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Title: Ebria Feinblatt Papers
Identifier/Call Number: FEI.001.001
Contributing Institution:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.2 Linear feet
3 document boxes
Date (inclusive): 1920s-1990s
Abstract: 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.
creator:
Feinblatt, Ebria
Conditions Governing Access note
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.
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.
[Description of item], Ebria Feinblatt papers, 1929-1991, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library, FEI.001.001.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Accessioned from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Prints and Drawings Department in 2013. Materials donated to LACMA by
Ebria Feinblatt’s brother Ronn Marvin in 1990-1991.
Processed by Caroline Yee; processing completed in November 2013; input into Archivists’ Toolkit by Caroline Yee, November
2013.
This collection is from the Prints and Drawings Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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.
The 3 boxes (1.2 linear feet) that comprises this collection contains research papers including manuscripts, research, clippings,
photographs, and notes. The personal papers in this collection include correspondence, poems, notebooks, diaries, ephemera,
photographs, gifts to museums, and personal items of Ebria Feinblatt. The items range in date from 1929-1991.
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Research Papers, 1940s-1980s
- Series 2: Personal Papers, 1920s-1990s
Related Archival Materials note
The Getty Research Institute: Special Collections (collection number 970034) hold a collection of Ebria Feinblatt’s research
papers documenting her studies in seventeenth-century Bolognese ceiling painting and the development of quadrature illusionistic
painting.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ephemera