Finding Aid for the Myron Chester Nutting papers, 1900-1971
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Title: Myron Chester Nutting papers
Collection number: 2008
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.5 linear ft.
(3 boxes. 1 oversize box.)
Date: 1900-1971
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Nutting, Myron Chester, 1890-1972
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are
retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Myron Chester Nutting Papers (Collection 2008). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, memorabilia, genealogical material, clippings, manuscript material, and photographs
of the paintings of Los Angeles artist Myron Nutting. Manuscripts include lectures, speeches, and notes by Nutting, holograph
notes about him made by Edward Gordon Craig, and notes and personal observations made by his wife Muriel Nutting of James
Joyce during the 1920s.
Items Removed from Collection
Removed from collection for separate cataloging:
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ATYS. Occasional Broadsheet of Art and Literature. Rome, published occasionally (no.1,
Date: November 1918
- vol.3, no.14,
Date: December 1921
).
Related Oral History
The following oral history is available through the UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research:
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An artist's life and travels [oral history transcript] / Myron C. Nutting, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, c. 1972. Available at
UCLA Library Special Collections.
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Interview of Myron C. Nutting
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Nutting, Myron Chester, 1890-1972--Archives.
Painters--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Photographs.
Correspondence and Memorabilia
Box 1, Folder 1
Letters to M. Nutting,
ca. 1898-1971.
Box 1, Folder 2
Letters to M. Nutting from Ramon Guthrie,
1951-1971.
Box 1, Folder 3
Letters to M. Nutting,
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 4
Letters from Nutting,
n.d.
Physical Description: [2 copies].
Box 1, Folder 5
Letters to Mrs. Nutting,
ca. 1919-1930.
Box 1, Folder 6
Miscellaneous correspondence - letters from "Cham" to Nix on
Masses letterhead.
Box 1, Folder 7
Council of Allied Artists - notes, roster of members, copies of
Council News.
Box 1, Folder 8
Photographs.
Physical Description: [l0 pieces].
Box 1, Folder 9
Ephemera.
Physical Description: [4 pieces].
Box 1, Folder 10
Memorabilia.
Physical Description: [6 items].
Scope and Content Note
Includes: drawing (sketch) autograph book; diary volume, ca. 1902-03.
Box 1, Folder 11
Family memorabilia - notebook of MN's mother, Ida Carpenter.
Box 1, Folder 12
Nutting genealogy notes.
Physical Description: [3 notebooks].
Nutting Genealogy and Photographs of MN's Paintings
Box 2, Folder 1
Rev. John Keep Nutting,
Nutting Geneology. A record of some of the descendants of John Nutting of Groton, Massachusetts. Syracuse, New York: Bardeen,
1908.
Physical Description: 277 leaves.
Box 2, Folder 2
Homer Brainard,
Genealogy of First Four Generations and Names of Fifth Generation of Male Descendants of John Nutting of Groton Massachusetts. Faribualt, Minnesota: Walter Nutting,
1927.
Physical Description: 52 pieces.
Photographs of Myron Nutting's Paintings
General note
(for a discussion of the paintings, see Nutting Oral History volume 300/87)
Box 2, Folder 3
Almalfi and Rome,
ca. 1914-18
Physical Description: [4 photos].
Box 2, Folder 4
Florence,
1914.
Physical Description: [2 photos].
Box 2, Folder 5
Munich,
ca. 1913-14.
Physical Description: [3 photos].
Box 2, Folder 6
Corsica,
ca. 1924.
Physical Description: [6 photos].
Box 2, Folder 7
Paris - portraits,
ca. 1922-27.
Physical Description: [19 photos].
Box 2, Folder 8
Paris,
ca. 1921-29.
Physical Description: [40 photos].
Box 2, Folder 9
Milwaukee,
ca. 1933-39.
Physical Description: [26 photos].
Box 2, Folder 10
Los Angeles,
ca. 1940-55.
Physical Description: [24 photos].
Box 2, Folders 11-12
Duplicates of above.
Physical Description: [102 photos].
Box 3, Folder 1
Edward Gordon Craig - holograph notes about EGC.
Box 3, Folder 2
Carl Eppert - includes holograph sheet music; autographed photograph of Eppert; and clippings.
Physical Description: [10 pieces].
Box 3, Folder 3
James Joyce - holograph notes and research materials.
Box 3, Folder 6
M. Nutting manuscripts of lectures, speeches, and notes toward an autobiography.
Box 3, Folder 7
M. Nutting manuscript notes on various acquaintances - Wyndham Lewis, Elmer Rice, etc.
Box 3, Folder 8
Journey Through Shakespeare, 1926-1946. Printed, as a manuscript, by Mary O'Dwyer. Limited to 50 copies. Hollywood,
1946.
Physical Description: [Presentation copy].
Box 4
2 scrapbooks of Myron C. Nutting clippings,
ca. 1923-1958.