Marc Sandler papers
name: label: Creator
content: Sandler, Marc, 1907-1968
label: Names
content: Bohrod, Aaron
label: Names
content: Grosz, George, 1893-1959
label: Names
content: Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
label: Names
content: Reynard, Grant T., 1887-1968
label: Names
content: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
label: Names
content: Wickey, Harry
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Art patronage -- Pennsylvania
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming March 1986 by Ralph Sandler, son of Marc Sandler.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sandler, Marc, 1907-1968
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art collector; Sweden and Pennsylvania. Swedish-born Sandler came to the United States in 1940 as a courier on a confidential mission to the Swedish embassy regarding Hitler. According to his son Ralph, he and his wife had started an art collection in Sweden, but when they were divorced after coming to this country, his wife kept the collection. Marc moved to Pittsburgh, where he started collecting once again, this time focusing on American paintings that were not, in his words, "sucked into the whirlpool of French movements."
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947-1955
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sandmarc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3682-3683 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Ralph Sandler, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence between Sandler and George Grosz, Harry Wickey, Grant Reynard, Aaron Bohrod, Joseph Hirsch, Raphael Soyer, and others; a 62-page manuscript on Grosz, written by Sandler shortly before his death. It recounts Sandler's chance encounter with Grosz in a Berlin cafe in 1932 when Grosz was pondering an invitation to teach at the Art Students League; it also recalls their respective escapes to the U.S. during World War II; and their reunion in New York City in 1946.