The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware  19735

Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Quandt, Russell J. (Russell Jerome), 1919-1970

Title:               Conservation reports and research papers

Dates:             circa 1940-circa 1990

Call No.:         Col. 59

Acc. No.:        91x21, 92x98, 93x139; 94x59; 97x22; 02x175; 15x35.1; 16x59; 2020x17

Quantity:        74 boxes

Location:        506 A-C 1-4

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Russell Jerome Quandt (1919-1970) was a paintings conservator who worked for private individuals and public institutions.  A native of New London, Connecticut, he left Yale College during World War II to join the American Field Service ambulance corps.  Upon his return, a bicycle accident left him nearly deaf.  As a result, he was largely self-taught in conservation methods; however, he did train under Caroline Keck and received help and advice from Louis Pomerantz, Robert Feller, Roger Dennis, and others.

 

In 1950, Quandt moved to Washington, D.C., to assume the part-time position of conservator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.  He also developed an extensive independent practice, serving both private collectors and museums, among them the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Mount Vernon, Kenmore, and the Department of Collections and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center at Colonial Williamsburg.   The latter association led to the making of the film, "The Art of the Conservator," featuring Russell and Eleanor Quandt and Robert L. Feller.

 

Eleanor Bryant Swenson Quandt was an art historian and served as her husband Russell’s business manager.  She graduated from Smith College and held graduate fellowships at Smith and at New York University.  In 1943, Eleanor Swenson became assistant to the curator of paintings and sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum (assuming full responsibility during part of World War II); in 1947, she was appointed curator of American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.  While at the Brooklyn Museum, Eleanor worked with Sheldon and Caroline Keck, who were the art conservators of that institution.  After Eleanor moved to the Corcoran, she encouraged that museum to hire Russell Quandt.  Eleanor and Russell married in 1952 and had three daughters, one of whom, Abigail, became an art conservator.  Eleanor assisted her husband in his private conservation practice, being responsible for technical documentation, reports, correspondence, and historical research. 

 

Together, Mr. and Mrs. Quandt researched the materials and techniques of painting prior to the American Revolution, focusing on the anonymous painters of the Hudson River Valley, 1700-1750.  Quandt concentrated his restoration efforts on American painting, especially the Hudson River School and American primitives.  Mrs. Quandt wrote several articles based on their research findings.  Unfortunately, Russell’s early death led to the closing of his conservation practice and slowed Eleanor’s research into early American paintings.  In 1973, Mrs. Quandt was named assistant to the conservation officer at the Library of Congress, managing the office and editing its publications; she retired in 1990. 

 

Russell Quandt was a founding member of American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and of the Washington Conservation Guild; he was also a member of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.  He died suddenly in 1970.  Mrs. Quandt was also a member of numerous conservation and historical societies.  She died in September 2002.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

This collection contains treatment reports, correspondence with clients and other restorers, technical information, samples removed from paintings for testing purposes, and photographs and negatives of many of the paintings on which the Quandts worked over the years. These photos often show the item before, during and after treatment. The paintings owned by private individuals and by institutions (such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center) are both widely represented in this collection.  Quandt specialized in American painting, especially the Hudson River School and American Primitives.  Also included are research notes for articles on conservation, files on work which the Quandts declined to undertake, drafts of a book about materials and techniques of artists of the Upper Hudson Valley, and a documentary film produced by Colonial Williamsburg, "The Art of the Conservator."  Papers relating to the research and work of Eleanor Quandt are also included.

 

Books, periodicals, and exhibition catalogs related to Russell Quandt's career are housed in the Printed Books and Periodical Collection, Winterthur Library.

           

 

ORGANIZATION

 

The papers are arranged in three series. 

Series I contains correspondence with various clients for whom the Quandts did conservation work.

 Series II contains other correspondence, business records, and research reports. 

Series III mostly contains photographs and negatives of paintings worked on, but it also contains x-rays, samples taken from paintings, and some card files. 

