Finding aid for the Nikolaus Pevsner papers, 1903-1982
Gene Waddell.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Nikolaus Pevsner papers
Date (inclusive): 1903-1982
Number: 840209
Creator/Collector:
Pevsner, Nikolaus,
1902-1983
Physical Description:
84.3 Linear Feet
(170 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Papers and manuscripts of the
German-born art and architecture historian (1902-1983). Papers date primarily from the years
following Pevsner's immigration to England in 1933, and include written and visual materials
used for lectures or as research for his many books and articles. Files related to Pevsner's
radio lectures and affiliations document his career as a public figure, and correspondence
tracks his relationships with many key figures in 20th-century art and
architecture.
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Biographical/Historical Note
The art and architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was born in Germany in 1902. He
worked with the Dresden Gallery (1924-1928) and taught at Göttingen University (1929-1933)
before immigrating to England in 1933. In England Pevsner taught at Birkbeck College
(University of London) and the Courtauld Institute, and lectured as the Slade Professor of
Art at Cambridge (1949-1955) and Oxford (1969) Universities.
Pevsner was a scholar of Italian baroque painting, German sculpture and the 19th and 20th
century architecture of England and Europe. It is as an architectural historian that he is
best remembered, partly because of the astonishing amount of work he did in this area, and
also because of his strong point of view. His polemical view is evident in his 1936 book
Pioneers of the Modern Movement (later re-titled
Pioneers of Modern
Design
) in which he first tried to persuade England to accept the Modern movement.
He remained a persistent advocate for modern design and for historical preservation. Among
his many publications are the following books:
An Outline of European
Architecture
, the
History of Building Types, and the monumental
Buildings of England in 46 volumes, of which 35 were researched and written
by Pevsner. Pevsner was an editor on the influential journal
Architectural
Review
and edited the Pelican History of Art series which comprised 48 volumes. He
received the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1967 and a
knighthood in 1969. Pevsner died in 1983.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, with the exception of the diaries in boxes 146-149,
which require special handling.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Nikolaus Pevsner papers, 1903-1982, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession
no. 840209.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa840209
Acquisition Information
The Getty Research Institute acquired Pevsner's papers with his library in 1984. In
addition, material was moved to the collection from accessions 840189 and 920028. Further
additions to the collection were made in 2014 and 2016.
Nikolaus Pevsner personal diaries, 1916-1923: Gift of the Family of Sir Nikolaus
Pevsner.
Processing Information
Upon receipt of the collection, it was rehoused by the registrar and a finding aid was
completed by Gene Waddell in 1990. In spring 2017, Talia Olshefsky completed a physical
survey of Series I and II and processed two additions to the collection. An alphabetical
list of correspondents was completed for Series I in order to increase granularity and
discoverability; all newspaper clippings and photographic materials were rehoused to meet
current conservation standards; box numbers 17A, 17B, and 19 were added to the finding aid;
and a new addition of 112 personal diaries were rehoused and added to the finding aid as
part of Series VI. Personal papers, 1916-1979, undated.
Separated Materials
Most of the books originally found with Pevsner's paper have been separated to the Getty
Research Institute Research Library. Some heavily annotated books remain with the
archive.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Nikolaus Pevsner papers contain his research files on art and architecture, manuscripts
for many of his articles and books, correspondence with scholars, publishers and artists,
lectures, and a collection of clippings and offprints of his articles. These papers date
from 1906 to 1979, with the bulk dating from his years in England post-1933. (N. B.: Penguin
Press Ltd has retained many of the files for
The Buildings of England.) A
small file of personal items includes family correspondence, photographs, manuscripts,
awards and diaries. The books in Pevsner's library, many annotated, have been separated to
the Getty Research Institute, Research Library.
Arrangement note
The archive is arranged in seven series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1903-1982;
Series
II. Publication notes and manuscripts, 1919-1979;
Series III. Lectures, 1934-1978, undated;
Series IV. Research material: abstracts, 1906-1977, undated;
Series V.
Research material: illustrations - printed material, 1915-1977, undated;
Series VI.
Personal papers, 1916-1979, undated;
Series VII. Clippings and offprints,
1923-1978.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Courtauld Institute of Art
University of London
Architectural guides for travelers
University of Oxford
Architectural Association (Great
Britain)
Omega Workshops
Penguin (Firm)
Jerusalem Committee
Great Britain. Royal Fine Art
Commission
University of Cambridge
Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany)
Subjects - Topics
Design
Architecture -- Periodicals
Art historians
Architecture -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
Architecture -- Great Britain -- History
Architecture -- Modern
Architecture -- Historiography
Architecture -- England -- Guidebooks
Architecture -- Education
Architecture -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
Architecture -- Great Britain
Painting, Baroque -- Italy
Sculpture, German
Architecture -- Directories
Architecture
Subjects - Places
Great Britain -- Description and travel
England -- Buildings, structures, etc.
England -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Guidebooks
Subjects - Titles
A history of building types
Englishness of English art
Charles R. Mackintosh
Buildings of England
An outline of European architecture
The Architectural review
Academies of art, past and present
Penguin dictionary of architecture
Pioneers of the modern movement from William Morris to Walter
Gropius
Contributors
Voysey, Charles F. A.,
1857-1941
Ebhardt, Bodo, 1865-
Ashby, Charles
R.
Pinder, Wilhelm,
1878-1947
Pevsner, Nikolaus,
1902-1983
Mackmurdo, A. H.
(Arthur Heygate), 1851-1942
Schlosser, Julius,
Ritter von, 1866-1938
Posener, Julius
Fleming, John,
1919-2001
Russell, Gordon,
1892-1980
Gropius, Walter,
1883-1969
Series I.
Correspondence,
1903-1982
Physical Description:
5.4 Linear
Feet
(16 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence related to Pevsner's professional activities and
affiliations.
Arrangement
Arranged in six sub-series: A) General correspondence, B)
The Architectural
Review
, C) Publisher's correspondence, D) Affiliations, E) Exhibitions, and F)
Additional correspondence. (See also correspondence in Series II, IV, and VI.)
Series I.A.
General correspondence,
1919-1979
Physical Description:
1.9 Linear
Feet
(5 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with scholars, architects, artists, and publishers. See also
correspondence in Series II, IV, and VI.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically according to correspondent, as per Pevsner's original
arrangement. It should be noted that Pevsner filed Dutch surnames with the preposition
"van" under "V".
box 1
A-D,
1919-1979
Scope and Content Note
Ackerman, J.; Akos, Kiss; Albini, Alfred (approximately 60 photographic prints;
images of drawings); Alexander, John H.; Amer-Lewis, Francis; Ames, Winslow; Antal,
[?]; Argent, Charles; Arup, Sir Ove; Ashbee, C. R.; Ashbee, Janet; Ausell, W. H.;
Auzas, Pierre-Marie; Baer, Bernhard; Bahn, Hans; Baker, David; Bauknecht; Bayley,
Stephen; Berger, Max; Berger, Sanford; Bergman, Eckart; Bergman, W. Dieter; Bird,
Donald; Birnstengel, Richard; Boase, Tom; Boldizar, Ivan; Bondy, Lewis; Bossaglia,
Rossana; Bournville Village Trust; Brangwyn, Sir Frank; Brockhaus, F. A.; Broomhead,
Bert; Burival, Zdzislav; Carline, Richard; Carter, Edward; Cassel, Pol; Chen,
Charles; Cherry, Bridget; Clayton, Barry; Clifton-Taylor, Alec; Cobb, Gerald;
Cockerell, Sydney; Coe, Ralph T.; Colvin, Howard; Coulson, C. L. H.; Creswell, H.
