3, Folder 3
Mc,
1949-1975
Scope and Content Note
including John McCall (expert on Japanese prints; 1949-1956), and Dorothy McNeilly (Charles Lanman descendant; 1974-1975);
[see also box 40, folder 4]
Box 3, Folder 4
George T. Maxwell (cartoonist, illustrator and collector)
1949-1959
Box 3, Folder 5
M,
1949-1978
Scope and Content Note
including Ruth S. Magurn (Fogg prints curator; 1970-1975, undated), Paul Mills (Oakland Art Museum; 1957-1962), and Ethel
Myers (ceramicist) and her daughter Virginia Downes (1958-1972)
Box 3, Folder 6
N,
1951-1975
Scope and Content Note
including Harry Nadler (artist; 19??)
Box 3, Folder 7
P-Q,
1954-1974
Scope and Content Note
including Roi Partridge (printmaker; 1974), Clare Elsne Peck (artist; 1960), and Annemarie H. Pope (National Council on Fine
Arts' Traveling Exhibition Service; 1954-1971)
Box 3, Folder 8
R,
1946-1972
Scope and Content Note
including Lessing J. Rosenwald (illustrations and book collector; 1961-1970)
Box 3, Folder 9
S,
1950-1988
Scope and Content Note
including Karl Schrag (artist; 1955-1977) and Frederick Shane (Univ. of Missouri art historian; 1958-1971, undated)
Box 4, Folder 1
T-U,
1958-1975
Scope and Content Note
including Patricia Trenton (Bloch student and curator, Denver Art Museum; 1969-1974) and Ross Taggart (Nelson-Atkins). [See
Series IV for other correspondence with both Trenton and Taggart].
Box 4, Folder 2
W,
1949-1982
Scope and Content Note
including Herbert Weissburger (NYU colleague; 1955-1961), Allen S. Weller (Univ. of Illinois art historian; 1949-1961), Sir
Robert Witt (collector; 1951-1953), and Christopher J. White (Old Masters authority; 1959-1982, bulk to 1965)
Box 4, Folder 3
X-Z,
1955-1973
Scope and Content Note
including Hermann Zapf (German graphic designer; 1955-1969), Jake Zeitlin (rare book dealer; 1960-1973), and Jerrold Ziff
(art historian; 1967-1972)
Box 4, Folder 4
Unidentified,
1960-1974,
undated
Series I.C.
Letters received and sent,
1976-1989
Physical Description:
.25 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence of the same nature as the alphabetical subseries above, but arranged in chronological order.
Box 4, Folder 5
1976
Physical Description:
ca. 25 items
Box 4, Folder 6
1977
Physical Description:
ca. 40 items
Box 4, Folder 7
1978
Physical Description:
ca. 40 items
Box 4, Folder 8
1979-1980
Physical Description:
ca. 20 items
Box 4, Folder 9
1981-1982
Physical Description:
ca. 45 items
Box 4, Folder 10
1983
Physical Description:
ca. 30 items
Box 4, Folder 11
1984
Physical Description:
ca. 50 items
Box 4, Folder 12
1985
Physical Description:
ca. 40 items
Box 4, Folder 13
1986-1987
Physical Description:
ca. 30 items
Box 4, Folder 14
1988-1989
Physical Description:
ca. 45 items
Box 4, Folder 15
undated
Physical Description:
5 items
Series II.
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts,
1936-1958,
1988
Physical Description:
5 lin. ft.
10 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series comprises course outlines, syllabi, bibliographies, lecture notes and correspondence in 5 linear ft. These include
courses Bloch took with Otto Benesch, Walter Friedlaender, Julius Held, Karl Lehmann, A. Philip McMahon, Richard Offner, Dimitri
Tselos and Martin Weinberger, with some notes from lectures by Panofsky, and Richard Kautheimer. One small file offers administrative
documents from his undergraduate years at NYU. Other files hold materials for his master's thesis (including the ms.), correspondence
regarding his teaching at NYU, and supporting materials for his dissertation, the manuscript for which is filed in Series
IV. Some correspondence with his professors is here and concerns his dissertation, other research, and news of his teaching
and curatorial activities.
Series II.A.
Course syllabi,
1935-1942,
undated
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
NYU-IFA course outlines, syllabi, bibliographies, slide lists, arranged alphabetically by instructor.
Box 5, Folder 1
Inventories of Bloch's NYU-IFA course material: "Selected list of [NYU-IFA] syllabi on hand,"
Box 5, Folder 2
Marcel Aubert, Gothic architecture
Box 5, Folder 2
-Early Gothic architecture in France,
1936
Box 5, Folder 2
- Later Gothic architecture in France,
1938
Box 5, Folder 3
Otto Benesch, Fine Arts class, "French Painting from the Revolution to the Present Time,"
undated
Box 5, Folder 4
Walter W. S. Cook, Research methods, Italian and Spanish Painting -"Fine Arts class 201-202, Methods of Research in the Fine
arts." Selective bibliography on American Painting, with a bibliography for Fine Arts class 201
Box 5, Folder 4
-bibliography of Italian painting
Box 5, Folder 4
-"Spanish painting," fragment
Box 5, Folder 4
-Reading list for "Spanish painting from Goya to Miro," [see also box 7, folder 4]
Box 5, Folder 5
Walter Friedlaender, Italian painting
Box 5, Folder 5
-"Fine Arts 228, Later Venetian painting and Northern Italian painting," lectures 1-9
Box 5, Folder 5
-"Fine Arts 227, Florentine and central Italian painting of the sixteenth century," lecture 13 only.
Box 5, Folder 5
-"Fine Arts 229, Italian painting of the late XVI and XVII centuries," includes bibliography, lacking pp. 1-12
Box 5, Folder 6
Friedlaender, Baroque painting [see also box 6, folder 1]
Box 5, Folder 6
-bibliography for "Fine Arts 267...Rubens and the Baroque," and including "Topics for Reports" for Fine Arts 267 and 339
Box 5, Folder 6
-"Fine Arts 226, Painting in the High Baroque,"
Box 6, Folder 1
Friedlaender, French painting and drawing
Box 6, Folder 1
-"Fine Arts 226, French painting in the XVI and early XVII centuries,"
Box 6, Folder 1
-Topics list for "Fine Arts 278, French Painting," and "Fine Arts 340, French painting XVI-XVIII," (bound together)
Box 6, Folder 2
-"Fine Arts 225. . .French painting XVII-XVIII"
Box 6, Folder 2
-"Fine Arts 225. . .French painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries" (fuller version)
Box 6, Folder 2-3
-"Bibliography of French painting - 17th and 18th centuries"
Box 6, Folder 2
-"Bibliography of French painting (late 18th and early 19th centuries)"
Box 6, Folder 3
-"Fine Arts 268, French drawings of the XVI and XVII centuries," lectures 1 and 15
Box 6, Folder 3
-"Fine Arts 226, From David to Cézanne," 3 different versions
Box 6, Folder 4
Robert Goldwater, "Fine Arts 167, Modern painting," with three leaves of Bloch's notes
Box 6, Folder 5
Julius Held, Flemish and Dutch painting
Box 6, Folder 5
-bibliography for Fine Arts 60, "Flemish painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"
Box 6, Folder 5
-"Fine Arts 210. . .Dutch painting, 17th century," including bibliography and slide list
Box 7, Folder 1
Hans Huth, "Fine Arts. . .Museum training"
Box 7, Folder 2
Richard Krautheimer, architecture
Box 7, Folder 2
-bibilography for "Fine Arts 274, Early Christian architecture,"
Box 7, Folder 2
-"Fine Arts 274, Gothic architecture"
Box 7, Folder 2
-miscellaneous and incomplete lectures on renaissance architecture in Italy
Box 7, Folder 2
-"Fine Arts 248, Baroque architecture" [see also Special Collection accn. no. 900219]
Box 7, Folder 3
Karl Lehmann(-Hartleben), ancient art
Box 7, Folder 3
-bibliography for "Classical Greek art"
Box 7, Folder 3
-"Fine Arts 254, Greek architecture of the classical period"
Box 7, Folder 3
-"Fine Arts 288. . .Greek and Roman painting," with bibliography
Box 7, Folder 3
-"Hellenistic Art," including bibliography, with handwritten date
7 Oct 1939
Box 7, Folder 4
José Lopez-Rey, Spanish painting
Box 7, Folder 4
-"Fine Arts 270. . .Spanish painting from Goya to Miro," outline, slide list (fragment)
Box 7, Folder 4
-"Fine Arts 271, Modern Spanish painting," outline, slide list for lectures 1-11
Box 7, Folder 5
A. Philip McMahon, "Fine Arts 11, Outline of the history of art, 1945-1946," 2 pp lecture schedule and reading list
Box 7, Folder 6
Richard Offner, Italian painting
Box 7, Folder 6
-"Fine Arts 288, Sienese Painting"
Box 7, Folder 6
-"Fine Arts 290, Venetian painting," fragment of typescript
Box 7, Folder 6
-"Fine Arts 291. . .Venetian painting"
Box 7, Folder 7
- bound volume: "Syllabus of Gothic and early Renaissance painting in Italy," with slide lists for classes "Italian painting
and sculpture of the early Renaissance, 154f[all], 1946" and "Great masters of the high Renaissance," 155w[inter], 1947"
Box 8, Folder 1-2
2 bound volumes: "Two made-up volumes of photographs from slides used by Offner, 'Sienese painting' et al"
Box 8, Folder 3
Erwin Panofsky, European art
Box 8, Folder 3
- "Fine Arts 336. . .Gothic and late medieval illuminated mss.," fragments
Box 8, Folder 3
- "Early Flemish painting - syllabus"
Box 8, Folder 3
- "Fine Arts 229, German painting," incomplete, lectures 1-6
Box 8, Folder 3
