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Robert Rosenblum Papers

Archives of American Art

Object Details

Creator
Rosenblum, Robert
Names
Columbia University -- Faculty
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Musée d'Orsay
National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
New York University -- Faculty
Princeton University -- Faculty
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
University of Michigan -- Faculty
Yale University -- Faculty
Becraft, Melvin E.
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867
Kramer, Hilton
Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978
Rosenquist, James, 1933-
Occupation
Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York
Art museum curators
Topic
Art -- Study and teaching
Art -- 19th century
Art -- 18th century
Painting, Modern
Portraits
Dogs in art
Painting, French
Photographs
Educators -- New York (State) -- New York
Provenance
The papers were donated in multiple accessions by Robert Rosenblum between 1986 and 2003, and by his widow, Jane Kaplowitz between 2010 and 2013.
Creator
Rosenblum, Robert
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Robert Rosenblum Papers
Sponsor
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Summary
The papers of art historian, curator, and professor Robert Rosenblum measure 38.3 linear feet and 1.17 GB and date from circa 1927 to 2009, with the bulk dating from 1950 to 2006. They include biographical material, extensive personal and professional correspondence; lectures, writings, and writing project files by Rosenblum and others; exhibition files; research reference files; teaching files; personal business records; printed and digital material; photographs; and artwork.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006) was an art historian, curator, and professor who worked primarily in New York City. Rosenblum received his B.A. from Queens College, his M.A. from Yale, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Art at New York University in 1956. He spent a year teaching art at the University of Michigan before becoming an associate professor at Princeton, ultimately accepting a Professor of Fine Arts position at NYU in 1966, where he spent the rest of his professorial career interspersed with visiting professorships at Oxford University and Yale University. Rosenblum was named Henry Ittleson, Jr. Professor of Modern European Art at NYU in 1976, and received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1981. After being appointed Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of 20th-Century Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1996, Rosenblum went on to curate such exhibitions as 1900: Art at the Crossroads (2000) and Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People (2001). Prior to this appointment, he was one of the organizers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's French Painting, 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution (1974). He received a Distinguished Teaching Award from NYU in 2005, and continued to curate, lecture, teach, and write. Rosenblum was a prolific author, and his seminal works include: Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art (1959), Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art (1967), Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko (1975), and 19th-Century Art (co-authored with H.W. Janson, 1984). Rosenblum married Jane Kaplowitz in 1978. He died in New York City in 2006.
Extent
38.3 Linear feet
1.17 Gigabytes
Date
circa 1927-2009
bulk 1950-2006
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.roserobe
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Gigabytes
Video recordings
Collages
Sound recordings
Sketches
Interviews
Transcripts
Citation
Robert Rosenblum Papers, circa 1927-2009, bulk 1950-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as 11 series. Series 1: Biographical Material, 1927-2006 (0.5 linear feet; Box 1, 1.00 GB; ER02) Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1927-2006 (4.5 linear feet; Boxes 1-5) Series 3: Lectures, Writings, and Writing Project Files, 1940-2006 (13.5 linear feet; Boxes 5-16, OV 39-41, 0.063 GB; ER01) Series 4: Writings by Others, circa 1954-2006 (2.9 linear feet; Boxes 16-19) Series 5: Exhibition Files, circa 1965-circa 2006 (5.2 linear feet; Boxes 19-24, 0.109 GB; ER03) Series 6: Research Files, circa 1927-2006 (2.9 linear feet; Boxes 24-27) Series 7: Teaching Files and Class Notes, 1955-2006 (4.3 linear feet; Boxes 27-31) Series 8: Personal Business Records, 1951-2009 (4.4 linear feet; Boxes 31-36) Series 9: Printed Material, 1927-2009 (2.4 linear feet; Boxes 36-38) Series 10: Photographs, circa 1950s-circa 2000 (0.3 linear feet; Box 38, OV 41) Series 11: Artwork, circa 1940s-circa 1980s (0.1 linear feet; Box 38)
Processing Information