Bulkeley; Curman, Sigurd; Dalton, John; Dean, David E.; Dehio, Georg Gottfried;
Denholm-Young, Hilda; Dent, Allcroft and Company Limited; Deumeyer, [?]; Dezso, Dr.
Ladislao; Dimacopoulos, J.; Dittmayer, Hans; Dragon, Peter.
box 2
E-H,
1930-1979
Scope and Content Note
Ebhardt, Professor Bodo; Ellis, Clifford; Elven, John W.; Emberton, Kathleen;
Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura; Ettlinger, Ellen; Fairweather, Leslie;
Fehl, Philipp P.; Feist, Peter H.; Ferraris, T.; Finnie, Ann M.; Finsterlin,
Hermann; Fiocco, Giusseppe; Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Branca, Vittore); Fong,
William; Fowlds, G. M.; Fowler, Angus; French, Douglas; Freudenheim, Leslie;
Friedlaender, Walter; Fry, E. Maxwell; Gayle, Margot; Giado, Eric; Gillum, Colonel
W. N.; Gisske (folder reads "Gisske – see Kuhn, Grete"); Gloag, John; Gombrich,
Ernst; Gomme, Andor; Goodison, Jack W.; Gropius, Walter; Gros, Gabrrella; Grossman,
Dieter; Gugg, Hugo; Gurlitt, Cornelius; Gutbier, L. W. (Galerie Ernst Arnold);
Harvey, John; Haslam, Richard; Hausmann, Raoul; Herrmann, Frederick H.; Herrmann,
Wolfgang; Hertner, W.; Hipple, Walter J. Jr.; Hitchcock, Henry-Russell; Hoeltje,
Georg; Hollamby, E.; Huber, Rudolf; Huch, Ricarda; Hussey, Christopher.
box 3
I-N,
1921-1979
Scope and Content Note
Ikenberg, Ludwig; Irvine, Louise; Isenbart, M.; Isermeyer, Christian Adolf; Jaffe,
A.; Joliffe, Harold; Jope, E. M.; Juynbool, Dr. W. R.; Kanokogi, Takehiko; Kaufman,
S.; Kaye, Barrington; Kelly, Dennis; Kennet, Lord; Keyserling, Herman;
Kingscote-Billinge, L.; Knowles, P. Douglas; Kokkelink, Gunther; Kolleck, Teddy;
Kowalski, Helene; Kretzschmar, Bernhard; Krönig, Wolfgang; Kuhn, Grete (Schinkel's
Bauakademie in East Berlin); Kuhn, Ivan; Kumer, Friedrich; Leedy, Walter C. Jr.;
Liebermann, M.; Liess, Dr. Reinhard; Linsey, Martin; Lipman, V. D.; Lloyd, J.
Sampson; Mackmurdo, Arthur H.; Marasovic, Tomislav; Mariani, Valerio; Marshall,
Margaret Wiley; Martienssen, Heather; Martin, Carolyn; Mason, Francis; Mayes, Judy;
Mellinghoff, Gotz-Tilman; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Highcliffe Castle,
The Cloisters); Michel, Edouard; Millar, Oliver; Miller, Alec; Moore, Henry; Müller,
Michael; Münter, G.; Murray, Keith; Muthesius, Stefan; Neurath, Thomas; Newman,
John; Nohl, Herman; University of Nottingham.
box 4
O-W,
1920-1979
Scope and Content Note
O'Neal, William; Oehme, Georg; Oprescu, G.; Paatz, Walter; Pächt, Otto; Parsons, G.
D.; Peterich, Magnus; Phillips, John A. S.; Pick, Frank; Pinder, Wilhelm; Pittoni,
Laura Coggiola; Plantengia, J. H.; Pollack, Heinz & Gabriela; Posener, Julius;
Pritchard, Jack; Puppi, Giampietro (Venezia Isola Degli Studi); Quirk, Roger;
Railing, Hugo; Read, Herbert; Reese, Johann-Anton; Reiff, Daniel D.; RIBA (RE: Gold
Medal); Richards, Jim; Ritchie, Walter; Robbins, Michael; Robertson, Joan; Rockel,
Robin; Rosenau, Helen; Rowan, Alistair; Rudolph, Wilhelm; Ruhemann, F. A.; Schaack,
Margaret von; Schaefer, Herwin; Scheidig, Dr. (Direktion der Staatlichen
Kunstammlungen in Weimar); Schlaffenberg, Bruno; Schultze-Görlitz, Hans;
Schwagenscheiot, Walter; Sekler, Eduard F.; Shaw, G. Bernard; Simpson, Duncan;
Simpson, W. Douglas; Sosa Gallardo, Santiago A.; Spence, Basil; Spengler, Dr.
Oswald; Stanton, Phoebe; Starkowski, Mieczyslaw T.; Sumner, Heywood; Suter, Karl
Friedrich; Tabner, Judith; Thomas, Trevor; Tyser, Greenwood and Company (Chartered
Auctioneers and Estate Agents); Ullrich, Dr. Ruth-Maria; Valenciennes, Museum of;
Van de Velde, Henry; Van de Waal, H.; Van der Grinten, E. F.; Van Geest, J. ; Vitto
Battagilia, Silvia de; Wagner-Rieger, Renate; Walker, David; Walker, Lynne; Watkin,
David J. ; Watson, W. C.; Whiffen, Marcus; Whitehead, Pat; Wiegert; Wigglesworth, G.
H.; Willis, Peter; Wingler, Hans M.; Witt, Robert; Womersley, J. L.; Wontner, Sir
Hugh; Wood, H. J. Limited.
box 5
Z,
1942-1945
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Richard Ziegler and two postcards from anonymous senders
criticizing Pevsner in relation to broadcast lectures in London. Also contains bound
copies of manuscripts, writings, and drawings by Richard Ziegler.
Series I.B.
The Architectural Review,
1945-1977
Physical Description:
.4 Linear
Feet
(1 box)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and material related to the architecture magazine. Includes editorial
correspondence, information regarding war damage in Germany and Austria, and general
correspondence with: Beatty, C. J. P.; Fern, Alan; Fisher, Alice; Fisker, Kay;Gomme,
Andor H.; Gropius, Walter; Guedes, A. d'Alpoim; Hammer, Karl; Killick, John; Long, E.
T.; Mare, Eric de; Marsh, John; Mendehlson, Erich; Mendehlson, Louise; Parker of
Waddington, Lady Pehnt, Wolfgang; Plischke, E. A.; Posener, Julius; Rosner, R.;
Schapire, Rosa; Taylor, Nicholas; Von Moos, Stanislaus; Wilson, Henry.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Series I.C.