- "German painting of the XVth century," with errata sheet
Box 8, Folder 3
- "Italian baroque art, syllabus of lectures"
Box 8, Folder 3
- "French painting of the XVII and XVIII centuries"
Box 8, Folder 4
Rudolf M. Riefstahl, ancient art, furniture
Box 8, Folder 4
- "Chronology of Egypt" for "Art of the Near East"
Box 8, Folder 4
- chronologies for "Byzantine art" : Roman history, Byzantine history,
1934, and "chronology of the Byzantine empire,"
1936
Box 8, Folder 4
- chronology for "Historic styles," copyright
1935
Box 8, Folder 4
-chronologies for "Medieval furniture," and "English furniture," copyright
1935
Box 9, Folder 1
Andrew C. Ritchie, English painting
Box 9, Folder 1
-bibliography for and lecture 1 of "Fine Arts 46. . .English painting, 16-18 centuries"
Box 9, Folder 1
-"Fine Arts 79. . .English painting," lectures 2, 7-13 [see also box 17, folder 1]
Box 9, Folder 2
William Sawitzsky, "Fine Arts 51, Early American painting," bound with corrections in Bloch's hand
Box 9, Folder 3
Dimitri Tselos, Art of the middle ages
Box 9, Folder 3
-"Fine Arts 181, Art of the early Middle Ages," lacking lectures 1-4
Box 9, Folder 3
-"Fine Arts 282, Art of the early Middle Ages"
Box 9, Folder 3
-"Fine Arts 182, Art of the later Middle Ages"
Box 9, Folder 4
-"Fine Arts 69, Foundations of modern art," lacking 2 lectures
Box 9, Folder 4
-"Fine Arts 36, Foundations of modern architecture and sculpture," incomplete [see also box 17, folder 1]
Box 9, Folder 4
-"Fine Arts 135, Foundations of modern architecture and sculpture," including a "bibliography of American architecture"
Box 9, Folder 4
-"Fine Arts 252, American art," slide list
Box 9, Folder 5
Martin Weinberger, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture
Box 9, Folder 5
-"Fine Arts 279 [sic, 275]. . .Romanesque and Gothic sculpture"
Box 9, Folder 5
-"Fine Arts 274. . .Renaissance sculpture in Italy," with Bloch's notes dated 1940
Box 9, Folder 5
-"Fine Arts 283. . .High Renaissance and Baroque sculpture in Italy"
Box 9, Folder 6
Weinberger, Painting, sculpture, museum training
Box 9, Folder 6
-"Fine Arts 206. . .Renaissance art of northern Europe," [see also box 16, folder 5 for second copies of lectures 7-10]
Box 9, Folder 6
-"Fine Arts 284. . .Northern High Renaissance and Baroque sculpture"
Box 9, Folder 6
-"Fine Arts 210, Rembrandt and Dutch painting," incomplete
Box 9, Folder 6
- Museum training course, "Exhibit: lithographs and sculpture - Honoré Daumier/ arranged by student in Museum training under
the direction of Dr. Martin Weinberger...
May 13-19, 1941"
Box 9, Folder 7
Miscellaneous materials without instructors' names, alpha by subject/title
Box 9, Folder 7
-ancient architecture, outline of lectures,
1936-1937
Box 9, Folder 7
-Renaissance architecture, outline of lectures,
1937-1938
Box 9, Folder 7
-Italian baroque art, bibilography
Box 9, Folder 7
-history of forgeries, early Christian and Byzantine art
Box 9, Folder 7
-Tuscan communes of 12th and 13th centuries
Box 9, Folder 7
-modern art: classicism and romanticism, outline of lectures
Box 9, Folder 7
-museum training course: 17th c Dutch prints and Delft ware; history of painting and sculpture, 1936, in Bloch's hand
Box 9, Folder 7
-NYU-Met Museum bibliography for painting in Italy 17th -18th centuries
Box 9, Folder 7
-"Fine Arts 27-28," watercolor class
Box 9, Folder 7
-survey of renaissance art - Fine Arts 502, incomplete
Series II.B.
Bloch's notes and term papers for NYU classes,
1936-1947,
undated
Physical Description:
ca. 2.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Lecture notes, term papers, sketchbooks, and assorted notes, arranged roughly alphabetically; by professors, then by subjects.
Box 10, Folder 1
-French painting,
1943
Scope and Content Note
Paper, translation of portion of Thieme-Becker, 1941.
Box 10, Folder 2-3
Walter Fridlaender,
ca. 1940-1944
Box 10, Folder 2
-Florentine painting,
1944
Box 10, Folder 2
-Fine Arts 227, Florentine and central Italian painting of the 16th c.
Box 10, Folder 2
-Later Venetian painting,
1941
Box 10, Folder 3
-Italian painting of the late 16th and 17th centuries, with term paper,
1940
Box 10, Folder 3
-Term paper on Géricault, for Fine Arts 226, David to Cézanne,
1941
Box 10, Folder 4
Julius Held, Dutch painting of the 17th c., with term paper on Rembrandt,
1940
Box 10, Folder 5
Karl Lehmann(-Hartleben), Greek art of the Hellenistic period, with term paper on Pergamon altar,
1939-1940
Box 10, Folder 6
A. Philip McMahon, Criticism of the fine arts, with term paper on Sextus Emiricus,
1939-1940
Box 10, Folder 7
-High Renaissance painting,
1940
Box 11, Folder 2
-Early and later medieval art,
1942-1943
Box 11, Folder 3
-Foundations of modern art and architecture and sculpture,
1938,
1941,
1947
Box 11, Folder 4
-High Renaissance sculpture, with term paper on Bartolommeo Ammanati,
1940-1941
Box 11, Folder 4
-Term paper on Mantegna for Italian Renaissance sculpture course,
1940
Scope and Content Note
[see also Bloch's master's thesis, box 14, folder 9]
Box 11, Folder 5
Edgar Wind, Iconography of the Renaissance,
1942
Box 12, Folder 2-7
Architecture, ancient to modern, include sketchbooks,
1936-1938
Box 12, Folder 8
Principles of design - Met Museum of Art, fragment,
1937
Box 13, Folder 3
Michelangelo,
1938,
1941
Scope and Content Note
(with Panofsky? Weinberger?)
Box 13, Folder 4
Museum training/ research methods,
1941-1942
Scope and Content Note
(with Cook?)
Box 13, Folder 5
History of ornament and sculpture,
1936-1937
Scope and Content Note
Including mimeographed sheets for student notes.
Box 13, Folder 6-11
Painting, gothic, renaissance, American, French, German;
1937,
1939,
1947?
undated
Box 13, Folder 12
Pottery, porcelain, bound term paper,
undated
Box 14, Folder 1
Renaissance, Italian art,
undated
Box 14, Folder 2-4
Sculpture, ancient to Renaissance,
1942-1943,
undated
Box 14, Folder 5
Cosimo Tura, report on condition of his "Flight into Egypt"
Box 14, Folder 6-7
Notes on lectures
Scope and Content Note
Assorted notes on guest lectures and symposia given by, among others, Arthur Hind, Krautheimer, Lehmann, Offner, Panofsky,
and Hans Tietze.
Series II.C.
NYU School of Architecture and Allied Arts, Bloch's undergraduate years,
1936-1939
Physical Description:
1 folder
10 items
Scope and Content Note
Bloch's undergraduate administrative records.
Box 14, Folder 8
Correspondence, grades, commencement materials.
Series II.D.
NYU-IFA, Bloch's master's thesis,
1940-1942
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Bound thesis, associated material and correspondence.
Box 14, Folder 9
"Iconography of Andrea Mantegna's half-length pictures of the 'Madonna and Child,'"
October 1942
Scope and Content Note
Bound typescript of thesis with supporting materials including a critique by Richard Offner.
Series II.E.
NYU Washington Square campus, correspondence,
1945-1946
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Seven typed letters, concerning teaching at NYU. [For Bloch lecture notes from this period, see box 16, folders 4-7.]
Box 14, Folder 10
Correspondence, primarily with A. Philip McMahon,
Series II.F.
NYU-IFA, Bloch's Ph.D. materials,
1944-1959
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Supporting, administrative materials and correspondence regarding Bloch's Ph.D.and NYU commencement, ca. 45 items.
Box 14, Folder 11
Ph.D supporting materials
Scope and Content Note
Records, oral exams, Ph.D. requirements, grades, commencement and other ceremony programs, letters from Walter Cook, Craig
Hugh Smyth, and Martin Weinberger [For ms. of dissertation, see boxes 23-25].
Series II.G.
Correspondence with NYU-IFA professors, others,
1946-1988
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Letters, post cards, clippings, and other material primarily related to NYU-IFA professors and alumni
Box 14, Folder 12
Correspondence alphabetical,
1946-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes Walter Cook (1947-1959, 1962), A. Philip McMahon (1946), Craig Hugh Smyth (1956-1957), Dimitri Tselos (1954-1970,
1987).
Box 14, Folder 13
Alumni association flyers, letters, etc.,
1959,
1972,
1988
Series III.
Teaching materials,
1945-1982
undated,
Physical Description:
4 lin. ft.
8 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series contains Bloch's teaching and academic materials, 1945-1982, 4 linear ft., includes Bloch's lectures for the University
of Missouri, University of Minnesota and UCLA courses, with reading lists and slides lists. Four folders of papers concern
his students' work, exams, and correspondence and support materials for their masters' theses and Ph.D qualifying exams. Other
correspondence and assorted documents relate to Bloch's employment, personnel actions, and tenure review, especially at UCLA.
