James S. Ackerman papers
name: label: Creator
content: Ackerman, James S., 1919-2016
label: Names
content: New York University. Institute of Fine Arts
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Topic
content: Art -- France
label: Topic
content: Art -- Italy
label: Topic
content: Architecture -- France
label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Italy
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1990, 1996 and 2011 by James Ackerman.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ackerman, James S., 1919-2016
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: James S. Ackerman (1919- 2016) was an architectural historian in Cambridge, Mass. Ackerman was born in San Francisco and received his undergraduate training at Yale, and his M.A. (1947) and Ph.D. (1952) at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. His studies were interrupted by his Army service in Italy during WWII, where he volunteered for the Monuments and Fine Arts service recovering the archives of the palace of Milan, which led to his Ph.D. study of Milanese Renaissance architecture. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, 1952-1960, and at Harvard from 1961.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1942-2011
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ackejame
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Teaching material, correspondence, writings, and photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Teaching material includes lecture notes, lecture outlines, and writings from Ackerman's graduate student years at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, ca. 1942-1950. Included are notes from courses given by Henry Russell Hitchcock, R. Krautheimer, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Shapiro, Dimitri Tselos, and Martin Weinberger, mimeographed lecture outlines of various courses, and a 1 p. Christmas skit by graduates of the Institute.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence is with friends and includes emails. Writings include a notebook of commentary on works of art and architecture kept by Ackerman while he traveled in France and Italy in 1948, other travel notes and excerpts from diaries. Also included is a copy of "Shooting Palladio," Ackerman's account of the filming of "Palladio: the Architect and his Influence in America," based on a diary kept from 1977-1980, and a list created by Ackerman of drawings by Andrew Jackson Davis at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photographs are of works of art and one photograph is of Ackerman with others.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Papers of James S. Ackerman, 1963-1975, are also located at Harvard University Archives.