Finding Aid for the Chester and Maud Dale Papers, 1877–1975

Summary Information

Repository National Gallery of Art Archives

Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue, NW 

Washington, DC 20565 

archives@nga.gov

Title Chester and Maud Dale Papers, 1877–1975

Identifier SC.004 

Creator Dale, Chester, 1883–1962 

Dale, Maud, 1875-1953 

Dale, Mary Towar Bullard 

 

Date 1877–1975

Extent 12 cubic feet (28 boxes), 68 digital files

Abstract The Chester and Maud Dale Papers document Chester’s art collection, the 

couple’s art-related activities, and their biography. Materials consist of

newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, correspondence, notebooks, ephemera, 

and photographs. 

Biographical Note

1883 Chester Dale is born in New York City, 3 May 3, 1883.

1876 Maud Murray is born in Rochester, New York, June 25, 1876.

1893 Maud is enrolled at the Art Students League of New York.

1898 Maud marries Frederick M. Thompson, a Yale graduate and fellow art 

student.

1900 Chester becomes a runner for F. J. Lisman & Company, a Wall Street firm 

specializing in railroad securities.

1903 Chester becomes a securities trader on his own.

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1909 Chester becomes founding partner of William C. Langley & Company.

1911 Maud and Frederick divorce. Eight months later, Chester and Maud marry. 

Chester and Maud reside at 132 East 19th Street in Manhattan, known as the 

“Block Beautiful.”

1918 Chester and Maud move to 54 West 9th Street. Chester becomes a member 

of the New York Stock Exchange.

1924 Chester and Maud move to 103 East 75th Street.

1925 Chester and Maud move to the Park Lane Hotel, 299 Park Avenue at 48th

Street.

Maud’s exhibition Douze Décors de Théâtre is on view at Galerie J. Allard in 

Paris during October.

1926 Maud counsels Chester to focus his collecting on French art of the past 150 

years. 

With Maud’s guidance, Chester begins to buy in earnest, acquiring thirty

works at twenty-two different galleries and sales in Paris during May and 

June.

1927 Chester and Maud move to the Hotel Beverly, 125 East 50th Street. 

1928 Maud organizes the first show devoted entirely to works in the Chester 

Dale Collection, Loan Exhibition of Modern French Art from the Chester 

Dale Collection at Wildenstein Galleries in October.

 

Chester buys a share of the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris. 

1929 A catalogue of the Chester Dale Collection titled Before Manet to 

Modigliani in the Chester Dale Collection by Maud is published by Alfred A. 

Knopf.

 

Chester is elected to the Board of Trustees of the newly created 

Museum of Modern Art, New York. He resigns in 1931. 

1930 Chester funds the renovations for the new Museum of French Art on the 

third floor of the French Institute in the United States at 20-22 East 60th

Street and Maud is appointed head of the museum’s Exhibitions 

Committee.

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1931 The Museum of French Art opens in January. 

Four exhibitions organized by Maud are shown at the Museum of French 

Art during the year: Portraits of Women Loan Exhibition: Romanticism to 

Surrealism opens on January 20, Picasso-Braque-Léger opens February 22, 

Degas and His Tradition opens on March 17, and Renoir and His Tradition 

opens November 24.

Chester and Maud move to a penthouse apartment in the Carlyle Hotel, 35 

East 76th Street.

Maud receives the Cross of the Legion of Honor from the French 

Government.

1932 Maud organizes her final two exhibitions at the Museum of French Art: 

Fantin-Latour, which opens on January 12, and Derain-Vlaminck 

Comparative Exhibition, which opens on February 23.

Maud resigns as chairman of the Exhibitions Committee at the Museum of 

French Art.

1933 Maud organizes the exhibition Boldini 1845-1931 on view at Wildenstein & 

Co. in New York City in the spring. She also helps organize a major 

retrospective of Modigliani’s work at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels 

in the fall.

Chester purchases and renovates the five-story townhouse at 20 East 79th

Street. Maud installs the their art collection and Chester lives there until 

1942 while Maud remains at the Carlyle Hotel.

 

1935 Chester retires from William C. Langley & Company.

1941 Chester loans seven American paintings for the opening of the National 

Gallery of Art on March 17. In November, twenty-five additional 19th

century French paintings from the Chester Dale Collection are on display.

1942 In February, Chester loans an additional group of 16th–18th century European

paintings and numerous 19th century French works to the National Gallery. 

He supports war-time summer concerts at the museum.