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Accessions 91x21, 92x98, 93x139, 97x22: Gift of Eleanor (Mrs. Russell J.) Quandt.

Accessions15x35.1, 16x59, 2020x17: Gift of Abigail Quandt (daughter of Russell and Eleanor Quandt).  Some of acc. 2020x17 was dispersed into existing files.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

 

 

RELATED MATERIALS

 

American Processional, 1492-1900 is the title of the catalog for an exhibit of the same name, held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.  Eleanor B. Swenson [Quandt] worked on this exhibit.  A copy of the catalog is in the Winterthur Library.

    

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

 

Topics:

            Conservatorships – United States.

            Painting – Conservation and restoration.

            Painting – Expertising.

            Expertising, X-ray.

            Hudson River school of landscape painting.

            Folk art – United States.

            Artists – New York (State) – 18th century.

            Reports.

            Correspondence.

            Photonegatives.

            Photonegatives.

            Photoprints.

            X-rays.

            Conservators.

 

Additional author:

            Quandt, Eleanor S., 1921-2002.

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 506 A-C 1-4

 

 

Series I: correspondence with clients

 

Box 1:

 

A

Albany Institute of History and Art, and City of Albany

Amon Carter Museum (2 folders)

Amon Carter Museum: Reports, Bills, Receipts

B (2 folders)

Baltimore Museum of Art (continues in next box)

 

Box 2:

 

Baltimore Museum of Art (continued from previous box)

Baltimore Museum of Art: Reports, bills, receipts

Boissonnas, Alain G.

Brown, Mrs. Stanley

C

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: bills

Colonial Williamsburg.: AARFAC: correspondence (3 folders)

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: correspondence, Jan. 1, 1960- Dec. 1964 (2 folders)

 

Box 3:

 

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: correspondence, post 1970

Colonial Williamsburg.: AARFAC: correspondence, Nina F. Little

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: lists & miscellaneous memos

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: miscellaneous data

 

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: movie (2 folders)

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: official receipts for paintings

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: old lists

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: reports completed

 

 

Box 4:

 

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: reports in process

Colonial Williamsburg: Audio Visual: Arthur L. Smith

Colonial Williamsburg: Department of Collections: bills

Colonial Williamsburg: Department of Collections: correspondence, telephone memos (folder 1 of 2)

 

Colonial Williamsburg: Department of Collections: correspondence, telephone memos (folder 2 of 2)

Colonial Williamsburg: Department of Collections: movie previews lists

Colonial Williamsburg: Department of Collections: receipts

Colonial Williamsburg: Department of Collections: reports, American paintings

Colonial Williamsburg: Department of Collections: reports on work completed, foreign schools

 

 

Box 4-A:

 

Colonial Williamsburg.: Department of Collections: work lists

Colonial Williamsburg: film, narrative text

Colonial Williamsburg: film, press clippings

Colonial Williamsburg: photos, movies

Corcoran Gallery of Art: Bills

Corcoran Gallery of Art: carbon copies of CGA reports

Corcoran Gallery of Art: Lab. improvement & equipment

 

 

Box 5:

 

Corcoran Gallery of Art: notes, exhibitions, research (3 folders)

Corcoran Gallery of Art: official correspondence (2 folders)

Corcoran Gallery of Art: Personal notes, memos

Corcoran Gallery of Art: Staff memos

Corcoran School of Art

Cosmos Club

Covey, Victor B.

Curran, Ona

 

 

Box 6:

 

D

Dennis, Roger (2 folders)  [see also Lyman Allyn Art Museum]

Dumbarton Oaks - Harvard University

E

Ely, Mr. & Mrs. Albert H.

Erwin, Mrs. Henry Parsons

F

Feller, Robert L. (2 folders)

 

 

Box 7:

Feller, Robert L.: papers

G

H

Halstead, Lawrence

Hines, Janice W.

