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Series 1:Armory Show Records, 1912-1963
3.6 Linear feet
Boxes 1-2, 27-31, 56, OV 36

As Secretary of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS), and as selector of European works included in the show, Walt Kuhn was heavily involved in the conception, organization, and production of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, more commonly known as the Armory Show of 1913. Records in this series document the exhibition, including the selection of art work in Europe and the U.S., selection of venues, negotiation of contracts, production of the exhibitions, publicity, promotion, sales, and the wide array of responses to the exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

Types of material found in this series include correspondence, clippings, notes, inventories, insurance policies, mailing lists, a record book, writings, entry cards, marked and unmarked catalogs, pamphlets, postcards, floor plans, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia related to the exhibition. Also included are a handful of records related to retrospective accounts and exhibitions produced in 1938 and 1963 for the 25th and 50th anniversaries of the exhibition, including Walt Kuhn's 1938 pamphlet, "The Story of the Armory Show."

Records relating to the formation and administration of the AAPS are found in Series 2.

This series is arranged according the following 9 subseries:

1.1: Correspondence, 1912-1914
1.2: Domestic Art Committee Records, 1913
1.3: European Entry Cards, circa 1912
1.4: Notes, 1912-1913
1.5: Printed Material and Memorabilia, 1912-1913
1.6: Writings of Walt Kuhn, 1912-1913
1.7: Photographs, 1912-1913
1.8: Scrapbooks, 1912-1913
1.9: Retrospective Materials, 1938-1963, undated

This series has been digitized in entirety with the exception of duplicates, copies, and the 2015 addition.

1.1:Correspondence, 1912-1914

This series contains correspondence among Armory Show organizers, artists, dealers, collectors, vendors, publicists, and the public concerning the planning, production, and reception of the exhibition in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

Unless otherwise noted, incoming and outgoing correspondence has been interfiled and arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Often only unsigned carbons of outgoing correspondence exists for a listed correspondent. When a correspondent has less than five items in a series, their letters have been placed in general alphabetical files, whose contents are listed under their file heading. Announcements written by AAPS members and sent to multiple recipients have been filed under the heading "Association of American Painters and Sculptors," regardless of the signature.

1.1.1:Organizers' Letters, 1912-1913

Organizers' Letters include letters written by Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn. Recipients include Walter Pach, Walt Kuhn, and Vera Kuhn. Letters describe Kuhn's and Davies' travel to Europe to collect works to exhibit, preparations in New York, and the traveling exhibitions in Chicago and Boston. Several letters from Walt Kuhn are illustrated, and a floor plan of a proposed installation in the Armory is among Davies' letters. One postcard to Vera Kuhn from Boston is signed by Maurice and Charles Prendergast and Frederick James Gregg, as well as by Walt Kuhn.

Additional letters from Walt Kuhn to his wife before and after his Armory Show activities can be found in Series 4.2: Walt Kuhn Letters to Family.

Letters are separated by author and arranged chronologically.

Description	Container
Arthur B. Davies, 1912-1913	1 1	Select: Arthur B. Davies, 1912-1913
Arthur B. Davies (copies), 1912-1913	1 2	Select: Arthur B. Davies (copies), 1912-1913
Walt Kuhn to Vera Kuhn, 1912	1 3	Select: Walt Kuhn to Vera Kuhn, 1912
Walt Kuhn to Vera Kuhn, 1912	1 4	Select: Walt Kuhn to Vera Kuhn, 1912
Walt Kuhn to Vera Kuhn, 1913	1 5	Select: Walt Kuhn to Vera Kuhn, 1913
Walt Kuhn to Vera Kuhn (copies), 1912-1913	1 6	Select: Walt Kuhn to Vera Kuhn (copies), 1912-1913
Walt Kuhn to Walter Pach, 1912-1913	1 7	Select: Walt Kuhn to Walter Pach, 1912-1913
Walt Kuhn to Walter Pach (copies), 1912-1913	1 8	Select: Walt Kuhn to Walter Pach (copies), 1912-1913

1.1.2:Artists and Lenders Correspondence, 1912-1913

Artists and Lenders Correspondence includes correspondence between organizers and artists, dealers, collectors, and other potential contributors to the exhibition. Included are letters from Oscar Bluemner, Constantin Brancusi, Robert Delaunay, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Arthur J. Eddy, Erich Heckel, Edvard Munch, Maurice Prendergast, John Quinn, Odilon Redon, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, Leo and Michael Stein, Ambrose Vollard, and Jack B. Yeats, among others.

This group is divided geographically between domestic and European correspondents, and is arranged alphabetically by name. Americans living in Europe at the time of the show are generally filed in the European correspondence. In addition to letters, this series contains occasional translations of letters from French or German, and a handful of lists of works or notes found with correspondence.

Additional correspondence with artists, dealers, and patrons can be found in Armory Show Sales Correspondence (Series 1.1.6).

1.1.3:Insurers, Packers, and Shippers Correspondence, 1912-1913

Correspondence with Insurers, Packers, and Shippers contains inventories, receipts, and correspondence detailing arrangements for the physical handling and security of works included in the show, and correspondence relating to insurance claims on exhibited works.

Artists' and lenders' correspondence regarding insurance and shipping is filed in Artists and Lenders Correspondence (Series 1.1.2). Extensive correspondence regarding the shipment of works to Chicago and Boston is filed in Traveling Exhibition Correspondence (Series 1.1.5). Additional shipping information can be found in the annotated catalogs filed in Printed Material and Memorabilia (Series 1.5).

Description	Container
Adams Express Company, 1913	1 29	Select: Adams Express Company, 1913
Austin, Baldwin and Co. (Mr. Fleming), 1913	1 30	Select: Austin, Baldwin and Co. (Mr. Fleming), 1913
Blaiklock Bros. Limited, 1913	1 31	Select: Blaiklock Bros. Limited, 1913
Chenue, J., 1912 Oversized material housed in Box 27	1 32	Select: Chenue, J., 1912Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in Box 27
Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, 1913	1 33	Select: Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, 1913
Doll and Richards, Inc., 1913	1 34	Select: Doll and Richards, Inc., 1913
Hensel, Bruckmann and Lorbacher, 1913	1 35	Select: Hensel, Bruckmann and Lorbacher, 1913
Lloyd Anglo-Francais, 1912-1913	1 36	Select: Lloyd Anglo-Francais, 1912-1913
O'Brien Art Galleries (see Adams Express Company)	1	Select: O'Brien Art Galleries (see Adams Express Company)
Pottier, Ch., 1912-1913	1 37	Select: Pottier, Ch., 1912-1913
Frederic B. Thomason, Insurer, 1913	1 38	Select: Frederic B. Thomason, Insurer, 1913
United States Lloyd's, 1913	1 39	Select: United States Lloyd's, 1913
Wetsch (Gebrüder Wetsch, Wetsch's Kunst und Mobiltransport in München), 1912-1913	1 40	Select: Wetsch (Gebrüder Wetsch, Wetsch's Kunst und Mobiltransport in München), 1912-1913
General C-W, 1913 Collector of Customs, New York City H. Desmidt and Co. Harlem Terminal Storage and Warehouse Company Milch, Mr. D. Quinn, John (see Watson, John) Watson, John Willard, Mr. (New York; see Compagnie Générale Transatlantique) Wilson, Louis	1 41	Select: General C-W, 1913Scope and Contents noteCollector of Customs, New York CityH. Desmidt and Co.Harlem Terminal Storage and Warehouse CompanyMilch, Mr. D.Quinn, John (see Watson, John)Watson, JohnWillard, Mr. (New York; see Compagnie Générale Transatlantique)Wilson, Louis
Packing list of J. Chenue, 1912 Oversized material scanned with Box 1, F32	27	Select: Packing list of J. Chenue, 1912Scope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 1, F32

1.1.4:Publicity, 1912-1913

The bulk of correspondence concerning the production and promotion of the Armory Show is filed here. Subjects include real estate matters, press coverage, art work reproductions, invitations, publications, merchandise, and fundraising. Correspondence by artists, dealers, and collectors concerning these subjects has been filed in Artists and Lenders Correspondence (Series 1.1.2).

1.1.5:Traveling Exhibition, 1912-1914

This series documents the modified exhibitions sent to the Art Institute of Chicago (March 24 to April 16, 1913) and the Copley Society of Boston (April 28 to May 19, 1913). The bulk of correspondence is between Armory Show organizers and officials at the Chicago and Boston venues, including Walt Kuhn, Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach, Frederick James Gregg, Elmer MacRae, and John Quinn, William M.R. French, Arthur T. Aldis, N.H. Carpenter, J.F. Coolidge, Holker Abbott, and Desmond Fitzgerald.

Correspondence among exhibit organizers regarding sales made during the traveling exhibition is also filed here. A contract between the AAPS and the Copley Society, referred to in a telegram of March 4, 1913, is filed with that telegram. Correspondence regarding a contract dispute between the AAPS and the Copley Society is also filed in this series. Arrangement is chronological.

