Finding aid for the Gloria de Herrera papers, 1936-1996 (bulk 1947-1985)
Paul Arenson.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Gloria de Herrera papers
Date (inclusive): 1936-1996 (bulk 1947-1985)
Number: 980024
Creator/Collector:
De Herrera, Gloria
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: American art preparator, restorer, and
collector active in Los Angeles and Paris. De Herrera was a close friend of Man Ray, William
Nelson Copley, and other notable artists. The papers include correspondence, documents,
artworks, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting De Herrera's milieu and
activities.
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Biographical/Historical Note
Gloria Claire de Herrera was born in Los Angeles on April 26, 1929, of Mexican and German
descent. In 1947, while still in high school, she befriended Barbara C. Byrnes, owner of the
American Contemporary Gallery on Hollywood Boulevard, and her husband James B. Byrnes. In
1949 James Byrnes, at that time a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, offered
De Herrera a position as project secretary for the California Centennial Exhibition; she
also acted as slide-pusher for Byrnes's course on twentieth-century art at USC, and learned
art conservation at the LACMA conservation laboratory. During these years De Herrera also
became friendly with Man Ray and his wife Juliet (née Browner), as well as artist and
collector William Nelson Copley. Through Copley and Man Ray she received entrée to a circle
of artists connected to the Surrealist movement, including Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning,
Roberto Matta-Echauren, Yves Tanguy, and Marcel Duchamp.
In March of 1951, in response to the rise of McCarthyism in the United States, Man Ray, his
wife, and Copley departed for Paris, bringing De Herrera with them. This move proved a
pivotal event in her life, as she was never to return to the United States. In France, De
Herrera and Copley found themselves at the heart of the art world, socializing with the Man
Rays, Nelly van Doesburg, writers Valentine and Roland Penrose, poet Paul Eluard, and
artists Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti and Tristan
Tzara, among many others. De Herrera also became involved in buying and selling art, and
traveled with Copley throughout France, visiting the country homes of Max Ernst, André
Breton, Henri-Pierre Roché, Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot.
By 1953 or 1954 the relationship with Copley had ended, and De Herrera had found employment
at Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, a notable Parisian art-supplies store then
owned by Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, whose brother René she had known in Los Angeles. Here she
became an art conservator. After implementing a series of successful repairs on damaged
paintings by Mondrian and Chagall, De Herrera was recommended for the task of applying
permanent glue to Henri Matisse's cut-out collages (also known as découpages or gouaches
découpées). Between 1953 and ca. 1959, De Herrera worked on at least sixteen collages, and
likely many more; the work was coordinated through Matisse's Russian-born assistant and
model Lydia Delectorskaya, who became De Herrera's friend as well. De Herrera also undertook
a commission for Marcel Duchamp in 1957. She maintained friendships in this period with Max
Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand
Léger, Wolfgang Paalen and Bernard Pfriem.
In the late 1950s De Herrera became increasingly interested in leftist politics. She
travelled to the Soviet Union in 1957, and as France became engaged with the struggle for
Algerian independence, she espoused the Algerian cause. She also befriended the
world-travelling photographer Dominique Darbois, and did layout for Darbois's
Enfants
du monde
children's book series. In 1960 De Herrera was arrested and jailed for
two months by French police conducting a sweep of Europeans who had provided assistance to
the FLN (Front de libération nationale: the Algerian revolutionary army). Media attention
focused on the involvement of De Herrera, an American citizen, in the trials of the
"porteurs de valises" (suitcase-carriers, or French supporters of the Algerian independence
movement). She was given a separate, secret military trial, and was ultimately expelled from
France. De Herrera took up residence in Brussels, Belgium, as did many of her exiled
cohorts. Successive amnesties declared in March 1962 and July 1968 restored her residency in
France, and brought about the return of impounded possessions, including her automobile.
Returning to France, De Herrera found herself shunned by most of her past art-world
friends. Her intimates in this period included Darbois and the photographer/master forger
Adolfo Kaminsky, both of whom had been active in the French Resistance during WWII. In 1973
she left Paris for the Dordogne region, where she purchased a home near Lascaux, whose
prehistoric paintings she reportedly helped document. There she became friendly with
American artist Patricia Barton, also living in the Dordogne.
By 1983 De Herrera had developed terminal throat cancer. At this time James and Barbara
Byrnes, who had been hoping to interview her about her Matisse collage work, finally located
her through Darbois. They became her helpmates through her final two years of life,
assisting her in raising money for medical treatment, in selling her house and transporting
her belongings to the United States, and in re-establishing contact with her family, from
whom she had been long estranged. Gloria de Herrera died on June 24, 1985, in Brive
(Corrèze).
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, excepting audiovisual materials being
reformatted.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Gloria de Herrera papers, The Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
980024.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa980024
Acquisition Information
The papers were donated by James and Barbara Byrnes in 1998 in memory of their friend
Gloria de Herrera, with further donations made in 2002.
Custodial History
De Herrera gave her papers to Barbara C. and James B. Byrnes who maintained the archive and
added to it until giving it to the Getty Research Library.
Processing History
J.P. Munro rehoused the items and wrote a preliminary inventory in 2000. Paul Arenson
created the series arrangement, separated the books and journals, and wrote and encoded the
finding aid in 2002.
Separated Books and Journals
The archive included 41 books and 30 magazine issues which have now been separated to the
library. A list of these materials follows.
Adéma, Marcel, ed.
Guillaume Apollinaire; souvenirs et témoignages inédits
de Louis de Gonzague Frick [et al.] Supplément poétique: René Guy Cadou [et
al.]
[Albi]: Éditions de la Tête noire, [1946]
Algérie
1959.
Supplement to
La defense No. 416 de juin
1959.
Artaud, Antonin.
Les Tarahumaras.
Décines: M.
Barbezat, [1963]
Arts Council of Great Britain.
The almost complete
works of Marcel Duchamp: at the Tate Gallery, 18 June-31 July 1966.
London:
Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966.
With dedication to De Herrera by Marcel
Duchamp.
Avant-garde.
[New York]: Jan.
1968-1971.
Includes no. 10 (Jan. 1970) and no. 12 (May 1970)
Bergot,
Erwan.
La guerre des appelés en Algérie, 1956-1962.
Paris: Presses de
la cité, c1980.
Bousquet, Joë.
Max Ernst / textes de Joe Bousquet
et Michel Tapié.
[Paris]: R. Drouin, 1950.
Breton, André,
and Paul Eluard.
L'Immaculée conception.
Paris: Éditions surréalistes,
1930.
With dedication to Eva Sulzer by André Breton.
Butor, Michel.
Jacques Hérold.
Paris: Galerie La cour d'Ingres,
1959.
Cahiers d'art.
Paris: Éditions "Cahiers
d'art".
4e année; mars-avril 1929. No. 2-3 (Fascicule consacré a l'art des
Océaniens).
Carrington, Leonora.
La dame ovale: avec sept [sic]
collages par Max Ernst.
Paris: GLM, 1939.
Copley Galleries.
Max Ernst, 30 years of his work: a survey: the Copley Galleries, January 10 -
February 20, 1949.
Beverly Hills: [The Galleries], c1949.
Dedicated to
De Herrera by Max Ernst.
Copley, William Nelson.
CPLY.
[Paris, A. Iolas, 1970]
Copley, William Nelson.
William N. Copley: Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
26 novembre 1980-11 janvier 1981 [exposition organisée par la Kunsthalle Berne;
rédaction du catalogue, Marianne Schmidt, Johannes Gachnang]
Paris: Centre
Georges Pompidou, [1980]
Dada.
Amsterdam: Stedelijk
Museum, [1958]
Exhibition at Stedeljik Museum Amsterdam, Dec. 23, 1958-Feb. 2,
1959.
Eluard, Paul.
A l'intérieur de la vue: 8 poèmes visibles
[par] Mx Ernst [et] Pl Eluard.
[Paris: P. Seghers, 1948]
Numbered copy
359 of 610.
Eluard, Paul.
Les malheurs des immortels, révélés par
Paul Éluard et Max Ernst.
Paris, Éditions de la Revue Fontaine,
[1945]
L'Éphémère.
Paris: Fondation Maeght, 1967-1972.
No. 1 (1967). With articles by and about Giacometti.
Max Ernst
[Ausstellung] Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, 28. Dezember 1962 bis 3. März 1963:
Kunsthaus Zürich, 23. März bis 28. April 1963.
Köln: [s.n.,
1963?]
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst.
Paris: Orangerie des
Tuileries, 1971.
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst: 4 juillet-30 août 1953,
Knokke, Le Zoute, Albert Plage, Casion Communal.
Bruxelles: Éditions de la
connaissance, c1953.
"L'exposition retrospective des oeuvres de Max Ernst a été
organisée par E.L.T. Mesens et P.G. Van Hecke avec la collaboration de L'Institute of
Contemporary Arts de Londres" - T.p. verso.
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst,
histoire naturelle: dessins inédits.
Paris: Berggruen & Cie,
[195-]
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst: Oeuvres de 1919 à
1936.
Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, [c1937]
Ernst, Max.
Die Nacktheit der Frau ist weiser als die Lehre des
Philosophen.
Köln: Galerie Der Spiegel; Paris: Éditions Gallimard,
1970.
Ernst, Max.
Le Néant et son double.
Paris, New
York: A. Iolas, [1968]
L'Esprit nouveau.
Paris:
Éditions de l'Esprit nouveau, [1920]-[1925]
Nos. 25 and 26 (1924 or 1925). No. 26 in
acidic tissue wrapper: "Numéro spécial consacré à Guillaume
Apollinaire."
Europe: Revue mensuelle.
46e année,
no. 475-476, Nov-Dec. 1968. Cover title: Surréalisme.
Exposition de
trois peintres américains: deux tourangeaux - un parisien: Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dorothea
Tanning: Musée des beaux-arts de Tours, 10 novembre 1956-16 décembre 1956 / sous les
auspices de la ville de Tours à l'occasion du Festival international du court métrage.
[Tours: Le Musée, 1956]
Giacometti, Alberto.
Alberto
Giacometti.
Bern: Klipstein & Kornfeld, [1959]
Catalog of an
exhibition held from July 18 to August 22, 1959.
Giacometti, Alberto.
Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen = Essais, photos, dessins / Alberto Giacometti;
hrsg. von Ernst Scheidegger; die deutsche Übertragung besorgte Ursula von Wiese.
Zürich: Im Verlag der Arche, 1958.
Gide, André.
Montaigne, an essay in two parts.
London: The Blackmore press; New
York: H. Liveright, 1929.
Autographed by André Gide. English first edition (1929),
numbered 264 of 300 British and 500 American copies.
