Vladimir Visson Papers, 1946-1986

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Series I: Correspondence

Series organized in two subseries: Cataloged correpospondence and Arranged correspondence.


Subseries I.1: Cataloged correspondence

(Correspondence with prominent persons)



Box 1 Auchincloss, Louis


Box 1 Berman, Eugene


Box 1 Bernays, Edward L.


Box 1 Gunther, John


Box 1 McCann, Kevin


Box 1 Ozenfant, Amédée


Box 1 Rockefeller, David


Box 1 Speicher, Eugene


Box 1 Van Zeeland, Paul


Subseries I.2: Arranged correspondence

(General correspondence)


Box 1 A - Z

Series II: Manuscripts

Series includes manuscripts by Andrei Tarkovskii and Vladimir Visson.


Subseries II.1: Cataloged manuscripts


Box 1 Tarkovskii, Andrei Arsen'evich. Primechaniia


Subseries II.2: Arranged manuscripts

(Contains Visson's original manuscripts on Russian painters and autobiographical writings)


Visson, Vladimir


Box 1 "Common Ground"


Box 1 "Fair Warning"


Box 1 Lectures, Notes



Box 2 Profiles of Russian Painters



Box 1 Miscellaneous

Series III: Photographs and Drawings



Box 2 Arranged photographs


Box 2 Arranged drawings

Series IV: Subject Files

Subject files include material on the Hallmark Art Award and exhibitions Visson mounted for the Wildenstein Gallery including shows on Gauguin, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh.


Hallmark Art Award


Box 2 Correspondence


Box 2 Photographs


Box 2 Miscellaneous notes


Box 2 Clippings in English and French


Box 2 Wildenstein Family


Wildenstein Gallery Exhibits



Box 3 100 years of Impressionism


Box 3 Child Through Four Centuries


Box 3 Corot


Box 3 Courbet


Box 3 Daumier


Box 3 Delacroix


Box 3 Gauguin


Box 3 Ingres


Box 3 Masterpieces of French Paintings


Box 3 Monet


Box 3 Pissarro



Box 4 Renoir


Box 4 Stravinsky


Box 4 Toulouse-Lautrec


Box 4 Van Gogh


Box 4 Miscellaneous art photos



Box 5 List of exhibitions


Box 5 List of collectors


Box 5 List of patrons


Box 5 Masterpieces catalogue


Box 5 Press releases and programs


Box 5 Clippings in English and French


Box 5 Printed materials



Box 2 Miscellaneous