Notes and Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kurtz, Charles M. (Charles McMeen), 1855-1909
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content: Charles M. Kurtz papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1872-1980, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kurtchar, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Perhaps because of his peripatetic lifestyle, Charles Kurtz kept very precise records. Included in this series are various types of lists, both personal and professional, as well as notes to himself. Drafts and fragments of lectures and his play The Millennium and his two comic operas, The Aldermen of Manhattan and The Cannibals! are also found within this series. Among the most interesting writings pertaining to the art world are the artist address lists, which are also broken down according to studio buildings (the Tenth Street Studio Building, the Sherwood, the Rembrandt, and the Y.M.C.A.), lists of artist models, dealers, and editors and detailed diagrams for the installation of the Glasgow School exhibition.

A notebook belonging to Charles M. Kurtz and now owned by Yale University was loaned to the Archives for microfilming. Reel 4912 requires permission from Yale University in order to quote, publish or reproduce. It contains about a fifty page history of art in Scotland and the Glasgow School written by Kurtz in 1891 and revised in 1895.

Reels 4822-4823 contain the bulk of his writings, however miscellaneous pieces (and references to them) can also be found in some of his letters, particularly to his wife.