The subject of collecting and acquiring dissertations (domestic and foreign)
would make an excellent subject for an article in Update by the Academic
Libraries Division AND a topic for a conference session!! I hope someone offers
BOTH to the membership. Ray Anne Lockard
Linda Zoeckler wrote:
> Dear Art Librarians,
>
> I have already responded to Denis Hall directly on this question, but I
> thought other art librarians might want to know about a related
> dissertation:
>
> Gilbert, Barbara C.
> Anglo-Jewish Art Collectors of the Victorian Period : Patterns in
> Collecting. Los Angeles : University of Southern California, 1986. USC
> Order # 3209D
>
> This must be directly ordered from USC because they don't participate in
> University Microfilms Dissertation Project.
>
> This question brings up related questions. How many art libraries have
> sought out dissertations for their collections? What have these libraries
> collected from other institutions? Do any libraries have a significant
> collection of foreign dissertations? We experience great difficulty and
> EXPENSE getting British dissertations. Does any library have a special
> source for these? Apparently in Great Britain, dissertations are considered
> publications and are protected from copying. Scholars are allowed to see
> them only under controlled conditions. Do the universities that don't send
> dissertations to UMI publicize or provide a list for library selection
> purposes?
>
> In 1993 and 1994, the Huntington Art Reference Library ordered several
> hundred dissertations on British, American, and continental art from UMI in
> hardbound Xerox form. After asking UMI to go back 30 years in their
> database, we got an immense, 3-inch thick printout from UMI, then winnowed
> every appropriate title.
> Now we need to fill in dissertations from USC and MIT, who I understand have
> never participated in UMI. Also, I understand that Stanford and the
> University of Chicago came late to UMI, as did all of Canada. What about
> older dissertations from these sources? During bibliographic searching, we
> discovered quite a few titles were never published as trade publications.
> Even those that are published may have truncated scholarly apparatus or
> condensed texts. It can be crucial to compare the dissertation with its
> trade publication, so we acquired both versions.
>
> In the course of checking this printout, I learned some unexpected facts
> about computer searches. Because I asked that natural history be included
> in the search, it retrieved every title on pollock the fish and well as
> Pollock the artist. It also produced dissertations on the Arp process in
> mathematics as well as Hans/Jean Arp -- and I discovered just how often the
> word "landscape" was used in dissertations about forests, and other
> scientific dissertations.
>
> The search result also provided information about dissertation topic trends.
> Asian art was included, and there were mainly dissertations on painting -
> few or none on architecture, sculpture, or decorative arts. There were few
> dissertations on decorative arts of any country, (a memorable title was
> about demi-lune tables), and only one that I remember on a historic house
> collection in Texas.
>
> Any advice or comments?
>
> Linda Zoeckler,
> Head, Huntington Art Reference Library
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Roberto C. Ferrari
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 12:52 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Research into Jewish art dealers and collectors
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Perhaps someone out there can help this individual. I've looked in Grove,
> WorldCat, Biography Index, BGMI, and a few others sources with no success.
>
> If you find out anything, PLEASE EMAIL THE QUERENT DIRECTLY at
> [log in to unmask] ! Thanks.
>
> -- Roberto
>
> >>Return-path: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:53:07 +0100
> >>From: Denis Hall <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Subject: Research into Jewish art dealers and collectors
> >>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Cc: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>
> >>Dear sir or Madam
> >>
> >>This will, at least at first, appear to be a bizarre request but I would
> be
> >>grateful for any help you can give.
> >>
> >>I am in the final stages of writing up my Ph.D. about the New York Art
> >>Market 1900-40 and, over the years, I ahv come to realise that manyof the
> >>most interesting and significant players in establishing a market for
> modern
> >>art in America were Jewish. Dealers like Edith Halpert and Alfred
> Stieglitz
> >>were important in ecouraging American artists to produce work and American
> >>patrons to buy it. Collectors like Albert Rothbart, Eugene and Agnes
> Ernst
> >>Meyer, Charles and Aline Meyer Liebman and Judge Proskauer, amongst others
> >>were all collectors whose interst was not only in apreciating art but in
> >>throwing a lifeline to struggling artists.
> >>
> >>I am trying to find a way get to all relevant biographical information.
> If
> >>you can help in any way I would be grateful.
> >>
> >>One of the most interesting collectors, one of the first collectors of
> >>twentieth century American art, Albert Roothbert. I am not entirely sure
> >>that he was Jewish but mos tof his busienss and social network would
> appear
> >>to have been Jewish.
> >>
> >>Albert Rothbarth was a partner in the investment bank, Hallgarten and Co,
> in
> >>Pine Street New York and lived at 550 Park Avenue. He retired around
> 1925 -
> >>and around that time managed to lose the 'h' from the end of his name!
> He
> >>married in 1937, Baroness Toni von Horn, who at that time was a fashion
> >>photographer for Vanity Fair. At some point thereafter, they moved to
> >>Ridgefield, Connecticut. - they lived in Topstone Road.
> >>
> >>By this time, they had another change of name to ROOTHBERT; they founded
> the
> >>Roothbert Fund and Topstone Fund, a charity for educational causes. Both
> of
> >>their obituaries in the New York Times - October 1965 for Albert and 1970
> >>for his wife, and Albert's mentions his support for the British Trade
> Union
> >>Movement.
> >>
> >>He had a fascinating collection of both American and European modern art
> by
> >>1926, which he auctioned in New York in order to start again; he was one
> of
> >>the few collectors who was kind to artists and I have evidence of
> purchases
> >>until the mid thirties.
> >>
> >>I am therefore trying to 'close the case' and wonder if you could provide
> me
> >>with any details you might have about himor his donations - or suggestions
> >>of a way to find out about sontations to individual Unions - likely to
> have
> >>been between 1940-70
> >>
> >>I can happily let you have a copy of the chapter on Rothbart, Agnes Meyer
> or
> >>Aline Liebman if it is of any interest.
> >>
> >>Any help you can give will be gratefully received.
> >>
> >>Regards, Denis Hall
> >>
>
> ==================================================
> Roberto C. Ferrari
> Acting Head, Circulation/CPM Dept.
> Arts & Humanities Librarian
> Wimberly Library
> Florida Atlantic University
> 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton, FL 33431
> PHONE: 561-297-3575
> FAX: 561-338-3863
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> WEB: http://www.fau.edu/library/people/rferrari.htm
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