Houghton, Mrs. Elizabeth

Intermuseum Laboratory

J

J.B. Speed Art Museum

K

Kaufman lawsuit, re: Corot

 

 

Box 8:

 

Keck, Sheldon & Caroline

Kirk, Mrs. Page

Knoedler & Co.

Knox, Mrs. McCook

L

Lemmer, Geoffrey M. (2 folders)

Long, Mrs. Breckinridge

M (2 folders)

 

 

Box 8-A:

 

Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute

Maryland Historical Society

May, Mrs. Herbert A. (formerly Mrs. Merriweather Post)

Mc

McCrone Associates, Inc.

Monticello (Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation)

Mount Vernon Ladies Association

N

National Gallery, including cleaning controversy

Norfolk Museum

Norton Gallery & School of Art

O

Old Print Shop

P (2 folders)

 

 

Box 9:

 

Page, J. Wallace

Phillips Gallery

Pomerantz, Louis

R

S (2 folders)

Senate House Museum

Sesquicentennial Exhibition

Shelburne Museum

Smith, Myron Bement

Society of the Cincinnati

Stratford Hall (Lee Memorial Foundation)

T

 

 

Box 10:

 

Thacher, John S.

Todd, Jouett Ross

Treviranus, H. Stewart

Tryon Palace Restoration (2 folders)

U

United States: Capitol building

United States: government departments

V

Van Roijen, Dr. J.H.

Virginia, Commonwealth of

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Volkmer, Jean

 

 

Box 11:

 

W

Washington & Lee University

Wheeler, L. D.

Wiles, Robert Scott

Winterthur Museum

 

 

Box 12:

 

X-ray tests (unidentified)

Y and Z

Yorktown Lodge, A.F. & A.M.

 

[rest of files in Box 12 are part of Series II]

 

 

Series II: other correspondence files and business records

 

Box 12: [note: the first files in this box are part of Series I]

 

American Association of Museums

American Association of Museums: notes

"American Painting to 1776: A Reappraisal"

Archives of American Art

“The Art of Lacquer Ware,” 1966

Articles (3 folders)

 

 

Box 13:

 

Artists materials: American sources and references (3 folders)

Artists materials: early artists materials, notes on (2 folders)

 

Artists materials: modern

Baur, J. I. H., “Unknown American Painters of the 19th Century”

Bills for completed work

Black, Mary: Winterthur paper and Arts in Virginia article (1969)

Books: reviews and orders (2 folders, continues in next box)

 

 

Box 14:

 

Books: reviews and orders (3 folders, continued from previous box)

Butler, Marigene, “Polarized Light Microscopy…”

Business correspondence: miscellaneous, late (1970s)

Cameras & Microscopes [see also Photographic supplies and equipment]

Carnegie Mellon University

Chase, W. T., and Hutt, J. R., “Aaron Draper Shattuck’s Patent Stretcher Key”

Chrysler Collection and other questionable paintings

Circulars & Announcements (1 folder)

 

 

Box 15: [legal size files]

 

Circulars & Announcements (2 more folders)

Color name charts: Munsell scales; and “ISCC-NBS Color-Name Charts Illustrated with Centroid Colors”

Conservation Center-NYU

Conservation notes, clippings, etc., post 1973

[Corcoran Gallery – American Processional – in Box 16]

Corcoran Gallery: Picture of the Month – used, correspondence, etc.

Corcoran Gallery: Picture of the Month – information on possible pictures

 

 

Box 16:

 

Corcoran Gallery: American Processional: exhibit book (ESQ worked on this exhibit) (acc. 2020x17)

Correspondence with other restorers (2 folders)

Craven, Wayne, “Painting in New York” (Winterthur paper, 1971)

Curiosa

“De Gustibus” exhibition at Corcoran Gallery, 1949, organized by Eleanor Swenson [Quandt]

Dutch background information

Dutch paintings, notes on

Early paintings, other than Albany – notes

Eighteenth Century paintings: reference collection (not RJQ jobs) (2 folders

English and European artists’ manuals (old) (3 folders)

