Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958
setName: label: See more items in
content: Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.7 Linear Feet (Box 4-6, 9)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1890-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.valewilh, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Materials are arranged alphabetically within document types.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been scanned. In some cases monographs have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Writings and notes consist of autobiographical writings, including a 14 chapter manuscript; numerous essay drafts, lectures, notes, and published monographs on Italian and Dutch art and artists; and reports and lectures on exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 

Lecture seminar notes appear to have been written while Valentiner was a student at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Drafts, lists, and notes related to Arbeitsrat für Kunst date from the period after Valentiner's military service when he served as a chairman to the newly formed Working Council for the Arts, prior to his return to America in 1921. There are also a handful of literary writings by Valentiner and typescript essays by other art historians, including Carl Heise and Wilhelm von Bode. 

The majority of the handwritten writings are in German, with many typed transcriptions in English.