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:         Jakstas, Alfred John, 1916-2000                                

Title:               Papers

Dates:             1941-1980s

Call No.:         Col. 709

Acc. No.:        02x173

Quantity:        3 cu. ft. (11 boxes)

Location:        505 E 1-2

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Alfred John Jakstas was an art conservator, working first in Boston and then in Chicago.  He was born in Boston on October 30, 1916, the son of Walter John and Julia Barkevich Jakstats.  He graduated from Harvard in 1938.  An interest in both science and art history, plus the influence of several Harvard professors, led him to an apprenticeship in conservation at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard.  From 1941 to 1961, he was the conservator at the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum in Boston; from1961 until 1981, he was chief conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago.  As well, he maintained a private conservation practice and served as a consultant to a number of museums. 

 

Mr. Jakstas was a fellow of the International Institute for the Conservation of Museum Objects (IIC) and a fellow of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).  He married Valerie Jevaraus in 1942, and they had two daughters, Janet and Julianne.  Mr. Jakstas died on March 28, 2000, in Arizona. 

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The bulk of the collection is comprised of treatment reports.  These include notes on condition, a description of the work done on the painting, photographs taken before and after treatment, and a few x-rays.  (Note: most of the treatment records are filed under artist’s name, not owner’s name.)  The collection also includes correspondence and notes about painting techniques, which were probably taken while Jakstas was an apprentice at the Fogg Museum.

 

 

ORGANIZATION

 

The collection is divided into two series: I. Correspondence and miscellaneous files, and II. Treatment reports.  Most of the treatment reports are arranged by artist, with a few file folders arranged by owner (these are at the beginning of that series).

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of Mrs. Alfred J. Jakstas.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Art restorers.

            Art – Conservation and restoration.

            Painting – Conservation and restoration.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 505 E 1-2

 

 

Series I: Correspondence and miscellaneous files

 

Box 1:

 

Folder 1:          Adhesives and pigments, notes on

 

Folder 2:          Aesthetics

 

Folder 3:          Art Institute of Chicago

 

Folder 4:          “The Church and Art” – paper by unknown person

 

Folder 5:          Colors, notes on, 1941

 

Folder 6:          Correspondence

 

Folder 7:          Correspondence, H-I

 

Folder 8:          Correspondence, J

 

Folder 9:          Correspondence, K

 

Folder 10:        Correspondence, L

 

Folder 11:        Correspondence, M

 

Folder  12:       Correspondence, N-O

 

Folder 13:        Correspondence, personal

 

Folder 14:        Elasticity and plasticity

 

Folder 15:        Florentine painting, general notes

 

Folder 16:        Income, expense, and tax record, 1942(?)-1953

 

 

Box 2:

 

Folder 1:          International Institute for the Conservation of Museum Objects (IIC)

 

Folder 2:          IIC: report on Ottawa conference, 1967

 

Folder 3:          “Isms in Art since 1800” – exhibit at Rhode Island School of Design, 1949

 

Folder 4:          Jakstas, Alfred

 

Folder 5:          Jolles, Arnold

 

Folder 6:          Jolles, Arnold – European trip, 1965

 

Folder 7:          Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Folder 8:          Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 

Folder 9:          Miscellaneous notes relating to technique of art

 

Folder 10:        Organic compounds and solvent action, notes on, ca.1952-1957

 

Folders 11-12: Painting and painters, notes on

 

Folder 13:        Painting techniques, notes on, 1941

 

 

Box 3:

 

Folder 1:          Physics notes

 

Folder 2:          Pope, Arthur

 

Folder 3:          Reports related to conservation

 

Folder 4:          Wood

 

 

 

Series II: Treatment reports

 

Box 4: by client name

 

Folders 1-3:     Conservation work: bills and correspondence, 1950-1980s

 

Folder 4:          Amherst College        

 

Folder 5:          Angell-Norris collection

 

Folder 6:          Bader, Alfred

 

Folder 7:          Ball State University collection

 

Folder 8:          Block collection

 

Folder 9:          Currier Gallery of Art

 

Folder 10:        Harding Museum collection

                                    [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 5: by client name

 

Folders 1-2:     Harding Museum collection

                                    [continued from previous box]

 

Folder 3:          Henderson, Roderic

 

Folder 4:          Kalmus, Herbert (Dr.)