English painting: history

English, Joseph – article about

Farmer, Guy – painting exam notes

Feller, Robert L.: “Analysis of Particular Pigments in the Paintings”

Feller, Robert L.: Analysis of Pigments – Winterthur Conference, 1971 (2 folders)

 

 

Box 17:

 

Feller, Robert L.: drafts for article on pigments

Feller, Robert L.: reports

Flexner, James Thomas: “Monochromatic Drawing: A Forgotten Branch of American Art”

Froentjes, W.: “Scientific Study of Rembrandts in the Mauritshuis”

Future business

General correspondence – private (2 folders)

Gettens, R. J.: “Preliminary Reports on Reference Material,” 1969

Groce, George C.: “New York Painters Before 1800”

Harley, R. D.” “Oil Colour Containers: Development Work…”

Hastings, Mrs. Russel: “Pieter Vanderlyn: A Hudson River Portrait Painter”

Hendy, P., and Lucas, A. S.: “The Ground in Pictures”

Information Re: other restorers

Information – technical (2 folders)

 

 

Box 18:

 

Information – technical (1 more folder)

Inquiries

Insurance, business

International Institute for Conservation (IIC)

International Institute for Conservation (IIC): IIC-ICOM: American group, Boston, 1960

International Institute for Conservation (IIC): AE talk

International Institute for Conservation (IIC): AG paper, 1972: text of talks

International Institute for Conservation (IIC): Newsletter

 

 

Box 19:

 

International Institute for Conservation (IIC): Official Papers

Italian emergency

Keck, Caroline: correspondence about printed an article by Chris Clarkson, and a copy of her How to Take Care of Your Pictures

Keck, Sheldon: “Mechanical Alteration of the Paint Film,” 1967

Kinney, Alice: seminar paper

Knox, Katherine McCook: Remarks at opening of Adams-Clement Collection

Lab. Fine Arts Insurance records, 1955-current

Letters

Letters and cards

Letters: personal (2 folders)

 

 

Box 20:

 

Letters: personal (1 more folder)

Letters: photos and notes re: project, 1973 (3 folders)

Maryland paintings

Matt, D., and Lebron, James

Meeting notes

Microscopes

Miscellaneous (4 folders)

 

 

Box 21:

 

Miscellaneous information about artists

Miscellaneous notes (5 folders; one is acc. 92x98.2)

Miscellaneous notes: addresses from research project, taken from spindle

Miscellaneous reports in process

Miscellaneous reprints: conservation and museology

 

 

Box 22:

 

Miscellaneous unidentified papers

Miscellany

Modern studies: artists materials and techniques (2 folders)

Nelson, Lee H.: “Nail Chronology as an Aid to Dating Old Buildings”

New York City and lower Hudson

New York University: Fine Arts 49 & 50: American Painting 1665-1865, 1865-present

            [ca.1940]: bibliographies

Newspaper articles

Nineteenth century American painters: miscellaneous notes, observations, bibliography

Notes on salaries

“Paint in America”: symposium on architectural and decorative paints

“Paintings and Photographic Materials”: compact audio cassette tape of general session (S. Keck talk)

Pamphlets: museums, etc.

Parslow, Virginia D.: “James Alexander, Weaver”

 

 

Box 23:

 

Photographic supplies and equipment (2 folders)  [see also Cameras and microscopes]

Porter, Rufus: essays on various kinds of paintings

Portraits information

Postcards

Quandt, Eleanor S.: articles and talks

Quandt, Eleanor S.: correspondence (acc. 2020x17)

Quandt, Eleanor S.: resume; employment; and A.I.C. certificate

Quandt, Eleanor S.: “Technical Examination of 18th century paintings” (Winterthur paper)

Quandt, Eleanor S.: “Technical Examination of 18th Century Paintings for Historical Purposes” (3 folders)