Multiple accessions were merged, processed, and a finding aid prepared by Anna Rimel in 2017 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The Archives of American Art has implemented accelerated processing when possible to increase information about and access to more of our collections. For this collection, accelerated processing included arrangement to the series, subseries and folder levels, adhering to the creator's original arrangement as much as possible. Generally, folder contents were simply verified with the original folder titles, but items within folders were not arranged further. All materials were rehoused in archival folders and boxes for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. Born-digital records were processed by Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner in 2019 with funding provided by Smithsonian Collection Care and Preservation Fund.
Rights
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Genre/Form
Video recordings
Collages
Sound recordings
Sketches
Interviews
Transcripts
Scope and Contents
The papers of art historian, curator, and professor Robert Rosenblum measure 38.3 linear feet and 1.17 GB and date from circa 1927 to 2009, with the bulk dating from 1950 to 2006. They include biographical material, extensive personal and professional correspondence; lectures, writings, and writing project files by Rosenblum and others; exhibition files; research reference files; teaching files; personal business records; printed and digital material; photographs; and artwork. Biographical materials include Rosenblum's bibliography and resume materials, various school related ephemera and diplomas, a transcript of an interview with Amy Newman for Artforum, and a digital video recording of a Josef Levi interview. Extensive personal and professional correspondence is with friends, family, colleagues, publishers, museums, and others. Some of the correspondents include Melvin Becraft, the Guggenheim, Harry Abrams, Inc., Hilton Kramer, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Museum of American Art. Also found are numerous postcards. Lectures, writings, and writing project files document Rosenblum's prolific writing and speaking career, and include notes, copies, and manuscript drafts of lectures, articles, catalog essays, and books, as well as additional materials related to the writings and the publication of books, such as as correspondence, editing feedback, photographs, and lists of photographs. There are manuscript, notes, and other materials related to many of Rosenblum's notable books, including Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art, Paintings in the Musee D'Orsay, 19th-Century Art, The Dog in Art, Ingres, Modern Painting and the Northern Tradition, and others. Also found are Rosenblum's dissertation and other student writings. There is also a series containing writings by or about others, such as students and colleagues. Rosenblum planned and facilitated numerous exhibitions that are well-documented within the exhibition files, including French Painting, 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution (1974), 1900: Art at the Crossroads (2000), Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People (2001), Best in Show: Dogs in Art from the Renaissance to the Present (2006), and Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830 (2007), among many others. Contents of each exhibition file vary considerably but often include correspondence, lists of artwork, proposals, notes, catalog drafts and outlines (see also series 3), and printed materials. There are a few sound cassettes, including a recorded interview with James Rosenquist with transcripts. Also included are digital photographs of Norman and Irma Braman Collection exhibition. Research reference files cover a wide variety of art related topics, but are arranged within a separate series because they are not related to specific named projects as are the files in Series 3. These files contain research notes, bibliographies, and syllabi kept by Rosenblum presumably for a variety of publications, research interests, and teaching references. Teaching files and class notes document Rosenblum's professorial career at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, University of Michigan, Yale College, and Yale University, and include a variety of course materials. Personal business records consist of various financial and legal documents, expense and income records, publishing and speaking contracts, and royalties received. The papers also include a variety of printed materials, photographs, student sketches by Rosenblum, and an unidentified collage.
Restrictions
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Use of archival audiovisual recordings and electronic media with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1562716206932-1562716206970-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw970afc1c5-b9cd-476e-832c-4384b08f1100

