Eloise and Otto Spaeth papers
name: label: Creator
content: Spaeth, Eloise
label: Creator
content: Spaeth, Otto, d. 1966
label: Names
content: American Federation of Arts
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: Dayton Art Institute
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content: Spaeth Foundation
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content: UNESCO
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content: Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980
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content: Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
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content: Congdon, William, 1912-1998
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content: Girard, André
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content: Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967
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content: Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963)
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content: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
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content: Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973
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content: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
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content: Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994
topic: label: Topic
content: Art and religion -- United States
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content: Art patronage -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Busts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels 63 and 1201 lent for microfilming 1971 and 1977 by Eloise Spaeth. Unmicrofilmed material donated 1966-1988 by Spaeth. Material on reel D181 lent for filming 1965 and subsequently donated in 1977.
creator: label: Creator
content: Spaeth, Eloise
label: Creator
content: Spaeth, Otto, d. 1966
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Eloise O. Spaeth (1902-1998) was an art collector, writer and art patron from New York, N.Y. She and husband Otto Spaeth founded the Spaeth Foundation.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.9 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.spaeeloi
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels D181,1201 and 63 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 63 and 1201: Originals returned to lender, Eloise Spaeth, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Scrapbooks, correspondence, exhibition files, photographs, and printed materials.
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content: REEL D181: Scrapbooks containing correspondence, clippings, reviews, and photographs relating to the Dayton Art Institute and to the Religious Art Exhibition held there in 1944.
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content: REEL 63: Correspondence concerning a Spaeth Foundation commission to Jacques Lipchitz for a bronze bust of John F. Kennedy. Correspondents include Lipchitz, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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content: REEL 1201: Correspondence concerning the Spaeth Foundation Religious Art Information Center; a Foundation prospectus; letters from Thomas Merton concerning his book on sacred art; correspondence dealing with the Annual Liturgical Congress Architectural Competition, an exhibition of architectural students' work, the Woodstock Center for Religion and Worship, and other aspects of art and religion.
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content: REEL 1817 and scanned: Photograph of Alexander Brook taken by Peter A. Juley and Son.
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content: UNMICROFILMED: Letters from Alexander Brook, Alexander Calder, William Congdon, Andre Girard, Edward Hopper, Walt Kuhn, Grant Wood, and others; correspondence concerning the American Federation of Arts, the Archives of American Art, Guild Hall, the Spaeth Foundation, UNESCO, and other art organizations; exhibition files of the AFA containing correspondence, printed material, and photographs; files on the "Films on Art" project developed by Otto Spaeth; correspondence and a scrapbook of Otto Spaeth concerning the Liturgical Arts Society; a scrapbook on the Spaeth's art collection; printed material and photographs used in AMERICAN ART MUSEUMS; photographs of paintings by John Singleton Copley, and other works of art and exhibition installations; Correspondence with Daniel Longwell, Harris K. Prior, and Thomas Brown Rudd regarding activities of the American Federation of Arts; Correspondence and clippings, 1963-1966, regarding the Lipchitz bust of JFK; letters, 1981-1983, from critic John Russell, and art collectors, Gertrude Schweitzer, Robert Osborn and Jean de Menil; and an exhibition catalog on Rico Lebrun, 1950; a letter to Otto Spaeth from Gala Dali regarding a loan of the painting "La Naissance du Noveau Monde," 1943; writings about Walt Kuhn, and an illustrated letter to Spaeth from Walt Kuhn.