Chester closes the house at 20 East 79th Street and moves to the Plaza 

Hotel, where he installs some fifty paintings and sculptures. Maud remains 

at the Carlyle Hotel.

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Chester is elected to the honorary position of Associate Vice President of 

the National Gallery of Art.

1943 Chester donates several American portraits and notable 16th–18th century 

European paintings, including Saint Jerome by El Greco and The Bath of 

Venus by François Boucherto the National Gallery. These are his first gifts 

to the museum.

Chester is elected a trustee of the National Gallery of Art. 

In the spring, Chester sends fifty-two 20th century French paintings on 

indefinite loan to the Art Institute of Chicago. Later in the year he loans

some forty works to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He becomes a trustee 

of both institutions.

1944 More than forty works from the Chester Dale Collection are anonymously 

sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries on March 15.

Chester donates Both Members of This Club, Portrait of Mrs. Dale, and 

Portrait of Mr. Dale by George Bellows to the National Gallery of Art. Both 

Members of This Club and Portrait of Mrs. Dale are placed on view in 

January 1945, exactly twenty years following the artist’s death.

 

1946 Chester anonymously sells more than fifty American and modern paintings 

at three auctions at Parke-Bernet Galleries in February and May. 

He anonymously sells nearly seventy 19th century French paintings at an 

auction at Plaza Art Galleries in October.

1951 In the fall, Chester recalls paintings from long-term loan at the Philadelphia 

Museum of Art and transfers them to the National Gallery of Art.

1952 In the spring Chester recalls his 20th century paintings from the Art 

Institute of Chicago and sends most to the National Gallery of Art.

He resigns from the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago and is 

named a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

1953 Maud dies in August in a nursing home in Southampton, New York. 

1954 Chester marries Mary Towar Bullard in May. She had served as Maud’s art 

secretary since 1928.

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Chester suffers a major heart attack in November.

1955 On October 18, Chester is elected President of the National Gallery of Art. 

1956 Chester resigns as a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

1962 Chester dies December 16, bequeathing the bulk of his collection to the 

National Gallery of Art. 

1965 National Gallery of Art holds an exhibition of the Chester Dale bequest 

from May to August.

Scope and Content

The Chester and Maud Dale Papers document the art activities of Chester and Maud Dale and the

formulation of the Chester Dale Collection. Maud encouraged and developed Chester’s interest in 

art and collecting. Of interest are the Artist and Dealer Files which include correspondence, 

invoices, bills of sale, inventories, shipping records, and other documentation; and collection 

notebooks which record information aboutthe purchase, provenance, reproduction, and 

exhibition history ofthe works of art in the Dale collection. 

A large portion of the papers consists of newspaper clippings, some of which are organized into 

scrapbooks. The clippings and scrapbooks document the couple’s social lives, Chester Dale’s 

business activities, Maud Dale’s involvement with the Museum of French Art, the Dale Collection, 

the National Gallery of Art, and general information about the art world such as exhibitions and 

sales. 

Of note are files relating specifically to Maud Dale’s art-related writings and activities, including 

her time as chairman of the Exhibitions Committee of the Museum of French Art from 1931-1932. 

Also included are files related to Chester Dale’s estate and two guest books documenting visitors

and notable individuals to the Dale residences. The papers also include photographs of the works 

of art in the Collection and their installation at the Plaza Hotel and in other venues, and images of 

the Dales and their residence.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged in the following series:

Series 1 Artist and Dealer Files, 1912–1963

Series 2 Chester Dale Collection Notebooks, undated

Series 3 Administrative Files, 1919–1975

Series 4 Newspaper Clippings and Printed Ephemera, 1921–1962 

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Series 5 Scrapbooks, 1877–1961 

Series 6 Maud Dale Files, 1928–1939 

Series 7 Photographs, 1934–1962

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access This collection is open for research by appointment under 

the conditions of the National Gallery of Art Archives 

Access Policy. For all inquiries or to schedule an 

appointment, please contact archives@nga.gov.

Preferred Citation National Gallery of Art Archives. Chester and Maud Dale 

Papers. 

Rights Status In copyright

Language English and French

 

Processing Information Arranged and described by archives staff, 1998-2023

Acquisition Acquired by the National Gallery of Art, circa 1963;

additional materials from Bridgette Mary Faupel, 2023. 

 

Related Archival Materials National Gallery of Art Archives. John Walker Papers - 

Walker Subject Files, 1937-1969. 