Publishers correspondence,
1963-1976
Physical Description:
.4 Linear
Feet
(1 box)
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters with publishers regarding various Pevsner articles and manuscripts.
See also correspondence related to specific publications.
Arrangement
Arranged by publisher and therewithin chronologically.
box 7
Prestel Verlag,
1963-1976
box 7
The Johns Hopkins Press,
1967-1972
box 7
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung,
1964-1974
Series I.D.
Affiliations,
1959-1979
Physical Description:
1.7 Linear
Feet
(6 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence related to official commissions, committees, professional
organizations, associations, historical societies, and preservation boards with which
Pevsner was affiliated.
Arrangement
Arranged roughly alphabetically by title of organization.
box 8
Advisory Board for Redundant Churches,
1973-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes bound volumes of Advisory Board for Redundant Churches reports
(1968-1976), Church Commissioners for England reports and accounts (1974-1975), and
a bound volume titled Pastoral Measure No.1 (1968).
box 9
Architectural Association, The,
1964-1973
box 9
Art Workers Guild Trustees,
1973-1975
box 9
British Academy,
1975-1977
box 9
Historic Buildings Council of England,
1975-1977
box 9
International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS),
1967-1974
box 9
National Committee for the United Kingdom,
1967-1974
box 9
The Professional and Academic Regional Visits Organization
(PARVO),
1975-1977
box 9
Royal Fine Art Commission,
1966-1973
box 9
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings,
1967-1973
box 9
Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain,
1959-1966
box 9
The Victorian Society,
1973-1979
box 9
The William Morris Society,
1975-1978
Jerusalem Committee,
1970-1977
box 11
Research and reports
Scope and Content Note
Contains reports, committee members biographical information, presentation
material for the urban design of "Jerusalem – The Old City – Jewish Quarter",
aerial photographs, newspaper clippings, and copies of large scale site maps (in
Hebrew) relating to the Jerusalem Committee.
box 12
Shepheard and Epstein,
1972-1973
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, documents, and photographs regarding the preservation of Russell
Square.
box 13
Milton Keynes Development Corporation,
1967-1971
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and Pevsner's "Preservanda and Contervanda in Milton Keynes" report
regarding the preservation of the village of Milton Keynes.
Series I.E.
Exhibitions,
1960-1975
Physical Description:
.4 Linear
Feet
(1 box)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes and documentation regarding Pevsner's contributions to art and
architectural exhibitions.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by exhibition date.
box 14
The Sources of Twentieth Century Exhibition, Council of Europe,
1960
box 14
Art Nouveau Exhibition, The Arts Council of Great Britain,
1965
box 14
Gothic Art in Europe, Council of Europe,
1968
box 14
Bauhaus Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts,
1968
box 14
Mackintosh Exhibition, Vienna,
1969
box 14
Victorian Church Art Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum,
1970-1971
box 14
Age of neo-classicism, Council of Europe,
1972
box 14
The Croydon Exhibition,
1975
Series I.F.
Miscellaneous correspondence,
1903-1982
Physical Description:
0.6 Linear
Feet
(2 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, handwritten notes and printed material (transfered from the
library). Most of the letters received contain complimentary reviews of Pevsner's
work.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically within each box, with loose black-and-white photographs
having been removed and rehoused.
box 14A
Correspondence,
1909-1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with journals, professors and professionals, including a
complimentary letter from Walter Gropius.
box 14B
Notes and clippings,
1903-1982
Scope and Content Note
Contains handwritten notes regarding lectures and radio broadcasts, and
professional correspondence. Also includes newspaper clippings (1938-1968), copies
of articles regarding Frank Lloyd Wright, a copy of the periodical
Das
Andere
from October, 1903, and a handmade bound volume containing
typescript (in German) and black-and-white photographs regarding Venice, Italy.
box 144, folder 10
Black-and-white photographic prints ,
1945, undated
Series II.
Publication notes and manuscripts,
1919-1979
Physical Description:
17.1 Linear
Feet
(42 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series includes manuscripts, notes, correspondence, photographs, reviews, and other
material related to Pevsner's books and articles.
Arrangement
Arranged in general chronological order by publication date.
box 15
"Vincent Van Gogh,"
1919
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript.
box 15
"Die Gemalde des Giovanni Battista Crespi gennant Cerano,"
1925
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
box 15
"Gegeninformation und Manierismus,"
1925
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes.
box 15
"Spatbarock und Rokoko: Handbuch, III teil,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
Typescript.
box 15
"Ausstellung der Akademie Dresden,"
1927
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
box 15
"Beitrage zur Stilgeschichte des Fruh-und Hochbarok,"
1928
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
box 15
"Die Lehrjahre des Caravaggio,"
1928-1929
Scope and Content Note
Notes, correspondence, ephemera.
box 15
"Giulio Cesare Procaccion,"
1929
Scope and Content Note
Notes, correspondence.
box 15
"Die Antwerpener Jahrhundert Ausstellung,"
1930
Scope and Content Note
Illustrations.
box 15
"Gemeinschaftsideals unter den Bildenden Künstlern des 19
Jahrhunderts,"
1931
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
box 15
"Die wandlung um 1650 in der Italienishes Malerei, Werner Jahrbuch fur
Kunstgegichte,"
1932
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
box 15
"Die Deutsche Kunst und die Hoheren Schulen,"
1933
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
box 15
"Kunst der Gegenward und Kunst der Zukunft,"
1934
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript and correspondence.
box 15
"Pottery,"
1936
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
box 15
"The Designer in Industry,"
1936
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Pioneers of the Modern Movement from William Morris to Walter
Gropius
,
1935-1974
box 16
English editions,
1935-1974
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, including: Faber-Faber (1936-1941, 1946-1961) and letters by
Charles R. Ashbee, Walter Gropius, Josef Hoffmann, Arthur Mackmurdo, Gordon Russell,
Henry van de Velde and Charles A. Voysey (1935-1936); press cuttings; typescript
forward and correspondence for the Museum of Modern Art edition (1947-1963);
forward, additions, illustrations and correspondence for Penguin books editions, the
latter arranged according to correspondents (1957-1974); black-and-white
photographic prints and negatives, including 6 4 x 6 in. badly deteriorated acetate
negatives (channeling), and one 35mm color slide.
box 17A
Foreign editions,
1937-1965
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding foreign editions (1953-1965); black-and-white photographic
prints (see also illustrations in: Ch. R. Mackintosh, 1950 and "Minor Masters of the
XIX Century: Christopher Dresser, Industrial Designer," 1937); printed material,
including the German Art Nouveau publication
Jugend, 1905, Number
41.
box 17A
"An Inquiry into Industrial Art in England,"
1937
Scope and Content Note
Letters by Gordon Russell, Frank Pick and Frank Murphy (36 items); black-and-white
photographic prints of various fabric patterns, dinnerware, furniture, space heaters,
automobiles, and automobile manufacturing; royalties statements from Cambridge
University Press; reviews.
box 17B
"Minor Masters of the XIX Century: Christopher Dresser, Industrial
Designer,"
1936, 1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Ada Nettleton Dresser and the Victoria & Albert Museum;
black-and-white photographic prints.
box 17B
"English and German Art and their Inter-relations in German Life and
Letters,"
1937-1938
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with L. A. Willenghly, and a handwritten chronology of architect
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey's work.
box 17A
"The First Plywood Furniture,"
1938-1939
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, correspondence, notes and printed material.
box 17B
"George Walton, His Life and Work,"
1939
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence from Frank Pick and Daisy A. Walton, and one photographic print.
box 18
"The Elements of Contemporary Architecture in Britain - Historicism and
Traditionalism,"
1939
Scope and Content Note
Typescript and manuscript, correspondence with J. H. Richards, notes, printed
material, and photographic prints.
box 18
"Ch. R. Mackintosh, A Glasgow Pioneer of Modern Architecture,"
1939
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, printed material.
box 17B
"Charles F. Annesley Voysey,"
1939-1947
Scope and Content Note
Includes typescript, correspondence including letters by Charles A. Voysey and C.