Additional correspondence relating to the traveling exhibition can be found in Walt Kuhn's letters to Vera Kuhn in Organizers' Letters (Series 1.1.1).

Description	Container
Traveling Exhibition, 1912-1913 February	1 61	Select: Traveling Exhibition, 1912-1913 February
Traveling Exhibition, 1913 March	1 62	Select: Traveling Exhibition, 1913 March
Traveling Exhibition, 1913 March	1 63	Select: Traveling Exhibition, 1913 March
Traveling Exhibition, 1913 April	1 64	Select: Traveling Exhibition, 1913 April
Traveling Exhibition, 1913 May	1 65	Select: Traveling Exhibition, 1913 May
Traveling Exhibition, 1913 June-1914	1 66	Select: Traveling Exhibition, 1913 June-1914

1.1.6:Sales Correspondence, 1913

Sales Correspondence contains the bulk of correspondence regarding the sale, payment, and delivery of works bought at the exhibition, as well as inquiries and acknowledgements made by the buyers and artists. This correspondence is most often of a perfunctory nature, listing works and prices or other arrangements.

In addition to correspondence in this series, information about exhibition sales can be found in Traveling Exhibition Correspondence (Series 1.1.5), Armory Show Notes (Series 1.4) and in the marked catalogs in Printed Materials and Memorabilia (Series 1.5).

Description	Container
Artz and de Bois, 1913	1 67	Select: Artz and de Bois, 1913
Druet, Emile (E. Druet Galerie), 1913	1 68	Select: Druet, Emile (E. Druet Galerie), 1913
Goltz, Hans (Neue Kunst), 1913	1 69	Select: Goltz, Hans (Neue Kunst), 1913
General, A-K, 1913 Archipenko, Alexander Barnes, A.C. Beach, Chester Blanchet, Alexander Boudelle, E.A. Bourgeois, Stephan (see Chapman, Frederic A.) Burroughs, Bryson (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Chabaud, August Chapman, Frederic A. (see also Torrey, Frederic C.) Clark, Stephen C. Coluzzi, Howard Dearden, Frank Jay DeKay, Charles Duchamp-Villon, Raymond Dunoyer de Segonzac, André Flechtheim, Arthur Gliezes, Albert Hannah, Zoe Harsted, R.H. Hays, Lydia D. Henri, Robert Hessel, Joseph Higgins, Eugene Hopper, Edward Jansen, F.M. Kahnweiller, Henry Kretz, Mr. Kapferer, Marcel	1 70	Select: General, A-K, 1913Scope and Contents noteArchipenko, AlexanderBarnes, A.C.Beach, ChesterBlanchet, AlexanderBoudelle, E.A.Bourgeois, Stephan (see Chapman, Frederic A.)Burroughs, Bryson (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Chabaud, AugustChapman, Frederic A. (see also Torrey, Frederic C.)Clark, Stephen C.Coluzzi, HowardDearden, Frank JayDeKay, CharlesDuchamp-Villon, Raymond Dunoyer de Segonzac, AndréFlechtheim, ArthurGliezes, AlbertHannah, ZoeHarsted, R.H.Hays, Lydia D.Henri, RobertHessel, JosephHiggins, EugeneHopper, EdwardJansen, F.M.Kahnweiller, HenryKretz, Mr.Kapferer, Marcel
General, L-P, 1913 Lee, Arthur Lehmbruck, Wilhelm Lie, Jonas Luks, George Marcus, George McKinney, Ethelyn Morris, Dave H. Oppenheimer, Louis de L. Pach, Walter Pascin, Jules Picabia, Francis Porter, George F. Porter, Harold E. Prendergast, Maurice Pruyn, Francis L. Pryde, James	1 71	Select: General, L-P, 1913Scope and Contents noteLee, ArthurLehmbruck, WilhelmLie, JonasLuks, GeorgeMarcus, GeorgeMcKinney, EthelynMorris, Dave H.Oppenheimer, Louis de L.Pach, WalterPascin, JulesPicabia, FrancisPorter, George F.Porter, Harold E.Prendergast, MauricePruyn, Francis L.Pryde, James
Tuttle, William F. (Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago), 1913	1 72	Select: Tuttle, William F. (Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago), 1913
General, Q-Z, 1913 Quinn, John Radeke, E.G. Redon, Odilon Robinson, Boardman Russell, Morgan Sheldrick, Richard Sousa Cardoza, Amadeo De Thannhauser, Heinrich Torrey, Frederic C. Uhde, Wilhelm Vollard, Ambroise Yeats, Jack B. Young, Arthur Zak, Eugene	1 73	Select: General, Q-Z, 1913Scope and Contents noteQuinn, JohnRadeke, E.G.Redon, OdilonRobinson, BoardmanRussell, MorganSheldrick, RichardSousa Cardoza, Amadeo DeThannhauser, HeinrichTorrey, Frederic C. Uhde, WilhelmVollard, AmbroiseYeats, Jack B.Young, ArthurZak, Eugene

1.2:Domestic Art Committee Records, 1913

This series contains a record book of works from the United States submitted for inclusion in the Armory Show, showing which works were selected and which rejected. Also found are mailing lists of artists.

Description	Container
Mailing lists, circa 1913	1 74	Select: Mailing lists, circa 1913
Record Book, 1913	1 75	Select: Record Book, 1913
Record Book (copies), 1913	1 76	Select: Record Book (copies), 1913

1.3:European Entry Cards, 1912

This series consists of forms filled out and submitted by artists and dealers for individual works sent to the Armory Show. Forms include the name of the work, the name of the artist, the date of execution, the price of the work for insurance and for sale, the location of the work and the address to which the work was to be returned.

Forms in German are separated from forms in French, and arrangement is alphabetical by artist.

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French, circa 1912	1 77	Select: French, circa 1912
French, circa 1912	1 78	Select: French, circa 1912
French, circa 1912	1 79	Select: French, circa 1912
French (copies), circa 1912	1 80	Select: French (copies), circa 1912
German, circa 1912	1 81	Select: German, circa 1912

1.4:Notes, 1912-1913

This series consists of handwritten and typewritten information related to the Armory Show, including notes in Walter Pach's hand from a conversation with Odilon Redon from December of 1912, a list of artists suggested for inclusion in the show by Picasso and often referred to as "Picasso's list," statistics for attendance and sales, prices of works in an annotated catalog, and a list of purchasers and their mailing addresses. Additional catalogs from the exhibition, both annotated and un-annotated, can be found in Printed Material (Series 1.5). Additional statistics for attendance can be found in Scrapbooks (Series 1.8, Press II, p. 69).

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Walter Pach's notes from a conversation with Odilon Redon, 1912	1 82	Select: Walter Pach's notes from a conversation with Odilon Redon, 1912
Picasso's List, 1912	1 83	Select: Picasso's List, 1912
Picasso's List (copies), 1912	1 84	Select: Picasso's List (copies), 1912
Prices and Purchasers, 1913	1 85	Select: Prices and Purchasers, 1913
Prices and Purchasers (copies), 1913	1 86	Select: Prices and Purchasers (copies), 1913
Statistics and Other Notes, circa 1912-1913	1 87	Select: Statistics and Other Notes, circa 1912-1913

1.5:Printed Material and Memorabilia, 1912-1913

Printed material in this series includes a blueprint of the Armory installation floor plan; the 1912 catalog of the Sonderbund Internationale Kunst-Austellung in Cologne, Germany, which was sent to Walt Kuhn by Arthur B. Davies and annotated by both men; exhibition catalogs for the New York, Chicago, and Boston exhibitions; printed exhibition announcements and notices; postcards printed with reproductions of art works; pamphlets published by the organizers of the show; two items of memorabilia including an Armory Show button and a lapel pin; and newspaper clippings.

Several of the catalogs contain annotations. Annotated New York catalogs are marked with prices and other notes; annotated Boston and Chicago catalogs are marked with shipping and packing information. Researchers should note for each of the catalogs, the annotated copies have been digitized. Digitization was not repeated for clean duplicates of catalogs.

An additional annotated catalog can be found in Notes (Series 1.4) under the heading "Prices and Purchasers." Additional clippings can be found in Scrapbooks (Series 1.8). Transcripts of Walt Kuhn's translation of Gauguin's "Noa-Noa" are filed under Writings of Walt Kuhn (Series 1.6).

1.6:Writings of Walt Kuhn, 1912-1913

This series contains translations written by Walt Kuhn during his voyage home from Europe in November, 1912. Works include excerpts from Paul Gauguin's "Noa-Noa," which was later published in pamphlet form for sale at the Armory Show, and excerpts from "Letters of a Post Impressionist" by Vincent van Gogh, which was not published. Also included are copyright clearances for both works obtained from the Library of Congress Copyright Office.

Manuscripts and typescripts are filed together in this subseries. The published pamphlet of the Gauguin translation can be found in Printed Material and Memorabilia (Series 1.5). Additional writings by Walt Kuhn can be found in the Walt Kuhn Family Papers (Series 4).

