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
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.
Conditions Governing Use note
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.
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 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
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 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