Jacques Maroger papers
name: label: Creator
content: Maroger, Jacques, 1884-1962
label: Names
content: Evergreen House Foundation (Baltimore, Md.)
label: Names
content: Ferargil Galleries
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content: Galerie Louis Carré
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content: Grand Central Art Galleries
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content: Maryland Institute, College of Art
label: Names
content: Musée du Louvre
label: Names
content: Sagittarius Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Six Realists Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
label: Names
content: Anquetin, Louis, 1861-1932
label: Names
content: Dufy, Raoul, 1877-1953
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content: Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934
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content: John, Augustus, 1878-1961
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content: Kelly, Gerald, Sir, 1879-1972
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content: Ladew, Harry
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content: Toudu, Sure
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content: Verne, Henri, b. 1880
topic: label: Occupation
content: Conservators
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Maryland -- Baltimore
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- United States -- Interviews
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content: Artists' studios -- Photographs
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content: Artists' materials
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1992 by Simone LeFaivfre, sister of Maroger's widow Olga.
creator: label: Creator
content: Maroger, Jacques, 1884-1962
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, conservator; Paris, France, New York, N.Y., and Baltimore, Md. In the 1930s, Maroger was technical director of the laboratories of the Louvre Museum, a professor at the School of the Louvre, and President of the Association of French Restorers. He received the Legion of Honor in 1937. Maroger came to the U.S. in 1939 and taught at the Parsons School of Design and for 20 years at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore. He studied the paint mediums of the masters, and outlined them in his book, The Secret Formulas and Techniques of the Masters (New York: Studio Publications, 1948).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.marojacq
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4589 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Simone LeFaivre, after microfilming.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: English translations of twelve letters in French to Maroger were placed in Finding Aids under Maroger at the Archives of American Art's Washington, D.C. office.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material; letters; business records; writings; notes and notebooks; printed material; photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are a biographical sketch; letters, 1924-1958, from Louis Anquetin, Raoul Dufy, Roger Fry, Augustus John, Gerald Kelly, and Sure Toudu; letters from Henri Verne of the Louvre Museum regarding Maroger's appointment as technical director of conservation for the Louvre, 1930-1939; business records, 1948-1962, containing correspondence and receipts from galleries, museums, and publishers regarding Maroger's paintings and his book The Secret Formulas and Techniques of the Masters, among them Galerie Louis Carre & Co. (Paris), Grand Central Art Galleries (New York City), Studio Publications, and Thomas Y. Crowell publishers; a typescript of a speech delivered by Maroger at the "Conference de Londres"; typescript chapters from his book; writings by unidentifed authors on the preparation of heated oil for painting, 1923 and paint mediums, 1949; notes, undated and 2 notebooks, 1923-1937, containing research on paint mediums, pigments, techniques and the artists who used them; a scrapbook of clippings, 1930-1935 mainly from French newspapers regarding his research, and one, 1941-1949, from Baltimore and New York papers about his students at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and exhibitions of his paintings; loose clippings, 1950-1964; exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1947-1962, from Maroger's group and one-man shows at Ferargil Galleries, the Grand Central Art Galleries, including the Maroger Baltimore Group of Painters which showed there, Evergreen House Foundation, Sagittarius Gallery, the Six Realists Gallery, and elsewhere; miscellaneous printed material, 1948-1966; and photographs, 1962, 1990 and undated and a photo album, 1953-1971, of Maroger, his wife Olga, Evergreen House, and works of art (annotated with size and price); of Harry Ladew and a painting of Ladew by Maroger; and of painted furniture, possibly examples for Maroger's painted furniture designs of the Goblins Tapestries.