Finding aid for the William and Noma Copley foundation and collection records,
1954-1980
Lynda Bunting, Jocelyn Gibbs.
Descriptive Summary
Title: William and Noma Copley foundation and collection records
Date (inclusive): 1954-1980
Number: 880403
Creator/Collector:
William and Noma
Copley Foundation
Physical Description:
4.5 Linear Feet
(10 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
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Abstract: Records document the William and Noma
Copley Foundation's grant program for composers and artists, 1954-1966. Richard Hamilton's
correspondence, 1960-1966, largely concerns the Foundation's monograph series, which he
edited. Other papers, including correspondence with artists, files regarding exhibitions and
insurance, and photographs, document the Copleys' personal art collection, known for its
large number of Surrealist works. Files dated after 1966 primarily contain Noma Copley's
correspondence with artists.
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Biographical/Historical Note
William Nelson Copley (1919-1996) was a Surrealist painter, art collector, and
philanthropist. He was born in New York and attended Yale University before being drafted
into the army and serving in Europe during World War II. After the war, Copley began
painting and partnered with John Ployardt, his brother-in-law from his first marriage with
Doris Wead, to run the short-lived Copley Galleries in Beverly Hills, California,
specializing in Surrealist art. When the business failed, Copley was obligated to buy most
of the art, which formed the basis of his private collection. He then moved to Paris around
1949, where he met his second wife, Noma (born Norma) Ratner.
Noma Ratner Copley (1916-2006) was a fine art jewelry designer and art collector. She was
born in Minnesota and worked as a translator with the United States Office of War
Information during World War II. Afterwards, she worked in the film industry in Los Angeles
before moving to Paris. She was introduced to William Copley by their mutual friend Man Ray
in 1951. They married in 1953 and resided in France until 1962, when they moved to New
York.
In 1954, they began the William and Noma Copley Foundation (renamed the Cassandra
Foundation in 1966), which was incorporated in Chicago as a nonprofit organization. Its
mission was to aid and encourage emerging artists in the fields of painting, sculpture and
music composition. Grants were awarded by a board of directors based on nominations made by
advisers, including Jean Arp, Alfred Barr, Jr., Matta Echaurren, Max Ernst, Julien Levy,
William Lieberman, Man Ray, Roland Penrose and Sir Herbert Read. The officers and directors
were William Copley, Noma Copley, Marcel Duchamp, Barnet Hodes, Eleanor Hodes and Darius
Milhaud. Music and art award responsibilities were divided between husband and wife. Noma
Copley was chiefly responsible for music grants and collaborated with Milhaud, while William
Copley generally made the final decisions on the visual art grants.
The Foundation also published a series of monographs from 1960 to 1966 to highlight their
grantees. The British Pop artist Richard Hamilton was chosen as editor, not only for his
well-known talents in layout and design, but also for the respect given him by the
international art community as one of Duchamp's protégés. A total of 10 monographs were
published on Hans Bellmer, Richard Lindner, Bernard Pfriem, René Magritte, Thomas Albert
Sills, Eduardo Paolozzi, James Metcalf, Serge Charchoune, Jacques Hérold and Dieter Roth. In
addition to their philanthropy, the Copleys assembled an important private collection of
Surrealist art, including works by Hans Bellmer, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, René Magritte
and Man Ray. The collection included Magritte's
La trahison des
images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe)
and
Chambre
d'Ecoute
, Ernst's
Le Surréalisme et la Peinture,
Man Ray's
A l'Heure de l'Observatoire: les Amoureux and
Richard Hamilton's
$he. From 1964 to 1966, Marcia Tucker
worked as collection curator, overseeing exhibition loans and the care and maintenance of
the collection.
After William Copley decided to distance himself from philanthropy and focus his activities
back on his own art, Barnet Hodes assumed his responsibilities at the Foundation in 1966.
William and Noma Copley divorced in 1967, and William Copley continued his career as a
Surrealist artist. He sold much of the art collection at auctions in 1979 and 1993 and died
in Florida in 1996. Noma Copley pursued a career in goldsmithing and fine art jewelry after
their divorce. She died in New York in 2006.
Sources consulted:
"Biography." William N. Copley. William N. Copley Estate. Accessed 6 April 2020.
http://williamncopley.com/about/biography-page/.
"Foundation." William N. Copley. William N. Copley Estate. Accessed 6 April 2020.
http://williamncopley.com/programs/william-and-noma-copley-foundation/.
"Noma Copley." Wikipedia. Accessed 6 April 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noma_Copley#cite_ref-18.
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Preferred Citation
William and Norma Copley foundation and collection records, 1954-1980, Research Library,
The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 880403
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa880403
Acquisition Information
The Research Library acquired the bulk of the archive in 1988. Additional material was
acquired in 1995, 1996, and 1998.
Processing History
Monika Wiessmeyer unpacked the archive in 1988. Lynda Bunting processed and cataloged the
collection June-July, 1995. The Richard Hamilton correspondence (former accn. no. 920052)
was moved to the William and Noma Copley Foundation and Collection Records at this time.
Bunting revised the finding aid in August 1997 to add a Hans Bellmer document (960054) and
in January 1998, to add ca. 40 letters and postcards from other two separate acquisitions
(960074, 980002). The biographical note was updated in 2020 by Rachel Poutasse.
Separated Material
Vivaldi, Cesare.
Pietro Cascella. Milan: Edizioni del milione, ca.
1962.
Scope and Content of Collection
The William and Noma Copley Foundation and Collection Records document the couple's
philanthropic and collecting activities, which along with their personal relationships with
Surrealist artists would profoundly affect the exhibition and evaluation of the Surrealist
movement in the United States. The archive dates from 1954-1980, the bulk dating from
1954-1966, when the Copleys directed the Foundation. Correspondence after 1966 is primarily
from Noma Copley's personal files.