 

Folder 5:          Krannert Art Museum collection

 

Folder 6:          McCormick, Roger (art collection)

 

Folder 7:          Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

 

 

Box 6: by client name; by artist name

 

Folder 1:          Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: report on “Young Woman in Black Cap”

 

Folder 2:          Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

 

Folder 3:          Albright, Adam E., “Hurry up Jim” (Emerson School, no. 111)

 

Folder 4:          Bazille, “Self Portrait” (Mr. Block)

 

Folder 5:          Bellini, Giovanni, “Madonna and Child” (Ball State U., no. 658)

 

Folder 6:          Blakelock, R. A., “Brook in Moonlight” (Krannert, no. 14)

 

Folder 7:          Blakelock, R. A., “In Indian Country” (Ball State U., no. 1045)

 

Folder 8:          Bonington, “St. Mark’s Square” (Ball State U., no. 816)

 

Folder 9:          Boudin, Eugene, “Shipping” (Ball State U., no. 805)

 

Folder 10:        Brush, George de Forest, “The Family Group” (Ball State U., no. 806-A)

 

Folder 11:        Cerezio, Mateo, “St. Francis Receiving Stigmata” (Elvehjem, RX 7984)

 

Folder 12:        Clouet, Jean, “Charlotte of France” (Epstein, RX 6688)

 

Folder 13:        Crayer, Gaspar de, “Christ on the Cross” (Notre Dame, no. 798-A)

 

Folder 14:        Cuyp, Aelbert, “Seascape” (Krannert, no. 811-B)

 

Folder 15:        Daddi, Bernardo, “Madonna and Child with Angel” (Notre Dame, no. 125)

 

Folder 16:        David, Gerard, “Madonna and Child with Angel” (Epstein, RX 6688)

 

Folder 17:        Degas, “Portrait of a Woman” (Mr. Block)

 

Folder 18:        Delacroix, “Arabs of Oran, Resting” (Mr. Block, Rofo 26704)

 

Folder 19:        Diaz de la Peña, “Landscape” (Notre Dame, no. 654-A)

 

Folder 20:        Domenico di Michelino, “Annunciation” (Ball State U., no. 625)

 

Folder 21:        Dudley, Frank, “Night” (Emerson School, no. 225)

 

Folder 22:        Dudley, Frank, “The Trail of the Wind” (Emerson School, no. 796

 

Folder 23:        Ernst, Max, “Shell Flowers” (Leigh Block, no. 792)

 

Folder 24:        Fragonard, “Classical Scene” (Notre Dame, no. 798-B)

 

 

Box 7:

 

Folder 1:          Francken, Frans, II, “Three Marys at the Tomb” (Elvehjem, no. 488)

 

Folder 2:          Frieseke, F. C., “Girl with Earrings” (Krannert no. 820)

 

Folder 3:          Greco, El, “Coronation of the Virgin” (Epstein, RX 6688)

 

Folder 4:          Guardi, F., “Piazza San Marco” (Block, no. 1463)

 

Folder 5:          Guardi, F., “The Rialto, Venice” (Ball State U., no. 674)

 

Folder 6:          Hoerman, Carl, “March Storms” (Emerson School, no. 619-A)

 

Folder 7:          Holbein, Hans, “Erasmus” (Ball State U., no. 669)

 

Folder 8:          Holbein, school of, “Lady Anna Chamberlain” (Krannert, no. 1520)

 

Folder 9:          Hunt, William M., “Rapids … Niagara” (Ball State U., no. 1510)

 

Folder 10:        Ingerle, Rudolph, “Aunt Mary” (Emerson School, no. 326)

 

Folder 11:        Inness, G., “Landscape Study” (Bischoff, no. 76)

 

Folder 12:        Inness, G., “Large Landscape” (Levi, no. 514-D)

 

Folder 13:        Israels, Josef, “Beach Scene” (L. Shapiro, no. 667)

 

Folder 14:        Johnson, Frank T., “Cowboy on Horseback (Pearce, no. 623)

 

Folder 15:        Jongkind, J. B., “Moonlight and Boats” (Cummings, no. 381)

 

Folder 16:        Kensett, John F., “Rocky Seacoast” (Notre Dame, no. 990-C)

 

Folder 17:        Kerkham, Earl, “Cubist Portrait” (67th Annual American Show)

 