Hamon, Hervé, and
Patrick Rotman.
Les porteurs de valises: la résistance française à la guerre
d'Algérie.
Paris: A. Michel, 1979.
Henri Matisse: les
grandes gouaches découpées / Musée des arts décoratifs, Palais du Louvre,
mars-avril-mai, 1961.
[Paris: Le Musée,
1961].
Jacques Hérold.
Wuppertal: Galerie Parnass,
[1960]
Catalog of an exhibition held May 27 - June 26,
1960.
Jazz magazine.
[Paris: Jazz Magazine]
No.
330, juin 1984.
Jeanson, Francis.
Notre guerre.
Paris:
Éditions de Minuit, [c1960]
Jeanson, Francis.
Le procès du réseau
Jeanson / présenté par Marcel Péju.
Paris: Maspero,
1961.
London Bulletin, March 15, 1939.
London: London
Gallery Ltd.
Larrea, Juan.
El surrealismo entre viejo y nuevo
mundo.
México: Ediciones Cuadernos americanos, 1944.
Léger,
Fernand.
Fernand Léger, Ausstellung 22. Mai bis 23. Juni 1957, Kunsthalle Basel.
[Basel: Die Kunsthalle, 1957]
Les lettres nouvelles.
Paris : Julliard. (Gallimard?)
7e année, no. 6, 8 avril 1959. Contains
interview with Alberto Giacometti.
Magritte, René.
Magritte,
1898-1967: 11 janvier-16 mars, 1979.
Paris: Galerie Isy Brachot,
[1979]
Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián.
Matta: terres nouvelles:
peintures exposées du 8 au 30 juin 1956 à la Galerie du Dragon.
[Paris: La
Galerie, 1956]
Minotaure.
Paris: A. Skira,
1933-1939.
Three issues, 1933-34: No. 1 (Mission Dakar-Djibouti 1931-1933); No. 3-4,
with article by Man Ray (L'age de la lumière); No. 5, with articles by Man Ray
(Danses-Horizons), Max Ernst (Les mystères de la forêt), Paul Eluard and André
Breton.
L'OEil.
[Paris, s.n.]
No. 16, avril 1956.
With article: Souvenirs rhénans, by Max Ernst.
Opus international.
Paris: Éditions Georges Fall.
No. 19-20 (Oct. 1970). Cover title:
Surréalisme international. With short articles on Matta, Man Ray and Jacques Hérold, and
mention of Victor Brauner.
Paalen, W., ed.
Dyn.
[Coyoacan, D.F., Mexico: Printed at Talleres Gráficos de la
Nación, 1943]
Nos. 1, 3, 4-5 ("Amerindian number"), and 6, dated
1942-1944.
Picasso, Pablo.
Picasso, oeuvres des musées de Léningrad
et de Moscou, 1900-1914 / [introd. par Maurice Raynal].
Paris: Maison de la
pensée française, 1954.
Ray, Man.
Les mains libres: dessins de Man
Ray; illustrés par les poèmes de Paul Éluard.
[Paris]: Gallimard, 1947.
With title page dedication to De Herrera by Man Ray.
San Francisco
Museum of Art.
Dynaton, 1951 [by] Jacqueline Johnson, Lee Mullican, Gordon
Onslow-Ford [and] Wolfgang Paalen.
[San Francisco: s.n.,
1951?]
The Star screwer.
[Montignac, France]:
Nautical Press & Star Screwer, 1972-
Nos. 3-4, 5, 6 plus
poster.
Style en France.
Paris: Éditions
J.B.V.
Vol. II no. 5, Jan./Feb./Mar. 1947 [appeared 1947 Apr.
15].
Le surréalisme au service de la révolution. No.
1
Paris: Librairie José Corti, [n.d.-1930?]
Le Surréalisme en
1947: exposition internationale du surréalisme, présentée par André Breton et Marcel
Duchamp.
Paris: Pierre à Feu, Maeght Editeur, c1947.
Tzara,
Tristan.
Morceaux choisis / Tristan Tzara; préface de Jean Cassou.
[Paris]: Bordas, c1947.
Dedicated to De Herrera and W. Copley by Tristan
Tzara.
Verve: Revue artistique et littéraire.
Paris:
Éditions Verve, 1937-
Vol IX, no. 35-36, 1958. Cover title: Dernières OEuvres de
Matisse, 1950-1954.
View.
New York: View, Inc.,
1940-1947.
Includes Vol VI no. 1, Feb. 1946 and Vol VI nos. 2-3, Mar.-Apr.
1946.
XXe siècle.
Paris: Chroniques du jour,
1938-1984.
1re année (1938), nos. 1-4. Includes article: La photographie qui console,
by Man Ray.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Gloria de Herrera papers consist of ca. 750 items documenting the life of Gloria de
Herrera, an American art preparator, restorer and collector active in the art world in Los
Angeles and France in the middle of the 20th century. A close friend and associate of Man
Ray, William N. Copley, Max Ernst and other notable Surrealist and Dada artists, De Herrera
is credited with having glued and made permanent the cut-out collages of Henri Matisse.
Later, De Herrera became involved in the struggle for Algerian independence. The papers bear
witness to these activities; they include ca. 180 letters; ca. 170 assorted documents
(including her writings and those of William Copley, incidental publications revealing her
political interests, notes concerning her art preparation work, legal and medical records,
and papers associated with her untimely death from cancer); 22 artworks, 68 artwork
surrogates and 7 exhibition announcements from artist friends, along with 11 items saved
from her Matisse work; and some 244 photographs documenting her social circles, travels,
interests and activities. Also included are 7 oversize items, 7 audio cassettes of an
interview with De Herrera, and 1 VHS cassette of an interview of her friend James B. Byrnes,
discussing De Herrera and her milieu.
Highlights of the papers include a scrapbook of photographs of De Herrera's activities, ca.
1950-1953, documenting her transatlantic voyage and visits to the homes of Max Ernst and
Pablo Picasso among other events; the Échantillons Matisse, a set of 72 fragments of
gouached paper left over from her Matisse work, along with 10 full-sized gouached paper
sheets; and two oil paintings by William N. Copley (one very small, one full-sized).
Additionally, a set of photographs taken by De Herrera in 1947 documents a Just Jazz concert
in Pasadena, featuring Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz
artists. An additional 71 books and journals owned by De Herrera have been separated to the
library; they are enumerated in a separation list at the end of this finding aid.
Arrangement note
The papers are organized in six series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1950-1988;
Series II. Documents, 1936-1996;
Series III. Artworks, 1945-ca.
1975;
Series IV.
Photographs, 1947-1985;
Series V. Oversize materials, 1937-1979;
Series VI. Audiovisual materials, 1983-1996
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Man Ray, Juliet
Hodes, Barnet
Johnston, Ynez
Kelleher, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph)
Gillespie, Dizzy
Granz, Norman
Ellington, Duke
Eluard, Paul
Eluard, Dominique
Fitzgerald, Ella
Ernst, Max
Toyen
Teagarden, Jack
Zerbib, Marcel
Roché, Henri Pierre
Rothman, Walter
Péret, Benjamin
Tanguy, Yves
Tanning, Dorothea
Penrose, Valentine
Penrose, Roland, Sir
Pastier, Madeleine
Picasso, Pablo
Picasso, Claude
Matisse, Henri
Mondrian, Piet
Man Ray
Cornell, Joseph
Copley, William Nelson
Duchamp, Marcel
De Herrera, Gloria
Bigard, Barney
Boudaoud, Omar
Armstrong, Louis
Byrnes, Barbara
Byrnes, James B.
Breton, André
Brahim, Malika
Brauner, Victor
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet (Firm)
Loudmer-Poulain (Firm)
Subjects - Topics
Art -- Collectors and collecting
Tableaux modernes, art contemporain,
Département de la Dordogne. Règlement sanitaire
départemental
La vie d'un grand disparu : Jean Jaurès, apôtre de la paix
Art dealers -- France -- Paris
Art galleries, Commercial -- California -- Los Angeles
Art restorers -- France -- Paris
Collage, French
Art -- Conservation and restoration
Art -- Exhibitions
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Surrealism -- California -- Los Angeles
Surrealism -- France
Americans -- France -- Social life and customs
Painting, Modern -- 20th century
Jazz musicians -- United States
Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century
Photography, Artistic
Subjects - Places
Soviet Union -- Description and travel
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962
Sedona (Ariz.) -- Social life and customs
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
France -- Politics and government -- 1958-1969
Subjects - Titles
Modern art shackled to Communism
Estampes des XIXe et XXe siècles
Idolatry and confusion
Genres and Forms of Material
Scrapbooks
Sketches
Photocopies
Photographs, Original
Videotapes
Watercolors
Transcripts
Clippings (information artifacts)
Auction catalogs
Audiotapes
Slides (photographs)
Drawings (visual works)
Oil paintings
Notes
Passports
Paper fragments
Exhibition announcements
Medical records
Interviews
Copy prints
Color transparencies
Documents
Correspondence
Contributors
Lefebvre-Foinet, Maurice
Loeb, Edouard
Lucas, Jacques
Mannheimer Kunstverein
Maranz, George
Matisse, Amélie
Hall, Jacques
Hôtel Drouot
Inverarity, Robert Bruce
Kaminsky, Adolfo
Galleria del naviglio (Milan, Italy)
Francette
Gibbons, Joseph Burroughs
Giacometti, Alberto
Gilot, Françoise
Grepin
Dumas, Roland
Foresta, Merry A.
Fonvieille-Alquier, François
Tsypina, Rita
Tashjian, Dickran
Young-Mallin, Judith
Rubin, William Stanley
Sidney Janis Gallery
Paalen, Wolfgang
Poniatowski, Michel
Pfriem, Bernard
Mesens, E. L. T. (Edouard Léon Théodore)
Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián
Matisse, Pierre
Mitchell, Irene Musillo
Meyer, Franz
Messenger, Ivan
Ernst, Max
Matisse, Henri
Man Ray
Copley, William Nelson
Tanning, Dorothea
Byrnes, Barbara
Byrnes, James B.
Brauner, Victor
De Herrera, David
Darbois, Dominique
Cowart, Jack
Copley Galleries
Chavaroche, Marie-Hélène
Calder, Alexander
Drouin, René
Dorival, Bernard
Dondero, George A. (George Anthony)
Delectorskaya, Lydia
De Herrera, Mildred
Duchamp, Marcel
De Herrera, Gloria
Barton, Patricia
Berggruen, Heinz
Baldwin, Neil
Barinov, Igor
Burke, John
Burley, Dan
Brunius, Jacques-B.
Selected Bibliography
Michèle and Michel Auer.
Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de
1839 à nos jours = Photographers encyclopaedia international, 1839 to the present.
Hermance, Switzerland : Camera Obscura, c1985.
Darbois, Dominique,
and Philippe Vigneau.
Les Algériens en guerre. Milan : Feltrinelli,
1961.
Forging identity [videorecording] / a film by Jacques Falck.
Brooklyn, NY : First Run / Icarus Films [distributor],
1999.
Henri Matisse, 1950-1954 : les grandes gouaches découpées :
[Ausstellung] Kunsthalle Bern, 25. Juli bis 20. September 1959.
[Bern :
Kunsthalle, 1959]
Henri Matisse : paper cut-outs / Jack Cowart ...
[et al.].
[St. Louis] : St. Louis Art Museum ; New York : distributed by Abrams,
c1977.
James Byrnes / interviewed by George M. Goodwin ; completed
under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles.
c1977.
Man Ray : Paris - L.A. Santa Monica, CA :
Smart Art Press, c1996.
Series I.
Correspondence,
1950-1988
Physical Description: ca. 180 items
Scope and Content Note
The series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Included is correspondence
related to De Herrera's work for Matisse and Duchamp, her social and business contacts,
and communications with art dealers and museums mentioning artworks sought, available
for sale, and requested for exhibition. Also included are details of her travel to the
Soviet Union and the friendships she made there (1957-1958), her legal representation
during her Algerian episode (1960), her last illness and final arrangements (1983-1985),
and the reconnection with her Los Angeles family (1984-1985). The voluminous
correspondence with James and Barbara Byrnes is of interest for its details of De
Herrera's life in France, especially at its end. In particular, her next-to-last letter
(undated, likely 1985 June
16) functions almost as a testament to her life, with frank estimations of her
past art-world associates and how they treated her after her Algerian involvement.
box 1, folder 1
Baldwin, Neil,
1984
Physical Description:
2 letters (2
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letters to De Herrera and Dominique Darbois, requesting interview with De Herrera for
his Man Ray biography (
Man Ray, American artist).
box 1, folder 2
Barinov, Igor,
1957
Physical Description: 1 letter plus envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Leningrad geologist, discussing recent excursions. With mention of a
well-reviewed jazz concert by an ensemble from Paris, led by M. Legrand.
box 1, folder 3
Barton, Patricia,
1976
Physical Description:
1
postcard
Scope and Content Note
Greetings from American "modern primitive" painter.
box 1, folder 4
Berggruen, Heinz,
1975-1976, undated
Physical Description:
4
letters
Scope and Content Note
Letters of art dealer (some by Berggruen's assistant Antoine Mendiharat) to De
Herrera, concerning her Joseph Cornell box,
la boîte de Paul et
Virginie
; undated letter discusses travel plans.
box 1, folder 5
Brauner, Victor and Jacqueline,
undated
Physical Description:
1
letters
Scope and Content Note
Invites De Herrera to visit Blonville (Calvados), and requests art supplies from
Lefebvre-Foinet's store. With one copy.
box 1, folder 6
Burke, John (U.S. Foreign Service),
1960
Physical Description:
2 letters (2
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Cover letters from consular official to De Herrera in prison, sending newspaper
articles and a letter from Mildred de Herrera.
box 1, folder 7-12
Byrnes, James B. and Barbara C.,
1952-1985, undated
Physical Description: 56 letters, postcards and
telegrams
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence principally detailing De Herrera's final illness and the assistance
provided her by the Byrnes. Topics include the Byrnes's travels and activities,
including their meeting with De Herrera's family in Los Angeles; sale of De Herrera's
house; inventorying and shipping of her artworks and possessions; sales of artwork by
Man Ray, Françoise Gilot, Léger, Picabia, Nicholson, Schwitters, Lucas Granach and Eva
Gonzalès; money transfers; G. de H.'s earliest memories; chemotherapy; her final move
and "exit program".
De Herrera's next-to-last letter [undated, likely 1985 June 16, 11 leaves] gives intimate details of
her early life and her work, with frank observations on Man Ray and her other
associates in the Paris art world, McCarthy and her reasons for leaving the U.S.,
friends Vera and Laurence, Irene and Bill Mitchell, instructions as to remembrances
for her doctors, and the reactions of her family and others to her Algerian
involvement.
The letters also provide details concerning other artists, particularly projects
concerning Man Ray; Byrnes's research on Degas; G. de H.'s work on the
Enfants
du monde
series (with Dominique Darbois); mounting of William Copley's
canvas
Gloria and repair of other received artworks; Matisse's
Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya; and De Herrera's work on Matisse
collages published in
Verve issue. Also mentioned are Clinton and Nancy
Adams, Neil Baldwin, Baugnies, Henri Berggruen, John Berry, Constantin Brancusi,
Victor Brauner, André Breton, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, William and Noma Copley,
Joseph Cornell, Dominique Darbois, Lydia Delectorskaya, Jules Engel and the California
Institute of the Arts, Max Ernst, Merry Foresta, Alberto Giacometti, Françoise Gilot,
Anne d'Harnoncourt (director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Irving and Ruth
Harrison, Jean Helion, Barnet Hodes (Copley's lawyer), Phyllis Hudson, Ynez Johnston,
Jojo [Adolfo or Adolphe] Kaminsky, Jo Kantor, Naomi Lavage (?), Maurice
Lefebvre-Foinet, Fernand Léger, Mort Levine, Joan Levy, Edouard Loeb, Roberto Matta,
Bruce McIntyre, Wright Morris, John Bernard Myers and his book
Tracking the
Marvelous
, Gerald and Paula Nordland, Wolfgang Paalen, Bernard Pfreim,
Juliet Man Ray, Jacqueline Roque (Picasso's wife), Mark Rothko, James Johnson Sweeney
and his exhibition
Twentieth century masterpieces, Dorothea Tanning,
Nelly Van Doesburg, Van Tongerloo, Mary Wescher, Emerson and Dina Woellfer, and
Virginia M. Zabriskie.
box 1, folder 13
Chavaroche, Marie-Hélène,
1985
Physical Description: 2 letters (3 leaves) plus one
envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letters of De Herrera's caretaker to and from James Byrnes, concerning final
settlement of De Herrera's debts after her death, and the mailing of her personal
effects.
box 1, folder 14
Copley, William N.,
1951-1953, undated
Physical Description:
4 letters (4
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letters to Jack Ostrow, Norman R. Tyre and others (Jim, Bob) concerning financial and
legal arrangements with reference to the 1926 Trust. With mention of Copley's upcoming
exhibition.
box 1, folder 15
Darbois, Dominique,
1983, undated
Physical Description: 3 letters (4 leaves) plus 1
envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letters of French photographer to and from James Byrnes, concerning De Herrera's
whereabouts and the state of her illness. One letter dated Jan. 4, no year (possibly
1955 Jan. 4), to an
unnamed correspondent gives details of Darbois's travel in Laos (found folded in
Antonin Artaud's
Les Tarahumaras).
box 1, folder 16-17
De Herrera, David and Mildred,
1984-1985
Physical Description: 19 letters and 2
telegrams
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of letters to De Herrera's brother and mother, with reminiscences and
discussion of keepsakes to be sent.
box 1, folder 18
Delectorskaya, Lydia,
1955-1985, undated
Physical Description: 8 items (7 leaves and 3
cards)
Scope and Content Note
Letters and postcards to and from Matisse's assistant and model. With mention of "le
Patron" (Matisse), Byrnes and Lefebvre-Foinet, and Delectorskaya's answers to a
questionnaire on their Matisse collage work sent by De Herrera, who refers to the
"échantillons Matisse". Also with a 1985 letter to Dina Vierny, through whom De
Herrera hoped to contact Delectorskaya.
box 1, folder 19
Dorival, Bernard,
1966
Physical Description:
2 letters (2
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letters from curator at the Musée national d'art moderne,
requesting loan of Man Ray object for Dada exhibition.
box 1, folder 20
Drouin, René,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
List on plain note paper of Max Ernst paintings still at Drouin's gallery:
La
nuit rhénane
and
La ville engourdie (found folded in
Max Ernst by Joë Bousquet).
box 1, folder 21
Duchamp, Marcel,
1957
Physical Description: 4 letters (4 leaves plus 2
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Discussion of a box sample being made by De Herrera for Duchamp, with work
instructions and a mention of I.C.A. [Institute of Contemporary Arts]; misdelivery of
parcel containing box sample; order for 30 boxes and frames.
box 1, folder 22
Dumas, Roland,
1960-1975
Physical Description: 3 letters (3 leaves), 1 card plus
1 envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letters from De Herrera's defense attorney. The card, addressed "Ma chère Anne"
[sic], is notice of a favorable outcome; the letters (including a photocopy of one
from Michel Poniatowski) concern the 1975 renewal of G. de H.'s residence permit.
box 1, folder 23
Ernst, Max, and Dorothea Tanning,
1953-1967, undated
Physical Description:
3
card(s)
Scope and Content Note
Greetings; invitation to Halloween party; request to Lefebvre-Foinet for De Herrera's
whereabouts, concerning loan of painting "Katchina et son ame" for Tanning
retrospective.
box 1, folder 24
Foresta, Merry,
1978
Physical Description:
1 letter (1
leaf)
Scope and Content Note
First page of Byrnes letter to curator at Smithsonian Institution, concerning Man
Ray's chess sets. With a mention of Duchamp.
box 1, folder 25
Francette, (6 leaves)
1957, undated
Physical Description:
3
letters
Scope and Content Note
Letters from friend discussing her impressions of Sweden; G. de H.'s plans for travel
in USSR, with suggestion that she visit Greece; discussion of political situation in
France; De Herrera's arrival in Sweden en route to USSR; loan of a camera and film.
With mention of Jacques Lacarrière and his book on Mount Athos, the seizing of
L'Humanité, Claude Bonerandi, Lola and Lidia (Lydia Delectorskaya?).
box 1, folder 26
Gibbons, Joseph Burroughs (Burr) and Roberta,
1984
Physical Description:
3 items (4
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Concerning sale to the Gibbons of De Herrera's Dordogne house. With notes for
telephone conversation, and photocopy of cancelled payment check.
box 1, folder 27
Gilot, Françoise,
1983
Physical Description: 2 letters plus 1 copy (4
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Byrnes, concerning repurchase from De Herrera of Gilot's 1947
drawing of her son Claude [Picasso]. Gives details of Byrnes's locating De Herrera.