Cowles Voysey, notes, printed material, research material, postcards, and
black-and-white photographic prints. Original edition published in 1940.
Academies of Art, Past and Present,
1921-1976
Scope and Content Note
Original edition published in 1940.
box 19
Correspondence,
1931-1949, 1968-1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters by Walter Gropius; notes; and printed material including
catalogues for the Bauhaus and academies in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Nurnberg, Dresden,
Leipzig and Stuttgart.
box 20
Schools and academies (Germany),
1921-1952
Scope and Content Note
Printed material regarding schools and academies in Germany (Berlin, Dresden,
Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Munich, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart), and a photographic
print of a portrait of Bauhaus (students including Water Gropuis, Ladislaus
Maholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gunta
Stolzl and others). Also includes an annotated bound copy of a first proof of
Academies of Art, Past and Present, 1939.
box 21
Schools and academies,
1921-1952
Scope and Content Note
Printed material regarding schools and academies in the United States including
Chicago, North Carolina, and Los Angeles (Art Center School, 1939), and Europe;
Holland (Elckerlyc, and a copy of De Academie van's-Gravenhage
1682-1937), Great Britain, Sweden (Stockholm), Italy, Czechoslovakia (The
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, 1926-1928), Italy (Torino) and Belgium (Brussels).
box 22
"Omega,"
1941
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding the Omega workshops including letters by Margaret Armitage,
J. M. Keynes, Frederik Etchelle, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, Margery Fry, notes,
photographs and printed material.
box 22
"Schuttsschiffer von Ramaduri,"
1941
Scope and Content Note
Typescript.
box 22
"Architecture in Germany under the Nazis by Peter F. R. Donner,
1941,"
1936-1940
Scope and Content Note
Notes and German newspaper clippings.
box 22
"The Evolution of the Easy Chair,"
1942
Scope and Content Note
Notes, printed material, photographic prints, and pencil and pen-and-ink sketches of
a variety of chair designs.
box 22
"Patient Progress: the Life Work of Frank Pick,"
1941-1942
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes and research material regarding industrial design.
An Outline of European Architecture,
1947-1976
Scope and Content Note
Original edition published in 1942.
box 23
New editions,
1957-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Penguin Books Limited and others; newspaper clippings and
reviews; additions, and illustrations for new editions.
box 24
Correspondence regarding foreign editions,
1947-1975
Scope and Content Note
Additions, illustrations and reviews.
box 25
"Terms of Architectural Planning in the Middle Ages,"
1942
Scope and Content Note
Proof, notes, and extracts.
box 25
The Leaves of Southwell,
1945-1953
Scope and Content Note
Photographs by F. L. Attenborough, correspondence, and reviews.
box 25
"Visual Planning and the City of London,"
1945
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, notes, illustrations.
box 25
"Architecture of Mannerism," for Geoffrey Grigson's
Mint,
1946
Scope and Content Note
Addition.
box 25
"Frank Lloyd Wright,"
1946
Scope and Content Note
Proof.
box 25
"Neue Baukunst und Bautradition,"
1947
Scope and Content Note
Proof.
box 26
"The Picturesque in Architecture,"
1947
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
box 26
"Price on Picturesque,"
1949
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
box 26
"Richard Payne Knight,"
1949
Scope and Content Note
Proof, notes.
box 26
"Reassessment 4: Three Oxford Colleges,"
1949
Scope and Content Note
See "Visual Planning...," Box 25.
box 26
Matthew Digby Wyatt: The First Cambridge Slade Professor of Fine
Art
,
1949-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
box 26
"Goethe and Architecture,"
1950
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
box 26
Ch. R. Mackintosh,
1948-1961
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, printed material, and illustrations. Also includes
correspondence, clippings, and notes regarding the Ingram Street tea room article
(1953), and "No Grace for Mackintosh," (1955).
box 27
"A Century of Industrial Design and Designers, 1851-1951,"
1951
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes. Published in
Designers in Britain.
box 27
High Victorian Design: A Study of the Exhibit of
1851
,
1949-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
box 158
The Buildings of England,
1951,
1974-1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes typescripts, correspondence, and letters of appeal and support. Also
includes correspondence regarding the second edition of Nottinghamshire.
box 27
"CoID: Progress Report. Industrial Design: 1951, An examination of the
exhibits chosen by the CoID for the South Bank exhibition,"
1951
Scope and Content Note
Photographs.
box 27
"Thoughts on Coventry Cathedral,"
1952
Scope and Content Note
Notes; printed material; photographs.
box 27
"Art Furniture in the Eighteen-Seventies,"
1952
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (1949), notes, photographs.
box 28
"A Note on the Art of the Exeter Carvers,"
1953
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
box 28
"Old Somerset House,"
1953
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, photograph.
box 28
"Colonel Gillum and the Pre-Raphaelites,"
1953
Scope and Content Note
Typescript, notes, correspondence, photographs.
box 28
Christopher Wren, 1632-1723,
1954
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, notes, correspondence, photograph.
box 28
"Hill Hall,"
1953-1955
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
box 28
The Englishness of English Art,
1955-1975
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, additions, notes, and printed material. See also the Reith Lectures,
BBC Talks, Box 52.
box 28
"The Egyptian Revival,"
1951-1969
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, and photographs. Article with Susi Lang.
box 28
"An Italian Miscellany: Pedrocchino...,"
1957
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, correspondence, notes, photographs.
box 28
"Universities: I. Yesterday,"
1957
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript; notes.
box 28
"A Note on the East End of Winchester Cathedral,"
1958-1960
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
box 29
"Libraries, I.: Nutrimentum Spiritus,"
1961
Scope and Content Note
Notes, correspondence, and a newspaper clipping.
box 29
The Planning of the Elizabethean Country House,
1960
Scope and Content Note
An inaugural lecture delivered at Birkbeck College in May 1960. Includes
correspondence, an undated typescript of "A Tudor Checklist," and notes.
box 29
"Gropius and Van de Velde,"
1962
Scope and Content Note
Notes. See also Gropius correspondence in Series I.A General correspondence, E-H, Box
2.
