INVENTORY OF THE GLORIA DE HERRERA PAPERS, 1936-1996 (bulk
1947-1985)
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INVENTORY OF THE GLORIA DE HERRERA PAPERS, 1936-1996 (bulk
1947-1985)
Accession no. 980024
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Gloria de Herrera papers
Date (inclusive): 1936-1996
Date (bulk): 1947-1985
Collection number: 980024
Creator:
De Herrera, Gloria
Extent:
ca. 3 linear ft.
(8 boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90040-1688
Abstract: American art preparator, restorer, and collector active in Los Angeles and Paris. De Herrera was a close friend of Man Ray,
William Nelson Copley, and other notable artists. The papers include correspondence, documents, artworks, photographs, and
audiovisual materials documenting De Herrera's milieu and activities.
Language: Collection material in English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, excepting audiovisual
materials being reformatted.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Gloria de Herrera papers, The Getty Research Institute, Research
Library, Accession no. 980024.
Acquisition Information
The papers were donated by James and Barbara Byrnes in
1998 in memory of their friend Gloria de Herrera, with further donations made
in 2002.
Processing History
J.P. Munro rehoused the items and wrote a preliminary inventory in
2000. Paul Arenson created the series arrangement, separated the books and
journals, and wrote and encoded the finding aid in 2002.
Custodial History
De Herrera gave her papers to Barbara C. and James B. Byrnes who maintained the archive and added to it until giving it to
the Getty Research Library.
Biographical/Historical Note
Gloria Claire de Herrera was born in Los Angeles on April 26, 1929, of
Mexican and German descent. In 1947, while still in high school, she befriended
Barbara C. Byrnes, owner of the American Contemporary Gallery on Hollywood
Boulevard, and her husband James B. Byrnes. In 1949 James Byrnes, at that time
a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, offered De Herrera a
position as project secretary for the California Centennial Exhibition; she
also acted as slide-pusher for Byrnes's course on twentieth-century art at USC,
and learned art conservation at the LACMA conservation laboratory. During these
years De Herrera also became friendly with Man Ray and his wife Juliet (née
Browner), as well as artist and collector William Nelson Copley. Through Copley
and Man Ray she received entrée to a circle of artists connected to the
Surrealist movement, including Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Roberto
Matta-Echauren, Yves Tanguy, and Marcel Duchamp.
In March of 1951, in response to the rise of McCarthyism in the United
States, Man Ray, his wife, and Copley departed for Paris, bringing De Herrera
with them. This move proved a pivotal event in her life, as she was never to
return to the United States. In France, De Herrera and Copley found themselves
at the heart of the art world, socializing with the Man Rays, Nelly van
Doesburg, writers Valentine and Roland Penrose, poet Paul Eluard, and artists
Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti and
Tristan Tzara, among many others. De Herrera also became involved in buying and
selling art, and traveled with Copley throughout France, visiting the country
homes of Max Ernst, André Breton, Henri-Pierre Roché, Pablo Picasso and
Françoise Gilot.
By 1953 or 1954 the relationship with Copley had ended, and De Herrera
had found employment at
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, a notable Parisian
art-supplies store then owned by Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, whose brother René
she had known in Los Angeles. Here she became an art conservator. After
implementing a series of successful repairs on damaged paintings by Mondrian
and Chagall, De Herrera was recommended for the task of applying permanent glue
to Henri Matisse's cut-out collages (also known as découpages or gouaches
découpées). Between 1953 and ca. 1959, De Herrera worked on at least sixteen
collages, and likely many more; the work was coordinated through Matisse's
Russian-born assistant and model Lydia Delectorskaya, who became De Herrera's
friend as well. De Herrera also undertook a commission for Marcel Duchamp in
1957. She maintained friendships in this period with Max Ernst and Dorothea
Tanning, Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger,
Wolfgang Paalen and Bernard Pfriem.
In the late 1950s De Herrera became increasingly interested in leftist
politics. She travelled to the Soviet Union in 1957, and as France became
engaged with the struggle for Algerian independence, she espoused the Algerian
cause. She also befriended the world-travelling photographer Dominique Darbois,
and did layout for Darbois's
Enfants du monde children's book series. In 1960 De
Herrera was arrested and jailed for two months by French police conducting a
sweep of Europeans who had provided assistance to the FLN (Front de libération
nationale: the Algerian revolutionary army). Media attention focused on the
involvement of De Herrera, an American citizen, in the trials of the "porteurs
de valises" (suitcase-carriers, or French supporters of the Algerian
independence movement). She was given a separate, secret military trial, and
was ultimately expelled from France. De Herrera took up residence in Brussels,
Belgium, as did many of her exiled cohorts. Successive amnesties declared in
March 1962 and July 1968 restored her residency in France, and brought about
the return of impounded possessions, including her automobile.
Returning to France, De Herrera found herself shunned by most of her
past art-world friends. Her intimates in this period included Darbois and the
photographer/master forger Adolfo Kaminsky, both of whom had been active in the
French Resistance during WWII. In 1973 she left Paris for the Dordogne region,
where she purchased a home near Lascaux, whose prehistoric paintings she
reportedly helped document. There she became friendly with American artist
Patricia Barton, also living in the Dordogne.
By 1983 De Herrera had developed terminal throat cancer. At this time
James and Barbara Byrnes, who had been hoping to interview her about her
Matisse collage work, finally located her through Darbois. They became her
helpmates through her final two years of life, assisting her in raising money
for medical treatment, in selling her house and transporting her belongings to
the United States, and in re-establishing contact with her family, from whom
she had been long estranged. Gloria de Herrera died on June 24, 1985, in Brive
(Corrèze).
Scope and Content of Collection
The Gloria de Herrera papers consist of ca. 750 items documenting the
life of Gloria de Herrera, an American art preparator, restorer and collector
active in the art world in Los Angeles and France in the middle of the 20th
century. A close friend and associate of Man Ray, William N. Copley, Max Ernst
and other notable Surrealist and Dada artists, De Herrera is credited with
having glued and made permanent the cut-out collages of Henri Matisse. Later,
De Herrera became involved in the struggle for Algerian independence. The
papers bear witness to these activities; they include ca. 180 letters; ca. 170
assorted documents (including her writings and those of William Copley,
incidental publications revealing her political interests, notes concerning her
art preparation work, legal and medical records, and papers associated with her
untimely death from cancer); 22 artworks, 68 artwork surrogates and 7
exhibition announcements from artist friends, along with 11 items saved from
her Matisse work; and some 244 photographs documenting her social circles,
travels, interests and activities. Also included are 7 oversize items, 7 audio
cassettes of an interview with De Herrera, and 1 VHS cassette of an interview
of her friend James B. Byrnes, discussing De Herrera and her milieu.
Highlights of the papers include a scrapbook of photographs of De
Herrera's activities, ca. 1950-1953, documenting her transatlantic voyage and
visits to the homes of Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso among other events; the
Échantillons Matisse, a set of 72 fragments of gouached paper left over from
her Matisse work, along with 10 full-sized gouached paper sheets; and two oil
paintings by William N. Copley (one very small, one full-sized). Additionally,
a set of photographs taken by De Herrera in 1947 documents a Just Jazz concert
in Pasadena, featuring Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and
other jazz artists. An additional 71 books and journals owned by De Herrera
have been separated to the library; they are enumerated in a separation list at
the end of this finding aid.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Armstrong, Louis,
1901-1971
Bigard, Barney
Boudaoud, Omar
Brahim, Malika
Brauner, Victor,
1903-1966
Breton, André,
1896-1966
Byrnes, James
B.
Byrnes,
Barbara
Copley, William Nelson,
1919-
Cornell,
Joseph
De Herrera,
Gloria
Duchamp, Marcel,
1887-1968
Ellington, Duke,
1899-1974
Eluard,
Dominique
Eluard, Paul,
1895-1952
Ernst, Max,
1891-1976
Fitzgerald,
Ella
Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-
Granz, Norman, 1918-
Hodes, Barnet,
1900-1980
Johnston, Ynez,
1920-
Kelleher, Patrick J.
(Patrick Joseph), 1917-
Man Ray, Juliet, d.
1991
Matisse, Henri,
1869-1954
Mondrian, Piet,
1872-1944
Pastier,
Madeleine
Penrose, Roland,
Sir
Penrose,
Valentine
Péret, Benjamin,
1899-1959
Picasso, Claude,
1947-
Picasso, Pablo,
1881-1973
Ray, Man,
1890-1976
Roché, Henri Pierre,
1879-1959
Rothman,
Walter
Tanguy, Yves,
1900-1955
Tanning, Dorothea,
1910-
Teagarden, Jack,
1905-1964
Toyen, 1902-
Zerbib, Marcel
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet
(Firm)
Americans—France—Social life and
customs
Art—Collectors and
collecting
Art—Conservation and
restoration
Art—Exhibitions
Art, Modern—20th
century
Art
dealers—France—Paris
Art galleries,
Commercial—California—Los Angeles
Art
restorers—France—Paris
Collage, French
Jazz
musicians—United States
Painting,
Modern—20th century
Photography,
Artistic
Sculpture,
Modern—20th century
Surrealism—France
Surrealism—California—Los Angeles
Algeria—History—Revolution,
1954-1962
France—Politics and
government—1958-1969
Los Angeles
(Calif.)—Social life and customs
Paris
(France)—Social life and customs
Sedona
(Ariz.)—Social life and customs
Soviet
Union—Description and travel
United
States—Politics and government—1945-1953
Genres and Forms of Material
Auction
catalogs
Audiotapes
Clippings
Color
transparencies
Copy prints
Correspondence
Documents
Drawings
Exhibition
announcements
Interviews
Medical
records
Notes
Oil paintings
Paper
fragments
Passports
Photocopies
Photographs,
Original
Scrapbooks
Sketches
Slides
(photographs)
Transcripts
Videotapes
Watercolors
Contributors
Baldwin, Neil,
1947-
Barinov, Igor
Barton,
Patricia
Berggruen,
Heinz
Brauner, Victor,
1903-1966
Brunius,
Jacques-B
Burke, John
Burley, Dan
Byrnes,
Barbara
Byrnes, James
B.
Calder, Alexander,
1898-1976
Chavaroche,
Marie-Hélène
Copley, William Nelson,
1919-
Cowart, Jack
Darbois,
Dominique
De Herrera,
David
De Herrera,
Mildred
Delectorskaya,
Lydia
Dondero, George A.
(George Anthony), 1883-1968
Dorival,
Bernard
Drouin, René,
1905-1979
Duchamp, Marcel,
1887-1968
Dumas, Roland
Ernst, Max,
1891-1976
Fonvieille-Alquier,
François
Foresta, Merry
A.
