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Title: Charles M. Kurtz archive
Date (inclusive): 1870-1910
Number: 910163
Creator/Collector:
Kurtz, Charles M. (Charles McMeen), 1855-1909
Physical Description:
1.67 linear feet
(4 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: American art critic, editor, collector, dealer, and director of numerous arts organizations and expositions. Collection documents
Kurtz's prominent role as arts administrator, and patron and promoter of the arts, and includes letters from notable figures
in the late 19th- and early 20th-century art world, manuscripts, printed ephemera, and notebooks.
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Language: Collection material is in
English
Charles M. Kurtz (1855-1909) was the director of the Albright Gallery and Buffalo Arts Academy from 1905-1909. He was also
an art critic, collector, and art director of the St. Louis Exposition of 1894 and of other art fairs and expositions.
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Charles M. Kurtz archive, 1870-1910, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 910163.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa910163
Acquired in 1991.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Charles M. Kurtz papers document his prominent role as an arts administrator, patron and promoter of the arts in the United
States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and include letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed ephemera. The
collection contains ca. 340 letters which discuss exhibitions, sales of art, patronage, atelier visits, and submissions to
publications, and include letters to his parents in which he discusses the art market and art world news. Manuscripts, notebooks,
a diary and printed ephemera relate to exhibitions and publications, and date between 1873-1910.
The papers are organized in two series:
Series I: Correspondence, 1870-1910;
Series II: Manuscripts, ephemera, notebooks, and address books, 1873-1909