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: Keyes, Keiko Mizushima, 1939-1988
Title: Papers
Dates: 1965 - 1997
Call No.: Col. 540
Acc. No.: 98x85
Quantity: 28 boxes
Location: 505 F 2-4, G 1-2
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
Keiko
Mizushima Keyes was a conservator of works of art on paper. She was born on July 25, 1939, in Himeji,
Japan. She attended the International
Christian University in Tokyo, 1958-1961, majoring in art history and
archaeology. She later went to Sarah Lawrence College, where in 1962, she
received a BA degree in art history and the psychology of art. Following graduation she married Roger Keyes,
a dealer in prints and drawings, and began to work with him in his
business. About this time, she started to
develop her conservation skills. From
1964-1966, she worked as a cataloguer and in sales with R.E. Lewis, Inc., San
Francisco, a dealer in western prints and drawings, Japanese wood block prints,
and Indian miniature painting. In
December 1966, Mrs. Keyes traveled to Japan and apprenticed for ten months with
Mr. Iwataro Oka, chairman of the Mounter’s Association for National Treasures
and Important Cultural Properties. She
then returned to the United States and applied traditional Japanese restoration
techniques to western works of art, becoming one of the first to do so. During the next nine years, Mrs. Keyes
researched Japanese woodblock prints and wrote books and articles on the
conservation techniques that she had acquired over the years.
In
1975, Mrs. Keyes became an independent conservator of works of art on
paper. She taught in the Cooperstown
Graduate Program, led seminars, delivered lectures, and continued to publish
about paper conservation. In 1981, Mrs.
Keyes started her own business, K.M. Keyes, Inc., which continued into the late
1980s. She was a member and a fellow of
professional organizations and served as a consultant and resident conservator
to institutions in the United States and Europe.
Mrs.
Keyes died in November 1988.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The
Keiko Keyes Papers primarily contain treatment records, 1977-1989, and
correspondence, 1965-1989, for Mrs. Keyes and K.M. Keyes, Inc. In addition, the collection includes
information on the American Institute for Conservation, survey records, and
technical information, all relating to art conservation. Other areas documented include Mrs. Keyes’
education and training, her Cooperstown and Oberlin teaching experiences, and
her business venture, K.M. Keyes, Inc.
There are miscellaneous newspaper clippings and slides, as well as
treatment slides and negatives dating from 1975-1989.
ORGANIZATION
There
are 33 boxes, divided into ten series, in the Keiko Keyes Papers. (There is no box numbered 18.)
Series I: Treatment Records,
filed in boxes 1-6, contains records relating to the items conserved by Mrs.
Keyes.
Series
II: Correspondence, boxes 7-11, is arranged alphabetically.
Series
III: Survey Records are also found in box 11.
Series IV: The American Institute
for Conservation (A.I.C.): papers on that organization’s meetings, code of
ethics, etc., in Box 12.
Series
V: Technical Information, Books and Products are in box 12 and they cover what
their names suggest.
Series VI: Education and
Training, box 13, concerns the background and activities of Mrs. Keyes.
Series VII: Teaching, in
boxes 13-14, have to do with Mrs. Keyes’ teaching of conservation in the
programs at Cooperstown and Oberlin.
Series
VIII: Business Papers, box 14, covers the activities of her business K.M.
Keyes, Inc.
Series IX: Miscellaneous, in box 15: clippings of
articles on paper conservation, a paper written by Mrs. Keyes, and a copy of
her resume.
Series X: photographs,
negatives, and slides, in boxes 15-17, 19-34: principally documenting Mrs.
Keyes’ conservation treatments. The
photographs are arranged by file number, with some in box 28 arranged by name
of client. The slides are arranged in
chronological order.
RESTRICTION
Users
must sign an agreement not to contact any private owners of art recorded in
this collection or to give their names to others. In addition, users cannot refer to private
owners of artwork recorded in this collection by name in any public
presentation, lecture, or publication.
LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS
The
materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
Collection
is open to the public. Copyright
restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Gift of Roger Keyes, December
1997.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
American Institute for
Conservation of Historical and Artistic Works.
Cooperstown Graduate
Program in History Museum Studies
Oberlin College
K.M. Keyes, Inc.
Art restorers
Art – Conservation and
restoration
Painting – Conservation
and restoration
Paper – Conservation and
restoration
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE
COLLECTION
Location: 505 F 2-4, G 1-2
Series I: Treatment records
Box 1: Treatment Records
Folder
1: A 1987-1989
Folder
2: B 1987-1989
Folder
3: U. C. Berkley 1987-1989
Folder
4: C 1988
Folder
5: Cleveland Museum 1978-1989
Folder
6: Crocker Art Gallery 1985-1989
Folder
7: D 1987-1989
Folder
8: E 1988
Folder
9: Egenolf 1985-1989
[see also
Box 4 and slides]
Folder
10: F 1987-1988
Folder
11: Feller 1976-1985
Folder
12: G 1987-1989
Folder
13: Getty Museum 1986-1989
Folder
14: H-I 1987-1989
Folder
15: Dard Hunter Museum 1980-1988
Box 2: Treatment Records
Folder
1: J -K 1987-1989
Folder
2: L 1987-1989
Folder
3: R. E. Lewis 1976-1987
[see also
Box 4 and photos and slides]
Folder
4: M 1987-1989
Folder
5: McAusland 1982-1988
Folder
6: N 1987-1989
Folder
7: National Park Service 1981-1988
Folder
8: O-P-Q 1987-1989
Folder
9: Oberlin - Allen Art Museum 1978-1980
Folder
10: OKA Bokkodo 1988
Folder
11: Philadelphia Museum of Art 1978-1980
Folder 12: R 1987-1989
Folder
13: S 1987-1989
Folder
14: Saint Louis Art Museum 1982-1987
Folder
15: Stanford Museum 1980-1982
Folder
16: Sotheby 1982-1986
Folder
17: T 1987-1989
Folder
18: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1985-1989
Folder
19: W 1986-1989
Folder
20: X-Y-Z 1987-1989
Box 3: Treatment Records
Folder
1: Amon Carter Museum 1984-1985
Folder
2: Ahwahnee Hotel 1982-1984
Folder
3: Mme. Hugvette Bere’s 1982-1983
Folder
4: Caplan 1983-1989
Folder
5: Castle 1986-1989
Folder
6: Christie’s 1982-1989
Folder
7: Cleveland Museum of Art Oct.-Dec. 1977
Folder
8: Cleveland Museum of Art 1978
Folder
9: Cleveland Museum of Art 1978-1981
Folder
10: Cleveland Museum of Art Aug. 1979
Box 4: Treatment Records
Folder
1: Cleveland Museum of Art Aug. 1979
Folder
2: Cleveland Museum of Art Aug. 1979
Folder
3: Cleveland Museum of Art Aug. 1979
Folder
4: Cleveland Museum of Art 1980
Folder
5: Cleveland Museum of Art 1982
Folder
6: Cleveland Museum of Art 1982-1989
Folders
7-8: Cleveland Museum of Art 1984
Folder
9: Dailey 1978-1989
Folder
10: Egenolf 1979-1989
[see also
Box 1 and slides]
Folder
11: R. E. Lewis 1977-1989
[see also
Box 2 and photos and slides]
Box 5: Treatment Records
Folder
1: National Park Service 1980-1986
Folder
2: Oberlin-Allen Art Museum 1975-1980
Folder
3: Gerald Peters 1989-1997
Folder
4: Pinckard 1978-1985
Folder
5: Pulverer 1980-1988
Folder
6: Russell 1977-1989
Folder
7: San Diego Museum of Art 1987-1989
Folder
8: Santa Barbara Museum 1982-1984
Folder
9: Sawers 1976
Folder
10: Sotheby 1981-1985
Folder
11: Spencer Museum of Art 1980-1984
Box 6: Treatment Records
Folder
1: Steiner 1983-1988
Folder
2: Stanford Art Museum 1981-1987