Francette
Giacometti, Alberto,
1901-1966
Gibbons, Joseph
Burroughs
Gilot, Françoise,
1921-
Grepin
Hall, Jacques
Inverarity, Robert Bruce,
1909-
Kaminsky,
Adolfo
Lefebvre-Foinet,
Maurice
Loeb, Edouard
Lucas, Jacques
Maranz, George
Matisse,
Amélie
Matisse, Henri,
1869-1954
Matisse, Pierre,
1900-1989
Matta Echaurren, Roberto
Sebastián, 1911-
Mesens, E. L. T. (Edouard
Léon Théodore), 1903-1971
Messenger,
Ivan
Meyer, Franz, writer on
art
Mitchell, Irene
Musillo
Paalen, Wolfgang,
1907-
Pfriem, Bernard,
1914-
Poniatowski,
Michel
Ray, Man,
1890-1976
Rubin, William
Stanley
Tsypina, Rita
Tanning, Dorothea,
1910-
Tashjian, Dickran,
1940-
Young-Mallin,
Judith
Copley
Galleries
Galleria del naviglio
(Milan, Italy)
Guy Loudmer, Hervé
Poulain (Firm)
Hôtel Drouot
Mannheimer
Kunstverein
Sidney Janis
Gallery
Titles
Département de la Dordogne. Règlement
sanitaire départemental
Estampes des XIXe et XXe siècles
Idolatry and confusion
La vie d'un grand disparu : Jean Jaurès,
apôtre de la paix
Modern art shackled to Communism
Tableaux modernes, art contemporain,
Separated Books and Journals
The archive included 41 books and 30 magazine issues which have now
been separated to the library. A list of these materials follows.
Adéma, Marcel, ed.
Guillaume Apollinaire; souvenirs et témoignages inédits de
Louis de Gonzague Frick [et al.] Supplément poétique: René Guy Cadou [et
al.]
[Albi]: Éditions de la Tête noire, [1946]
Algérie 1959.
Supplement to
La defense No. 416 de juin 1959.
Artaud, Antonin.
Les Tarahumaras.
Décines: M. Barbezat,
[1963]
Arts Council of Great Britain.
The almost complete works of Marcel Duchamp: at the Tate
Gallery, 18 June-31 July 1966.
London: Arts Council of Great
Britain, 1966.
With dedication to De Herrera by Marcel Duchamp.
Avant-garde.
[New York]: Jan.
1968-1971.
Includes no. 10 (Jan. 1970) and no. 12 (May 1970)
Bergot, Erwan.
La guerre des appelés en Algérie,
1956-1962.
Paris: Presses de la cité, c1980.
Bousquet, Joë.
Max Ernst / textes de Joe Bousquet et Michel
Tapié.
[Paris]: R. Drouin, 1950.
Breton, André, and Paul Eluard.
L'Immaculée conception.
Paris: Éditions
surréalistes, 1930.
With dedication to Eva Sulzer by André
Breton.
Butor, Michel.
Jacques Hérold.
Paris: Galerie La cour d'Ingres,
1959.
Cahiers d'art.
Paris: Éditions "Cahiers
d'art".
4e année; mars-avril 1929. No. 2-3 (Fascicule consacré a l'art des
Océaniens).
Carrington, Leonora.
La dame ovale: avec sept [sic] collages par Max Ernst.
Paris: GLM, 1939.
Copley Galleries.
Max Ernst, 30 years of his work: a survey: the Copley
Galleries, January 10 - February 20, 1949.
Beverly Hills: [The
Galleries], c1949.
Dedicated to De Herrera by Max Ernst.
Copley, William Nelson.
CPLY.
[Paris, A. Iolas, 1970]
Copley, William Nelson.
William N. Copley: Musée national d'art moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, 26 novembre 1980-11 janvier 1981 [exposition organisée
par la Kunsthalle Berne; rédaction du catalogue, Marianne Schmidt, Johannes
Gachnang]
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, [1980]
Dada.
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, [1958]
Exhibition at Stedeljik Museum Amsterdam, Dec. 23, 1958-Feb. 2,
1959.
Eluard, Paul.
A l'intérieur de la vue: 8 poèmes visibles [par] Mx Ernst [et]
Pl Eluard.
[Paris: P. Seghers, 1948]
Numbered copy 359 of
610.
Eluard, Paul.
Les malheurs des immortels, révélés par Paul Éluard et Max
Ernst.
Paris, Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, [1945]
L'Éphémère.
Paris: Fondation Maeght, 1967-1972.
No. 1 (1967). With articles by and about Giacometti.
Max Ernst [Ausstellung] Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, 28.
Dezember 1962 bis 3. März 1963: Kunsthaus Zürich, 23. März bis 28. April
1963.
Köln: [s.n., 1963?]
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst.
Paris: Orangerie des Tuileries,
1971.
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst: 4 juillet-30 août 1953, Knokke, Le Zoute, Albert
Plage, Casion Communal.
Bruxelles: Éditions de la connaissance,
c1953.
"L'exposition retrospective des oeuvres de Max Ernst a été
organisée par E.L.T. Mesens et P.G. Van Hecke avec la collaboration de
L'Institute of Contemporary Arts de Londres" - T.p. verso.
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst, histoire naturelle: dessins
inédits.
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, [195-]
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst: Oeuvres de 1919 à 1936.
Paris: Éditions
Cahiers d'art, [c1937]
Ernst, Max.
Die Nacktheit der Frau ist weiser als die Lehre des
Philosophen.
Köln: Galerie Der Spiegel; Paris: Éditions Gallimard,
1970.
Ernst, Max.
Le Néant et son double.
Paris, New York: A.
Iolas, [1968]
L'Esprit nouveau.
Paris: Éditions de l'Esprit
nouveau, [1920]-[1925]
Nos. 25 and 26 (1924 or 1925). No. 26 in acidic
tissue wrapper: "Numéro spécial consacré à Guillaume Apollinaire."
Europe: Revue mensuelle.
46e année, no. 475-476,
Nov-Dec. 1968. Cover title: Surréalisme.
Exposition de trois peintres américains: deux tourangeaux - un
parisien: Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning: Musée des beaux-arts de Tours,
10 novembre 1956-16 décembre 1956 / sous les auspices de la ville de Tours à
l'occasion du Festival international du court métrage.
[Tours: Le
Musée, 1956]
Giacometti, Alberto.
Alberto Giacometti.
Bern: Klipstein &
Kornfeld, [1959]
Catalog of an exhibition held from July 18 to August 22,
1959.
Giacometti, Alberto.
Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen = Essais, photos, dessins /
Alberto Giacometti; hrsg. von Ernst Scheidegger; die deutsche Übertragung
besorgte Ursula von Wiese.
Zürich: Im Verlag der Arche,
1958.
Gide, André.
Montaigne, an essay in two parts.
London: The
Blackmore press; New York: H. Liveright, 1929.
Autographed by André Gide.
English first edition (1929), numbered 264 of 300 British and 500 American
copies.
Hamon, Hervé, and Patrick Rotman.
Les porteurs de valises: la résistance française à la guerre
d'Algérie.
Paris: A. Michel, 1979.
Henri Matisse: les grandes gouaches découpées / Musée des arts
décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, mars-avril-mai, 1961.
[Paris: Le
Musée, 1961].
Jacques Hérold.
Wuppertal: Galerie Parnass,
[1960]
Catalog of an exhibition held May 27 - June 26, 1960.
Jazz magazine.
[Paris: Jazz Magazine]
No.
330, juin 1984.
Jeanson, Francis.
Notre guerre.
Paris: Éditions de Minuit,
[c1960]
Jeanson, Francis.
Le procès du réseau Jeanson / présenté par Marcel
Péju.
Paris: Maspero, 1961.
London Bulletin, March 15, 1939.
London: London
Gallery Ltd.
Larrea, Juan.
El surrealismo entre viejo y nuevo mundo.
México:
Ediciones Cuadernos americanos, 1944.
Léger, Fernand.
Fernand Léger, Ausstellung 22. Mai bis 23. Juni 1957,
Kunsthalle Basel.
[Basel: Die Kunsthalle, 1957]
Les lettres nouvelles.
Paris : Julliard.
(Gallimard?)
7e année, no. 6, 8 avril 1959. Contains interview with
Alberto Giacometti.
Magritte, René.
Magritte, 1898-1967: 11 janvier-16 mars, 1979.
Paris: Galerie Isy Brachot, [1979]
Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián.
Matta: terres nouvelles: peintures exposées du 8 au 30 juin
1956 à la Galerie du Dragon.
[Paris: La Galerie, 1956]
Minotaure.
Paris: A. Skira, 1933-1939.
Three
issues, 1933-34: No. 1 (Mission Dakar-Djibouti 1931-1933); No. 3-4, with
article by Man Ray (L'age de la lumière); No. 5, with articles by Man Ray
(Danses-Horizons), Max Ernst (Les mystères de la forêt), Paul Eluard and André
Breton.
L'OEil.
[Paris, s.n.]
No. 16, avril 1956. With
article: Souvenirs rhénans, by Max Ernst.
Opus international.
Paris: Éditions Georges Fall.
No. 19-20 (Oct. 1970). Cover title: Surréalisme international. With short
articles on Matta, Man Ray and Jacques Hérold, and mention of Victor
Brauner.
Paalen, W., ed.
Dyn.
[Coyoacan, D.F., Mexico: Printed at Talleres
Gráficos de la Nación, 1943]
Nos. 1, 3, 4-5 ("Amerindian number"), and 6,
dated 1942-1944.
Picasso, Pablo.
Picasso, oeuvres des musées de Léningrad et de Moscou,
1900-1914 / [introd. par Maurice Raynal].
Paris: Maison de la
pensée française, 1954.
Ray, Man.
Les mains libres: dessins de Man Ray; illustrés par les poèmes
de Paul Éluard.
[Paris]: Gallimard, 1947.
With title page
dedication to De Herrera by Man Ray.
San Francisco Museum of Art.
Dynaton, 1951 [by] Jacqueline Johnson, Lee Mullican, Gordon
Onslow-Ford [and] Wolfgang Paalen.
[San Francisco: s.n.,
1951?]
The Star screwer.
[Montignac, France]: Nautical
Press & Star Screwer, 1972-
Nos. 3-4, 5, 6 plus poster.
Style en France.
Paris: Éditions J.B.V.
Vol.
II no. 5, Jan./Feb./Mar. 1947 [appeared 1947 Apr. 15].
Le surréalisme au service de la révolution. No.
1
Paris: Librairie José Corti, [n.d.—1930?]
Le Surréalisme en 1947: exposition internationale du
surréalisme, présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp.
Paris:
Pierre à Feu, Maeght Editeur, c1947.
Tzara, Tristan.
Morceaux choisis / Tristan Tzara; préface de Jean Cassou.
[Paris]: Bordas, c1947.
Dedicated to De Herrera and W. Copley
by Tristan Tzara.
Verve: Revue artistique et littéraire.
Paris:
Éditions Verve, 1937-
Vol IX, no. 35-36, 1958. Cover title: Dernières
OEuvres de Matisse, 1950-1954.
View.
New York: View, Inc.,
1940-1947.
Includes Vol VI no. 1, Feb. 1946 and Vol VI nos. 2-3, Mar.-Apr.