Series III.A.
Lecture notes,
1945-1982
Physical Description:
2.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Class files containing lecture notes and other materials, chiefly for the teaching of University of Missouri and UCLA art
history courses, arranged accordingly.
Box 15, Folder 1
Introductory course, "Art and Archaeology" Univ. of Missouri,
1944-1945
Box 15, Folder 2
American art,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes Univ. of Missouri stationary.
Box 15, Folder 3-4
19th c. American architecture; American painting and sculpture
Physical Description:
ca. 200 pp.
Box 15, Folder 5
American art and architecture, UCLA art history courses 112A-C or 116A-C,
1961-1978
Box 16, Folder 1
American art and architecture, UCLA art history courses 112A-C or 116A-C,
1961-1978
Box 16, Folder 2
American art, graduate seminar, UCLA,
1976
Box 16, Folder 3
Medieval art,
1956,
undated
Box 16, Folder 4-7
Renaissance art, NYU Washington Square campus, Univ. of Minnesota, UCLA,
1945-1947,
1957
Scope and Content Note
Includes mimeographs from NUY-IFA courses taught by Walter Cook and Martin Weinberger [see also box 5, folder 4 and box 9,
folders 5-6].
Box 16, Folder 8-9
Baroque art, UCLA art history course 104C and UCLA Extension,
1957-1962
Box 16, Folder 10
French art, typed lecture notes
Scope and Content Note
U. of Missouri? Univ. of Minnesota?
Box 17, Folder 1-2
Modern art, Univ. of Minnesota and UCLA,
1946-1947,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes a lecture from NYU-IFA course of Andrew Ritchie [see also box 9, folder 1]
Box 17, Folder 3
Museum training, UCLA Extension and USC course 530,
1963,
1981,
undated
Box 17, Folder 4
History of ornament and decoration,
1963,
1966,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Yyped lecture notes, slide lists from UCLA art history course 102.
Box 17, Folder 5
Painting, typed lecture notes,
undated
Box 18, Folder 1
Painting, UCLA art history course 118B,
1957-1958
Box 18, Folder 2
History of prints and drawings, UCLA art history courses 117D, 121B,
1965-1966,
1969,
1980,
undated
Box 18, Folder 3-4
Critical and historical studies in drawings, UCLA art history courses 117D, 121B, 121A-B,
1965-1980,
undated
Scope and Content Note
With typed lecture notes, ca. 200 pp.
Box 19, Folder 1-2
History of prints, UCLA art history courses 117A, 120A-B,
1959,
1972,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Typed lecture notes, ca. 300 pp; assorted handouts on prints.
Box 18, Folder 3
The contemporary print, UCLA Extension,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
Collaboration with Tamarind Lithography Workshop [for more on Tamarind, see box 65]
Box 18, Folder 4
Connoisseurship of prints, UCLA art department graduate seminar 402,
1978,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Including mimeograph from Fogg Art Museum, typed lecture notes.
Box 18, Folder 5
Sculpture and architecture, UCLA art history course 118A,
1956,
undated
Scope and Content Note
With typed lecture notes.
Box 18, Folder 6-7
Assorted lecture outlines, reading lists,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Not all by Bloch.
Box 18, Folder 8
Seminar and thesis topics for American art and illustration,
undated
Box 20, Folder 1-2
Examinations: mid-term, final and Ph.D qualifying,
1950s-1980s
Series III.B.
Students' course work for Bloch's classes,
1940s-1980s
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Materials related to Bloch's undergraduate and graduate students, including class rosters, outlines, notes, term papers, bibliographies,
and other supporting matter.
Box 20, Folder 3-4
Undergraduate: class notes, outlines, papers,
1944-1947,
1967,
1972,
undated
Box 21, Folder 1-2
Graduate: assorted class rosters, papers, outlines, bibliographies,
1961-1981,
undated
Box 21, Folder 3
Supporting materials and correspondence for master's theses,
1966,
1973,
1984-1985
Series III.C.
Universities of Missouri and Minnesota employment,
1944-1947
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and other materials related to Bloch's early teaching activities as well as a contemporary photograph of the
professor.
Box 21, Folder 4
Univ. of Missouri,
1943-1945
Physical Description:
ca. 20 items
Scope and Content Note
Primarily correspondence; includes a contemporary photograph of Bloch.
Box 21, Folder 5
Univ. of Minnesota,
1946-1947
Physical Description:
ca. 25 items
Scope and Content Note
Primarily correspondence.
Series III.D.
UCLA employment,
1956-1989
Physical Description:
ca. 1 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Administrative, professional, and committee correspondence and materials, as well as student records, related to Bloch's teaching
activities at UCLA.
Box 21, Folder 6
Bloch's personnel action forms, and bio-bibliographies,
1956-1982
Box 21, Folder 7
Assorted documents regarding Bloch's professional activities,
1956-1988
Box 22, Folder 1-3
Assorted documents gathered for promotion process
1956-1988
Scope and Content Note
Congratulatory letters; notices of Bloch lectures, exhibits and appointments to committees at UCLA and outside.
Box 22, Folder 4
Assorted job opportunities; correspondence, printed ephemera,
1958-1978
Box 22, Folder 5
UCLA Art department administrative papers,
1958-1985,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Degree requirements, administrative papers; Bloch's committee work regarding library and tenure.
Box 22, Folder 6
Records of student exams, committees,
1959-1989
Series IV.
George Caleb Bingham Research,
1943-1989
Physical Description:
6.5 lin. ft.
13 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series contains papers relating to Bloch's writings, lectures and research on Bingham paintings, drawings, and biography.
Files for Bloch's dissertation (1957) and monograph and catalog raisonné (1967) include manuscripts, galleys, photographs
and correspondence relating to research and publishing 1942-1987. Other files pertain to articles and lectures Bloch wrote
about Bingham, as well as exhibits he worked on, and include printed material, correspondence, manuscripts and research notes.
Extensive correspondence about Bingham's portraits includes that with owners, descendants of owners and sitters, and museums
and historical societies. Other correspondence, photographs and research materials relate to Bingham's genre paintings, landscapes,
drawings, authentication and biography.
Series IV.A.
Publications and lectures,
1943-1987
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and research matter related to Bloch's writing and lecture activities, much of it surrounding his dissertation
on Bingham, as well as work with various university presses, including manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, galleys, and
other publication materials.
Box 23, Folder 1
Bingham dissertation, 1957, and monograph and catalog raisonné, 1967
1944-1971
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding provenance, photograph requests, research inquiries,
Box 23, Folder 2
Correspondence regarding permissions,
1945-1963
Scope and Content Note
To reproduce photographs of Bingham's sketchbook at the Mercantile Library,
Box 23, Folder 3
Correspondence with UC Press,
1955-1966
Scope and Content Note
[For more correspondence with UC Press see box 25, folder 3.]
Box 23, Folder 4
Manuscript, preparatory and front matter,
1946,
1956,
undated
Box 23, Folder 5
Manuscript, typescript for volume 1,
undated
Scope and Content Note
[N.B., fragile]
Box 24, Folder 1-3
Printers mss. for both volumes
Scope and Content Note
[for photomechanicals to 1967 edition, see box 32, folders 1-3.]
Box 25, Folder 1
Continuation of above, box 24.
Box 25, Folder 2
Correspondence regarding Praeger Press Bingham monograph,
1954-1970
Scope and Content Note
Never published.
Box 25, Folder 3
Correspondence regarding Bingham catalog raisonné,
1968-1976;
Scope and Content Note
Primarily with Univ. of Missouri Press and St. Louis Mercantile Library, some correspondence with UC Press.
Box 25, Folder 4
Photographs, tearsheets of Bingham drawings
Box 25, Folder 5
Correspondence regarding photograph requests, permissions, provenance
Scope and Content Note
Also letters with U. of Missouri Press. Regarding revised Bingham catalog raisonné, 1979-1987. Also letters 1987-1988 with
Univ. of Missouri Press regarding W. S. Mount drawings book that Bloch was under contract to write [see also box 41, folder
2]
Box 26, Folder 1
Continuation of folder 5 above
Box 26, Folder 2
Ms. and galley of front matter for Bingham catalog raisonné
Box 26, Folder 3-4
Photographs of Bingham work,
Scope and Content Note
Not all for 1986 book? see also box 32, folders 1-3.
Box 27, Folder 1
Bloch's articles and lectures about Bingham,
1960-1978,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Also correspondence and notes. For lectures on American artists that include Bingham, see box 41, folder 5, Box 42, folder
1.
Box 27, Folder 2
Bingham's "color method"
1963-1970,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Article for
Apollo (1972/1973?). Correspondence, notes, handwritten and typed [for lectures?].
Series IV.B.
Bingham exhibits,
1910,
1935-1986
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, inventories, inventories, clippings, catalogs, and other matter related to Bloch's work on various
Bingham exhibits.
Box 27, Folder 3
Bloch's notes
Physical Description:
ca. 20 pp.
Scope and Content Note
Concerning 19th-century exhibits which included Bingham's work, with a 1910 catalog.
Box 27, Folder 4
National Council of Fine Arts exhibit,
1967
1964-1967
Scope and Content Note
Bingham exhibit which Bloch worked on. Correspondence, inventories, manuscript of catalog.
Box 27, Folder 5
Nelson Atkins and St. Louis Art Museum exhibit,
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
Bingham exhibit which Bloch worked on. Correspondence, clippings, inventory,.
Box 27, Folder 6
Amon Carter Museum exhibit, 1976,
1972-1977
Scope and Content Note
Bingham exhibit on which Bloch worked. Correspondence, mostly with Mitchell Wilder, and inventories. Exhibit never mounted?