Folder 18:        Killgore, Charles, “Segovia, Spain” (Emerson School, no. 619-B)

 

Folder 19:        Klee, Paul, “Oriental Gardens” (P. Bensinger, no. 228-B)

 

Folder 20:        Krafft, Carl R., “Autumn Morning” (Emerson School, no. 661)

 

Folder 21:        Krafft, Carl R., “Blue and Gold” (Emerson School, no. 124)

 

Folder 22:        Kupka, Frank, “Mouvement” (P. Pensinger, no. 228-A)

 

Folder 23:        Laurens, Henri, “Bunch of Grapes” (Mr. Block, PPL 2378)

 

Folder 24:        Leach, A., “The Old Settler” (Oshkosh, no. 486)

 

Folder 25:        Lebourg, “Paris, Winter Scene” (Mr. Blair, no. 191-B)

 

Folder 26:        Lebuny(?), “View of Notre Dame” (Mr. Blair, PPL 2463

 

Folder 27:        Leger, Fernand, “Le Dejeuner” (Friedman, Rofo 23614)

 

Folder 28:        Leoni, Andrea, “Biblical Scene” (Notre Dame, no. 98)

 

Folder 29:        Lepine, “Quai de Bercy” (Cunningham, no. 800-A)

 

Folder 30:        Lepine, “River Scene” (Mr. Blair, PPL 2462)

 

Folder 31:        Lievens, Jan, “Virgil” (Notre Dame, no. 1043)

 

Folder 32:        Lippi, Fra Filippino, and Raffaelino del Garbo, “Holy Family” (Wood-Prince, RX 8104/7)

 

Folder 33:        Magnasco, “Landscape with Figures” (Colburn, no. 818)

 

Folder 34:        Magritte, “La Double Vue” (Block, RX 9117)

 

Folder 35:        Manet, “Portrait of a Lady” (Block, RX 6366)

 

Folder 36:        Marquet, Albert, “La Seine” (Blair, PPL 2462)

 

Folder 37:        Matisse, “Sailor” (Block, RX 1015)

 

Folder 38:        Matisse, “Zorah in Yellow” (Cowles, Rofo 20.310)

 

 

Box 8:

 

Folder 1:          Matthews, George B., “Abraham Lincoln” (Thornton, no. 328)

 

Folder 2:          Mazo, “Portrait of Philip IV” (Mor. Kaplan, Rofo 19807)

 

Folder 3:          Metheany, J. M., III, “Limits of Structure, Part III”

 

Folder 4:          Miro, Joan, “Composition” (Friedman, PPL 2526)

 

Folder 5:          Miro, Joan, “Figure” (Block, Rofo 20975)

 

Folder 6:          Modigliani, Amadeo, “Portrait of a Woman” (Pillsbury, no. 582)

 

Folder 7:          Monet, “Beach at St. Addresse” (RX 4452, Rofo 19092)

 

Folder 8:          Monet, “Still Life” (Leigh Block, no. 1251-B)

 

Folder 9:          Monet, “Water Lilies” (Block)

 

Folder 10:        Monet, “Water Lilies” (Borland, Rofo 21650)

 

Folder 11:        Monet, “Water Lilies” (Kaplan, Rofo 18931)

 

Folder 12:        Morisot, Berthe, “Riviere de Pont-Aven a Rosebras” (Regenstein, no. 583-A)

 

Folder 13:        Mulier, Pieter, “Mercury Lulls Argus to Sleep with Melody from his Pipes” (Notre Dame, no. 125)

 

Folder 14:        Mytens, Daniel, “Charles I” (Miller, no. 75)

 

Folder 15:        Orizonte, “Landscape with Figures and Goats” (Myhrum, no. 174)

 

Folder 16:        Peale, Charles (attr.), “Portrait of Roberta Noe” (Cope, no. 114)

 

Folder 17:        Peale, James (?), “John Morris” (Hutchins, no. 665)

 

Folder 18:        Peale, Raphaelle, two still lifes (Mrs. Ball, no. 571-A-B)

 

Folder 19:        Peyraud, “In the Dunes” (Emerson School, no. 130)

 

Folder 20:        Picasso, “Le Corsage Vert” (Alsdorf, 24.1965)

 

Folder 21:        Picasso, “Landscape” (Mr. Block, Rofo 18800)

 

Folder 22:        Picasso, “Still Life, Vive la France” (Block, no. 810-A)