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"Noa Noa," Excerpts, by Paul Gauguin, translated by Walt Kuhn, 1912	2 16	Select: "Noa Noa," Excerpts, by Paul Gauguin, translated by Walt Kuhn, 1912
"Letters of a Post Impressionist," by Vincent Van Gogh, Translated by Walt Kuhn, 1912	2 17	Select: "Letters of a Post Impressionist," by Vincent Van Gogh, Translated by Walt Kuhn, 1912
Correspondence with Library of Congress Copyright Office, 1913	2 18	Select: Correspondence with Library of Congress Copyright Office, 1913

1.7:Photographs, 1912-1913

This series consists of photographs related to the Armory Show, including installation views, art works, the Duchamp-Villon brothers, and the celebratory beefsteak dinner held on March 8, 1913, taken by Percy Rainford. Photographs include individual prints and one photo album. The photo album consists of platinum prints of works of art that were made into postcards, and an original photograph of the Duchamp-Villon brothers.

A handful of loose platinum prints of art works and of the Duchamp-Villon brothers match the prints in the photo album in image, tone, and print quality, and have been treated as originals. Copy photographs of images whose originals are not in this collection are filed in Series 1.9: Retrospective Materials. Additional photographs are found in Series 3 and 4.

Description	Container
Installation views and Armory building, 1913	2 19	Select: Installation views and Armory building, 1913
Installation views and Armory building (copies), 1913 3 Folders Partially scanned	2 20-22	Select: Installation views and Armory building (copies), 19133 FoldersScope and Contents notePartially scanned
Artworks, 1913	2 23	Select: Artworks, 1913
Beefsteak Dinner Photograph, 1913 Oversized materials housed in Box 27	2 24	Select: Beefsteak Dinner Photograph, 1913Scope and Contents noteOversized materials housed in Box 27
Beefsteak Dinner Photograph (copies), 1913	2 25	Select: Beefsteak Dinner Photograph (copies), 1913
Duchamp-Villon brothers, 1912	2 26	Select: Duchamp-Villon brothers, 1912
Duchamp-Villon brothers (copies), 1912	2 27	Select: Duchamp-Villon brothers (copies), 1912
Photograph Album, 1913 Oversized material housed in Box 28	2 28	Select: Photograph Album, 1913Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in Box 28
Photograph Album (copies), 1913 2 Folders	2 29-30	Select: Photograph Album (copies), 19132 Folders
Oversized Beefsteak Dinner Photograph Oversized material scanned with Box 2, F24	27	Select: Oversized Beefsteak Dinner PhotographScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 2, F24
Oversized Photograph Album Oversized material scanned with Box 2, F28	28	Select: Oversized Photograph AlbumScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 2, F28

1.8:Scrapbooks, 1912-1913

This subseries includes two scrapbooks (currently housed in three conservation phase boxes) that document the Armory Show. They include magazine and newspaper clippings; printed materials related to the exhibition; typescript documents of the AAPS related to statistics, public speeches, and circulars; and telegrams remarking on the exhibition. Subjects of the clippings include advance press of the show, diverse responses to the show, satirical cartoons, John Quinn's fight to eliminate the tariff on art, Guzton Borglum's public resignation from the AAPS, and the vice investigation of the show by Chicago authorities.

Because of the poor quality paper used in the scrapbooks, items in this series have required conservation treatment, which has slightly modified their composition. The Beefsteak dinner menu, which is from the celebratory dinner hosted by the AAPS on March 8, 1913 and is signed by the attendees, was originally included in these scrapbooks, but was later conserved as a separate item. The menu is included in this series with reference to its original page number in the scrapbook. The original binding of volume 2 of the scrapbooks was removed when the volume was conserved, and is housed separately. Another item that was separated from the scrapbooks, a clean copy of the New York edition of the exhibition catalog, is now housed with the other catalogs in Printed Materials and Memorabilia (Series 1.5). Microfilm copies of the scrapbooks as they appeared at the time of accession are available on reels D242-D243.

In general, scrapbook items are loosely chronological. Duplicates of many of the pamphlets, notices, posters, catalogs and postcards in the scrapbooks are found in Printed Material and Memorabilia (Series 1.5).

Additional scrapbooks, which are unrelated to the Armory Show, are found in Series 3 and 4.

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Press I, 1912-1913 Oversized material housed with Box 29	2 31	Select: Press I, 1912-1913Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed with Box 29
Press I (copies), 1912-1913	2 32-33	Select: Press I (copies), 1912-1913
Press II, part 1, 1913 Oversized material housed with Box 30	2 34	Select: Press II, part 1, 1913Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed with Box 30
Press II, part 1 (copies), 1913	2 35	Select: Press II, part 1 (copies), 1913
Press II, part 2, 1913 Oversized material housed with Box 31	2 36	Select: Press II, part 2, 1913Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed with Box 31
Press II, part 2 (copies), 1913	2 37	Select: Press II, part 2 (copies), 1913
Original Binding for Press II, 1913 Oversized material housed with Box 27	2 38	Select: Original Binding for Press II, 1913Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed with Box 27
Beefsteak Dinner Menu (from Press II, p. 175), 1913 Oversized material housed with Box 27	2 39	Select: Beefsteak Dinner Menu (from Press II, p. 175), 1913Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed with Box 27
Beefsteak Dinner Menu (from Press II, p. 175) (copies), 1913	2 40	Select: Beefsteak Dinner Menu (from Press II, p. 175) (copies), 1913
Press I (Oversized Scrapbook) Oversized material scanned with Box 2, F31	29	Select: Press I (Oversized Scrapbook)Scope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 2, F31
Press II, part 1 (Oversized Scrapbook) Oversized material scanned with Box 2, F34	30	Select: Press II, part 1 (Oversized Scrapbook)Scope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 2, F34
Press II, part 2 (Oversized Scrapbook) Oversized material scanned with Box 2, F36	31	Select: Press II, part 2 (Oversized Scrapbook)Scope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 2, F36
Oversized Original Binding for Press II Oversized material scanned with Box 2, F38	27	Select: Oversized Original Binding for Press IIScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 2, F38
Oversized Beefsteak Dinner Menu Oversized material scanned with Box 2, F39	27	Select: Oversized Beefsteak Dinner MenuScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 2, F39

1.9:Retrospective Materials, 1939-1963

This series consists of materials related to retrospective accounts of the Armory Show from the 25th and 50th anniversaries of the exhibition, in 1938 and 1963. Items from the 25th anniversary include an article by Frank Crowninshield in Vogue magazine, and Walt Kuhn's pamphlet, "The Story of the Armory Show" (1938), which was later reprinted in the Art News annual of 1939. Additional items in this series, including a typescript catalog, a series of photographs of the Armory building exterior dated 1962, and reproductions of clippings and artwork, seem to have been gathered for the 50th anniversary exhibition held in 1963. The reproductions in this series were not made from the Armory Show records in this collection. Additional documents related to the Kuhn pamphlet can be found in the Walt Kuhn Family Papers (Series 4).

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Proof of Frank Crowninshield Article for Vogue, 1940 Oversized material housed in Box 27	2 41	Select: Proof of Frank Crowninshield Article for Vogue, 1940Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in Box 27
Clippings, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1962-1963 oversized material housed in Box 27	2 42-45	Select: Clippings, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1962-1963Scope and Contents noteoversized material housed in Box 27
Clippings, 1954, 1963	56 1	Select: Clippings, 1954, 1963
Exhibition Catalog, circa 1963	2 46	Select: Exhibition Catalog, circa 1963
Pamphlet, "The Story of the Armory Show,", 1938	2 47	Select: Pamphlet, "The Story of the Armory Show,", 1938
Photographs, 1962	2 48	Select: Photographs, 1962
Reproductions, circa 1963 oversized material housed in Box 27	2 49-50	Select: Reproductions, circa 1963Scope and Contents noteoversized material housed in Box 27
Oversized Proof of Frank Crowninshield Article for Vogue Oversized material scanned with Box 2, F41	27	Select: Oversized Proof of Frank Crowninshield Article for VogueScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 2, F41
Oversized Clippings Oversized material from Box 2, F42	27	Select: Oversized ClippingsScope and Contents noteOversized material from Box 2, F42
Oversized Reproductions Oversized material from Box 2, F49	27	Select: Oversized ReproductionsScope and Contents noteOversized material from Box 2, F49

Series 2:Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS) Records, 1911-1914, undated
0.2 Linear feet
Box 3

This series documents activities of the AAPS aside from the production of the Armory Show. Items include the group's constitution, documents related to incorporation, a minute book documenting their first meetings, multiple drafts of minutes of subsequent meetings, and briefs and correspondence relating to John Quinn's work to lift duties on imported art. Correspondence includes responses from exhibition venues around the country to queries made by Walt Kuhn in 1912 regarding the possibility of exhibiting members' artwork, along with a list of recipients in Kuhn's handwriting; letters accepting or declining invitations to membership; written resignations; and letters establishing proxies for the annual meeting of May 18, 1914. Lists of members are filed with membership correspondence. Records of the 1914 meeting, the first general membership meeting after the Armory Show and the last such meeting the group would hold, include tallies of votes to elect new officers and handwritten letters of resignation.