Folder
3: University of Wisconsin 1987-1989
Folder
4: Miscellaneous before Autumn 1975
Folder
5: Miscellaneous Jan.-June 1986
Folder
6: Miscellaneous July-Dec. 1986
Folder
7: Miscellaneous Jan.-June 1987
Folder
8: Miscellaneous July-Dec. 1987
Folder
9: Miscellaneous Jan.-June 1988
Folder
10: Miscellaneous July-Dec. 1988
Folder
11: Miscellaneous Jan.-June 1989
Folder
12: Miscellaneous July-Dec. 1989
Series II: Correspondence
Box 7: Correspondence
Folder
1: A-C 1974-1978
Folders
2-3: A 1979-1981,
1982-1986
Folder
4: Amon Carter Museum, 1982-1983
Folder
5: Austin 1975-1985
Folders
6-7: B 1974-1981,
1982-1986
Folder
8: Brussels Restoration 1974-1977
Folders
9-10: C 1979-1981,
1982-1986
Folder
11: David Caplan 1975-1978
Folder
12: Caplan 1978-1986
Box 8: Correspondence
Folder
1: D-F 1975-1978
Folders
2-3: D 1979-1981,
1982-1986
Folders
4-5: E 1979-1981,
1982-1986
Folders
6-7: F 1979-1981,
1982-1986
Folders
8-10: G 1977-1978,
1978-1981, 1982-1986
Folder
11: Gund Collection 1980-1981
Folder
12: H 1979-1981
Folder
13: H-I 1982-1986
Folder
14: H. Block Inc. 1980
Folder
15: Harpers Ferry 1976-1978
Folder
16: I 1979-1981
Folder
17: Inter Museum Lab 1977-1981
Folder
18: Institute of Paper Conservation 1982
Box 9: Correspondence
Folder
1: J-L 1973-1978
Folder
2: J 1979-1981
Folder
3: J-K 1982-1986
Folder
4: Japan Trip 1985
Folder
5: K 1979-1981
Folder
6: Kansas City Paper Seminar 1982
Folder
7: J.F.Kennedy University 1979-1980
Folder
8: Keiko Keyes, Inc. opening 1975
Folder
9: A. Knoll, Release 1981
Folder
10: Kruml 1977-1982
Folder
11: Kyoka
Folders
12-13: L 1979-1981,
1982-1985
Folder
14: Lowinsky 1985-1986
Folder
15: M-O 1965-1978
Folders
16-17: M 1979-1981, 1982-1986
Folder
18: McCrone Microscopy Course , 1976
Folder
19: Mexico 1982
Folder
20: Montana Historical Society 1979-1980
Box 10: Correspondence
Folders
1-2: N 1979-1981,
1982-1986
Folder
3: O 1979-1981
Folder
4: O-Q 1982-1986
Folder
5: OKA Certificates 1980
Folder
6: P-R 1973-1978
Folder
7: P-Q 1979-1981
Folders
8-9: R 1979-1981,
1982-1985
Folder
10: Restaurator Press 1973-1978
Folder
11: R. G. Sawers 1975-1981
Folders
12-13: S 1979-1981, 1982-1986
Box 11:
Folder
1: S-T 1974-1978
Folders
2-3 T 1979-1981,
1982-1986
Folders
4-5: U-V 1979-1981, 1982-1986
Folder
6: U-Z 1972-1978
Folder
7: U.G.S. 1975
Folder
8: University of California, Berkeley 1981-1982
Folders
9-10: W 1979-1981,
1982-1986
Folder
11: Watanabe Seed 1982-1984
Folder
12: X-Z 1979-1981
Folder
13: Yamanaka Fine Art
Folder
14: Yamin 1983-1985
Series III: Survey records
Box 11: Survey Records
Folder
15: Miscellaneous 1974-1978
Folder
16: O’Brien 1978
Folder
17: Virginia Museum 1979
Series IV: American
Institute for Conservation
Box 12: American Institute
for Conservation
Folder
1: Paper Pulp: Keyes’ paper on
its uses 1976-1977
Folder
2: Fellowship Application Form 1982
Folder
3: Conference, Deaborn, Mich. 1976
[Keyes gave
a paper]
Folder
4: Philadelphia Meeting 1981
[Keyes gave
a paper]
Folder
5: Milwaukee Meeting 1983
Folder
6: Correspondence, Notices 1984-1985
Series V: Technical
information, books, and products
Box 12:
Folder
7: Bleaching, General
Folder
8: Bleaching, Sunlight
Folder
9: Book Freezing
Folder
10: BPG Catalogue
Folder
11: Burgess, Helen
Folder
12: Dickey, Ed.
