Henry McBride papers
name: label: Creator
content: McBride, Henry, 1867-1962
label: Names
content: Barr, Everett S.
label: Names
content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
label: Names
content: Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
label: Names
content: Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941
label: Names
content: Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
label: Names
content: Miller, C. Earle
label: Names
content: Pascin, Jules, 1885-1930
label: Names
content: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
label: Names
content: Stettheimer, Florine, 1871-1944
label: Names
content: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
label: Names
content: Toklas, Alice B.
label: Names
content: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
label: Names
content: Wescott, Glenway, 1901-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art criticism -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by Maximillian Miltzlaff, executor of McBride's estate.
creator: label: Creator
content: McBride, Henry, 1867-1962
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art critic and author, New York, N.Y. Wrote for THE NEW YORK SUN (1913-1949) and THE DIAL (1920-1929). Author of MATISSE, SOME FRENCH MODERNS, MARIN, and FLORINE STETTHEIMER. Gave many prominent artists their first critical acclaim, such as Thomas Eakins, Jules Pascin, John Marin, Charles Demuth, Louis Eilshemius.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Reels (ca. 8000 items (on 16 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1962
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mcbrhenr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm rolls NMcB-1 through NMcB-14, D105, and 372 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut 06520
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Microfilm inventory available at Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, manuscript writings, notes, reviews, articles, clippings, letters, photographs, catalogs, and postcard.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel NMcB 1 - 13: Correspondence, mostly 1910-1960; manuscript writings; notes; reviews; and articles. Correspondents include the Stettheimer sisters, Charles Aiken, Alexander Archipenko, George Biddle, Edward Bruce, Alexander Calder, Mary Callery, Royal Cortissoz, Chester Dale, Randall Davey, Katherine Dreier, Guy Pène du Bois, Marcel Duchamp, Valentine Dudensing, Albert Duveen, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Thomas Eakins, Louis Eilshemius, Lyonel Feininger, Juliana Force, Edith Halpert, George Hart, Max Kalish, Rockwell Kent, Samuel M. Kootz, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Gaston Lachaise, Jacques Lipchitz, Robert Macbeth, John Marin, Peppino Mangravite, Georgia O'Keeffe, Amédée Ozenfant, Walter Pach, Jules Pascin, John Quinn, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein, Joseph Stella, Maurice Sterne, Albert Sterner, Alfred Stieglitz, Gustave Verbeek, Malcolm Vaughan, Forbes Watson, Max Weber, Guy Wiggins, and William Zorach.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel D105: Notes, letters, clippings, photographs and catalogs relating to Thomas Eakins from the collection of Henry McBride.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel NMcB 14: Letters, 1946-1962, to Dr. and Mrs. Everett S. Barr, and letters, 1950-1957, to Mr. and Mrs. C. Earle Miller.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 372: Letters and photographs, ca. 1903-1962. McBride writes in journal-like detail from 1947-1962 to his friends, Alice and Everett Barr, West Chester, Pa., commenting on politics during the Truman and Eisenhower years, theatre and opera in New York, and the social and domestic activities of the social group with which he associates, including members of the Delano, Stettheimer and Wetmore families, as well as literary and art figures including Glenway Wescott, Monroe Wheeler, Claude Rains, and others. Photographs, ca. 1903-1947, include McBride with Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Henri Matisse, and others; one postcard from Carl Van Vechten, June 4, 1933, and a photograph of Marianne Moore.