Additional insight into the origins and politics of the AAPS can be found in Series 4.2: Walt Kuhn Letters to Family (1911, 1913, and 1914). All materials related to the planning, production and business of the Armory Show are filed in Series 1.

This series has been scanned in entirety.

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Constitution and Incorporation, 1911-1912	3 1	Select: Constitution and Incorporation, 1911-1912
Correspondence		Select: Correspondence
Exhibition Venues, 1912	3 2	Select: Exhibition Venues, 1912
Membership, 1911-1912, undated lists [illegible] Aiken, Charles Avery Anderson, Karl Bellows, George Borglum, Gutzon (see also Prendergast, Charles E. and Constitution and Incorporation) Borglum, Solon Calder, A. Stirling Davidson, Jo Fry, Sherry Edmundson Gregg, James Frederick Hassam, Childe Henri, Robert Hillis, Newell Dwight Kramer, Edward Adam Porter, Bruce Prendergast, Charles E. Prendergast, Maurice B. Quinn, John (see also Constitution and Incorporation and Quinn brief) Spingarn, J.E. Tucker, Allen Wier, J. Alden	3 3	Select: Membership, 1911-1912, undatedScope and Contents notelists[illegible]Aiken, Charles AveryAnderson, KarlBellows, GeorgeBorglum, Gutzon (see also Prendergast, Charles E. and Constitution and Incorporation)Borglum, SolonCalder, A. StirlingDavidson, JoFry, Sherry EdmundsonGregg, James FrederickHassam, ChildeHenri, RobertHillis, Newell DwightKramer, Edward AdamPorter, BrucePrendergast, Charles E.Prendergast, Maurice B.Quinn, John (see also Constitution and Incorporation and Quinn brief)Spingarn, J.E.Tucker, AllenWier, J. Alden
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1912	3 4	Select: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1912
Minutes, 1911-1912	3 5	Select: Minutes, 1911-1912
Minutes, 1912-1914	3 6	Select: Minutes, 1912-1914
Minutes (copies), 1911-1914	3 7	Select: Minutes (copies), 1911-1914
Quinn Brief Against Duty on Works of Art, 1912-1913	3 8	Select: Quinn Brief Against Duty on Works of Art, 1912-1913
Records of the Meeting of May 18, 1914	3 9	Select: Records of the Meeting of May 18, 1914
Records of the Meeting of May 18 (Copy), 1914	3 10	Select: Records of the Meeting of May 18 (Copy), 1914

Series 3:Kit Kat Club and Penguin Club Records, 1909-1923, 1926, undated
0.5 Linear feet
Box 3, 32, 56, OVs 37-38

Items in this series relate to the two artists' clubs in which Kuhn was heavily involved in New York. The annual costume balls of both clubs are documented in this series, as well as exhibitions and other events put on by the Penguin Club.

Artists's balls are documented in photographs, scripts, and printed materials. Photographs depict party-goers and performers in costume, including Kuhn, John Quinn, Frederick James Gregg, William Bahr, John Oakman, Charles Ferrand, Rudy Dirks, Jack Johnston, Gus Mager, and Wood Gaylor, among others who are unidentified. Several photographs were taken by New York photographer Jesse Tarbox Beals. Scripts or scenarios written by Walt Kuhn and Frederic Paul Lopère are also filed here. Kit Kat Ball Printed Materials include invitations, posters, and glossy, heavily-illustrated programs.

Most of the Penguin Club material in this series was removed from a scrapbook during previous processing and is now arranged chronologically as a group. In addition to artists' balls, items from the scrapbook document exhibitions, a musical performance, and social events such as stag dinners, strawberry festivals, and summer outings. Types of materials include invitations, tickets, flyers, announcements, posters, exhibition catalogs, programs, and Penguin Club stationary. Two posters for Penguin Balls are by the cartoonist Alfred J. Frueh.

Other Penguin Club materials include marked exhibition catalogs from 1917, with Kuhn's estimated and actual sales prices, a large poster designed by Kuhn for the 1917 Penguin Ball, and a 1923 flyer for a dinner honoring Horace Brodsky. An undated historical essay entitled "The Penguin" by George Spelvin, which may have been added to the collection at a later date, is accompanied by two photographs showing posters made by the Penguin Club for the Red Cross in 1918.

Additional materials related to the Penguin Club and Kit Kat Club can be found in the Walt Kuhn Family Papers (Series 4).

This series has been scanned in entirety, with the exception of two photographs from the 2015 addition.

Series 4:Walt Kuhn Family Papers, 1859-1984
26.7 Linear feet
Box 3-26, 32-35, 56-57, OV 39-55, 58

This series contains records of Walt Kuhn's artwork, career, travels, personal and professional associations, family members, and work in vaudeville, film, and interior design. The bulk of material relating to Kuhn's career as a painter can be found in Kuhn's Letters to Family, General Correspondence, Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, Provenance Files, and to a lesser extent in Financial Records, Notes and Writings, and Printed Materials. Walt Kuhn's Letters to Family, written to his father, wife, and daughter span his entire career and contain candid, personal accounts of his activities and many illustrations. Also included in the papers are biographical narratives and documents; records related to Kuhn's theater, film, and design projects; and original cartoons, drawings, sketches, and photographs. Audio recordings made in 1965 and 1969 contain the recollections of Kuhn's daughter, Brenda Kuhn.

Annotations in pen or orange crayon found throughout this series were probably made by Vera Kuhn and should not be confused with dates marked in pencil by Archives staff during initial microfilming in the 1960s. Penciled dates on correspondence were taken from the postmarks of envelopes, which were disposed of during microfilming.

This series is arranged according the following 12 subseries:

4.1: Biographical Material, 1882-1972
4.2: Walt Kuhn Letters to Family, 1901-1949
4.3: General Correspondence, 1890-1966
4.4: Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1920-1966
4.5: Provenance Files, 1910-1964
4.6: Other Projects, 1869-1897, 1910, 1922-1941
4.7: Financial Records, 1920-1961, 1972
4.8: Notes and Writings, 1901-1972
4.9: Printed Materials, 1908-1987
4.10: Artwork, 1906-1952
4.11: Photographs and Scrapbooks, 1859-1978
4.12: Audio Recordings, 1965, 1969

4.1:Biographical Material, 1882-1972

0.5 Linear feet

Boxes 3, 32

This series contains biographical documentation of Walt Kuhn, his wife and daugher, his father and mother, his in-laws, and their ancestors. Found in this series is a handwritten chronology containing notes on the Armory Show. Other types of material include additional biographical narratives and chronologies prepared by Walt Kuhn, Vera Kuhn, and others; identification cards, passports, death certificates and other official documents; obituaries; correspondence and notes on genaeology; published biographies; printed materials relating to Kuhn and Spier family homes; and medical records and correspondence. Artifacts include a framed dollar marked "first dollar earned by Walt Kuhn" and a medallion from art school.

Additional autobiographical writings can be found in Series 4.8: Notes and Writings. More obituaries of Walt Kuhn can be found in the 1949 clippings in Series 4.10: Printed Materials. Wills and documentation of family estates are in Series 4.7: Financial Records. Additional biographical information can be found in the audio recordings of Brenda Kuhn in Series 4.13: Audio Recordings.

Description	Container
Narratives and Chronologies		Select: Narratives and Chronologies
Walt Kuhn, 1927-1962, undated	3 23	Select: Walt Kuhn, 1927-1962, undated
George Spier, 1925-1936	3 24	Select: George Spier, 1925-1936
Personal Documents		Select: Personal Documents
Walt Kuhn Family, 1909-1959, undated	3 25	Select: Walt Kuhn Family, 1909-1959, undated
Francis Kuhn, 1889, 1926-1928, undated	3 26	Select: Francis Kuhn, 1889, 1926-1928, undated
Passports, 1925-1932	3 27	Select: Passports, 1925-1932
Walt Kuhn Obituaries, 1949	3 28	Select: Walt Kuhn Obituaries, 1949
Woodlawn Cemetery, 1949	3 29	Select: Woodlawn Cemetery, 1949
Genealogical Research, 1944-1945, undated	3 30	Select: Genealogical Research, 1944-1945, undated
Biographical Publishers, 1930-1950, undated	3 31	Select: Biographical Publishers, 1930-1950, undated
Biographical Publishers, 1930-1950, undated	3 32	Select: Biographical Publishers, 1930-1950, undated
Printed Miscellany, 1882-1885, 1906-1913, 1926, 1939, 1949,	3 33	Select: Printed Miscellany, 1882-1885, 1906-1913, 1926, 1939, 1949,
Medical Records		Select: Medical Records
Walt Kuhn, 1939, 1948-1949, undated	3 34	Select: Walt Kuhn, 1939, 1948-1949, undated
Vera and Brenda Kuhn, 1925-1957, undated	3 35-37	Select: Vera and Brenda Kuhn, 1925-1957, undated
Life Extension Institute, 1923-1928, undated	3 38	Select: Life Extension Institute, 1923-1928, undated
Artifacts, 1892, undated Oversized material housed in Box 32	3 39	Select: Artifacts, 1892, undatedScope and Contents noteOversized material housed in Box 32
Oversized Artifact, 1892 Oversized material scanned with Box 3, F39	32	Select: Oversized Artifact, 1892Scope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 3, F39

4.2:Walt Kuhn Letters to Family, 1901-1949

1.7 Linear feet

Box 3-5, 56, OV 39

Walt Kuhn traveled frequently throughout his life for weeks and months at a time, and while away he wrote lengthy letters almost daily, first to his parents from art school in France and Germany in 1901-1903, and from 1909 on to his wife and daughter. His candid and detailed letters to his family reveal otherwise hidden motives and feelings regarding events, career, art, politics, and personalities. Scattered letters to Walt from Vera and Brenda are interfiled chronologically in this subseries, and are especially revealing of Vera's involvement in her husband's career.