Box 27, Folder 7
Missouri Historical Society
Scope and Content Note
Bingham exhibit which Bloch worked on.
Box 27, Folder 8
Other modern Bingham exhibits
1935-1986
Scope and Content Note
Catalogs, inventories, correspondence, clippings.
Series IV.C.
Bingham portraits,
1940s-1980s
Physical Description:
2.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, research notes, printed ephemera, and a large number of photographs related to Bloch's research on Bingham's
portrait work, including contacts with descendants, owners, museums, and dealers.
Box 28, Folder 1-4
General correspondence concerning Bingham portraits with owners, descendants, historical societies, museums,
1943-1989
Scope and Content Note
Many photographs, arranged alphabetically by sitter: A-Mc
Box 29, Folder 1-5
Correspondence and photographs, Mc-W, and names unknown
Box 30, Folder 1-9
Correspondence concerning authentication/attribution of portraits,
1944-1989
Scope and Content Note
Many of which were not by Bingham in Bloch's opinion. Correspondence with owners, descendants, museums, and dealers like
Stuart Feld (Hirschl & Adler) and Robert Vose. Many photographs, arranged alphabetically by sitter: A-N.
Box 31, Folder 1-4
Correspondence and photographs, O-W, and names unknown
Box 31, Folder 5
Assorted portrait correspondence,
1968-1988
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Box 31, Folder 6
Research notes and printed ephemera,
undated,
c1940s-1970s
Box 32, Folder 1-2
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Of Bingham portraits, with some transparencies and negatives. Includes photographs marked for mechanical reproduction for
1967 or 1986 catalog raisonné.
Box 32, Folder 3
Photographs, late portraits
Series IV.D.
Bingham narrative/genre paintings,
1944-1989
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Bloch's correspondence and research notes on Bingham's narrative/genre work.
Box 32, Folder 4
Correspondence regarding individual paintings, B-J
1944-1989
Scope and Content Note
With some research notes, alphabetically arranged by title/subject.
Box 33, Folder 1
Correspondence regarding individual paintings, L-W
Box 33, Folder 2
Paintings with political themes
Box 33, Folder 3-4
Correspondence regarding attribution / authentication,
1946,
1964-1989
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically.
Series IV.E.
Bingham landscapes,
1944-1984
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content Note
Bloch's correspondence and some photographs related to Bingham's landscape work.
Box 33, Folder 5
Correspondence (with some photographs) concerning 6 paintings,
1944-1984
Box 34, Folder 1
Correspondence regarding attribution / authentication
Series IV.F.
Bingham drawings and unidentified paintings,
1967-1985
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with various venues about Bingham drawings and other work, including a photograph of one item.
Box 34, Folder 2
Correspondence regarding authentication
Physical Description:
ca. 15 items
Series IV.G.
Assorted materials regarding Bingham paintings,
1944-1984,
undated
Physical Description:
4 folders
Scope and Content Note
Photographs, slides, inventories, correspondence, and notes about Bingham's paintings, (including copies, and prints) and
their attribution.
Box 34, Folder 3
Parintings of doubtful attribution
Scope and Content Note
35 photographs of doubtful or erroneous attribution, keyed to a list "Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: a catalogue raisonné,
Vol. IV - Photographs."
Box 34, Folder 4
Miscellaneous inventories of Bingham works,
1944,
undated
Scope and Content Note
[see also box 44, folder 5, and index card box 46.]
Box 34, Folder 5
Miscellaneous photographs and slides of Bingham's work
Box 34, Folder 6
Correspondence and notes concerning copies and prints after Bingham,
1961-1984
Series IV.H.
Bingham biography,
1931,
1944-1988
Physical Description:
ca. 1 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Material about Bingham's life, including correspondence with his descendants and others, notes, printed ephemera, clippings,
and other matter, as well as copies of Bingham's own correspondence.
Box 34, Folder 7
Correspondence,
1967-1987
Physical Description:
ca. 125 items
Scope and Content Note
Including regarding discussion of Bingham's paintings, arranged chronologically
Box 34, Folder 8
Correspondence with Bingham descendants,
1944-1974
Physical Description:
ca. 30 items
Box 34, Folder 9
Correspondence with Harry and Bess Truman,
1947-1976
Physical Description:
ca. 10 items
Box 35, Folder 1
Photostats of Bingham correspondence and a published lecture by him
Box 35, Folder 2
Notes and correspondence regarding contemporary accounts of Bingham,
ca. 1950s
Box 35, Folder 4-7
Research notes on Bingham topics
Box 35, Folder 8
Printed ephemera, clippings, tearsheets
Box 35, Folder 9
Published material on Bingham,
1931,
1981-1988
Physical Description:
4 items
Series V.
Benjamin West research,
1821-1987
Physical Description:
2.5 lin. ft.
3 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, catalogs and inventories, research notes, photographs, printed ephemera and microfilm. The correspondence,
primarily with institutions which own West drawings, is arranged chronologically and includes letters from the British Museum,
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Metropolitan Museum, 1961-1987, scattered years. Catalogs, photocopies, and
Bloch's inventories document his attempt to compile an exhaustive list of West work. These date from 1821-1987, scattered
years. Other research materials, some compiled by Bloch's students, include photographs, notes, clippings and a microfilm
of the West sketchbook in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Photographs, inventories and a few letters relate to Raphael
Lamar West. Photocopies of auction records and photographs document Benjamin West's own collection of drawings.
Series V.A.
Correspondence,
1961-1987
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, primarily with institutions that own West drawings, including the British Museum, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
Metropolitan Museum, arranged chronologically.
Series V.B.
West exhibit catalogs/inventories,
1821-1987,
undated
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Catalogs, photocopies, tearsheets and Bloch's own lists, 1821. [See also box 44, folder 5, and index card box 46.]
Series V.C.
West research,
1926,
1961-1987,
undated
Physical Description:
1 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Research notes, bio-bibliographical and other support materials, ephemera, photocopies, clippings, and photographs of works
(arranged by series and genres).
Box 36, Folder 4
Notes and bio-bibliographical materials
Scope and Content Note
Most compiled by Bloch students, with photographs and prints of self-portraits and portraits [see also box 46].
Box 37, Folder 1
Notes and support materials for the West holdings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
1969,
1987,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Including microfilm of its West sketchbook.
Box 37, Folder 2
Research, with photographs, on three individual West series,
1965,
1985,
undated
Box 37, Folder 3
Printed ephemera, photocopies, tearsheets, clippings,
1926,
1961-1970,
undated
Physical Description:
ca. 12 items
Box 37, Folder 4
Photographs of West drawings
Physical Description:
ca. 125 photographs
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 photographs of drawings in 1839 Sotheby's sale; Sketchbooks, Royal Academy of Arts, London, ca. 25 photographs with
Academy's stamp.
Box 37, Folder 5
Photographs of West drawings, animal portraits
Scope and Content Note
Ca. 100 photographs, with some written documentation.
Box 38, Folder 1
Photographs of West drawings: genre scenes and landscapes
Physical Description:
ca. 90 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Domestic scenes and genre subjects (ca. 45 items), Landscapes (ca. 45 items).
Box 38, Folder 2
Photographs of West drawings: classical and biblical subjects
Physical Description:
ca. 120 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Classical subjects (ca. 45 items), Old and New Testament subjects (ca. 75 items)
Box 38, Folder 3
Photographs of West drawings: allegorical and historical subjects
Scope and Content Note
Allegorical subjects (ca. 40 items), Historical subjects (ca. 30 items)
Box 38, Folder 4
Photographs of West drawings: literary and other
Physical Description:
ca. 130 photographs
Scope and Content Note
Literary subjects (ca. 20 items), about "Benjamin West: Royal Naval Collection Project, 1788-1789" (National Maritime Museum)
(ca. 51 items), Miscellaneous (ca. 40 items), False attributions to West (ca. 10 items)
Series V.D.
Raphael Lamar West,
1980s
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of drawings and materials about West's pupils.
Box 38, Folder 5
30 photographs of R. L. West's drawings,
1980s
Scope and Content Note
With a list of West pupils and 4 letters concerning West's students.
Series V.E.
Prints after the works of B. West,
undated
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Undated inventories, and a student paper.
Box 38, Folder 6
Three inventories, a paper from a Bloch student,
undated
Series V.F.
West's own collection of drawings,
1820-1898
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of auctions, and photographs of drawings from West's collection.
Box 38, Folder 7
Photocopies and photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of auctions, 1820, 1824, 1829, 1898; approx. 15 photographs of drawings from the collection
Series VI.
Research files on 19th century art,
1945-1987
Physical Description:
14.5 lin. ft.
24 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Research files on 19th-century art, 1945-1987 comprises 14.5 linear ft. and document Bloch's research, writings and lectures.
Files include published works (mostly articles), manuscripts, correspondence, research notes and photographs for his publications,
publication projects never realized, lectures, and his own collecting interests. Unrealized projects include manuscript material
on American drawings, Charles Lanman's art criticism (also, microfilm of the Lanman papers), William Sidney Mount's drawings,
and a history of printmaking. Lectures, 1960-1982, include those given to LACMA docents. Assorted research notes pertain to
individual American artists, the American Art Union, the Western Art Union, American and English 19th-century illustrators
(also microfilm of newspapers), and to panoramas. Inventories and bibliographies, some on index cards, cover Bloch's research
and collecting interests and comprise ca. 5 linear ft. Finally, artists and subject files contain collected clippings and
comprise 5.5 linear ft.
Series VI.A.
Publications,
1945-1987,
undated
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content Note
Publications, book reviews, articles, catalogs, along with mss., correspondence and some galleys.