1946.
XXe siècle.
Paris: Chroniques du jour,
1938-1984.
1re année (1938), nos. 1-4. Includes article: La photographie
qui console, by Man Ray.
Selected Bibliography
Michèle and Michel Auer.
Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos
jours = Photographers encyclopaedia international, 1839 to the present.
Hermance, Switzerland : Camera Obscura, c1985.
Darbois, Dominique, and Philippe Vigneau.
Les Algériens en guerre. Milan : Feltrinelli,
1961.
Forging identity [videorecording] / a film by Jacques Falck.
Brooklyn, NY : First Run / Icarus Films [distributor], 1999.
Henri Matisse, 1950-1954 : les grandes gouaches découpées :
[Ausstellung] Kunsthalle Bern, 25. Juli bis 20. September 1959.
[Bern :
Kunsthalle, 1959]
Henri Matisse : paper cut-outs / Jack Cowart ... [et
al.].
[St. Louis] : St. Louis Art Museum ; New York : distributed by
Abrams, c1977.
James Byrnes / interviewed by George M. Goodwin ; completed
under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los
Angeles.
c1977.
Man Ray : Paris - L.A. Santa Monica, CA : Smart Art
Press, c1996.
Series I.
Correspondence,
1950-1988
Physical Description:
ca. 180 items
Scope and Content Note
The series is arranged
alphabetically by correspondent. Included is correspondence related to De
Herrera's work for Matisse and Duchamp, her social and business contacts, and
communications with art dealers and museums mentioning artworks sought,
available for sale, and requested for exhibition. Also included are details of
her travel to the Soviet Union and the friendships she made there (1957-1958),
her legal representation during her Algerian episode (1960), her last illness
and final arrangements (1983-1985), and the reconnection with her Los Angeles
family (1984-1985). The voluminous correspondence with James and Barbara Byrnes
is of interest for its details of De Herrera's life in France, especially at
its end. In particular, her next-to-last letter (undated, likely
1985 June 16) functions almost as a
testament to her life, with frank estimations of her past art-world associates
and how they treated her after her Algerian involvement.
Box 1, Folder 1
Baldwin, Neil,
1984
Physical Description:
2 letters (2 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letters to De Herrera and Dominique Darbois, requesting interview
with De Herrera for his Man Ray biography (
Man Ray, American artist).
Box 1, Folder 2
Barinov, Igor,
1957
Physical Description:
1 letter plus
envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Leningrad geologist, discussing recent excursions.
With mention of a well-reviewed jazz concert by an ensemble from Paris, led by
M. Legrand.
Box 1, Folder 3
Barton, Patricia,
1976
Physical Description:
1 postcard
Scope and Content Note
Greetings from American "modern primitive" painter.
Box 1, Folder 4
Berggruen, Heinz,
1975-1976,
undated
Physical Description:
4
letters
Scope and Content Note
Letters of art dealer (some by Berggruen's assistant Antoine
Mendiharat) to De Herrera, concerning her Joseph Cornell box,
la boîte de Paul et Virginie; undated letter
discusses travel plans.
Box 1, Folder 5
Brauner, Victor and Jacqueline,
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter
Scope and Content Note
Invites De Herrera to visit Blonville (Calvados), and requests art
supplies from Lefebvre-Foinet's store. With one copy.
Box 1, Folder 6
Burke, John (U.S. Foreign Service),
1960
Physical Description:
2 letters (2 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Cover letters from consular official to De Herrera in prison,
sending newspaper articles and a letter from Mildred de Herrera.
Box 1, Folder 7-12
Byrnes, James B. and Barbara C.,
1952-1985,
undated
Physical Description:
56
letters, postcards and telegrams
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence principally detailing De Herrera's final illness
and the assistance provided her by the Byrnes. Topics include the Byrnes's
travels and activities, including their meeting with De Herrera's family in Los
Angeles; sale of De Herrera's house; inventorying and shipping of her artworks
and possessions; sales of artwork by Man Ray, Françoise Gilot, Léger, Picabia,
Nicholson, Schwitters, Lucas Granach and Eva Gonzalès; money transfers; G. de
H.'s earliest memories; chemotherapy; her final move and "exit program".
De Herrera's next-to-last letter [undated, likely
1985 June 16, 11 leaves] gives
intimate details of her early life and her work, with frank observations on Man
Ray and her other associates in the Paris art world, McCarthy and her reasons
for leaving the U.S., friends Vera and Laurence, Irene and Bill Mitchell,
instructions as to remembrances for her doctors, and the reactions of her
family and others to her Algerian involvement.
The letters also provide details concerning other artists,
particularly projects concerning Man Ray; Byrnes's research on Degas; G. de
H.'s work on the
Enfants du monde series (with Dominique Darbois);
mounting of William Copley’s canvas
Gloria and repair of other received artworks;
Matisse's
Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya; and De Herrera's work
on Matisse collages published in
Verve issue. Also mentioned are Clinton and Nancy
Adams, Neil Baldwin, Baugnies, Henri Berggruen, John Berry, Constantin
Brancusi, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, William
and Noma Copley, Joseph Cornell, Dominique Darbois, Lydia Delectorskaya, Jules
Engel and the California Institute of the Arts, Max Ernst, Merry Foresta,
Alberto Giacometti, Françoise Gilot, Anne d'Harnoncourt (director of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art), Irving and Ruth Harrison, Jean Helion, Barnet
Hodes (Copley’s lawyer), Phyllis Hudson, Ynez Johnston, Jojo [Adolfo or
Adolphe] Kaminsky, Jo Kantor, Naomi Lavage (?), Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet,
Fernand Léger, Mort Levine, Joan Levy, Edouard Loeb, Roberto Matta, Bruce
McIntyre, Wright Morris, John Bernard Myers and his book
Tracking the Marvelous, Gerald and Paula Nordland,
Wolfgang Paalen, Bernard Pfreim, Juliet Man Ray, Jacqueline Roque (Picasso's
wife), Mark Rothko, James Johnson Sweeney and his exhibition
Twentieth century masterpieces, Dorothea Tanning,
Nelly Van Doesburg, Van Tongerloo, Mary Wescher, Emerson and Dina Woellfer, and
Virginia M. Zabriskie.
Box 1, Folder 13
Chavaroche, Marie-Hélène,
1985
Physical Description:
2 letters (3 leaves)
plus one envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letters of De Herrera's caretaker to and from James Byrnes,
concerning final settlement of De Herrera's debts after her death, and the
mailing of her personal effects.
Box 1, Folder 14
Copley, William N.,
1951-1953,
undated
Physical Description:
4
letters (4 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letters to Jack Ostrow, Norman R. Tyre and others (Jim, Bob)
concerning financial and legal arrangements with reference to the 1926 Trust.
With mention of Copley's upcoming exhibition.
Box 1, Folder 15
Darbois, Dominique,
1983,
undated
Physical Description:
3 letters (4
leaves) plus 1 envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letters of French photographer to and from James Byrnes,
concerning De Herrera's whereabouts and the state of her illness. One letter
dated Jan. 4, no year (possibly
1955 Jan. 4), to an unnamed
correspondent gives details of Darbois's travel in Laos (found folded in
Antonin Artaud's
Les Tarahumaras).
Box 1, Folder 16-17
De Herrera, David and Mildred,
1984-1985
Physical Description:
19 letters and 2
telegrams
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of letters to De Herrera's brother and mother, with
reminiscences and discussion of keepsakes to be sent.
Box 1, Folder 18
Delectorskaya, Lydia,
1955-1985,
undated
Physical Description:
8
items (7 leaves and 3 cards)
Scope and Content Note
Letters and postcards to and from Matisse's assistant and model.
With mention of "le Patron" (Matisse), Byrnes and Lefebvre-Foinet, and
Delectorskaya's answers to a questionnaire on their Matisse collage work sent
by De Herrera, who refers to the "échantillons Matisse". Also with a 1985 letter
to Dina Vierny, through whom De Herrera hoped to contact Delectorskaya.
Box 1, Folder 19
Dorival, Bernard,
1966
Physical Description:
2 letters (2 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letters from curator at the
Musée national d'art moderne, requesting
loan of Man Ray object for Dada exhibition.
Box 1, Folder 20
Drouin, René,
undated
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
List on plain note paper of Max Ernst paintings still at
Drouin's gallery:
La nuit rhénane and
La ville engourdie (found folded in
Max Ernst by Joë Bousquet).
Box 1, Folder 21
Duchamp, Marcel,
1957
Physical Description:
4 letters (4 leaves plus
2 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Discussion of a box sample being made by De Herrera for Duchamp,
with work instructions and a mention of I.C.A. [Institute of Contemporary
Arts]; misdelivery of parcel containing box sample; order for 30 boxes and
frames.
Box 1, Folder 22
Dumas, Roland,
1960-1975
Physical Description:
3 letters (3
leaves), 1 card plus 1 envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letters from De Herrera's defense attorney. The card, addressed
"Ma chère Anne" [sic], is notice of a favorable outcome; the letters (including
a photocopy of one from Michel Poniatowski) concern the 1975 renewal of G. de
H.'s residence permit.
Box 1, Folder 23
Ernst, Max, and Dorothea Tanning,
1953-1967,
undated
Physical Description:
3
cards
Scope and Content Note
Greetings; invitation to Halloween party; request to
Lefebvre-Foinet for De Herrera's whereabouts, concerning loan of painting
"Katchina et son ame" for Tanning retrospective.
Box 1, Folder 24
Foresta, Merry,
1978
Physical Description:
1 letter (1 leaf)
Scope and Content Note
First page of Byrnes letter to curator at Smithsonian
Institution, concerning Man Ray's chess sets. With a mention of Duchamp.
Box 1, Folder 25
Francette,
1957,
undated
(6 leaves)
Physical Description:
3 letters
Scope and Content Note
Letters from friend discussing her impressions of Sweden; G. de
H.'s plans for travel in USSR, with suggestion that she visit Greece;
discussion of political situation in France; De Herrera's arrival in Sweden en
route to USSR; loan of a camera and film. With mention of Jacques Lacarrière
and his book on Mount Athos, the seizing of L'Humanité, Claude Bonerandi, Lola
and Lidia (Lydia Delectorskaya?).
Box 1, Folder 26
Gibbons, Joseph Burroughs (Burr) and Roberta,
1984
Physical Description:
3 items (4 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Concerning sale to the Gibbons of De Herrera's Dordogne house.
With notes for telephone conversation, and photocopy of cancelled payment
check.
Box 1, Folder 27
Gilot, Françoise,
1983
Physical Description:
2 letters plus 1 copy (4
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Byrnes, concerning repurchase from De Herrera
of Gilot's 1947 drawing of her son Claude [Picasso]. Gives details of Byrnes's
locating De Herrera. With mention of Dominique Darbois and Hans Hartung.
Box 1, Folder 28
Grepin (possibly Grépin),
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter (1 leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Hopes to meet De Herrera in Paris (note found folded in
Le surréalisme au service de la révolution).
