Finding aid for the Harold Rosenberg papers, 1923-1984 980048
Annette Leddy.
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Title: Harold Rosenberg papers
Creator:
Tabak, May Natalie, 1910-1993
Creator:
Shapey, Ralph, 1921-2002
Creator:
Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978
Creator:
Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967
Creator:
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961
Creator:
Motherwell, Robert
Creator:
Hess, Thomas B.
Creator:
Howe, Irving
Creator:
Kaprow, Allan
Creator:
Kristol, Irving
Creator:
Phillips, William, 1907 November 14-
Creator:
Podhoretz, Norman
Creator:
Raeburn, Ben
Creator:
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
Creator:
Barthelme, Donald, 1907-1996
Creator:
Guston, Philip, 1913-1980
Creator:
Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993
Creator:
Bellow, Saul
Identifier/Call Number: 980048
Physical Description:
30 Linear Feet
(64 boxes, 8 flat file folders)
Date (inclusive): 1923-1984
Abstract: American art critic who developed the concept of "action painting" to describe the work of New York School painters such as
De Kooning and Pollock. In 1967 Rosenberg became the regular art reviewer for
The New Yorker. The papers offer a comprehensive view of his professional life from the early 1930s until his death in 1978, with the greatest
portion of material from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Language of Material:
English
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Scope and Content of Collection
The Harold Rosenberg Papers present a comprehensive view of Rosenberg's professional life from the early 1930s until his death
in 1978, with the greatest portion of material from the 1960s and '70s. Correspondence offers a history of the issues and
debates that concerned New York intellectuals who published and edited influential journals such as
Dissent,
Commentary,
Partisan Review, and
Art News. The manuscripts show the range of topics Rosenberg's thoughtful writings encompassed in the little magazines that embraced
him for three decades, writings on politics, literature, art, art education, and philosophy. They also show the maturation
of his style as a reviewer for
The New Yorker. Interviews and teaching files give a glimpse of Rosenberg as a dynamic and spontaneous speaker, a dimension of him that
the audiotape also preserves. The relatively small amount of personal material, such as family correspondence, journals and
photographs, evoke the climate of his personal life, while clippings and printed matter chronicle the social and intellectual
era in which Rosenberg lived and worked.
Arrangement note
The papers are arranged in seven series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1932-1984
Series II. Manuscripts, 1929-1978
Series III. Clippings, serials and printed matter, 1925-1981
Series IV. Personal, 1923-1978
Series V. Manuscripts by others, 1953-1978
Series VI. Photographs and Artwork, 1942-1977
Series VII. Audiotape, undated.
Biographical/Historical Note
Harold Rosenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1906. Like many of his generation of New York intellectuals, he was educated
in the 1920s at City College, where debate about Marxism and its relationship to the arts flourished. The issues that concerned
Rosenberg, and peers such as Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Podhoretz, and William Phillips, would
generate influential journals such as
Partisan Review,
Dissent, and
Commentary along with numerous other, often short-lived little magazines. It was in the little magazines that Rosenberg for many years
found his readership. While working for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s and for the Office of War Information
in the 1940s and for the Advertising Council of America until 1973, he persistently published in these journals a prodigious
number of poems, book reviews, art reviews, and theoretical essays. A selection of the essays were published as a book,
The Tradition of the New, in 1959, when Rosenberg was fifty-three. The book reached a wider audience than the individual pieces had, and from that
point on Rosenberg was in demand as a speaker, writer, and professor. In 1963 he gave the Gauss seminars at Princeton, and
from 1966 until his death in 1978 he taught at University of Chicago as a member of the Committee on Social Thought. In 1962,
he began publishing art reviews in
The New Yorker, becoming, in 1967, their regular reviewer. These reviews, along with pieces he wrote for other prominent journals, were
collected in the form of several books, including
The Anxious Object (1964),
Artworks and Packages (1969),
The De-Definition of Art (1972), and
Art On the Edge (1971). He also wrote books on individual artists he admired, such as William De Kooning, Saul Steinberg, and Barnett Newman.
Rosenberg's particular fusion of Marxist theory and modernism employed existentialism. In the late '40s and early '50s, he
published in
Les Temps Modernes and other French publications with the help of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir. Rosenberg's theoretical interests
and critical observation of artists such as DeKooning and Pollock crystallized in his signature piece, "The American Action
Painters," published in
Art News in 1952. He argued that for these artists painting was a spontaneous event in the search for individual identity, and the
resultant work on canvas was but a record of that search and not an object created for the purpose of aesthetic pleasure.
This argument was ever afterward associated with Rosenberg, and he continued to revise and adapt it for the rest of his career
as an art reviewer.
A brilliant polemicist who loved debate and discussion, Rosenberg had many enduring friendships among the intellectual elite
of his day. The mutual animosity he and Clement Greenberg felt for each other, is also, however, an integral part of Rosenberg's
personal history and the history of the New York School, whose work these critics so assiduously championed. From their early
rivalry over a staff position at
Partisan Review, to later mutual attacks in public and in print, Rosenberg and Greenberg, equally influential, came to represent two opposing
approaches to the art of their day, even if, from the vantage point of the present day, they held many assumptions and judgements
in common.
Rosenberg was married for more than forty years to the late May Natalie Tabak, a fiction writer who, like Rosenberg, published
in
The New Yorker. They had a daughter, Patia Rosenberg, who survives them.
Processing History
Papers were processed in 1998-1999.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1998.
Preferred Citation
Harold Rosenberg papers, 1923-1984, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 980048.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa980048
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Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Existentialism
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
Audiotapes
Diaries
Abstract expressionism
Location (New York, N.Y. : Longview Foundation, Inc., 1963)
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Scores
Commentary (New York, N.Y. : 1945)
Photographic prints
Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865)
Partisan review (New York, N.Y. : 1936)
Photographs, Original
Dissent (New York, N.Y. : 1954)
Posters
United States. Works Progress Administration
United States. Office of War Information
Steinberg, Saul
Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
New York School of Art
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948
De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
Correspondence, Series I.
1932-1984
Physical Description:
19 box(es)
7.9 lin. ft.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence concerns Rosenberg's relationship with artists, critics, academic colleagues, family, and businesses. Folders
containing general correspondence from a given year are interfiled with folders containing correspondence with a specific
individual or concerning a specific issue. Rosenberg's replies are often included either in the form of carbon copies or as
remarks written in pencil on a given letter. Descriptions of folder contents offer selected highlights only and are not complete
inventories.
Arranged in three subseries.
Professional Correspondence, Series I.A.
1932-1978
Physical Description:
4.5 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Professional correspondence is a rich source of information about Rosenberg's intellectual development and about the debates
that characterized the anti-Stalinist left in New York in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. One highlight is the editorial correspondence
with Irving Howe, William Phillips, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Meyer Schapiro, and Ben Raeburn. Also interesting are
letters from the French intellectuals Rosenberg knew in the 1940s and '50s, such as Paul de Man, Simone de Beauvoir, and Merleau-Ponty.
There are letters from writers associated with one of the journals Rosenberg edited,
Location, such as Saul Bellow, Kenneth Burke, Donald Barthelme, Robert Bly, and Thomas Hess, and from artists Rosenberg was close
to, such as Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, and Allan Kaprow. A small amount of correspondence pertains to Rosenberg's work
as a consultant for the Advertising Council of America.
box 1
Professional Correspondence,
1932-1958
box 1, folder 1
1932-1942
Scope and Contents note
Including letter regarding ethics from Rebecca(?) with pencilled in response from HR, Karl Korsch letter, questionnaire from
Partisan Review.
box 1, folder 2
1943-1947
Scope and Contents note
Regarding HR's employment in Office of War Information, with bulletins and clippings.
box 1, folder 3
1946-1948
Scope and Contents note
Including Robert Motherwell presenting his ideas for the journal
Possibilities, letter to Dwight MacDonald from Lionel Abel, Delmore Schwartz rejecting HR's ms., Irving Kristol responding to HR's article
on Marx.
box 1, folder 4
1949
Scope and Contents note
Including Paul de Man at Bard College supporting HR's work, and American poets' protesting
Saturday Review's attack on Modern Poetry.
box 1, folder 5
1949-1957
Scope and Contents note
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, regarding the translation and publication of HR's articles in French journals.
box 1, folder 6
1950
Scope and Contents note
Including editors of Pantheon Books and Kenyon Review. HR's request for a raise at Advertising Council where he is a part
time Program Consultant.
box 1, folder 7
1950-1952
Scope and Contents note
Clyfford Still, suggesting in one letter that HR become an art reviewer and in another regretting having made that suggestion.
box 1, folder 8
1951
Scope and Contents note
Including HR letters to Irving Howe regarding articles in
Dissent.
box 1, folder 9
1951-1964
Scope and Contents note
Simone de Beauvoir regarding politics, writing, etc., with reply from HR.
box 1, folder 10
1952
Scope and Contents note
Including Joseph Cornell inviting HR to view his latest work "Dovecote," George Lichtheim regarding the publication of HR's
work in his journal
The Twentieth Century.
box 1, folder 11
1952
Scope and Contents note
Mary McCarthy regarding her writing struggles and the 1952 presidential election. With letter from HR.
box 1, folder 12
1953
Scope and Contents note
Including Robert Motherwell regarding a painting he gave HR, George Lichtheim, with reply from HR expressing his disgust with
Partisan Review and
Commentary, Irving Kristol regarding HR's writing style.
box 1, folder 13
1954
Scope and Contents note
Including Irving Kristol apologizing for having changed an HR article without permission and announcing a new series for
Encounter called "Men and Ideas."Advertising council memo with clipping.
box 1, folder 14
1955
Scope and Contents note
Including Lucien Mazenod regarding HR piece on Marx he's publishing in an anthology, Irving Howe, Robert Creeley, Norman di
Giovanni, Alfred Kazin (w. clipping), Tom Hess, Jascha Kessler.
box 1, folder 15
1955
Scope and Contents note
Debate between Irving Howe, Irving Kristol and HR, regarding
Encounter's failure to publish HR's letter criticizing an article it had published by Fiedler.
box 1, folder 16
1955-1964
Scope and Contents note
Hans and Mrs. Hoffmann, warmly inviting Rosenbergs to visit them, praising HR's essays, etc.
box 1, folder 17
1956
Scope and Contents note
Including Manny Geltman regarding English version of HR's Marx article, Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol. Advertising
Council correspondence.
box 1, folder 18
1957
Scope and Contents note
Including Meyer Schapiro, Ben Raeburn, Irving Howe regarding his submission of HR's book to Raeburn at Horizon, Lucien Mazenod,
Shlomo Katz (editor of
Midstream). Many of the letters praise HR's various articles and request more. Two graphics by Ray Johnson. Advertising Council correspondence.
box 1, folder 19
1958
Scope and Contents note
Including Irving Howe, Ben Raeburn, William Phillips, Jascha Kessler. Letter from HR to Raeburn regarding title for book.
Other letters regarding advance publicity for book. Advertising Council correspondence.
box 2
Professional Correspondence,
1959-1961
box 2, folder 1
1959
Scope and Contents note
Including Robert Corrigan, Howard Nemerov, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow about his new journal
The Noble Savage, Irving Howe and a clipping of Howe's review of Raymond Williams'
Culture and Society, Meyer Schapiro regarding a publication about Pasternak, David Sylvester, Arthur Vidich, William Phillips, Tom Hess, Robert
Motherwell regarding his vacation in England with Helen Frankenthaler, a Robert Johnson piece.
box 2, folder 2
1959-1964
Scope and Contents note
Including Irving Howe , David Sylvester, Paul Goodman, Arthur Vidich, Ben Raeburn, Herschel Chipp, Irving Kristol, and Advertising
Council colleagues regarding the publication, translation and reception of HR's book
The Tradition of the New.
box 2, folder 3
1959-1964
Scope and Contents note
Including George Braziller, Ben Raeburn, regarding the publication and translation of HR's book
Arshille Gorky.
box 2, folder 4
1960
Scope and Contents note
Including William Phillips, James Purdy thanking HR for his comments, Norman Podhoretz, Allan Kaprow asking Tom Hess for a
reference, memos from Advertising Council colleagues, Algerian War protest document.
box 2, folder 5
1960-1967
Scope and Contents note
Ad Reinhardt, reporting on recent night at "the Club," the art business, HR's reviews, etc.
box 2, folder 6
1961
Scope and Contents note
Including Kenneth Burke on his
Poetics, Robert Bly, LeRoi Jones on the troubles of his journal
The Floating Bear, John Ashberry thanking HR for the Longview Award, Norman Podhoretz, Saul Bellow regarding
Herzog. Responses to HR's Eichmann article, 1961. Clippings about the biennial in Sao Paolo.
box 2, folder 7
1961
Scope and Contents note
Including Norman Podhoretz, HR regarding artists' protest against John Canaday reviews, Donald Barthelme inviting HR to speak
at Houston Arts Association where he's the assistant director, Kenneth Burke regarding submissions to
Location.