Series VI.B.
Never published book projects,
ca. 1940s-1988
Physical Description:
ca. 1 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Drawings, correspondence, contracts, photographs, research notes, clippings, tearsheets, slide lists, dealer's materials,
inventories, and other material related to unpublished book projects.
Box 39, Folder 3
American drawings, a critical and historical survey,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Contract and correspondence with Univ. of Ca Press. Materials culled from "American Drawings," 1954 Cooper Union / Smithsonian
traveling exhibit [for more on Cooper Union see box 63, folders 1-4; for more about the book project, see box 45, folder 3].
Box 40, Folder 1
Ca. 200 photographs of American drawings,
undated,
1980s
Scope and Content Note
Some with Cooper Union stamp (undated), many identified to Hirschl & Adler (1980s).
Box 40, Folder 2-3
Art Nouveau,
1960-1970
Scope and Content Note
3 files containing lectures (one for LACMA docents, ca. 1961), notes, clippings and tearsheets, slide lists, dealers' materials,
some correspondence.
Box 40, Folder 4
Edition of Charles Lanman's art criticism,
1969-1984
Scope and Content Note
Bulk 1981-1984. Typescript of ca. 250 pp ms.; also notes, 1940s; correspondence with Dorothy McNeilly, [see also box 86 for
microfilm of Lanman papers].
Box 41, Folder 1
"Patterns of Printmaking,"
1969-1871
Physical Description:
ca. 15 items
Scope and Content Note
Contract with Harry N. Abrams and correspondence.
Box 41, Folder 2
William Sidney Mount drawings catalog raisonné,
1971-1982,
1988
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, especially with the museums at Stony brook and Univ. of Missouri Press (publisher 1978), some with dealers;
research notes; photographs; clippings.
Box 41, Folder 3
Inventories of Mount's drawings at the Museums at Stony Brook
Scope and Content Note
[for an inventory of Mount's paintings, see box 44, folder 5]
Box 41, Folder 4
Tearsheets, clippings,
1942-1979
Physical Description:
10 items
Series VI.C.
Lectures,
1960-1982
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content Note
A run of lectures delivered by Bloch at various venues.
Box 41, Folder 5
Lectures given to LACMA docents,
1960s-1970s
Scope and Content Note
including, "Spanish prints" (1960) and three lectures on American painting (1973); lecture "Panoramas," 1962; lecture on Minnich
print collection, Minneapolis, 1970
Box 42, Folder 1
Lectures,
undated,
1974,
1982
Scope and Content Note
For American Art Council (LACMA), "American narrative painting" (1974) and "Caitlin and Western painting" (undated); for Palm
Springs Desert Museum, "West as art" (1982); and at UCLA symposium, "Dutch painting in America" (1982)
Series VI.D.
Research files,
1870s-1890s,
1940s-1980s,
undated
Physical Description:
1.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Notes, correspondence, copies of primary sources, photographs, tearsheets, printed ephemera, and other research materials.
Box 42, Folder 2
Notes on 19th century artists
undated,
probably 1940s-1970s
Scope and Content Note
From arts magazines, newspapers, archival records.
Box 42, Folder 3
Notes on individual 19th century artists,
undated
probably 1940s-1980s
Scope and Content Note
e.g., Catlin, Cole, Eastman, Inness, Moran, Remington, artists of the West, etc., some typed notes, ca. 75 half-pages, for
class lectures (?)
Box 42, Folder 4
Notes on commissioning artists for the Capitol Rotunda,
undated (
1950s-1970s?)
Scope and Content Note
including research on J. Q. Adams, S. F. B. Morse, copies of primary sources.
Box 43, Folder 2
Western Art Union and others,
1949-1987
Scope and Content Note
includes some correspondence, [see also Box 86 for microfilm of the Records of the Western Art Union].
Box 43, Folder 3-4
Notes and tearsheets of American and English 19th century illustrated magazines,
ca. 1870s-1890s
Scope and Content Note
including three issues in their entirety, [see also microfilm of Daily Cincinnati Chronicle, box 86].
Box 44, Folder 1
Notes and tearsheets of American and English 19th century illustrated magazines,
ca. 1870s-1890s,
undated
Box 44, Folder 2
Papers on the history of printing,
1950s-1970s
Scope and Content Note
Notes including outline for a book, tearsheets, printed ephemera.
Box 44, Folder 3
Papers regarding Panoramas,
1940s-1980s
Scope and Content Note
Notes, tearsheets, offprints and photographs. Offprints primarily by Bertha Heilbron. Includes price list. For Heilbron correspondence
with Bloch, see box 2 folder 8.
Box 44, Folder 4
Miscellaneous unidentified notes,
undated
Series VI.E.
Inventories and bibliographies,
1940s-1989,
undated
Physical Description:
3.5 lin. ft.
ca. 7 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Inventories of private collections and museum holdings, index card files, offprints, reviews, typescripts, and bibliographies.
Box 44, Folder 5
National Council of Fine Arts inventory,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Of the paintings of Bingham, W. S. Mount, and B. West. A bound computer printout.
Box 45, Folder 1
Assorted inventories of private collections, museum holdings,
1940s-1980s?
Physical Description:
ca. 25
Scope and Content Note
Many compiled by Bloch. Including a typed list, ca. 50 pp., of 19th century portraits in New England collections; the Gilkey
graphic arts collection; Art Institute of Chicago's American holdings; drawings exhibited by the National Academy of Design,
1826-1900; the prints in the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Box 45, Folder 2
Photocopy of index card file of exhibition catalogs and monographs on artists,
undated
Box 45, Folder 3
Bloch's grant applications,
1960-1974,
1977,
1985
Scope and Content Note
Primarily with the American Council Learned Societies, Guggenheim Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
Box 45, Folder 4
Other scholars' work, given to Bloch,
1943-1989
Scope and Content Note
Offprints, reviews, typescripts, and photocopies of book title pages. Note: books transferred to the Getty Research Institute
Library.
Box 46
Provenance index and bibliographies, index card files:
Box 46
-Charles Lanman bibliography and provenance
Box 46
-B. West, provenance, bibliography, inventory
Box 46
-ALS of 19th-century artists - refers to American Art Union inventory
Box 47-49
Bibliographies, note cards and some inventories,
1950s-1980s
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Panoramas, Art Nouveau, painting commissioned for the Capitol Rotunda, drawings, graphic arts, etc.,
Box 49-51
Students' index card bibliographies, compiled for assignments in Bloch's classes,
1960s-1970s
Series VI.F.
Artist/subject files,
1940s-1989,
undated
Physical Description:
5.5 lin. ft.
11 boxes
Scope and Content Note
An extensive series of artist/subject clippings files, arranged alphabetically.
Box 52, Folder 4
American architecture, historic buildings
Box 52, Folder 5
American art, contemporary
1930s-1960
Box 52, Folder 6
American art and architecture
1940-1950s
Box 52, Folder 7
American art, miscellaneous
Box 53, Folder 1
American expositions,
1853,
1893,
1915
Box 53, Folder 4
A, artists file Abbey - Audubon
Box 53, Folder 8
Biddle, George
Scope and Content Note
Includes 1 letter from Biddle to Bloch, 6 June 1949.
Box 53, Folder 13
B artists file, Bellows - Brush
Box 53, Folder 14
California architecture [see also slides in box 85]
Box 54, Folder 10
Cole, Timothy (and Alphaeus)
Box 54, Folder 11
Collecting and collectors
Box 54, Folder 13
Conservation and restoration
Box 54, Folder 18
C artists file, Cassatt - Curry
Box 55, Folder 7
D artists file, Davis - Dumond
Box 55, Folder 14
E artists file, Earl - Evergood
Box 55, Folder 21
F artists file, Feke - Frieske
Box 56, Folder 2
G artists file, Gifford - Grosz
Box 56, Folder 12
H artists file, Hale - Hunt
Box 57, Folder 1
Illustrations
Scope and Content Note
See also drawings, war illustrators, and individual illustrators files.
Box 57, Folder 11
Koerner, W. H. D.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a typed essay and notes, by Bloch?
Box 57, Folder 14
K artists file, Karfiol - Kuniyoshi
Scope and Content Note
Includes printed ephemera by Sister Corita Kent.
Box 58, Folder 5
Loemans, A. F.
Scope and Content Note
With 14 letters of Patricia Trenton and owners of Loemans paintings attributed to Lanman.
Box 58, Folder 7
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) collection
Box 58, Folder 8
L artists file, Lachaise - Lucioni
Box 58, Folder 12
Monotypes (see also Prints)
Box 58, Folder 13
Moran Family (Thomas, et al)
Box 58, Folder 19
Myers, Jerome
Scope and Content Note
With ca. 20 letters between Bloch and Ethyl Myers.
Box 58, Folder 20
M artists file, Marin - Motherwell
Box 58, Folder 22
New York City in art
Scope and Content Note
Includes checklist of artists from the Museum of the City of New York.
Box 59, Folder 2
Phillips, Walt
Scope and Content Note
Includes 1 letter to Bloch 27 August 1977.
Box 59, Folder 3
Photography processes
Scope and Content Note
Includes restoration of daguerreotypes.
Box 59, Folder 5
pre-Raphaelites, American
Box 59, Folder 9
P artists file, Parrish - Prendergast
Box 59, Folder 15
R artists file, Ramage - Ryder
Box 60, Folder 9
Sully, Thomas
Scope and Content Note
Includes copies of Sully letters.
Box 61, Folder 1
S artists file, Sargent - Stella
Box 61, Folder 3
Treiman, Joyce
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bloch's notes for an essay.