Folder
13: Eirk, K. [thesis]
Folder
14: Fairbrass/Holmes
Folder
15: Formulas, Notes
Folder
16: Framing/Windsor
Folder
17: Mickelson, Meredith
Folder
18: Pollaiuolo
Folder
19: Radiography
Folder
20: Richard Wolbers
Folder
21: Rosin Test
Folder
22: Bibliography
Folder
23: Book Binding
Folder
24: Hokusai Drawing
Series VI: Education and
Training
Box 13:
Folder
1: C.C.I.
Folder
2: I.P.C. Paper Evaluation
Folder
3: Kress Foundation, 1987
Folder
4: Lecture, manuscripts
Series VII: Teaching
Box 13:
Folder
5: Cooperstown: Practitioner’s Course 1974
Folder
6: Cooperstown: Course Outline 1976
Folder
7: Cooperstown: Lab Prospectus 1976
Folder
8: Cooperstown: Notes for the Course 1976
Folder
9: Cooperstown: Student Projects 1976
Folder
10: Cooperstown: Class Notes, Seniors 1976
Folder
11: Cooperstown: Class Notes, Juniors 1976
Folder
12: Cooperstown: Graduate Project Papers 1977
Box 14:
Folder
1: Cooperstown: NYSUCO 1977
Folder
2: Cooperstown: Ann Rosenthal 1980
Folder
3: Cooperstown: Non Keck 1981
Folder
4: Cooperstown: Keck 1987
Folder 5: Oberlin:
Teaching Materials 1987
Folder
6: Oberlin: Application Forms 1989
Folder
7: Oberlin: Japanese Prints-Conservation 1986
Folder
8: Oberlin: Japanese Print Seminar 1986
Folder
9: Oberlin: J. P. Seminar: correspondence, 1989
Folder
10: Oberlin: Seminar 1978
Series VIII: Business papers:
K. M. Keyes, Inc.
Box 14:
Folder
11: C. Tahk-Travel 1976-1978
Folder
12: Incorporation 1981
Folder
13: Paper Conservator: Resumes
Folder
14: Release Forms
Folder
15: Business, R. E. Lewis, 1976
Series IX: Miscellaneous
Box 15:
Folder
1: K. Mizushina Keyes Resume
Folder
2: Keiichi Mizushima, Ph.D. Paper
Folder
3: Miscellaneous Clippings
Series X: Photographs
Box 15: photographs
Folder
4: 106-147 Photographs
Box 16: negatives
Folder 1: Negatives 100 –199
Folder
2: Negatives 200 – 299
Folder
3: Negatives 300 – 384
Folder
4: Negatives 385 – 405
Folder
5: Negatives 406 – 424
Folder
6: Negatives 455 – 469
Box 17: negatives and photographs
Folder
1: Negatives 470 – 487
Folder
2: Photos 431 bis Info – Red
Edrenfeld – Miscellaneous
Folder
3: Record book – Negatives # 100
– 299
Record book – Negatives,
# 300-487
Folder
4: Japanese Print Col.