With mention of Dominique Darbois and Hans Hartung.
box 1, folder 28
Grepin (possibly Grépin),
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter (1
leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Hopes to meet De Herrera in Paris (note found folded in
Le surréalisme au
service de la révolution
).
box 1, folder 29
Hall, Jacques,
1985-1987, undated
Physical Description: 7 letters (9 leaves) plus 1 card,
1 telegram, 1 envelope
Scope and Content Note
Notes and correspondence of De Herrera and Byrnes with friend and helper in Dordogne:
concerning impending Byrnes visit, which De Herrera wishes to prevent; request for
handgun; desperate attempt to contact the Byrnes; notice to the Byrnes of De Herrera's
death, with mention of the "échantillons Matisse"; forwarding of money to cover De
Herrera's debts, with mention of Byrnes's book on Degas; final debt settlement.
box 1, folder 30
Kaminsky, Adolfo,
1966-1973, undated
Physical Description: 9 items plus 1
photocopy
Scope and Content Note
Documents and letter concerning photographer, master forger and underground
resistance fighter, lover of De Herrera: a paper scrap with their shared Paris
address; two business cards; a signed check; Kaminsky's IOU; G. de H.'s letter asking
for repayment of seven-year-old debt; three blank sheets of paper signed "A.
Kaminsky".
box 1, folder 31
Ke[...], Lida,
1957
Physical Description: 1 letter (1 leaf plus
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Friendly letter from Moscow, mentioning De Herrera's travel to Odessa, Sukhumi and
the Caucasus. Correspondent's last name illegible.
box 1, folder 32
Lefebvre-Foinet, Maurice,
1959-1966, undated [1985?]
Physical Description: 2 letters and 1 note (3
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letter to De Herrera from L. F., currently taking down an exhibition in Bern, with
mention of Duchamp's suitcases and of Mlle. Teigel (with notes on verso from Ida and
Franz [Meyer?]); letter to L. F. from Mildred de Herrera, attempting to contact De
Herrera; notes for a telephone conversation with Josette Lefebvre concerning a Calder
drawing to be recovered [1985?].
box 1, folder 33
Loeb, Edouard,
1966
Physical Description:
1 letter (1
leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Concerning Matisse drawing deposited at Loeb's gallery by G. de H., for which he has
found a buyer contrary to her wishes; asks to discuss sale with her. Interested also
in other drawings by Matisse, Giacometti and Max Ernst.
box 1, folder 34
Maranz, George,
1959
Physical Description: 1 letter plus 1 booklet (8
pp.)
Scope and Content Note
Thanks De Herrera for having helped rewrite a letter; sends copy of Maranz's pamphlet
"Towards world cooperation" (included in folder).
box 1, folder 35
Matisse, Henri and Amélie,
1954-1959
Physical Description: 2 letters (2 leaves), 2
cards,
Scope and Content Note
Greeting card; letter requesting work permit for De Herrera to help with Matisse
exhibit at the Musée d'art moderne de Paris; request for G. de H.'s help with an
exhibit of Matisse gouache collages (held at the Kunsthalle Bern and the Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam); announcement of gouache exhibit in Bern.
box 1, folder 36
Matisse, Pierre,
1966
Physical Description:
1 letter (2
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Letter from the New York art dealer concerning evaluation of Giacometti drawings and
identity of missing drawing. With mention of "Laronde book" (possibly
Rien,
voilà l'ordre
by Olivier Larronde).
box 1, folder 37
Messenger, Ivan,
1950
Physical Description: 1 letter (1 leaf) plus 1
contract
Scope and Content Note
Letter from De Herrera to San Diego painter and printmaker involved with the
California Centennials Commission and the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, complaining
of unprofessional handling of a job offer. With a copy of a contract offered to De
Herrera for work on the San Diego County Historical Art Exhibition.
box 1, folder 38
Meyer, Franz,
1959
Physical Description:
1 letter (1
leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Letter from curator of Matisse collage exhibit in Bern, thanking De Herrera for help
with an English text, with comments on the exhibition's success and on the
accessibility of Matisse's collages.
box 1, folder 39
Mitchell, Irene Musillo and Bill,
1955, undated
Physical Description: 2 letters (2 leaves) plus 2
cards
Scope and Content Note
Letters from De Herrera to unnamed correspondent (likely Irene Mitchell) concerning
the latter's graduation and travel to Italy, with mention of De Herrera's interest in
the prehistoric art of the Dordogne; Christmas greeting cards from De Herrera's best
friend at Hollywood High School and her husband.
box 1, folder 40
Paalen, Wolfgang,
1954-1957
Physical Description: 1 letter (1 leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Letter to De Herrera alluding to recent difficulties, and congratulating her on her
upcoming trip. For invitation from Paalen to publication party for issue no. 3 of
Medium, see Series IV. Photographs: Wolfgang Paalen at Uxmal,
invitation (Box 5, f. 36).
box 2, folder 1
Ray, Man,
1951-1967
Physical Description: 2 letters (2 leaves) and 2
cards
Scope and Content Note
Photocopied announcement of Hollywood studio clearance sale prior to Paris departure;
letter to Mary and Paul [Wescher], with mention of William Copley; announcement for
1954 Man Ray gallery opening, with list of French departments on verso in De Herrera's
hand; postcard from Man Ray to G. de H., with mention of [William] Rubin.
box 2, folder 2
Ray, Man,
1951
Physical Description:
1 greeting
card
Scope and Content Note
Sentimental card sent to De Herrera from Juliet and Man Ray.
box 2, folder 3
Rubin, William,
1967-1968
Physical Description: 3 letters and 2 documents (5
leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Rubin and his associates Alicia Legg and Sarah Weiner, concerning
De Herrera's loan of Man Ray's
Boardwalk for the Dada and Surrealism
exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. With details of a mishap over catalogue
reproduction, previous exhibition and reproduction data, and a mention of Man Ray.
Includes loan receipt and receipt of delivery.
box 2, folder 4
Tsypina, Rita,
1957-1958
Physical Description: 6 letters (6 leaves) with 6
envelopes, and 1 card
Scope and Content Note
Letters from French-speaking Intourist guide befriended by G. de H., with details on
the Moscow cultural scene. Topics include work with an anti-communist reporter from
"L'Aurore"; an exhibition of [Honoré] Daumier; the conversion of the Manège, an
equestrian building, into an art exhibition hall, with an exhibition of Soviet artists
celebrating the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution; De Herrera's efforts to
learn Russian; Sputnik; an exhibition of the American painter R. [Rockwell] Kent; the
dancers Lilianne Daydé and Michel Réneau; Tsypina's miscarriage and convalescence; De
Herrera's questions about Pushkin; the 1958 Tchaikovsky competition, with mention of
Annie Petit, Sylvie Decret, "un Américain" [Van Cliburn], and Naum Shtarkman; a
screening of Gérard Philippe's
Till Eulenspiegel; the Gothic
architecture of Riga; the Paris strikes; work with the Paris ballet.
box 2, folder 5
Young-Mallin, Judith,
1988
Physical Description:
1 letter (1
leaf)
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Byrnes offering use of De Herrera materials for Man Ray project.
box 2, folder 6
Unidentified,
1960, undated
Physical Description: 1 letters (1 leaf) and 2
postcards
Scope and Content Note
Letter to Katia regarding meeting (signature illegible); two postcards to De
Herrera.
Series II.
Documents,
1936-1996
Physical Description: ca. 170 items
Scope and Content Note
Series II documents De Herrera's art and political activities, and episodes in her life
from grade school to final illness. Included are some of De Herrera's early school
papers, her poetry and other writings, papers concerning her work activities (including
work on the Matisse collages and the
Enfants du monde series), her arrest
and release papers, her medical reports and financial paperwork, and records relating to
the end of her life. Her obituary, as well as those of Man Ray and William Copley, is
also included. Of particular interest are De Herrera's canceled passports, documenting
much of her travel from 1951 to 1973. The series also includes some of William Copley's
papers and writings, particularly a series of short essays vividly describing life in
France in 1951. The arrangement of the documents is roughly chronological.
box 2, folder 7
De Herrera's grade school report cards,
1936-1942
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Report cards for second and seventh grades.
box 2, folder 8
Advances in popular education; On art,
1945, undated [1947?]
Physical Description:
10
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Typescript essays by De Herrera; likely high school papers.
box 2, folder 9
De Herrera's poetry,
1946
Physical Description:
6
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Six poems written for creative writing class.
box 2, folder 10
Twister to the slammer of hard spiel: an introduction to Harlem
jive,
undated [1947?]
Physical Description:
8
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten essay by De Herrera; likely a high school paper.
box 2, folder 11
Othello, the moor of Venice: as conceived in Harlem jive,
undated [1947?]
Physical Description:
4
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
A jive retelling of Act V, Scene II of Shakespeare's Othello; probable author is Dan
Burley. Pages cut from book.
box 2, folder 12
Newspaper clippings,
1949, 1984
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Atomic age fables (absurdist text from Saturday Review); reports on the California
Centennial Exhibition of Art, with photo of De Herrera; mention of the sale of the art
collection of Barnet Hodes (Copley's attorney).
box 2, folder 13
Dondero, George, "Modern art shackled to Communism,"
1949 Aug 16
Physical Description:
4
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Text of Dondero's speech to the House of Representatives, with McCarthyite
perceptions of the dangers of modern art. Photocopies; original housed in Box 7*.
box 2, folder 14
Stubs and cards,
1949-1950, 1976
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera's employee card at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; voter stub;
membership card for I.C.A. [Institute of Contemporary Arts], London, annotated by De
Herrera ("Don't forget I am a founder member").
box 2, folder 15
De Herrera's poetry and other writings,
1951, undated
Physical Description:
12
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Les pensées à la forme des mots (a collection of poetry, incomplete); assorted poems
and prose, including text dated 1951 May 9 describing impressions of Paris.
box 2, folder 16
Vassilissa dans le miroir,
undated
Physical Description:
3
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten text of Russian fairy tale, possibly retold by G. de H.
box 2, folder 17
De Herrera's miscellaneous writings,
undated
Physical Description:
2
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Notes on the Armory show of 1913, with mention of John Quinn and Henri-Pierre Roché;
typescript page with numbered responses 13 through 24, possibly a test or an inventory
of artworks.
box 2, folder 18
Materials related to voyage on SS De Grasse,
1951
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Baggage tag with De Herrera's name; postcard; illustrated menu.
box 2, folder 19
Passports, driver's license,
1951-1973
Physical Description: 7 items (33 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Disbound leaves from De Herrera's travel documents (incomplete); visa stamps record
her travel.