"Gordon Russell,"
1925-1962, undated
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, notes, photographs, correspondence with Gordon Russell, and research
material including catalogues and prospectuses, with Pevsner's Roots and
Branches: the Story of Gordon Russell, 1961, and photocopies of material from
the Gordon Russell Limited archives.
box 30, Folder 3-6
Correspondence,
1958-1962
box 30, Folder 7-9
Catalogues and prospectus,
1925-1940,
1957-1959, undated
box 30, Folder 11-13
Black-and-white photographs,
1962
box 30, Folder 15
The Choir of Lincoln Cathedral,
1963
Scope and Content Note
Typescript.
box 30, Folder 16
"Kunzle,"
1964
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
box 30, Folder 17-21
"Randall Wells,"
1964
Scope and Content Note
With Enid Ratcliffe. Correspondence; notes; photographs.
box 30, Folder 22
Introduction for Ludwig Münz and Gustave Künstler's
Adolf Loos:
Pioneer of Modern Architecture
,
1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture,
1966-1977
box 31
Notes and revisions
Scope and Content Note
Notes, revisions, and photographic prints of architecture.
box 32
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with John Fleming, Hugh Honour, Penguin Books Ltd and
Prestel Verlag (1966-1970), and mixed correspondence arranged alphabetically,
including files for: Burchard, John E.; Burke, J.; Coia, J. A.; Desterlen, Dieter;
Gowans, Alan; Gutbrod, Rolf; Hentrich, H.; Hermres, Bernard; Joedicke, Jurgen; Kahn,
Louis; Kraemer, F. W.; Krahn, Johannes; Krup, Ove; Martienssen, Heather; Matthew,
Robert; McCormick, Thomas J.; Otto, F.; Prinsloo, Ivor Rainer, R.; Rup, Sep;
Schneider, Paul; Schwippert, Hans; Taylor, Nicholas; Walker, David; Weber, Gerhard;
Womersley, Peter.
box 144, folder 9
Color photographic print of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Complex
Scope and Content Note
An aerial image of the complex, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Print removed from the
folder labeled "3rd Ed. South Africa, Canada, Australia: photos," Box 31.
box 33
Introduction for Oscar Beyer's edition of
Eric Mendelsohn: Letters of
an Architect
,
1966-1969
Scope and Content Note
1967 edition; translation by Geoffrey Strachan. Typescript, notes, printed material,
correspondence including letters by Louise Mendelsohn and Ralph Beyer (1966-1969).
box 33
"The Architectural Setting of Jane Austen's Novels,"
1968
Scope and Content Note
Proof, notes, correspondence, and photographs.
box 33
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
box 33
Foreword for Andor Gomme and David W. Walker's
Architecture in
Glasgow
,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Typescript and proof.
box 33
Foreword for Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson's
The Euston Arch and
the Growth of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway
,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
box 33
Foreword for William B. O'Neal's
American Association of Architectural
Bibliographers Papers, 1970
,
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
Some Architectural Writers of the XIXth Century,
1969-1973
box 34
Related material
Scope and Content Note
Addenda, notes, correspondence, photographic prints (illustrations), and reviews.
See also Series III.A. University lectures, Oxford Slade Lectures, Box
59.
box 144, folder 1
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
43
items;
35 mm., 4 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Content Note
Various images of illustrations from other publications.
box 144, folder 2
Color negatives
Physical Description:
4
items;
35 mm.
Scope and Content Note
Images of buildings and ornamental architectural elements.
box 145
Glass plate negatives
Physical Description:
4
items;
6.5 x 8.5 in.
Scope and Content Note
Images of plates from other publications or image libraries. Includes two images
of various examples of architectural details (one labeled "14th Siecle"), a plate
of the "Vault of Henry the Seventh's Chapel at Westminster," and a plate of a
"Doorway in the Cathedral of Nevers."
box 34
Introduction for
Seven Victorian Architects,
1976-1979
Scope and Content Note
Typescript and notes for the foreward, or introduction to, Jane Fawcett's 1978
publication Seven Victorian Architects.
box 34
Menzel,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Annotated six-page typescript titled "Menzel," and a biography of Adolph von
Menzel.
box 34
German Architecture,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Annotated nine-page typescript titled "German Architecture."
box 34
"A Westminster Cathedral Episode" with Norbert Wibiral,
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes manuscript, notes, correspondence, and photographs. Originally published in
1976.
A History of Building Types,
1955-1977
box 35
Annotated typescript (first draft),
1976
box 36
Addenda and notes,
1971-1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes newspaper clippings, printed material, and 6 negatives (black-and-white;
35 mm.) depicting drawings of buildings.
Notes,
1965-1977
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes organized according to chapter. Each chapter has been demarcated
by a brown paper folder made and labeled by Pevsner. The labels (chapter titles) are
listed below for each file.
box 37
General; Royalty; National Monuments; Houses of Parliament; Government
Buildings; Law Courts; Town Halls
box 38
University Buildings; Libraries; Museums
box 39
Hospitals; Prisons; Hotels
box 40
Exchanges; Banks; Stations; Theater Halls; Exhibition Building; Public
Baths; Shops and Stores and Arcades
box 41
Factories; Office Buildings; Warehouses; Skyscrapers; Houses; Churches;
Town Planning; Types Not Done; Addenda
box 42
Index cards,
undated
Scope and Content Note
A box of index cards containing biographical and bibliography data, under the
following headings: Monument; Parliament/Public Buildings; Theatres,
Hospitals/Prisons; Hotels; Exchanges/Market Halls; Banks/Warehouses/Offices;
Shops/Factories; Berlin; London; Paris. A note written on the inside lid of the box
reads "R = read, U = use, S = say in book".
box 43
Correspondence: general,
1969-1976
Scope and Content Note
General correspondence arranged alphabetically according to correspondents or
subject. Includes correspondence with Thames & Hudson, and with Princeton
University Press.
box 44-45
Correspondence: chapters,
1970-1974
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence arranged according to chapter, and therein according to
correspondents or subjects. Box 44 includes national monuments, parliaments,
government buildings, law courts, town halls, theatres, libraries, museums,
hospitals, prisons; Box 45 includes hotels, banks and exchanges, stations,
exhibition buildings, market halls, shops and stores.
Correspondence: illustrations,
1970-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding illustrations, arranged alphabetically according to
correspondent. Also includes documentation of purchase and copyright
information.
box 49
Printed material,
1955-1974
Scope and Content Note
Arranged according to chapter.
Photographic materials,
undated
box 50
Black-and-white prints
Scope and Content Note
Photographic prints of sites and architecture, arranged according to
chapters.
Black-and-white negatives
box 144, folder 3
Addenda
Physical Description:
6
items;
35 mm.
Scope and Content Note
Images of two unidentified buildings. Negatives were removed from the folder
labeled "Addenda: notes," Box 36.
box 144, folder 4
Libraries: Clark University
Scope and Content Note
Negatives accompanied by contact prints and an annotated paper envelope.
Negatives were removed from the folder labeled "Photos: Libraries - Clark
University," Box 50.
box 144, folder 5
Color prints
Physical Description:
5
items;
3.5 x 5 in.
Scope and Content Note
Exterior views of buildings; numbered and labeled on verso. Prints were removed
from the folder labeled "Factories: Baccarat," Box 50.
box 144, folder 6
Factories
Physical Description:
4
items;
35 mm.