Frederick B. Kellam, Photos
Folder
5: Japanese Photos – Sta
Barbara 13 each.
Folder
6: Santa Barbara Negatives 15
each.
Folder
7: SBMA # 2 Photos 15 each.
Folder
8: SBMA #3 Photos 15each.
Folder
9: Slides 1-31+ 1 Making Paper.
Folder
10: Slides , Indigo Plant, Cloth
Drying, 30 each..
Folder
11: Slides, Finished Conservation,
75 each.
Folder 12 Negatives – Treatment, Oberlin, Caplan,
Morse, Storey, Poole, Kaplan, R. E Lewis, Saltzman, Prichard, Tsughima,
Kokschka, Sawers, Paret
[Box 18 –
number not used]
Box 19: Files: 148-170 Photographs
Box 20: Files: 171-190 Photographs
Box 21: Files: 191-213 Photographs
Box 22: Files: 214-235 Photographs
Box 23: Files: 236-257 Photographs
Box 24: Files: 258-281 Photographs
Box 25: Files: 282-298 Photographs
Box 26: Files: 360-386 Photographs
Box 27: Files: 387-415 Photographs
Box 28: Photographs
and negatives
Files: 416-424 Photographs
File: C. Young
Photographs
File: Prichard Photographs
File: Japan Ctal. Photographs
File: Morse Photographs
File: Caplan Photographs
File: Paret Photographs
File: Saltzman Photographs
File: Neg. # 123 Photographs
File: R. E. Lewis Photographs
File: Hapel Photographs
File: Kounel Photographs
File: Freels Photographs
File: Luther Photographs
File: Hilgard Photographs
File: Cole Photographs
File: Jacobs Photographs
File: Sawers Photographs
File: Russell Photographs
File: Kaufman Photographs
File: Cooperstown Photographs
File: Oberlin Photographs
File: Strong Museum
Photographs
File: Oberlin Negatives
File: Strong Museum Negative
Box 29: slides [in smaller
boxes inside this larger box]
Box 1: CMA,
R.E. Lewis, Brussels, Caplan, REL, Cooperstown Labs, Keiko Lab
Box 2: Miscellaneous
Box 3: Re-backing paper on canvas, sun bleach, masking, Sun - Cooperstown project; Cooperstown, power
groove, light bank; Sun bleaching; Phloroglucinol Test; CMA; Russell; Caplan
Box 4: Cambridge ’80 Rejects
Box 5: Anacker, CMA, Oberlin, Crocker, Sotheby,
Hiltner, Sonnenberg, Paret, R. E. Lewis
Box 6: Lecture Slides, Darley, Lawrence Univ.,
Castle/Maco, Print Making Scenes.
Box 30: slides [in smaller boxes inside this larger box]
Box 1: R. E. Lewis, Oberlin, Stanford, Simmons,
Sawers, Caplan, Zuimmer, Sawers, Oberlin
Box 2: Caplan, Sawers, Russell, Caplan, Oberlin, Young,
Saltzman, R. E. Lewis
Box 3: Saltzman, AAA,
Caplan, Sawers, Steiner, Held, Oberlin, Caplan, Morse, R. E. Lewis, Storey, Paret,
Russell
Box 4: Prichard, Tsuohima,
Saltzman, Koreml, Paret, Sawers, R. E. Lewis, Caplan, Prichard, Russell,Morse,
PMA
Box 5: PMA, Caplan, Sawers,
Cole, Wells, Russell, Prichard, Caplan, REL, CMA, Butkin, Cassell, Ehrenfeld,
Cole
Box 6: Gund, Russell,
Beyers, Dewer, Natl. Park Service,REL, Goldberg, Baskett, Caplan, Berios,
Berry, Image Gal., CMA, Butkin
Box 31: slides [in smaller boxes inside this larger box]
Box 1: Montana (1980), Mann,
Caplan, Prichard, Morse, Russell, Prichard, White, Schwartz, Mazzei, Zobel.