box 3
Professional Correspondence,
1962-1964
box 3, folder 1
1962
Scope and Contents note
Including Shlomo Katz, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Podhoretz. Letter signed by several NY intellectuals about Siqueiros' ambiguous
moral status. Many invitations to lecture and participate in conferences. Praise for HR's Gorky book and his
New Yorker column. Some Advertising Council business.
box 3, folder 2
1962
Scope and Contents note
Including Irving Howe requesting ideas for
Dissent. Reponses to HR's
Arshille Gorky. Donald Barthelme, accepting HR's invitation to move to NY and work on the Longview foundation magazine,
Location, Kenneth Burke about
Location.
box 3, folder 3
1962
Scope and Contents note
Letter signed by NY intellectuals in support of Civil Rights sit-in, and related materials.
box 3, folder 4
1963
Scope and Contents note
Including Frank Kermode regarding BBC discussion of contemporary art, Kenneth Burke regarding submissions to
Location, Henry Kissinger thanking HR for his participation in the International Seminar, Denise Levertov recommending a colleague
for Longview foundation support, Ray Johnson graphics. Praise for HR's
New Yorker reviews.
box 3, folder 5
1963
Scope and Contents note
Including correspondence with Robert Bly regarding dispute about Bly submission to
Location, Kenneth Burke regarding
Location. Invitations to lecture.
box 3, folder 6
1963
Scope and Contents note
Including Morrow requesting that HR review LeRoi Jones' book on Blues, William Phillips responding to HR's request for payment,
Irving Howe, Aaron Copland, MacDowell colony matters. Protest statement against censorship of
Tropic of Cancer.
box 3, folder 7
1964
Scope and Contents note
Including Phillip Pavia, William Phillips regarding
Partisan Review conference on "The Idea of the Future," Irving Howe congratulating HR on his Lukacs piece, offers of visiting lectureships,
invitations to speak at symposia on art education and other matters.
box 4
Professional Correspondence,
1964-1965
box 4, folder 1
1964
Scope and Contents note
Including Denise Levertov, Bill Moyers regarding Advertising Council matters, Norman Podhoretz, E.H. Gombrich regarding HR
remark that offended him, Robert Hughes complaining about the Venice Biennale. Requests for nominees for grants, Saul Bellow
and others regarding
Location.
box 4, folder 2
1964
Scope and Contents note
Including HR letter to Esquire regarding discussion of The Establishment, HR letter to Podhoretz requesting he print HR counterattack
on Daniel Bell. Program for Brandeis symposium on Modern Art. HR's Ford Foundation grant application. Many invitations to
speak or teach.
box 4, folder 3
1964-1968
Scope and Contents note
Including Ben Raeburn, Bompiani Press regarding publication, translation and reception of HR's
The Anxious Object, HR letter to editor of
Saturday Review protesting Daniel Rich review of
The Anxious Object, HR letter protesting Frank Kermode review.
box 4, folder 4
1965
Scope and Contents note
Including John Cage regarding a fund-raising lecture series he wants HR to participate in, Herbert Blau requesting an article
on action painting and theater, Roberto Giammanco requesting an article on Carlo Levi for
Galleria, and many other requests for HR to contribute papers or participate in conferences.
box 4, folder 5
1965
Scope and Contents note
Including Tom Hess offering gossip about the NY art world and thoughts about
Location, submissions and other matters for
Location. Arrangements for conferences; requests to review books.
box 4, folder 6
1965
Scope and Contents note
Including John Cage regarding benefit lecture, Ben Raeburn regarding a surrealist anthology, William Phillips requesting HR's
presence at conference, "The Idea of the Future" and inquiring if HR would review Arnold Hauser's
Mannerism, Robert Osborne regarding McLuhan, Grove Press requesting that HR review John Berger's Picasso book. Petition for artists'
protest against US policy in Vietnam.
box 5
Professional Correspondence, 1965-1967
box 5, folder 1
1965
Scope and Contents note
Regarding book on John Ruskin's selected writings that HR was going to edit for New American Library. Clippings of reviews
of Kenneth Clark's Ruskin book.
box 5, folder 2
1966
Scope and Contents note
Including Anne Tabachnik regarding art world complicity, Alfred Werner (to
Commentary) critisizing HR's article on Jewish art.
box 5, folder 3
1966
Scope and Contents note
Including Peter Brooks requesting a piece for
Harvard Art Review, HR letter to Islamic scholar Marshall Hodgson, the USIA thanking HR for his piece on Modernism intended for Russian readers,
many congratulating HR on becoming regular Art Reviewer for the
New Yorker, many requests to speak at colleges, art instiutions or to contribute pieces to journals.
box 5, folder 4
1966
Scope and Contents note
Including Ruth Nanda Ashen (ed.
Perspectives in Humanism), Lionel Trilling responding to HR's criticism of him in
Encounter, Kenneth Burke reflecting briefly on Frank Kermode. New American Library contract for essay on
The Idiot. Many letters praising HR's
New Yorker column. Request for nominations for Rockefeller Foundation grants.
box 5, folder 5
1966
Scope and Contents note
Including Norman Podhoretz asking HR to review Masters and Johnson's Report, John Cage thanking HR for participating in fundraising
conference, Robert Osborne regarding McLuhan.
box 5, folder 6
1966-1969
Scope and Contents note
Allan Kaprow discussing art and politics, art institutions, requesting recommendations. With reply from HR.
box 5, folder 7
1967
Scope and Contents note
Including Irving Howe requesting essay on the idea of Modernism, Ray Johnson complaining about HR's descriptions of his work,
Alfred Barr, Jr., complaining about HR's review of MOMA's 1960s show (w. HR's reply), James Fitzsimmons (ed.
Art International) regarding De Kooning, Wayne Thiebaud.
box 5, folder 8
1967
Scope and Contents note
Including letters requesting recommendations, articles for journals, and conference appearances.
box 5, folder 9
1967
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Thomas Hess.
box 5, folder 10
1967
Scope and Contents note
Art Forum debate between HR and William Rubin regarding Pollock and "action painting."
box 6
Professional Correspondence,
1968-1969
box 6, folder 1
1968
Scope and Contents note
HR statement against war in Vietnam. Arrangements for guest lectureships, conference papers, reprints of articles.
box 6, folder 2
1968
Scope and Contents note
Including Theodore Solotaroff requesting permission to reprint HR's Eichmann essay in anthology for NAL, Norman Podhoretz
asking HR to review Walter Benjamin's writings for
Commentary, E.N. Sargeant about sex and art, Paul Goodman asking HR to write preface for his book, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy about the Chicago
artist boycott. Many requests for HR to lecture. Much praise for HR's articles.
box 6, folder 3
1969
Scope and Contents note
Including Herschel B. Chipp regarding Czech revolutionary posters, William Phillips asking HR to review Walter Benjamin essays
for
Partisan Review, Kenneth Burke submitting review, Ben Raeburn regarding guest list for HR's
Artworks book party. Also arrangements for lectureships and conference papers.
box 6, folder 4
1969
Scope and Contents note
Including Moholy-Nagy thanking HR for his review, Kenneth Burke regarding the fate of his books and new article, and much
praise for HR articles.
box 6, folder 5
undated
Scope and Contents note
Generally from the 1960s. Ray Johnson paper piece, David Hare on the modern artist, John Ashbery regarding HR article he wants
for his Paris magazine, Ben Raeburn regarding HR's review of Hannah Arendt, Irving Howe regarding a symposium he and HR were
in, Kenneth Burke regarding
Location.
box 7
Professional Correspondence, 1970-1971
box 7, folder 1
1970
Scope and Contents note
Including Tom Hess regarding reprints of HR's articles, HR's statement against the war in Vietnam, William Phillips asking
HR to review Irving Howe's latest book, Kenneth Burke and demise of
Location.
box 7, folder 2
1970
Scope and Contents note
Including Paul Anbinder (ed. Harry Abrams, Inc.) regarding DeKooning ms., Robert De Niro (the painter) asking HR to recommend
him to Mark Rothko Foundation for financial assistance, NEA requesting nominations for individual artist awards, HR notes
to editor at
Vogue about article that valorized Greenberg.
box 7, folder 3
1970
Scope and Contents note
Including Andre Emmerich inquiring about rumors of forgeries, Calvin Harlan writing from Mexico, much praise for HR's articles.
box 7, folder 4
1970-1977
Scope and Contents note
Phillip Guston letters and clipping.
box 7, folder 5
1971
Scope and Contents note
Including Robert Gottlieb asking HR to read a ms. by Gillo Dorfles, William Phillips asking HR to speak with Trilling at discussion
about Modernism, Ihab Hassan, Frank Kermode inquiring as to whether HR would be interested in writing a book for the Modern
Masters series, notice about debt incurred by
Location, Adolph Gottlieb, Marvin Mudrick, Tom Hess.
box 7, folder 6
1971
Scope and Contents note
Including Octavio Paz requesting HR essay for
Plural, Peter Saul informing HR of his upcoming show, HR writing to Norman Podhoretz correcting Daniel Bell's references to him
in an article, Hans Richter.
box 7, folder 7
1971
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence regarding a proposed book on Doestoevsky by HR for Modern Masters.
box 7, folder 8
1971
Scope and Contents note
Materials regarding HR's
Act and Actor.
box 7, folder 9
1971-1974
Scope and Contents note
Materials regarding HR's
Discovering the Present.
box 7, folder 10
1971
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence regarding dedication ceremony for Barnett Newman's "Broken Obelisk" for which HR gave lecture.
box 8
Professional Correspondence,
1972-1973
box 8, folder 1
1972
Scope and Contents note
Including Frances Morley writing about her husband the artist Malcolm Morley, Calvin Harlan, praise for HR's book
The De-Definition of Art, William Phillips regarding the
Partisan Review benefit committee, Henry Peacock, HR letter to William Shawn about Alsop's book.
box 8, folder 2
1972
Scope and Contents note
Including the Enciclopedia Italiana asking HR to write the entry on "Pop Art," John Hochmann (ed. Praeger) inquiring about
HR ms., many requests to lecture.
box 8, folder 3
1972
Scope and Contents note
Including requests to review books for various presses, requests to lecture.
box 8, folder 4
1973
Scope and Contents note
Including William Phillips sending preliminary questions for
Partisan Review panel discussions, Andre Emmerich objecting to HR's Morris Louis article, John Hochman (ed. Praeger) offering to publish
HR's memoirs, Lydia Winston Malbin regarding HR's piece on Marinetti, Irving Howe proposing a book of essays on the new conservatism
of American intellectuals, Jerre Mangione attacking HR for his review of
The Dream and The Deal, with HR's reply.
box 8, folder 5
1973
Scope and Contents note
Including Irving Howe regarding a piece about artists who emerged from the Jewish immigrant experience, HR to
Artforum defending himself against mistaken article, Advertising council asking HR to retire.
box 8, folder 6
1973
Scope and Contents note
Including Norman Toynton, Moira Roth, Saul Bellow regarding HR's reappointment to U. of Chicago.
box 8, folder 7
1973
Scope and Contents note
Including James Fitzsimmons, Cathleen Gallander, Ben Raeburn.
box 9
Professional Correspondence,
1974-1975
box 9, folder 1
1974
Scope and Contents note
Including Ben Raeburn, HR to Lionel Trilling about his lecture, Bob Boyer about issue of
Salamagundi devoted to Saul Bellow, Taylor Stoehr regarding biography of Paul Goodman, William Phillips asking HR to review Mary McCarthy's
books about Watergate and Vietnam, Howard Conant inviting HR to be NYU's critic in residence.
box 9, folder 2
1974
Scope and Contents note
Including James Atlas about his biography of Delmore Schwartz, Norman Podhoretz about reviewing HR's
Discovering the Present.
box 9, folder 3
1974
Scope and Contents note
Including program and other materials for the Palm Coast Symposium where HR was on the panel about Popular and Elite Culture,
Saul Bellow, Hayden White.
box 9, folder 4
1975
Scope and Contents note
Including Kirk Varnedoe, Jim Fitzsimmons, Tom Hess.
box 9, folder 5
1974-1975
Scope and Contents note
Regarding
Art on the Edge.
box 10
Professional Correspondence,
1975-1976
box 10, folder 1
1975
Scope and Contents note
Including Diana Trilling, Melvin Tumin, William Phillips requesting a piece on the differences between the art scene in the
1940s and 1950s and the art scene of the 1970s, David Jenkins, Malitte Matta.
box 10, folder 2
1975
Scope and Contents note
Including Richard Avedon, John Russell about his book series The Meanings of Modern Art, Peter Saul, Raymond Hendler, Kirk
Varnedoe, Hunter Dupree notifying HR of his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
box 10, folder 3
1976
Scope and Contents note
Including Donald Hoffmann, Arthur Edelstein inviting Brandeis-sponsored memorial project for Phillip Rahv, Alexandra Penney.