The collection contains correspondence with the Foundation's advisors, and with composers
and artists who were awarded grants, in effect demonstrating the Foundation's award process.
Letters also were exchanged with artist friends about personal matters and the Copley art
collection. Additionally, there is personal and business correspondence with Richard
Hamilton from the time when he was editor of the Copley Foundation's monograph series. One
series contains personal correspondence, with many drawings and handmade cards, collected by
Noma Copley. There is much material, including correspondence and photographs of art works,
relating specifically to the Copley collection, covering topics such as exhibition loans,
appraisals, conservation of the collection, financial and insurance documents.
Arrangement note
The archive is arranged in 5 series:
Series I. Foundation documents, 1954-1967;
Series II. Richard Hamilton correspondence, 1960-1966;
Series III. Personal correspondence,
1957-1980;
Series IV:
Collection documents, 1954-1967;
Series V. Collection photographs, n.d..
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Charchoune, Serge, 1888-1975
Copley, William Nelson, 1919-1996
Copley, Noma
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
Hérold, Jacques,
1910-1987
Hamilton, Richard,
1922-2011
Roth, Dieter, 1930-1998
Tanguy, Yves,
1900-1955
Man Ray, 1890-1976
Tanning, Dorothea,
1910-2012
Bellmer, Hans, 1902-1975
Baj, Enrico, 1924-2003
Arp, Jean, 1887-1966
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
William and Noma Copley
Foundation
Subjects - Topics
Publishers and publishing
Surrealism
Art -- Collectors and collecting
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Art -- Scholarships, fellowships, etc.
Art -- Private collections
Genres and Forms of Material
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
New Year cards
Christmas cards
Collages
Drawings (visual works)
Contributors
Chryssa, 1933-2013
De Maria, Walter,
1935-2013
Delvaux, Paul
Glanville-Hicks,
Peggy
Flavin, Dan,
1933-1996
Kelkel, Manfred
Jones, Charles,
1910-1997
Mason, Raymond,
1922-2010
Lam, Wifredo
Baj, Enrico,
1924-2003
Matta, 1912-2002
Bellmer, Hans,
1902-1975
Metcalf, James,
1925-
Milhaud, Darius,
1892-1974
Arp, Jean, 1887-1966
Petlin, Irving,
1934-2018
Pfriem, Bernard
Sage, Kay
Tajiri, Shinkichi,
1923-2009
Tanning, Dorothea,
1910-2012
Turner, Charles,
1921-2003
Hamilton, Richard,
1922-2011
Waldberg, Patrick
Hérold, Jacques,
1910-1987
Westermann, H. C. (Horace
Clifford), 1922-1981
Copley, Noma
William and Noma
Copley Foundation
Copley, William Nelson,
1919-1996
Celmins, Vija,
1938-
Cage, John
Man Ray, 1890-1976
Series I.
Foundation documents,
1954-1967
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear
Feet
2.5 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Foundation documents comprise material primarily pertaining to the foundation's grant
program, 1954-1966. Items include statutes
and by-laws, award recommendations by Darius Milhaud and others for prominent composers
and promising students (many of whom attended the Aspen Music Festival), and
recommendations by Roberto Matta Echaurren and others for artists' grants.
Correspondence with awardees includes award letters, thank-you notes, biographies,
descriptions of current work, and letters about personal matters. Awardees include,
among others, the composers Charles Jones, Manfred Kelkel, Charles Turner, Peggy
Glanville-Hicks, Shinkichi Tajiri and Bernard Pfriem, and the artists Jean Arp, Hans
Bellmer, Dan Flavin, Wifredo Lam, and Dorothea Tanning. Letters from the writer Patrick
Waldberg provide art world gossip and personal views on art events. Some letters discuss
the monographs published by the Foundation. Series II contains much more correspondence
about the Foundation's publishing program.
box 1, folder 1
Official documents,
1954-1955
Physical Description: ca. 13 items
Scope and Content Note
By-laws in English and French; articles of incorporation; correspondence with the law
firm of Arvey, Hodes & Mantynband; correspondence with IRS about tax exempt
status.
box 1, folder 2
Darius Milhaud recommendations,
1961-1966
Physical Description: ca. 38 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Milhaud regarding music award recommendations reveals selection
process; with personal correspondence interspersed.
box 1, folder 3
Other recommendations,
1960-1966
Physical Description: ca. 20 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence recommending artists and composers, with Ernst Roth, Pierre Boulez,
and Roberto Matta Echaurren (also personal letters and small drawings); notes from Man
Ray, Marguerite Arp, Sam Hunter, Julien Levy, Dan Flavin, and Alfred Barr, Jr.
box 1, folder 4-5
Music biographies,
1954-1966
Physical Description: ca. 100 items
Scope and Content Note
Typed curricula vitae, some in letter format, a few with cover letters, from students
and established awardees.
box 1, folder 6
Art biographies, ca.
1960-1966, 1964-1966
Physical Description: ca. 35 items
Scope and Content Note
Curricula vitae, most typed and some in letter format, a few with cover letters, from
artists Lucas Samaras, Mark di Suvero (handwritten letter about his childhood), Dan
Flavin, and Maria Papa, among others; 9 photographs.
box 1, folder 7-8
Music awardee correspondence,
1954-1960 1962-1966
Physical Description: ca. 150 items
Scope and Content Note
Most are letters of award to grant recipients and thank-you letters from them, but
also some bios, descriptions of current work and personal correspondence. Represented
are, among others, Jacques Bondon (6 items), Harris Danziger (6 items), Manfred Kelkel
(14 items), Charles Jones (17 items), Jean-Louis Martinet (2 items), Benjamin Lees (3
items), Charles Turner (21 items), Claude Prey (4 items), Leland Smith (3 items),
Gilbert Amy (3 items), Howard Swanson (1 item), Edgard Varèse (4 items), Morton
Subotnick (1 item), Antoine Tisne (4 items), Mikis Theodorakis (8 items), Peter
Schickele (1 item), Peggy Glanville-Hicks (ca. 24 items, most about separate grants
awarded to aid production of "Transposed Heads," 1959, and "Nausicaa," 1962),
William Bolcom (1 item), Bruce Mather (3 items), Jean-Claude Eloy (2 items), Henry
Brant (6 items), John Downey (6 items), Luciano Berio (1 item), Paul Mefano (1 item),
John Cage (3 items).