National Gallery of Art Archives. Central Files - Subject Files, 

1939-1970. 

 

The National Gallery Library holds numerous catalogs and 

art books given by Chester Dale.

Chester Dale papers, circa 1883-2003, bulk 1920-1970. 

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 

David E. Finley Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of 

Congress, Washington, D.C.

Series Descriptions

Series 1 Artist and Dealer Files, 1912–1963 [3 boxes]

The Artist and Dealer Files include correspondence, invoices, bills of sale, inventories, shipping 

records, and other documentation related to the Dales’ art collecting. There are several folders of 

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correspondence with art dealers Étienne Bignou and Paul Rosenberg. 

 

Series 2 Chester Dale Collection Notebooks, undated [1 box]

There are two collection notebooks in this series. One is noted as being started by Maud Dale and 

continued by Mary Dale. The creator of the second one is unknown. They both include purchase, 

provenance, reproduction, and exhibition information about works of art in the Chester Dale 

Collection. 

Series 3 Administrative Files, 1919–1975 [2 boxes]

The Administrative Files contain legal and financial records, with several folders related to 

Chester Dale’s estate, and some general correspondence. The two guest books in this series 

contain signatures of collectors, art historians, museum administrators, artists, and visitors of the 

Dales. The smaller in size of the two guest books includes signatures by Étienne Bignou, René 

Gimpel, Jean Lurçat, José Clemente Orozco, Arshile Gorky, and Martha Graham. The second 

volume includes signatures by Ambroise Vollard, Alice Halicka, Othon Friesz, Katherine Dreier, 

Pierre Roy, Marie Harriman, and Salvador Dalí. Dalí added a pen drawing to his signature.

 

Series 4 Newspaper Clippings and Printed Ephemera, 1921–1962 [3 boxes]

This series includes loose newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and various ephemera relating 

to the personal, social, and professional lives of Maud and Chester beginning in 1921. The clippings

include coverage of the Chester Dale Collection and the National Gallery of Art as well as general 

art topics such as auctions and exhibitions. 

Series 5 Scrapbooks, 1877–1961 [9 boxes] 

This series consists of scrapbooks primarily devoted to Maud and Chester Dale, the Chester Dale 

Collection, the National Gallery of Art, and other general art matters. The scrapbooks mostly 

contain newspaper clippings with a few other noteworthy items, including an autographed 

photograph of George Bellows, a photograph of Henri Matisse at the exhibition of his works at 

the Galerie Georges Petit in June 1931, and photographs of the exhibition opening dinner. One 

scrapbook was compiled for Maud Dale in 1933. Of particular note is also a family scrapbook that 

belonged to Chester’s father, Thomas Dale thatincludes information about the Dale family from 

around 1877 to the early twentieth century. Digital versions of select material available.

Series 6 Maud Dale Files, 1928–1939 [3 boxes]

The Maud Dale Files series contains writings, press clippings, exhibition catalogues, 

correspondence, and other documents reflecting Maud Dale’s activities at the Museum of French 

Art in New York and her other art-related interests. Maud wrote short prefaces to about twenty 

art books and brochures as well as about a dozen articles in newspapers and periodicals between 

1928 and 1933 on the topics of modern French art, romanticism, impressionism, George Sand, 

Josef Stránský, and Amedeo Modigliani, of whom she helped to organize a retrospective 

exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1933. During her time as chairman of the 

Exhibitions Committee of the Museum of French Art from 1931-1932, she organized the following 

exhibitions: Portraits of Women Loan Exhibition: Romanticism to Surrealism; Picasso-Braque-Léger; 

Degas and His Tradition; Renoir and His Tradition; Fantin-Latour and Derain-Vlaminck 

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Comparative Exhibition. 

Maud had studied art in Paris with Theophile A. Steinlen, a disciple of Honoré Daumier. She also 

made stage designs, which were shown in the exhibition Douze Décors de Théâtre in Paris in 1925 

and in New York in 1926. A poster for the exhibition can be found in this series.

A small group of theater prints and illustrations collected by Maud Dale is also included. Most of 

the prints are devoted to opera singer María García Malibran (1808–1836) as well as portraits of 

English and American tragedians from the first part of the nineteenth century and illustrations of 

American theaters from that period. 