Box 1, Folder 29
Hall, Jacques,
1985-1987,
undated
Physical Description:
7
letters (9 leaves) plus 1 card, 1 telegram, 1 envelope
Scope and Content Note
Notes and correspondence of De Herrera and Byrnes with friend and
helper in Dordogne: concerning impending Byrnes visit, which De Herrera wishes to
prevent; request for handgun; desperate attempt to contact the Byrnes; notice
to the Byrnes of De Herrera's death, with mention of the "échantillons Matisse";
forwarding of money to cover De Herrera's debts, with mention of Byrnes's book on
Degas; final debt settlement.
Box 1, Folder 30
Kaminsky, Adolfo,
1966-1973,
undated
Physical Description:
9
items plus 1 photocopy
Scope and Content Note
Documents and letter concerning photographer, master forger and
underground resistance fighter, lover of De Herrera: a paper scrap with their
shared Paris address; two business cards; a signed check; Kaminsky's IOU; G. de
H.'s letter asking for repayment of seven-year-old debt; three blank sheets of
paper signed "A. Kaminsky".
Box 1, Folder 31
Ke[...], Lida,
1957
Physical Description:
1 letter (1 leaf plus
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Friendly letter from Moscow, mentioning De Herrera's travel to
Odessa, Sukhumi and the Caucasus. Correspondent's last name illegible.
Box 1, Folder 32
Lefebvre-Foinet, Maurice,
1959-1966,
undated [1985?]
Physical Description:
2 letters and 1 note (3 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letter to De Herrera from L. F., currently taking down an
exhibition in Bern, with mention of Duchamp's suitcases and of Mlle. Teigel
(with notes on verso from Ida and Franz [Meyer?]); letter to L. F. from Mildred
de Herrera, attempting to contact De Herrera; notes for a telephone conversation
with Josette Lefebvre concerning a Calder drawing to be recovered [1985?].
Box 1, Folder 33
Loeb, Edouard,
1966
Physical Description:
1 letter (1 leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Concerning Matisse drawing deposited at Loeb's gallery by G. de
H., for which he has found a buyer contrary to her wishes; asks to discuss sale
with her. Interested also in other drawings by Matisse, Giacometti and Max
Ernst.
Box 1, Folder 34
Maranz, George,
1959
Physical Description:
1 letter plus 1 booklet
(8 pp.)
Scope and Content Note
Thanks De Herrera for having helped rewrite a letter; sends copy
of Maranz's pamphlet "Towards world cooperation" (included in folder).
Box 1, Folder 35
Matisse, Henri and Amélie,
1954-1959
Physical Description:
2 letters (2
leaves), 2 cards,
Scope and Content Note
Greeting card; letter requesting work permit for De Herrera to
help with Matisse exhibit at the Musée d'art moderne de Paris; request for G.
de H.'s help with an exhibit of Matisse gouache collages (held at the
Kunsthalle Bern and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam); announcement of gouache
exhibit in Bern.
Box 1, Folder 36
Matisse, Pierre,
1966
Physical Description:
1 letter (2 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letter from the New York art dealer concerning evaluation of
Giacometti drawings and identity of missing drawing. With mention of "Laronde
book" (possibly
Rien, voilà l'ordre by Olivier Larronde).
Box 1, Folder 37
Messenger, Ivan,
1950
Physical Description:
1 letter (1 leaf) plus 1
contract
Scope and Content Note
Letter from De Herrera to San Diego painter and printmaker
involved with the California Centennials Commission and the Fine Arts Gallery
of San Diego, complaining of unprofessional handling of a job offer. With a
copy of a contract offered to De Herrera for work on the San Diego County
Historical Art Exhibition.
Box 1, Folder 38
Meyer, Franz,
1959
Physical Description:
1 letter (1 leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Letter from curator of Matisse collage exhibit in Bern, thanking
De Herrera for help with an English text, with comments on the exhibition's
success and on the accessibility of Matisse's collages.
Box 1, Folder 39
Mitchell, Irene Musillo and Bill,
1955,
undated
Physical Description:
2 letters (2
leaves) plus 2 cards
Scope and Content Note
Letters from De Herrera to unnamed correspondent (likely Irene
Mitchell) concerning the latter's graduation and travel to Italy, with mention
of De Herrera's interest in the prehistoric art of the Dordogne; Christmas
greeting cards from De Herrera's best friend at Hollywood High School and her
husband.
Box 1, Folder 40
Paalen, Wolfgang,
1954-1957
Physical Description:
1 letter (1
leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Letter to De Herrera alluding to recent difficulties, and
congratulating her on her upcoming trip. For invitation from Paalen to
publication party for issue no. 3 of
Medium, see Series IV. Photographs: Wolfgang Paalen
at Uxmal, invitation (Box 5, f. 36).
Box 2, Folder 1
Ray, Man,
1951-1967
Physical Description:
2 letters (2
leaves) and 2 cards
Scope and Content Note
Photocopied announcement of Hollywood studio clearance sale
prior to Paris departure; letter to Mary and Paul [Wescher], with mention of
William Copley; announcement for 1954 Man Ray gallery opening, with list of
French departments on verso in De Herrera's hand; postcard from Man Ray to G. de
H., with mention of [William] Rubin.
Box 2, Folder 2
Ray, Man,
1951
Physical Description:
1 greeting card
Scope and Content Note
Sentimental card sent to De Herrera from Juliet and Man Ray.
Box 2, Folder 3
Rubin, William,
1967-1968
Physical Description:
3 letters and 2
documents (5 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Rubin and his associates Alicia Legg and
Sarah Weiner, concerning De Herrera's loan of Man Ray's
Boardwalk for the Dada and Surrealism exhibition at
the Museum of Modern Art. With details of a mishap over catalogue reproduction,
previous exhibition and reproduction data, and a mention of Man Ray. Includes
loan receipt and receipt of delivery.
Box 2, Folder 4
Tsypina, Rita,
1957-1958
Physical Description:
6 letters (6
leaves) with 6 envelopes, and 1 card
Scope and Content Note
Letters from French-speaking Intourist guide befriended by G. de
H., with details on the Moscow cultural scene. Topics include work with an
anti-communist reporter from "L'Aurore"; an exhibition of [Honoré] Daumier; the
conversion of the Manège, an equestrian building, into an art exhibition hall,
with an exhibition of Soviet artists celebrating the 40th anniversary of the
October Revolution; De Herrera's efforts to learn Russian; Sputnik; an exhibition
of the American painter R. [Rockwell] Kent; the dancers Lilianne Daydé and
Michel Réneau; Tsypina's miscarriage and convalescence; De Herrera's questions
about Pushkin; the 1958 Tchaikovsky competition, with mention of Annie Petit,
Sylvie Decret, "un Américain" [Van Cliburn], and Naum Shtarkman; a screening of
Gérard Philippe's
Till Eulenspiegel; the Gothic architecture of Riga;
the Paris strikes; work with the Paris ballet.
Box 2, Folder 5
Young-Mallin, Judith,
1988
Physical Description:
1 letter (1 leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Byrnes offering use of De Herrera materials for Man
Ray project.
Box 2, Folder 6
Unidentified,
1960,
undated
Physical Description:
1 letters (1
leaf) and 2 postcards
Scope and Content Note
Letter to Katia regarding meeting (signature illegible); two
postcards to De Herrera.
Series II.
Documents,
1936-1996
Physical Description:
ca. 170 items
Scope and Content Note
Series II documents De Herrera's art and
political activities, and episodes in her life from grade school to final
illness. Included are some of De Herrera's early school papers, her poetry and
other writings, papers concerning her work activities (including work on the
Matisse collages and the
Enfants du monde series), her arrest and release
papers, her medical reports and financial paperwork, and records relating to
the end of her life. Her obituary, as well as those of Man Ray and William
Copley, is also included. Of particular interest are De Herrera's canceled
passports, documenting much of her travel from 1951 to 1973. The series also
includes some of William Copley's papers and writings, particularly a series of
short essays vividly describing life in France in 1951. The arrangement of the
documents is roughly chronological.
Box 2, Folder 7
De Herrera's grade school report cards,
1936-1942
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Report cards for second and seventh grades.
Box 2, Folder 8
Advances in popular education; On art,
1945,
undated [1947?]
Physical Description:
10 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Typescript essays by De Herrera; likely high school papers.
Box 2, Folder 9
De Herrera's poetry,
1946
Physical Description:
6 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Six poems written for creative writing class.
Box 2, Folder 10
Twister to the slammer of hard spiel: an introduction to
Harlem jive,
undated [1947?]
Physical Description:
8 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten essay by De Herrera; likely a high school paper.
Box 2, Folder 11
Othello, the moor of Venice: as conceived in Harlem
jive,
undated [1947?]
Physical Description:
4 leaves
Scope and Content Note
A jive retelling of Act V, Scene II of Shakespeare's Othello;
probable author is Dan Burley. Pages cut from book.
Box 2, Folder 12
Newspaper clippings,
1949,
1984
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Atomic age fables (absurdist text from Saturday Review); reports
on the California Centennial Exhibition of Art, with photo of De Herrera; mention
of the sale of the art collection of Barnet Hodes (Copley's attorney).
Box 2, Folder 13
Dondero, George, "Modern art shackled to Communism,"
1949 Aug 16
Physical Description:
4 pages
Scope and Content Note
Text of Dondero's speech to the House of Representatives, with
McCarthyite perceptions of the dangers of modern art. Photocopies; original
housed in Box 7*.
Box 2, Folder 14
Stubs and cards,
1949-1950,
1976
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera's employee card at the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art; voter stub; membership card for I.C.A. [Institute of Contemporary Arts],
London, annotated by De Herrera ("Don't forget I am a founder member").
Box 2, Folder 15
De Herrera's poetry and other writings,
1951,
undated
Physical Description:
12 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Les pensées à la forme des mots (a collection of poetry,
incomplete); assorted poems and prose, including text dated
1951 May 9 describing impressions
of Paris.
Box 2, Folder 16
Vassilissa dans le miroir,
undated
Physical Description:
3 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten text of Russian fairy tale, possibly retold by G. de
H.
Box 2, Folder 17
De Herrera's miscellaneous writings,
undated
Physical Description:
2 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Notes on the Armory show of 1913, with mention of John Quinn and
Henri-Pierre Roché; typescript page with numbered responses 13 through 24,
possibly a test or an inventory of artworks.
Box 2, Folder 18
Materials related to voyage on SS De Grasse,
1951
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Baggage tag with De Herrera's name; postcard; illustrated
menu.
Box 2, Folder 19
Passports, driver's license,
1951-1973
Physical Description:
7 items (33
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Disbound leaves from De Herrera's travel documents (incomplete);
visa stamps record her travel.
