Katherine Dunn Pagon papers relating to the Barnes Foundation
name: label: Creator
content: Pagon, Katherine W. Dunn, 1892-1988
label: Names
content: Barnes Foundation
label: Names
content: Philadelphia Museum of Art
label: Names
content: Barnes, Albert C. (Albert Coombs), 1872-1951
label: Names
content: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Pagon's granddaughter, Katherine Pagon Tawney and her husband, Lee Tawney, 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pagon, Katherine W. Dunn, 1892-1988
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, Philadelphia, Pa., and Baltimore, Md. Studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1910 and 1918, and later at the Barnes Foundation. Albert C. Barnes was a collector of modern art who acquired over 800 paintings, particularly French Impressionists and other modern painters such as Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse and Picasso. The collection is housed in the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa. Barnes directed in his will that the collection never be allowed to tour or be reproduced.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet ((75 items))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1938-1961]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pagokath
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, notes, writings and printed material collected by Pagon regarding the Barnes Foundation, Albert C. Barnes, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are letters, 1948-1952, from Pagon to the editors of Philadelphia area newspapers regarding the Barnes Foundation, and several letters received, 1948-1953, including one from Barnes, 1950; Pagon's notes from a Barnes Foundation class taught by Angelo Pinto, 1946, and other notes; a file containing copies of correspondence between Barnes, Henry Clifford and Fiske Kimball regarding a 1948 Matisse exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; writings by Barnes, including pamphlets on art education and writings on Fiske Kimball, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the arts in Philadelphia, 1938-1948.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed material includes a pamphlet, 1938, by Harry Fuiman, "The Progressive Decay of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art," an article on Matisse, and pamphlets and clippings on Barnes and the Foundation, primarily focused on the lawsuit after Barnes' death to force the Foundation to open its gallery to the public, 1943-1961.