box 1, folder 9
Miscellaneous music correspondence,
1953-1965
Physical Description: ca. 10 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from and to F. Charles Adler ( 1956), and letter to Erich Leinsdorf ( 1961).
box 2, folder 1-2
Art awardee correspondence,
1956-1959, 1961-1966
Physical Description: ca. 42 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters of award to grant recipients and thank-you letters from them; also some bios,
descriptions of current work and personal correspondence. Awardees include Serge
Charchoune (4 items), Arturo Estrada (1 item), Jacques Hérold (1 item), Hans Bellmer
(4 items), Richard Lindner (8 items), Shinkichi Tajiri (8 items), Bernard Pfriem (3
items: long description of childhood, letter to and letter from Maxime), Richard
Hamilton (2 items), Ruth Francken (2 items), Caroline Lee (1 item), Gene Beery (2
items), David Packard (3 items), Dan Flavin (1 item), Mark di Suvero (3 items).
box 2, folder 3
Other awardee correspondence,
1959-1960
Physical Description: 3 items
box 2, folder 4
Artist corresp. A,
1954-1966
box 2, folder 4
Altoon, John,
1966
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Thank-you letter from Altoon mentions dissatisfaction with a drawing he gave WC;
letter to Altoon from WC.
box 2, folder 4
Arakawa, Shusaku,
1965, n.d.
Physical Description: 3 items
Scope and Content Note
Letter and postcard from Arakawa; letter to him from WC.
box 2, folder 4
Arman,
1964-1967
Physical Description: 6 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters from Arman about personal matters, his work progress, and upcoming
exhibitions, ca. 1965; 2 New Year's
cards, 1964, 1967.
box 2, folder 4
Arp, Jean and Marguerite,
1957-1966
Physical Description: 32 items
Scope and Content Note
Extensive personal correspondence, written between Marguerite and Noma with one
letter from Arp. Subjects include Arp's health, financial matters, how Arp feels
about the works Sophie left him, exhibitions, the works by Arp in the Copley
collection, purchases, loans, description corrections, and damage to "Concrétion
humaine sur coupe A".
box 2, folder 5
Artist correspondence, B-CH,
1954-1966
box 2, folder 5
Baj, Enrico,
1960-1962
Physical Description: 12 items
Scope and Content Note
About loans from the collection; the measurement of "Miroir"; Baj's health.
box 2, folder 5
Bell, Larry,
1965
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Chatty letter from Bell regarding a work for the "optical show"; WC reply.
box 2, folder 5
Bellmer, Hans, ca.
1950-1965
Physical Description: 20 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about production of the Foundation's book on Bellmer and photograph
requests for a book of Bellmer's drawings (see also Series II); personal matters;
the health of Unica Zürn, 1961-1962,
1964-1965; handwritten page
"Fonctionnement du rêve" with drawings and quotations from Freud, Schopenhauer,
Spitta, et. al., ca. 1950.
box 2, folder 5
Brancusi, Constantin,
1955-1956
Physical Description: 7 items
Scope and Content Note
Copies of 6 letters from Hodes, Sidney Janis, and Brancusi; a 5 pp. report about
"Endless Column".
box 2, folder 5
Carrington, Leonora,
1957
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Carrington in which she uses choice words about Murray Greenbaum, who
cheated them and other artists out of money; a reply from Noma.
box 2, folder 5
Charchoune, Serge,
1961-1964
Physical Description: 5 items
Scope and Content Note
Personal letters; 2 cards, photograph and small printed text "Dolgolikov de Serge
Charchoune" by Georges Adamovitch.
box 2, folder 5
Christo, postcard from,
1966
Physical Description: 1 item
box 2, folder 6
Artist correspondence, CO-L,
1954-1966
box 2, folder 6
Consagra, Pietro,
1956
Physical Description: 1 item
box 2, folder 6
Crippa, Roberto,
1960
Physical Description: 5 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about the purchase of a work.
box 2, folder 6
Delvaux, Paul,
1956-1957
Physical Description: 16 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters, notes, and import documents regard purchase of a work.
box 2, folder 6
Ernst, Max,
1961
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten note on a copied [photostat?] typescript.
box 2, folder 6
Flavin, Dan,
1965-1966
Physical Description: ca. 13 items
Scope and Content Note
References for the Guggenheim Foundation; a 3 pp. letter in which Flavin discusses
himself, Walter Hopps's notion of an "East Coast-West dichotomy on art," and the
comportment of the artist in the face of commercial galleries; letters regarding
Flavin drawings; copy of 7 pp. bio. written for the Guggenheim Foundation.
box 2, folder 6
Francis, Sam,
1965
Physical Description: 1 item
box 2, folder 6
Francken, Ruth,
1965-1966
Physical Description: 6 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about recent productivity; requests for help finding New York
representation.
box 2, folder 6
Herms, George,
1962
Physical Description: 1 item
box 2, folder 6
Johnson, Ray,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Illustrated thank-you note.
box 2, folder 6
Lam, Wifredo,
1956-1957, 1959-1961
Physical Description: 22 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about payment for a work; travel arrangements; some letters include
drawings; includes 1 drawing on cardboard, 1 clipping.
box 2, folder 6
Lebel, Jean-Jacques,
1962
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Letter about money he owes WC.
box 2, folder 6
Lee, Caroline,
1962, 1966
Physical Description: 4 items
Scope and Content Note
1 p., 5 pp., 6 pp. and 2 pp. letters about problems with her studio; her new
foundry; the current French art scene and why the French cannot understand Pop Art;
the civil rights movement; her busy schedule.
box 2, folder 7
Artist correspondence, M-R,
1954-1966
box 2, folder 7
Mason, Raymond,
1961, 1963
Physical Description: 10 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about the casting and purchase of two sculptures.
box 2, folder 7
Mesens, E.L.T.,
1960
Physical Description: 5 items
Scope and Content Note
Mesens asks WC's help with Magritte exhibit at ICA, London; 3 pp. handwritten copy
of letter from Mesens to Roland Penrose expressing his dislike of the idea of a
retrospective at the ICA and problems with their personal relationship; a tactful
letter from WC expressing his feeling that they cannot all work together on the
show.
box 2, folder 7
Metcalf, James and Pilar, ca.