Box 2, Folder 20
Copley's writings,
1951,
undated
Physical Description:
10 items
(48 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Short non-fiction essays, fragments and rough drafts concerning
Copley's experiences in Europe. Subjects include arriving in France; Dahn, a
Jewish friend; crossing the Pyrenées to Spain (
1951 May 22); spring in Paris,
with a discussion of Franco-American relations (May 30); the French elections
and the Communist vote (undated, June?); French folk songs; French newspapers
(July 31); visiting Germany to see Max Ernst's exhibition in Brühl (
1951 Aug. 15); August in Paris
(Aug. 31); a visit to Picasso in Vallauris (undated, 1951?). Typescript with
pen and pencil corrections; one loose page.
Box 2, Folder 21
Copley's expense reports;
1951
Physical Description:
7 leaves
Scope and Content Note
With mention of the entertainment of James Byrnes, Blandina Zee,
Marcel Xerbi [Zerbib?], Erna Hegg, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Peter Watson,
Curt Valentiner, Bernard Pfriem, and Howard Baer.
Box 2, Folder 22
Photocopies of title pages dedicated by authors,
1949-1952,
undated
Physical Description:
7
leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopied dedications by André Gide (Montaigne, 1929,
autograph undated); Man Ray (Les mains libres, 1937; dedication undated); Max
Ernst (Max Ernst, 30 years of his work, 1949); Tristan Tzara (Morceaux choisis,
1951, with duplicate), and Marc Chagall (Verve Vol. VI no. 24, 1952). See
separation list for titles (except Chagall).
Box 2, Folder 23
Accounting for Matisse collages worked on by De Herrera,
[between 1953 and 1959]
Physical Description:
6 leaves
Scope and Content Note
List of supplies and fees for work on the following collages:
Gerbe; Lierre; Femmes bleues et blanches; Perruche; Tristesse du roi; Danseuse;
Nu s/jaune (Grenouille); Femme et singes; Zulma; Femme et oranges; Acrobates;
Apollon; Rosace; Océanie (Tahiti); Piscine; Negresse.
Box 2, Folder 24
Information on Matisse collages,
1977-1996
Physical Description:
2 items (25
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies (with duplicates) from
Henri Matisse : paper cut-outs, ed. Jack Cowart et
al., 1977; and Taking the plunge with Matisse,
Art Newspaper, no. 55,
1996 Jan., p. 3 (concerning a
restoration of La Perruche by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam). With pencil
inscriptions, possibly by Lydia Delectorskaya; found with Delectorskaya letter
[undated] mentioning "le Patron" (Matisse).
Box 2, Folder 25
Photocopies of Dominique Darbois's children's books,
1959-1971
Physical Description:
29 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of selected pages from
Tacho, le petit méxicain (1959);
Hassan, l'enfant du désert (1960); and
Manolo, le petit espagnol (1960, 2nd. ed. 1971) from
the series
Les enfants du monde published by Fernand Nathan.
With credit: "Maquette de Gloria de Herrera."
Box 2, Folder 26
Jean Jaurès pamphlet; political quote,
1960,
undated
Physical Description:
1 pamphlet
(16 pp.), 1 card
Scope and Content Note
Pamphlet entitled
La vie d'un grand disparu : Jean Jaurès, apôtre de la
paix
, with text by Jaurès, biographical notes, and excerpted comments
by Anatole France, René Viviani, Edouard Vaillant, and Albert Thomas. A
separate card bears slogan critical of the United States.
Box 2, Folder 27
Arrest warrant and prison release,
1960
Physical Description:
4 items and envelope
Scope and Content Note
Documents concerning De Herrera's arrest, incarceration at the
Prison de la Petite Roquette, and release. With train seat assignment
coupon.
Box 2, Folder 28
Newspaper articles on De Herrera's arrest,
1960 Feb
Physical Description:
2
items (2 copies)
Scope and Content Note
New York Herald Tribune articles: "French
intellectuals seized as aids of FLN"; "Consular official to see U.S. girl in
Paris jail". (See Series V. Oversize materials, Box 7* f. 5, for additional
articles.)
Box 2, Folder 29
Man Ray photocopies and corrections,
undated,
[1963]
[1982]
Physical Description:
5 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies from Man Ray's
Photographs; corrections, possibly for French
edition; small photocopy of
Dancer, with annotation by De Herrera ("Belonged to
André Breton").
Box 2, Folder 30
The myth of Man Ray,
[1964?]
Physical Description:
1 leaf
Scope and Content Note
Angry poem by De Herrera, in typescript.
Box 2, Folder 31
Stationery, Cumberland Hotel,
undated,
[after 1966]
Physical Description:
1
leaf
Scope and Content Note
Blank stationery from London hotel, found in
Almost complete works of Marcel Duchamp
(1966).
Box 2, Folder 32
Alexandre Iolas card,
[1968?]
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Found in Max Ernst's
Le néant et son double (1968): "Avec les compliments
de Alexandre Iolas".
Box 2, Folder 33
Département de la Dordogne. Règlement sanitaire
départemental,
1970
Physical Description:
1 booklet (68 pp.)
Scope and Content Note
Dordogne sanitary regulations handbook, annotated by G. de
H.
Box 2, Folder 34
Electrocardiogram,
1974 May 8
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera's electrocardiogram tape, stapled in booklet.
Box 2, Folder 35
Receipts for Matisse artwork,
1974
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
For artwork owned by De Herrera, to be sold through the firm of
Guy Loudmer, Hervé Poulain, Paris.
Box 2, Folder 36
Estampes des XIXe et XXe siècles,
1975 Mar
24
Physical Description:
1 booklet (4 leaves plus cover) plus 3 items
Scope and Content Note
Auction catalogue for 19th and 20th century prints to be sold by
Guy Loudmer and Hervé Poulain, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. With business card, bidding
form and condition report. Item 121 records sale of Matisse lithograph by G. de
H.
Box 2, Folder 37
Man Ray's obituary,
1976 Nov
19
Physical Description:
1 item (2 clippings)
Scope and Content Note
Obituary appearing in
Le Monde.
Box 2, Folder 38
Tableaux modernes, art contemporain,
1977 Mar 8
Physical Description:
1 booklet (12 leaves plus cover) plus 4 items
Scope and Content Note
Auction catalogue for prints, illustrated books, modern and
contemporary paintings to be sold by Guy Loudmer and Hervé Poulain, Hôtel
Drouot, Paris. Some pen markings; portion of front cover has been cut away,
possibly with loss of title information. Item 26 records sale of Matisse
heliogravure by De Herrera. With list of estimated prices, bidding form and two
object condition reports.
Box 2, Folder 39
De Herrera's statement on her Algerian involvement,
[after 1979?]
Physical Description:
1 card
Scope and Content Note
Short handwritten affirmation of her actions. Found in
Les porteurs de valises by Hervé Hamon (1979).
Box 2, Folder 40
James Byrnes's notes,
[198-]
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
With mention of
Henri Matisse : les grandes gouaches découpées and
Les porteurs de valises.
Box 3, Folder 1
Transcript of De Herrera interview,
1983
Physical Description:
pp. 1-86
Scope and Content Note
Part 1 of interview of De Herrera by James and Barbara Byrnes,
taped
1983 July (see Series V.
Audiovisual materials).
Box 3, Folder 2
Transcript of De Herrera interview,
1983
Physical Description:
pp. 87-160
Scope and Content Note
Part 2 of interview transcript.
Box 3, Folder 3
First draft of De Herrera interview transcript,
1983 July
Physical Description:
53 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Transcription by Bruce McIntyre dates to 1991. With annotations,
some dating to 1996.
Box 3, Folder 4
De Herrera's notes, addresses,
undated
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Paper scraps with handwritten notes, including address of Claude
Picasso.
Box 3, Folder 5
Medical reports,
1983-1984
Physical Description:
10 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Five reports on De Herrera's cancer and treatment,
1983 Sept through
1984 Jan Some leaves are
duplicates.
Box 3, Folder 6
Checkbook and passbook,
1984-1985
Physical Description:
10 items plus
envelope
Scope and Content Note
Items from De Herrera's trust account, set up by the Byrnes with
proceeds from Dordogne house sale; some copies.
Box 3, Folder 7
Byrnes's notes and questions for De Herrera interview,
1985
Physical Description:
13 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes on 1983 tapes; list of questions for a planned
follow-up interview, April 1985. Pagination out of order.
Box 3, Folder 8
List of De Herrera's artworks,
1985
Physical Description:
2 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Inventory of artworks owned by De Herrera, with her
annotations.
Box 3, Folder 9
Contents of compartment box,
[1985]
Physical Description:
3 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten list of 80 objects owned by De Herrera, intended for
brother David.
Box 3, Folder 10
Byrnes's notes for communication with Jacques Hall,
1985
Physical Description:
5 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Notes for telephone calls: May 2, May 29 and June 26.
Box 3, Folder 11
Shipping of De Herrera's effects,
1985
Physical Description:
20 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Records for shipping De Herrera's belongings to California. With
lists, certificates, bills, cancelled checks, pick-up orders and other
paperwork.
Box 3, Folder 12
Bills and receipts concerning De Herrera's death,
1985
Physical Description:
9 leaves plus envelope
Scope and Content Note
Postal receipts; bills for ambulance, hospital, carpentry,
cremation.
Box 3, Folder 13
Byrnes's notes for De Herrera's obituary,
1985 June
27
Physical Description:
2 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Notes and preliminary draft.
Box 3, Folder 14
De Herrera's obituary,
1985 June
29
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Three photocopies of
Los Angeles Times obituary, plus small
clipping with date.
Box 3, Folder 15
Copley's obituary,
1996 May 12
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Clipping of Copley's
Los Angeles Times obituary.
Box 3, Folder 16
Assorted,
undated
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
Two playing cards (joker, queen of spades); loose stamp;
mailgram envelope; orange folder labeled J.B.B. (James B. Byrnes) with post-it
note concerning I.C.A. [Institute of Contemporary Arts] founder membership.
Series III.
Artworks,
1945-ca. 1975
Physical Description:
108 items
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of artwork or photographs of artwork owned by
De Herrera at some point in her life or at her death; many were personal gifts
to her from prominent artists. Of particular interest are the Échantillons
Matisse, a by-product of her work on the Matisse collages; the samples of
gouached paper she collected have been shielded from light, retaining their
original hues. The series is arranged by artist's name in three separate
alphabetical filings: artwork (33 items; Box 4 f. 1-13); photographs of artwork
(68 items; f. 14-26); exhibition catalogues and announcements (7 items; f.
27-33).
Box 4, Folder 1
Brauner, Victor,
1955-1959,
undated
Physical Description:
6 drawings, 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
5
drawings: pencil on paper; 10.5 x 14 cm. and smaller
1 painting: watercolor
on paper; 9.5 x 12.5 cm.
1 painting: gouache on paper; 27 x 21 cm.
1
drawing: ink with watercolor on vellum; 16 x 13 cm., 1 backing; 27 x 21 cm.
