Isaacs, Reginald R., b. 1911 d. 1986

Reginald R. Isaacs papers, ca. 1842-1991 (bulk 1928-1991)

22.5 linear ft.
Addition: 1.0 linear ft.

Primarily research material for Isaacs' two volume biography of architect Walter Gropius, including files given to Isaacs from Gropius; also, files relating to Isaacs work as a city planner, educator and architect, and to his collection of paintings by Jackson Pollock and Emil Singer.

Included in the Gropius research material are drafts and completed manuscripts; Gropius' correspondence with major 20th century architects and art figures, among them Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Serge Chermayeff, Welles Coates, Sigfried Gideon, Le Corbusier, Erich Mendelsohn, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Robert Motherwell, and Jose Luis Sert; Isaacs' correspondence with and about Gropius; questionnaires returned to Isaacs by former students of Gropius at the Bauhaus and at Harvard University; writings by Gropius and Isaacs; an extensive photograph file; and a scrapbook compiled by Isaacs at Gropius' death in 1969.

ADDITION (1 ft.): Correspondence, drafts of portions of manuscript, notes, copy photographs and negatives, publishing information--all pertaining to Isaacs' biography of Walter Gropius, 1974-1985.

The bulk of the papers, 22.5 ft., donated 1991 by Henry Isaacs, Reginald Isaacs' son. An additional 1 ft., pertaining mostly to the German publication of the Gropius biography, were donated by his daughter, Merry White, in 1998, who had received them from her father. Additions are possible.

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