Occasionally, Kuhn writes from New York when Vera is out of town. Significantly, these occasions include the winter of 1911-1912, when he writes that "a new society" of artists is forming in reaction to the conservatism of the National Academy of Design, referring to the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which would go on to mount the Armory Show of 1913. (For Kuhn's letters to his wife dealing directly with the Armory Show, dating from September 1912 to April 1913, see Series 1.1, Armory Show Correspondence, Organizer's Letters.) Other significant New York events described include Kit Kat Balls and Penguin Club events from 1914, 1917, and 1918.

Kuhn advised several important collectors of contemporary art, sometimes traveling with them to make purchases, and his letters home include descriptions of the collections and studios they visit. Collectors include Marie Harriman (especially 1931, see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files), John Quinn (1913, 1918, 1919, 1920), and Florida collectors Bert and Olive Taylor, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler, and Paul and Mary "Minna" Mellon (1945, 1947). Conversations with Mary and A. Conger Goodyear and Lillie P. Bliss about the formation of the Museum of Modern Art are related to Vera in letters from 1928 and 1929.

Kuhn's letters home reveal attitudes towards artists and other colleagues, as well as his many personal and professional prejudices. A painting trip to Paris in 1933 brings news of publisher Alfred Skira, and the artists Pablo Picasso, Demetrius Galanis, Man Ray, Cecil Howard, and Andre Derain. Letters from Ogonquit, ME, report on other artists who worked nearby, such as Edwin Booth "Ted" Grossman, Bernard Karfiol, John Laurent, John Carroll, Patsy Santo, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. From 1940 to 1942, a house on Lake Buel in Great Barrington, MA serves has a studio where Kuhn paints and tutors Mary Harriman Rumsey, Lily Emmet Cushing, and Harry Whitney, among others.

As designer and writer of vaudeville productions in the 1920s, Kuhn wrote home from the road about the politics and personalities of backstage life. Casts of his shows included performers Raymond Hitchcock and Lee Morse. During business trips for the Union Pacific railroad from 1936 to 1948, Kuhn wrote letters home about regional art and society circles throughout the Midwest and West. Significant Western contacts include artists Ralph Stackpole, Otis Oldfield, Rinaldo Cuneo, Edward Weston, critic Arthur Millier, collector Walter Arensburg, and film celebrities Cecil B. de Mille and Gary Cooper.

Kuhn's habit of writing to Vera when separated from her continued during his final illness and hospitalization in 1948 and 1949. Letters from this period are marked by his deteriorated mental state.

Illustrations are often found in Kuhn's letters, especially those written during painting trips to Paris, Maine, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Florida. Additional illustrated letters are filed with Artwork and with Photographs and Scrapbooks.

Photographs and photographic postcards are found throughout the series. Among them are photographs of the Gottlieb Reber estate in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1931; Arizona in 1928; and Florida in the 1940s. Many of the photographs mentioned in letters are filed in Series 4.11: Photographs and Scrapbooks.

Significant enclosures include letters from Charles Sheeler in 1922 and 1924, an exhibition catalog and floorplan for a Montross Gallery exhibition of 1914, and an original print of a nude by Kuhn, sent in 1918. Other enclosures were separated and may be filed elsewhere in the Kuhn Family Papers.

4.3:General Correspondence, 1890-1966

4 Linear feet

Box 5-9, 32, 56, OV 40

Correspondence in this series is primarily between Walt Kuhn and his professional and personal contacts and spans his entire career. Correspondents include family members, fellow artists, students, dealers, museum and gallery staff, collectors, friends, fans, critics and colleagues. Copies of outgoing correspondence are often present and are interfiled chronologically. Also included is scattered correspondence of Vera and Brenda Kuhn, and correspondence written after Kuhn died that documents his family's efforts to exhibit, sell, and donate his work.

The content of the correspondence ranges from personal and candid to purely transactional. Artists, collectors, dealers, and critics involved in the creation of significant works of art and collections in the early 20th century are represented. An alphabetical index of selected correspondents in this series is provided in the appendix. Another resource for accessing correspondence are the card files in Series 4.8: Notes and Writings, where correspondence with various contacts was indexed by the Kuhns and filed alphabetically by name.

In 1938, Walt and Vera Kuhn wrote and self-published the pamphlet, "The Story of the Armory Show" and sent it gratis to hundreds of interested parties. Among the correspondence from that year are many heartfelt reponses from fellow artists and other witnesses to the 1913 event, including Charles Sheeler, William Glackens, Stuart Davis, André Derain, Henri Roché, Walter Pach, and J.H. du Bois to name just a few.

Kuhn regularly instructed students through the mail with lengthy letters about painting techniques and methods. San Francisco painter Otis Oldfield is represented by over 100 lengthy letters in this subseries. Kuhn's letters to Oldfield, returned at Kuhn's request in 1945 for a publication project that was never realized, are interfiled. Other correspondence students include Patsy Santo, Frank di Gioia, Watson Bidwell, John Bernhardt, John Laurent, Goldie Paley, and Eric Lundgren. See the appendix for dates.

Types of material include letters (sometimes illustrated), postcards, invitations, announcements, and Christmas cards, which are sometimes made of original artwork. Enclosures are often found, such as photographs, clippings, tracings of art work, writings, receipts, passes and membership cards. Some letters indicate enclosures that were previously separated and can be found in other series.

Significant writings enclosed with correspondence include an early vaudeville script written by Kuhn and his friend, Archibald Macnab (1923); drafts of articles about Kuhn by the poet Genevieve Taggard (1931), critic Alan Burroughs (1930), and patron Eloise Spaeth (1950); and an unpublished history of the 1913 Armory Show by Paul Bird (1938). Photographs and photographic postcards are also found throughout the series. Included are photo postcards from Spain and France (1925), and from Arizona and California (1928); and photographs related to Kuhn's work for the Union Pacific Railroad Company (1936, 1938).

Additional correspondence can be found throughout the collection. See individual series descriptions for details.

See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents in Series 4.3.

4.4:Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1920-1966

1.5 Linear feet

Box 9-10, 56, OV 41

This series contains a variety of materials relating to exhibitions and sales of Walt Kuhn's artwork between 1920 and 1958. Files for the Harriman and Durand-Ruel galleries also document selected exhibits of other artists and other activities of these galleries.

Documentation for exhibitions that took place in the 1920s is sparse; included are catalogs, announcements, inventories, and receipts for exhibitions at M. de Zayas Gallery, Montross Gallery, Beaux Arts Galerie, Grand Central Art Galleries, M. Knoedler and Co., the Arts Club of Chicago, Albert Roullier Galleries, and Anderson Galleries.

From 1930 onwards, exhibitions are more thoroughly documented. Records of exhibitions typically include announcements, marked catalogs, guest lists, diagrams showing the arrangement of art work in the galleries, letters detailing the production of the show or responding to the show, press coverage, and summary documents showing attendance figures and sales. For some exhibitions, there are also photographs and guest books.

Because of Kuhn's long relationship with the Marie Harriman Gallery, files contain a variety of unique materials. Included is correspondence concerning exhibits of André Derain, Pablo Picasso, and Demetrius Galanis in the early 1930s. Also found are detailed regional reports on museums and private collectors throughout the United States and their relative interest in modern art. Other items include vouchers for sales of Kuhn's artwork, a 1931 cartoon by Kuhn of himself with Marie Harriman in Europe; a photographic portrait of Harriman by Berenice Abbott and another by Underwood and Underwood; and a transcript of a 1931 radio address given by Marie Harriman.

The series is arranged by gallery or exhibition in rough chronological order. The Western Traveling Exhibition files are further broken down by venue and arranged in the order in which the exhibition traveled.

Additional materials relating to the galleries and exhibitions named in this series can be found elsewhere in the collection. Exhibitions before 1920 are discussed in some detail in Walt Kuhn Letters to Family from those years. Additional exhibition catalogs and announcements are found in Printed Materials, and correspondence with galleries exists in General Correspondence. See individual series descriptions for more details.

See the Index for a list of selected correspondents from series 4.3 General Correspondence with cross-references to this series and 4.5: Provenance Files.