1965
Physical Description: 7 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding Metcalf's problems with galleries and exhibitions; personal
matters.
box 2, folder 7
Noguchi, Isamu,
1958
Physical Description: 4 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about possible purchase of a stone table and Noguchi's recommendation of
J.B. Blunk for a grant.
box 2, folder 7
Oppenheim, Meret,
1964-1966
Physical Description: 5 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters concern acquisition of an object and exchange of works between Oppenheim
and WC; exhibition announcement; a New Year's card with an original lithograph (no.
7/25).
box 2, folder 7
Packard, David,
1962-1963
Physical Description: 3 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters relate progress of his work; thoughts on WC's green book [Duchamp book?];
repair of "Monstrance Number One".
box 2, folder 7
Penrose, Roland and Lee Miller,
1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
5 items
box 2, folder 7
Petlin, Irving,
1962, 1965
Physical Description: 6 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about life in Greece and recent work painted there ( 1962); photographs needed by Petlin of his
work; an event the
Los Angeles Times refused to report on, in which
the Copleys would have been proud of Larry Bell, John Altoon, John Weber, Maurice
Tuchman, et al. ( 1965 May
23); showing at Rolf Nelson's; personal matters.
box 2, folder 7
Pfriem, Bernard,
1961-1962
Physical Description: 9 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about Pfriem's positive reaction to the Foundation's book about him; the
possibility of purchasing an extra run (see also Series II); works for consideration
at MOMA; disappointment with his last show; personal matters.
box 2, folder 7
Ray, Man,
1965-1965
Physical Description: 7 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about photographs from
ArtNews for books on Man Ray;
exhibitions that might need loans from the Copley collection (especially the LACMA
[Los Angeles County Museum of Art] retrospective); Copley's feelings about top LACMA
personnel; Man Ray's rheumatism.
box 2, folder 7
Reynal, Jeanne,
1960-1961
Physical Description: 8 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding the repair of mosaics in the collection; shipping a Gorky
work.
box 2, folder 7
Rivers, Larry,
1965
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding payments.
box 2, folder 8
Artist correspondence, SH-TIN,
1954-1966
box 2, folder 8
Tajiri, Shinkichi,
1956-1957, n.d.
Physical Description: 12 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding payment and the loan of a sculpture to the Stedelijk Museum;
personal letter contains a photograph collage.
box 2, folder 8
Tanguy, Kay Sage,
1957-1958, 1960-1961
Physical Description: 17 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about compiling a catalog of Yves Tanquy's work and the difficulties in
finding his earlier pieces; letter from Tanguy recommending François Tuefferd for a
grant; 2 pp. list of catalog needs.
box 2, folder 8
Tanning, Dorothea,
1959, 1966-1967, n.d.
Physical Description: 14 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters about a gift to the Tate Gallery of a Tanning work; a Foundation book on
Ernst; news of Man Ray; the Copleys' tentative plan to buy an apartment from Ernst;
loans for a retrospective.
box 2, folder 8
Tinguely, Jean,
1961, 1966, n.d.
Physical Description: 7 items
Scope and Content Note
References for Pontus Hulten with mention that Tinguely forgot to leave the "petite
chose" at Jimmy's [Metcalf?]; 3 postcards with colored marker drawings on recto,
titled "Peinture originale exécutée en collaboration avec métamatic no. 8 de
Tinguely" (edition Iris Clert), signed and dated 20 VII [year illegible]; 2
postcards dated 1961 and 1966.
box 2, folder 9
Artist correspondence TR-W,
1954-1966
box 2, folder 9
Trouille, Clovis,
1959, 1963
Physical Description: 4 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters of thank-you for the London catalog; possible purchase of "Mes
Funérailles"; praise for WC's work.
box 2, folder 9
Waldberg, Patrick and Isabelle,
1957-1958
Physical Description: 5 items
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Noma about life in Mexico; gossipy 4 pp. letter from Waldberg about his
opinion of the Duchamp book production; the failure of Jacques Hérold's recent
exhibition; the bickering of the "old guard" at the Dada retrospective at the
Galerie de l'Institute; a raid of the show by a commando of "jarrivistes"; his
research and thoughts on Dada for a possible publication.
box 3, folder 1
Form letters,
1960-1966
Physical Description: 30 items
Scope and Content Note
Carbon copies of form letters to award recipients and advisors, many with
annotations; list of awardees for 1961-1962, 1965.
box 3, folder 2
General correspondence
1962-1966
Physical Description: ca. 23 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Fondation de la Cité Internationale des Arts about activities;
letters about Diter Rot [i.e. Dieter Roth] monograph; with Porter McCray of JDR III
Fund regarding money for the New York Studio School; with Roland Penrose about funds
for ICA (London); letter to A. James Speyer about loaning Ernst's "Surrealisme et la
peinture" to the Art Institute of Chicago; with Lucy Lippard concerning money for her
Max Ernst catalogue raisonné project; outline for the
Modern Legal Handbook for
Artists and Collectors
.
box 3, folder 3
Thank-you letters for foundation monographs,
1962, 1965
Physical Description: 4 items
box 3, folder 4
Press releases,
1955, 1958, 1960-1962
Physical Description: ca. 12 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes awardee announcements and cover letters.
box 3, folder 5
Mailing lists,
n.d., 1960
Physical Description: ca. 100 pp.