Scope and Content Note
Labeled on mounts.
box 144, folder 7
Factories: Le Grand Hornu
Physical Description:
8
items;
35 mm.
Scope and Content Note
Images of various buildings and a monument; accompanied by a library card from
the "Archives de L'Architecture Morderne Bruxelles". Slides were removed from
the folder labeled "Photos: Factories - le Grand Hornu," Box 50.
box 144, folder 8
Mercantile buildings, department stores
Physical Description:
2
items;
35 mm.
Scope and Content Note
Images of the exterior of a building labeled as being "221-223 Essex St.,
Salem, Mass. Mercantile building. No foundry mark."; accompanied by a note from
Margot Gayle. Slides were removed from the folder labeled "Mercantile buildings,
department stores," Box 50.
box 51
Book reviews by Pevsner,
1928-1977
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and notes related to book reviews
written by Pevsner. Includes material regarding reviews for: Bock, Henning (Der
Decorated Style, 1962), including a signed and annotated copy of the book;
Briggs, Martin Shaw (significant files related to Architect in History,
1930-1932); Dobai, Johannes (Die Kunstliteratur des Klassizismus und der
Romantik in England, 1974); Frankl, Paul (The Gothic: Literary Sources
and Interpretations Through Eight Centuries, 1960); Ganz, Paul (The
Drawings of Henry Fuseli, 1949); Geretsegger, Heinz (Otto Wagner
1841-1918, 1979); Hartt, Frederick (Giulio Romano, 1958);
Henderson, George (Gothic, 1967); Huxtable, Ada Louise (Kicked a
Building Lately?), 1976; Krönig, Wolfgang (Altenberg und die Baukunst
der Zisterzienser, 1973); Langewiesche, Karl Robert (Fachwerkkirchen in
Hessen, 1978); Reitlinger, Gerald (The Economics of Taste);
Revesz-Alexander, Magda (Die alten Lagerhäuser Amsterdams: Eine
Kunstgeschichtliche Studie, 1962); Rice, Howard C. (Thomas Jefferson's
Paris, 1976); Rump, Gerhard Charles (George Romney, 1734–1802,
1974); Schreyl, Karl Heinz (Joseph Maria Olbrich Die Zeichnungen in der
Kunstbibliothek Berlin Kritischer Katalog, 1972); and Stonorov, O. and
Boesiger, W. (Le Corbusier and Jeanneret).
box 52
BBC talks,
1946-1977
Scope and Content Note
Material related to the "Art for Everyone" radio talks. Includes typescripts,
correspondence, letters to newspapers, clippings from
The
Listener
, and printed material. Includes the Reith Lectures (1955).
Series III.
Lectures,
1934-1978,
undated
Physical Description:
13 Linear
Feet
(25 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series contains notes, correspondence, agendae, visual aids, and other material related
to Pevsner's lectures and lecture tours.
Arrangement
Arranged in three sub-series: A) University lectures, B) Special Lectures and lecture
tours, C) Lecture notes.
Series III.A.
University lectures,
1934-1978
Physical Description:
2.8 Linear
Feet
(7 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Material includes correspondence, study schemes, student lists and lecture
preparations (see also Lecture Notes).
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by geographic location, and in roughly chronological order.
box 53
Courtauld Institute of Art,
1934-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, examination material, candidates, and study schemes.
box 54
Birkbeck, University of London,
1942-1968
Scope and Content Note
Lecture notes, bibliography, schedules, and lists of students. See also Series II.
Publication notes and manuscripts, Planning of the Elizabethan Country
House, Box 29.
box 55-57
Lecture preparations,
circa 1944-1945
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes and newspaper clippings.
box 58
University of Cambridge,
1948-1978
Scope and Content Note
Lecture notes. See also Series II. Publication notes and manuscripts, Matthew
Digby Wyatt,, Box 26.
box 59
Oxford Slade Lectures,
1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, lecture preparations. See also
Some
Architectural Writers of the XIXth Century
, 1972, Boxes 31-32.
Series III.B.
Special lectures and lecture tours,
1950-1978
Physical Description:
3.3 Linear
Feet
(8 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Agendas, notes, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures, and correspondence,
including correspondence and clippings relating to subsequent publications such as
Palladio and Europe (Venize, 1955),
L'Inghilterra e il
Manierismo
and
Palladio e il Manierismo (Vicenza, 1967),
Borromini e l'Inghilterra (Rome, 1968),
Ruskin and
Violet-le-Duc
(W. Neurath Memorial Lecture, 1969),
Die deutsche Stadt
im 19. Jahrhundert
(Munich 1971). Correspondents include Alford Albini,
Marcia Allentuck, Alf Boe, Henry R. Hitchcock, Hans Kaufmann, Brian Knox, P. Douglas
Knowles, Susi Lang, Stephen Tschudi Madsen, Michael McCarthy, William B. O'Neal, and
Anna Zador.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically, and therewithin primarily by geographic location.
box 60
Maitland Historical Society,
1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding lecture on Anglo-Saxon art.
box 60
Society of Antiquaries: "The Warwick Giltern,"
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
Includes Correspondence, notes, printed material, and photographs.
box 61
Australia and New Zealand,
1958
box 63
Miami (AIA convention),
1963
box 63
Rome (Italia Nostra),
1964
box 63
Aachen (Council of Europe),
1965
box 63
Hungary and Yugoslavia,
1965
box 64
Vicenza (Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea
Palladio),
1966-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes
L'Inghilterra e il Manierismo and Palladio e il Manierismo
manuscript, typescript, and notes.
box 64
Rome (Convegno di Studi Borrominiani Accademia, Nazionale di San
Luca),
1967
box 64
Smith College (
Robert Willis lecture),
1968
box 64
Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures (
Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc
lecture),
1969
box 64
Zagreb (University of Zagreb's 300th anniversary),
1969
box 65
Mellon Lectures,
1970
Scope and Content Note
See also Series II. Publication notes and manuscripts,
A History of Building
Types
, Box 35-36.
box 65
Southwestern State University in Great Britain,
1971
box 65
Munich (Die Stadt in 19 Jahrhundert Symposium),
1971
box 65
Cambridge (Cuno Amiet; opening speech for Giacometti
exhibition),
1971
box 66
Dumbarton Oaks: The Picturesque Garden and its influence outside the
British Isles,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Anna Zador, Michael McCarthy, Marcia Allentuck, Brian
Knox and Susi Lang.
box 66
Columbia University (Mathews Lectures),
1972
box 67
America (Victorian Society lectures),
1972
box 67
East Germany,
1976-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Buildings of England" typescript, 1977.
box 67
Convocation lecture: Social Aspects of Architecture,
1978
Series III.C.
Lecture notes,
undated
Physical Description:
6.9 Linear
Feet
(10 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, bibliographical material and clippings.
Arrangement
Arranged and indexed by Pevsner according to periods and countries.
box 70
Antiquity and Middle Ages (general)
box 72
Modern architecture and design
box 76
Britain III: Architectural theory (Pugin and after)
Series IV.
