Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg papers, circa 1890s-2002

Materials related to Helen Lundeberg's school years include notebooks that contain anatomical drawings, yearbooks from Pasadena High School and Pasadena Junior College, diplomas, and a memory book containing autographs and addresses of friends. Also included are calendars that cover Lundeberg's daily activities from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s. Of special interest are materials related to Lundeberg's participation in the Terman Study of gifted children that was conducted by Stanford University.

Materials related to Lorser Feitelson include family certificates and handwritten lists by Lundeberg documenting Feitelson's funeral. Also found are curriculum vitaes and biographical sketches for both Feitelson and Lundeberg.

Materials are arranged by document type.

This series has been partially scanned. Only relevant pages of the yearbooks have been scanned. Sensitive materials and fragile materials, including birth and death certificates, have not been scanned.

Found here is professional and personal correspondence for both Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg. Letters are from artists and friends including Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley, Joseph Hirshhorn, Reuben Kadish, John McLaughlin, Diane Moran, Abraham Rattner, and numerous arts museums, collectors, and galleries. Especially well-documented is Feitelson and Lundeberg's friendship with Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Canning Miller. Other correspondence is related to Feitelson's teaching activities and includes letters with institutions he taught at, such as the Art Center School, and letters with former students such as Jale Durgun. Family correspondence includes letters with Lundeberg's sister Kitty, Feitelson's brother Ben, and Feitelson's grandson Leo Marshall.

There is extensive correspondence between Feitelson and art historian Diane Moran when she was writing her thesis on Feitelson. Their correspondence includes in-depth discussions of Feitelson's career and his ideas about art and art history.

Also found are twelve folders of fan mail for the television show Feitelson on Art, three folders of birthday cards, and nine folders of sympathy cards received by Lundeberg upon Feitelson's death.

Materials are arranged alphabetically by correspondent name. Names represented by scattered letters only are filed in general alphabetical folders.

This series has been scanned in its entirety.

Exhibition records document exhibitions and loans of artwork to exhibitions. Documents include exhibition checklists, loan agreements, shipping records, agreements, and invitation lists.

Materials are arranged by document type.

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Personal business and financial records concern the management of Feitelson and Lundeberg's artwork and personal collections. Found here are lists of artwork, price lists, appraisal reports, sales invoices, purchase receipts, and conservation reports. There are a few scattered legal documents as well. An extensive set of index cards contains information about the medium, the size, and the collector for individual pieces of artwork by both Feitelson and Lundeberg. Other cards contain personal information about collectors.

The finances of Feitelson and Lundeberg are documented by account books, ledgers, retirement documents, and tax forms. Lundeberg's donations to various charitable organizations are documented through receipts and letters from organizations annotated with amount donated. Also found are materials related to Lorser Feitelson's service for the Los Angeles Art Association and the Museum Association.

Materials are arranged by document type.

This series has been partially scanned. Sensitive materials including account books, rent, retirement, social security, and tax materials have not been scanned.

Found here are the records of the Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Foundation, established in 1978. Records include articles of confederation, by-laws, meeting minutes, artists' grant files, correspondence, and financial records.

Materials are arranged by document type.

This series has been partially scanned. Sensitive materials have not been scanned including account books and tax materials. Artists grants relating to Rachel Dutton and Connie Zehr have been partially scanned.

This series contains Lorser Feitelson's files concerning personal research, teaching activities, and television programs. Most of the documents consist of informal, handwritten notes on a wide variety of topics in art and art history. Materials related to the Feitelson on Art television program include typed descriptions of episodes, scripts, title cards, and handwritten notes. A related sound recording of one of the shows is found in Series 11.

Found in a disorganized state, these materials have been arranged under broad subject categories. It does not represent Feitelson's own organization.

This series has been partially scanned. Reproductions of works of art have not been scanned.

Writings are by Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, and others. Lorser Feitelson's writings consist of artist statements, writings about his artwork and career, and writings about other artists. Helen Lundeberg's writings include artist statements, writing about her work, pamphlets about the technique and content of her murals for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Program, and her poetry. Also found is a refutation of claims made in a book about Howard Putzel's involvement in the career of Feitelson.

Writings by others include many by art critic Jules Langsner, focusing on artists and art collectors, the impact of art, and modern art. Also found are notes written by Langsner. There are writings by Diane Moran about Feitelson and Lundeberg, two manuscripts by Esther McCoy, an essay by Jan Butterfield, an essay by Millard Sheets, a transcript of an interview with Feitelson by Henry Seldis, and writings by Stephen Longstreet on the Functionalist West movement.

Materials are arranged by author and title.

This series has been scanned in its entirety.

Artwork by Lundeberg includes a signed drawing of a flower, small pastels of landscapes, and sketches of still lifes, abstract shapes, arches, and landscapes. Artwork by Feitelson includes sketches for his paintings "Leda," "Procession," and "Maternity," sketches of posed figures and abstract shapes, and a drawing for the book jacket of Post Surrealism by Arthur Millier. Also found is a print by Hans Burkhardt, and unidentified cutouts of colored paper.

Materials are arranged by artist and document type.

This series has been scanned in its entirety.

Printed materials include clippings, lecture announcements, auction catalogs, and exhibition catalogs and announcements. There are many clippings and pamphlets concerning the Works Progress Administration of the Federal Art Program. Additional printed ephemera includes postcards, posters, press releases, and color reproductions of artwork by Feitelson and Lundeberg. Flyers for Feitelson on Art and Cavalcade of Books document Feitelson's activities on television. Lundeberg's poetry is found in the book Memories, and issues of the periodicals Fabric and Litera.

Also found are many exhibition announcements and exhibition catalogs for the Copley Gallery founded by William Nelson Copley.

Materials are arranged by document type.

This series has been partially scanned. In some cases, only the covers, title pages, and relevant pages of annual reports, books, and clippings have been scanned. Only the covers, title pages, and relevant pages of large exhibition catalogs for group exhibitions and exhibition catalogs for artists other thean Feitelson and Lundeberg have been scanned.