Description	Container
Miscellaneous Galleries, 1920-1929, 1933	9 19	Select: Miscellaneous Galleries, 1920-1929, 1933
Currier Gallery of Art, circa 1950s	56 6	Select: Currier Gallery of Art, circa 1950s
Grand Central Art Galleries, 1926-1927	9 20	Select: Grand Central Art Galleries, 1926-1927
Downtown Gallery, 1927-1933, undated	9 21	Select: Downtown Gallery, 1927-1933, undated
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1930	9 22	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1930
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1930, 1937	56 7	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1930, 1937
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1931	9 23	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1931
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 January	9 24	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 January
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 January	9 25	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 January
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 February-April	9 26	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 February-April
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 April-June	9 27	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 April-June
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 July-October	9 28	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 July-October
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 October-November	9 29	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 October-November
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 November-December	9 30	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1932 November-December
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1933 January	9 31	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1933 January
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1933 February-May	9 32	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1933 February-May
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1933 May-September	9 33	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1933 May-September
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1933 September-December	9 34	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1933 September-December
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1934 January-February	10 1	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1934 January-February
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1934 February-March	10 2	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1934 February-March
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1934 April-December	10 3	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1934 April-December
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1935	10 4	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1935
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1935	10 5	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1935
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1936	10 6	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1936
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1936	10 7	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1936
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1937 January-February	10 8	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1937 January-February
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1937 February-March	10 9	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1937 February-March
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1937 March	10 10	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1937 March
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1937 April-December	10 11	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1937 April-December
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1938	10 12	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1938
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1939	10 13	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1939
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1939	10 14	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1939
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1940	10 15	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1940
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1940	10 16	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1940
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1941 January-July	10 17	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1941 January-July
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1941 October-December	10 18	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1941 October-December
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1941 December	10 19	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1941 December
Marie Harriman Gallery, 1942-1943, undated Oversized material housed in OV 41	10 20	Select: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1942-1943, undatedScope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 41
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1943	10 21	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1943
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1943-1944	10 22	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1943-1944
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1944	10 23	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1944
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1945	10 24	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1945
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1945	10 25	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1945
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1946	10 26	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1946
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1946	10 27	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1946
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1947-1948	10 28	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1947-1948
Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1948, 1950	10 29	Select: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1948, 1950
Western Traveling Exhibition		Select: Western Traveling Exhibition
Marked Catalog, 1947	10 30	Select: Marked Catalog, 1947
Colorado Springs, CO, 1946	10 31	Select: Colorado Springs, CO, 1946
Colorado Springs, CO, 1947	10 32	Select: Colorado Springs, CO, 1947
Colorado Springs, CO, 1947-1948	10 33	Select: Colorado Springs, CO, 1947-1948
San Francisco, CA, 1946-1948	10 34	Select: San Francisco, CA, 1946-1948
Santa Barbara, CA, 1947	10 35	Select: Santa Barbara, CA, 1947
Los Angeles, CA, 1946-1947	10 36	Select: Los Angeles, CA, 1946-1947
Los Angeles, CA, 1947-1948	10 37	Select: Los Angeles, CA, 1947-1948
Omaha, NE, 1947	10 38	Select: Omaha, NE, 1947
Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1947	10 39	Select: Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1947
Milwaukee, WI, 1947-1948	10 40	Select: Milwaukee, WI, 1947-1948
Pittsburgh, PA, 1947-1948	10 41	Select: Pittsburgh, PA, 1947-1948
Syracuse, NY, 1947-1948	10 42	Select: Syracuse, NY, 1947-1948
Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition, 1948	10 43	Select: Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition, 1948
Albany Institute of History and Art, 1958	10 44	Select: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1958
University of Arizona, 1966	10 45	Select: University of Arizona, 1966
Oversized Marie Harriman Gallery Material Oversized material from Box 10, F20	OV 41	Select: Oversized Marie Harriman Gallery MaterialScope and Contents noteOversized material from Box 10, F20

4.5:Provenance Files, 1910-1964

2.7 Linear feet

Box 11-13, 32, 56, OV 42-44

The Kuhns kept meticulous records of Walt Kuhn's art work. Their original file folders contain detailed annotations about paintings and sculptures, along with art reproductions, tracings, and other documentation. Annotations include information such as the model used for the work; where the work was created, exhibited, reproduced, and sold; and critical response. Some of the files also contain correspondence, clippings, exhibition catalogs, announcements, and bills of sale. Tempera paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs are documented in a bound ledger filed at the end of this series.

Occasionally files contain other unique documentation. The unusually thick file for "Still Life with Red Bananas," for example, contains printed materials related to a controversy over the 1946 international exhibition of the State Department's collection of modern art, which was cancelled in response to conservative reaction. The collection was sold as "surplus" by the War Assets Administration, and the public outcry that ensued is documented in clippings in this file.

In addition to photographs of works of art, photographs in this series include publicity photographs of Edna St. Vincent de Millay standing before the painting "Mario" in her home and other installation views. Original sketches can be found in the files for Lahr's portrait and the paintings "Zuleika," "Absolom's House," "Beach Scene," "Green Apples with Gray Curtain," "Interior," and "Maternity." Miscellanous tracings and watercolor sketches of paintings whose original file folders are not present are filed at the end of this series.

Files are arranged alphabetically by the the artwork's title or by a key word in the title, grouping files for clown paintings, girl paintings, pine tree paintings, etc. This arrangement has been preserved, although it is idiosyncratic. Files for individual works have been grouped together in general alphabetical files. Large files are filed and listed individually. Execution dates of artwork for some files are provided in parentheses after the file headings and should not be confused with record dates.

Original files are very brittle and have torn edges and missing fragments. Microfilm of the collection made in 1965 may show the file before such damage occurred (reels D242A-D242B). Additional material related to the provenance of Kuhn's artwork is filed in Financial Records and elsewhere in the collection. See individual series descriptions for more details. A record book documenting Vera Kuhn's art jewelry is in Photographs and Scrapbooks.

See the Index for a list of selected correspondents from 4.3 General Correspondence with cross-references to this series and 4.4: Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files.