Quandt, Eleanor S.: erratum sheets for “Technical Examination of 18th Century Paintings…”

Quandt, Eleanor S.: “Technical Studies: 18th Century American Paintings,” 1990

Quandt, Eleanor S.: Winterthur talk

Quandt, Eleanor S.: Winterthur talk, lit. scraps

Quandt, Eleanor S.: Winterthur talk to class, draft, ca.1974 

Quandt, Russell J.: articles

Quandt, Russell J.: British certificate of identity, 1943, Quandt as an ambulance driver

 

 

Box 24:

 

Quandt, Russell J.: certificate of membership, International Institute for the Conservation

of Museum Objects (acc. no. 92x98.1)

Quandt, Russell J.: curriculum vitae; offer from Corcoran; obituaries; Corcoran resolution (1970); and internment service

Quandt, Russell J.: forms used for examination and treatment

Quandt, Russell J.: “Technical Note on Portrait of Simon Pease by Robert Feke (2 folders)

Quandt, Russell J. and Eleanor: clippings [includes obituaries of RJQ]

Quandt, Russell J. and Eleanor: photographs

Quandt lectures

Recipes – technical information

Reports for copying (RJQ’s)

Research notes

Research project papers which surfaced 12/10/86

Resins (2 folders)

Richardson, Edgar Preston: talk given at a symposium on “The Artist in American History,” 1950

Scotia paintings: reports, notes (4 folders)

 

 

Box 25:

 

Sherwood, Bruce T.: “Portrait of Magdalena Douw”

Simis, L.: “Thorough Instruction in the Art of Painting”

Smith, Gridley Nekim: “Theory and Practice: Writing and Painting in the Age of Velazquez”

South Carolina Geology 100: Mineral Identification

Southern Painting Show

Spawn, William: “Conservators’ Responsibilities to Scholarship”

Strainers and stretchers

Streub, R. E.: “Stretchers for Canvas Paintings”

Supplies, miscellaneous, purchased

Teacher’s manual to accompany “The Art of the Conservator”

Technical information (2 folders)

Technical studies: American paintings, notes, 1990s

Thorne, Thomas: “Notes on Artists’ Materials, etc., in Virginia”

Unanswered letters, professional

United States system of weights and measures

Upper Hudson Limners: Albany paintings: photo list

Upper Hudson Limners: art conservation program/ paintings conservation (Joyce H. Stoner)

 

 

Box 26:

 

Upper Hudson Limners: article: ideas and drafts

Upper Hudson Limners: Black, Mary: contributions, Aetatis Suae and Wendell Limners, 1980

Upper Hudson Limners: Black, Mary: drafts of text (3 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: carbons, 4-30-70, beginnings of short version

Upper Hudson Limners: charts and drawings for book

Upper Hudson Limners: conservation materials

Upper Hudson Limners: copy, Ch. III, ptrs.

Upper Hudson Limners: fabric supports

Upper Hudson Limners: information on woods

Upper Hudson Limners: inscriptions

Upper Hudson Limners: Master copies of text sent by 8/13/69 & thereafter (2 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: Materials and techniques (Upper Hudson Valley, 1700-1750); EQ           work plan, 1971-72 (2 folders) [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 27:

 

Upper Hudson Limners: Materials and techniques (Upper Hudson Valley, 1700-1750); EQ           work plan, 1971-72 (continued from previous box)

Upper Hudson Limners: Materials and techniques: draft of technical section of book

Upper Hudson Limners: Materials and techniques: photos

Upper Hudson Limners: Merchants & planters: conservation reports

Upper Hudson Limners: Merchants & planters: lists (3 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: Merchants & planters: notes re: groupings, research, miscellaneous memos

Upper Hudson Limners: Painters of the Upper Hudson Valley (2 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: Painters of the Upper Hudson Valley et al. (folder 1 of 3)

 

 

Box 28:

 

Upper Hudson Limners: Painters of the Upper Hudson Valley et al. (2 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: Pigments