Box 61, Folder 5
T artists file, Tanner - Twachtman
Box 61, Folder 6
V artists file, Vanderlyn - Vonnoh
Box 61, Folder 7
War illustrators and paintes
Box 61, Folder 9
Wayne, June
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bloch's manuscript of an essay about her.
Box 62, Folder 3
Whitley, Thomas
Scope and Content Note
Includes copies of Whitley letters.
Box 62, Folder 6
Will, August
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Jersey City Library Museum regarding Will exhibit.
Box 62, Folder 11
W artists file, Wilde - Wright
Box 62, Folder 15-17
Miscellaneous clippings from art and general interest magazines
Series VII.
Curatorial and advisory positions,
1953-1989
Physical Description:
6.5 lin. ft.
13 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series contains materials relating to Bloch's work with the Cooper Union Museum, 1953-1959, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic
Arts, 1957-1984, the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1960-1989, the Archives of American Art, 1958-1987, the American Art Council
of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971-1986, and the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation, 1975-1991.
5 linear ft. of correspondence, notes, printed material and photographs document 2 exhibits Bloch worked on at the Cooper
Union: "Prince Regents Style," and "American drawings."
Correspondence in the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts files includes a detailed summary of Bloch's work at this collection
at UCLA. Other correspondence, notes, photographs and annotated dealers' catalogs document his acquisitions, and his exhibits,
including "The Special Artists of the American Wars,"(1959) and "Word & Images," an exhibit of United Ltd. Art Editions prints,
1978.
Much of the correspondence in the Tamarind files is with June Wayne, founder of Tamarind, and concerns the work and finances
of the workshop, the fellows and artisans in residence there, and the definition of an "original print." Samples of Tamarind
press work, photographs, and manuscripts by Wayne are included.
The two files of Archives of American Art material include correspondence and reports regarding advisory committees, donors,
and the West Coast Center. Bloch was a member of the American Art Council, a support group of the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art. Less than .5 linear ft. contain correspondence, which includes letters with Michael Quick, curator of American Art,
and Nancy Moure, assistant curator, 1971-1982, minutes of meetings, 1971-1981, by-laws, newsletters and press releases, 1973-1986.
The files regarding the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation comprise 4.5 linear ft. and provide a detailed history of the development
of this gallery and its collection, as well as Bloch's involvement as advisor and trustee. Papers include articles of incorporation,
by-laws, and Board minutes, in-house reports, inventories and photographs of art works, and correspondence. These files document
the establishment of the VSS Foundation, the assessment and deaccessioning of the original art collection, primarily by Bloch,
the collection development for the VSS Gallery, including offers from dealers, and the relationship between the VSS Gallery,
the Archives of American Art, and the Huntington Library and Gallery. Much of the correspondence is from dealers (regarding
offers) and between Bloch and Robert Wark (regarding Bloch's role at the Huntington). One file documents the search for a
curator of American art and includes correspondence and curriculum vitae from candidates. Three files document Bloch's exhibit
at the Huntington in 1989, "Faces & Figures in American Drawings."
Series VII.A.
Cooper Union Museum,
1953-1959
Physical Description:
4 folders
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, research notes, and documentation on exhibits, including checklists, catalogs, clippings, and photographs
Box 63, Folder 1
Correspondence,
1955-1959
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters relating to Bloch's search for employment in California, and letters of reference.
Box 63, Folder 2
Exhibits: "Prince Regents Style" exhibit,
1953
Scope and Content Note
Bloch's research notes, article and exhibit catalogue.
Box 63, Folder 3-4
"American drawings" exhibit,
1954
Scope and Content Note
Bloch's notes, memos, checklists, correspondence, catalogs, press clippings; documentation (letters and press clippings mounted
on boards), and photographs of installation.
Series VII.B.
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts,
1957-1984
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, and other documentation on exhibits, including press releases, clippings, catalogs, printed ephemera,
inventories, catalogs, and photographs.
Box 64, Folder 1
Correspondence,
1958-1984
Scope and Content Note
Including a detailed summary of Bloch's work at the Grunwald, 1957-1963, which he wrote for a Ford Foundation grant
Box 64, Folder 2
Notes on exhibits and acquisitions
Box 64, Folder 3
Exhibits,
1944-1976
Scope and Content Note
"The Special Artists of the American Wars," 1959; correspondence regarding loans, artists; notes, exhibit materials.
Box 64, Folder 4
Exhibits,
1978
Scope and Content Note
"Word & Images" exhibit of United Ldt. Art Editions prints, 1978; correspondence, press releases, notes, clippings (especially
of Tatanya Grossman), 1978.
Box 64, Folder 5
Grunwald exhibits and events,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera, two inventories of art works (European and American prints; Japanese block prints).
Box 64, Folder 6
Photographs of Grunwald exhibits, ca. 10.
Box 64, Folder 7
Annotated dealers' catalogs
Series VII.C.
Tamarind Lithography Workshop,
1960-1989
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, press releases, financial reports, printed ephemera, photographs, and other materials related to the Workshop.
Box 65, Folder 1
Correspondence,
1960-1989
Scope and Content Note
Primarily between Bloch and June Wayne, founder of Tamarind, includes a leter from Bloch to Wayne on preserving Tamarind documents
for an archive, and on his own life as a collector (1972); also correspondence with Clinton Adams, Director of Tamarind in
New Mexico (changed its name in 1970 to Tamarind Institute, Univ. of New Mexico)
Box 65, Folder 2
Tamarind press releases, annual and financial reports,
1960,
1974
Box 65, Folder 3
Papers relating to lawsuit over documentary film,
1975
Box 65, Folder 4
Samples of Tamarind press work, photographs of fellows and artisans
Box 65, Folder 5
Definition of "original print"
1970s
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera regarding criteria, much of it from Tamarind.
Box 65, Folder 6
June Wayne's definition of a print,
1966-1976
Scope and Content Note
In letters (to Bloch?) and in 2 mss. by Wayne.
Series VII.D.
Archives of American Art,
1958-1987
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, reports, and other materials related to the Archive.
Box 66, Folder 1
Correspondence,
1958-1987
Scope and Content Note
Including miscellaneous materials from advisory committees, donors. [for more on the Archives, see box 73, folder 10].
Box 66, Folder 2
Reports of the AAA-West Coast Center,
1974-1978
Series VII.E.
American Art Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
1971-1986
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, rosters, by-laws, newletters, and press releases related to the Council.
Box 66, Folder 3
Correspondence,
1971-1982
Scope and Content Note
Including with Michael Quick, curator of American art, and Nancy Moure, assistant curator.
Box 66, Folder 4
AAC Minutes of meetings,
1971-1976
Box 66, Folder 5
AAC Minutes of meetings,
1977-1981
Box 66, Folder 6
Rosters of members and by-laws
Box 66, Folder 7
Newsletters and press releases,
1973-1981
Box 66, Folder 8
Newsletters and press releases,
1982-1986
Series VII.F.
Virginia Steele Scott Foundation,
1975-1991
Physical Description:
4 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, minutes, inventories, rosters, lists, reports, dealer and gallery files, photographs, and legal documents
related to the development of the Gallery during Bloch's involvement.
Box 67, Folder 1
History of Virginia Steele Scott Gallery and Bloch's involvement,
ca. 1975-1982
Scope and Content Note
A typescript by Bloch of events between 5 Feb 1975 and 28 May 1982, and a portion of the transcript of Bloch's oral history
that covers his tenure at Virginia Steele Scott [later became the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery at the Huntington Library]
Box 67, Folder 2
Articles of incorporation, by-laws, exemption letters, Board minutes,
1975-1976,
undated
Box 67, Folder 3
Articles of incorporation, by-laws, amendments, Board minutes,
1977,
undated
Box 67, Folder 4
Virginia Steele Scott Board minutes, annotations by Bloch,
1977
Box 69, Folder 4
Investment portfolios, submitted to directors,
1977-1980,
1983
Box 70, Folder 1
Virginia Steele Scott Foundation invitation to Bloch to join the Board,
1978
Box 70, Folder 2
Bloch's assessment of the Virginia Steele Scott collection,
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
Notes in Bloch's hand, lists of art works, lists of Millard Sheets' acquisitions for Virginia Steele Scott.
Box 70, Folder 3
19th c. American art bibliography,
undated
Box 70, Folder 4
Correspondence regarding development of the board of trustees and 1980 party at Virginia Steele Scott gallery,
ca. 1980
Box 70, Folder 5
Planning and design of the Virginia Steele Scott Memorial medal with designer Leonard Baskin,
1979-1980
Box 70, Folder 6
Selling the Virginia Steele Scott house and gallery,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings.
Box 70, Folder 7
Virginia Steele Scott events, photographs of Bloch, his mother, trustees,
undated
Box 70, Folder 8-9
Collection development
1970-1983
Scope and Content Note
Regards deaccessioning and development of the American art collection, purchases. Includes Bloch's typed ms., "Evolution of
a Public Collection," his reviews of previous collection policy, a statement by Virginia Steele Scott on her own collecting
(pre-1975), Bloch's notes and recommendations.
Box 70, Folder 10
Inventory of Virginia Steele Scott collection,
1971
Box 70, Folder 11
Three inventories of art in Virginia Steele Scott colletion,
1977,
1981,
undated
Box 70, Folder 12
Inventory of Virginia Steele Scott collection, works annotated for deaccessioning,
undated
Box 71, Folder 1
Correspondence, mostly Bloch regarding collection development,
1978-1982
Box 71, Folder 2
Status reports of works deaccessioned and funds for acquisition,
1979-1982
Box 71, Folder 3
Appraisals from dealers for deaccessioning and collection development,
ca. 1970-1980
Scope and Content Note
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, 1970; Christine Eisenberg, 1978; Victor Spark, 1979; O. P. Reed, 1980
Box 71, Folder 4
Auctions and sales: Christies'
1979,
1980
Box 71, Folder 5
Auctions and sales: Victor Spark deaccesioning of Virginia Steele Scott paintings,
1979-1981
Box 71, Folder 6
Miscellaneous dealers' sales deaccessioning Virginia Steele Scott paintings,
1979-1983
Scope and Content Note
Bloch's notes and in-house correspondence regarding deaccessioning.