Description	Container
ABS - ACR, 1916-1945	11 1	Select: ABS - ACR, 1916-1945
ACR - APP, 1921-1941 Oversized material housed in OV 42	11 2	Select: ACR - APP, 1921-1941Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
APP - ATH, 1927-1964 Oversized material housed in OV 43	11 3	Select: APP - ATH, 1927-1964Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 43
"Athlete in Green" (1946), 1946-1947	11 4	Select: "Athlete in Green" (1946), 1946-1947
ATH - BER, 1919-1953 Oversized material housed in OV 42	11 5	Select: ATH - BER, 1919-1953Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
BLA - BLO, 1922-1946 Oversized material housed in OV 42	11 6	Select: BLA - BLO, 1922-1946Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
"The Blue Clown" (1931), 1931-1944	11 7	Select: "The Blue Clown" (1931), 1931-1944
"The Blue Clown" (1931), 1946-1953, undated	11 8	Select: "The Blue Clown" (1931), 1946-1953, undated
BOU - CAM, 1918-1949	11 9	Select: BOU - CAM, 1918-1949
CAR - CLO, 1915-1959	11 10	Select: CAR - CLO, 1915-1959
CLO - CLO, 1929-1959	11 11	Select: CLO - CLO, 1929-1959
CLO - DOR, 1915-1938 Oversized material housed in OV 42	11 12	Select: CLO - DOR, 1915-1938Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
DOR - EIG, 1925-1937 Oversized material housed in OV 42	11 13	Select: DOR - EIG, 1925-1937Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
ELE - FLO, 1918-1940 Oversized material housed in OV 42	11 14	Select: ELE - FLO, 1918-1940Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
FLO - GIR, 1921-1946 Oversized material housed in OV 42	11 15	Select: FLO - GIR, 1921-1946Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
GIR - GIR, 1920-1942	11 16	Select: GIR - GIR, 1920-1942
GIR - GRE, 1912-1946 Oversized material housed in OV 42	11 17	Select: GIR - GRE, 1912-1946Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
GRE - GUI, 1930-1947	11 18	Select: GRE - GUI, 1930-1947
HAR - HYD, 1915-1938 Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 1	Select: HAR - HYD, 1915-1938Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
"Imaginary History" Series, 1918-1923 Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 2	Select: "Imaginary History" Series, 1918-1923Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
"Imaginary History" Series, 1918-1921, undated Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 3	Select: "Imaginary History" Series, 1918-1921, undatedScope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
IND - KAN, 1921-1947 Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 4	Select: IND - KAN, 1921-1947Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
Portrait of Burt Lahr (1947), 1947-1952	12 5	Select: Portrait of Burt Lahr (1947), 1947-1952
LAN - MAN, 1918-1945	12 6	Select: LAN - MAN, 1918-1945
MAN - MAN, 1918-1947	12 7	Select: MAN - MAN, 1918-1947
MAR - MOR, 1912-1960	12 8	Select: MAR - MOR, 1912-1960
MOU - PIE, 1926-1946 Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 9	Select: MOU - PIE, 1926-1946Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
PIN - PIN, 1918-1946	12 10	Select: PIN - PIN, 1918-1946
PIT - POT, 1919-1945 Oversized material housed in OV 43	12 11	Select: PIT - POT, 1919-1945Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 43
RED - ROS, 1924-1946	12 12	Select: RED - ROS, 1924-1946
ROS - SAN, 1910-1961 Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 13	Select: ROS - SAN, 1910-1961Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
SHE - STI, 1922-1948 Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 14	Select: SHE - STI, 1922-1948Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
"Still Life with Red Bananas" (1941), 1941-1951, undated Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 15	Select: "Still Life with Red Bananas" (1941), 1941-1951, undatedScope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
STI - TRE, 1921-1942 Oversized material housed in OV 42	12 16	Select: STI - TRE, 1921-1942Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
TRE-TRI (1937-1939), 1937-1944	13 1	Select: TRE-TRI (1937-1939), 1937-1944
"Trio" (1937), 1937-1941	13 2	Select: "Trio" (1937), 1937-1941
"Trio" (1937), 1941-1951, undated	13 3	Select: "Trio" (1937), 1941-1951, undated
TRU - WHI, 1922-1959 Oversized material housed in OV 42	13 4	Select: TRU - WHI, 1922-1959Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42
WHI - YEL, 1915-1938 Oversized material housed in OV 42 and OV 43	13 5	Select: WHI - YEL, 1915-1938Scope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 42 and OV 43
"Young Clown" (1932), 1935-1948, undated	13 6	Select: "Young Clown" (1932), 1935-1948, undated
YOU-ZUL (1915, 1925-1939), 1915-1942	13 7	Select: YOU-ZUL (1915, 1925-1939), 1915-1942
Tempera, Watercolor, Etching, Lithograph Records (1915-1938), undated Oversized bound volume housed in Box 32	13 8	Select: Tempera, Watercolor, Etching, Lithograph Records (1915-1938), undatedScope and Contents noteOversized bound volume housed in Box 32
Miscellaneous Tracings of Artwork, undated Oversized material housed in OV 44	13 9	Select: Miscellaneous Tracings of Artwork, undatedScope and Contents noteOversized material housed in OV 44
Miscellaneous Watercolor Sketches of Paintings (1933-1942), undated	13 10	Select: Miscellaneous Watercolor Sketches of Paintings (1933-1942), undated
Notes on Artwork Moved from Studio at 112 East 18th Street, 1957-1958 Notes made by Brenda Kuhn in 1957-1958 during the move of Walt Kuhn artwork and other items from the studio at 112 East 18th Street in New York to Cirkers-Hayes Storage. Notes include a list of works with dates, and with dimensions and prices for some of the works.	56 8	Select: Notes on Artwork Moved from Studio at 112 East 18th Street, 1957-1958Scope and ContentsNotes made by Brenda Kuhn in 1957-1958 during the move of Walt Kuhn artwork and other items from the studio at 112 East 18th Street in New York to Cirkers-Hayes Storage. Notes include a list of works with dates, and with dimensions and prices for some of the works.
Oversized Tempera, Watercolor, Etching, Lithograph Records (1915-1938), undated Oversized material scanned with Box 13, F8	32	Select: Oversized Tempera, Watercolor, Etching, Lithograph Records (1915-1938), undatedScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 13, F8
Oversized Tracings of Artwork from Provenance Files Oversized material scanned with Box 11, F2, F5-6, F12-15, F17; Box 12, F1-4, F9, F13-16; Box 13, F4-5	OV 42	Select: Oversized Tracings of Artwork from Provenance FilesScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 11, F2, F5-6, F12-15, F17; Box 12, F1-4, F9, F13-16; Box 13, F4-5
Oversized Tracings of Artwork from Provenance Files Oversized material scanned with Box 11, F3; Box 12, F11; Box 13, F5	43	Select: Oversized Tracings of Artwork from Provenance FilesScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 11, F3; Box 12, F11; Box 13, F5
Oversized Miscellaneous Tracings of Artwork Oversized material scanned with Box 13, F9	44	Select: Oversized Miscellaneous Tracings of ArtworkScope and Contents noteOversized material scanned with Box 13, F9

4.6:Other Projects, 1869-1897, 1910, 1922-1941

1.7 Linear feet

Box 13-14, 33, 56, OV 40-41, 45

Although the bulk of the Walt Kuhn Family Papers are related to Walt Kuhn's artwork and career as a painter, items in this series document Kuhn's other creative projects in theater, motion pictures, and graphic and interior design.

In the 1920s, Kuhn designed and staged several vaudeville acts or "satirical ballets," which were performed in New York, Chicago, Atlantic City, and elsewhere. Included in this series are scripts, notebooks, sketches and drawings of costumes and stage sets, receipts, contracts, music, programs, a photograph, and a scrapbook. Notebooks contain sketches and production notes, contact information for theater people, and receipts signed by performers, among other notes. Scrapbooks contain clippings, programs, and one watercolor costume drawing. Other early theatrical writings and photographs can be found in Kit Kat Club and Penguin Club Records, and Kuhn describes his theater experience in detail in Walt Kuhn Letters to Family.

In 1939, Kuhn wrote and directed a silent, educational motion picture film called "Walt Kuhn's Adventures in Art - Learning to See." Kuhn gave lectures with the film from 1939 to as late as 1947. Papers related to this project include drafts of scripts, notes, and visual materials used in the film, including intertitles, photographs and a collage. Drafts for another film, apparently never made, are also filed with scripts. Items relating to copyright of these projects are filed with Financial Records.

From 1936 until 1943, Kuhn was employed by the Union Pacific (UP) Railroad Company through his connection with Averell Harriman, husband of Marie Harriman and UP's Chairman of the Board. He designed and decorated club cars and lounges for Streamliner trains, designed posters and brochures, and consulted for other projects. Kuhn's historically-themed club cars, "The Frontier Shack" and "The Little Nugget" involved two of his favorite historical themes, the old west and early stage comedians. Kuhn also designed graphics for UP's Sun Valley Lodge in 1937. Documents related to UP include blueprints, sketches, a poster, research notes, source materials, publicity, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets, tickets, sample materials, and notes. Related materials are filed in General Correspondence and Photographs and Scrapbooks.

Theater and Motion Picture files are arranged by type of material, and UP files are arranged by project.

4.7:Financial Records, 1920-1961, 1972

1 Linear foot

Box 14-15, 56

This series contains records of the Kuhn family's financial assets and transactions. Types of material include account books, correspondence, legal documents, bills, and receipts. Sales of artwork are documented in Accounts of Moneys Received, Accounts of Paintings Sold, and to a lesser extent, Bills and Receipts. Also among the bills and receipts are insurance policies, travel expenses, lithography and publication expenses, and receipts for the shipment, framing, and photography of art works. Documents from the Walt Kuhn estate include a detailed appraisal made late in 1949 after his death, which lists several hundred works of art in his studio and on loan in various museums, among other property. A copy of the appraisal is annotated with notes of sales up to 1955.

The file on Copyrights contains correspondence and copyright registration certificates for Kuhn's theater acts, publications and motion picture. Copyright information about Kuhn's translations of 1912 are filed with those publications in Armory Show Records. Information included in tax returns includes payments made to Kuhn's models, who are named as employees. Other files document more personal financial transactions. Notebooks filed under Assets summarize information about savings, mortgages, stocks, bonds, and other property.

One folder labeled "Receipts for artwork sold" includes receipts from Montross Gallery for artwork by Kuhn including: two etchings; a decoration sold to John Quinn in 1920; and four oil paintings sold to L. P. Bliss in 1922. The folder also includes a list of prints and drawings by Kuhn sold by E. Weyhe in 1924.

