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INVENTORY OF THE BERNARD AND REBECCA REIS PAPERS, ca.
1924-1985
900184
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Title: Bernard and Rebecca Reis papers
Dates: ca. 1924-1985
Collection number: 900184
Creator:
Reis, Bernard
Creator:
Reis, Rebecca
Extent:
3.4 linear ft.
(8
boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA
90049-1688
Abstract: Accountant who served as a financial advisor and patron to many artists; wife Rebecca Reis (b. 1900) was an art collector.
The papers contain correspondence, business and financial records, printed ephemera, photographs, a substantial body of letters
from major and minor figures of the American art world, written and visual documentation of the Reis collection of art and
books, and ephemeral material relating to artists and patrons.
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Language: Collection material in English
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Bernard and Rebecca Reis papers, ca.
1924-1985, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
900184.
Acquired 1990.
Bernard Reis papers, Archives of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Bernard Reis (1895-1978) was an accountant who served as a financial
advisor and patron to many artists; his wife, Rebecca Reis (b. 1900), was an
art collector.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Bernard and Rebecca Reis Papers contain correspondence, business
and financial records, printed ephemera, and photographs. The two primary foci,
20th century artists and the art collection formed by Bernard and Rebecca Reis,
are brought out through a substantial body of letters from major and minor
figures of the American art world, written and visual documentation of the Reis
collection of art and books, and ephemeral material relating to artists and
patrons.
Arrangement
Organized in three series:
Series I.
Correspondence and papers, ca. 1924-1985
Series
II. Printed ephemera. ca. 1924-1985
Series
III. Photographs, ca. 1924-1985
Reis, Rebecca
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Art—Collectors and collecting
Art patrons—United States
Painting, Modern—20th century
Sculpture, Modern—20th century
Illustrations
Photographic prints—20th century
Photographs, Original
Albee, Edward, 1928-
Asher, Elise, 1914-
Barr, Alfred Hamilton
Baziotes, William, 1912-1963
Birnbaum, Abe
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992
Calas, Nicolas
Campigli, Massimo, 1895-1971
Chagall, Marc, 1887-
Congdon, William, 1912-
De Diego, Julio, 1900-1979
De Kooning, Willem, 1904-
Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-
Dufy, Raoul, 1877-1953
Eliot, Alexander
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-
Grosz, George, 1893-1959
Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-
Guston, Philip, 1913-
Leyden, Ernst van, 1892-
Lloyd, Frank
Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973
Miró, Joan, 1893-
Motherwell, Robert
Man Ray, 1890-1976
Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893-1968
Reis, Rebecca
Rivers, Larry, 1925-
Salemme, Attilio, 1911-1955
Sandberg, Willem Jacob Henri Berend, 1897-1984
Stamos, Theodoros, 1922-
Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-
Wilder, Clinton
Peggy Guggenheim Collection