Box 71, Folder 7
Correspondence with art dealers: Coe-Kerr Gallery,
1979-1980,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Primarily offers to Virginia Steele Scott and later the re-named Virginia Steele Scott Gallery.
Box 71, Folder 8
Correspondence with art dealers: Peter Davidson & Co,
1978-1980,
1982
Box 72, Folder 1
Correspondence with art dealers: Jane and Michael Dunn,
1981-1982
Scope and Content Note
Regarding C. Wynkeep's portrait of Peter Vanderlyn.
Box 72, Folder 2
Correspondence with art dealers: Hirschl & Adler / Stuart Feld,
1978-1980
Box 72, Folder 3
Correspondence with art dealers: Hirschl & Adler / Stuart Feld,
1981-1984,
undated
Box 72, Folder 4
Correspondence with art dealers: James Maroney,
1979-1982
Box 72, Folder 5
Correspondence with art dealers: Ira Spanierman,
1980-1982
Box 72, Folder 6
Correspondence with art dealers: Victor Spark,
1960-1980
Box 72, Folder 7
Correspondence with art dealers: Victor Spark,
1981-1982,
undated
Box 72, Folder 8
Correspondence with art dealers: Vose Galleries,
1978-1980,
1982,
1985
Box 72, Folder 9
Correspondence with art dealers, alphabetical: Berry-Hill - Wunderlich & Co.,
1979-1983
Box 73, Folder 1
Photographs of art offered to Virginia Steele Scott with supporting research material
Box 73, Folder 2
Kennedy Gallery photographs of painting
Scope and Content Note
Sold to or for Virginia Steele Scott?
Box 73, Folder 3
Papers regarding gift of California art to the Laguna Beach Museum of Art from the Virginia Steele Scott collection,
1979
Box 73, Folder 4
Report by Carrie Repora of 4 paintings in Virginia Steele Scott collection,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Typescript.
Box 73, Folder 5
Correspondence regarding loan policy,
1978-1980
Box 73, Folder 6
Lawsuit over Inness' "Hudson River Valley" painting,
1977-1979
Box 73, Folder 7
Questionable S. B. Morse portraits in Virginia Steele Scott collection,
1979
Box 73, Folder 9
Papers regarding Virginia Steele Scott Gallery move to Huntington
Scope and Content Note
Also 1978 document outlining Virginia Steele Scott's early plan to affiliate with Claremont Colleges.
Box 73, Folder 10
Negotiations with the Archives of American Art concerning the inclusion of AAA's Western office in the Virginia Steele Scott
Gallery,
1972,
1978-1979,
1983
Box 73, Folder 11
Architectural planning for Virginia Steele Scott Gallery,
1980-1982
Scope and Content Note
Including brief search for an architect, and three drawings.
Box 74, Folder 1
Search for curator of American art
1983,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and vitae of candidates.
Box 74, Folder 2
Bloch's position at the Huntington,
1982-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding negotiations, primarily between Bloch and Robert Wark.
Box 74, Folder 3
Bloch's position as advisor,
1983-1987
Scope and Content Note
Mostly correspondence between Bloch and Wark concerning collection development.
Box 74, Folder 4
Photographs of art work in Huntington collection
Box 74, Folder 5
Bloch's exhibit at Huntington, "Faces & Figures in American Drawings,"
1987-1989
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, research and planning notes.
Box 74, Folder 6
"Faces & Figures" exhibit,
Physical Description:
19 photographs
Box 74, Folder 7
"Faces & Figures" exhibit,
Physical Description:
20 photographs
Box 75, Folder 1
"Checklist of Paintings and Watercolors in the Virginia Steele Scott Collection at the Huntington"
Scope and Content Note
Plus 59 b/w photographs of art.
Series VIII.
Bloch's personal collection,
ca. 1935-1989
Physical Description:
3.5 lin. ft.
7 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series comprises 3.5 linear ft. and illustrates in great detail Bloch's collecting interests and purchases. Inventories, wants
lists and correspondence with dealers document his collections of prints, stamps, autographs, illustrations for magazines,
pictorial sheet music, paintings, drawings, medals, and panorama exhibits ephemera. The dealer correspondence comprises most
of this series (2 linear ft.) and includes letters relating to Bloch's work (especially curatorial) and research on Bingham,
West, Lanman, and other American artists. Extensive files exist for several dealers, including Berry-Hill, Colnaghi, Stuart
Feld of Hirschl & Adler, Lucien Goldschmidt, Goodspeed's, Kennedy Galleries, M. Knoedler, Old Print Shop, R. E. Lewis, Marvin
Sadik, Victor Spark, Robert Vose of Vose Galleries.
Series VIII.A.
Bloch's art collection,
1852,
1949-1989
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Materials about Bloch's art collection: correspondence, inventories, want lists, notes, clippings, photographs and transparancies,
conservation reports, and other material about Bloch's art collection.
Box 76, Folder 1
Bloch on collecting,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Typescript essay by Bloch on why he collects.
Box 76, Folder 2
Inventory of Bloch's print collection,
undated
Physical Description:
1 notebook, ca. 150 pp.
Box 76, Folder 3
Correspondence regarding Bloch's gifts and loans,
1949-1984
Scope and Content Note
Detail gifts and loans made to schools, libraries, museums, especially the Grunwald.
Box 76, Folder 4
Inventories and wants lists of prints, drawings, paintings, autographed portraits, medals
Box 76, Folder 5
Wants lists: autographs and books
Box 76, Folder 6
Wants lists: pictorial sheet music, etchings
Box 76, Folder 7
Correspondence regarding purchases and inquiries concerning prints, drawings, cartoons, letters, stamps,
1949-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes 8 letters with Cyril Nast regarding his father's drawings; 1 letter to Mrs. John Sloan; US Post Office regarding
stamp designs using American paintings.
Box 76, Folder 8
Magazine illustrators, clippings
undated
Scope and Content Note
With notes and correspondence, especially with Rose family regarding purchases.
Box 76, Folder 9
Magazine illustrators, clippings
Box 76, Folder 10
Paintings in Bloch's collection
Scope and Content Note
b&w photographs and color transparencies.
Box 76, Folder 11
Miscellaneous from Bloch's collections,
1852,
undated
Scope and Content Note
A piece of needlework, mounted sepia photograph, mounted photograph of letter dated 2 Oct 1852.
Box 76, Folder 12
Bloch's notes about items in dealers' catalogs
Scope and Content Note
Prices, catalog numbers.
Box 76, Folder 13
Conservation,
1981-1989
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and treatment reports (bulk from Virginia Blyth Hill, 1987-1989).
Series VIII.B.
Bloch's stamp collection,
undated
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Materials about Bloch's stamp collection: inventories, wants lists, notes, clippings, flyers, and other material about Bloch's
stamp collection.
Box 77, Folder 1
Stamp inventories, wants lists and notes
Box 77, Folder 2
Stamp lists, clippings regarding covers
Box 77, Folder 3-10
Clippings regarding collecting and stamp design, and U.S. Post Office flyers
Series VIII.C.
Bloch's autograph collection,
1935-1989
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Materials about Bloch's autograph collection: inventories, correspondence, want lists, clippings, photographs, and other material
about Bloch's autograph collection.
Box 78, Folder 1
Two inventories (3"x5" notebooks)
Box 78, Folder 2
Correspondence,
1935-1989
Scope and Content Note
iIncluding Bloch's letters soliciting autographs from public people (mostly heads of state) on portraits drawn by Bloch, with
replies (e.g., 10 letters negotiating an autograph from Herbert Hoover).
Box 78, Folder 3
Wants lists and dealers' offers,
Scope and Content Note
Including lists of autographs Bloch purchased, cartes-de-visite of American artists, and list of letters from American artists.
Box 78, Folder 4-9
Newspaper clippings
Scope and Content Note
Including 1 bound notebook of clippings, mostly of royalty, heads of state, important events (e.g., Kennedy assassination,
first moon landing), and obituaries; some photographs; various dates.
Series VIII.D.
Dealers' correspondence,
1951-1989
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Dealer, print shop/book shop, and gallery correspondence, arrranged alphabetically.
Box 79, Folder 1
A-F,
1955-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes Aldis Browne (re: Bloch's upcoming exhibit at Huntington and Vincent Price as a collector and friend, 1988); Harvey
Brewer (re Bloch's commercial blind embossing samples and trade cards, 1981).
Box 79, Folder 2
Abbot & Holder,
1985-1986
Box 79, Folder 4
The Americanist,
1965-1988
Box 79, Folder 5
Annex Galleries,
1981-1987
Box 79, Folder 6
Argosy Gallery / Argosy Bookshop regarding Lanman's collection,
1953-1987
Box 79, Folder 7
Art Services, Inc., regarding framing,
1972-1989
Box 79, Folder 8
Belham Exchange,
1963-1971
Scope and Content Note
Regarding stamps, especially space exploration covers.
