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Sub-Subseries: III.2.1: Columbia University, 1929-1977
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- 1928, when he became a "Lecturer" in the Fine Arts department, where art history courses were taught in
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Schapiro's role as a faculty member at Columbia University went uninterrupted from 1928 until 1978, a full 50 years of academic service. Schapiro began his formal teaching at Columbia beginning in 1928, when he became a "Lecturer" in the Fine Arts department, where art history courses were taught in the same department as those focused on the practice of fine arts. An independent art history department would not be established until 1961.Four years later, in 1965, Schapiro was appointed University Professor, the second such honor bestowed to a faculty member at Columbia at the time. In 1973, Schapiro become University Professor Emeritus at Columbia and would continue to teach until 1978.
Wallach Art Gallery Records, 1985-2017 17.25 linear feet
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- graduate students and faculty in Art History & Archaeology or by other Columbia scholars; focus on the
arises. They operate in close relationship to the Department of Art History and Archaeology, School of - Creator
- Wallach Art Gallery
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This collection consists of exhibition files, general operations files and exhibition catalogs generated by the Wallach Art Gallery staff between 1985 and 2017.
Subseries II.3: School of General Studies, 1961-1993
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- from two programs that ran out of Reid Hall, both beginning in the mid-1980s: the Art History Institute
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Subseries II.3 focuses on the administration of Reid Hall's academic programs and their association with broader university systems in the 1980s and 1990s. Until 2009, Reid Hall was operated under the School of General Studies, though its place within the school structure changed over time as it reorganized. Frank Wolf, originally Associate Dean of the School of General Studies and later head of the Division of Special Programs, which covered Reid Hall beginning in 1995, led this aspect of Reid Hall's work. These functions are documented through meeting minutes, correspondence, and other papers from the Academic Advisory Committee as well as memos on faculty, coursework, and salaries. There are also records from two programs that ran out of Reid Hall, both beginning in the mid-1980s: the Art History Institute and the Graduate Student Research Institute.
Gates, Bridges, Antiquity Box 3, Folder 6
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- departments of art history.
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Porta Acqua Felice via Auralia Antica, Porta Furba, Porta Satino, Porta Maggiore, Porta Pia, Porta del Popolo, Porta Portese, Porta San Giovanni, Porta San Sebastiano, Arco di Druso, Porta Santo Spirito, Porta Sisto, Porta Tibertina, ponte Cloaca Maxima, Ponte Rotto, Ponte Sisto, Ponte Sant'Angelo, Ponte Milvio, Fragments Campidoglio, Castel Sant'Angelo, Museo di Terme, via Arco di Druso, via Appia Antica, Owen's Via Appia, Arco di Dolabella, Arco di Grano, Templo Minerva Medica, near Constantinia, Maxentius, Cloaca Maxima, Terme di Caracalla, Foro Romano, Temple of Antonio e Faustina vestal tholos, view over pool of Vestal house to Arch of Titus, Arch of Titus, Basilica of Maxentius, Owen's forum, Sadio-Palatine, Pyramid of Cestius, Temple of Apollo, Foro Triano, Via del Impero, Baths of Titus, Baker's Tomb. Some notes attribute images to an Owen. Who this Owen is reminas unconfirmed, but in Bayley's CV, he notes that in 1951-3 they established Bayley-Owen Pictures to sell the photographs to museums and departments of art history.
Modern painting since 1900 (Art History G4640y) -- Columbia University -- 1965 February - April, 1900, 1965 February
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- Modern painting since 1900 (Art History G4640y) -- Columbia University -- 1965 February - April
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(Annotations on reel Boxes identify these lectures as "Twentieth Century Painting." The course title used here was identified from Columbia Univeristy course material found in Series III, Subseries: III.2, Sub-Subseries: III.2.1. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's inventory, several lectures are recorded on the same reel. As a result, reels are organized according to lecture. Beginnings of all lectures are intact except lecture V and IV. The ending of lecture IV is also cut off. Sound quality is poor on lectures II, III, V, VIII, andXIII. The sound quality is mixed on lectures IV and XIV. Sound disappears midway through side b of lectures IX and XIV. Some of the lectures in this series were on the following topics: The art of the 1880s and 1890s ; The art of the 1890s ; Themes of self-color-portraiture ; Marquet-Matisse ; Matisse continued ; Picasso and Cubism.)
Circle of Dorothy Draper Collection, 1910s-1960s 32 drawings
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- Library Services, 1976; Masters in Art History, 1977; J. D., 1988) by Claude-Albert Saucier in 2010
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The collection is made up of 32 drawings in pencil, pastel, ink, and/or gouache on paper, vellum, or board. Included are designs for light fixtures, chairs, tables, mirrors, sofas in styles ranging from Baroque revival, Greek revival, Chinese Chippendale revival, and Regency revival.
Otto W. Fuhrmann papers, 1930-1961 7 boxes
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- Graphic arts -- History
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- Fuhrmann, Otto W. (Otto Walter)
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The collection consists of the manauscripts of Fuhrmann's articles, notes, and related items on the history of printing and graphic arts. A great many of Fuhrmann's articles were about Johann Gutenberg. There is also correspondence, primarily with people well known in the printing trade.
Series II: Charles and Camilla Altschul, 1863-1932
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- Altschul, Rosita's diary, and an art history notebook kept by Maria Altschul. Information on Camilla is
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This series contains the papers of Frank Altschul's parents, Charles and Camilla Altschul. Though his family was American, Charles was born in England and studied Germany, and he retained a strong interest in European politics and history throughout his life. His papers contain research notes, annotated subject files and correspondence on many topics, including European economics, social issues such as health care and birth control, and research on foreign language publications in the United States. Several files hold correspondence and articles written in response to his writings, including his monograph "The American Revolution in Our School Textbooks" and articles on war debt and war guilt after World War I. The series also holds correspondence between Charles Altschul and his cousin, Dr. Paul Hammerschlag of Vienna. The series contains smaller amounts of information on other members of the Altschul family, such a family tree, a marriage scrapbook for Frank Altschul's uncle and aunt, William and Rosita Altschul, Rosita's diary, and an art history notebook kept by Maria Altschul. Information on Camilla is limited to condolences upon her death in 1952.
Fannina W. Halle Papers, 1911-1939 30 items
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- , she graduated from the Art History department of Vienna University and specialized in ancient Russian
Russia to study art history. The cataloged correspondence in this collection consists of letters from the - Creator
- Halle, Fannina W., 1881-1963
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Most of the papers, which consist of correspondence and documents, concern the period 1911-1913 when Halle, then a student at the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the University of Vienna, went to Russia to study art history. The cataloged correspondence in this collection consists of letters from the following scholars: Boris Denike, Louis Rʹeau, Iakov Smirnov, Praskov'ia Uvarova, Josef Strzygowski, and Valentin Zubov. Arranged correspondence includes letters from various people and organizations, such as Imperatorskoe Moskovskoe Arkheologicheskoe obshchestvo, Imperatorskoe Stroganovskoe Tsentral'noe khudozhestvenno-promyshlennoe uchilishche, Kunsthistorisches Institut. Among documents are library IDs, including Biblioteka Istoricheskogo muzeia and Imperatorskaia Publichnaia biblioteka; member card of the Piatnadtsatyi Arkheologicheskii s"ezd v Novgorode; credential of the Vladimirskaia Dukhovnaia Konsistoriia; and list of publications provided by Imperatorskaia Akademiia Khudozhestv.