Scope and Content Note
Addresses, mostly of libraries and educational institutions, for sending foundation
books; letter from Diter Rot [i.e., Dieter Roth], 1960.
box 3, folder 6
International Institute of Contemporary Art,
1957, n.d.
Physical Description: 12 items
Scope and Content Note
Blank stationery; brochures; proceedings of the city council of Chicago ( Dec 23, 1957) with resolution
of IICA's organization [WC was vice-president]; carbon copy of IICA charter;
membership card.
Series II.
Richard Hamilton correspondence,
1960-1966
Physical Description:
1 Linear
Feet
2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence comprises 189 items, arranged in chronological order, between William
and Noma Copley and the British Pop artist Richard Hamilton, in his capacity as editor
of the Copley Foundation Monograph series. Some letters are written to and from
Hamilton's wife Terry. One letter (1965) is from Hamilton's companion Rita. Hamilton
includes copies of letters to and from other correspondents in his letters to the
Copleys. The files include a small number of original letters from others: Hans Bellmer,
Barnet Hodes, Kenneth Rowntree, Alfred Barr, Jr., Marcia Tucker, Yale University
Library, and Diter Rot [i.e., Dieter Roth]. Most of Hamilton's letters are addressed to
Bill and Noma, most of the replies (pink carbon copies) are from Noma. The few letters
between Bill Copley and Hamilton attest to their difficult relationship. The Copleys
write from Europe, New York, and Los Angeles. The long, detailed letters concern
production for the Bellmer, Charchoune, Hérold, Duchamp, Rot [i.e Roth] books,
negotiations with the artists, distribution processes and personal matters. After 1962
there are references to art world news and gossip, Copley's and Hamilton's gallery and
museum exhibitions, collecting interests, censorship, Hamilton's own art work ($he,
Pin-up), and his interest in artists' books. Most of the letters are typed (the Copleys'
letters in carbon copy), but several letters are handwritten.
box 3
Correspondence,
1960-1966
box 3, folder 7
1960-1962
Physical Description: 90 items
box 3, folder 7
1960
Physical Description: 8 items
Scope and Content Note
Fifteen letters between Pfriem and Hamilton, Oct 1960-Nov 1961, summarized on 9
typed pages.
Hamilton letter to Pfriem.
Six letters between Hamilton and Bill and Noma Copley, and between Terry Hamilton
and the Copleys.
box 3, folder 7
1961
Physical Description: 49 items
Scope and Content Note
Forty-two letters between Hamilton and Bill and Noma Copley, including some
between Terry and the Copleys.
One letter, with separate accounting of book production costs, from Hamilton to
Barnet Hodes.
One letter from Hamilton to Jacques Hérold.
Two letters from Hamilton to Hans Bellmer; 1 letter from Bill Copley to Bellmer;
1 letter from Bellmer.
box 3, folder 7
1962
Physical Description: 33 items
Scope and Content Note
Twenty-six letters between Hamilton and Bill and Noma Copley, including some
between Terry and the Copleys. One of Terry's letters is handwritten. Hamilton's
anguished letter of Nov. 7 tells them of Terry's death.
One letter from Hamilton to Serge Charchoune (with a list of Charchoune's book
illustrations); 1 to Barnet Hodes.
Two letters from Barnet Hodes to Hamilton, letter from Tony Bell to Bradford, and
a letter from Bradford to Hamilton, all regarding production errors or
distribution.
box 3, folder 8
1963-1966
Physical Description: 66 items
box 3, folder 8
1963
Physical Description: 10 items
Scope and Content Note
Eight letters between Hamilton and Bill and Noma Copley.
Two letters between Bill Copley and Prof. Kenneth Rowntree regarding Senior
Lectureship for Hamilton at University of Durham.
box 3, folder 8
1964
Physical Description: 22 items
Scope and Content Note
Twenty-one letters between Hamilton and Bill and Noma Copley; 1 Hamilton letter
to Barnet Hodes.
box 3, folder 8
1965
Physical Description: 24 items
Scope and Content Note
Eleven letters between Hamilton and Bill and Noma Copley (most of them between
Hamilton and Noma); 1 letter from Rita to Noma.
One letter from Hamilton to Michael Greenwood, Hanover Gallery, London; 1 to G.R.
Martin of Lund Humphries; 1 to Barnet Hodes.
One letter from Alfred Barr, Jr. to Noma regarding Diter Rot [i.e. Dieter
Roth].
Five letters between Marcia Tucker, Noma Copley and Yale University Library about
acquiring the Foundation's monographs; 2 letters from Marcia Tucker to
Hamilton.
William and Noma Copley Foundation letterhead sample, with annotations about
design.
box 3, folder 8
1966
Physical Description: 10 items
Scope and Content Note
Five letters between Hamilton and Bill and Noma Copley; 1 handmade postcard from
Hamilton and Rita to the Copleys.
Two letters from Diter Rot [i.e. Dieter Roth] and 1 typed page of text from his
book, over which there are censorship concerns ("Ich kache...").
compose (to john cage) - an artist postcard by Hamilton.
Series III.
Personal correspondence,
1957-1980
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear
Feet
1 box
Scope and Content Note
This series contains letters, drawings and cards from artists and musicians, sent to
Noma Copley. The letters are from 1957-1980,
most dating after the end of the Foundation's activities in 1966, and are arranged alphabetically. One file contains letters,
drawings, and ephemera from William and Noma. The Copleys separated in 1968 but Noma remained friendly with many of the
artists. The letters are generally personal, but also include descriptions of working
interests from artists Vija Celmins, Chryssa, Walter De Maria, Richard Hamilton, Man
Ray, Roberto Matta Echaurren, Irving Petlin, Cliff Westermann, and others. This series
also holds some handmade cards and drawings by artists prior to 1966.
box 4, folder 1
Arp, Jean,
1964, 1967
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
New Year's cards.
box 4, folder 1
Assadour, ca.
