FEI.001.001

Finding aid prepared by Caroline Yee
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-857-6118
library@lacma.org


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.
Language of Materials note: English
Location note: Stored at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library.
creator: Feinblatt, Ebria

Conditions Governing Access note

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Conditions Governing Use note

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Preferred Citation note

[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.

Processing Information note

Processed by Caroline Yee; processing completed in November 2013; input into Archivists’ Toolkit by Caroline Yee, November 2013.

General note

This collection is from the Prints and Drawings Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Biographical/Historical note

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.

Scope and Contents note

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.

Arrangement note

This collection has been arranged in the following series:
  • Series 1: Research Papers, 1940s-1980s
  • Series 2: Personal Papers, 1920s-1990s
The collection is organized by series and left in the original order the contents were received.

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

 

Series 1: Research papers c. 1940s-1980s

Scope and Contents note

The research papers series (1940s-1980s) contains a manuscript of Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators, along with a number of photocopies of plates. Additionally, the series includes a number of drafts, research, and notes on Daumier.
Box 1, Folder 1

Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators Manuscript- Folder 1 c. 1980s

Box 1, Folder 2

Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators Manuscript- Folder 2 c. 1980s

Box 1, Folder 3

Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators Manuscript- Folder 3 c. 1980s

Box 1, Folder 4

Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators Manuscript- Folder 4 c. 1980s

Box 1, Folder 5

Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators Manuscript- Folder 5 c. 1980s

Box 1, Folder 6

Plates I-LVII c. 1980s

Box 1, Folder 7

[Artist Index] c. 1980s

Box 1, Folder 8

E's Copies of Illustrations c. 1980s

Box 1, Folder 9

Mayor, A-H - Daumier [articles] 1929-1958

Box 1, Folder 10

Vincent: Notes [research on Daumier] undated

Box 2, Folder 1

SD, Daumier [notes and drafts] c. 1950s-1980s

Box 2, Folder 2

Xerox [Drafts of Daumier] undated

Box 2, Folder 3

Texty [Notes, research, and drafts on Daumier] undated

Box 2, Folder 4

[Notes, Drafts] c. 1940s-1980s

Box 2, Folder 5

Daumier: Chronology undated

Box 2, Folder 6

Larkin [Notes, research, drafts on Daumier] undated

Box 2, Folder 7

Negatives undated

 

Series 2: Personal papers 1929-1990s

Scope and Contents note

The personal papers series (1920s-1990s) contains a number of poems, including a diary of poems written when she was a teenager. There is also her work on translations of poems by Charles Baudelaire. Additionally, the series includes her curriculum vitae from the late 1980s and deeds of gifts for Masters Drawings exhibition. This series also has printed ephemera that includes LACMA distribution materials, photographs of relatives, postcards, personal correspondence, binoculars, and opera glasses. The series also contains correspondence about Feinblatt received by Ronn Marvin after her death.
Box 2, Folder 8

Poemes Hysteriques by Ebria Feinblatt or Partially Poetry or Diary of the Denied and the Demented 1929-undated

Box 2, Folder 9

Various Poems c. 1930s-1960s

Box 2, Folder 10

Curriculum Vitae c. 1980s

Box 2, Folder 11

Dups [poems] undated

Box 2, Folder 12

Baudelaire [Translations of Baudelaire] c. 1949

Box 3, Folder 1

Ps Hs [Poems] c. 1930s-1950s

Box 3, Folder 2

Income Taxes and Expenses c. 1980s

Box 3, Folder 3

Master Drawings- Gifts and Charity c. 1980s

Box 3, Folder 4

Ebria [correspondence] c. 1980s-1990s

Box 3, Folder 5

Printed ephemera c. 1960s-1990s

Box 3, Folder 6

Binoculars and Opera Glasses undated