Charles Nagel papers
name: label: Creator
content: Nagel, Charles, 1899-1992
label: Names
content: Brooklyn Museum
label: Names
content: City Art Museum of St. Louis
label: Names
content: Nagel & Dunn (Firm : St. Louis, Mo.)
label: Names
content: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
label: Names
content: St. Mark's Episcopal Church (St. Louis, Mo.)
label: Names
content: Yale University. Gallery of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Hurd, Peter, 1904-1984
label: Names
content: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955
label: Names
content: Nagel, Anne, 1866-1951
label: Names
content: Nagel, Charles, 1849-1940
label: Names
content: Nagel, Charles, 1899-1992 -- American Furniture, 1650-1850
label: Names
content: Proetz, Victor, 1897-1966
label: Names
content: Proetz, Victor, 1897-1966 -- Papers, ca. 1928-1966
label: Names
content: Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001
label: Names
content: Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961
label: Names
content: Warren, Earl, 1891-1974
label: Names
content: Wurster, William Wilson
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum directors -- Missouri -- St. Louis
label: Occupation
content: Museum directors -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn
label: Occupation
content: Museum directors -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Museum curators -- Connecticut -- New Haven
label: Occupation
content: Architects -- Connecticut
label: Occupation
content: Architects -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Architects -- Missouri -- St. Louis
label: Occupation
content: Architects -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Interior decorators -- Missouri -- St.Louis
label: Occupation
content: Interior decorators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Interior decorators -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Gateway Arch (Saint Louis, Mo.)
label: Topic
content: Church architecture
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1992 and 1994 by Lucie O. Nagel, widow of Charles Nagel. According to Mrs. Nagel, the material relating to Victor Proetz was given to Nagel by Proetz, who was a close friend and associate, and by the Proetz estate following his death in 1966.
creator: label: Creator
content: Nagel, Charles, 1899-1992
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Museum director; architect. Nagel was born in St. Louis, Mo. He attended Yale University, earning a B.A. in 1923, a B.A. in architecture in 1926 and M.F.A. in architecture in 1928. Upon graduation, he was employed at the firms of Jamieson & Spearl, and Hall & Proetz, St. Louis, and with Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, Abbott in Boston.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: He taught art history at Yale, and served as curator of Decorative Arts at Yale's Gallery of Fine Arts, 1930-1936, returning to architecture with the firm Nagel & Dunn, St. Louis, from 1936-1942. His positions as museum director include the City Art Museum in St. Louis, 1942-1946 (acting) and 1955-1964; the Brooklyn Museum, 1946-1955; and the National Portrait Gallery, 1964-1969.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- United States
label: Function
content: Architectural firms -- United States
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.9 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1927-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nagechar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Chronology and Series Listing available at all Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The bulk of the papers consist of Nagel's files on his various positions and projects (ca. 3.3 ft), containing a variety of materials, including correspondence, writings, notes, art works, clippings, photographs and printed material. Also included are files pertaining to Nagel's father, lawyer and statesman Charles Nagel, and to his mother, Anne; and papers of and relating to Nagel's friend and associate, architect Victor Proetz (0.6 ft).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Nagel's files on positions and projects are arranged chronologically, and relate to: design projects while a student at Yale University, ca. 1926-1928; his struggle with career choices (mostly typescripts of letters to his father), ca. 1927-1931; his appointment to the Yale University Gallery of Fine Arts; commissions during his partnership in Nagel & Dunn (includes photographs of Fred Dunn, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, and other designs); organizing the exhibit "Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today, 1950-1951," his publication American Furniture, 1650-1850, and other activities while director of the Brooklyn Museum, 1946-1955; his position as juror and secretary for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Competition and working with other jurors Fiske Kimball and William Wurster, and design winner, Eero Saarinen; the Independence National Historical Park Project, Philadelphia, Pa.; positions at the City Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo.; establishment of the National Portrait Gallery (includes photographs of staff, the building, exhibitions, and opening celebrations, 1964-1969, notably Chief Justice Earl Warren, Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, and artist Peter Hurd); his emigration to Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mex.; and alterations and additions to St. Michael and All Angels Church in Cuernavaca, 1983. Included in several files are photographs of Nagel, his residences, and colleagues, and architectural drawings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Files on his father contain honorary degrees and awards, photographs and printed material relating to the naming of a post office in his honor, St. Louis, Mo., and other events honoring him.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of Victor Proetz, ca. 1928-1966 (ca. 0.6 ft), include obituaries; correspondence; a Last Will and Testament; a list of Proetz's commissions, 1934-1943; writings by Proetz and others; Proetz's "The Astonishment of Words," 1971, posthumously published; a scrapbook; exhibition announcements and catalogs; printed material; and photographs of Proetz and his designs for interiors and furniture.