1972
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Etched card.
box 4, folder 1
Unidentified A,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing of napkin with silverware, "Strategic Food Command" and other
lettering.
box 4, folder 2
Beery, Gene,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Transparent Christmas card.
box 4, folder 2
Brant, Henry,
1967
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
printed sheet music with New Year's greeting.
box 4, folder 2
Buonagurio, Toby,
ca. 1970
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Handmade thank-you note.
box 4, folder 2
Unidentified B,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Ink drawing, signed Aaron.
box 4, folder 3
Cage, John,
1968
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Note-o-gram describing recent electronic work.
box 4, folder 3
Cartier-Bresson, Henri,
1968, 1973, 1975
Physical Description: 3 items
Scope and Content Note
Letter, note, and invitation.
box 4, folder 3
Celmins, Vija,
1970-1975, 1980, 1985, n.d.
Physical Description: ca. 25 items
Scope and Content Note
Personal letters about her art production; her studio; drawings sales; her health;
the Los Angeles art scene; a women's artist group in Los Angeles; her exhibition in
London.
box 4, folder 3
Chase-Riboud, Barbara,
1967, 1970, n.d.
Physical Description: 7 items
Scope and Content Note
One letter mentions Angela Davis and Malcolm X; statement of purpose with drawing
for Guggenheim; 2 New Year's cards; 1 clipping.
box 4, folder 4
Christo,
1969
Physical Description: 1 item
box 4, folder 4
Chryssa,
1970, 1973, 1975-1976
Physical Description: 8 items
Scope and Content Note
One angry letter expressing recent frustrations; photocopy of a very long letter;
small colored drawing.
box 4, folder 4
Crippa, Roberto,
1957-1958
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Hand-colored card.
box 4, folder 4
Unidentified C,
n.d.
Physical Description: 5 items
Scope and Content Note
Five intricately folded squares with colored drawings.
box 4, folder 5
Copley, William and Noma,
1956-1983, n.d.
Physical Description: ca. 45 items
Scope and Content Note
Copies of the Christmas postcards sent; WC exhibition announcements; notes from WC
to NC; 2 WC drawings; letter (fragment?) written by NC to unidentified correspondent
about the breakup of the Copley marriage.
box 4, folder 6
De Maria, Walter,
1967-1970
Physical Description: 7 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters discuss politics; his feelings about California ( Apr 6 1968); his film "Hard
Core" ( Aug 22
1969).
box 4, folder 6
Unidentified D,
1959
Physical Description: 4 items
Scope and Content Note
Three humorous drawings of soldiers; handmade Christmas card signed Max and
Jane.
box 4, folder 7
Edmondson, Leonard,
1953
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Small etching.
box 4, folder 7
Elde, Ansgar,
1965
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Invitation with colored drawings.
box 4, folder 7
Ernst, Max,
1963
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Postcard; Christmas card from Margaret Krebs with Ernst picture on front.
box 4, folder 7
Estrada, Arturo,
1958
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Hand-colored New Year's card.
box 4, folder 7
Unidentified E,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing of waterfowl.
box 4, folder 8
Ford, Charles Henri,
1976
Physical Description: 1 item
box 4, folder 8
Fox,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Christmas card.
box 4, folder 8
Frank, Mary,
1979
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Exhibition announcement.
box 4, folder 8
Frumkin, Allan and Jean, ,
n.d. 1977
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Handmade Christmas card; gallery newsletter.
box 4, folder 9
Granell, E.F.,
1964
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Handmade Christmas card.
box 4, folder 9
Unidentified G,
n.d.
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
1 drawing of scarecrow (signed n.g.) and 1 drawing of cat on a bicycle, with French
text
box 4, folder 10
Hamilton, Richard,
1968-1971
Physical Description: 10 items
Scope and Content Note
Personal letters, with some mention of his work.
box 4, folder 10
Hérold, Jacques, ,
1963 1965
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Birth announcement with print (fragment); New Year's postcard.
box 4, folder 10
Hiquily, Philippe,
1967
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Handmade New Year's card.
box 4, folder 11
Jacquet, Alain,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Christmas card.
box 4, folder 12
King, Bill, , ,
1973 1975 1977
Physical Description: 8 items
Scope and Content Note
2 Christmas cards ( 1973, 1977); silver card with punched-out figures (
1975); drawing "The test" with cut-out
figures ( 1973); "Dad! (a bronze)" with
painted envelope and bronze cut-outs; letter with metal can opener ring attached (
1977).
box 4, folder 13
Lam, Wifredo,
1960
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Christmas postcard with drawing.
box 4, folder 13
Lees, Benjamin, ,
1974 n.d.
Physical Description: 3 items
Scope and Content Note
Two Christmas cards; publicity brochure.
box 4, folder 13
Lepri, Stanislas, ,
1963 n.d.
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Christmas card; New Year's card with drawings.
box 4, folder 14
Magritte, René (?),
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Thank-you note with ink drawings.
box 4, folder 14
Man Ray and Juliet, ,
1950-1980 n.d.
Physical Description: 16 items
Scope and Content Note
Personal letters describe how busy he is and his health; Christmas cards;
announcements; painted get well card; photographs.
box 4, folder 14
Matta Echaurren, Roberto,
n.d.
Physical Description: 3 items
Scope and Content Note
Sheet with drawings of birthday wishes to WC; another sheet of drawings; Christmas
card with drawings.
box 4, folder 15
Noailles, Marie-Laure de [i.e. Laure, Marie],
1962
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Christmas card.
box 4, folder 15
Unidentified N,
n.d.