box 2, folder 20
Copley's writings,
1951, undated
Physical Description: 10 items (48 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Short non-fiction essays, fragments and rough drafts concerning Copley's experiences
in Europe. Subjects include arriving in France; Dahn, a Jewish friend; crossing the
Pyrenées to Spain ( 1951 May
22); spring in Paris, with a discussion of Franco-American relations (May
30); the French elections and the Communist vote (undated, June?); French folk songs;
French newspapers (July 31); visiting Germany to see Max Ernst's exhibition in Brühl (
1951 Aug. 15); August
in Paris (Aug. 31); a visit to Picasso in Vallauris (undated, 1951?). Typescript with
pen and pencil corrections; one loose page.
box 2, folder 21
Copley's expense reports;
1951
Physical Description:
7
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
With mention of the entertainment of James Byrnes, Blandina Zee, Marcel Xerbi
[Zerbib?], Erna Hegg, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Peter Watson, Curt Valentiner,
Bernard Pfriem, and Howard Baer.
box 2, folder 22
Photocopies of title pages dedicated by authors,
1949-1952, undated
Physical Description:
7
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopied dedications by André Gide (Montaigne, 1929, autograph undated); Man Ray
(Les mains libres, 1937; dedication undated); Max Ernst (Max Ernst, 30 years of his
work, 1949); Tristan Tzara (Morceaux choisis, 1951, with duplicate), and Marc Chagall
(Verve Vol. VI no. 24, 1952). See separation list for titles (except Chagall).
box 2, folder 23
Accounting for Matisse collages worked on by De Herrera,
[between 1953 and 1959]
Physical Description: 6 leaves
Scope and Content Note
List of supplies and fees for work on the following collages: Gerbe; Lierre; Femmes
bleues et blanches; Perruche; Tristesse du roi; Danseuse; Nu s/jaune (Grenouille);
Femme et singes; Zulma; Femme et oranges; Acrobates; Apollon; Rosace; Océanie
(Tahiti); Piscine; Negresse.
box 2, folder 24
Information on Matisse collages,
1977-1996
Physical Description: 2 items (25 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies (with duplicates) from
Henri Matisse : paper cut-outs, ed.
Jack Cowart et al., 1977; and Taking the plunge with Matisse,
Art
Newspaper
, no. 55, 1996 Jan. p. 3 (concerning a restoration of La Perruche
by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam). With pencil inscriptions, possibly by Lydia
Delectorskaya; found with Delectorskaya letter [undated] mentioning "le Patron"
(Matisse).
box 2, folder 25
Photocopies of Dominique Darbois's children's books,
1959-1971
Physical Description:
29
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of selected pages from
Tacho, le petit méxicain (1959);
Hassan, l'enfant du désert (1960); and
Manolo, le petit
espagnol
(1960, 2nd. ed. 1971) from the series
Les enfants du
monde
published by Fernand Nathan. With credit: "Maquette de Gloria de
Herrera."
box 2, folder 26
Jean Jaurès pamphlet; political quote,
1960, undated
Physical Description: 1 pamphlet (16 pp.), 1
card
Scope and Content Note
Pamphlet entitled
La vie d'un grand disparu : Jean Jaurès, apôtre de la
paix
, with text by Jaurès, biographical notes, and excerpted comments by
Anatole France, René Viviani, Edouard Vaillant, and Albert Thomas. A separate card
bears slogan critical of the United States.
box 2, folder 27
Arrest warrant and prison release,
1960
Physical Description:
4 items and
envelope
Scope and Content Note
Documents concerning De Herrera's arrest, incarceration at the Prison de la Petite
Roquette, and release. With train seat assignment coupon.
box 2, folder 28
Newspaper articles on De Herrera's arrest,
1960 Feb
Physical Description:
2 items (2
copies)
Scope and Content Note
New York Herald Tribune articles: "French intellectuals seized as aids
of FLN"; "Consular official to see U.S. girl in Paris jail". (See Series V. Oversize
materials, Box 7* f. 5, for additional articles.)
box 2, folder 29
Man Ray photocopies and corrections,
undated, [1963] [1982]
Physical Description:
5
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies from Man Ray's
Photographs; corrections, possibly for
French edition; small photocopy of
Dancer, with annotation by De
Herrera ("Belonged to André Breton").
box 2, folder 30
The myth of Man Ray,
[1964?]
Physical Description:
1
leaf
Scope and Content Note
Angry poem by De Herrera, in typescript.
box 2, folder 31
Stationery, Cumberland Hotel,
undated, [after 1966]
Physical Description:
1
leaf
Scope and Content Note
Blank stationery from London hotel, found in
Almost complete works of Marcel
Duchamp
(1966).
box 2, folder 32
Alexandre Iolas card,
[1968?]
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Found in Max Ernst's
Le néant et son double (1968): "Avec les
compliments de Alexandre Iolas".
box 2, folder 33
Département de la Dordogne. Règlement sanitaire départemental,
1970
Physical Description:
1 booklet (68
pp.)
Scope and Content Note
Dordogne sanitary regulations handbook, annotated by G. de H.
box 2, folder 34
Electrocardiogram,
1974 May 8
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera's electrocardiogram tape, stapled in booklet.
box 2, folder 35
Receipts for Matisse artwork,
1974
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
For artwork owned by De Herrera, to be sold through the firm of Guy Loudmer, Hervé
Poulain, Paris.
box 2, folder 36
Estampes des XIXe et XXe siècles,
1975 Mar 24
Physical Description: 1 booklet (4 leaves plus cover)
plus 3 items
Scope and Content Note
Auction catalogue for 19th and 20th century prints to be sold by Guy Loudmer and
Hervé Poulain, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. With business card, bidding form and condition
report. Item 121 records sale of Matisse lithograph by G. de H.
box 2, folder 37
Man Ray's obituary,
1976 Nov 19
Physical Description:
1 item (2
clippings)
Scope and Content Note
Obituary appearing in
Le Monde.
box 2, folder 38
Tableaux modernes, art contemporain,
1977 Mar 8
Physical Description: 1 booklet (12 leaves plus cover)
plus 4 items
Scope and Content Note
Auction catalogue for prints, illustrated books, modern and contemporary paintings to
be sold by Guy Loudmer and Hervé Poulain, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. Some pen markings;
portion of front cover has been cut away, possibly with loss of title information.
Item 26 records sale of Matisse heliogravure by De Herrera. With list of estimated
prices, bidding form and two object condition reports.
box 2, folder 39
De Herrera's statement on her Algerian involvement,
[after 1979?]
Physical Description:
1
card(s)
Scope and Content Note
Short handwritten affirmation of her actions. Found in
Les porteurs de
valises
by Hervé Hamon (1979).
box 2, folder 40
James Byrnes's notes,
[198-]
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
With mention of
Henri Matisse : les grandes gouaches découpées and
Les porteurs de valises.
box 3, folder 1
Transcript of De Herrera interview,
1983
Physical Description: pp. 1-86
Scope and Content Note
Part 1 of interview of De Herrera by James and Barbara Byrnes, taped 1983 July (see
Series V. Audiovisual materials).
box 3, folder 2
Transcript of De Herrera interview,
1983
Physical Description: pp. 87-160
Scope and Content Note
Part 2 of interview transcript.
box 3, folder 3
First draft of De Herrera interview transcript,
1983 July
Physical Description:
53
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Transcription by Bruce McIntyre dates to 1991. With annotations, some dating to
1996.
box 3, folder 4
De Herrera's notes, addresses,
undated
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Paper scraps with handwritten notes, including address of Claude Picasso.
box 3, folder 5
Medical reports,
1983-1984
Physical Description:
10
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Five reports on De Herrera's cancer and treatment, 1983 Sept. through 1984 Jan/date>
Some leaves are duplicates.
box 3, folder 6
Checkbook and passbook,
1984-1985
Physical Description: 10 items plus envelope
Scope and Content Note
Items from De Herrera's trust account, set up by the Byrnes with proceeds from
Dordogne house sale; some copies.
box 3, folder 7
Byrnes's notes and questions for De Herrera interview,
1985
Physical Description:
13
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes on 1983 tapes; list of questions for a planned follow-up interview,
April 1985. Pagination out of order.
box 3, folder 8
List of De Herrera's artworks,
1985
Physical Description:
2
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Inventory of artworks owned by De Herrera, with her annotations.
box 3, folder 9
Contents of compartment box,
[1985]
Physical Description:
3
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten list of 80 objects owned by De Herrera, intended for brother David.
box 3, folder 10
Byrnes's notes for communication with Jacques Hall,
1985
Physical Description:
5
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Notes for telephone calls: May 2, May 29 and June 26.
box 3, folder 11
Shipping of De Herrera's effects,
1985
Physical Description:
20
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Records for shipping De Herrera's belongings to California. With lists, certificates,
bills, cancelled checks, pick-up orders and other paperwork.
box 3, folder 12
Bills and receipts concerning De Herrera's death,
1985
Physical Description:
9 leaves plus
envelope
Scope and Content Note
Postal receipts; bills for ambulance, hospital, carpentry, cremation.
box 3, folder 13
Byrnes's notes for De Herrera's obituary,
1985 June 27
Physical Description:
2
Leaves
Scope and Content Note
Notes and preliminary draft.
box 3, folder 14
De Herrera's obituary,
1985 June 29
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Three photocopies of
Los Angeles Times obituary, plus small clipping
with date.
box 3, folder 15
Copley's obituary,
1996 May 12
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Clipping of Copley's
Los Angeles Times obituary.
box 3, folder 16
Assorted,
undated
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Two playing cards (joker, queen of spades); loose stamp; mailgram envelope; orange
folder labeled J.B.B. (James B. Byrnes) with post-it note concerning I.C.A. [Institute
of Contemporary Arts] founder membership.
Series III.
Artworks,
1945-ca. 1975
Physical Description:
108
items
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of artwork or photographs of artwork owned by De Herrera at some
point in her life or at her death; many were personal gifts to her from prominent
artists. Of particular interest are the Échantillons Matisse, a by-product of her work
on the Matisse collages; the samples of gouached paper she collected have been shielded
from light, retaining their original hues. The series is arranged by artist's name in
three separate alphabetical filings: artwork (33 items; Box 4 f. 1-13); photographs of
artwork (68 items; f. 14-26); exhibition catalogues and announcements (7 items; f.
27-33).
box 4, folder 1
Brauner, Victor,
1955-1959, undated
Physical Description:
6 drawings, 1
painting
Scope and Content Note
5 drawings: pencil on paper; 10.5 x 14 cm. and smaller
1 painting: watercolor on paper; 9.5 x 12.5 cm.
1 painting: gouache on paper; 27 x 21 cm.
1 drawing: ink with watercolor on vellum; 16 x 13 cm., 1 backing; 27 x 21 cm.
