Edith Schloss Burckhardt Papers, 1962-2011

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SERIES V: WRITING

Subseries V.A: General

Including manuscripts, fragments, notes, research and published work

Request Box 10

Box 10 Art criticism and writing

Request Box 11

Box 11 Art criticism and writing

Request Box 12

Box 12 Art criticism and writing

Request Box 13

Box 13 Art criticism and writing

Request Box 10-13

Box 10-13 Art nouveau

Box 10-13 Assorted

Box 10-13 Assorted writing, 2 folders

Box 10-13 Autobiography--notes, 4 folders

Box 10-13 Fairy tales

Box 10-13 Frieda (story)

Box 10-13 Greek art [oversize]

Box 10-13 I Opened My Mouth in Minnesota (George Morrison story)

Box 10-13 Lecture on Italian art

Box 10-13 Letter to Jean-Michel before it is too late...

Box 10-13 Notes on Jean-Michel Basquiat

Box 10-13 Poems

Box 10-13 Published Articles by Edith Schloss--in presentation binder

Box 10-13 Resumés and CVs

Box 10-13 Roma la Pitturadi un Impero--notes on exhibition

Box 10-13 Siena

Box 10-13 Cy Twombly, 2 folders

Box 10-13 Vatican story--Art News (Summer 1974)

Box 10-13 Wanted in Rome

Box 10-13 Including last cover by ESB and obituary

Box 10-13 Folder #50--Marble Coast various (was on middle shelf in armadio)

Box 10-13 Clippings

Box 10-13 Folder #51--Cornell [oversize] (was on middle shelf in armadio)

Box 10-13 Clippings, writings

Box 10-13 See also Cornell, Joseph in Series I.A

Box 10-13 Folder #56--de Kooning [oversize] (was on middle shelf in armadio)

Box 10-13 Clippings

Box 10-13 Folder #58--Mamama

Box 10-13 Memoir of Esther Burckhardt Iselin

Box 10-13 Folder #59--Underground Offenbach etc

Box 10-13 Folder #61--Es Zimmer

Box 10-13 Memoirs about Rudy Burckhardt's brothers and sisters

Box 10-13 Folder #69--Susan Lowenherz (was on middle shelf in armadio)

Box 10-13 Includes "Susan's Smile" and notes and fragments

Box 10-13 Folder #70--8 essays (was on middle shelf in armadio)

Box 10-13 Copies of various memoirs

Box 10-13 Folder #74--Misc

Box 10-13 Writings (published in PIM83), 82, reviews 83, 72, fragments

Box 10-13 Folder #84--CY Gagosian Venice Americans 68

Box 10-13 Clippings, etc. on Twombly, some ESB notes

Box 10-13 Folder #92--Arte Contemporenea Dicembre, 1974

Box 10-13 Magazine with ESB report from NYC, p. 51

Box 10-13 Folder #93--Venice Etruscan Show, 2000

Box 10-13 Small black notebook with scraps pasted in

Box 10-13 Folder #96--Morandi

Box 10-13 ESB article, conversations with Georgio Morandi, clippings, etc.

Box 10-13 Folder #97--Art in America, December 1998

Box 10-13 ESB article on p. 50

Box 10-13 Folder #98--

Box 10-13 Perilli

Box 10-13 Article in Italian about boxes, fragments titled "Metek" and "Perilli"

Box 10-13 Folder #102--

Box 10-13 First review ever, 1945

Box 10-13 Folder #105--

Box 10-13 Sept 01 window

Box 10-13 Correspondence about "12th St. Window" and the article

Box 10-13 Folder #107--

Box 10-13 Pensionati

Box 10-13 Retired people in Siena short story, "Duccio" Dec 11, 03

Box 10-13 Folder #108--

Box 10-13 Algeciras Girls

Box 10-13 Account of stay in Algeria

Box 10-13 Folder #116--

Box 10-13 de Kooning

Box 10-13 New Yorker cover and article on de Kooning book, ESB letter and notes about de Kooning, and other New Yorker clippings

Box 10-13 Folder #119--Long blah

Box 10-13 CVs, career narratives, originals and copies

Box 10-13 Folder #121

Box 10-13 "Italian Women Speak up on Abortion," from Redstockings, "Jacob's Two Cities," by ESB, "if not a Rembrandt, at least a Schloss" (not about ESB), letter and schedule of "More than Words" book tour