box 10, folder 4
1976
Scope and Contents note
Including Jim Howell, Yves-Alain Bois, Melvin Tumin.
box 10, folder 5
1976
Scope and Contents note
Including Peter Saul, Norman Podhoretz, Lee Hall, Mark Krupnick regarding memoirs about Lionel Trilling and Phillip Rahv,
Melvyn Hill regarding book about Hannah Arendt, Yve-Alain Bois, Aleksis Rannit.
box 10, folder 6
1976
Scope and Contents note
Including Alan Wallach regarding Marxism and the Arts panel HR will be on, Malitte Matta, Tullio Catalano, Fontana Paperbacks
requesting refund of advance to HR for Dostoevsky.
box 10, folder 7
1976
Scope and Contents note
Richard Avedon regarding book for which HR is writing forward.
box 10, folder 8
1976
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence regarding Morton Dauwen Zabel award from National Institute of Arts and Letters.
box 11
Professional Correspondence,
1977-1978, undated
box 11, folder 1
1977
Scope and Contents note
Including Michael Weinberg about HR's Ophuls review, the Association of Artist-Run Galleries, Random House contract for HR's
preface to Paul Goodman's
Empire City, Robert Dash announcing exhibition, Macmillan requesting to reprint an HR essay in freshman composition textbook, Arien Mack
requesting essay on Meyer Schapiro for
Social Research, Robert Rosenblum correcting misconception about his work promulgated in HR article, Steve Vasey criticising
Art on the Edge, Irving Howe announcing issue of
Dissent attacking neo-conservatives like Hilton Kramer, Peter Plagens.
box 11, folder 2
1977
Scope and Contents note
Including Austin Wright asking HR to review his latest novel, William Plummer asking HR to review books for
Quest/77, Calvin Tompkins requesting permission to read HR interview held at the Archives of American Art.
box 11, folder 3
1977
Scope and Contents note
Including invitation to the Triennale in New Delhi, Robert Rosenblum, Norman Podhoretz, Peter Saul, Jim Howell, Dore Ashton,
Irving Howe, Melvin Tumin, William Phillips regarding rights on reprints, R.M. Elman.
box 11, folder 4
1978
Scope and Contents note
Including James Fitzsimmons, Peter Saul, William Shawn expressing concern for HR's health.
box 11, folder 5
Undatd material generally from the 1970s,
undated, [ca. 1970s]
Scope and Contents note
Including James Fitzsimmons, Peter Saul, William Shawn expressing concern for HR's health.
Family Correspondence, Series I.B.
ca. 1939-1984
Physical Description:
1.66 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Organized chronologically by year, much of this correspondence is between family members or concerning family issues. Letters
from the 1930s and 1940s give a sense of Rosenberg's life while he was working for the WPA and then the Office of War Information.
Letters from Rosenberg's wife, May Natalie Tabak, are the only intimate ones in the archive. Some of the correspondence from
people who were both professional associates of Rosenberg's and family friends may at times overlap with professional correspondence.
There are many letters from Patia Rosenberg as she begins her professional life as an ethnomusicologist. Correspondence from
after Rosenberg's death is directed to May Natalie Tabak Rosenberg.
box 12
Family Correspondence,
ca. 1939-1976
box 12, folder 1
ca. 1930-1939
Scope and Contents note
Letters from HR to May Tabak, his future? wife. Most of the letters have the salutation "Dear Johnny" or "Dear John," and
they are dated by the day of the week only. Later postcards and letters from HR and May in Washington, D.C., where HR is with
WPA, to his parents, describing their life. Cards from David Rosenberg, HR's brother, to their parents.
box 12, folder 2
1940-1949
Scope and Contents note
Postcards and letters from May and Harold to HR's parents from Washington D.C. and from Seattle. Letter from a friend named
Parker ___? to May and Harold regarding poetry, Auden and Dwight MacDonald. Postcards from David Rosenberg to his parents.
box 12, folder 3
1950-1959
Scope and Contents note
Including Buffie ____?, Denise ____?, Mary Clyde, May Tabak's parents expressing support for HR and May's artistic endeavors
and offering family histories, HR's brother David to their father, the writer Bill Arrowsmith describing life in Rome.
box 12, folder 4
ca. 1956-1976
Scope and Contents note
Letters from HR's wife, the writer May Natalie Tabak Rosenberg, to HR. Several letters from Yaddo, with details about fellow
writers there, such as Herbert Gold, accounts of her writing struggles, and concerns about HR and their daughter Patia. Letters
from Paris and Italy, one regarding fellow travelers such as Lionel Trilling, but most concerning issues in the marriage.
Letters from NYC and Long Island about household matters, her writing, Patia, their relationship. Most letters are not dated.
box 12, folder 5
1960-1961
Scope and Contents note
Including letters's from HR's mother and brother, from Paul Jenkins, Elaine De Kooning, Larry Rivers, and other friends.
box 12, folder 6
1962-1963
Scope and Contents note
Including letters from May Tabak's parents with condolences about the death of HR's brother Dave, HR's parents with thoughts
about Dave and other matters, Erle Loran with San Francisco art world concerns, Larry Rivers.
box 12, folder 7
1964-1965
Scope and Contents note
Including the artist Beverly Pepper, HR's parents, May Tabak's parents, Hellen Galvin, Saul Steinberg, and other friends.
box 13
Family Correspondence,
1966-1969, undated
box 13, folder 1
1966-1967
Scope and Contents note
Including Ida Abelman, Larry Rivers (?), May Tabak's parents, Saul Steinberg(?).
box 13, folder 2
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Including Francis Friedman, June Wayne, Rita Morrison.
box 13, folder 3
Undated,
ca. 1960s
Scope and Contents note
Mother's Day Cards, Get Well Cards, Holiday Cards, letters.
box 13, folder 4
Undated,
ca. 1960s
Scope and Contents note
Including Hedda Sterne, Paul Jenkins, George Ludlum, HR's mother.
box 14
Family Correspondence,
ca. 1965-1979, undated
box 14, folder 1
ca. 1965-1984
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Patia Rosenberg to her parents, May Tabak and HR, regarding her college and post-graduate studies in music and
musicology, travels in Europe and Japan with her husband Mikao Isaku, the break-up of her marriage, teaching stints at UCLA
and Berkeley, her writings and her parents' writings.
box 14, folder 2
1976-1984
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Patia Rosenberg to her parents, May Tabak and HR. Including souvenirs and photos from Taiwan, accounts of her
writings.
box 14, folder 3
1970-1971
Scope and Contents note
Including Saul Steinberg, June Wayne, Vera Klement, Judith Franks.
box 14, folder 4
1972-1973
Scope and Contents note
Including a relative regarding the inscription of HR's mother's grave monument, Presto ____? Michael Denneny regarding May
Tabak's writing, Mercedes ____?
box 14, folder 5
1974-1976
Scope and Contents note
Including Michael Denneny regarding the importance of literature, Cleve Gray.
box 14, folder 6
1977-1979
Scope and Contents note
Including Edith Hartnett, Lee Hall, Hans Schweizer, Hannah Tillich.
box 14, folder 7
Undated,
[ca. 1970s]
Scope and Contents note
Including Esteban Vicente, Presto ___?, Vera Klement.
box 15
Family Correspondence,
1978-1984
box 15, folder 1
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
Letters to May Tabak after HR's death. Including Hannah Tillich, Lee Hall, Saul Steinberg.
box 15, folder 2
1978
Scope and Contents note
Receipts from shops and addresses of friends in New Delhi; letter from New Delhi.
box 15, folder 3
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
Materials regarding Harold Rosenberg's New York memorial, including guest lists, April 25, 1979. Also materials from Chicago
memorial, October 10, 1979. Letter from May Tabak to William Shawn, thanking him for what he did for HR, with long account
of her marriage to HR, July 1978.
box 15, folder 4
1980-1984
Scope and Contents note
Notes, cards, letters to May Tabak.
box 15, folder 5
1980-1984
Scope and Contents note
Notes, cards, letters to May Tabak.
Business Correspondence, Series I.C.
1942-1984
Physical Description:
1.66 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Organized chronologically by year, these files contain bills, bank books, carbon copies of letters Rosenberg sent to various
businesses, contracts, and financial papers of May Tabak's following Rosenberg's death. One item from his mother, a bankbook,
dates to 1897.
box 16
Business Correspondence,
1942-1967
box 16, folder 1
1942-1946
Scope and Contents note
Including bank book belonging to HR's mother, Fannie Ehdelman, with entries from 1897-1903, a deposit receipt made out to
HR's mother (now Fannie Rosenberg) from 1906, HR's checkbook ledger from 1942-43.
box 16, folder 2
1950-1958
Scope and Contents note
Including cancelled checks signed by HR, check stubs, including one from HR's article "The American Action Painters," HR's
savings bank book, carbon copies of many letters HR sent regarding repairs to his car, cigarette lighter, apartment, radio,
kerosene burner, and other necessities.
box 16, folder 3
1960-1961
Scope and Contents note
Including the bank book of HR's brother David, receipts, and carbon copies of letters HR sent regarding telephone bills, checking
account statements, and income tax.
box 16, folder 4
1960-1964
Scope and Contents note
Including the Deed of Sale for HR's East Hampton house, book contracts.
box 16, folder 5
1962-1967
Scope and Contents note
Financial papers regarding the death of HR's brother David.
box 16, folder 6
1962-1963
Scope and Contents note
Including numerous cancelled checks signed by HR and May Tabak, check receipts for
New Yorker articles, bank statements.
box 17
Business Correspondence,
1964-1969, undated
box 17, folder 1
1964-1978
Scope and Contents note
Large file of photocopies of royalty reports and copyright agreements, many from foreign language publishers.
box 17, folder 2
1964-1965
Scope and Contents note
Including cancelled checks, check receipts for lectures HR gave or articles he wrote, investment bank balance, royalty reports.
box 17, folder 3
1966-1967
Scope and Contents note
Including check receipts, bank balances.
box 17, folder 4
1967-68
Scope and Contents note
Financial papers regarding HR's mother's Medicare, Social Security, Nursing Home bills.
box 17, folder 5
1968-69
Scope and Contents note
Including hospital bills, receipts, income tax forms, bank balances.
box 18
Business Correspondence,
1970-1973
box 18, folder 1
1970
Scope and Contents note
Including receipts, royalty statements, rent agreement.
box 18, folder 2
1971
Scope and Contents note
Including correspondence regarding automobile insurance, receipts, bank statements, royalty statements.
box 18, folder 3
1972
Scope and Contents note
Including cancelled checks, bank statements, insurance papers.
box 18, folder 4
1972
Scope and Contents note
Including cancelled checks, bank statements, insurance papers.
box 18, folder 5
1973
Scope and Contents note
Including income tax forms, bank statements, receipts.
box 18, folder 6
1973
Scope and Contents note
Including cancelled checks, royalty statements, medical insurance forms.
box 19
Business Correspondence,
1974-1984
box 19, folder 1
1974
Scope and Contents note
Including check stubs, receipts, medical insurance forms, bank statements.
box 19, folder 2
1975
Scope and Contents note
Including cancelled checks, rent increase notice, bank statements, travel vouchers, letters from CPA Al Sohn.
box 19, folder 3
1976
Scope and Contents note
Including plumbing contract, bank statements, receipts.
box 19, folder 4
1977-1979
Scope and Contents note
Including income tax forms, royalty statements, car insurance forms.
box 19, folder 5
1980-1982
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence between May Tabak and the publishers of HR's books regarding rights and royalties.
box 19, folder 6
1980-1982
Scope and Contents note
Including bills, bank statements, insurance policies.
box 19, folder 7
1983-1984
Scope and Contents note
Including bills and bank statements.
box 19, folder 8
undated
Scope and Contents note
Airline tickets for HR and May Tabak.
Manuscripts, Series II.
1929-1978
Physical Description:
13.34 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts are arranged chronologically, though at times it has been possible to assign an approximate date only. From 1961
to 1976, the writings of each year occupy a manuscript box, and within each year the writings are arranged in alphabetical
order. Where the name of the serial publishing a piece is known, it is included.
Harold Rosenberg's Writings, Series II.A.
