Description
Ebria Feinblatt was the founding curator of the prints and drawings department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from
1947-1985. The collection contains her research papers for Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators and research on
Daumier, along with her personal papers including poems.
Background
Ebria Feinblatt (1913-1990) was the first curator of prints and drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she
worked from 1947 to 1985. She studied, collected and wrote on topics ranging from ancient art to German Gothic to modern art,
but she was best known for her studies in Bolognese seventeenth-century quadrature painting. She wrote a number of art books
including:
Drawings in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1970),
Toulouse-Lautrec and his Contemporaries: Posters of the Belle Epoque from the Wagner Collection (1985),
and Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators (1992). Upon her death, her brother Ronn Marvin donated her personal papers and other gifts to LACMA.
Extent
1.2 Linear feet
3 document boxes
Restrictions
Contact the Balch Research Library at 323-856-6118 or library@lacma.org for information on publishing or reproducing materials
included in these records. Permission will be granted by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as the owner of the physical
materials, and does not imply permission from the copyright holder. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain all
necessary permissions from the copyright holder.
Availability
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment only through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research
Library. Telephone 323-857-6118 or email library@lacma.org.