Box 10-13 Folder #123--

Box 10-13 Poets Bay, poets trip

Box 10-13 Fragments and writings

Box 10-13 Folder #125--Cat 05

Box 10-13 Keats Shelley show material

Box 10-13 Folder #126--

Box 10-13 Gina

Box 10-13 Keats Shelley show material

Box 10-13 Folder #144

Box 10-13 Press releases, notes, scraps on Michelangelo and Sistine chapel

Box 10-13 Folder #146--

Box 10-13 de Pisis

Box 10-13 Press releases, fragments and notes on Filippo de Pisis

Box 10-13 Folder #145

Box 10-13 Press releases, notes, scraps on Antonello da Messina

Box 10-13 Folder #146--

Box 10-13 Duccio

Box 10-13 Article and notes on Duccio and the origins of Sienese painting

Box 10-13 Folder #147--

Box 10-13 Cararra and Coreggio

Box 10-13 Articles and correspondence on Correggio and Cararra

Box 10-13 Folder #148--

Box 10-13 Canaletto

Box 10-13 Clippings and notes

Box 10-13 Folder #150--

Box 10-13 Sabina

Box 10-13 Articles and correspondence on Sabina Mirri and Keats Shelley, 2007

Box 10-13 Folder #151--

Box 10-13 Morandi

Box 10-13 Articles and correspondence on Morandi

Box 10-13 Folder #152--various current 07?

Box 10-13 Poetry and scraps

Box 10-13 Folder #157--

Box 10-13 Chiari

Box 10-13 Article and notes on Giuseppe Chiari

Box 10-13 Folder #161--

Box 10-13 Hospital 03

Box 10-13 Copies and article, Artisti in Ospedale, Pietrasanta

Box 10-13 Folder #162--Bertolani

Box 10-13 Paolo Bertolani poems and translations

Box 10-13 Folder #169 [oversize]

Box 10-13 ESB chronology, taken down from right door of big armadio, various-sized pieces of paper, in order, more or less

Box 10-13 Folder #170

Box 10-13 ESB chronology, "Historical dates," taken down from left door of big armadio, various sized pieces of paper

Box 10-13 Folder #172

Box 10-13 Folder #173

Box 10-13 Assorted scraps of paper

Box 10-13 Folder #174

Box 10-13 Scraps, Milton Gendel and Matisse

Box 10-13 Folder #175--Arturo Marini

Box 10-13 Scraps and press releases

Box 10-13 Folder #176--

Box 10-13 Attenzione 82

Box 10-13 Article on Poets' Bay

Box 10-13 Folder #177--Marble

Box 10-13 Marble coast article with correspondence

Box 10-13 Folder #178--

Box 10-13 Original 62

Box 10-13 Marble coast article

Box 10-13 Folder #179--In the Bay of Lerici

Box 10-13 Folder #180--Readers Digest

Box 10-13 Two copies, in English and French with article by ESB

Box 10-13 Folder #181--Misc.

Box 10-13 Misc articles, not WIR

Box 10-13 Folder #182--

Box 10-13 Eye On Italy

Box 10-13 Article

Box 10-13 Folder #183--IDN

Box 10-13 Articles from International Daily News

Box 10-13 Folder #184--Editors Schattuck Norton

Box 10-13 Correspondence with editors

Box 10-13 Folder #191--

Box 10-13 Marble coast old articles

Box 10-13 Folder #195--

Box 10-13 Art in America

Box 10-13 Articles and correspondence

Box 10-13 Folder #197--Misc.

Box 10-13 Assorted reviews

Box 10-13 Folder #200--Susan Lowenherz

Box 10-13 Folder #201--Writing not published

Box 10-13 Folder #225--Early writing

Box 10-13 Folder #230--Gaudi

Box 10-13 Copy of Art News January 1958 article. Written by ESB with photographs by Rudy, January 1958

Box 10-13 Burckhardt

Box 10-13 Folder #240--Women

Box 10-13 Scraps, copies Artist's wife

Box 10-13 Folder #241--

Box 10-13 Italy Italy

Box 10-13 Issues of the magazine with articles by and about ESB

Box 10-13 Folder #243--Gaudi

Box 10-13 Copy of Art News January 1958 article. Written by ESB with photographs by Rudy, January 1958

Box 10-13 Burckhardt.