Research material: abstracts,
1906-1977,
undated
Physical Description:
17.8 Linear
Feet
(28 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Labeled as: Vorlesung S-S or W-S (lecture notes) or (excerpts). Includes reading notes,
biographical and bibliographical data, correspondence and clippings organized by Pevsner
according to subject.
Arrangement
Arranged in four sub-series: A) History, philosophy, and literature, B) Art history:
origins to XVIIIth century, C) Art history, XIX-XXth century, and D) Miscellaneous.
Series IV.A.
History, philosophy and literature,
1912-1951
Physical Description:
2.25 Linear
Feet
(3 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings, notes, and other materials on various non-art or
architecture-related topics.
box 78
Philosophy and religion,
1912-1942
box 79
History of science, agriculture, botany,
1912-1951
box 79
Trade and industry,
1922-1951
box 80
Literature, history of literature and intellectual history,
1919-1944
Series IV.B
Art history: origins to XVIIIth century,
1919-1977,
undated
Physical Description:
9.8 Linear
Feet
(13 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings, photographs, printed material, notes, and correspondence related
to the history of art and architecture from antiquity to the 18th century.
Arrangement
Arranged by Pevsner into subject files.
box 81
Art history,
1921-1962
Scope and Content Note
Antiquity, ancient Orient, Roman, early Christian and Byzantine.
box 82
Medieval, Mannerism, applied art, furniture, iconography,
1921-1965
box 83
Architecture,
1944-1955
Scope and Content Note
General, whole countries including United States, Spain and Portugal.
box 84
Italy,
1938-1970
Scope and Content Note
Architecture (early Christian to Baroque); Sculpture (Romanesque).
box 85
Painting and sculpture,
1921-1977
Scope and Content Note
Renaissance and Baroque.
box 86
Germany,
1919-1968
Scope and Content Note
Medieval sculpture, painting and architecture.
box 87
XVth-XVIIth century sculpture and painting,
undated
box 88
France,
1927-1975
Scope and Content Note
Painting, sculpture and architecture (Medieval to XVIIIth century).
box 89
Dutch and Flemish painting (XIVth-XVIIth century),
1921-1930
box 90
Britain: Prehistoric, Anglo-Saxon, Norman; Medieval
architecture,
1944-1951
box 91
Britain: Medieval architecture; Medieval painting and
sculpture,
1950-1958
Scope and Content Note
English vaults/St. Stephen's controversy, secular architecture.
box 92
Britain: 1600-1820 (General); XVIth-XIXth century painting,
1941-1973
box 93
Britain: Architecture (1600-1830) and minor art,
1950-1951,
undated
Series IV.C
Art history: XIX-XXth century,
1906-1977,
undated
Physical Description:
2.3 Linear
Feet
(6 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings, photographs, printed material, notes, and correspondence related
to the history of art and architecture in the 19th and 20th century (Index in Box
94).
Arrangement
Arranged by Pevsner into subject files.
box 94
[I] XIXth century painting and sculpture,
1943-1968,
undated
box 94
[II] Art theory and aesthetics,
1947-1976,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence and notes about John Broad's Clio, 1961-1962.
box 94
[III] Architectural theory,
1955-1976,
undated
box 95
[V] Victorian: General,
1963-1973,
undated
box 95
[VI] Victorian: XIXth century architecture,
1956-1976,
undated
box 95
[VII] Victorian: William Morris,
1941-1947,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Fred. J. Mayers and J. Scarrett Rigby; the Arts and
Crafts Movement.
box 96
[VII] Victorian: William Morris,
1939-1969,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Printed material and photographs.
box 97
[VIII] Victorian: British Museum,
1906-1964,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Early iron (used for
Pioneers, New York edition, including notes and
correspondence with Erika Hellich (1948-1949), model housing; non conformist
churches.
box 97
[X] Victorian: town planning (England - continent),
1941-1964,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Victorian architects (biographical material arranged alphabetically according to
architect).
box 97
[XI] Early XXth century,
1934-1974,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes reading on
Pioneers arranged alphabetically.
box 98
[XII] Classical revival,
undated
box 98
[XIII] Gothic revival, neo-Oriental, neo-Egyptian, neo-Jacobean,
neo-Moorish,
1953-1977
box 98
[XIV] Victorian history and culture, Victorian taste, design,
typography,
1948-1974,
undated
box 98
Early modern; modern architecture and painting,
circa
1920s-1966
Scope and Content Note
Includes material regarding Walter Gropius and town planning.
box 99
Fabrics, advertising,
undated
box 99
The architect in history,
1912-1949,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Julius Schlosser and Burkhard Meier.
box 99
Social aspects of art,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Statistics.
box 99
Thomas Mann,
1921-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes and printed material.
Series IV.D
Miscellaneous,
1926-1976,
undated
Physical Description:
3.5 Linear
Feet
(6 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes, index cards, magazines, lists, and various other materials Pevsner
used for research and reference.
Arrangement
Arranged into subject files.
box 100-101
Biographical data on index cards,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Cards are arranged in alphabetical order; Box 100 contains A-I, Box 101 contains
K-Y.
box 102
Register of artists,
undated
box 102
Architectural magazines,
1938, undated
box 102
Country Life,
1926, undated
Scope and Content Note
General extracts. Also includes index of memorabilia.
box 103-104
Notes,
1929-1976
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically according to country or subject: Box 103 contains A-K, Box
104 contains N-Y.
box 105
Travel notes,
1930-1951
Scope and Content Note
Notes on museums.
box 105
Bibliographical material,
1927-1956
Series V.
Research material: illustrations - printed material,
1915-1977,
undated
Physical Description:
21.8 Linear
Feet
(37 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series includes photographs, clippings, pamphlets, books, postcards, and other printed
material Pevsner used for research and as illustrations for his writings and
lectures.
Arrangement
Arranged by format of printed material.
Photograph and clipping files,
1921-1975,
undated
box 106
Austria; France,
1932-1965,
undated
box 107
Germany,
1921-1966,
undated
box 108
Great Britain,
1931-1975,
undated
box 109
Great Britain (XIX-XX),
1931-1972,
undated
box 110
Hungary; Turkey,
1931-1970,
undated
box 111
USA; Yugoslavia; and miscellaneous,
circa
1915-1965
Postcard albums,
circa 1920s-1950s,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Eight albums of postcards organized by Pevsner geographically, with some albums
containing black-and-white photographic prints made by Pevsner while visiting these
locations. Most postcards feature historic locations and significant architecture. The
titles listed below were transcribed directly from labels on the album covers.
box 159
"Pre-war" Switzerland and Germany
box 163
Germany, Italy, and England
box 165
France, Greece, and Berlin
box 112-131
Postcard collection,
circa
1923-1977
box 132
Pamphlets and offprints,
1921-1976
box 133-134
Annotated books,
1954-1958,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes Colvin's
Biographical Dictionary of English Architects,
1660-1840
(1958) and Hart's
Giulio Romano (1958).
box 134
Unpublished material submitted to Pevsner,
circa
1967-1970
Series VI.
Personal papers,
1916-1979,
undated
Physical Description:
6.26 Linear
Feet
(15 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series contains correspondence, awards, commendations, diaries, poems, short stories,
notes, and other personal materials.
