Robert Taylor papers
name: label: Creator
content: Taylor, Robert, 1925-2009
label: Names
content: Allen, Fred, 1894-1956
label: Names
content: Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934-
label: Names
content: Davenport, Will
label: Names
content: Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933
label: Names
content: Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901-1990
label: Names
content: Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
label: Names
content: McGilligan, Patrick
label: Names
content: Schwartz, Henry, 1927-
label: Names
content: Styron, William, 1925-
label: Names
content: Swan, Barbara, 1922-
label: Names
content: Updike, John
label: Names
content: Wolfe, Tom
place: label: Place
content: Saranac Lake (N.Y.) -- History
title: label: Topic
content: Boston herald
label: Topic
content: Boston globe
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Museum curators
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Art criticism
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Massachusetts -- Boston
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1984 and 1990 by Robert Taylor.
creator: label: Creator
content: Taylor, Robert, 1925-2009
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art, literary, and music critic; author; educator; lecturer, Boston, Mass. Wrote for the Boston Herald, 1952-1967, Boston Globe, 1968-1989. Columns for New Boston Review, later appearing in Atlantic Monthly, were written under pseudonym Count Bibesco.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: l952-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.taylrobe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: List of selected names of correspondents available at Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Ca. 600 letters, 1961-1990, from artists, authors, poets, editors, curators, publishers, critics and others, primarily in response to Taylor's reviews, columns, and books, and some supplying information for his columns. Among the correspondents are Darby Barnard, Claire Leighton, Will Davenport, Fritz Eichenberg, Clement Greenberg, Jack Levine, Patrick McGilligan, Henry Schwartz, Beverly Swan, William Styron, John Updike, and Tom Wolfe. A 1983 letter from Davenport encloses a mss. of a paper he wrote in 1956, "Search for the Most American of American Painters." Also included are 5 scrapbooks, 1952-1957, containing clippings of Taylor's reviews and columns, and letters of appreciation; and loose reviews and articles by Taylor written for various Boston area arts magazines.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Enclosed in the correspondence are a few photographs, including two of Taylor, 3 of Carl Nelson, one of G.D. Hackett and Andre Kertisz, and one of Fred Allen and Herman Wouk.