Description	Container
Accounts of Moneys Received, 1923-1949 2 Volumes	14 24	Select: Accounts of Moneys Received, 1923-19492 Volumes
Account of Painting Sales (1944-1949, 1952-1956), undated	14 25	Select: Account of Painting Sales (1944-1949, 1952-1956), undated
Assets, 1927-1953 5 Volumes	14 26	Select: Assets, 1927-19535 Volumes
Receipts for Artwork Sold, 1920-1924	56 12	Select: Receipts for Artwork Sold, 1920-1924
Bills and Receipts, 1925-1929, undated	14 27	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1925-1929, undated
Bills and Receipts, 1930-1932 partially scanned	14 28	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1930-1932Scope and Contents notepartially scanned
Bills and Receipts, 1933-1936	14 29	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1933-1936
Bills and Receipts, 1937-1939	14 30	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1937-1939
Bills and Receipts, 1940-1941	14 31	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1940-1941
Bills and Receipts, 1941-1942	14 32	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1941-1942
Bills and Receipts, 1943-1944	14 33	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1943-1944
Bills and Receipts, 1945-1947	14 34	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1945-1947
Bills and Receipts, 1948-1950	14 35	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1948-1950
Bills and Receipts, 1951-1952	14 36	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1951-1952
Bills and Receipts, 1953-1957, undated	14 37	Select: Bills and Receipts, 1953-1957, undated
Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company, 1938, 1942	14 38	Select: Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company, 1938, 1942
Copyrights, 1923, 1938-1942	14 39	Select: Copyrights, 1923, 1938-1942
Estates		Select: Estates
Walt Kuhn, 1949	15 1	Select: Walt Kuhn, 1949
Walt Kuhn, 1949	15 2	Select: Walt Kuhn, 1949
Walt Kuhn, 1949	15 3	Select: Walt Kuhn, 1949
Walt Kuhn, 1949-1955	15 4	Select: Walt Kuhn, 1949-1955
Francis Kuhn, 1882-1917	15 5	Select: Francis Kuhn, 1882-1917
Francis Kuhn, 1920-1953	15 6	Select: Francis Kuhn, 1920-1953
Francis Kuhn (copies), 1882-1953	15 7-11	Select: Francis Kuhn (copies), 1882-1953
George Spier, 1923-1924	15 12	Select: George Spier, 1923-1924
Last Wills and Testaments of Vera and Walt Kuhn, 1925-1950	15 13	Select: Last Wills and Testaments of Vera and Walt Kuhn, 1925-1950
Lawyer's Mortgage Company Reorganization, 1937-1949	15 14-15	Select: Lawyer's Mortgage Company Reorganization, 1937-1949
Leases, 1928-1961, 1972	15 16	Select: Leases, 1928-1961, 1972
Miscellaneous Printed Materials, 1930-1953, undated	15 17	Select: Miscellaneous Printed Materials, 1930-1953, undated
Notes of Personal Expenses, 1911, 1937-1949, undated	15 18	Select: Notes of Personal Expenses, 1911, 1937-1949, undated
Savings Account Books, 1928-1960 16 Volumes	15 19-20	Select: Savings Account Books, 1928-196016 Volumes
Stocks and Bonds, 1920-1954	15 21	Select: Stocks and Bonds, 1920-1954
Storage, 1936, 1941-1953	15 22	Select: Storage, 1936, 1941-1953
Tax Records, 1936-1958, undated	15 23-24	Select: Tax Records, 1936-1958, undated
Utilities, 1934-1953, undated	15 25-32	Select: Utilities, 1934-1953, undated

4.8:Notes and Writings, 1901-1972

4 Linear feet

Box 17-19, 32, 56

This series contains writings by Walt Kuhn, his family, and others, and notes relating to Kuhn's contacts, publications, artwork, and other activities. Types of material include index card files, address books, notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, clippings, correspondence, and photographs.

Card Files containing the Kuhns' scrupulous notes about people make up the bulk of this series. The files were kept in three separate alphabetical files with overlapping dates. They contain contact information, anecdotal details about shared meals, cocktail parties, or excursions, and cross-references to correspondence. Attachments such as clippings, correspondence, photographs, exhibition catalogs, and social announcements are common. Photographs and artwork found among the cards have been removed to separate folders, including images of Alan Burroughs, Sadakichi Hartmann, and Patsy Santo, and watercolor drawings by Lewis Barrington and Jean Oberlé. The original arrangement of the card file is idiosyncratic.

Notes on Artwork include a list of Kuhn's artwork which sold at the auction of John Quinn's art collection in February 1927; many lists of artwork compiled for exhibition, shipping, and inventory; and detailed descriptions of early artwork written by Kuhn.

Walt Kuhn's Notes and Notebooks include travel notes from Europe, the Western United States, and Maine, with a few sketches. Vera Kuhn's travel writings recount family trips to Nova Scotia from 1909 to 1912, and a trip to Europe in 1925.

Miscellaneous Personal Notes range from shopping lists and recipes to more significant notes such as those about he disposition of artwork after Kuhn's death. Collection Notes are notes about the family papers written on envelopes. The items once contained by the envelopes were separated from their contents during initial processing and are now filed throughout the Walt Kuhn Family Papers.

Other writings include manuscripts and visual materials from lectures given by Kuhn and Alfred Barr in 1934 about modern art collecting. Two articles about Kuhn published in Collier's in the 1940s are also filed here, along with related correspondence including letters from actress Dorothy Stickney, writer H.L.Mencken, and a number of Kuhn's former models. Photographs taken for the Collier's articles are filed with Photographs and Scrapbooks.

Miscellaneous Writings by Walt Kuhn include an autobiographical essay and writings on modern art and artists. Kuhn's writings from the period of his final illness and hospitalization are also filed here. Writings about Kuhn include manuscripts by Alan Burroughs, Jeanne Robert Foster, Blanche Matthias, and Frank E. Washburn Freund. Also included are typewritten copies of published essays about Kuhn's work.

Additional writings by Walt Kuhn are in Armory Show Records, Kit Kat Club and Penguin Club Records, and Other Projects. Significant writing about his artwork and techniques can also be found in his outgoing correspondence.

4.9:Printed Materials, 1908-1987

4.2 Linear feet

Box 20-23, 34, 56, OVs 40, 46-47, 58

This series contains books, pamphlets, clippings, magazines, exhibition catalogs, invitations, announcements, art reproductions, programs, postcards, blueprints, and other printed ephemera gathered by Walt Kuhn and his family throughout their lives. Copies of published works by Walt Kuhn are filed here, as well as publications by friends and associates, including inscribed copies of works by Constantin Brancusi, Edwin Bjorkman, Frank Crowninshield, and Alice Garrett.

Exhibition Catalogs are found for Kuhn and other artists. Catalogs are occasionally annotated with reactions to artwork or other notes. For Kuhn catalogs marked with prices and/or buyers, see 4.4: S elected Gallery and Exhibition Files. For catalogs of the Armory Show, see Armory Show Records.

Clippings document Kuhn artwork and exhibitions, art institutions, art trends, collectors, other artists, Kuhn's other projects with the Union Pacific and theater, published life events of people known to the Kuhn's, articles written by friends, Walt Kuhn obituaries, and other miscellany. A significant portion of the clippings filed here are duplicated in other series.

Many of the periodicals in this series contain reproductions of Kuhn's artwork. Promotional Ephemera for Kuhn's publications, lectures, and other appearances are also filed here, along with circus programs and posters, and mailings on a range of subjects. Other printed materials are scattered throughout the collection. See individual series descriptions for details.

4.10:Artwork, 1906-1952

1.4 Linear feet

Box 23, 32, 57, OV 48-54

This series contains original drawings, sketches, and prints created by Walt Kuhn. See also Series 4.11: Photographs and Scrapbooks, for addtional artwork in scrapbooks.

Cartoons include bird cartoons published in Life and in the book A Little Bird Told Me (1908, see Printed Materials), personal cartoons by Vera and Walt Kuhn depicting themselves, and one sketch of the Kuhns attributed to the cartoonist Oscar Edward Cesare. Two sketchbooks from Kuhn's trips to the Western United States are found, as well as Kuhn family Christmas cards, with Walt Kuhn's linotype prints of western scenes. Kuhn's ongoing interest in the circus is seen in his notes, sketches, and ink drawings of clown acts from 1941, accompanied by a short essay by Kuhn entitled "Plan to Revitalize the Clown and Fun Problem of the Circus." Folders containing miscellaneous artwork include rough sketches and designs, as well as finished drawings and cartoons, mostly undated. Also found are three of Kuhn's copper printing plates, entitled "Man in Leotard," "Woman in Slip and Feathered Hat," and "Woman in Slip and Large Hat."

Illustrated letters, sketches, and cartoons are scattered throughout the collection. See individual series descriptions for more details. Copies of artwork in this series are marked as such and filed alongside originals. Reproductions of additional artwork are filed in Provenance Files and Photographs and Scrapbooks.

4.11:Photographs and Scrapbooks, 1859-1984

3.7 Linear feet

Box 23-26, 57, OV 55

This series contains individual photographs, notes, photograph albums, and scrapbooks of photographs and other materials, which depict Walt Kuhn, his family, friends and colleagues, homes and studios, art school, travel in the U.S. and Europe, works of art, and other miscellany.

Among the persons pictured are Walt, Vera, and Brenda Kuhn, LaSalle Spier, John Quinn, Frederick James Gregg, George Overbury "Pop" Hart, Gus Mager, William and Edith Glackens and family, Pablo Picasso, Cecil Howard, Jo Davidson, W. Averell and Marie Harriman, Gary Cooper, Otis Oldfield, Lily Cushing Emmet, Patsy Santo, and many of Kuhn's models. Also included are portraits of Kuhn by Frederic D. Pangborn and Edward Weston.

Scrapbooks (Volumes 5, 6, and 7) contain photographs, illustrated letters by Walt and Vera Kuhn, postcards to Vera's parents, real photo postcards, reproductions of early artwork of Walt Kuhn, and other ephemera. Illustrations depict Kit Kat Balls, the 23rd St. studio, and Fort Lee, NJ among other subjects. Many of the people and places depicted in albums and scrapbooks are also depicted in individual photographs, which are arranged within broad subject headings.

Selected subjects are noted in the inventory list, below. Additional photographs are scattered throughout the collection. Additional scrapbooks can be found among Armory Show Records, Kit Kat Club and Penguin Club Records, and Other Projects. Additional illustrated letters are found in Armory Show Records, Walt Kuhn Letters to Family, and Artwork. Refer to individual series descriptions for more details.

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