1929-1978
Physical Description:
11.6 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Harold Rosenberg's numerous writings comprise this sub-series, which includes books, book reviews, exhibition reviews, and
political essays. In many cases the evolution of a manuscript is discernible through notes, drafts, corrected typescripts
and galleys. Often, correspondence with an editor accompanies these papers. The manuscripts before 1960 are interesting for
what they reveal about Rosenberg's intellectual development prior to his period of relative celebrity; by contrast, Rosenberg's
later writings, primarily for
The New Yorker, show the maturation of his thought and style. A small portion of the manuscripts pertain to Rosenberg's various "day-jobs,"
including his work for the Federal Writer's Project, writing and editing guidebooks to America's art and architecture; his
work for the Office of War Information during World War II, for which he wrote radio scripts and conceived propaganda posters;
and his consulting work for the American Advertising Council. Unpublished material includes drafts of a never completed book
on Dostoevsky. There is also material related to debates surrounding the Nuremberg trials, including a file about Hannah Arendt's
book,
Eichmann in Jerusalem, and one on Max Ophuls' film
The Memory of Justice.
box 20, folder 1
1929
Scope and Contents note
Notes accompanying annotated copy of
What Is To Be Done? , by V.I. Lenin.
box 20, folder 2
1931
Scope and Contents note
Review of
Death and Taxes, by Dorothy Parker.
box 20, folder 3
1931
Scope and Contents note
"Chaos and Its Echo," review of
The Melody of Chaos, by Houston Peterson.
box 20, folder 4
1932
Scope and Contents note
"Character Change and the Drama,"
Symposium.
box 20, folder 5
1932
Scope and Contents note
"Character Change and the Drama," (further drafts).
box 20, folder 6
1933
Scope and Contents note
Review of
Men of Good Will by Jules Romains,
Symposium
box 20, folder 7
1934
Scope and Contents note
Review of
I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked, by Upton Sinclair
box 20, folder 8
ca. 1935
Scope and Contents note
"Some Questions Which Face American Writers Today," a questionaire from
Partisan Review, with HR's essay-length reply.
box 20, folder 9
ca. 1935
Scope and Contents note
"Society and Form," review of
Permanence and Change, by Kenneth Burke.
box 20, folder 10
1935
Scope and Contents note
"The Strong Man of Luxury," poem,
Alcestis.
box 20, folder 11
1935
Scope and Contents note
"The American Writers' Congress,"
Poetry.
box 20, folder 12
1936
Scope and Contents note
"Sanity, Individuality, and Poetry,"
The New Act: A Literary Review, ed. Harold Rosenberg and H.R. Hays.
box 20, folder 13
ca. 1937
Scope and Contents note
"Two Tales," review of
The New World, by Edgar Lee Masters, and
The Story of Lowry Maen, by Padraic Colum.
box 20, folder 14
ca. 1937
Scope and Contents note
"The Stages: A Geography of Human Action."
box 20, folder 15
1938
Scope and Contents note
"The God in the Car,"
Poetry.
box 20, folder 16
1938
Scope and Contents note
Essay on American literature, originally enclosed in letter to May Tabak.
box 20, folder 17
1938-1940
Scope and Contents note
Outline and writings on American art and architecture for WPA Guidebooks.
box 20, folder 18
1939
Scope and Contents note
"Myth and History,"
Partisan Review.
box 20, folder 19
ca. 1939
Scope and Contents note
Journal pages regarding Marx, literature, philosophy.
box 20, folder 20
1939
Scope and Contents note
Several versions of an essay on Thoman Mann,
Partisan Review.
box 20, folder 21
1941
Scope and Contents note
Men at Work: Stories of People At Their Jobs in America, book in Work Projects Administration, American Life Series, edited by HR.
box 20, folder 22
1941
Scope and Contents note
"Time in Costume," review of
Between the Acts, by Virginia Woolf,
Partisan Review.
box 20, folder 23
1942
Scope and Contents note
"On the Fall of Paris,"
Partisan Review.
box 20, folder 24
ca. 1942
Scope and Contents note
"On the Art of Escape," a review of
The Seventh Cross, by Anna Seghers.
box 20, folder 25
1942
Scope and Contents note
Contribution to discussion, "Towards the Unknown,"
View.
box 20, folder 26
1943
Scope and Contents note
Radio scripts HR wrote for Office of War Information.
box 20, folder 27
ca. 1943
Scope and Contents note
Review of
Marc Chagall, by Raissa Maritain,
Contemporary Record.
box 20, folder 28
ca. 1943
Scope and Contents note
Review of
Camille Pissarro: Letters to His son Lucien, ed. John Rewald.
box 20, folder 29
ca. 1943
Scope and Contents note
"The Case of the Baffled Radical," review of Arthur Koestler's
Arrival and Departure,
Partisan Review.
box 20, folder 30
1943
Scope and Contents note
"Heroes of Self-Defeat," review of
The Conspiracy of Carpenters.
box 21, folder 1
1944
Scope and Contents note
"Marc Chagall: Jewish Modernist Master,"
Contemporary Jewish Record.
box 21, folder 2
1944-1946
Scope and Contents note
Script by HR for Office of War Information.
box 21, folder 3
1944-1946
Scope and Contents note
Scripts by HR for the Office of War Information.
box 21, folder 4
1944
Scope and Contents note
"Clausewitz on War," radio play by HR, broadcast on
The Human Adventure.
box 21, folder 5
ca. 1945
Scope and Contents note
"How to Become Nobody," review of
The Perennial Philosophy, by Aldous Huxley and of
Vendetta for the Western World, by Christopher Isherwood,
Commentary.
box 21, folder 6
ca. 1945
Scope and Contents note
Political notes, writings, clippings.
box 21, folder 7
ca. 1945
Scope and Contents note
"Thoman Mann's
Joseph: A Humanist Myth."
box 21, folder 8
1945
Scope and Contents note
"The Messenger," A Radio Drama, and "The Game of the Chinese Laundryman," by HR for
Instead.
box 21, folder 9
1945
Scope and Contents note
"A Novel of Existence," review of
For the Sake of Heaven, by Martin Buber,
Commentary.
box 21, folder 10
1946
Scope and Contents note
"Notes on Identity: With Special Reference to the Mixed Philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard,"
View.
box 21, folder 11
1946
Scope and Contents note
"Athalie," radio play by HR.
box 21, folder 12
ca. 1946
Scope and Contents note
Review of
In Time and Eternity: A Jewish Reader,
Commentary.
box 21, folder 13
1946
Scope and Contents note
"The Dialectics of Thaw," review of
The Short Novels of Tolstoy,
Nation.
box 21, folder 14
1946
Scope and Contents note
Review of
David the King, by Gladys Schmitt.
box 21, folder 15
1947
Scope and Contents note
"Paris Exhibition of Six Americans," catalog essay?
box 21, folder 16
1947
Scope and Contents note
Galley proofs for
Possibilities, co-edited by HR, with writing by HR.
box 21, folder 17
1947
Scope and Contents note
Brief essay for Baziotes catalog.
box 21, folder 18
ca. 1947
Scope and Contents note
"Pictures of Jews," review of
Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record, by Roman Vishniac, and of
The Vanished World, ed. Raphael Abramovitch.
box 21, folder 19
1947
Scope and Contents note
Review of
Island in the Atlantic, by Waldo Frank,
Commentary.
box 21, folder 20
ca. 1948
Scope and Contents note
"Experts of the Self," review of
Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters, by Martin Buber and of
The Story of the Baal Shem, by Dr. J.J. Snitzer,
Commentary.
box 21, folder 21
1948
Scope and Contents note
"Advertising - A New Weapon in the World-Wide Fight for Freedom," a guide prepared by the Advertising Council and USIS.
box 21, folder 22
ca. 1949
Scope and Contents note
"Explanation of Jean Cocteau's 'The Blood of a Poet'."
box 21, folder 23
1949
Scope and Contents note
Advertising Council memo on Mental Illness in the US, with notes by HR criticizing the campaign.
box 21, folder 24
1949
Scope and Contents note
"The Pathos of the Proletariat,"
Kenyon Review.
box 21, folder 25
1949
Scope and Contents note
"William De Kooning: A Desperate View."
box 21, folder 26
1949
Scope and Contents note
"The Communist, His Mentality and His Morals," from
Commentary, reprinted in Congressional Record Appendix.
box 21, folder 27
undated,
[1940s?]
Scope and Contents note
"Breton - A Dialogue," play by HR.
box 21, folder 28
undated,
[1940s?]
Scope and Contents note
"The Coming Economic Collapse."
box 22, folder 1
ca. 1950
Scope and Contents note
"French Poetry and American Silence,"
Encounter.
box 22, folder 2
1950
Scope and Contents note
Review of
The Writer and the Psychoanalyst, by Edmund Berger and of
The Psychoanalyst and the Artist, by Daniel E. Schneider,
The Scene Before Us.
box 22, folder 3
ca. 1950
Scope and Contents note
"Portraying Communism,"
Les Temps Modernes and
Twentieth Century.
box 22, folder 4
ca. 1951
Scope and Contents note
"The Intellectuals and the American Idea,"
Commentary.
box 22, folder 5
1951
Scope and Contents note
"Politics As Dancing," review of
The Watch, by Carlo Levi.
box 22, folder 6
1952
Scope and Contents note
"The American Action Painters,"
Art News.
box 22, folder 7
1952
Scope and Contents note
"The Anthropologist's Stone,"
The Twentieth Century.
box 22, folder 8
1953
Scope and Contents note
"Anti-pereus," review of
Painting in Britain 1530-1790, by E.K. Waterhouse, and of
Architecture of India, by Benjamin Rowland,
Art Digest.
box 22, folder 9
1953
Scope and Contents note
"Estheticians and Radicals,"
Saturday Review of Literature.
box 22, folder 10
1953
Scope and Contents note
"Virtual Revolution," review of
Feeling and Form, by Susanne K. Langer.
box 22, folder 11
1953
Scope and Contents note
"A Fable for American Painters," (published as "Parable for American Painters,") review of the American art show at the Met,
Art News.
box 22, folder 12
1953
Scope and Contents note
Possible topics for
Art Digest symposium on the figure.
box 22, folder 13
1953
Scope and Contents note
"The Sum of Many Colors," review of
The Philosophy of Modern Art, by Herbert Read, and
A Background for Beauty, by Arnold Silcock,
Saturday Review.
box 22, folder 14
1954
Scope and Contents note
HR's proposal for book about American art, written in letter form to Nathan Glazer of Doubleday & Co.
box 22, folder 15
1954
Scope and Contents note
"New Painting: Old Song and Dance," (published as "The New American Painting,")
Antioch Review.
box 22, folder 16
ca. 1955
Scope and Contents note
"Roadside Arcadia," a piece about small town America.
box 22, folder 17
1956
Scope and Contents note
"Everyman a Professional,"
Art News.
box 22, folder 18
1956
Scope and Contents note
"The Problem of Jewish 'Alienhood'," review of
The American Jew, by Ben Halpern,
The New Leader.
box 22, folder 19
ca. 1956
Scope and Contents note
"The Poet as Intellectual," review of the first seven volumes of Paul Valery's
Collected Works (English).
box 22, folder 20
ca. 1957
Scope and Contents note
Notes for review of
The Prince and the Showgirl.
box 22, folder 21
1958
Scope and Contents note
Catalog for Action Painting show at Dallas Museum, containing conversation with Thomas Hess and Harold Rosenberg.
box 22, folder 22
1958
Scope and Contents note
"Beings Added to Nature," review of
Painting and Reality, by Etienne Gilson,
Saturday Review.
box 22, folder 23
1958
Scope and Contents note
"Twilight of the Intellectuals,"
Dissent.
box 22, folder 24
1958
Scope and Contents note
Untitled ("The exposure of passion...")
box 22, folder 25
ca. 1958
Scope and Contents note
"An Attempt at Anti-Myth,"
The New Leader.
box 22, folder 26
ca. 1958
Scope and Contents note
"Tenth Street: A Geography of Modern Art."
box 22, folder 27
1959
Scope and Contents note
Introduction to Aaron Siskind book.
box 22, folder 28
undated,
[195?]
Scope and Contents note
"The Orgamerican Fantasy."
box 22, folder 29
undated,
[1950s?]
Scope and Contents note
"Pledged to the Marvelous," open letter to Mr. Herberg about Judaism and Marxism,
Commentary.
box 22, folder 30
undated,
[195?]
