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Archives of American Art
Robert Jay Wolff papers
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wolfrobe
- Creators:
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Wolff, Robert Jay, 1905-
- Dates:
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1926-1969
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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0.4 Linear feet(on 4 microfilm reels)
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Correspondence; exhibition catalogs; notes; photographs; notebooks; scrapbook; clippings; and miscellany.
Scope and Contents
REELS N69-72-N69-74: Correspondence, 1929-1968 with Alexander Calder, Serge Chermayeff, Jimmy Ernst, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Gropius, Guggenheim Museum, Carl Holty, Katharine Kuh, L. and Sybil Moholy-Nagy, Museum of Non-Objective Painting and Hilla Rebay, Harry Holtzman, Stephen R. Hustvedt, Bob Osborn, Philip Pearlstein, Ad Reinhardt, and Kurt Seligmann; exhibition catalogs; price lists; clippings; articles; talks and notes; photographs of paintings and sculpture, 1929-1958; notebooks, 1929-1965; and a scrapbook, 1934-1938.
Scope and Contents
REEL N69-98: Nine letters from Morris D. C. Crawford and his wife, 1926-1932, and a carbon copy of a letter to Dorothy Miller Cahill, May 27, 1969, in which Wolff mentions his efforts, as president of the Artists' Union of Chicago, ca. 1936, to unseat Increase Robinson. Wolff also explains how he became Holger Cahill's "bitter enemy."
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Designer and painter; New Preston, Connecticut. Died in 1978.
Administration
Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reels N69-72-N69-74 & N69-98 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals returned to Robert Jay Wolff after microfilming.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Lent for microfilming 1969 by Robert Jay Wolff.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Keywords
Archives of American Art
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Washington, D.C. 20001
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