----------------------------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 EMAIL: [log in to unmask] WEB: http://www.fau.edu/library/people/rferrari.htm ================================================== __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]