Scope and Contents note
Offprint of
Commentary piece by Leslie Fiedler on the Jew-Villain in the Western Tradition, with HR's typewritten annotated response.
box 23
Writings,
1950-1976
Scope and Contents note
Research and writing on Dostoevsky, including an article, "Dostoevsky's Idea," not published, and various drafts of chapters
for a book HR never completed. See also "The Idiot: Second Century," 1968.
box 23, folder 1
ca. 1950
Scope and Contents note
"Dostoevsky's Idea," handwritten draft.
box 23, folder 2
ca. 1950
Scope and Contents note
"Dostoevsky's Idea," typewritten drafts.
box 23, folder 3
undated
Scope and Contents note
"The Last Idea," a draft of Chapter 1.
box 23, folder 4
undated
Scope and Contents note
"A Different Modernism," draft of a chapter ?, with various drafts.
box 23, folder 5
undated
Scope and Contents note
Various drafts, not organized.
box 24, folder 1-2
The Tradition of the New, typescript,
1959
box 24, folder 3
Notes for
The Tradition of the New,
1959
box 25, folder 1
1960
Scope and Contents note
"On Post-Christian Man,"
Big Table.
box 25, folder 2
1960
Scope and Contents note
"Judging New Art," Preface to second edition of
The Tradition of the New.
box 25, folder 3
1960
Scope and Contents note
"Literary Form and Social Hallucination,"
Partisan Review.
box 25, folder 4
1960
Scope and Contents note
"Art Collector as Hero," review of
Confessions of an Art Addict, by Peggy Guggenheim.
box 25, folder 5
1961
Scope and Contents note
Review of
Between Past and Future, by Hannah Arendt.
box 25, folder 6
ca. 1961
Scope and Contents note
"Community, Values, Comedy," review of Maurice Stein's
The Eclipse of Community.
box 25, folder 7
1961-1963
Scope and Contents note
Large file of notes, drafts, and other material used for lectures given at Oberlin, Princeton and Baltimore.
box 25, folder 8
1961
Scope and Contents note
"A Spectrum of Poetry Today,"
Commentary.
box 25, folder 9
1961
Scope and Contents note
"Saul Steinberg's
The Labyrinth,
Book find News.
box 25, folder 10
1961
Scope and Contents note
Review of Sixth Bienal at Sao Paolo, Brazil,
Art News.
box 25, folder 11
1961
Scope and Contents note
"The Cold War and the Future of the West,"
Partisan Review.
box 25, folder 12
ca. 1961
Scope and Contents note
"The Search for Jackson Pollock."
box 25, folder 13
undated
Scope and Contents note
"Moral Attitudes and Will to Achievement of Americans."
box 25, folder 14
undated
Scope and Contents note
File with various writings and clippings regarding Action Painting.
box 26, folder 1
"Action Painting: A Decade of Distortion,"
Scope and Contents note
Art News, 1962.
box 26, folder 2
Arshille Gorky
Scope and Contents note
materials regarding Gorky book, including letters, manuscripts, photos, 1962.
box 26, folder 3
Arshille Gorky
Scope and Contents note
partial typescript, 1962.
box 26, folder 4
Eulogy for Franz Kline, ca. 1962.
box 26, folder 5
"The Game of Illusion,"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1962.
box 26, folder 6
"Gorky and History,"
Scope and Contents note
HR's response to Paul Goodman's review of his Gorky book,
Partisan Review, 1962.
box 26, folder 7
"The Horse's Mouth,"
Scope and Contents note
review of
The Artist's Voice, by Katherine Kuh, 1962.
box 26, folder 8
"Intelligent Uneasiness,"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Letter to a Young Painter, by Sir Herbert Read, ca. 1962.
box 26, folder 9
Notes
Scope and Contents note
to Irving Howe about intellectuals and McCarthyism, 1962.
box 26, folder 10
Notes, drafts and clippings
Scope and Contents note
regarding talks HR gave at Brandeis, 1962.
box 26, folder 11
Notes, drafts, clippings
Scope and Contents note
regarding talk at Baltimore Museum, 1962.
box 26, folder 12
"Paperback Art Books,"
Scope and Contents note
New York Times Book Review, 1962.
box 26, folder 13
"Prophet of Psychopolitics,"
Scope and Contents note
review of
The Hidden Remnant, by Gerald Sykes,
New York Times, 1962.
box 26, folder 14
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
Paul Klee, by Felix Klee, 1962.
box 26, folder 15
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals, by Paul Goodman, ca. 1962.
box 26, folder 16
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
The Tangled Bank, by Stanley Edgar Hyman, 1962.
box 26, folder 17
"A Risk for the Intelligence,"
Scope and Contents note
essay about the consciousness of art history in contemporary art,
New Yorker, 1962.
box 26, folder 18
Talk
Scope and Contents note
about the media, referring to the Chesman case, ca. 1962.
box 27, folder 1
"The American Scene"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 2
"Anti-Intellectualism and the Intellectuals"
Scope and Contents note
review of Hofstadter book,
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, in
New York Times Book Review, 1963.
box 27, folder 3
"The Armory Show"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 4
"Art and Identity"
Scope and Contents note
review of Gorky retrospective at MOMA, 1963.
box 27, folder 5
"The Art Object"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 6
"Black and Pistachio"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 7
Essay
Scope and Contents note
on Hans Hofmann for MOMA catalog, 1963.
box 27, folder 8
"Hans Hofmann and the Stability of the New"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 9
"International Art and the New Globalism"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 10
"Literature and Art"
Scope and Contents note
review of
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin, and
Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt, 1963.
box 27, folder 11
"The New As Value"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 12
"On Art Movements"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 13
"Painting is a Way of Living"
Scope and Contents note
essay about De Kooning,
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 14
"The Politics of Art"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1963.
box 27, folder 15
Transcript of talks HR made at Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
1963
box 28, folder 1
"Aesthetics of Crisis"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Epoch and Artist, by David Jones,
New Yorker, 1964.
box 28, folder 2
"Art and the Shared Metaphor"
Scope and Contents note
(also titled "Modern Art and the Absent Artist"), review of Gombrich's
Meditations on a Hobby Horse,
Saturday Review, 1964.
box 28, folder 3
"Art As Thinking"
Scope and Contents note
review of
The Thinking Eye, by Paul Klee, 1964.
box 28, folder 4
"The Art Object"
Scope and Contents note
talk about collage given at Rutgers, 1964.
box 28, folder 5
"De Kooning"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1964.
box 28, folder 6
"Insurrection"
Scope and Contents note
essay on Leavis,
New Yorker, 1964.
box 28, folder 7
"Jasper Johns: Things the Mind Already Knows"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1964.
box 28, folder 8
"Malraux and His Critics: Echoes of Destiny"
Scope and Contents note
review of Malraux anthology edited by R.W.B. Lewis, 1964.
box 28, folder 9
"The Naturalization Papers of Psychoanalysis"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Culture, ed. Ruitenbeek, 1964.
box 28, folder 10
"1914"
Scope and Contents note
review of Baltimore Museum exhibition of paintings and sculpture from 1914,
Art News, 1964.
box 28, folder 11
"No Room at the Top"
Scope and Contents note
essay about Trotsky,
New Yorker, 1964.
box 28, folder 12
"Novelty and Value"
Scope and Contents note
a talk presented at Penn State, 1964.
box 28, folder 13
"Problems in the Teaching of Artists"
Scope and Contents note
Art Journal, 1964. (Based on talk given at Midwest College Art Conference, 1962.)
box 28, folder 14
Reprint
Scope and Contents note
in Bulgarian USIS bulletin of HR's "It Can Happen to Anyone," a review of
Alienation: The Cultural Climate of Our Time,
New York Times Book Review (rough draft of English version included), 1964.
box 28, folder 15
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
Culture Against Man, by Jules Henry,
The New York Review of Books, 1964.
box 28, folder 16
"The Third Dimension of Georg Lukacs"
Scope and Contents note
(also titled "Elements of the Age"),
Dissent, 1964.
box 28, folder 17
"Vistas in the Arts"
Scope and Contents note
talk given at Columbia, also published in
Partisan Review, 1964.
box 29, folder 1
Typescript of
The Anxious Object, pp.1-146, 1964.
box 29, folder 2
Typescript of
The Anxious Object, pp.147-235,
1964
box 29, folder 3
Notes for second edition of
The Anxious Object
box 29, folder 4
Drafts of preface to second edition of
The Anxious Object
box 30, folder 1
"The Art Establishment"
Scope and Contents note
Esquire, 1965.
box 30, folder 2
"Calendar of Creation"
Scope and Contents note
essay about the young artist,
Vogue, 1965.
box 30, folder 3
"Christmas Art Books"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1965.
box 30, folder 4
Comment
Scope and Contents note
on Partisan Review Statement about Vietnam and Dominican Republic, 1965.
box 30, folder 5
"Criticism and its Premises"
Scope and Contents note
paper for Penn State seminar on Research and Curriculum Development, 1965.
box 30, folder 6
"Criticism and its Premises"
Scope and Contents note
more drafts of above paper, 1965.
box 30, folder 7
"From Play-Acting to Self"
Scope and Contents note
review of
The Words, by Sartre, 1965.
box 30, folder 8
"Guilt to the Vanishing Point"
Scope and Contents note
about Eichmann's trial,
Commentary, 1965.
box 30, folder 9
"Hans Hofmann"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1965.
box 30, folder 10
"The Method of Hans Hofmann"
Scope and Contents note
partial drafts, research materials, correspondence, clippings, and interviews regarding the proposed book, 1965-72.
box 30, folder 11
"The New Role of the University in Relation to the Creative Mind"
Scope and Contents note
talk given at Southern Illinois University, 1965.
box 30, folder 12
"Philosophy in a Pop Key"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Understanding Media, by Marshall McLuhan,
New Yorker, 1965.
box 30, folder 13
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
Jonah, by Paul Goodman, 1965.
box 30, folder 14
"Rivers' commedia dell'arte"
Scope and Contents note
Art News, 1965.
box 30, folder 15
"Scholarship, Criticism and An Educated Public"
Scope and Contents note
talk given for Midwest Public Relations Institute conference on Art as Status, 1965.
box 30, folder 16
"A State of Mind"
Scope and Contents note
review of
The History of Surrealism, by Maurice Nadeau, and
Diary of a Genius, by Salvador Dali, in
New York Times Book Review, 1965.
box 30, folder 17
"Toti Scialoja's Serial Images"
Scope and Contents note
catalog essay, 1965.
box 30, folder 18
"Twentieth Century Art"
Scope and Contents note
lecture delivered at Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1965.
box 30, folder 19
"The Vanishing Intellectual"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1965.
box 31, folder 1
Autobiographical notes
Scope and Contents note
requested by Horizon Press, 1966.
box 31, folder 2
"The Commissar and the Id"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Art and Society, by Herbert Read, 1966.
box 31, folder 3
"The End of Art"
Scope and Contents note
a seminar given in Carbondale, 1966.
box 31, folder 4
Eulogy for Hans Hofmann,
ca. 1966
box 31, folder 5
Is There a Jewish Art?"
Scope and Contents note
Commentary, 1966.
box 31, folder 6
Lecture
Scope and Contents note
on surrealism; Carbondale, 1966.
box 31, folder 7
"Leftovers of Revolt"
Scope and Contents note
possibly published in
Encounter, but also was version of preface to second edition of
The Anxious Object, 1966.
box 31, folder 8
"Nakian: Eros and Grief"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1966.
box 31, folder 9
Preface
Scope and Contents note
to Paul Goodman's
Five Years, 1966.
box 31, folder 10
Review (fragment)
Scope and Contents note
of Psychedelic Art show at the Guggenheim, 1966.
box 31, folder 11
"Saul Steinberg's Art World"
Scope and Contents note
Art News, 1966.
box 31, folder 12
"Values and Audiences"
Scope and Contents note
talk given at San Francisco Art Institute symposium, "The Current Moment in Art," 1966.
box 31, folder 13
"Virtuosos of Boredom"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1966
box 32, folder 1
"The American Woman's Dilemma"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1967.
box 32, folder 2
"The Art Game"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, review of
Diary of an Art Dealer, by Rene Gimpel, also titled "The Art Dealer," 1967.
box 32, folder 3
"Art of Bad Conscience"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1967.
box 32, folder 4
"Defining Art"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1967, with related materials, including various notes and drafts, and 2 clippings: "Experimental Art," by Allan Kaprow,
and an interview with Frank Stella and Donald Judd.
box 32, folder 5
"Dr. Taylor's Paper"
Scope and Contents note
The Next Fifty Years, 1967.
box 32, folder 6
Homage
Scope and Contents note
to Ad Reinhardt, ca. 1967.
box 32, folder 7
"Homage to Hans Hofmann"
Scope and Contents note
Art News, 1967.
box 32, folder 8
"Hypothesis for Criticism"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1967.
box 32, folder 9
"Liberal Anti-Communism Revisited"
Scope and Contents note
Commentary, 1967.
box 32, folder 10
"Lights! Lights!"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1967.
box 32, folder 11
"Masculinity: Real and Put On"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1967.
box 32, folder 12
"Means for the Critical Evaluation of Art Performance in the Visual Arts"
Scope and Contents note
talk given at SUNY, Buffalo, 1967.
box 32, folder 13
"Movement in Art"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1967.
box 32, folder 14
"Museum of the New"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1967.
box 32, folder 15
"The Mythic Act"
Scope and Contents note
also titled "Pollock's Mythic Paintings,"
New Yorker, 1967. Includes clipping of article on Pollock by Clement Greenberg.
box 32, folder 16
"The Nineteen-Sixties: Time in the Modern Museum"
Scope and Contents note
review of MOMA exhibition "The 60s,"
New Yorker, 1967.
box 32, folder 17
"Retour de l'USSR"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1967.
box 32, folder 18
"Steinberg: The Artist and the Mask"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1967.
box 32, folder 19
"What's Happening to America?"