Upper Hudson Limners: Punched cards needs

Upper Hudson Limners: Quandt, Eleanor, current (2 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: Quandt, Eleanor, lit. scraps

Upper Hudson Limners: Quandt, Eleanor, miscellaneous to go into book

Upper Hudson Limners: Quandt, R. J.: limner summaries (2 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: Quandt, R. J.: radiography drafts (2 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: Quandt, R. J.: thoughts for October

Upper Hudson Limners: recent articles relating to research project (2 folders)

Upper Hudson Limners: Slidell research notes

Upper Hudson Limners: Upper Hudson Valley conservation reports

 

 

 

Box 29-A:

 

Upper Hudson Limners: Upper Hudson Valley paintings, 1970 (outline)

Upper Hudson Limners: Upper Hudson Valley paintings: photos

Upper Hudson Limners: Upper Hudson Valley paintings: test results (2 folders; continues in next box)

 

 

Box 29-B:

 

Upper Hudson Limners: Upper Hudson Valley paintings: test results (1 more folder; continued from previous box)

Upper Hudson Limners: “A Research Project on Techniques and Materials in Paintings from the Upper Hudson Valley, 1700-1750” (acc. 16x59)

Upper Hudson Limners: book: first drafts [handwritten and typed] (acc. 16x59)

Upper Hudson Limners: edited copies of first drafts: MCB [Mary C. Black] version (acc. 16x59)

Upper Hudson Limners: book: MC and CCs: first draft (acc. 16x59)

Upper Hudson Limners: third draft (acc. 16x59)

Upper Hudson Limners: conclusions (acc. 16x59)

Upper Hudson Limners: technical chapter: 1970 version, working papers (acc. 16x59)

Upper Hudson Limners: finances (acc. 16x59)

Van Dyke brown: pigment project with Robert Feller (2 folders( (acc. 2020x17)

 

 

Box 30: V-W, and Daybooks

 

Virginia portraits: papers (2 folders)

Volkmar article (2 folders) (includes some correspondence with Robert Feller)

Vollmer, Aline Fruhauf: “Little Louis”: chapter from unpublished book of reminiscences

Washington Region Conservation Guild

Wheeler, Robert. “The Albany of Magdalena Douw”

Work Refused

Daybooks, 1958, 1959

 

 

Box  31: Daybooks/appointment books/calendars

 

Daybooks, 1960, 1961

Daybooks, 1964, 1965

Daybooks, 1966, 1967

Daybooks, 1968 (2)

Daybooks, 1969 (2)

Daybooks, 1970, 1971

            [note: 2 different volumes for 1971]

 

Series III: photos, x-rays, samples, notecards

 

 

Box 32: photos and negatives

 

A (2 folders)

Amon Carter Museum (2 folders)

B (4 folders)

Baltimore Museum

C [continued in next box]

 

 

Box 33: photos and negatives

 

C (3 folders)

Colonial Williamsburg (5 folders)

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: Border Limner (folder 1 of 2) [continued in next box]

 

 

Box 34: photos and negatives

 

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: Border Limner (folder 2 of 2)

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: Hicks, Washington Crossing...

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: miscellaneous photos (2 folders)

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: photos (folder 1 of 3) [continued in next box]

 

 

Box 35: photos and negatives

 

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: photos (2 folders)

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: Portraits (5 folders) [continued in next box]

 

 

Box 36: photos and negatives

 

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: Portraits (7 more folders)

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: Subjects [continued in next box]

 

 

Box 37: photos and negatives

 

Colonial Williamsburg: AARFAC: Subjects (4 more folders)

Colonial Williamsburg: American paintings

Colonial Williamsburg: Durand, Mr. & Mrs. Thos. Newton, Collection

Colonial Williamsburg: Foreign paintings: portraits

Colonial Williamsburg: Foreign paintings: subject pictures

 

 

Box 38: photos and negatives

 