Arrangement
Arranged by subject and format, with the personal diaries being arranged
chronologically.
box 150-157
Correspondence, Lola,
1920-1961
Scope and Content Note
Personal letters received and written by Pevsner, accompanied by several letters
written by members of his immediate family. Includes Pevsner's letters to his wife
"Lola," a number of letters from his mother in Leipzig, 1937-1942. (see also Series
II. Beitrage zur Stilgeschichte des Fruh - und Hochbarok, 1928).
box 135
Correspondence,
1919-1978
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter from Thomas Mann, dated Oct. 16, 1918, relating to his
"Betrachtungen eines Unpoliteschen"
box 135
Personal notes, autographs, and memorabilia,
circa 1970s, undated
box 135
Manuscripts,
1918-1919,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Short stories and poems, one dedicated to Thomas Mann.
box 135
Awards and honorary degrees,
1974-1979
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, agendas, and speech notes.
1916-1923
Scope and Content Note
112 handwritten diaries produced by Nikolaus Pevsner between the ages of fourteen
and twenty-one. The diaries are bound in blue paper and all measure a uniform 6.6 x
4 inches. Some contain additional artifacts, including notes, letters, cards, and
photographs, often inserted in small pockets formed by pages being glued together.
The diaries are in German, and some are written in shorthand, possibly Gabelsberger
shorthand or an adapted version.
The titles and numbering in this file have been transcribed directly from the label
on each volume. Pevsner's labeling varies from year to year - some volumes are
simply labeled with a "P." (presumably for Pevsner) and a date, while others are
labeled "Tagebuch," or specifically "Erlebnisse eines Sechzehnjährigen" and
"Studienjahr." Beginning with the volume labeled "Tagebuch I. (48), 1919 June-July"
the volumes are numbered sequentially from 48 to 113, in addition to their primary
titles and numbering.
Please note that these diaries require special handling.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Nikolaus Pevsner personal diaries, 1916-1923: Gift of the Family of Sir Nikolaus
Pevsner.
box 146, folder 2
II.,
1916 February 23
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted page from a calendar dated 1913, with a drawing of a musical
score on verso.
box 146, folder 4
IV.,
1916 May 4
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted notes and a black-and-white photograph of young boy dated
1918.
box 146, folder 8
III.,
1917 February 24
Scope and Content Note
Includes an inserted letter, a note, and four black-and-white photographs.
box 146, folder 9
IV.,
1917 March 14
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted newspaper clipping (1918) and a visiting card from Lola
Kurlbaum.
box 146, folder 10
V.,
1917 March 30
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter and a visiting card from Max Frommann.
box 146, folder 12
VII.,
1917 May 10
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
box 146, folder 13
I. Nach dem ereignis vom 20-22 mai 1917,
1917 May 23
box 146, folder 14
II. Nach dem ereignis vom 20-22 mai 1917,
1917 June 15
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted note.
box 146, folder 16
IV.,
1917 August 8
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted newspaper clipping (1917), a black-and-white photograph, and
a visiting card from Liselotte Marx.
box 146, folder 17
V.,
1917 August 31
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
Erlebnisse eines Sechzehnjährigen,
1917-1918
box 147, folder 3
XIII.,
1918 March 17
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted postcard and letter.
box 147, folder 9
III.,
1918 June-July
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted note.
box 147, folder 10
IV.,
1918 July-August
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted postcard and two letters.
box 147, folder 11
V.,
1918 August
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted postcard, visiting card, black-and-white photograph, and a
lock of human hair.
box 147, folder 12
VI.,
1918 August-September
box 147, folder 13
VII.,
1918 September-October
box 147, folder 14
VIII.,
1918 October-November
box 147, folder 15
IX.,
1918 November-December
box 147, folder 16
X.,
1918-1919
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted notes.
box 147, folder 18
XII.,
1919 April-June
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted visiting card.
box 147, folder 20
II. (49),
1919 July-September
box 147, folder 21
III. (50),
1919 September
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted visiting card.
box 147, folder 22
IV. (51),
1919 September-October
box 147, folder 23
V. (52),
1919 October
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
box 147, folder 24
VI. (53),
1919 October
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
box 147, folder 26
VIII. (55),
1919 October
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted visiting card.
box 147, folder 27
IX. (56),
1919 October-November
box 148, folder 1
XI. (58),
1919 November
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
box 148, folder 2
XII. (59),
1919 November-December
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted visiting card.
box 148, folder 3
XIII. (60),
1919 December
box 148, folder 7
XVII. (64),
1920 January
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted card.
box 148, folder 8
XVIII. (65),
1920 January-February
box 148, folder 11
XXI. (68),
1920 February-March
Tagebuch. 2. Reihe, 1920-1921
box 148, folder 15
II. (72),
1920 March-April
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
box 148, folder 20
VII. (77),
1920 May
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted postcard and letter.
Tagebuch. 3. Reihe, 1920-1921
box 148, folder 22
II. (79),
1920 June
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted ticket from the Neues Theater, June 7, 1920.
box 148, folder 25
V. (82),
1920 July
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
box 148, folder 26
VI. (83),
1920 July-August
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letters.
box 148, folder 27
VII. (84),
1920 August-September
box 148, folder 28
VIII. (85),
1920 September
box 149, folder 2
X. (87),
1920 September-October
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted postcards from Lola Kurlbaum.
box 149, folder 4
Volume
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted cards from Lola Kurlbaum. A leather bracelet with a metal
clasp was removed and rehoused for conservation purposes - see below.
box 149, folder 5
XIII. (90),
1920 October-November
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted card from Lola Kurlbaum.
box 149, folder 6
XIV. (91),
1920 November
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted card from Lola Kurlbaum.
box 149, folder 7
XV. (92),
1920 November-December
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted card from Lola Kurlbaum.
box 149, folder 10
XVIII. (95),
1921 February
box 149, folder 11
XIX. (96),
1921 February-March
box 149, folder 14
XXII. (99),
1921 March-April
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
box 149, folder 18
III. (103),
1921 July-August
box 149, folder 19
IV. (104),
1921 August-September
box 149, folder 20
V. (105),
1921 September-October
box 149, folder 23
VIII. (108),
1922 January-February
box 149, folder 24
IX. (109),
1922 February-April
box 149, folder 26
II. (111),
1922 June-November
Scope and Content Note
Includes inserted letter.
box 149, folder 28
IV. (113),
1923 March-May
box 136
1951-1977
Scope and Content Note
Small pocket-sized notebooks.
Series VII.
Clippings and offprints,
1923-1978
Physical Description:
2.9 Linear
Feet
(7 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings, mainly from German periodicals, many are mounted in books; and
articles regarding various aspects of art and architecture, some in German and others in
English. Boxes 140-143 contain two identical sets of photocopies of Pevsner's newspaper
cuttings and offprints.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically, with photocopies at the end of the series.
box 137
Collection of clippings and offprints of Pevsner's articles,
1923-1935
box 137
Clippings and offprints,
1923-1942
box 138
Clippings and offprints,
1936-1949
box 139
Clippings and offprints,
1950-1978