Scope and Contents note
Partisan Review, 1967.
box 33, folder 1
"Art and Reality"
Scope and Contents note
Commencement address, Lake Forest College, 1968.
box 33, folder 2
"Art, Design, and the Great Parade"
Scope and Contents note
Vogue, 1968.
box 33, folder 3
"The Avant-Garde Sensibility"
Scope and Contents note
a chapter of
Quality, ed. Louis Kronenberger, 1968.
box 33, folder 4
Baudelaire Conference, "La Decouverte du Present"
Scope and Contents note
Various materials, including correspondence, programs, ms. of paper HR gave at conference, "Toward the End of Art History,"
and manuscripts of other participants, 1968.
box 33, folder 5
"The Concept of Action Painting"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1968.
box 33, folder 6
"Discovering the Present"
Scope and Contents note
review of Baudelaire conference where HR was participant,
New Yorker, 1968.
box 33, folder 7
"D.M.Z. Vanguardism"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1968.
box 33, folder 8
"Engendered in the Eye"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1968.
box 33, folder 9
"Government by Masquerade"
Scope and Contents note
review of
The Selling of the President, by Joe McGinnis, ca. 1968.
box 33, folder 10
"A Guide for the Unperplexed"
Scope and Contents note
translated into Czech for USIS bulletin,
Amerika Kultura, 1968. (Originally published in
Art News, 1966.)
box 33, folder 11
"The Idiot: Second Century"
Scope and Contents note
essay on Dostoevsky's novel,
New Yorker, 1968.
box 34, folder 1
"L'Histoire de L'Art Touche a Sa Fin"
Scope and Contents note
Preuves, 1968.
box 34, folder 2
"MOMA Dada"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1968.
box 34, folder 3
Notes
Scope and Contents note
on war and anti-war films, 1968.
box 34, folder 4
"Primitive a la Mode"
Scope and Contents note
review of Dubuffet retrospective at MOMA, 1968.
box 34, folder 5
"Signs"
Scope and Contents note
review of Gottlieb retrospective at the Whitney,
New Yorker, 1968.
box 34, folder 6
"Surrealism in the Streets"
Scope and Contents note
review of poster exhibition at MOMA,
New Yorker, 1968.
box 34, folder 7
"The Thirties"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1968.
box 34, folder 8
"Vicissitudes of the Square"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Constructivism, by George Rickey,
New Yorker, 1968.
box 34, folder 9
"What is the art for today?"
Scope and Contents note
Chicago Daily News, 1968.
box 34, folder 10
"Where to Begin"
Scope and Contents note
chapter in book based on symposium at U. of Kentucky,
The Humanities in the Schools, included with preface by Harold Taylor, editor, 1968.
box 35, folder 1
"Aesthetic America,"
Scope and Contents note
chapter by HR in
American Civilization, ed. Daniel Boorstin, with correspondence and other relevant material, 1969.
box 35, folder 2
"Aesthetic America"
Scope and Contents note
rough drafts of chapter by HR in
American Civilization, ed. Daniel Boorstin, 1969.
box 35, folder 3
"After Ten Years"
Scope and Contents note
preface to new edition of
the Tradition of the New, 1969.
box 35, folder 4
"Arp: Pro-Art Dada"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1969.
box 35, folder 5
"Art and Words"
Scope and Contents note
about the use of language in visual art,
New Yorker, 1969.
box 35, folder 6
"Educating Artists"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker (with earlier draft of paper given at conference, "The New University Trained Artist"), 1969.
box 35, folder 7
"Europe en Route"
Scope and Contents note
review of the European Painting Today show at The Jewish Museum,
New Yorker, 1969.
box 35, folder 8
"Icon Maker"
Scope and Contents note
review of Barnett Newman exhibition,
New Yorker, 1969.
box 35, folder 9
"Insolence of Office"
Scope and Contents note
article about artists' and critics' protest against MOMA's policies and practices, with various clippings and notes, 1969.
box 35, folder 10
"L'Ecole de New York"
Scope and Contents note
review of Metropolitan Museum exhibition, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970,"
New Yorker, 1969.
box 35, folder 11
"Marilyn Mondrian"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Pop Art Redefined, by Suzi Gablik and John Russell,
New Yorker, 1969.
box 35, folder 12
MOMA's Napas
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1969.
box 35, folder 13
"Past Machines, Future Art"
Scope and Contents note
review of MOMA exhibition "The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age,"
New Yorker, 1969.
box 35, folder 14
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
De Kooning's Drawings, by Thomas B. Hess,
New Yorker, undated (ca. 1969)
box 36, folder 1
Act and Actor
Scope and Contents note
corrected typed ms. of HR's book, 1969.
box 36, folder 2
Act and Actor
Scope and Contents note
notes, rough drafts, 1969.
box 36, folder 3
Act and Actor
Scope and Contents note
notes and various drafts, including ms. "The Diminished Act," about Valery.
box 36, folder 4
Act and Actor
Scope and Contents note
notes, correspondence, and clippings.
box 36, folder 5
"Art and Its Double"
Scope and Contents note
first chapter of
Artworks and Packages; with Christo photo and catalog, 1969. (Previously published as "L'Histoire de L'Art Touche a Sa Fin,"
Preuves, 1968; also given as talk at Baudelaire conference, "Toward the End of Art History," 1968.)
box 37, folder 1
Art News
Scope and Contents note
HR's answers to questionnaire about museums, with letters from Tom Hess, 1970.
box 37, folder 2
Barnett Newman eulogy,
1970
box 37, folder 3
Conference
Scope and Contents note
on Structures of Meaning, including HR's memo on the topic, correspondence, etc., 1970.
box 37, folder 4
"Confrontation"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Art and Confrontation: The Arts in an Age of Change,
New Yorker, 1970.
box 37, folder 5
"De-aestheticization"
Scope and Contents note
essay about the trend toward de-aestheticizing the work of art,
New Yorker, 1970.
box 37, folder 6
"Dilemmas of a New Season"
Scope and Contents note
essay about the relationship between politics and art as portrayed by museums,
New Yorker, 1970.
box 37, folder 7
"Internationalism and Regionalism"
Scope and Contents note
conference paper given at second congress of the International Association of Art Critics and published as chapter of
Art et/and Perception, 1970.
box 37, folder 8
"Keeping Up"
Scope and Contents note
about current American painting,
New Yorker, 1970.
box 37, folder 9
"Liberation from Detachment"
Scope and Contents note
review of Philip Guston show,
New Yorker, 1970.
box 37, folder 10
"Megaphones"
Scope and Contents note
anouncement of sale of prints by artists in support of peace candidates, ca. 1970.
box 37, folder 11
"Politics of Illusion"
Scope and Contents note
essay about Marx and farce for
The Humanities in Revolution, ed. Ihab Hassan?, 1970.
box 37, folder 12
"Pollock to Pop: Twenty Years of Painting and Sculpture"
Scope and Contents note
Horizon, 1970.
box 37, folder 13
"The Post-Art Artist"
Scope and Contents note
talk given at Penn State conference to be included in
Arts in Society, ed., Edward Kamarck, 1970.
box 37, folder 14
"Redmen to Earthworks"
Scope and Contents note
review of "19th Century America" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum,
New Yorker, 1970.
box 37, folder 15
"Rothko"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1970.
box 37, folder 16
"The Woman Behind Great Thinkers"
Scope and Contents note
about Ruth Nanda Anshen,
Vogue, 1970.
box 37, folder 17
"Young Masters, New Critics"
Scope and Contents note
review of Frank Stella retrospective at MOMA,
New Yorker, 1970.
box 38, folder 1
"The Art Object"
Scope and Contents note
essay for
Plural, 1971.
box 38, folder 2
"Art's Other Self"
Scope and Contents note
on Andy Warhol,
New Yorker, 1971.
box 38, folder 3
"The Cubist Epoch"
Scope and Contents note
review of Douglas Cooper exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum,
New Yorker, 1971.
box 38, folder 4
"The Imperator Complex"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1971.
box 38, folder 5
"Johnson's Men"
Scope and Contents note
review of Lester Johnson show,
New Yorker, 1971.
box 38, folder 6
"Meaning in Mondrian"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1971.
box 38, folder 7
"Not Making It"
Scope and Contents note
essay about Duchamp, with Calvin Tomkins article about Duchamp (1965),
New Yorker, 1971.
box 38, folder 8
"On the De-Definition of Art"
Scope and Contents note
Marilyn Institute commencement address, 1971.
box 38, folder 9
"Paris Annexed"
Scope and Contents note
review of "Four Americans in Paris," exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, 1971.
box 38, folder 10
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
My Galleries and Painters, by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1971.
box 38, folder 11
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
The Unfashionable Human Body, by Bernard Rudofsky, 1971.
box 38, folder 12
"Set Out for Clayton!"
Scope and Contents note
review of Herbert Marcuse's "On the Future of Art,"
New Yorker, 1971.
box 38, folder 13
"Shall These Bones Live?"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1971.
box 38, folder 14
"Thoughts in an Off-Season"
Scope and Contents note
essay about the artist in the era of post-object art,
New Yorker, 1971.
box 39, folder 1
Broken Obelisk
Scope and Contents note
ms. for book about Newman sculpture at U. of Washington, 1972.
box 39, folder 2
"Inquiry '72: On the Edge"
Scope and Contents note
review of Documenta 5,
New Yorker, 1972.
box 39, folder 3
"Meaning in Abstract Art"
Scope and Contents note
review of Barnett Newman retrospective at MOMA,
New Yorker, 1972.
box 39, folder 4
"Miro's Fertile Fields"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker and
Art International, 1972.
box 39, folder 5
"The Philosophy of Put-Togethers"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1972.
box 39, folder 6
"Place Patriotism and the New York Mainstream"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1972.
box 39, folder 7
"The Profession of Art"
Scope and Contents note
on the Depression-era artist,
New Yorker, 1972.
box 39, folder 8
"Reality Again"
Scope and Contents note
review of "Sharp Focus Realism" at Sidney Janis,
New Yorker, 1972.
box 39, folder 9
"The Refusal of the Great Refusal and the Refusal of the Refusal of the Great Refusal"
Scope and Contents note
given as talk at Politics of Art conference, 1972; published in
Plural.
box 39, folder 10
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
Marinetti: Selected Writings, ed. R.W. Flint, 1972.
box 39, folder 11
"Trials of Eros"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Erotic Art Today, by Volker Kahmen, and
Eroticism in Western Art, by Edward Lucie-Smith,
New Yorker, 1972.
box 40, folder 1
"Adding Up"
Scope and Contents note
on Conceptual Art,
New Yorker, 1973.
box 40, folder 2
"Anyone Who Could Write English"
Scope and Contents note
on the Federal Writers' Project,
New Yorker, 1973.
box 40, folder 3
"Art and Technology"
Scope and Contents note
article for
Encyclopedia of the Future, 1973-74.
box 40, folder 4
"Avant-Garde Masterpieces"
Scope and Contents note
review of Miro exhibition at MOMA, 1973.
box 40, folder 5
Discovering the Present
Scope and Contents note
Corrected galleys, 1973.
box 40, folder 6
"Dogma and Talent"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1973.
box 40, folder 7
"Futurism et Seq."
Scope and Contents note
review of the Guggenheim exhibition, "Futurism: A Modern Focus,"
New Yorker, 1973.
box 40, folder 8
"Landscapes and Worktables"
Scope and Contents note
review of Saul Steinberg show at Sidney Janis Gallery,
New Yorker, 1973.
box 40, folder 9
Scialoja article
Scope and Contents note
for Art Museum of South Texas, 1973.
box 40, folder 10
"Shockers and Fairy Tales"
Scope and Contents note
review of Dubuffet retrospective at the Guggenheim,
New Yorker, 1973.
box 40, folder 11
"Thugs Adrift"
Scope and Contents note
article about Watergate,
Partisan Review, 1973.
box 40, folder 12
"What's New"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Everything About Everything, by Lucy Lippard, and
The New Avant-Garde, by Gregoire Muller,
New Yorker, 1973.
box 41, folder 1
Adolph Gottlieb's eulogy, 1974.
box 41, folder 2
Art on the Edge,
Scope and Contents note
typed, corrected book ms., 1974.
box 41, folder 3
"Duchamp: Public and Private"
Scope and Contents note
review of Duchamp retrospective at MOMA,
New Yorker, 1974.
box 41, folder 4
Fact Sheet
Scope and Contents note
on Smoking written by HR, for American Lung Association, 1974-76.
box 41, folder 5
"The Hirshhorn"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1974.
box 41, folder 6
"Men and Ideas: Art and Political Consciousness"
Scope and Contents note
Carnegie Institute Speech, 1974.
box 41, folder 7
"Old Age of Modernism,"
1974
box 41, folder 8
"Peaceable Kingdom"
Scope and Contents note
review of Whitney museum exhibition "The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876,"
New Yorker, 1974.
box 41, folder 9
Poem
Scope and Contents note
to accompany etching by De Kooning,
Chelsea, 1974.
box 41, folder 10
Willem De Kooning
Scope and Contents note
typescript, 1974.
box 41, folder 11
Willem De Kooning
Scope and Contents note
notes, drafts and other material.
box 41, folder 12
"Up Against the News"
Scope and Contents note
review of Mary McCarthy books,
New York Review, 1974.