Drawings of cat, animal and human faces and shapes; drawing of
man at table holding an apple (annotated "Monsieur Brauner pour Gloria") on
verso of card for "Chez Albert", Paris. The gouache of a cat is captioned
"Bonne année 1958". Three of the works are dedicated to De Herrera; four are
signed. Includes photocopy of pencil drawings, annotated by De Herrera.
Box 4, Folder 2
Calder, Alexander,
[ca. 1953]
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing:
ball-point pen on paper; 21 x 17 cm.
Sketched portrait of Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet. Date from donor's
inventory.
Box 4, Folder 3
Calder, Alexander,
[ca. 1956]
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing:
ball-point pen on paper; 21 x 17 cm.
Sketched portrait of Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet. Date from donor's
inventory.
Box 4, Folder 4
Calder, Alexander,
[ca. 1956]
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing:
ball-point pen on paper; 21 x 17 cm.
Sketched portrait of Gloria de Herrera, signed "Sandy". Date
from donor's inventory. Includes one photocopy inscribed by De Herrera: "This is
supposed to be me by Sandy Calder - ca. middle fifties."
Box 4, Folder 5
Copley, William,
[ca. 1952]
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Painting:
oil on linen; 5 x 4.5 cm.
Small painting of woman. Date from donor's inventory.
Note
See also Copley's painting Gloria, Series V. Oversize materials,
Box 6*.
Box 4, Folder 6
De Herrera, Gloria,
1951,
undated
Physical Description:
5 drawings
Scope and Content Note
5 drawings: ink on paper; 27 x 21 cm. and smaller.
Sketched portraits of Juliet Man Ray; William Copley and Man Ray
playing chess; William Copley; one unidentified; one harlequin face ("Ce n'est
qu'un debut").
Box 4, Folder 7
Giacometti, Alberto,
[ca. 1965]
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: ink
on paper; 18 x 9 cm.
Sketch of Gloria de Herrera on the stationery of Stafford Hotel,
London. Drawing neatly torn on left side; address of Mme. Marcel Duchamp on
verso. Includes separate identifying leaf. Date from donor's inventory.
Box 4, Folder 8
Gilot, Françoise,
1957
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Painting:
watercolor with ink on board; 20 x 18 cm.
Ballet dancers. Signed and dated. With one photocopy.
Box 4, Folder 9
Échantillons Matisse,
[between 1953 and 1959]
Physical Description:
73 items
Scope and Content Note
72 fragments plus 1 note; 7 x 10 cm. and smaller, in box 8 x 11 x 2 cm.
Gouached paper fragments in original unfaded colors, left over
from Henri Matisse's cut-out collages. Collected by De Herrera; numbered on
versos. Gift of Jacques Hall. Includes identifying note by James B. Byrnes (
1987 Apr. 2).
Box 4, Folder 10
Gouached sheets for Matisse collages,
[between 1953 and 1959]
Physical Description:
10 sheets; 31 x 23.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Uncut sheets of gouached paper in reds, oranges and yellows,
intended for Matisse cut-out collages. Numbered 9, 30-35, 36 bis, 38, 47.
Box 4, Folder 11
Matta, Roberto,
undated
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: ink on
paper; 10.5 x 7 cm.
Signed erotic drawing with inscription: "Happy birthday Gloria".
With pen writing on verso.
Box 4, Folder 12
Paalen, Wolfgang,
undated
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Chart: ink on
paper; 21.5 x 28 cm.
Astronomical diagram of Copán (Honduras). With notes on verso
comparing Maya and Greek metonic cycles.
Box 4, Folder 13
Pfriem, Bernard,
1960
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: pen and
crayon on paper; 10.5 x 13.5 cm.
With inscription: "Gloria dear, a private showing just for you."
Drawn on verso of announcement of Pfriem's exhibition at the Galerie du Dragon,
1960 Mar. 8.
Box 4, Folder 14
Brauner, Victor,
1961
Physical Description:
40 items
Scope and Content Note
40 photographic
prints; 21 x 17 cm. Black-and-white photographs of 1961 Victor Brauner paintings
from the Iolas, Rive Droite, private and unspecified collections. With
identifying information on versos.
Box 4, Folder 15
Brauner, Victor,
1945-1959,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 photographic prints: color; 12.5 x 9 cm.
1 color transparency; 12.5 x 10 cm.
Artwork on transparency dedicated "pour Gloria son ami Victor" (
1955 Apr. 30).
Box 4, Folder 16
Calder, Alexander,
undated
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
2 photographic
prints; 9 x 13 cm. and smaller.
1 color slide, 5 x 5 cm.
Black-and-white photograph of Calder stabile; color photograph
and slide of De Herrera's G-shaped brooch (slide from
1985 Apr. 22 letter to
Byrnes).
Box 4, Folder 17
Copley, William,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic
print: color; 11 x 9 cm.
Polaroid of three Copley paintings on wall.
Box 4, Folder 18
Cornell, Joseph,
undated
Physical Description:
2 photographs
Scope and Content Note
2 photographic
prints; 15 x 17 cm. and smaller.
Black-and-white photograph of
La boîte de Paul et Virginie (identified on verso in
De Herrera's hand); color photograph of
Les eaux d'Égypte.
Box 4, Folder 19
Ernst, Max,
1950,
undated
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
6 photographic prints; 13 x 9 cm. and smaller.
Three color photographs of Ernst frottage sent as holiday
greeting to De Herrera; 3 black-and-white photographs of Max Ernst sculptures,
with inscriptions: "Max détruite" and "Max - Sculpture plâtre détruite, 1950"
(signature illegible).
Box 4, Folder 20
Gilot, Françoise,
1947-1958
Scope and Content Note
2
photographic prints; 9 x 11 cm. and smaller.
Black-and-white photograph of artwork gifted to De Herrera by
Gilot: a portrait of Claude Picasso (5 x 4 cm. on backing 15.5 x 8 cm.),
identified in De Herrera's hand, sold back to Gilot in 1983 for medicine money;
color polaroid of painting of monkey with gun.
Box 4, Folder 21
Johnston, Ynez,
undated
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic
print: color; 16 x 13 cm.
Photograph of painting, likely
Woman with umbrella; stamped on verso "Photographies
Adolphe Kaminsky".
Box 4, Folder 22
Matisse, Henri,
1944,
undated
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
2
photographic prints; 17 x 13 cm.
1 transparency; 6 x 6 cm.
Two black-and white-photographs of a charcoal drawing, and of
the collage
Deux danseurs, "Rouge et Noir"; one color
transparency of the collage
Tristesse du Roi.
Box 4, Folder 23
Monet, Claude,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic
print; 21 x 27.5 cm.
Black-and-white photograph of framed 1893 Monet painting.
Box 4, Folder 24
Ray, Man,
[ca. 1975]
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 photographic prints; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller.
Two black-and-white photographs of Boardwalk (1917), one with
bullet holes circled in red felt pen (versos stamped "Photographies Adolphe
Kaminsky" and "Couleur et techniques photographiques"); one color photograph of
Promenade (1916) hanging in Mary Wescher's home (photo ca. 1975); color
photograph of 1946 chess set in ebony and lemon wood (purchaser information
written on verso), with additional photocopy.
Box 4, Folder 25
Tanning, Dorothea,
[ca. 1960]
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic
print; 23 x 13 cm.
Color photograph of Tanning painting; verso stamped
"Photographies Adolphe Kaminsky". Date from donor's inventory.
Box 4, Folder 26
Unidentified,
La lecture,
undated
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic
print; 14 x 20 cm.
Black-and-white photograph of drawing; pencil inscription on
verso gives title information.
Box 4, Folder 27
Brauner, Victor,
1958
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet
Scope and Content Note
Announcement for Brauner exhibition at Galleria del Naviglio,
Milan.
Box 4, Folder 28
Copley, William,
1951
Physical Description:
1 booklet, 6 leaves
plus cover
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Royer's Book Shop, Los Angeles; cover
title:
CPLY. Includes poem by Dorothea Tanning. With
mention of De Herrera. Pencil annotations concern placement of two paintings in
exhibition.
Box 4, Folder 29
Ernst, Max,
1949
Physical Description:
1 booklet, 2 leaves
plus cover
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills;
lists selected works from 1919 to 1948.
Box 4, Folder 30
Ernst, Max; Surrealistische Kunst,
1952
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim.
Box 4, Folder 31
Matta, Roberto,
1948
Physical Description:
1 booklet
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills;
folded sheet in printed tissue jacket.
Box 4, Folder 32
Mondrian, Piet,
1951
Physical Description:
1 booklet, 4 leaves
plus cover
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
Box 4, Folder 33
Tanguy, Yves,
undated
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of painting and gouache exhibition at Copley
Galleries, Beverly Hills. With attached photomechanical reproduction of
La dame à l'absence.
Series IV.
Photographs,
1947-1985
Physical Description:
288 items
Scope and Content Note
One of the collection's highlights, this series of 244
photographs, 37 photocopies and 1 related item (an invitation) documents De
Herrera's friendships and activities in Los Angeles and in France. Artists most
notably represented are Man Ray and his wife Juliet, William Copley, Max Ernst
and Dorothea Tanning; other artists include Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy,
Valentine and Roland Penrose, Paul Eluard, Wolfgang Paalen, Henri-Pierre Roché,
Pablo Picasso, Françoise Gilot, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and Victor
Brauner. The years from ca. 1948 to ca. 1953, representing De Herrera's last
years in Los Angeles, her 1951 transatlantic voyage on the SS De Grasse, and
her first years in France, are prominently featured. Of particular importance
is De Herrera's scrapbook (Box 5 f. 21), with captioned photographs documenting
events of her life from 1950 to 1953 - see also the scrapbook and Man Ray
photocopies (Box 3 f. 17-18) for further images and annotations. Especially
interesting are the photographs of Max Ernst's house with sculptural
decorations at Capricorn Hill, near Sedona, Arizona, where he lived with
Dorothea Tanning from 1946 to 1953, as well as the one in St. Martin d'Ardèche,
where he had lived with Leonora Carrington before fleeing the Nazi occupation
of France in 1941. Of note are the photographs of a 1951 visit to Picasso's
studio in Vallauris (see Copley's narrative description in Box 3 f. 20). Also
present are a photograph of De Herrera working on a Matisse collage, and a
small set of photographs taken by De Herrera at the Just Jazz concert in
Pasadena,
1947 Sept. 9, featuring Louis
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and others. De Herrera's travel to
the USSR in 1957 and her Belgian exile in the early 1960s are represented; the
photographs of Algeria during its revolution and of Angkor Wat were likely
taken by Dominique Darbois or unknown photographers. De Herrera's later life is
more sparsely documented, with views of her home in the Dordogne, and snapshots
of her friends and associates, several unidentified. Series arrangement is
roughly chronological.
Box 5, Folder 1
Early photograph of Man Ray,
undated
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 5 x 3.5 cm. on backing 13 x 8 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Annotated by De Herrera: "This is my famous 'M' a long time
ago."
