Robert Jay Wolff papers
name: label: Creator
content: Wolff, Robert Jay, 1905-
label: Names
content: Artists' Union (Chicago, Ill.)
label: Names
content: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
label: Names
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
label: Names
content: Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
label: Names
content: Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-
label: Names
content: Crawford, M. D. C. (Morris De Camp), 1882-1949
label: Names
content: Ernst, Jimmy, 1920-1984
label: Names
content: Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968
label: Names
content: Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
label: Names
content: Holty, Carl, 1900-1973
label: Names
content: Holtzman, Harry
label: Names
content: Hustvedt, Stephen R.
label: Names
content: Kuh, Katharine
label: Names
content: Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
label: Names
content: Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
label: Names
content: Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1905-
label: Names
content: Osborn, Robert Chesley, 1904-1994
label: Names
content: Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-
label: Names
content: Rebay, Hilla, 1890-1967
label: Names
content: Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967
label: Names
content: Robinson, Increase, 1890-1981
label: Names
content: Seligmann, Kurt, 1900-1962
topic: label: Occupation
content: Designers -- Connecticut -- New Preston
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Connecticut -- New Preston
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Design
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1969 by Robert Jay Wolff.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wolff, Robert Jay, 1905-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Designer and painter; New Preston, Connecticut. Died in 1978.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear feet ((on 4 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1926-1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wolfrobe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels N69-72-N69-74 & N69-98 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to Robert Jay Wolff after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; exhibition catalogs; notes; photographs; notebooks; scrapbook; clippings; and miscellany.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS N69-72-N69-74: Correspondence, 1929-1968 with Alexander Calder, Serge Chermayeff, Jimmy Ernst, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Gropius, Guggenheim Museum, Carl Holty, Katharine Kuh, L. and Sybil Moholy-Nagy, Museum of Non-Objective Painting and Hilla Rebay, Harry Holtzman, Stephen R. Hustvedt, Bob Osborn, Philip Pearlstein, Ad Reinhardt, and Kurt Seligmann; exhibition catalogs; price lists; clippings; articles; talks and notes; photographs of paintings and sculpture, 1929-1958; notebooks, 1929-1965; and a scrapbook, 1934-1938.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL N69-98: Nine letters from Morris D. C. Crawford and his wife, 1926-1932, and a carbon copy of a letter to Dorothy Miller Cahill, May 27, 1969, in which Wolff mentions his efforts, as president of the Artists' Union of Chicago, ca. 1936, to unseat Increase Robinson. Wolff also explains how he became Holger Cahill's "bitter enemy."