Series 7 Photographs, 1934–1962 [7 boxes] 

The photographs in this series depict the Dales and their friends, the Chester Dale Collection as 

installed in Chester’s apartment at the Plaza Hotel from around1956, and views of the 

Southhampton, New York residence. There are also many photographs of works of art owned by 

Chester Dale including some sold at auction in 1944 and 1946 or otherwise disposed of, as well as 

many that remained in the Chester Dale Collection throughout his lifetime. Among the works of 

art images are installation views. For conservation purposes, negatives and color transparencies 

are stored separately. Select photographs in this series have been digitized and are available to 

researchers. 

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Chester and Maud Dale Papers

Series 1 Artist and Dealer Files, 1912–1963

Box 1

1-1 Allard Galerie, 1925–1931

1-2 American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1926–1935

1-3 Bellows, George, 1921–1954

1-4 Georges Bernheim et Cie., 1926–1933

1-5 Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., 1930–1932

1-6 Bignou, Étienne, 1927–1929

1-7 Bignou, Étienne, 1930

1-8 Bignou, Étienne, 1931

1-9 Bignou, Étienne, 1932

1-10 Bignou, Étienne, 1933–1949

1-11 Bignou, Étienne, undated

1-12 Bing et Cie., 1929

1-13 Bordereau d'Adjudication, 1924–1934

1-14 Boucher, François, undated

1-15 Boudin, Eugène, 1926–1951

1-16 Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 1930

1-17 Ernest Brown and Phillips, Ltd., 1927

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1-18 Bunzl, Lucille C., 1932

1-19 Carstairs Gallery, 1951–1959

1-20 Cassatt, Mary, 1928–1930

1-21 Cézanne, Paul, 1927–1932

1-22 Chardin, Jean Siméon, undated

1-23 Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, 1928–1937

Box 2

2-1 Courbet, Gustave, 1929

2-2 Dalí, Salvador, undated

2-3 David, Gerard, undated

2-4 Dru, Lucien, 1926–1927

2-5 Du Bois, Guy Pène, 1921–1938

2-6 Dudensing Galleries, 1926–1931

2-7 Dufeu, Edouard-Jacques, 1929

2-8 Durand-Ruel, 1926–1937

2-9 El Greco, 1931

2-10 Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1931–1932

2-11 Ferargil Galleries, 1927

2-12 Forain, Jean-Louis, 1926

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2-13 Gogh, Vincent van, 1926–1930

2-14 Gromaire, Marcel, 1929

2-15 Guillaume, Paul, 1928–1929

2-16 Harris, Thomas, 1931–1932

2-17 M. Knoedler and Co., 1927–1954

2-18 Kraushaar, C.W., 1920–1932

2-19 Lepoutre, C., 1928

2-20 Manet, Édouard, 1925–1932

2-21 Matignon Art Galleries, Inc., 1950

2-22 Matisse, Henri, 1928–1929

2-23 Michaelsen Gallery, 1938–1940

2-24 Modigliani, Amedeo, 1927–1959

2-25 Monet, Claude, undated

2-26 G. McKay Morant and Co., 1930

2-27 National Art Galleries, Inc., 1931

2-28 Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1939–1961

2-29 Galeries Georges Petit, 1920–1934

2-30 Picasso, Pablo, 1931–1938

2-31 Pichetto, Stephen S., 1931–1940

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2-32 The Plaza Art Auction Galleries, Inc., 1927–1938

2-33 Le Portique, 1930

2-34 Rains Galleries, 1935–1937

2-35 Alex Reid and Lefevre, Ltd., 1927–1936

2-36 Reid, Robert, 1924

Box 3

3-1 Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 1928–1934

3-2 Roerich Museum, 1927–1928

3-3 Rosenbach Company, 1927

3-4 Rosenberg, Paul, 1912–1931

3-5 Rosenberg, Paul, 1932–1933

3-6 Rosenberg, Paul, 1934–1952, undated

3-7 Silo, James P., 1925–1932

3-8 Sterner, Marie, 1930

3-9 Stuart, Gilbert, undated

3-10 Thaulow, Fritz, undated

3-11 Utrillo, Maurice and Vlaminck, Maurice de, undated

3-12 Weitzner, Julius H., 1937–1954

3-13 Wildenstein and Co., 1926–1936

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3-14 Zak, Eugene, 1927

3-15 Zuloaga, Ignacio, 1927–1951

3-16 Zurbaran, Francisco de (Ehrich Galleries), 1934

3-17 Catalog - French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection (National Gallery of Art), 1941

Catalog - Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection (National Gallery of

Art), 1942

Includes inscription to Louise Marock.