Box 5, Folder 2
Just Jazz concert, Pasadena,
1947 Sept
9
Physical Description: 9 photographic prints; 21.5 x 28 cm. and
smaller
Scope and Content Note
Black-and-white photographs taken by De Herrera, age 17, for her
high school newspaper. Artists pictured include Louis Armstrong, Duke
Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Jack Teagarden; possibly also
Norman Granz and Barney Bigard. Includes one contact sheet. With envelope
featuring version of story in James Byrnes's hand (
1996 Jan. 30).
Box 5, Folder 3
Negatives from Just Jazz concert,
1947 Sept
9
Physical Description: 8 negatives; 8 x 11 cm.
Box 5, Folder 4
Gloria de Herrera's foot stepping on unidentified man,
undated
Physical Description: 1 photograph; 6.5
x 9.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Foot identification by James Byrnes,
2002 Sept. 10.
Box 5, Folder 5
Gathering on René Lefebvre-Foinet's porch, Silverlake,
[1948 or 1949]
Physical Description: 1
photographic print; 8.5 x 11 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Pictured are William Copley, Juliet Man Ray, Max Ernst, René
Lefebvre-Foinet, Dorothea Tanning, Man Ray and unidentified woman (possibly
Doris Copley or Mrs. Inverarity). Verso stamped: "Photo by R. B. Inverarity".
With note addressed by James Byrnes to Bruce Inverarity (1996). Date from
donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 6
William Copley and William Copley Jr.,
[between 1948 and 1950]
Physical Description: 1
photographic print; 11 x 14 cm.
Scope and Content Note
William Copley with young son. Date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 7
Gloria de Herrera and William Copley,
[1949 or 1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 9 x 13 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 8
William Copley and Gloria de Herrera playing chess with
Man Ray chess set,
[1949 or 1950]
Physical Description: 1 transparency; 5 x 5 cm. in frame 7 x 7 cm, with envelope
Scope and Content Note
Color transparency by Man Ray. With envelope inscribed by G. de
H.: "Bill Copley et m/m devant chez Man Ray, Vine Street, Hollywood - jeu
d'echecs ebène et citronnier - photo Man Ray 1949/50." See photograph of Man
Ray ebony and lemon wood chess set, Box 4 f. 24.
Box 5, Folder 9
William Copley and Gloria de Herrera playing chess,
[1949 or 1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 12.5 x 17.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Color print from transparency.
Box 5, Folder 10
Max Ernst's Capricorn Hill, Sedona,
[1950]
Physical Description: 8 photographic
prints; 9 x 12.5 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, William Copley and De Herrera at
Ernst's retreat in Arizona. Includes poses with starched jeans; Tanning's dogs;
a view of the sculptured facade of Ernst's cabin; Ernst amidst home
construction; and games with Man Ray anodized aluminum chess set. Date from
donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 11
Portrait of Gloria de Herrera with starched jeans,
Sedona,
[1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 9 x 12.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photograph by Max Ernst. Date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 12
Max Ernst and Gloria de Herrera with starched jeans,
Sedona,
[1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 8 x 11.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photograph by William Copley. Date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 13
Man Ray with Dorothea Tanning's dogs, Hollywood,
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 5.5 x 5.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Taken outside Man Ray's studio, 1245 Vine Street. Photograph by
Juliet Man Ray. Date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 14
Gloria de Herrera and William Copley at the Firehouse,
Hollywood,
[1951 Jan.
1]
Physical Description: 4 photographic prints; 11 x 16.5 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Taken at Copley's Hollywood gallery. With dachshund. Date from
donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 15
William Copley's exhibition at Royer's Bookshop,
1951
Physical Description: 2 photographic
prints; 21.5 x 28 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Contact sheet of nine exposures, and one print. Includes views
of Man Ray aluminum chess set.
Box 5, Folder 16
Negatives of Copley exhibition at Royer's bookshop,
1951
Physical Description: 6 negatives; 6 x 6
cm., on 3 films 13 x 6.2 cm.
Box 5, Folder 17
Patrick Joseph Kelleher, Walter Rothman,
ca. 1952,
undated
Physical Description: 2
photographic prints; 25.5 x 20.5 and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles County museum personnel in the early 1950s. With
biographical information on versos. Kelleher photograph is signed and
inscribed: "To Gloria - See you in Rome."
Box 5, Folder 18
Gloria de Herrera, Juliet and Man Ray aboard the SS De
Grasse,
1951
Mar
Physical Description: 4 photographic prints; 9 x 13 cm.
Scope and Content Note
On-deck snapshots.
Box 5, Folder 19
Gloria de Herrera, William Copley, Juliet and Man Ray
aboard the SS De Grasse with Marcel Duchamp,
1951
Mar
Physical Description: 5 photographic prints; 9 x 13 cm. and smaller, on sheet
19.5 x 29.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Further on-deck snapshots. Four photographs affixed to backing;
one loose. Photographers are likely Copley and De Herrera.
Box 5, Folder 20
Man Ray and Gloria de Herrera at the SS De Grasse
oceanliner party,
1951
Mar
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 20.5 x 26 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Wearing party hats at banquet table. Copley bent over in lower
portion of frame. Photograph by ship's photographer Jacques Lucas.
Box 5, Folder 21
Gloria de Herrera's scrapbook,
[ca. 1950-1953]
Physical Description: 47
photographic prints on 22 leaves; prints 11 x 14 cm. and smaller, leaves 27 x
21 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Incomplete album with missing pages, created by De Herrera (likely
in the 1970s or 1980s) from photographs taken the early 1950s. Photographs are
pasted and captioned in De Herrera's hand, on verso of typescript inventory of
Dominique Darbois photographs. Scenes include departure from New York Harbor on
the SS De Grasse (
1951 Mar., see also Box 5, ff.
18-20); De Herrera at the Firehouse (
1951 Jan. 1, see also Box 5 f.
14); Max Ernst's houses at Capricorn Hill in Sedona (1950, see also Box 5 ff.
10-12) and St. Martin d'Ardèche (1952 or 1953, see also Box 5 f. 31), with a
focus on sculptural decorations; and a visit to Picasso in Vallauris (ca. 1951,
see also Box 5 f. 28). Pictured are De Herrera, William Copley, Juliet and Man
Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, Dominique and
Paul Éluard, Valentine and Roland Penrose, Marcel Zerbib, Pablo Picasso with
son Claude and Françoise Gilot.
Box 5, Folder 22
Snapshots of Gloria de Herrera,
[ca. 1947-ca. 1952]
Physical Description: 4
photographic prints; 9 x 13 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
High school photograph; donning shoe and crouching by two
different Citroën cars.
Box 5, Folder 23
Juliet and Man Ray, Paris,
[ca. 1951]
Physical Description: 2 photographic
prints; 7 x 10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Donor's inventory locates in Montparnasse; dates to 1950s.
Box 5, Folder 24
Man Ray in front of Bugatti automobile, Chartres,
[1951 or 1952]
Physical Description: 2
photographic prints; 7 x 10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs by De Herrera; date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 25
Gloria de Herrera, William Copley, James and Barbara
Byrnes, Paris,
1951
Physical Description: 3 photographic
prints; 6.5 x 9.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Standing in front of Lefebvre-Foinet's art supplies store,
corner of Rue Brea and Rue Vavin. Date on verso.
Box 5, Folder 26
Billboard advertising Max Ernst exhibition, Schloss
Brühl (Westphalia),
1951
Physical Description: 1 photographic print;
6.5 x 9.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
See also Series II. Documents: Copley's writings (Box 2 f. 20)
for description of trip to visit Ernst exhibit in Germany.
Box 5, Folder 27
Gloria de Herrera with Roland Penrose, St. Tropez,
1951
Physical Description: 2 photographic
prints; 9 x 12.5 cm. on sheet 29.5 x 21 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Playing chess outdoors, possibly with fishing nets in
background. May be a sheet detached from De Herrera's scrapbook.
Box 5, Folder 28
Picasso and Valentine Penrose with ceramics, Vallauris
(Alpes-Maritimes),
[1951]
Physical Description: 2 photographic
prints; 9 x 13 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Date from De Herrera's annotation of scrapbook photocopies. See
also Copley's writings, Box 2 f. 20, for description of Picasso visit.
Box 5, Folder 29
Snapshots of Gloria de Herrera, Cap d'Antibes,
1951 or 1952
Physical Description: 3
photographic prints; 8 x 5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera smiling and laughing.
Box 5, Folder 30
Gloria de Herrera and Man Ray smoking pipes,
1952
Physical Description: 1 photographic print;
8 x 11.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 31
Valentine and Roland Penrose, Marcel Zerbib, William
Copley and Gloria de Herrera, St. Martin d'Ardèche,
[1952 or 1953]
Physical Description: 13
photographic prints; 9 x 13 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
At café in town, and at Max Ernst's home with views of
sculptural wall decorations. Date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 32
Maison André Breton, St. Cirq-Lapopie (Lot),
Aug 1952 or 1953
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 11 x 15 cm. and smaller on sheet 29
x 20 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Postcard view of André Breton's house; group snapshot by Man
Ray. Pictured are Henri-Pierre Roché, Juliet Man Ray, De Herrera, Alicia Breton,
Toyen, Benjamin Péret, Wolfgang Paalen, André Breton, and George Goldberg or
Goldtayn (?). May be a sheet detached from De Herrera's scrapbook.
Box 5, Folder 33
At Henri-Pierre Roché's home, St. Robert (Corrèze),
[1952 or 1953]
Physical Description: 2
photographic prints; 6 x 6 cm. on sheet 29.5 x 19.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Snapshots by Man Ray; pictured are Juliet Man Ray, De Herrera,
Henri-Pierre and Denise Roché. Undated; likely dates are 1952 or 1953 (based on
similarity to Breton images). May be a sheet detached from De Herrera's
scrapbook.
Box 5, Folder 34
Gloria de Herrera with Matisse collage,
[between 1953 and 1959]
Physical Description: 1
color slide; 5 x 5 cm., 1 photographic print: color; 12.5 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera working on
Lierre en fleur. With envelope captioned by Byrnes.
Date from donor's inventory.
Box 5, Folder 35
Woman associated with Henri Matisse,
[195-]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 12 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified dark-haired woman wearing embroidered North African
dress; photograph found in envelope with other Matisse materials.
Box 5, Folder 36
Wolfgang Paalen at Uxmal, invitation,
1954,
undated
Physical Description: 1
photographic print; 9 x 14 cm., 1 item; 10 x 27 cm.
Scope and Content Note
View of Paalen and unidentified woman in front of Uxmal ruins.
With message on verso in Paalen's hand, looking forward to upcoming meeting
with De Herrera. Together with signed invitation to 1954 publication party for
issue no. 3 of
Medium.
Box 5, Folder 37
Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning and Gloria
de Herrera with Alexander Calder (?), Huismes (Indre et Loire),
[between 1955 and 1964]
Physical Description: 4
color slides; 5 x 5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Color slides, with note in De Herrera's hand: "At Max and
Dorothea's in Huismes, beside a CPLY ptg.". Date based on years of Ernst and
Tannings's residence in Huismes.
