Ethel Schwabacher papers, 1939-1975

Research and writing files consist of artist files, compiled research materials, and writings. Artist files are on John Ford, Arshile Gorky, Jose Guerrero, Helen Keen, and Jeanne Reynal. The file on Ford includes twenty-two letters from Ford (two are illustrated) and four sound recordings of Schwabacher's verbal notes and Ford's comments. Material on Gorky includes a study for his illustrations for Andre Breton's Protecting Young Cherry Trees From Hares (1946), and a photograph of Gorky. There are also letters written to Schwabacher by art historian Lloyd Goodrich on Gorky.

Writings by Schwabacher consist largely of dismantled notebooks, both identified and unidentified. Some of the notebooks include research and drafts for Schwabacher's writings "Paradise of the Real" and "Conflict of Freedoms" and for "1948." Within notebooks for "1948" are letters from Richard Pousette-Dart, and lists and photographs of works by Willem De Kooning, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Anne Ryan, Clyfford Still, Bradley Walker Tomlin, and Jack Tworkov. Other writings by Schwabacher, 1966, include typescripts for "Conflict of Freedoms" and "The Portrait as Image."