3-18

Catalog - Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection (Philadelphia Museum of Art), 1943

Includes inscription to Louise Marock.

3-19

3-20 Correspondence - art, 1928–1963

Drawing of Chester Dale by unknown artist, undated

Includes inscription "Nova Scotia Salmon" with artist's illegible signature.

3-21

3-22 Exhibition and loan records, 1924–1945

3-23 Inventories, 1952

3-24 Shipping records, 1920–1929

3-25 Shipping records, 1930–1951

Series 2 Chester Dale Collection Notebooks, undated

Box 1

1-1 Chester Dale Collection notebook - A to K (notes by Maud Dale and Mary Dale), undated

1-2 Chester Dale Collection notebook - L to Z (notes by Maud Dale and Mary Dale), undated

1-3 Chester Dale Collection notebook - A to K (miscellaneous artists), undated

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Chester and Maud Dale Papers

1-4 Chester Dale Collection notebook - L to Z (miscellaneous artists), undated

Series 3 Administrative Files, 1919–1975

Box 1

1-1 Correspondence - general, 1928–1962

1-2 Dale, Chester estate - appraisal, 1963

1-3 Dale, Chester estate - appraisal, draft copies, 1963

1-4 Dale, Chester estate - general, 1962–1975

1-5 Dale, Chester estate - Account of Proceedings, 1964

1-6 Legal and financial files - general, 1919–1962

Box 2

2-1 Guest book, undated

2-2 Guest book, circa 1937–1963

Series 4 Newspaper Clippings and Printed Ephemera, 1921–1962

Box 1

1-1 Newspaper clippings, 1921–1925

1-2 Newspaper clippings, 1926

1-3 Newspaper clippings, 1927

1-4 Newspaper clippings, 1928

1-5 Newspaper clippings, 1929

1-6 Newspaper clippings, 1930

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1-7 Newspaper clippings, 1931

1-8 Newspaper clippings, 1932

1-9 Newspaper clippings, 1933

1-10 Newspaper clippings, February 1933

1-11 Newspaper clippings, April 1933

1-12 Newspaper clippings, May 1933

1-13 Newspaper clippings, June 1933

1-14 Newspaper clippings, July 1933

1-15 Newspaper clippings, September 1933

1-16 Newspaper clippings, October 1933

1-17 Newspaper clippings, November 1933

1-18 Newspaper clippings, December 1933

1-19 Newspaper clippings, 1934

1-20 Newspaper clippings, January 1934

1-21 Newspaper clippings, February 1934

1-22 Newspaper clippings, April 1934

1-23 Newspaper clippings, May 1934

1-24 Newspaper clippings, June 1934

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Chester and Maud Dale Papers

Box 2

2-1 Newspaper clippings, July 1934

2-2 Newspaper clippings, December 1934

2-3 Newspaper clippings, 1935

2-4 Newspaper clippings, March 1935

2-5 Newspaper clippings, April 1935

2-6 Newspaper clippings, May 1935

2-7 Newspaper clippings, September 1935

2-8 Newspaper clippings, October 1935

2-9 Newspaper clippings, November 1935

2-10 Newspaper clippings, December 1935

2-11 Newspaper clippings, 1936

2-12 Newspaper clippings, January 1936

2-13 Newspaper clippings, February 1936

2-14 “The Chester Dale Collection” by Henry McBride (Washington Post), 16 February 1936

2-15 Newspaper clippings, April 1936

2-16 Newspaper clippings, May 1936

2-17 Newspaper clippings, July 1936

2-18 Newspaper clippings, September 1936

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2-19 Newspaper clippings, November 1936

2-20 Newspaper clippings, 1937

2-21 Newspaper clippings, January 1937

2-22 Newspaper clippings, February 1937

2-23 Newspaper clippings, March 1937

2-24 Newspaper clippings, April 1937

2-25 Newspaper clippings, May 1937

2-26 “The Renoirs in America” by Henry McBride (Art News), 1 May 1937

2-27 Newspaper clippings, August 1937

2-28 Newspaper clippings, October 1937

2-29 Newspaper clippings, November 1937

2-30 Newspaper clippings, December 1937

2-31 Newspaper clippings, 1938

2-32 Newspaper clippings, February 1938

2-33 Newspaper clippings, March 1938

2-34 Newspaper clippings, August 1938

2-35 Newspaper clippings, October 1938

2-36 Newspaper clippings, December 1938

2-37 Newspaper clippings, 1939

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2-38 Newspaper clippings, January 1939