Corcoran Gallery

Cosmos Club

D (2 folders)

DAR Museum

Negatives: Dumbarton House

Dumbarton Oaks

E (2 folders)

F (2 folders)

Ft. Ligonier

G (3 folders)

Gunston Hall

H (2 folders)

 

 

Box 39: photos and negatives

 

H

Howard University

J (2 folders)

K (3 folders)

Kenmore

Knoedler photos (2 folders)

L (3 folders)

 

 

Box 40: photos and negatives

 

M (4 folders)

Mc

McNay Museum

Methodist Museum

Monticello

Mt. Vernon (2 folders)

N (2 folders)

Norfolk Museum

Norton Gallery (2 folders)

 

 

Box 41: photos and negatives

 

O (3 folders)

Owners unidentified

P (6 folders)

 

 

Box 42: photos and negatives

 

Phillips Gallery (3 folders)

Pratt Library

Q

R (3 folders)

S (3 folders)

Smith, Myron Bement

Society of the Cincinnati, CGA (Corcoran?)

 

 

Box 43: photos and negatives

 

Speed Museum (3 folders)

Stonington Historical Association (2 folders)

Stratford

T (3 folders)

Thacher, John S. (2 folders)

Trials of color films (2 folders) [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 44: photos and negatives

 

Trials of color films (2 more folders)

Tryon Palace (2 folders)

U

Unidentified, mostly

U.S. government departments

V (2 folders)

Virginia, State of

Virginia Museum

W [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 45: photos and negatives and miscellaneous photos

 

W (2 more folders)

Washington & Lee University

Yorktown Lodge

Photos: private jobs before May 1950 (2 folders)

Photos: reference collection: 18th century

Photos: reference collection: 19th century

Photos to be filed

Miscellaneous photos: Southern Painters exhibit

Technical photos for RLF [Robert L. Feller]

 

 

Box 46: miscellaneous photos and negatives

 

Folder 1:          Portrait of a gentleman, 18th c.

Folder 2:          Elizabeth Becket Curzon

Folder 3:          Mrs. Daniel Parke Custis (Martha Washington) 1757

Folder 4:          Elizabeth Parke Custis (Mrs. Law)

Folder 5:          George Washington Parke Custis of Arlington, 18th c.

Folder 6:          John Parke and Martha (Patsy) Custis

Folder 7:          William Henry Fitzhugh of Ravensworth, 18th c.

Folder 8:          Lynford Lardiner, by John Hesselius

Folder 9:          Anne Hill Carter Lee (mother of Robert E. Lee), 18th c.

Folder 10:        “Annunciation,” at Winterthur Museum

Folders 11-14: Project samples (4 folders)

Folder 15:        Photos; some show a conservator at work (20 folders)

Folder 16:        negatives (acc. 02x175)

Folder 17:        Miscellaneous notes [about restoring paintings]

 

 

Box 47: Slides and negatives (some slides and all negatives are from acc. 15x35.1)

 

Box 48: Slides (acc. 02x175)
AARFAC; Calverts, Paradise; George Calvert; C. Caolvert Rizik[?]; George and Cecil Calvert; “Polly Go Lightly”; W. Rick[?], M. Black, Balto. Romney

 

Box 49: Slides (acc. 02x175)
x-rays; “slides project”; Corcoran: K II, Hubard, Rohlfs; A. Phillips, Brewster

 

Box 50: Slides (acc. 02x175)
Lustig, Mt. Vernon, Beck; National Library of Medicine, Carrothers, Q.S., Jenny S., Bacon [?]; Hals, Gloucester; A. Phillips, Harley, James & Anne, Mrs. Seth Wilkinson; miscellaneous slides; Quandt family

 

 

Box 51: project photo prints

 

Folder 1:          Albany group

 

Folder 2:          Albany group: radiograph photocopies

 

Folder 3:          Albany group: Limner G, 1719-1721

 

Folder 4:          Albany group: various limners, not including G

 

