Vaclav Vytlacil papers, 1885-1990
Vytlacil, Vaclav, 1892-1984
Painter, Educator
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Collection Information
Size: 5.2 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of abstract painter and art instructor Vaclav Vytlacil date from 1885-1990 and measure 5.2 linear feet. Found within the papers are scattered biographical materials, correspondence primarily discussing art school-related matters and the exhibition and sale of Vytlacil's work, scattered business and financial records, and notes and writings including lecture notes. The papers also contain audio recordings of interviews of Vytlacil and his associates, artwork by Vytlacil and others, four scrapbooks, printed material including clippings and exhibition catalogs, and photographs of Vytlacil, his colleagues, and his artwork.
Provenance
Vaclav Vytlacil lent the Archives of American Art materials for microfilming in 1966. Vaclav Vytlacil's daughter, Anne Vytlacil, donated the Vaclav Vytlacil papers in several installments from 1989 to 1993.
Related Materials
Also found in the Archives of American Art are oral history interviews with Vaclav Vytlacil, March 2, 1966 and January 10, 1974, and 19 items microfilmed on reel 2016 relating to a 1975 Montclair Art Museum exhibition organized by Worden Day. The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (D295) including correspondence, lecture notes, general notes, clippings, notebooks concerning paintings, photographs of paintings, photographs titled "Vineyard Boats," and two of Mrs. Vytacil's Paris journals. Two dozen of these letters were later donated. All other lent materials remain with the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Also in the Archives
Tags
- Vytlacil, Vaclav, 1892-1984
- Zalmar
- Manoir, Irving K. (Irving Kraut)
- Matter, Mercedes
- Ryder, Worth
- Thurn, Ernest
- Vytlacil, Elizabeth Foster
- Wessels, Glenn A. (Glenn Anthony)
- Albers, Josef
- Rivera, Diego
- Day, Worden
- Feigl, Hugo
- Haley, John
- Jensen, Alfred
- Larsen, Susan C.
- Lazzell, Blanche
- Art -- Study and teaching
- Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
- Writings
- Interviews
- Scrapbooks
- Photographs
- Drawings
- Sound recordings
- Woodcuts
- Motion pictures (visual works)
- Prints
- Etchings
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