2-39 Newspaper clippings, February 1939

2-40 Newspaper clippings, March 1939

2-41 Newspaper clippings, April 1939

2-42 Newspaper clippings, May 1939

2-43 Newspaper clippings, July 1939

2-44 Newspaper clippings, November 1939

2-45 Newspaper clippings, 1940

2-46 Newspaper clippings, January 1940

2-47 Newspaper clippings, March 1940

2-48 Newspaper clippings, April 1940

Box 3

3-1 Newspaper clippings, September 1940

3-2 Newspaper clippings, November 1940

3-3 Newspaper clippings, March 1941

3-4 Newspaper clippings, June–July 1941

3-5 Newspaper clippings, November 1941

3-6 Newspaper clippings, December 1941

3-7 Newspaper clippings, January 1942

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3-8 Newspaper clippings, February 1942

3-9 Newspaper clippings, March 1942

3-10 Newspaper clippings, April 1942

3-11 Newspaper clippings, June 1942

3-12 Newspaper clippings, August 1942

3-13 Newspaper clippings, September 1942

3-14 Newspaper clippings, October 1942

3-15 Newspaper clippings, November 1942

3-16 Newspaper clippings, December 1942

3-17 Newspaper clippings, January 1943

3-18 National Gallery of Art 10th anniversary, March 1951

3-19 Kress Collection, February–March 1956

3-20 National Gallery of Art 15th anniversary, March 1956

3-21 “The Private Treasures of Chester Dale” (Vogue), 1 August 1956

A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows (National Gallery of Art, 19 January–24

February 1957), 1957

3-22

Queen Elizabeth II, October 1957

Includes press releases, letters, and plans describing the itinerary of Queen Elizabeth’s visit to the

National Gallery of Art

3-23

Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting (National Gallery of Art, 25 April–24

May 1959), 1959

Includes correspondence from John Walker to Chester Dale

3-24

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3-25 Timken, Lillian G., May 1960

3-26 National Gallery of Art, September 1961–October 1962

Series 5 Scrapbooks, 1877–1961

Box 1

Dale family scrapbook, 1877–1910

Scrapbook inscribed: “Thos. W. Dale. Christmas 1877. With kindest love from his affectionate Wife

Jane."

Box 2

Scrapbook, May 1917–March 1926

Includes an autographed photograph of George Bellows, p. 9

Box 3

Scrapbook, February 1925–December 1930

Includes an autographed photograph of Jean Lurçat, p.181

Box 4

Scrapbook, January 1931–July 1932

Includes an autographed photograph of Henri Matisse at the exhibition of his works at the Galerie

Georges Petit, June 1931, p. 82, and two photographs of the dinner at the exhibition opening, p. 83.

Digital versions of select material available.

Box 5

Scrapbook, April 1931–May 1937

Box 6

Scrapbook, May 1937–October 1946

Box 7

Scrapbook, December 1947–February 1958

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Box 8

Scrapbook, 1933

Box 9

Scrapbook, 1941–1961

Includes clippings concerning the Dale Collection at the National Gallery of Art, November

1941-May 1949, and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 1943-April 1951, as well as loose

clippings

Series 6 Maud Dale Files, 1927–1939

Box 1

1-1 Correspondence, 1927–1931

1-2 Correspondence, 1932–1933

1-3 Correspondence, 1935–1940

Exhibitions - One Hundred Years of French Portraits from the Chester Dale Collection (The Museum

of French Art, New York), 1928

1-4

1-5 Exhibitions - Cham and La Gravure Moderne (The Museum of French Art, New York), 1930

Exhibitions - Portraits of Women, Degas and His Tradition, and Renoir and His Tradition (The

Museum of French Art, New York), 1931

1-6

1-7 Exhibitions - Fantin-Latour (The Museum of French Art, New York), 1932

1-8 Exhibitions - Modigliani (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels), 1933

1-9 Exhibitions - other, 1929–1939

1-10 Exhibition histories and bibliographies for various artists, undated

1-11 Newspaper clippings - notebook I, 1928–1932

1-12 Newspaper clippings - notebook II, 1931

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1-13 Newspaper clippings - notebook III, 1931–1933

Newspaper clippings and printed ephemera - politics and business, undated

Includes two 1925 offers of securities

1-14

1-15 Writings, undated

Box 2

2-1 Poster - Douze Décors de Théâtre (Galerie J. Allard, Paris, 14–24 October 1925), 1925

2-2 Posters - Christmas greetings, 1923 and 1928

Box 3

3-1 Theater prints and illustrations, undated

Series 7 Photographs, 1934–1962

Box 1

1-1 Dale, Chester, undated

Dale, Chester in front of his portrait by Salvador Dalí in the Plaza Hotel apartment, New York,

undated

Digital versions available. Negatives and color transparencies only, stored separately.

