Saul Zalesch collection of artists' letters and documents
name: label: Collector
content: Zalesch, Saul E.
label: Names
content: Brooklyn Art Association
label: Names
content: Society of American Artists
label: Names
content: Baldridge, C. LeRoy
label: Names
content: Bearden, Romare (1911-1988)
label: Names
content: Bellows, George, 1882-1925
label: Names
content: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
label: Names
content: Betts, Louis, 1873-1961
label: Names
content: Bishop, Isabel, 1902-1988
label: Names
content: Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903
label: Names
content: Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900
label: Names
content: Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924
label: Names
content: Doughty, Thomas, 1793-1856
label: Names
content: Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919
label: Names
content: Duveneck, Josephine W. (Josephine Whitney), 1891-1978
label: Names
content: Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 1853-1908
label: Names
content: Foster, Ben, 1852-1926
label: Names
content: Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
label: Names
content: Gropper, William, 1897-1977
label: Names
content: Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935
label: Names
content: Henri, Robert, 1865-1929
label: Names
content: Indiana, Robert, 1928-2018
label: Names
content: La Farge, John, 1835-1910
label: Names
content: La Farge, John, 1835-1910
label: Names
content: Lage, William Potter
label: Names
content: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997
label: Names
content: Lippold, Richard, 1915-2002
label: Names
content: Martin, Homer Dodge, 1836-1897
label: Names
content: Merry, C. M.
label: Names
content: Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912
label: Names
content: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
label: Names
content: Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
label: Names
content: Redfield, Edward Willis, 1869-1965
label: Names
content: Rogers, John, 1829-1904
label: Names
content: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
label: Names
content: Stankiewicz, Richard, 1922-1983
label: Names
content: Story, Franklin H.
label: Names
content: Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895
label: Names
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
label: Names
content: Teal, William P.
label: Names
content: Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923
label: Names
content: Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919
label: Names
content: Williams, Gluyas, 1888-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- United States
label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection of letters was lent for microfilming by Zalesch in 1984 (reel 3097). Zalesch donated an additional three letters in 1993, twenty-five in 1999, one letter in 2008, and a publication in 2009.
creator: label: Collector
content: Zalesch, Saul E.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Saul Zalesch, an art historian, began collecting artists' letters around 1981.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 58 Items ((portions microfilmed on 1 reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1834-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.zalesaul
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3097 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 3097: Originals returned to Zalesch after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artists' letters and documents collected by Zalesch and letters written to him in response to inquiries concnering autographs and biographical information.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3097: Twenty-six letters (1845-1973) written by George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Frederick Stuart Church, Thomas Doughty, Ernest Fenollosa, Ben Foster, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, John La Farge, Homer Dodge Martin, Joseph Pennell, Edward Willis Redfield, John Rogers, John Singer Sargent, Richard Stankiewicz, Thomas Sully, and Elihu Vedder. Also included are a Harvard University bond for William Wetmore Story's tuition signed by Franklin H. Story (1834) and a biographical questionnaire completed by John La Farge for The Cyclopedia of American Biography (1925).
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Letters written by Roy Lichtenstein, William Gropper, Gluyas Williams, Ordway Partridge, Frederick Burr Opper, James Wells Champney, C. Gray Parker, Ben Foster, Louis Betts, Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge, Richard Lippold, Romare Bearden, Isabel Bishop, Thomas Hart Benton, Richard Stankiewicz, and others; a brochure for a work of art by Robert Indiana; a certificate from The Brooklyn Art Association for one share of capital stock in the name of William Potter Lage; one page of correspondence documenting a decision made for the Society of American Artists containing a note from Francis D. Millet to J. Alden Weir, followed by a note from Weir to Frederic Church, signed "O.K." by Church.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Vol. XXVI, no. 5, Feb. 1924 periodical, Old Hughes, published by the students of Hughes High school in Cincinnati, Ohio containing a published exchange of letters between principal C. M. Merry and Josephine W. Duveneck, daughter-in-law of painter Frank Duveneck about the Hughes High School purchasing a painting by Duveneck, and a reminiscence of Duveneck by William P. Teal, head of the art department at Hughes High School.