In the Collection

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  • Publishing Contracts and Royalties, Picasso

  • Heyd, Milly

  • Notes, Modern Music

  • Leighton, Patricia

  • Publishing Contracts and Royalties, Modern Painting and Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko

  • Lang, Jack, French Minister of Culture

  • Catalog Essay Projects, Proposed, André Raffray Artwork

  • Articles, Architectural Digest Manuscripts

  • Louis Phillipe Show (circa 1976)

  • 19th-Century Art, Notes and Reference Materials

  • "Reynolds in an International Milieu," in Reynolds by Nicholas Penny

  • Notes, Queens College General Notes

  • Bibliographies

  • Carpenter, Joan

  • Catalog Essays

  • Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay, Correspondence and Reviews

  • Student Papers

  • Books Requested, List with Call Numbers

  • McVaugh, Robert E.

  • Robert Colescott Biennale Exhibition (1997)

  • Paper, "American Archaeological Periodicals: 1870-1950"

  • Make-Up Exams

  • Course Materials, Seminar, Picasso Reconsidered

  • General Notes and Course Materials

  • Course Materials, Neoclassicism and Romanticism

  • Student Materials, Yale University Summer Session

  • Twentieth Century Art, United States General Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art, Notes and Outlines

  • Essay Notes, "Fortuné Dufau"

  • Course Materials, Seminar, Problems in 19th Century Architecture

  • Savings Register, Lillian Rosenblum

  • "Warhol as Art History," Museum of Modern Art

  • Looking Backwards: American Art at the Century's End (circa 2000)

  • In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting, Digital Presentation

  • Unidentified Authors, Manuscript Drafts and Pages

  • Ingres, Clippings

  • Time Magazine, Delacroix

  • Morphet, Richard

  • Artwork for Unidentified Publication

  • Alexander Runciman's, The Origin of Painting

  • Artwork and Photo Attribution Queries

  • General Correspondence

  • Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection (1999)

  • Text Reproduction Requests, Posthumous

  • Expenses, Summer in Europe

  • Books

  • "The New York Ten"

  • Breton, André

  • "Ingres and Official Painting," Ingres Colloquium

  • Picasso and the Spanish Tradition

  • Detroit Institute of Arts

  • Essay Catalog and Seminar Project, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

  • Invoice, Roy Lichtenstein Painting Purchase

  • Lawyers

  • General Correspondence

  • Lewitt, Sol and Jasper Johns Reference Materials

  • Legal Materials, Hirshhorn Luncheon Case

  • Books

  • Notes, Baroque Painting

  • Unidentified Mixed Media Collage

  • Catalog Project, Mike Bidlo's Artwork

  • PhD Notes and Papers

  • Guggenheim Museum Curatorship Appointment

  • Publishing Contracts and Royalties, 19th Century Art

  • Strasbourg International Conference

  • Contract, American Society for 18th Century Studies

  • Published Articles and Essays, General

  • New York University

  • French Painting, 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution (1974)

  • Literary Agent Agreements and Contracts, Maxine Grofsky

  • Artwork, Transparencies

  • Manuscript Drafts and Notes, Chapter 4 and Lecture 4

  • Bibliographies, The Arts in American Civilization Conference

  • Contract, Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection

  • Faith and Fantasy: Gustave Doré Exhibition (circa 2007)

  • Notes

  • New York University

  • Notes, Medieval Art and Architecture

  • Photograph Purchases and Reproductions

  • August Strindberg, Lecture and Manuscript Drafts

  • Income Documentation

  • Essay Project, Picasso and the Marie-Thérèse Period

  • Correspondence and Reviews

  • Staley, Earl

  • Synkov, Nikolay

  • Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay, Photo Lists and Notes for Commentaries

  • The Robert and Jane Rosenblum Trust

  • "New Art and Old Art History," Skowhegan

  • Publishing Contracts and Royalties, Various

  • Course Materials, Seminar, Romantic Art and Its Heritage

  • The Dog in Art: From Rocco to Post-Modernism, Contract

  • Cohen-Solal, Annie

  • Manuscript Drafts and Notes, Chapter 8 and Lecture 8

  • "Aparicio's Epidémie D'Espagne at the Salon of 1806"

  • National Museum of American Art

  • Course Materials, French Painting, 1789-1799

  • David, Jacques-Louis, "Subject Pictures"

  • Biographical Material

  • Art 1848-1900, Notes and Outlines

  • Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art, Manuscript Drafts

  • Exhibitions by Others, The Figure: Another Side of Modernism (2001)

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