1-2

1-3 Dale, Chester and Mary with friends in Palm Beach, December 1962

1-4 Dale, Chester and Mary, undated

Dale, Chester and Mary at the Southampton, New York residence, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives stored separately.

1-5

Dale, Chester and Mary with Coco at the Southampton, New York residence, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-6

Dale, Chester and Coco in the gardens at the Southampton, New York residence, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives stored separately.

1-7

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1-8 Dale, Chester and Hinkle, John, undated

1-9 Dale, Chester and Hoy, Paul, undated

1-10 Dale, Chester and Marock, Louise at the Southampton Beach Club, July 1960

1-11 Dale, Maud, 1934

Dale residence - 20 East 79th Street apartment, New York, undated

Negatives only, stored separately. A complete photo album of the 79th Street residence is available

online on the Archives of American Art Web site.

1-12

Dale residence - Plaza Hotel apartment, New York - bedroom, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives and color transparencies stored separately.

1-13

Dale residence - Plaza Hotel apartment, New York - den, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives and color transparencies stored separately.

1-14

Dale residence - Plaza Hotel apartment, New York - library, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives and color transparencies stored separately.

1-15

Dale residence - Plaza Hotel apartment, New York - living room, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives and color transparencies stored separately.

1-16

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - driveway, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-17

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - exterior front, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives stored separately.

1-18

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - exterior rear, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-19

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - exterior guest house, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-20

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - patio with umbrellas, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-21

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Dale residence - Southampton, New York - view of gardens from interior, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-22

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - bedroom #1, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-23

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - bedroom #2, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-24

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - bedroom #3, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-25

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - bedroom #4, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-26

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - dining room, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-27

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - Florida room, undated

Negatives stored separately.

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Dale residence - Southampton, New York - hallway #1, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-29

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - hallway #2, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-30

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - living room, 1929

Negatives only, stored separately.

1-31

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - living room, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-32

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - rear foyer, undated

Negatives stored separately.

1-33

Dale residence - Southampton, New York - sitting room, undated

Negatives stored separately.

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Dale residence - Southampton, New York - study, undated

Negatives stored separately.

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Box 2

Exhibition - Modern French Art from the Chester Dale Collection for the Benefit of the French

Hospital of New York (Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 8–28 October 1928), 1928

Negatives only, stored separately.

2-1

Exhibition - "La Nature Morte" from Chardin to the Abstract: A Show for Comparison Illustrated by

Examples from the Chester Dale Collection (Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 11–30 January 1930),

1930

Negatives only, stored separately.

2-2

Exhibition - Portraits of Women Loan Exhibition: Romanticism to Surrealism (Museum of French Art,

New York, 20 January–February 1931), 1931

Negatives only, stored separately.

2-3

Exhibition - An Exhibition of American Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection (The Union

League Club, New York, 13–28 January 1937), 1937

Negatives only, stored separately.

2-4

Exhibition - Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection (Art Institute of Chicago),

March 1943 (folder 1 of 3)

Negatives stored separately.

2-5

Exhibition - Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection (Art Institute of Chicago),

March 1943 (folder 2 of 3)

Negatives stored separately.

2-6

Exhibition - Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection (Art Institute of Chicago),

March 1943 (folder 3 of 3)

Negatives stored separately.

2-7

2-8 Picasso, Pablo, undated

2-9 Reber, Gottlieb Friedrich, undated

2-10 People - unidentified, undated

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2-11 Places - Mexico, undated

Work of art - Audubon, John James, undated

Digital version available only. Deteriorating negative disposed of and replaced with digital scan.

2-12

2-13 Work of art - Beckwith, James Carroll, undated

2-14 Work of art - Bécquer, Joaquín Domínguez, undated

2-15 Work of art - Bella, Gabriel, undated

Works of art - Bellows, George, undated

Digital version available. Negatives stored separately.