Drawings of cat, animal and human faces and shapes; drawing of man at table holding
an apple (annotated "Monsieur Brauner pour Gloria") on verso of card for "Chez
Albert", Paris. The gouache of a cat is captioned "Bonne année 1958". Three of the
works are dedicated to De Herrera; four are signed. Includes photocopy of pencil
drawings, annotated by De Herrera.
box 4, folder 2
Calder, Alexander,
[ca. 1953]
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: ball-point pen on paper; 21 x 17 cm.
Sketched portrait of Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet. Date from donor's inventory.
box 4, folder 3
Calder, Alexander,
[ca. 1956]
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: ball-point pen on paper; 21 x 17 cm.
Sketched portrait of Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet. Date from donor's inventory.
box 4, folder 4
Calder, Alexander,
[ca. 1956]
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: ball-point pen on paper; 21 x 17 cm.
Sketched portrait of Gloria de Herrera, signed "Sandy". Date from donor's inventory.
Includes one photocopy inscribed by De Herrera: "This is supposed to be me by Sandy
Calder - ca. middle fifties."
box 4, folder 5
Copley, William,
[ca. 1952]
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Painting: oil on linen; 5 x 4.5 cm.
Small painting of woman. Date from donor's inventory.
General note
See also Copley's painting Gloria, Series V. Oversize materials, Box 6*.
box 4, folder 6
De Herrera, Gloria,
1951, undated
Physical Description:
5
drawing(s)
Scope and Content Note
5 drawings: ink on paper; 27 x 21 cm. and smaller.
Sketched portraits of Juliet Man Ray; William Copley and Man Ray playing chess;
William Copley; one unidentified; one harlequin face ("Ce n'est qu'un debut").
box 4, folder 7
Giacometti, Alberto,
[ca. 1965]
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: ink on paper; 18 x 9 cm.
Sketch of Gloria de Herrera on the stationery of Stafford Hotel, London. Drawing
neatly torn on left side; address of Mme. Marcel Duchamp on verso. Includes separate
identifying leaf. Date from donor's inventory.
box 4, folder 8
Gilot, Françoise,
1957
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Painting: watercolor with ink on board; 20 x 18 cm.
Ballet dancers. Signed and dated. With one photocopy.
box 4, folder 9
Échantillons Matisse,
[between 1953 and 1959]
Physical Description:
73
items
Scope and Content Note
72 fragments plus 1 note; 7 x 10 cm. and smaller, in box 8 x 11 x 2 cm.
Gouached paper fragments in original unfaded colors, left over from Henri Matisse's
cut-out collages. Collected by De Herrera; numbered on versos. Gift of Jacques Hall.
Includes identifying note by James B. Byrnes ( 1987 Apr. 2).
box 4, folder 10
Gouached sheets for Matisse collages,
[between 1953 and 1959]
Physical Description: 10 sheets; 31 x 23.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Uncut sheets of gouached paper in reds, oranges and yellows, intended for Matisse
cut-out collages. Numbered 9, 30-35, 36 bis, 38, 47.
box 4, folder 11
Matta, Roberto,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: ink on paper; 10.5 x 7 cm.
Signed erotic drawing with inscription: "Happy birthday Gloria". With pen writing on
verso.
box 4, folder 12
Paalen, Wolfgang,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Chart: ink on paper; 21.5 x 28 cm.
Astronomical diagram of Copán (Honduras). With notes on verso comparing Maya and
Greek metonic cycles.
box 4, folder 13
Pfriem, Bernard,
1960
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Drawing: pen and crayon on paper; 10.5 x 13.5 cm.
With inscription: "Gloria dear, a private showing just for you." Drawn on verso of
announcement of Pfriem's exhibition at the Galerie du Dragon, 1960 Mar. 8.
box 4, folder 14
Brauner, Victor,
1961
Physical Description:
40
items
Scope and Content Note
40 photographic prints; 21 x 17 cm. Black-and-white photographs of 1961 Victor
Brauner paintings from the Iolas, Rive Droite, private and unspecified collections.
With identifying information on versos.
box 4, folder 15
Brauner, Victor,
1945-1959, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 photographic prints: color; 12.5 x 9 cm.
1 color transparency; 12.5 x 10 cm.
Artwork on transparency dedicated "pour Gloria son ami Victor" ( 1955 Apr. 30).
box 4, folder 16
Calder, Alexander,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
2 photographic prints; 9 x 13 cm. and smaller.
1 color slide, 5 x 5 cm.
Black-and-white photograph of Calder stabile; color photograph and slide of De
Herrera's G-shaped brooch (slide from 1985 Apr. 22 letter to Byrnes).
box 4, folder 17
Copley, William,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic print: color; 11 x 9 cm.
Polaroid of three Copley paintings on wall.
box 4, folder 18
Cornell, Joseph,
undated
Physical Description:
2
photographs
Scope and Content Note
2 photographic prints; 15 x 17 cm. and smaller.
Black-and-white photograph of
La boîte de Paul et Virginie (identified
on verso in De Herrera's hand); color photograph of
Les eaux
d'Égypte
.
box 4, folder 19
Ernst, Max,
1950, undated
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
6 photographic prints; 13 x 9 cm. and smaller.
Three color photographs of Ernst frottage sent as holiday greeting to De Herrera; 3
black-and-white photographs of Max Ernst sculptures, with inscriptions: "Max détruite"
and "Max - Sculpture plâtre détruite, 1950" (signature illegible).
box 4, folder 20
Gilot, Françoise,
1947-1958
Scope and Content Note
2 photographic prints; 9 x 11 cm. and smaller.
Black-and-white photograph of artwork gifted to De Herrera by Gilot: a portrait of
Claude Picasso (5 x 4 cm. on backing 15.5 x 8 cm.), identified in De Herrera's hand,
sold back to Gilot in 1983 for medicine money; color polaroid of painting of monkey
with gun.
box 4, folder 21
Johnston, Ynez,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic print: color; 16 x 13 cm.
Photograph of painting, likely
Woman with umbrella; stamped on verso
"Photographies Adolphe Kaminsky".
box 4, folder 22
Matisse, Henri,
1944, undated
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
2 photographic prints; 17 x 13 cm.
1 transparency; 6 x 6 cm.
Two black-and white-photographs of a charcoal drawing, and of the collage
Deux
danseurs, "Rouge et Noir"
; one color transparency of the collage
Tristesse du Roi.
box 4, folder 23
Monet, Claude,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic print; 21 x 27.5 cm.
Black-and-white photograph of framed 1893 Monet painting.
box 4, folder 24
Ray, Man,
[ca. 1975] undated
Scope and Content Note
4 photographic prints; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller.
Two black-and-white photographs of Boardwalk (1917), one with bullet holes circled in
red felt pen (versos stamped "Photographies Adolphe Kaminsky" and "Couleur et
techniques photographiques"); one color photograph of Promenade (1916) hanging in Mary
Wescher's home (photo ca. 1975); color photograph of 1946 chess set in ebony and lemon
wood (purchaser information written on verso), with additional photocopy.
box 4, folder 25
Tanning, Dorothea,
[ca. 1960]
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic print; 23 x 13 cm.
Color photograph of Tanning painting; verso stamped "Photographies Adolphe Kaminsky".
Date from donor's inventory.
box 4, folder 26
Unidentified,
La lecture,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
1 photographic print; 14 x 20 cm.
Black-and-white photograph of drawing; pencil inscription on verso gives title
information.
box 4, folder 27
Brauner, Victor,
1958
Physical Description:
1 folded
sheet
Scope and Content Note
Announcement for Brauner exhibition at Galleria del Naviglio, Milan.
box 4, folder 28
Copley, William,
1951
Physical Description: 1 booklet, 6 leaves plus
cover
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Royer's Book Shop, Los Angeles; cover title:
CPLY. Includes poem by Dorothea Tanning. With mention of De Herrera.
Pencil annotations concern placement of two paintings in exhibition.
box 4, folder 29
Ernst, Max,
1949
Physical Description: 1 booklet, 2 leaves plus
cover
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills; lists selected works from
1919 to 1948.
box 4, folder 30
Ernst, Max; Surrealistische Kunst,
1952
Physical Description: 1 folded sheet
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim.
box 4, folder 31
Matta, Roberto,
1948
Physical Description:
1
booklet(s)
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills; folded sheet in printed
tissue jacket.
box 4, folder 32
Mondrian, Piet,
1951
Physical Description: 1 booklet, 4 leaves plus
cover
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
box 4, folder 33
Tanguy, Yves,
undated
Physical Description:
1 folded
sheet
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of painting and gouache exhibition at Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills. With
attached photomechanical reproduction of
La dame à l'absence.
Series IV.
Photographs,
1947-1985
Physical Description:
288
items
Scope and Content Note
One of the collection's highlights, this series of 244 photographs, 37 photocopies and
1 related item (an invitation) documents De Herrera's friendships and activities in Los
Angeles and in France. Artists most notably represented are Man Ray and his wife Juliet,
William Copley, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning; other artists include Marcel Duchamp,
Yves Tanguy, Valentine and Roland Penrose, Paul Eluard, Wolfgang Paalen, Henri-Pierre
Roché, Pablo Picasso, Françoise Gilot, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and Victor
Brauner. The years from ca. 1948 to ca. 1953, representing De Herrera's last years in
Los Angeles, her 1951 transatlantic voyage on the SS De Grasse, and her first years in
France, are prominently featured. Of particular importance is De Herrera's scrapbook
(Box 5 f. 21), with captioned photographs documenting events of her life from 1950 to
1953 - see also the scrapbook and Man Ray photocopies (Box 3 f. 17-18) for further
images and annotations. Especially interesting are the photographs of Max Ernst's house
with sculptural decorations at Capricorn Hill, near Sedona, Arizona, where he lived with
Dorothea Tanning from 1946 to 1953, as well as the one in St. Martin d'Ardèche, where he
had lived with Leonora Carrington before fleeing the Nazi occupation of France in 1941.
Of note are the photographs of a 1951 visit to Picasso's studio in Vallauris (see
Copley's narrative description in Box 3 f. 20). Also present are a photograph of De
Herrera working on a Matisse collage, and a small set of photographs taken by De Herrera
at the Just Jazz concert in Pasadena, 1947 Sept. 9, featuring Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella
Fitzgerald and others. De Herrera's travel to the USSR in 1957 and her Belgian exile in
the early 1960s are represented; the photographs of Algeria during its revolution and of
Angkor Wat were likely taken by Dominique Darbois or unknown photographers. De Herrera's
later life is more sparsely documented, with views of her home in the Dordogne, and
snapshots of her friends and associates, several unidentified. Series arrangement is
roughly chronological.
box 5, folder 1
Early photograph of Man Ray,
undated
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 5 x 3.5 cm.
on backing 13 x 8 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Annotated by De Herrera: "This is my famous 'M' a long time ago."
box 5, folder 2
Just Jazz concert, Pasadena,
1947 Sept 9
Physical Description: 9 photographic prints; 21.5 x 28
cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Black-and-white photographs taken by De Herrera, age 17, for her high school
newspaper. Artists pictured include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald,
Dizzy Gillespie and Jack Teagarden; possibly also Norman Granz and Barney Bigard.