Box 5, Folder 38
Alberto Giacometti in his studio,
[195-]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 18 x 23 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Giacometti at work sculpting. Photographer's name partially
cropped.
Box 5, Folder 39
Petit people intelligente internacional,
[195-]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 8.5 x 14 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Group portrait with penned-in names, including "Irene" (possibly
Irene Musillo Mitchell). Signed "Daniel".
Box 5, Folder 40
USSR negatives,
1957
Physical Description: 19 negatives; 6 x 6
cm. on films 19 x 6 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Views taken by De Herrera during her travel in the Soviet Union.
With envelope.
Box 5, Folder 41
Odessa,
[1957?]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 22.5 x 17.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
View out of open bus doors, into a crowd of onlookers. "Odessa"
written on verso in Cyrillic script, likely in De Herrera's hand.
Box 5, Folder 42
Angkor Wat,
1958
Jan
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 6.5 x 9 cm.
Scope and Content Note
View of approach to Angkor Wat, from facing portico. With
description on verso in unknown hand.
Box 5, Folder 43
Gloria de Herrera's apartment in Paris,
undated
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 21 x 27 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Four interior shots on one contact sheet. With views of artworks
including Calder's G-shaped brooch, and a poster from the Museo Poldi Pezzoli,
Milan.
Box 5, Folder 44
Algeria and Algerian war,
[ca. 1960]
Physical Description: 38 photographic
prints; 21 x 23 cm. and smaller.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs, probably taken by Dominique Darbois, of the
Algerian revolutionary army (FLN), a medical clinic, and nomadic or village
life. With one final aerial shot, possibly of Subsaharan Africa. With a few
brief notations on verso, likely in Darbois's hand: "Cent", "Bou" and
"Sud".
Box 5, Folder 45
Atrocities, Algeria,
1961
Physical Description: 2 photographic
prints: color; 9 x 13 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Stamped on verso: "Tirage exécuté à la demande expresse du
Client, malgré l'avis défavorable du Service Technique." With envelope
inscribed in De Herrera's hand: "Photos tortures Algérie 1961".
Box 5, Folder 46
Snapshot of Gloria de Herrera, Brussels,
[1961 or 1962]
Physical Description: 2
photographic prints; 18 x 15 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Passport-sized photo, with cropped enlargement.
Box 5, Folder 47
Gloria de Herrera and Omar Boudaoud, Brussels,
1961 or 1962
Physical Description: 1
photographic print: color; 8 x 10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera playing checkers with Omar Boudaoud, leader of FLN in
France.
Box 5, Folder 48
Gloria de Herrera and Victor Brauner on the beach,
Blonville (Calvados),
[before 1966]
Physical Description: 4
photographic prints: color; 10 x 15.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Heel-digging for cockles"; two copies each of two exposures.
Versos inscribed variously by De Herrera.
Box 5, Folder 49
La maison de l'île du Château Gaillard, Les Andelys
(Eure),
undated
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: color; 9 x 9 cm., 1 color transparency; 6.5 x 6.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Identical views of stone house with steep gabled roof and dormer
windows, in vicinity of Norman castle. Verso of photograph inscribed by G. de
H.: "Spent many nice vacations."
Box 5, Folder 50
Gloria de Herrera and unidentified women [Madeleine
Pastier?],
[196-?]
[1984?]
Physical Description: 3
photographic prints; 5.5 x 5 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Passport photographs of two unidentified women, one with sticker
on verso: "Art et Folklore, Bruxelles." With passport photograph of De Herrera,
taken ca. 1984 (see also photograph in letter to Byrnes,
1984 July 9, Box 1 f. 8). All
three photographs found wrapped in envelope inscribed by De Herrera: "Madeleine
Pastier c/o Dominique Darbois; photos prises par Serge à l'Isle Chât Gaillard."
(May refer to photographs of Box 5 f. 52.)
Box 5, Folder 51
Malika Brahim,
[197-?]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 11 x 9.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of woman, with envelope inscribed by De Herrera:
"Malika Brahim c/o D. D." [Dominique Darbois].
Box 5, Folder 52
Minouche, Les Andelys (Eure),
[198-?]
Physical Description: 8 color
transparencies; 6 x 6 cm., on film 19.5 x 6.5 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Gathering outdoors at La maison de l'île, Château Gaillard.
Films found wrapped in envelope inscribed by De Herrera: "Minouche c/o
Dominique." (See also envelope in Box 5 f. 50, which may in fact refer to these
photographs.)
Box 5, Folder 53
Gloria de Herrera in the Pyrenées,
[197-?]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print; 9 x 9 cm.
Scope and Content Note
View of De Herrera on mountain path with peaks in distance. Verso
inscribed by De Herrera: "Trudging up the Pyrenées."
Box 5, Folder 54
Gloria de Herrera working at her desk,
[197-?]
Physical Description: 2 photographic
prints; 6 x 7 cm.
Box 5, Folder 55
Gloria de Herrera, Dordogne,
[198-]
Physical Description: 7 photographic
prints: color; 12 x 8 cm., 9 x 9 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Indoor and outdoor shots of De Herrera at her home at La Fontaine,
La Chapelle Aubareil. See also undated scrapbook page/letter to David de
Herrera, Box 1 f. 16, for photograph from 1977 of De Herrera's mule Auréliano
outside the house.
Box 5, Folder 56
Gloria de Herrera,
1984
Feb
Physical Description: 1 color slide; 5 x 5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Indoor shot of De Herrera.
Box 5, Folder 57
David and Mildred de Herrera with Barbara Byrnes,
1985
Physical Description: 1 photographic print:
color; 11 x 9 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Polaroid photograph taken by James Byrnes; David de Herrera
holds mandolin owned by De Herrera. See Byrnes letter to De Herrera,
1985 June 18, for description of
meeting (Box 1 f. 12).
Box 5, Folder 58
Box with contents,
[1985]
Physical Description: 1 photographic
print: color; 11 x 9 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Probably the compartment box bequeathed to David de Herrera; for
list of contents see Box 1 f. 17.
Box 5, Folder 59
Lefebvre-Foinet's art supplies store,
1991
Physical Description: 2 photographic
prints: color; 10 x 15 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs taken by James Byrnes. For view of storefront in
1951, see Box 5 f. 25.
Box 3, Folder 17
Photocopies of scrapbook pages and loose photographs,
1947-ca. 1985,
undated
Physical Description: 29 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies annotated by De Herrera with dates, places, identities
and some comments. Documents several photographs not included in collection.
With post-it notes dating from 1996 Track 16 exhibition, Bergamot Station,
Santa Monica.
Box 3, Folder 18
Photocopies of images pertaining to Man Ray,
1948-1957,
undated
Physical Description: 8
leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of announcement for "Café Man Ray"; signed portrait
of De Herrera; aluminum chess set; inscribed portrait of Man Ray ("Gloria, je te
donne rendez-vous à Paris mois de mai 1951 - Man"); gathering at Man Ray's
Hollywood studio; view of studio (in Paris?); inscribed photograph of harps
("For Gloria / woman of my harp / Man Ray Paris 1957"); Man Ray in drag, from
Italian publication. None of the original photographs are included in
collection. With several annotations by De Herrera.
Series V.
Oversize materials,
1937-1979
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
This short series contains individual items taken from three
of the other series, and stored separately due to their larger size. Of special
interest is the William Copley canvas entitled Gloria, which Copley painted for
De Herrera. Also present are photographs of a Matisse drawing; a pamphlet on
the British response to French writing during WWII; a pen-and-ink sketch of
jazz musicians; and an original transcript of George Dondero's Senate speech
denouncing modern art (
1949 Aug. 16). A photocopy of press
coverage of De Herrera's 1960 arrest is included, as is a review clipping of
Hervé Hamon's
Les porteurs de valises.
Box 6*
Gloria,
1953
Physical Description: 1 painting: oil on
canvas; 56 x 36 cm.
Scope and Content Note
With two affixed photographs, 7 x 6.5 cm. and smaller: one
heart-shaped, the other irregularly shaped. Painted by William Copley.
Box 7*, Folder 1
Photograph of Matisse drawing,
1937
Physical Description: 2 photographic
prints; 40 x 30 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of drawing of a woman. With one photocopy.
Box 7*, Folder 2
Idolatry and confusion,
1944 Mar
Physical Description: 1
pamphlet (1 sheet); 29 x 44.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Essay written by Jacques B. Brunius and E.L.T. Mesens, in
response to Albert Koestler's article "Literary idolatry", which appeared in
the
London Tribune,
1943 Nov. 26. The present pamphlet
was published by London Gallery Editions, after the
London Tribune rejected it. The essay is strongly
critical of the British literary response to French writings of the time. With
mention of Georges Bernanos, André Breton, Denis de Rougement, Aragon, André
Malraux, Paul Eluard, and others.
Box 7*, Folder 3
Sketch of jazz musicians,
undated
Physical Description: 1 drawing: ink on
paper; 27 x 26.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Pen sketches of two saxophonists and a drummer.
Box 7*, Folder 4
Modern art shackled to Communism,
1949 Aug 16
Physical Description: 1 pamphlet (1 sheet); 29 x 46.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Text of speech by George Dondero to the House of
Representatives, published in the
Congressional Record; a vehement condemnation of
modern art. Original for copies in Box 2 f. 13.
Box 7*, Folder 5
Photocopies of newspaper articles on De Herrera's
arrest,
1960
Physical Description: 2 sheets; 28 x 43 cm.
and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of a series of eight articles appearing in
unidentified newspapers (possibly including the
Los Angeles Times),
1960 Feb through
1960 Sep For further articles, see
Series II. Documents, Box 2 f. 28.
Box 7*, Folder 6
Review of
Les porteurs de valises,
[1979]
Physical Description: 1 clipping; 42 x 18.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Clipping of article entitled "Ces Français qui portaient les
valises du FLN", written by François Fonvieille-Alquier for unidentified
newspaper. Found folded in copy of
Les porteurs de valises, by Hamon and Rotman. With
one photocopy.
Series VI.
Audiovisual materials,
1983-1996
Physical Description:
7 sound recordings, 1 video recording
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of taped interviews of Gloria de Herrera
(1983) and James Byrnes (1996). Materials unavailable until reformatting is complete.
Box 8
C1-C7: Interview with Gloria de Herrera,
1983 July
Physical Description: 7
dictaphone tapes plus 7 cassette tapes
Scope and Content Note
7 sound cassettes of 7 (dictaphone tapes) : analog. Originals.
7 sound cassettes of 7 : analog. Originals (copies of the dicataphone tapes).
Interview conducted by James Byrnes. See Series II. Documents:
Box 3, f. 1-3 for transcript, and Box 3 f. 7 for Byrnes's notes and intended
questions for follow-up interview planned for 1985 April.
V1: Interview with James Byrnes,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Interview conducted in Santa Monica by
Dickran Tashjian, in conjunction with Track 16 gallery exhibition on Man Ray.