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2-17 Works of art - Cabrera, Miguel, undated

2-18 Work of art - Carolus-Duran, Charles Emile Auguste, undated

2-19 Works of art - Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, undated

2-20 Work of art - Carrière, Eugène, undated

2-21 Work of art - Chase, William Merritt, undated

Work of art - Clivette, Merton, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

2-22

2-23 Work of art - Clouet, François (attributed), undated

2-24 Work of art - Cocteau, Jean, undated

Work of art - Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

2-25

Work of art - Couture, Thomas, undated

Digital version available. Negatives stored separately.

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2-27 Work of art - David, Jacques-Louis, undated

2-28 Works of art - Domergue, Jean-Gabriel, undated

Work of art - Drian, Etienne, undated

Digital version available only. Deteriorating negative disposed of and replaced with digital scan.

2-29

Works of art - Du Bois, Guy Pène, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives only, stored separately.

2-30

2-31 Work of art - Eilshemius, Louis, undated

Works of art - Fantin-Latour, Henri, undated

Digital versions available only. Deteriorating negatives disposed of and replaced with digital scan.

2-32

Works of art - Farkas, Etienne, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives only, stored separately.

2-33

2-34 Work of art - Feke, Robert, undated

2-35 Work of art - Fernández, Juan Hidalgo Linares, undated

2-36 Works of art - Flemish 16th Century artists, undated

2-37 Work of art - Forain, Jean-Louis, undated

2-38 Work of art - Francken, Frans, II, undated

2-39 Works of art - French School 18th Century artists, undated

2-40 Work of art - Fresnaye, Roger de la, undated

Works of art - Galdou, Jean, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives only, stored separately.

2-41

2-42 Work of art - Gavarni, Paul, undated

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2-43 Works of art - German 16th Century artists, undated

Work of art - Guillaumin, Jean Baptiste Armand, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

2-44

2-45 Work of art - Harding, Chester, undated

Work of art - Harpignies, Henri, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

2-46

2-47 Work of art - Homer, Winslow, undated

2-48 Work of art - Julien, Bernard Romain, undated

2-49 Work of art - King, Charles B. (attributed to), undated

Box 3

Work of art - Kisling, Moise, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-1

Work of art - Kronberg, Louis, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-2

3-3 Work of art - Lami, Eugène Louis, undated

3-4 Work of art - Léger, Fernand, undated

Works of art - Lhote, André, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives only, stored separately. Two deteriorating nitrate negatives

disposed of and replaced with digital scan.

3-5

3-6 Work of art - Loo, Charles André van, undated

Works of art - Manet, Edouard, undated

Digital version available only. Deteriorating negative disposed of and replaced with digital scan.

3-7

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Work of art - Matisse, Henri, undated

Digital version available. Negatives stored separately.

3-8

3-9 Works of art - McKillop, William, undated

Work of art - Menardeau, Maurice, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-10

Works of art - Modigliani, Amedeo, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives stored separately.

3-11

Work of art - Monticelli, Adolph J. T., undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-12

3-13 Works of art - Moro, Antonio, undated

Works of art - Moroni, Giovanni Battista, undated

Digital version available. Deteriorating negative disposed of and replaced with digital scan.

3-14

3-15 Works of art - Murillo, Bartolomé Estebán, undated

3-16 Work of art - Neagle, John, undated

3-17 Work of art - Oudot, Roland, undated

Work of art - Pavil, Elie, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-18

3-19 Works of art - Picasso, Pablo, undated

3-20 Work of art - Pisanello (in the style of), undated

Work of art - Pissarro, Camille, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-21

Works of art - Renoir, Pierre Auguste, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-22

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3-23 Works of art - Rubens, Peter Paul, undated

3-24 Work of art - Ryder, Albert P., undated

3-25 Work of art - Sargent, John Singer, undated

Works of art - Stevens, Alfred, undated

Digital versions available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-26

3-27 Work of art - Stuart, Gilbert, undated

Work of art - Sully, Thomas, undated

Digital version available only. Deteriorating negative disposed of and replaced with digital scan.

3-28

3-29 Works of art - Theus, Jeremiah, undated

3-30 Works of art - Tondu, André Paul Henri, undated

Work of art - Toulouse Lautrec, Henri de, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-31

3-32 Work of art - Utrillo, Maurice, undated

Work of art - Johannes Vetten, undated

Digital version available. Negatives only, stored separately.

3-33

3-34 Works of art - Vuillard, Edouard, undated

3-35 Work of art - Whistler, James McNeill, undated

3-36 Works of art - Willette, Adolphe Leon, undated

3-37 Work of art - Zendejas, Miguel, undated

3-38 Works of art - unidentified, undated

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