box 42, folder 1
"Aesthetics of Mutilation"
Scope and Contents note
on Francis Bacon and Leon Golub,
New Yorker, 1975.
box 42, folder 2
"Artist of Our Time"
Scope and Contents note
about Kokoschka,
New Yorker, 1975.
box 42, folder 3
Contribution
Scope and Contents note
to
Commentary symposium on U.S. international behavior, 1975.
box 42, folder 4
"Death and the Artist"
Scope and Contents note
about Rothko trial,
New Yorker, 1975.
box 42, folder 5
"Death and the Artist"
Scope and Contents note
clippings and legal documents regarding Rothko trial, 1975.
box 42, folder 6
"Defeat"
Scope and Contents note
review of books on Trotsky,
New Yorker, 1975.
box 42, folder 7
"Evidences of Surreality"
Scope and Contents note
review of Max Ernst retrospective at the Guggenheim,
New Yorker, 1975.
box 42, folder 8
"History at the Met"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1975.
box 42, folder 9
"Jews in Art"
Scope and Contents note
review of "Jewish Experience," an art exhibition at the Jewish Museum,
New Yorker, 1975.
box 42, folder 10
"Lyric Steel"
Scope and Contents note
review of Anthony Caro exhibition at MOMA,
New Yorker, 1975.
box 42, folder 11
"Metaphysical Feelings in Modern Art"
Scope and Contents note
Critical Inquiry, 1975.
box 42, folder 12
"The Revenge of the Philistines"
Scope and Contents note
by Hilton Kramer, a review of Tom Wolfe's
The Painted Word, published in
Commentary, with handwritten draft of HR's rebuttal, 1975.
box 42, folder 13
"Smile of Memory"
Scope and Contents note
review of Guggenheim retrospective of Jiri Kolar,
New Yorker, 1975.
box 43, folder 1
"American Art: Form and Exploration"
Scope and Contents note
Smithsonian, 1976.
box 43, folder 2
"American Drawing and the Form of the Erased De Kooning"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1976.
box 43, folder 3
"Being Outside"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Two Centuries of Black American Art, ca. 1976.
box 43, folder 4
"Ben Shahn"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1976.
box 43, folder 5
Contribution
Scope and Contents note
to
Commentary symposium "What is a Liberal -- Who is a Conservative?" 1976.
box 43, folder 6
Introduction
Scope and Contents note
to Paul Goodman's
The Empire City, 1976.
box 43, folder 7
"A Mediumistic Artist"
Scope and Contents note
review of Masson retrospective,
New Yorker, 1976.
box 43, folder 8
"MOMA Package"
Scope and Contents note
review of "The Natural Paradise," exhibition at MOMA, 1976.
box 43, folder 9
"Morality in Society"
Scope and Contents note
notes, 1976?
box 43, folder 10
"Nuremberg and Some Corrupters of Thought"
Scope and Contents note
review of Max Ophuls film,
The Memory of Justice, in
New York Review, with Ophuls' lengthy response and HR's counter-response; other reviews and letters; 1976.
box 43, folder 11
"Portraits: A Meditation on Likeness"
Scope and Contents note
HR's preface to Richard Avedon's book of same title, 1976.
box 43, folder 12
"Purifying Art"
Scope and Contents note
on Ad Reinhardt,
New Yorker, 1976.
box 43, folder 13
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
Barry Lyndon, ca. 1976.
box 43, folder 14
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
Statue of Liberty, by Marvin Trachtenberg, 1976.
box 44, folder 1
"Kenneth Noland"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1977.
box 44, folder 2
List
Scope and Contents note
of articles to be considered for inclusion in book HR was planning with Thomas Hess, 1977.
box 44, folder 3
"Outrageously Unique"
Scope and Contents note
review of James Ensor exhibition at the Guggenheim,
New Yorker, 1977.
box 44, folder 4
Proposal
Scope and Contents note
for symposium on Modernism sent to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1977.
box 44, folder 5
Review
Scope and Contents note
of
Surrealists and Surrealism, by Picon, ca. 1977.
box 44, folder 6
"Seventy-five Years of
Art News"
Scope and Contents note
in
Art News 1977.
box 44, folder 7
"Souvenirs of an Avant-Garde"
Scope and Contents note
review of Rauschenberg retrospective at National Collection of Fine Arts, 1977.
box 44, folder 8
"Subhead TK"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Ensor, by Roger Van Gindertael, and
Ensor, by John David Farmer,
New Yorker, 1977.
box 44, folder 9
"Twenty Years of Jasper Johns"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1977.
box 44, folder 10
"Vanguard Dealers"
Scope and Contents note
about the Julien Levy Gallery,
New Yorker, 1977.
box 44, folder 11
"Artist on Art"
Scope and Contents note
review of
Matisse on Art, by Jack Flam. (The last article HR wrote before his death), 1978.
box 44, folder 12
"Inquest into Modernism"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, 1978.
box 44, folder 13
"The Last Exiles"
Scope and Contents note
review of Stuart Davis retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum,
New Yorker, 1978.
box 44, folder 14
"Women and Water"
Scope and Contents note
review of De Kooning exhibition at Guggenheim,
New Yorker, 1978.
box 45, folder 1
Barnett Newman
Scope and Contents note
handwritten manuscripts, 1978.
box 45, folder 2
Barnett Newman
Scope and Contents note
corrected proofs, 1978.
box 45, folder 3
Materials
Scope and Contents note
regarding Saul Steinberg exhibition that HR curated for Whitney Museum, 1978.
box 45, folder 4
"Steinberg"
Scope and Contents note
catalog essay for Whitney Museum show, 1978.
box 45, folder 5
"Steinberg"
Scope and Contents note
partial catalog galleys, 1978.
box 46, folder 1
"The Academy in Totalitaria"
box 46, folder 2
"Action in Art"
Scope and Contents note
lecture given at MOMA.
box 46, folder 3
"American Sculpture: Ideal and Real"
Scope and Contents note
on Hiram Powers.
box 46, folder 4
"American Surrealist"
Scope and Contents note
on David Hare.
box 46, folder 7
"Art in the Last Twenty Years"
box 46, folder 9
"The Artist as Perceiver of Social Realities"
box 46, folder 10
"The Artist in Residence"
box 46, folder 11
Comments
Scope and Contents note
on Rockfeller Conference on the Humanities.
box 46, folder 12
"The Crisis of Art 'Informel'"
box 46, folder 13
"Exhumation of Surrealism"
box 46, folder 16
"Giacometti: Reality at Cockcrow"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker
box 46, folder 20
"Joan Mitchell: Artist Against Background"
Scope and Contents note
New Yorker, undated
box 46, folder 21
"Liberalism, Conservatism and Literature"
box 46, folder 24
"The Modernist Tradition"
box 46, folder 25
"Mona Lisa Without a Mustache"
Scope and Contents note
on art and poular culture.
box 46, folder 29
"On the Radical Content of Contemporary Art"
box 46, folder 30
"Philosophy of Old and New Materials"
box 46, folder 31
"Position Precis," on the word "elite"
box 46, folder 36
"Tradition and Eccentricity"
box 47
Miscellaneous writings,
undated
box 47, folder 1
Drafts
Scope and Contents note
of manuscripts relating to question of modernism.
box 47, folder 2
Essay
Scope and Contents note
on crafts
box 47, folder 3
Lecture
Scope and Contents note
at opening of new art building
box 47, folder 4
Outline
Scope and Contents note
for ms. about action painting.
box 47, folder 5
Outline
Scope and Contents note
of proposed book.
box 47, folder 6
Miscellanous
Scope and Contents note
pages regarding the concept of "action."
box 47, folder 7-26
Notes
Scope and Contents note
sets of notes, notebook pages, drafts of unidentified manuscripts, miscellaneous pages, or scraps.
Teaching Files, Series II.B.
1953-1978
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
These files contain materials related to the courses Harold Rosenberg taught, first at New York University (1953-64) and then
at University of Chicago, as a member of the Committee on Social Thought (1967-78). Included are class rosters, student papers,
departmental memos, lecture notes, relevant clippings, and occasional correspondence. Manuscripts of special lectures or talks
given at Princeton, Harvard, or elsewhere, are filed in subseries II.A.
box 48
Teaching Files,
1953-1972
box 49
Teaching Files,
1973-1978
box 49, folder 7
Transcript of tutorial on Marx's "18th Brumaire," with lecture notes, corrections,
undated
Interviews, Series II.C.
1943-1978
Physical Description:
0.417 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
These files include manuscript drafts of interviews of and by Harold Rosenberg, photocopied clippings of interviews with Rosenberg,
and interviews with art world figures about Rosenberg.
box 50, folder 1
American Council of Learned Societies meeting,
Scope and Contents note
about tour books of American cities that HR, among others, worked on, 1943.
box 50, folder 2
Interview of Rosenberg by Frank Kermode
Scope and Contents note
about tradition in the arts for BBC, 1963.
box 50, folder 3
Transcript of symposium
Scope and Contents note
of symposium, "Problems and Issues in Art Today," with HR, Thomas Hess, Barnett Newman, and others, 1964.
box 50, folder 4
HR interview of Phillip Guston,
1966
box 50, folder 5
HR interview of De Kooning,
1971
box 50, folder 6
Lee Hall's interview of HR,
1973
box 50, folder 7
Paul Cummings's interview of HR,
1973
Scope and Contents note
for Archives of American Art.
box 50, folder 8
Interview of HR by Dr. Hyman Weitzen,
1974
Scope and Contents note
about daydreams.
box 50, folder 9
HR interview of Phillip Guston,
1974
box 50, folder 10
interview of HR by Malitte Matta,
1975
Scope and Contents note
about American art.
box 50, folder 11
8th International Sculpture Conference, 1975
Scope and Contents note
Roundtable with HR.
box 50, folder 12
Interview of HR by Melvin Tumin, 1978
Scope and Contents note
about what is and is not art.
box 50, folder 13
Chicago Literary Review interview of Michael Denneny,
undated
Scope and Contents note
HR discussed.
box 50, folder 14
Martin Friedman and Christopher Finch interview of Barbara Rose, undated
Scope and Contents note
HR discussed.
box 50, folder 15
Transcript
Scope and Contents note
of interview of HR(?) by interviewer Milton ____? about the current American art scene, undated
box 50, folder 16
Photocopies of clippings
Scope and Contents note
of interviews of or by HR, including HR interviewed by Jan van der Marck, 1969; HR and Benjamin Nelson interviewed by Robert
Boyers and Dustin Wees, 1972; Willem De Kooning interviewed by HR, 1972; Phillip Guston interviewed by HR, 1974; HR interviewed
by Howard Conant, 1975; HR interviewed by Melvin Tumin, 1978 (see Ms. above); HR interviewed by Jonathan Fineberg, 1979; offprint
of interview with Kenneth Burke, Malcom Cowley and others by
American Scholar about the American Writers' Congress (HR is discussed), 1965.
Location magazine,
Series II.D.
1957-1971
Physical Description:
0.417 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Materials regarding the founding, funding, and editing of
Location, edited by Rosenberg and Thomas Hess. Correspondence from the Longview and Stern Family foundations is included, as are manuscript
submissions. All editorial correspondence, from
Location colleagues such as Kenneth Burke, Thomas Hess, Saul Bellow and Donald Barthelme, is interfiled with Professional Correspondence,
1961-1971, Boxes 2-7.
box 51, folder 1
Report
Scope and Contents note
on the Creative Arts to the Edgar Stern Foundation, 1957.
box 51, folder 2
Longview Foundation proposal,
1959-1969
Scope and Contents note
for
Location magazine, including correspondence from Stern family members, an issue of the magazine, brochure announcing other Longview
activities, etc.
box 51, folder 3
Submissions for
Location,
1961-1965
box 51, folder 4
Proof pages from issue of the magazine,
1970
Clippings, Serials and Printed Matter, Series III.
1925-1979
Physical Description:
2.08 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
This series is generally organized chronologically by year.
Clippings, Series III.A.
