Title: Papers of Agnes Mongan,
Authors: Mongan, Agnes; Mongan, Agnes; Mongan, Elizabeth.
Year: 1914
Subjects: Mongan, Agnes; Ames, Winslow.; Carré, Louis.; Curtiss, Mina Stein Kirstein,; Francis, Henry S.; Howe, Thomas Carr,; Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique,; Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood,; Kirstein, Lincoln,; McAndrew, John,; Mongan, Charles Edward,; Mongan, Charles Edward,; Mongan, Elizabeth.; Mongan, John Anthony.; Mongan, Norman.; Mongan, Teresa O'Brien,; Sachs, Paul J.; Smith, Myron Bement,; Warburg, Edward M. M.; Fogg Art Museum.; Harvard University.; Harvard University Art collections.; Lyman Allyn Museum.; National Gallery of Art (U.S); Smith College.; Bryn Mawr College Alumni and alumnae.; Smith College Alumni and alumnae.; Art Study and teaching History; Art historians Massachusetts Cambridge.; Arts administrators United States.; College art museums Massachusetts Cambridge.; Drawing, French.; Drawing Study and teaching History; Museums Administration.; Women educators United States.; Women in the professions United States; Women museum curators United States.; Voyages and travels; Asia Social life and customs; Europe Social life and customs; Cambridge (Mass.) Social life and customs; United States Social life and customs
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, writings on Jean-August-Dominique Ingres and French drawings, travel material, financial and health-related records, college course notes, teaching material, clippings, and material collected by Agnes Mongan. The correspondence is divided into two subseries. Subseries A, 1927-1948, 1976-1978, is arranged with alphabetical order within chronological groupings. It includes correspondence with family members, especially her siblings, colleagues at the Fogg Art Museum, including Paul J. Sachs, and colleagues at other institutions and within the art world. The subseries also contains correspondence with organization and institutions with which Mongan was associated. Topics include her work at the Fogg Art Museum and interactions with other art institutions, social life in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Europe, her brother John's service in World War II, and her frequent travels. For the most part the correspondence consists of letters sent to Agnes. Subseries B, 1914-1992, is arranged in chronological order, and consists of correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues, especially Elizabeth Mongan. It includes a letter from Eddie Warburg regarding his purchase of a Picasso; letters from and to Agnes Mongan's family when she was a student in Florence in 1927-1928 and during a 1967 trip to Asia; and letters from colleagues regarding the 1967 publication of her catalogue on Ingres.