Physical Description: 5 items
Scope and Content Note
Five sheets with story text and colored drawings, signed Jerry.
box 4, folder 16
Oldenburg, Claes, ,
1970 n.d.
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Signed announcement; New Year's card.
box 4, folder 16
Penrose, Roland, ,
1963 n.d.
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Postcard; thank-you note.
box 4, folder 16
Petlin, Irving, , , ,
1973 1977 1980-1981 1983
Physical Description: 9 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters; announcements.
box 4, folder 16
Unidentified P,
1962
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Hand-drawn thank-you note from Paris.
box 4, folder 17
Rozsda, Endre,
1965
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Handmade New Year's card.
box 4, folder 17
Ruppersberg, Allen,
1974
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Announcement from the Claire Copley Gallery.
box 4, folder 18
Sabol, Audrey, ,
1976-1980 n.d.
Physical Description: 14 items
Scope and Content Note
Postcards; letters.
box 4, folder 18
Stuart, David,
1982
Physical Description: 4 items
Scope and Content Note
Postcards; an invitation.
box 4, folder 19
Tajiri, Shinkichi, ,
1971-1972 1975
Physical Description: 4 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters; New Year's cards.
box 4, folder 19
Tanguy, Kay Sage,
n.d.
Physical Description: 2 items
Scope and Content Note
Christmas cards.
box 4, folder 20
Urvater, Gigi and Bertie,
1967
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
New Year's card with Hérold print.
box 4, folder 20
Waldberg, Patrick,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Scope and Content Note
Ink and pencil drawing.
box 4, folder 20
Westermann, Cliff [H.C.],
1964-1979
Physical Description: 17 items
Scope and Content Note
Personal letters with many drawings, some in color.
box 4, folder 20
Wheeler, Doug,
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item
Series IV.
Collection documents,
1954-1967
Physical Description:
1 Linear
Feet
2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Documents (bulk 1964-1966) comprise material
relating to the exhibition and care of the Copley art collection. Contains
correspondence with museum and gallery directors and staff, loan forms, certificates of
insurance, appraisals and insurance evaluations, condition and treatment reports,
shipping documents and photograph requests. Other documents include financial and
insurance papers.
box 5, folder 1-9
Loans and evaluations, ,
1954 1957-1967
Physical Description: ca. 350 pp.
Scope and Content Note
Extensive material relating to exhibition loans. Some of the exhibitions mentioned
include Daniel Cordier's Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme ( 1959-1960); "Max Ernst" at MOMA ( 1961); "Picabia" at Musée Cantini, Marseille (
1962); "Jean Arp" at Musée d'Art Moderne
á Paris ( 1962); "New Realists" at Hague
Museum ( 1964, Hamilton); "Marcel Duchamp"
at the Pasadena Art Museum ( 1963); "Rene
Magritte" at MOMA ( 1965); "Max Ernst:
Recent Paintings and Sculpture" at the Jewish Museum ( 1966); "Marcel Duchamp" at the Arts Council of Great Britain ( 1966); "Man Ray" exhibition at LACMA.
box 5, folder 10
Loans - University of California, Santa Barbara,
1965-1966
Physical Description: ca. 40 items
Scope and Content Note
Material regarding loan of 12 works for "Surrealism -- A State of Mind" includes
correspondence with Ala Story, certificates of insurance, loan forms and receipts,
sheet of paper with damage notes, and 6 installation photographs.
box 5, folder 11
Loans - Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
1965-1966
Physical Description: ca. 27 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding works loaned to "Harbingers of Surrealism," including correspondence with
Thomas Leavitt and William Hesthal about checklist, shipping and damage to Ernst's
work "Figure zoomorphique" with condition report, certificates of insurance, and loan
forms.
box 6, folder 1
Gifts and permanent loans, , ,
1951 1959-1961 1964-1966
Physical Description: ca. 65 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with directors of various museums and institutions, including Henry
Geldzahler, Walter Hopps, James Soby, Roland Penrose; many letters with Sam Hunter;
appraisals for Tamayo and Matta Echaurren gifts.
box 6, folder 2
Art purchases,
1965-1966
Physical Description: ca. 15 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of negative numbers for some works in the collection, 6 photographs of
works by Joseph Cornell, Roy Lichtenstein, and Agustin Cárdenas, and receipts.
box 6, folder 3
Sales, ,
1961 1963-1965
Physical Description: ca. 8 items
Scope and Content Note
Receipts and some correspondence.
box 6, folder 4
Consignment lists,
1963
Physical Description: 4 items
box 6, folder 5-6
Taxes and investments,
1961-1966
Physical Description: ca. 45 items
Scope and Content Note
WC correspondence with Hodes regarding taxes and legality of deductions (showing a
concern for how the IRS viewed WC's status as an artist); investments; charitable
donations; sale of Copleys' chateau at Longpont, France; the report "Analysis of the
Portfolio of William Copley" ( 1961).
box 6, folder 7
Restoration,
1964-1967
Physical Description: ca. 35 items
Scope and Content Note
Some correspondence; bills; estimates; condition and treatment reports.
box 6, folder 8
Insurance,
1963-1967
Physical Description: ca. 35 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with the Copleys' insurance agent about claims and policy updates
(some not related to the collection); bills; certificates of insurance; lists of
artwork insurance revisions ( 1965).
box 6, folder 9
Shipping,
1963-1964
Physical Description: ca. 40 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with shippers mostly about Copleys' personal effects being held up in
French customs and their arrival in the U.S.; bills; shipment arrival notices.
box 6, folder 10
Publicity, , bulk
1960-1966 1965-1966
Physical Description: ca. 60 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about photograph permission requests, including some with Phil Leider
of
Artforum concerning the Surrealist issue with the story of Barnet
Hodes's collection ( Mar 4,
1966); checklist of works hung in the Copleys' New York apartment when it was
in a MOMA sponsored tour ( 1965);
clippings.
box 6, folder 11
Miscellaneous articles,
n.d.
