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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 [log in to unmask] -----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. 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