Box 2: Kansas, REL, Weaver,
Montana, UMFA, Dillahunky, Pulverer, Schaefer, Lowenthal, Gilder.
Box 3: Yosemite, REL,
Goldberg, Caplan, Stanford, CMA, Kansas, REL, Uatsky, Dailey, National Park
Service.
Box 4: National Park
Service, REL, Jones, Fletcher, Russell, Meyers, Gelder, Stanford, Prichard,
Rosenthal, Kimbell, Howard, CMA, Stanford, Edwards, Kansas, CMA
Box 5: Goldberg, National
Park Service, Curtis, Stanford, Nahem, Beris, VMFA, Walker, Prichard, Ryker,
Mozley, Ryker, Stanford, Mozley, Gund, Rosenstock, JFK, C. Whitton, Pulverer
Box 6: Shogun, Arizona Historical
Society, Goldberg, CMA, Stanfod, Rosenstock, Schafer, Yosemite National Park,
Oliver, Harlot, Scopazzi, Cole, McAllen, Christies, Worth
Box 32: slides [in smaller boxes inside this larger box]
Box 1: Dame, Christies,
Worth, NPS, Russell, Barnes, Ehrenfeld, Sofris, Russell, Crites, Ahwahuee,
Block, CMA, Stanford, Fryberger, Newark, Caplan, Amon Carter, Cohen, Mason, Deuarbeg,
Sokolov, Nichi, Harrison
Box 2: Edwards, Lemer,
Caplan, St. Louis, Pulver, Elvenjein, C. Whitton, Mussahuer, Gund, Kluse, CMA,
Amon Carter, Harrison, Crocker, Cuinmaki.
Box 3: Getty, CMA, Keatay,
Crocker, CAM, Montgomery, Bountjin, San Diego
Box 4: San Diego, Rykken,
Dailey, Crocker, Sidhu, Elvehjein, San Diego, Goldman, Stanford.
Box 5: Stanford, Langenkey,
Egaelof, Pulverer, CAM, Feldmann, Dailey, Crocker, University of Missouri, San
Diego.
Box 6: San Diego, Mason,
CMA, Ehrenfeld, Sidhu, Castle, Bullard, Egenolf, Ryan, Miller, Elvehyun,
Montgomery
Box 33: slides [in smaller boxes inside this larger box]
Box
1: Montgomery, Egenolf, Ehrenfeld, Crocker, Castle, Group III
Box
2: Group III, Group IV, Castle, Caplan, M.Graves, San Diego
Box 3: San Diego, Elvehjen, Cincinnati
Box 4: Cincinnati, Crocker, San Diego, Elvehjen
Box 5: Castle, Siddhu,
Peters, Egenolf, Caplan, R. E. Lewis, S. Johnson, Dailey, Bullard/Mekler,
Russell, Bullard.
Box 6: Peters, Stone, Castle, Bergman, Egenolf,
Mukakii, Bullard, Crocker
Box 34: slides [in smaller boxes inside this larger box]
Box 1: Dailey,
Elvelyun D #1, Elvehjan A, Mixed Slides - Attn: Emily, LA County, Events,
Caplan, Graves/Miller, M. Graves D, Sidhu.
Box 2: 9/17/89, Danechild, C. Russell – C Keating, Z
U Process = Glaceus – Loxtuel #1 –
additional, VMFA 87 5-29 D, VMFA 87 5-29-D, VMFA 87-1-7A, VMFA 87 5 –29D.
Box 3: VMFA 87-5-29 D B-L-D, VMFA 87-5-29 D, VMFA
87-5-29-A, VMFA 85-5-79, 12/22 VMFA 86-10-30.
Box 4: 1/23/81 VMFA 86 –10-30 D, VMFA 86-9-25-AID #1,
VMFA 86-10-30-97 10, Abrams.