Physical Description: 4 items
Series V.
Collection photographs,
n.d.
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear
Feet
4 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Over 350 b/w photographs, arranged roughly alphabetically by artist, of art works in
the Copley collection. Titles, dimensions and medium are listed on each photograph or on
attached descriptive labels. In 2 instances, there is a label without a photograph. The
shots of Arp's "Concrétion humaine sur coupe A," and "Levres," and Dali's "Un Oeuf sur
le Plat sans le Plat" are signed by the artists with certification statements.
box 7
Aeppli, Eva
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Armand
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 7
Arman
Physical Description: 4 photographs
box 7
Altoon, John
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 7
Arp, Jean
Physical Description: 9 photographs
box 7
Asher, Michael
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Baj, Enrico
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 7
Balthus
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Baruchello, Gianfranco
Physical Description: 4 photographs
box 7
Blow, Sandra
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 7
Bellmer, Hans
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 7
Brauner, Victor
Physical Description: 5 photographs
box 7
Beery, Gene
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Bell, Larry
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 7
Blake, Peter
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Breton, André
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Cadavre Exquis: Victor Brauner and Yves Tanguy
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Cadavre Exquis: Victor Brauner, Jacques Hérold, Yves Tanguy
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Cárdenas, Agustin
Physical Description: 2 photographs + 1 descriptive
label
Scope and Content Note
[1 photograph missing]
box 7
Calder, Alexander
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Carone, Nicholas
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Carrington, Leonora
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 7
César [i.e. Baldaccini, César?]
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Celmins, Vija
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Chadwick, Lynn
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Chagall, Marc
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Charchoune, Serge
Physical Description: 5 photographs
box 7
Christo
Physical Description: 4 photographs
box 7
Clough, Peter
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 7
Cohen, George
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Conner, Bruce
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 7
Consagra, Pietro
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 7
Crippa, Roberto
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 7
Dali, Salvador
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 7
De Chirico, Giorgio
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 8
Delvaux, Paul
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Dix, Otto
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 8
Domínguez, Oscar
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 8
De Maria, Walter
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Saint-Phalle, Niki de
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Duchamp, Marcel
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Effront, Nadine
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 8
Eisenhower, Leslie
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Ensor, James
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 8
Ernst, Max
Physical Description: 37 photographs
box 8
Estrada, Arturo
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Fini, Leonor
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 8
Francis, Sam
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Francken, Ruth
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Fahlström, K.K.
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Giacometti, Alberto
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 8
Greberek
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Granell, E.F. [i.e. Granell, Eugenio Fernández?]
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 8
Gorky, Arshile
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 9
Photographs of art works: H-O
box 9
Hayter, William
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Henry, Maurice
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 9
Hérold, Jacques
Physical Description: 7 photographs
box 9
Hiquily, Philippe
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Herms, George
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 9
Jacquet, Alain
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Julie, Henri
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Kelly, Leon
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 9
Kienholz, Edward
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Kiki
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Klee, Paul
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Krizek
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Kukoc, Milda [i.e. Kukoc, Mislav?]
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Klein, Yves
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Kalinowski, Horst Egon
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Labisse, Felix
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 9
Lam, Wifredo
Physical Description: 5 photographs
box 9
Lee, Caroline
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Lepri, Stanislas
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Lemeslie
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Lindner, Richard
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 9
Lion, Claude
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Loy, Mina
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Lichtenstein, Roy
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 9
Man Ray
Physical Description: 14 photographs
box 9
Mason, Raymond
Physical Description: 2 photographs + 1 descriptive
label
Scope and Content Note
[1 photograph missing]
box 9
Masson, André
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 9
Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián
Physical Description: 5 photographs
box 9
Mesens, E.L.T. (Edouard Léon Théodore)
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Metcalf, James
Physical Description: 8 photographs
box 9
Michonze, Grégoire
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Miró, Joan
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Moses, Ed
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 9
Noailles, Marie-Laure de [i.e. Laure, Marie]
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 9
Oldenburg, Claes
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 9
Oppenheim, Meret
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Packard, David
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 10
Paolozzi, Eduardo
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Pegeen
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Penrose, Roland, Sir
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 10
Petrov, Peter
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Petlin, Irving
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 10
Penalba, [Alicia]
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Peverelli, [Cesare]
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Pfriem, Bernard
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 10
Phillips, Helen
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Picabia, Francis
Physical Description: 6 photographs
box 10
Polak, Marcel
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Piqueras, Jorge
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Raysse, Martial
Physical Description: 5 photographs
box 10
Reynal, Jeanne
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Rivers, Larry
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Richier, Germaine
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Rodin, Auguste
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Ruscha, Edward
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Saby, Bernard
Physical Description: 4 photographs
box 10
Sage, Kay
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Schwitters, Kurt
Physical Description: 7 photographs
box 10
Sills, Thomas
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Steinberg, Saul
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 10
Stevenson, Harold
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 10
Saul, Peter
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Seitz, William Chapin
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Tajiri, Shinkichi
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 10
Takis
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Tanguy, Yves
Physical Description: 6 photographs
box 10
Tanning, Dorothea
Physical Description: 8 photographs
box 10
Taeuber-Arp, Sophie
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Tinguely, Jean
Physical Description: 4 photographs
box 10
Todd, Mike
Physical Description: 2 photographs
box 10
Toyen
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Doesburg, Theo van
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Villon, Jacques
Physical Description: 3 photographs
box 10
Waldberg, Isabelle
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Warhol, Andy
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Westermann, H.C. (Horace Clifford)
Physical Description: 4 photographs
box 10
Wols
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Wolfers, [Marcel?]
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Zev
Physical Description: 1 photograph
box 10
Zürn, Unica
Physical Description: 1 photograph