1929-1981
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
There are two categories of clippings, those about or by Rosenberg, which include reviews of his books and his obituaries,
and those concerning art, politics, literature, or other topics of interest to Rosenberg. In keeping with Rosenberg's wide
range of interests, the latter set of clippings cover events such as labor strikes in the 1930s, discoveries about the pyramids
in the 1950s, and articles about friends, including Hannah Arendt, Allan Kaprow, and Saul Bellow.
box 52, folder 1
1959-1960
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
The Tradition of the New
box 52, folder 2
1961-1962
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
Arshille Gorky
box 52, folder 3
1963
Scope and Contents note
Various
box 52, folder 4
1964
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
The Anxious Object
box 52, folder 5
1965
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
The Anxious Object
box 52, folder 6
1966
Scope and Contents note
Various
box 52, folder 7
1967
Scope and Contents note
Various
box 52, folder 8
1969
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
Artworks and Packages
box 52, folder 9
1970
Scope and Contents note
Various
box 52, folder 10
1971
Scope and Contents note
Various
box 52, folder 11
1972
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
The De-Definition of Art.
box 52, folder 12
1973
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
Discovering the Present and
The De-Definition of Art.
box 52, folder 13
1974
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
Willem De Kooning and
Discovering the Present.
box 52, folder 14
1975
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
Art on the Edge.
box 52, folder 15
1976
Scope and Contents note
Reviews of
Art on the Edge.
box 52, folder 16
1978-1979
Scope and Contents note
Obituaries and reviews of
Barnett Newman. See also Serials, Box 54, for more obituaries.
box 53, folder 1
1929-1939
Scope and Contents note
Including clippings about labor strikes, Franklin Roosevelt.
box 53, folder 2
1940-1949
Scope and Contents note
Including clipping about the fall of France.
box 53, folder 3
1950-1959
Scope and Contents note
Including clippings about Chagall, El-Malakh's discoveries in the Pyramid of Giza, President Peron of Argentina.
box 53, folder 4
1960-1969
Scope and Contents note
Including Allan Kaprow's article "Experimental Art," editorial honoring Giacometti, article on Saul Bellow, article about
Hannah Arendt, and numerous art reviews.
box 53, folder 5
1963
Scope and Contents note
Clippings about F.R. Leavis and
Scrutiny.
box 53, folder 6
1963
Scope and Contents note
Clippings about Hannah Arendt's
Eichmann in Jerusalem.
box 53, folder 7
1970-1979
Scope and Contents note
Including clippings about RISD campus controversy surrounding President Lee Hall, numerous art reviews and articles about
art from the
NY Times and other periodicals, Philip Roth's article "Imagining Jews."
box 53, folder 8
1977
Scope and Contents note
Clippings about Annenberg, Thomas Hoving and the Metropolitan Museum.
box 53, folder 9
1980-1981
Scope and Contents note
Including clipping about Hannah Arendt.
Serials, Series III.B.
1925-1979
Physical Description:
0.417 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
A small collection of serials containing items of interest to Rosenberg; two contain his obituary.
box 54, folder 2
The Art Digest,
Oct 1, 1949
box 54, folder 3
View Poets, supplements to
View, Vol. 1, no.3, 4-5,
1940-1941
box 54, folder 5
Jewish Newsletter,
May 15, 1961
box 54, folder 8
New Statesman,
Oct 25, 1963
box 54, folder 12
Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 15,
1975
box 54, folder 13
Art and the Law, Vol. 4,
1978
box 54, folder 14
Art in America,
Sept 1978
Printed Matter, Series III.C.
ca. 1935-ca. 1979
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
A collection of printed matter most interesting for the gallery and museum announcements and catalogs from the 1950s, 1960s
and 1970s, which strongly evoke the art world of those decades. Also of note is a file of little magazines featuring the work
of Phillip Guston.
box 55
Printed Matter,
1949-1979
box 55, folder 1
Announcements,
ca. 1962-1979
Scope and Contents note
about HR's books, lectures, and a posthumous tribute.
box 55, folder 2
Council and institutional material,
ca. 1949-1985
Scope and Contents note
including
Professional Practices in Art Museums, 1971, and an invitation to join the American Committee for Cultural Freedom.
box 55, folder 3
De Kooning in East Hampton,
1978
Scope and Contents note
exhibition at Guggenheim, press release and other printed matter.
box 55, folder 4
Gallery and Museum announcements and catalogs,
1953-1964
box 55, folder 5
Gallery and Museum announcements and catalogs,
1965-1969
box 55, folder 6
Gallery and Museum announcements and catalogs,
1970-1979
box 55, folder 7
Small magazines and catalogs featuring Phillip Guston artwork,
1970-1976
Scope and Contents note
Chicago Poetry Magazine, 1970 (cover only);
Incidentals in the Day World, poems by Alice Notley, 1972 (cover only);
The Spade in the Sensorium, poems by David Anderson, 1972 (cover only);
Big Sky 4, 1972;
boston university journal, Autumn 1973;
Philip Guston, catalog for David McKee Gallery, NY., 1974;
Philip Guston, catalog for paintings exhibition at Boston University, 1974;
Enigma Variations (poems by Bill Berkson), 1975;
Fire Exit/William Corbett, 1975;
St. Patrick's Day (poems by William Corbett), 1976;
Philip Guston, catalog from David McKee Gallery, 1976; with note from Philip Guston.
box 56
Printed Matter,
1935-1978
box 56, folder 1
Israel file,
1967
Scope and Contents note
with materials about politics and religion.
box 56, folder 2
Press releases,
1969-1978
Scope and Contents note
about art exhibitions.
box 56, folder 3
Proposal,
1977
Scope and Contents note
to establish a new degree program at New York University.
box 56, folder 4
Rothko case affadavits, etc.,
1970
box 56, folder 5
Rules Concerning Home Relief,
1935
Scope and Contents note
a pamphlet,.
box 56, folder 6
Theater and Music programs,
ca. 1940-1985
box 56, folder 7
Miscellaneous,
undated
Scope and Contents note
including a memorandum on what makes a literary property.
Personal, Series IV.
1923-1978
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Series contains notebooks, appointment and address books, as well as honors and ephemera. Arranged in two subseries, in rough
chronological order only, as many items are not dated.
Notebooks, Appointment Books and Address Books, Series IV.A.
1935-1968
Physical Description:
0.417 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
These books contain generally sketchy or elliptical entries, though one notebook, written during Rosenberg's time in Washington,
contains descriptions of gatherings with friends and rivals and judgements on art world personalities, such as Clement Greenberg.
box 57, folder 1
11 spiral stenographer notebooks,
undated
Scope and Contents note
containing notes on a variety of topics, mostly art related.
box 57, folder 2
1 small black loose leaf binder,
undated
Scope and Contents note
containing notes on art, literature, and other aesthetic matters.
box 57, folder 3
Assorted journal pages,
undated
Scope and Contents note
handwritten, about art, art world personalities, such as Greenberg.
box 57, folder 4
1 bound notebook,
ca. 1935
Scope and Contents note
with alphabetical list of classic authors and works.
box 57, folder 5
6 appointment/address books,
ca. 1936-ca. 1968
Scope and Contents note
containing names and addresses of well-known and lesser-known people.
box 57, folder 6
4 pocket calendars,
1964-1968
Scope and Contents note
listing daily appointments and events.
Honors and Ephemera, Series IV.B.
1923-1978
Physical Description:
0.417 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
This is a random collection of documents and ephemera from Rosenberg's life.
box 58
Honors and Ephemera,
1923-1978
box 58, folder 1
Hebrew documents,
1902-1923
box 58, folder 2
Report cards and diplomas,
1923-ca. 1957
box 58, folder 3
Passports and i.d. cards,
1951-1978
box 58, folder 4
Honorary degree from Case Western,
1968
box 58, folder 6
Program and Award,
1976, 1970
Scope and Contents note
from American Academy of Arts and Letters presentation of Morton Dauwen Zabel Award to HR, 1976; UC Berkeley Citation Award,
1970.
box 58, folder 7
Maps and travel-related material
box 58, folder 9
Sleep mask, airline slippers, handkerchief, wallet
Manuscripts by Others, Series V.
1953-1978
Physical Description:
1.66 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
This series is arranged in rough chronological order in two subseries, manuscripts by fellow critics, writers and composers,
and May Taback Rosenberg's notes and fiction writings.
Manuscripts by fellow critics, writers, composers, Series V.A.
1953-1978
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
These manuscripts, offprints, and photocopies, generally from the 1960s and 1970s, were apparently sent to Rosenberg by friends
and colleagues and generally concern art or literature. Of note is the manuscript of a novel Rosenberg's brother David wrote,
and a string quartet by Ralph Shapey, dedicated to the Rosenbergs.
box 59
Mss. by others,
1953-1978
box 59, folder 1
Tragedy Without Tears, by David Rosenberg,
ca. 1940s?
Scope and Contents note
a novel by HR's brother, undated (1940s?)
box 59, folder 2
"Il Verri - Harold Rosenberg," by Aldo Tagliaferri,
ca. 1960
Scope and Contents note
in English; translation/summary of another article on HR by Brega(?).
box 59, folder 3
"Training the Professional Artist," by Mercedes Matter,
1967
box 59, folder 4
"Multi-Shift," by William Pellicone,
1967
box 59, folder 5
"The New Writing," by Jose Luis Castillejo,
1969
box 59, folder 6
"An Established Interdisciplinary Faculty," by John Nef,
1970
box 59, folder 7
"Studying the Time" by Marvin Mudrick,
1970
box 59, folder 8
Essay by Hiram Williams,
1973
box 59, folder 9
"Art, Will and Necessity," by Lionel Trilling,
1974
box 59, folder 10
Essay on Tolstoy, by Carl Ahmanson(?),
1977
box 59, folder 11
Obituary for HR, by Ben Raeburn,
1978
box 59, folder 12
Michael Braude,
All Under One Roof, A Play in Nine Half-Acts,
undated
box 59, folder 13
Lucia Demby, "Rosenberg,"
undated
box 59, folder 14
Gabrielle Drudi, "Willem de Kooning,"
undated
box 59, folder 15
Dagens Nyheter, "Harold Rosenberg - art critic,"
undated
box 59, folder 16
R. Sieburth, "Futurism and Fascism: The Case of Filippo Tomasso Marinetti,"
undated
box 59, folder 17
Offprints and photocopies of published articles by others,
1938-1978
Scope and Contents note
including Ned Polsky, Dwight Macdonald, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Donald Egbert, Marvin Mudrick, Fred Moramarco, Edward T. Cone,
Wolff, David Antin, Benjamin Nelson, Mihai Pop, Dore Ashton, Morris Weitz, S.V. Vadnerkar, Hans Jonas, Moshe Decter, Daniel
Bell.
box 59, folder 18
Katherine Strelsky,
1969-1974
Scope and Contents note
Offprints, photocopies, clippings of her articles on Dostoevsky, with correspondence and comments by HR.
box 60, folder 1
Solzhenitsin, galleys of
The First Circle,
1968
box 61, folder 1
Ralph Shapey, "String Quartet #4,"
1963
Scope and Contents note
dedicated to HR and May Tabak.
May Tabak Rosenberg Papers, Series V.B.
ca. 1960-ca.1975
Physical Description:
1 box(es)
.417 lin. ft.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries comprises a small collection of notes and fiction manuscripts by May Tabak.
box 62
Tabak Papers,
ca. 1960-ca. 1975
box 62, folder 1
Notes,
undated
Scope and Contents note
and notebooks regarding fiction writing.
box 62, folder 2
Fiction manuscripts,
undated
Scope and Contents note
fragmentary and assorted.
box 62, folder 3
Fiction manuscripts,
1960s
Scope and Contents note
including "A Box Is Not a Whale," ca. 1960, and "The Widow Sent to Henry," 1968.
box 62, folder 4
Assorted business papers,
undated
box 62, folder 5
i.d. cards and other miscellany,
undated
Photographs and Artwork, Series VI.
ca. 1942-1977
Container Summary: 1 box, 8 flat file folders ca. 3 lin. ft.
Scope and Contents note
This series contains a small number of family photographs, photographs of artwork sent to Rosenberg, and 21 posters produced
by the World War II Office of War Information, which employed Rosenberg.
box 63
Photographs and art,
ca. 1942-1977
box 63, folder 1
Family photographs,
undated
Scope and Contents note
of HR, HR's mother, HR's wife May Tabak, at various ages.
box 63, folder 2
Handmade greeting cards,
1945-1976
Scope and Contents note
often by artists such as Saul Steinberg, addressed to HR and May Tabak.
box 63, folder 3
14 contact sheets of photos,
1950-1958
Scope and Contents note
of Giacommetti taken by Richard Avedon, with brief letter from Avedon to HR.
box 63, folder 4
Painting mounted on board,
1975
Scope and Contents note
by Goorman(?) with birthday greeting to HR.
box 63, folder 5
3 black and white photos,
ca. 1975
Scope and Contents note
of June Wayne exhibition, with letters.
box 63, folder 6
8 black and white photos,
1976
Scope and Contents note
of Christo's "Running Fence," with press release.
box 63, folder 7
4 black and white photos and 15 color slides,
1977
Scope and Contents note
of artwork by Betty Gold, with letter from Gold to HR.
box 63, folder 8
2 black and white photos,
1978
Scope and Contents note
of pieces in National Gallery exhibition, "American Art at Mid-Century."
box 63, folder 9
5 color snapshots,
undated
Scope and Contents note
of large scale paintings by unidentified artist.
Posters, 1942-1943
Scope and Contents note
21 Posters, by World War II Office of War Information, size range from 14 X 20 inches to 20 X 40 inches, 1942-43.
Audiotape, Series VII.
undated
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents note
Recording of a panel discussion between Rosenberg, Rudolf Arnheim, and Carol Zimmer.
box 64
Audiotape
Scope and Contents note
1 sound tape reel : analog.