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Title: Bernard and Rebecca Reis papers
Date (inclusive): ca. 1924-1985
Number: 900184
Creator/Collector:
Reis, Bernard J.
Creator/Collector:
Reis, Rebecca G., 1896-1988
Physical Description:
3.4 linear feet
(8 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Accountant who served as a financial advisor and patron to many artists; wife Rebecca Reis (b. 1900) was an art collector.
The papers contain correspondence, business and financial records, printed ephemera, photographs, a substantial body of letters
from major and minor figures of the American art world, written and visual documentation of the Reis collection of art and
books, and ephemeral material relating to artists and patrons.
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English
Bernard Reis (1895-1978) was an accountant who served as a financial advisor and patron to many artists; his wife, Rebecca
Reis (b. 1900), was an art collector.
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Bernard and Rebecca Reis papers, ca. 1924-1985, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 900184.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa900184
Acquired 1990.
Bernard Reis papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Bernard and Rebecca Reis Papers contain correspondence, business and financial records, printed ephemera, and photographs.
The two primary foci, 20th century artists and the art collection formed by Bernard and Rebecca Reis, are brought out through
a substantial body of letters from major and minor figures of the American art world, written and visual documentation of
the Reis collection of art and books, and ephemeral material relating to artists and patrons.
Organized in three series:
Series I. Correspondence and papers, ca. 1924-1985;
Series II. Printed ephemera. ca. 1924-1985;
Series III. Photographs, ca. 1924-1985
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Reis, Rebecca G., 1896-1988
Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Art patrons--United States
Art--Collectors and collecting
Painting, Modern--20th century
Sculpture, Modern--20th century
Illustrations
Photographic prints--20th century
Photographs, Original
Albee, Edward, 1928-
Asher, Elise, 1914-
Barr, Alfred Hamilton, 1902-1981
Baziotes, William, 1912-1963
Birnbaum, Abe
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992
Calas, Nicolas
Campigli, Massimo, 1895-1971
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985
Congdon, William, 1912-1998
De Diego, Julio, 1900-1979
De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993
Dufy, Raoul, 1877-1953
Eliot, Alexander
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-
Grosz, George, 1893-1959
Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979
Guston, Philip, 1913-1980
Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973
Lloyd, Frank
Man Ray, 1890-1976
Miró, Joan, 1893-1983
Motherwell, Robert
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002
Salemme, Attilio , 1911-1955
Sandberg, Willem Jacob Henri Berend, 1897-1984
Stamos, Theodoros, 1922-1997
Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-
Van Leyden, Ernst, 1892-1969
Wilder, Clinton