Box 10-13 Folder #244--Misc. old

Box 10-13 Originals of articles, herb cookery, dream

Box 10-13 Folder #246--Village Voice, The Nation, Redstockings [oversize]

Box 10-13 Manuscripts and articles

Box 10-13 Folder #248--

Box 10-13 Snippets Italian art

Box 10-13 Folder #255--Jimmy

Box 10-13 Copy of ESB Schuyler article

Box 10-13 Folder #255--Art News

Box 10-13 Assorted notes and fragments

Box 10-13 Folder #261--Notes and fragments

Box 10-13 Folder #266--Recent 2010 2011 ?, 2010, 2011

Box 10-13 Folder #268--891

Box 10-13 Issues of magazine and ms. of article

Box 10-13 Folder #269--

Box 10-13 Washing Floors in America

Box 10-13 Ms. and copies of article

Box 10-13 Folder #274

Box 10-13 Assorted aricles

Box 10-13 Folder #276

Box 10-13 Inventories, by Jacopo and others

Box 10-13 Folder #280--

Box 10-13 Paoletta Alberto Caregnato Gianoli

Box 10-13 Folder #281--Ilona Kos

Box 10-13 Folder #282--Celebrities

Box 10-13 Lists of celebrities ESB has met, fragments

Box 10-13 Folder #286

Box 10-13 Fragments and copies of Greek material

Box 10-13 Folder #295--

Box 10-13 Writing done

Box 10-13 Fragments

Box 10-13 Folder #304--

Box 10-13 The Harp of Nicanor

Box 10-13 Manuscript

Box 10-13 Folder #305--fragments from near ESB's telephone

Box 10-13 Folder #311--To Edith With Love: A Collection of Reviews and Covers from Wanted in Rome

Box 10-13 Folder #326

Box 10-13 Unpublished poems, notes

Box 10-13 Folder #327--

Box 10-13 Poems

Box 10-13 Love poems, Siena, Alvin, NY, Maine

Box 10-13 Folder #328--

Box 10-13 NY Rome Pomes

Box 10-13 Folder #329--

Box 10-13 Poems done sort of

Box 10-13 Folder #330--

Box 10-13 Songs of La Serra

Box 10-13 Folder #331--

Box 10-13 "Modern Italian Art Before and after the futurism, and GNAM American art

Box 10-13 Lectures including notes and fragments

Box 10-13 Folder #352--

Box 10-13 Scraps and misc 02

Box 10-13 Folder #368--

Box 10-13 Etruscan

Box 10-13 Postcards and images

Box 10-13 Folder #385--Rome history

Box 10-13 Fragments and notes

Box 10-13 Folder #386--05

Box 10-13 Handwritten pages, fragments

Box 10-13 Folder #391--

Box 10-13 to answer 03

Box 10-13 Folder #397

Box 10-13 Letter to New Yorker and fragments

Subseries V.B: International Herald Tribune

ESB was the art critic for Italy for The International Herald Tribune from 1968 until 1986.

Request Box 14

Box 14 American Artists in Italy Articles, 1969-1972 1977 1980-1984, 1969-1972, 1977, 1980-1984

Box 14 Letter to the Editor ("Come Back, Michelangelo"), 2002

Box 14 Bertolt Brecht Article and Notes, 1978 1984, 1978, 1984

Box 14 Business Letters (esp. to Betsy Bates), 1969-1984

Box 14 French Exhibitions Articles, 1969-1971 1975 1978 1979 1982, 1969-1971, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1982

Box 14 De Pisis and Cavaglieti Exhibitions, 1980 1981, 1980, 1981

Box 14 Italian Moderns Articles, 1970 1971 1973 1976-1982, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1976-1982

Box 14 Gastone Novelli Articles, 1970 1976 1985, 1970, 1976, 1985

Box 14 Manzoni and Pascali Articles, 1971 1976, 1971, 1976

Box 14 Turcato Articles, 1970 1972 1974 1980 1986, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1986

Box 14 International Artists, 1972 1977 1982 1984 1993, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1993

Box 14 Freud Article, 1971

Box 14 Otto Dix Articles, 1972 1979, 1972, 1979

Box 14 Giacomo Balla Article, 1972

Box 14 Liguria Olives Article, 1984

Box 14 Female Artists Articles, 1980 1998, 1980, 1998

Box 14 Futurism, 1978 1982 1985, 1978, 1982, 1985

Box 14 Licini Articles, 1973 1975 1976 1979, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979

Box 14 General Italian Art, 1970 1973 1974 1978 1982 1992, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1992

Box 14 Classic Italian Art, 1970 1971 1973 1976 1977 1979 1984, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1984

Box 14 Watercolors Articles, 1980

Box 14 Galleries in Rome, 1973-1982

Box 14 Original Copies, 1969-1986, 17 folders

Box 14 Clippings, 1969-1986, 16 folders

Subseries V.C: The Loft Generation

For many years ESB researched and wrote The Loft Generation, an unpublished memoir of her life as part of the de Kooning-Denby circle of poets, composers and painters (including, the de Koonings, Rudy Burckhardt, Edwin Denby, The Artist's Club, Leo Castelli, John Cage, Elliott Carter, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers).