Includes one contact sheet. With envelope featuring version of story in James Byrnes's
hand ( 1996 Jan. 30).
box 5, folder 3
Negatives from Just Jazz concert,
1947 Sept 9
Physical Description: 8 negatives; 8 x 11
cm.
box 5, folder 4
Gloria de Herrera's foot stepping on unidentified man,
undated
Physical Description: 1 photograph; 6.5 x 9.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Foot identification by James Byrnes, 2002 Sept. 10.
box 5, folder 5
Gathering on René Lefebvre-Foinet's porch, Silverlake,
[1948 or 1949]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 8.5 x 11
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Pictured are William Copley, Juliet Man Ray, Max Ernst, René Lefebvre-Foinet,
Dorothea Tanning, Man Ray and unidentified woman (possibly Doris Copley or Mrs.
Inverarity). Verso stamped: "Photo by R. B. Inverarity". With note addressed by James
Byrnes to Bruce Inverarity (1996). Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 6
William Copley and William Copley Jr.,
[between 1948 and 1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 11 x 14
cm.
Scope and Content Note
William Copley with young son. Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 7
Gloria de Herrera and William Copley,
[1949 or 1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 9 x 13
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 8
William Copley and Gloria de Herrera playing chess with Man Ray chess
set,
[1949 or 1950]
Physical Description: 1 transparency; 5 x 5 cm. in
frame 7 x 7 cm, with envelope
Scope and Content Note
Color transparency by Man Ray. With envelope inscribed by G. de H.: "Bill Copley et
m/m devant chez Man Ray, Vine Street, Hollywood - jeu d'echecs ebène et citronnier -
photo Man Ray 1949/50." See photograph of Man Ray ebony and lemon wood chess set, Box
4 f. 24.
box 5, folder 9
William Copley and Gloria de Herrera playing chess,
[1949 or 1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 12.5 x 17.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Color print from transparency.
box 5, folder 10
Max Ernst's Capricorn Hill, Sedona,
[1950]
Physical Description: 8 photographic prints; 9 x 12.5
cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, William Copley and De Herrera at Ernst's retreat in
Arizona. Includes poses with starched jeans; Tanning's dogs; a view of the sculptured
facade of Ernst's cabin; Ernst amidst home construction; and games with Man Ray
anodized aluminum chess set. Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 11
Portrait of Gloria de Herrera with starched jeans, Sedona,
[1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 9 x 12.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photograph by Max Ernst. Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 12
Max Ernst and Gloria de Herrera with starched jeans, Sedona,
[1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 8 x 11.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photograph by William Copley. Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 13
Man Ray with Dorothea Tanning's dogs, Hollywood,
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 5.5 x 5.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Taken outside Man Ray's studio, 1245 Vine Street. Photograph by Juliet Man Ray. Date
from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 14
Gloria de Herrera and William Copley at the Firehouse, Hollywood,
[1951 Jan. 1]
Physical Description: 4 photographic prints; 11 x 16.5
cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Taken at Copley's Hollywood gallery. With dachshund. Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 15
William Copley's exhibition at Royer's Bookshop,
1951
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 21.5 x 28
cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Contact sheet of nine exposures, and one print. Includes views of Man Ray aluminum
chess set.
box 5, folder 16
Negatives of Copley exhibition at Royer's bookshop,
1951
Physical Description: 6 negatives; 6 x 6 cm., on 3
films 13 x 6.2 cm.
box 5, folder 17
Patrick Joseph Kelleher, Walter Rothman,
ca. 1952, undated
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 25.5 x
20.5 and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles County museum personnel in the early 1950s. With biographical information
on versos. Kelleher photograph is signed and inscribed: "To Gloria - See you in
Rome."
box 5, folder 18
Gloria de Herrera, Juliet and Man Ray aboard the SS De Grasse,
1951 Mar
Physical Description: 4 photographic prints; 9 x 13
cm.
Scope and Content Note
On-deck snapshots.
box 5, folder 19
Gloria de Herrera, William Copley, Juliet and Man Ray aboard the SS De Grasse
with Marcel Duchamp,
1951 Mar
Physical Description: 5 photographic prints; 9 x 13 cm.
and smaller, on sheet 19.5 x 29.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Further on-deck snapshots. Four photographs affixed to backing; one loose.
Photographers are likely Copley and De Herrera.
box 5, folder 20
Man Ray and Gloria de Herrera at the SS De Grasse ocean liner
party,
1951 Mar
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 20.5 x 26
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Wearing party hats at banquet table. Copley bent over in lower portion of frame.
Photograph by ship's photographer Jacques Lucas.
box 5, folder 21
Gloria de Herrera's scrapbook,
[ca. 1950-1953]
Physical Description: 47 photographic prints on 22
leaves; prints 11 x 14 cm. and smaller, leaves 27 x 21 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Incomplete album with missing pages, created by De Herrera (likely in the 1970s or
1980s) from photographs taken the early 1950s. Photographs are pasted and captioned in
De Herrera's hand, on verso of typescript inventory of Dominique Darbois photographs.
Scenes include departure from New York Harbor on the SS De Grasse (1951 Mar., see also
Box 5, ff. 18-20); De Herrera at the Firehouse (1951 Jan. 1, see also Box 5 f. 14);
Max Ernst's houses at Capricorn Hill in Sedona (1950, see also Box 5 ff. 10-12) and
St. Martin d'Ardèche (1952 or 1953, see also Box 5 f. 31), with a focus on sculptural
decorations; and a visit to Picasso in Vallauris (ca. 1951, see also Box 5 f. 28).
Pictured are De Herrera, William Copley, Juliet and Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max
Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, Dominique and Paul Éluard, Valentine and Roland
Penrose, Marcel Zerbib, Pablo Picasso with son Claude and Françoise Gilot.
box 5, folder 22
Snapshots of Gloria de Herrera,
[ca. 1947-ca. 1952]
Physical Description: 4 photographic prints; 9 x 13 cm.
and smaller
Scope and Content Note
High school photograph; donning shoe and crouching by two different Citroën cars.
box 5, folder 23
Juliet and Man Ray, Paris,
[ca. 1951]
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 7 x 10
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Donor's inventory locates in Montparnasse; dates to 1950s.
box 5, folder 24
Man Ray in front of Bugatti automobile, Chartres,
[1951 or 1952]
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 7 x 10
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs by De Herrera; date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 25
Gloria de Herrera, William Copley, James and Barbara Byrnes,
Paris,
1951
Physical Description: 3 photographic prints; 6.5 x 9.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Standing in front of Lefebvre-Foinet's art supplies store, corner of Rue Brea and Rue
Vavin. Date on verso.
box 5, folder 26
Billboard advertising Max Ernst exhibition, Schloss Brühl
(Westphalia),
1951
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 6.5 x 9.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
See also Series II. Documents: Copley's writings (Box 2 f. 20) for description of
trip to visit Ernst exhibit in Germany.
box 5, folder 27
Gloria de Herrera with Roland Penrose, St. Tropez,
1951
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 9 x 12.5
cm. on sheet 29.5 x 21 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Playing chess outdoors, possibly with fishing nets in background. May be a sheet
detached from De Herrera's scrapbook.
box 5, folder 28
Picasso and Valentine Penrose with ceramics, Vallauris
(Alpes-Maritimes),
[1951]
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 9 x 13
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Date from De Herrera's annotation of scrapbook photocopies. See also Copley's
writings, Box 2 f. 20, for description of Picasso visit.
box 5, folder 29
Snapshots of Gloria de Herrera, Cap d'Antibes,
1951 or 1952
Physical Description: 3 photographic prints; 8 x 5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera smiling and laughing.
box 5, folder 30
Gloria de Herrera and Man Ray smoking pipes,
1952
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 8 x 11.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 31
Valentine and Roland Penrose, Marcel Zerbib, William Copley and Gloria de
Herrera, St. Martin d'Ardèche,
[1952 or 1953]
Physical Description: 13 photographic prints; 9 x 13
cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
At café in town, and at Max Ernst's home with views of sculptural wall decorations.
Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 32
Maison André Breton, St. Cirq-Lapopie (Lot),
Aug 1952 or 1953
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 11 x 15
cm. and smaller on sheet 29 x 20 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Postcard view of André Breton's house; group snapshot by Man Ray. Pictured are
Henri-Pierre Roché, Juliet Man Ray, De Herrera, Alicia Breton, Toyen, Benjamin Péret,
Wolfgang Paalen, André Breton, and George Goldberg or Goldtayn (?). May be a sheet
detached from De Herrera's scrapbook.
box 5, folder 33
At Henri-Pierre Roché's home, St. Robert (Corrèze),
[1952 or 1953]
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 6 x 6 cm.
on sheet 29.5 x 19.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Snapshots by Man Ray; pictured are Juliet Man Ray, De Herrera, Henri-Pierre and
Denise Roché. Undated; likely dates are 1952 or 1953 (based on similarity to Breton
images). May be a sheet detached from De Herrera's scrapbook.
box 5, folder 34
Gloria de Herrera with Matisse collage,
[between 1953 and 1959]
Physical Description: 1 color slide; 5 x 5 cm., 1
photographic print: color; 12.5 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera working on
Lierre en fleur. With envelope captioned by
Byrnes. Date from donor's inventory.
box 5, folder 35
Woman associated with Henri Matisse,
[195-]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 12 x 18
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified dark-haired woman wearing embroidered North African dress; photograph
found in envelope with other Matisse materials.
box 5, folder 36
Wolfgang Paalen at Uxmal, invitation,
1954, undated
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 9 x 14 cm.,
1 item; 10 x 27 cm.