Folder 5:          Albany group: details of inscriptions

 

Folder 6:          Ganszvoort limner

 

Folder 7:          New York City, lower Hudson Valley, New Jersey

 

 

Box 52: project photo prints

 

Folder 1:          Robert Livingston

 

Folder 2:          Scotia paintings

 

Folder 3:          New England portraits

 

Folder 4:          Philadelphia, Delaware, Maryland

 

Folder 5:          Virginia portraits

 

Folder 6:          English portraits

 

Folder 7:          Portraits

 

Folder 8:          Winterthur photos and x-ray copies

 

Folder 9:          Technical photos (strainers, grounds, fabrics, etc.): Upper Hudson Valley

 

Folder 10:        Technical photos (strainers, supports, grounds, etc.): colonial centers other than New York

 

Folder 11:        Technical photos: 19th century

 

Folder 12:        19th century American paintings: record photos

 

Folders 13-14: unidentified (folder 14: acc. 2020x17)

 

 

[Box 53: number not used]

 

 

Box 54:

 

Negatives of paintings worked on by R. J. Quandt during the 1940s

[note: these are in very bad condition]

 

 

Box 55:

 

Samples taken from various paintings;

Also three uncut rolls of black and white negatives

 

 

Box 56:

 

Samples: tacking length from portrait of George I or III by Ramsey (?); and original strainer from 18th century painting by John V. Haidt, Lititz Congregation

 

 

Boxes 57-58:  Punch cards: painting research materials

 

 

Box 59:

 

Telephone number file

Bibliography by subject

Bibliography by author

 

 

Box 60: Bibliographies of materials and techniques

 

 

Boxes 61-63:  Information cards for samples from objects (acc. 15x35.1)

 

 

Boxes 64-65:  Boxes of tubes containing samples (acc. 15x35.1)

NOTE: GLASS TUBES, HANDLE WITH CARE; some tubes do not have bottoms and contents can fall out if not handled with extra caution

 

 

Box 66:

 

Pigments;

Samples not yet recorded and grouped

 

 

Box 67: Pigment samples: identified and unidentified artists

 

Box 68: assorted samples of fabric, tacks, wood, etc.

 

Box 69: samples of woods and nails

 

Box 70: fabric samples

 

 

Boxes 71-73:  X-rays

 

 

Notebook on shelf: fabric samples from paintings

 

Folder on shelf:  Two-sided painting, with portrait of man on one side, and a still life featuring the bust of a musician on the other side

Books and pamphlets owned by the Quandts, but not retained as part of this collection:

 

Art in America, February 1951.

 

Candee, Richard M.  Housepaints [sic] in Colonial America: Their Material, Manufacture and Application. [from articles in Color Engineering]

 

Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty (John Herron Art Museum)

 

Color Engineering, Sept./Oct. and Nov./Dec. 1966; Jan./Feb., March/April, May/June 1967.  With articles by Candee [q.v.]

 

Connecticut Historical Society.  Bulletin, v. 30, no. 4 (Oct. 1965)

 

Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland.  Guides for 1949 and 1950 garden tours

 

Hudson Valley Paintings, 1700-1750, in the Albany Institute of History and Art (Cogswell Fund Series, no. 1)

 

Little, Nina Fletcher.  Country Art in New England, 1790-1840. (Old Sturbridge Village)

 

Mezzotints from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (exhibit catalog, 1968-1969)

 

New-York Historical Society Quarterly.  V. 32, no. 2 (April 1948)

 

A Remnant in the Wilderness (exhibition catalog, 1980)

 

Sawitzky, William.  “Further Light on the Work of William Williams.”  (from New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, July 1941)

 

Smith, H. R. Bradley.  “Chronological Development of Nails,” supplement to Blacksmiths’ and Farriers’ Tolls at Shelburne Museum. 

 

“Stratford – Colonial Home and Plantation” –tour guide

 

Wheeler’s Review, winter 1969.