Box 79, Folder 9
Walter R. Benjamin Autographs,
1960-1976
Box 79, Folder 10
James Bergquist,
1982-1987
Box 79, Folder 13
Book and Print Shop,
1955-1961
Box 79, Folder 14
R. A. Brimmell,
1963,
1966
Box 79, Folder 15
William J. B. Burger / Burger & Evans,
1973-1985
Scope and Content Note
Especially Civil War illustrators.
Box 79, Folder 16
Catherine E. Burns,
1985
Scope and Content Note
Including Bloch to Burns about some of his collecting interests.
Box 79, Folder 17
Childs Gallery,
1953-1989
Box 79, Folder 18
Clayton-Liberatore,
1972-1981
Box 79, Folder 20
Craddock & Barnard,
1958-1966,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bloch's 1965 wants list.
Box 79, Folder 21
Denenberg Fine Arts,
1983-1984
Box 79, Folder 23
Emily Driscoll,
1953,
1961-1970,
1976
Box 79, Folder 24
Eugene Emigh,
1975,
1978-1984
Scope and Content Note
Primarily Aaron Draper Shattuck drawings, also James Smillie, Sam Colman.
Box 79, Folder 25
C. & I. K. Fletcher,
1955-1961
Scope and Content Note
Regarding panorama ephemera.
Box 80, Folder 2
Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc.
1946-1974
Scope and Content Note
Also regarding acquisitions for Grunwald.
Box 80, Folder 3
Goodspeed's Book Shop,
1958-1971
Scope and Content Note
Regarding ALS.
Box 80, Folder 4
Harry Gordon,
1962-1963
Scope and Content Note
Covers relating to space exploration.
Box 80, Folder 5
Graham Gallery / J. Graham & Sons,
1963,
1973,
1985-1986
Box 80, Folder 6
Paul Grinke / Grinke & Rogers,
1969-1971,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Artists' ALS and panorama ephemera.
Box 80, Folder 7
Gropper Art Gallery,
1970-1974,
1976
Box 80, Folder 8
Beverly Hamer,
1978-1979
Scope and Content Note
Illustrations for sheet music covers.
Box 80, Folder 9
Frederica Harlow Gallery,
1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
Relief printing, gypsographs.
Box 80, Folder 10
Doris Harris Autographs,
1967-1989
Box 80, Folder 11
Jane Haslem Gallery,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Political cartoons.
Box 80, Folder 12
Hirschl & Adler / Stuart Feld,
1968-1989
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 letters [see also boxes 30-34, and box 72 for more correspondence with Stuart Feld].
Box 80, Folder 13
Kennedy Galleries,
1952-1986
Scope and Content Note
See also correspondence with H. Wunderlich of Monderson & Wunderlich.
Box 80, Folder 14
M. Knoedler & Co.,
1958-1970,
1975
Box 80, Folder 15
Roger Koerber,
1969-1974,
1984
Box 80, Folder 16
Harold Lawrence,
1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
Regarding stamps and covers.
Box 80, Folder 17
Leger Galleries,
1976-1977
Scope and Content Note
B. West drawings.
Box 80, Folder 18
R. E. Lewis, Inc.,
1960-1989
Scope and Content Note
Including consignments from Bloch.
Box 80, Folder 19
W. H. Lowdermilk & Co.,
1958-1960
Scope and Content Note
Including consignments from Bloch.
Box 80, Folder 20
James Lowe, Autographs,
1972-1975,
1985
Box 81, Folder 1
M-R,
1958-1989
Scope and Content Note
Including John Newton, 1982 (illustrated sheet music); Bloch on his collecting interests to Elkin Mathews, 1958 .
Box 81, Folder 2
M & S Rare Books,
1975-1978
Scope and Content Note
Panorama ephemera.
Box 81, Folder 3
Lawrence McGilvrey,
1971,
1976
Box 81, Folder 4
Maggs Bros., Ltd.,
1953-1960
Box 81, Folder 5
Allister Mathews,
1958-1975
Box 81, Folder 6
Maxwell Galleries,
1972-1976,
1980
Box 81, Folder 7
Joe Merman,
1968-1969,
1987-1989
Box 81, Folder 8
Thomas T. Moebs,
1982-1984,
1987,
1989
Box 81, Folder 9
Monderson & Wunderlich,
1985-1989
Box 81, Folder 10
Morton Morris & Co.,
1981
Scope and Content Note
West drawings; list of Bloch's wants concerning British artists with American connections.
Box 81, Folder 11
Howard S. Mott,
1973-1976,
1985
Scope and Content Note
artists ALS.
Box 81, Folder 12
Winifred A. Myers (Autographs) Ltd.
Scope and Content Note
Artists' ALS; pioneer aviators; Bloch on his work at Grunwald and his decision to leave.
Box 81, Folder 13
Old Print Shop,
1948-1989
Box 81, Folder 14
Galerie Pabst / Michael Pabst,
1967-1984
Scope and Content Note
Art nouveau, Wiener Werkstätte.
Box 81, Folder 15
Abe Paskow,
1965,
1970-1974,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Cartoons and caricatures.
Box 81, Folder 16
Joseph Petrarca,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Lithographs and illustrated sheet music.
Box 81, Folder 18
Christopher Powney,
1965-1977,
1982-1985,
1989
Scope and Content Note
B. West drawings.
Box 81, Folder 19
Paul Prouté / Hubert Prouté,
1959-1977,
1984-1985,
1989
Box 81, Folder 20
Flora M. Ramsay,
1955-1956,
1963-1964
Scope and Content Note
Edwin Whitefield sketchbooks, drawings.
Box 81, Folder 21
Raydon Gallery,
1970-1971
Box 81, Folder 22
Paul C. Richards Autographs,
1963-1971,
1983-1987
Box 81, Folder 23
Lawrence B. Romaine,
1953-1961
Scope and Content Note
Americana, including Bungalow books.
Box 82, Folder 1
S-Z,
1957-1989
Scope and Content Note
Including offer and description of 10 panorama items and Tortue Gallery's list of consignment items from Bloch and his mother.
Box 82, Folder 2
Schaeffer Galleries,
1959
Box 82, Folder 3
Marvin Sadik & Co.,
1982,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bloch's letters regarding his mother's death and their relationship, 1987.
Box 82, Folder 4
E. Seligmann,
1951-1954
Scope and Content Note
8 letters regarding panoramas.
Box 82, Folder 5
Stanhope Shelton,
1977-1983
Scope and Content Note
B. West drawings.
Box 82, Folder 6
R. W. Smith,
1981-1989
Scope and Content Note
Buford panorama, 1989.
Box 82, Folder 8
Victor Spark,
1951-1987
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 letters, contain discussions of other dealers, auction sales, Bingham research, sales to the J. Paul Getty Museum,
and personal matters [see box 71, folder 3 and box 72, folders 6-7 for more Spark - Bloch correspondence].
Box 82, Folder 9
Kurt Stein,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Illustrated sheet music.
Box 82, Folder 10
Erwin Swann,
1968-1970
Scope and Content Note
Caricatures, cartoons.
Box 82, Folder 11
Vose Galleries / Robert C. Vose, Jr.,
1966-1988
Scope and Content Note
Including much discussion of Bingham and B. West materials and research.
Box 82, Folder 12
David and Constance Yates,
1984,
1987-1988
Box 82, Folder 13
Zeitlin & ver Brugge,
1959-1987
Scope and Content Note
Only 1 letter, the remainder is bills of sale [for correspondence see box 4, folder 3].
Box 82, Folder 14
Unidentified receipts from shops, and correspondence
Box 82, Folder 15
Miscellaneous photographs of collectibles offered,
undated
Series IX.
Personal and miscellaneous files,
1920s-1970s
Physical Description:
3.5 lin. ft
5 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series contains juvenilia (drawings, nature scrapbook and handwriting exercises), travel notes and receipts, genealogical
research, 4 address books (ca. 1940s-1960s), 6 notebooks with notes of art works and prices, personal photographs of Bloch,
his mother, friends and colleagues, and ca. 1500 slides, most taken during his travels, some documenting Los Angeles architecture,
and 7 reels of microfilm relating to his research, especially on Charles Lanman.
Box 83, Folder 1
Juvenilia: handwriting exercises, nature scrapbook
Box 83, Folder 3-6
Drawings by Bloch
Scope and Content Note
Pencil, ink and pastel, and watercolors. [see also oversize box 87* for Bloch drawings]
Box 83, Folder 7
Portrait sketches,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Including copies clipped from magazines that published Bloch's portraits.
Box 84, Folder 1
Personal papers and documents
1951
Scope and Content Note
Travel notes and receipts for trips to Belgium, France, Italy, etc.
Box 84, Folder 2
Travel notes, correspondence, receipts for european trips,
1957-1969
Box 84, Folder 3
Genealogical research regarding the Bloch family
Box 84, Folder 4
Clippings, receipts for Bloch's house,
1950s-1960s
Box 84, Folder 5
Six notebooks with notes regarding art works and prices
Box 84, Folder 6
Four address books,
ca. 1940s-1960s
Box 84, Folder 7
Miscellaneous personal documents
Box 84, Folder 8
Photographs: ca. 10 of Bloch, his mother, friends and colleagues,
undated
Box 85
55 boxes of slides
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles architecture, European travels, U.S. travels contain images of art and architecture, plus some personal images
of family, friends, colleagues
Box 86
7 rolls of microfilm (relates to Series VI.)
Scope and Content Note
Daily Cincinnati Chronicle, 1845-1846 (3 reels); Lanman papers from the Library of Congress (1 reel) and the New York Historical
Society (1 reel); Records of the Western Art Union (1 reel); 2 partial rolls from the Huntington Library.
Box 87*
Arnold Gross letters (relates to Series I.)
undated
Box 87*
Drawings from Bloch's early years, (relates to Series IX),
undated