Request Box 15

Box 15 First Proof, 2010

Box 15 Second Proof, 2011

Box 15 Partial Draft, undated

Box 15 Drafts and Notes on James Schuyler (?), undated

Box 15 Fragments, undated

Box 15 Manuscript, pg. 1-154, undated

Box 15 Manuscript, pg. 158-295, undated

Box 15 Elain Notes, undated

Box 15 Notes and Clippings, undated

Box 15 Notes and Fragments, undated

Box 15 Willem de Kooning Notes, undated

Box 15 Drafts, undated

Box 15 Notes to Check, undated

Box 15 "Space Cadets" Chapter, undated

Box 15 Literary Agent Correspondence, 1990 1991 2000, 1990, 1991, 2000

Box 15 Original MS, pg. 1-65, undated

Box 15 Original MS, pg. 66-125, undated

Box 15 Original MS, pg. 126-154, undated

Box 15 Original MS, pg. 190-228, undated

Box 15 Original MS, pg. 229-254, undated

Box 15 Original MS, pg. 255-295, undated

Box 15 Handwritten Drafts, undated

Box 15 Fragments, Notes, Drafts, undated

Box 15 Handwritten Drafts, Fragments, undated

Box 15 Notes on Particular Figures, undated

Box 15 Fragments and Notes, undated

Box 15 Fragments Marked "Done,", undated

Request Box 16

Box 16 Correspondence, 2009 2011, 2009, 2011

Box 16 Autobiography Notes and Drafts, undated

Box 16 Autobiography Swimming Draft, 2004

Box 16 Autobiography Lucia, undated

Box 16 Autobiography De Mott, undated

Box 16 Autobiography Snippets, undated

Box 16 Autobiography Marked Miscellaneous, undated

Box 16 Autobiography Fragments and Notes, undated

Box 16 Autobiography Assorted Notes and Drafts, undated

Box 16 "The Prepared Cage" Chapter, undated

Box 16 "The Castelli Saga" Chapter, 2007 2008, 2007, 2008

Box 16 MS Copy pg. 1-125, undated

Box 16 MS Copy pg. 216-189, undated

Box 16 MS Copy pg. 190-228, undated

Box 16 MS Copy pg. 229-294, undated

Box 16 Notes, undated

Box 16 MS Copy pg. 1-157, undated

Box 16 Revisions, 2011

Box 16 "Edwin's Loft" Chapter, undated

Box 16 "Nell's Loft" Chapter, undated

Box 16 Notes, undated

Box 16 Cover Artwork, undated

Box 16 Full MS Copy, undated

Box 16 Material on Phillip Pavia, 1993

Box 16 Stray Notes and MS Pages, undated

Box 16 Table of Contents, undated

Box 16 Bio and Blurbs, undated

Box 16 Larry Rivers, 1992

Box 16 "The Castelli Saga" Chapter, 2007 2008, 2007, 2008

Box 16 Castelli Sonnabend Research, 2007

Box 16 "The Prepared Cage" Chapter, undated

Box 16 MS Copy pg. 1-125, undated

Subseries V.D: Books

ESB wrote and illustrated her own books and unpublished novels, including the self-published Seven Dog Walks in Rome

Request Box 17

Box 17 "A Sonnet to Casper,", undated

Box 17 Life, Love, and Death in Siena Originals, 1948

Box 17 Seven Dog Walks in Rome Cover Art, undated

Box 17 Seven Dog Walks Sketches and Notes, 1970 1972, 1970, 1972

Box 17 Seven Dog Walks Final Copy, 1974

Box 17 The Sightseers Original MS, 1956

Box 17 The Sightseers MS Copy pg. 1-214, 1956

Box 17 The Sightseers MS Copy pg. 215-427, 1956

Box 17 Praise for The Sightseers, undated

Box 17 Unfinished Novel, undated

Box 17 Mixed Company Drafts and Notes, undated

Box 17 What Casper Saw Drawings and Text, 1963

Box 17 What Casper Saw Bound Copy, 1962-1964

Box 17 Songs of La Serra Original MS, 1982

Box 17 Songs of La Serra Original Drawings, 1982

Box 17 Songs of La Serra Bound Copy, 1982

Box 17 Songs of La Serra Copy, 1982

Box 17 Songs of La Serra Copy 2, 1982

Box 17 Songs of La Serra Copy 3, 1982

Box 17 Songs of La Serra Copy 4, 1982

Box 17 Songs of La Serra Poems and Drawings, 1964-1980

Box 17 Casper and the Cats of Rome Bound, undated

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