Scope and Content Note
View of Paalen and unidentified woman in front of Uxmal ruins. With message on verso
in Paalen's hand, looking forward to upcoming meeting with De Herrera. Together with
signed invitation to 1954 publication party for issue no. 3 of
Medium.
box 5, folder 37
Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning and Gloria de Herrera with
Alexander Calder (?), Huismes (Indre et Loire),
[between 1955 and 1964]
Physical Description: 4 color slides; 5 x 5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Color slides, with note in De Herrera's hand: "At Max and Dorothea's in Huismes,
beside a CPLY ptg.". Date based on years of Ernst and Tannings's residence in
Huismes.
box 5, folder 38
Alberto Giacometti in his studio,
[195-]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 18 x 23
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Giacometti at work sculpting. Photographer's name partially cropped.
box 5, folder 39
Petit people intelligente internacional,
[195-]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 8.5 x 14
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Group portrait with penned-in names, including "Irene" (possibly Irene Musillo
Mitchell). Signed "Daniel".
box 5, folder 40
USSR negatives,
1957
Physical Description: 19 negatives; 6 x 6 cm. on films
19 x 6 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Views taken by De Herrera during her travel in the Soviet Union. With envelope.
box 5, folder 41
Odessa,
[1957?]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 22.5 x 17.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
View out of open bus doors, into a crowd of onlookers. "Odessa" written on verso in
Cyrillic script, likely in De Herrera's hand.
box 5, folder 42
Angkor Wat,
1958 Jan
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 6.5 x 9
cm.
Scope and Content Note
View of approach to Angkor Wat, from facing portico. With description on verso in
unknown hand.
box 5, folder 43
Gloria de Herrera's apartment in Paris,
undated
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 21 x 27
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Four interior shots on one contact sheet. With views of artworks including Calder's
G-shaped brooch, and a poster from the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.
box 5, folder 44
Algeria and Algerian war,
[ca. 1960]
Physical Description: 38 photographic prints; 21 x 23
cm. and smaller.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs, probably taken by Dominique Darbois, of the Algerian revolutionary army
(FLN), a medical clinic, and nomadic or village life. With one final aerial shot,
possibly of Subsaharan Africa. With a few brief notations on verso, likely in
Darbois's hand: "Cent", "Bou" and "Sud".
box 5, folder 45
Atrocities, Algeria,
1961
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints: color; 9 x
13 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Stamped on verso: "Tirage exécuté à la demande expresse du Client, malgré l'avis
défavorable du Service Technique." With envelope inscribed in De Herrera's hand:
"Photos tortures Algérie 1961".
box 5, folder 46
Snapshot of Gloria de Herrera, Brussels,
[1961 or 1962]
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 18 x 15
cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Passport-sized photo, with cropped enlargement.
box 5, folder 47
Gloria de Herrera and Omar Boudaoud, Brussels,
1961 or 1962
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: color; 8 x
10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
De Herrera playing checkers with Omar Boudaoud, leader of FLN in France.
box 5, folder 48
Gloria de Herrera and Victor Brauner on the beach, Blonville
(Calvados),
[before 1966]
Physical Description: 4 photographic prints: color; 10
x 15.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Heel-digging for cockles"; two copies each of two exposures. Versos inscribed
variously by De Herrera.
box 5, folder 49
La maison de l'île du Château Gaillard, Les Andelys (Eure),
undated
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: color; 9 x
9 cm., 1 color transparency; 6.5 x 6.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Identical views of stone house with steep gabled roof and dormer windows, in vicinity
of Norman castle. Verso of photograph inscribed by G. de H.: "Spent many nice
vacations."
box 5, folder 50
Gloria de Herrera and unidentified women [Madeleine Pastier?],
[196-?] [1984?]
Physical Description: 3 photographic prints; 5.5 x 5
cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Passport photographs of two unidentified women, one with sticker on verso: "Art et
Folklore, Bruxelles." With passport photograph of De Herrera, taken ca. 1984 (see also
photograph in letter to Byrnes, 1984 July 9, Box 1 f. 8). All three photographs found wrapped in envelope
inscribed by De Herrera: "Madeleine Pastier c/o Dominique Darbois; photos prises par
Serge à l'Isle Chât Gaillard." (May refer to photographs of Box 5 f. 52.)
box 5, folder 51
Malika Brahim,
[197-?]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 11 x 9.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of woman, with envelope inscribed by De Herrera: "Malika Brahim c/o D. D."
[Dominique Darbois].
box 5, folder 52
Minouche, Les Andelys (Eure),
[198-?]
Physical Description: 8 color transparencies; 6 x 6
cm., on film 19.5 x 6.5 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Gathering outdoors at La maison de l'île, Château Gaillard. Films found wrapped in
envelope inscribed by De Herrera: "Minouche c/o Dominique." (See also envelope in Box
5 f. 50, which may in fact refer to these photographs.)
box 5, folder 53
Gloria de Herrera in the Pyrenées,
[197-?]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; 9 x 9
cm.
Scope and Content Note
View of De Herrera on mountain path with peaks in distance. Verso inscribed by De
Herrera: "Trudging up the Pyrenées."
box 5, folder 54
Gloria de Herrera working at her desk,
[197-?]
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 6 x 7
cm.
box 5, folder 55
Gloria de Herrera, Dordogne,
[198-]
Physical Description: 7 photographic prints: color; 12
x 8 cm., 9 x 9 cm. and smaller
Scope and Content Note
Indoor and outdoor shots of De Herrera at her home at La Fontaine, La Chapelle
Aubareil. See also undated scrapbook page/letter to David de Herrera, Box 1 f. 16, for
photograph from 1977 of De Herrera's mule Auréliano outside the house.
box 5, folder 56
Gloria de Herrera,
1984 Feb
Physical Description: 1 color slide; 5 x 5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Indoor shot of De Herrera.
box 5, folder 57
David and Mildred de Herrera with Barbara Byrnes,
1985
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: color; 11 x
9 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Polaroid photograph taken by James Byrnes; David de Herrera holds mandolin owned by
De Herrera. See Byrnes letter to De Herrera, 1985 June 18, for description of meeting (Box 1 f.
12).
box 5, folder 58
Box with contents,
[1985]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: color; 11 x
9 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Probably the compartment box bequeathed to David de Herrera; for list of contents see
Box 1 f. 17.
box 5, folder 59
Lefebvre-Foinet's art supplies store,
1991
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints: color; 10
x 15 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs taken by James Byrnes. For view of storefront in 1951, see Box 5 f.
25.
box 3, folder 17
Photocopies of scrapbook pages and loose photographs,
1947-ca. 1985, undated
Physical Description: 29 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies annotated by De Herrera with dates, places, identities and some comments.
Documents several photographs not included in collection. With post-it notes dating
from 1996 Track 16 exhibition, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica.
box 3, folder 18
Photocopies of images pertaining to Man Ray,
1948-1957, undated
Physical Description: 8 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of announcement for "Café Man Ray"; signed portrait of De Herrera;
aluminum chess set; inscribed portrait of Man Ray ("Gloria, je te donne rendez-vous à
Paris mois de mai 1951 - Man"); gathering at Man Ray's Hollywood studio; view of
studio (in Paris?); inscribed photograph of harps ("For Gloria / woman of my harp /
Man Ray Paris 1957"); Man Ray in drag, from Italian publication. None of the original
photographs are included in collection. With several annotations by De Herrera.
Series V.
Oversize materials,
1937-1979
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
This short series contains individual items taken from three of the other series, and
stored separately due to their larger size. Of special interest is the William Copley
canvas entitled Gloria, which Copley painted for De Herrera. Also present are
photographs of a Matisse drawing; a pamphlet on the British response to French writing
during WWII; a pen-and-ink sketch of jazz musicians; and an original transcript of
George Dondero's Senate speech denouncing modern art ( 1949 Aug. 16). A photocopy of press coverage of De
Herrera's 1960 arrest is included, as is a review clipping of Hervé Hamon's
Les
porteurs de valises
.
box 6*
Gloria,
1953
Physical Description: 1 painting: oil on canvas; 56 x
36 cm.
Scope and Content Note
With two affixed photographs, 7 x 6.5 cm. and smaller: one heart-shaped, the other
irregularly shaped. Painted by William Copley.
box 7*, folder 1
Photograph of Matisse drawing,
1937
Physical Description: 2 photographic prints; 40 x 30
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of drawing of a woman. With one photocopy.
box 7*, folder 2
Idolatry and confusion,
1944 Mar
Physical Description: 1 pamphlet (1 sheet); 29 x 44.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Essay written by Jacques B. Brunius and E.L.T. Mesens, in response to Albert
Koestler's article "Literary idolatry", which appeared in the
London
Tribune
, 1943 Nov.
26. The present pamphlet was published by London Gallery Editions, after the
London Tribune rejected it. The essay is strongly critical of the
British literary response to French writings of the time. With mention of Georges
Bernanos, André Breton, Denis de Rougement, Aragon, André Malraux, Paul Eluard, and
others.
box 7*, folder 3
Sketch of jazz musicians,
undated
Physical Description: 1 drawing: ink on paper; 27 x
26.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Pen sketches of two saxophonists and a drummer.
box 7*, folder 4
Modern art shackled to Communism,
1949 Aug 16
Physical Description: 1 pamphlet (1 sheet); 29 x 46.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Text of speech by George Dondero to the House of Representatives, published in the
Congressional Record; a vehement condemnation of modern art. Original
for copies in Box 2 f. 13.
box 7*, folder 5
Photocopies of newspaper articles on De Herrera's arrest,
1960
Physical Description: 2 sheets; 28 x 43 cm. and
smaller
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of a series of eight articles appearing in unidentified newspapers
(possibly including the
Los Angeles Times), 1960 Feb through 1960 Sept.
For further articles, see Series II. Documents, Box 2 f. 28.
box 7*, folder 6
Review of
Les porteurs de valises,
[1979]
Physical Description: 1 clipping; 42 x 18.5
cm.
Scope and Content Note
Clipping of article entitled "Ces Français qui portaient les valises du FLN", written
by François Fonvieille-Alquier for unidentified newspaper. Found folded in copy of
Les porteurs de valises, by Hamon and Rotman. With one photocopy.
Series VI.
Audiovisual materials,
1983-1996
Physical Description: 7 sound recordings, 1 video
recording
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of taped interviews of Gloria de Herrera (1983) and James Byrnes
(1996). Materials unavailable until reformatting is complete.
box 8
C1-C7: Interview with Gloria de Herrera,
1983 July
Interview with Gloria de Herrera: 1983
Physical Description: 7 dictaphone tapes plus 7
cassette tapes
Scope and Content Note
7 sound cassettes of 7 (dictaphone tapes) : analog. Originals.
7 sound cassettes of 7 : analog. Originals (copies of the dicataphone tapes).
Interview conducted by James Byrnes. See Series II. Documents: Box 3, f. 1-3 for
transcript, and Box 3 f. 7 for Byrnes's notes and intended questions for follow-up
interview planned for 1985 April.
V1: Interview with James Byrnes,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Interview conducted in Santa Monica by Dickran Tashjian, in conjunction with Track
16 gallery exhibition on Man Ray.