 

Folder 23:        Pissarro, C., “Norwood” (Blair, Jr., RX 4075)

 

Folder 24:        Pissarro, C., “Quay at Pontoise” (Block, RX 8897)

 

Folder 25:        Pollock, Jackson, “Abstraction” (Friedman, no. 221)

 

Folder 26:        Poulsen, “Seascape” (Mrs. Bush, no. 94)

 

Folder 27:        Puga, Antonio, “Man in Armor” (Tripp, no. 670)

 

Folder 28:        Puligo, “Madonna and Child with St. John” (Amherst College)

 

Folder 29:        Raffaelino del Garbo, “Madonna and Child” (Notre Dame, no. 799)

 

Folder 30:        Raffaelli, J. F., “Paris Street Scene” (Ball State U., no. 8)

 

Folder 31:        Rauschner, “Margaret and Petrus Stuyvesant” (wax bas-relief) (RX 3821)

 

Folder 32:        Renoir, “La Espagnole Jouant le Guitare” (Block, RX 3901)

 

Folder 33:        Reymereswaele, “The Tax Collector” (Notre Dame, no. 620)

 

Folder 34:        Robert, Hubert (attr.), “Landscape” (Notre Dame, no. 990-A)

 

Folder 35         Robert, Hubert (attr.), “Landscape with Arch” (Notre Dame, no. 990-B)

 

Folder 36:        Rosierse, J., “Interior Scene” (Mr. Massey, PPL 2527)

 

 

Box 9:

 

Folder 1:          Rousseau, H., “Paris Scene” (Block, RX 9328)

 

Folder 2:          Rousseau, Theodore, “Landscape” (U. Indiana, no. 664)

 

Folder 3:          Rubens, school of, “Salome with the Head of St. John”

 

Folder 4:          Ruysdael, S., “Seascape” (Wentworth, no. 173)

 

Folder 5:          Salisbury, “Portrait of Edward L. Ryerson” (Ryerson, no. 419)

 

Folder 6:          Salisbury, Frank O., “Charles Pearce” (Pearce, no. 817)

 

Folder 7:          Savery, Roelandt, “Hunting Scene” (Smith, no. 224)

 

Folder 8:          Scott, Julian, “Two Civil War Soldiers” (Notre Dame, no. 98)

 

Folder 9:          Seghers, Daniel, “Garland of Flowers” (Ch. Tripp, no. 666)

 

Folder 10:        Shanks, Nelson, “Portrait of Mrs. Berlin” (Berlin, no. 506)

 

Folder 11:        Sohlberg, Harold, “Fiskerhuset” (Edw. Byron Smith, no. 668)

 

Folder 12:        Solimena, Francesco, “Adam and Eve before the Fall” (Kaplan, RX 5196)

 

Folder 13:        Solimena, “Ermina among the Shepherds” (Notre Dame, no. 1048)

 

Folder 14:        Speicher, E., “Portrait of M. Studebaker Winder” (no. 319) 

 

Folder 15:        Spelman, J. A., “The Home of the Moose” (Emerson School, no. 496)

 

Folder 16:        Steele, T. C., “Valley Mist” (Emerson School, no. 175)

 

Folder 17:        Stuart, G., “Judge McKean” (Wardwell, RX 8047)

 

Folder 18:        Stuart, Jane, “Portrait of General Washington” (Culver Military Academy, no. 626-C)

 

Folder 19:        Subleyras, Pierre, “Pope Benedict XIV” (Notre Dame, no. 1037)

 

Folder 20:        Sully, Thomas, “Mother and Child” (Asmann, no. 329)

 

Folder 21:        Sundelom, Hadden, “Portrait of Mrs. Regenstein” (Regenstein, no. 583-C)

 

Folder 22:        Tamayo, Rufino, “Indian Woman” and “Madre Feliz” (N. Cummings, no. 311-A-B)

 

Folder 23:        Tamayo, Rufino, “People Watching Birds” (Krannert, RX 11492)

 

Folder 24:        Tanguy, Yves, “Title Unknown” (P. Bensinger, no. 228-C)

 

Folder 25:        Tarn, E., “Apples” (Mead, no. 97)

 

Folder 26:        Tellander, F., “Marine” (Emerson School, no. 808)

 

Folder 27:        Teniers, David, II, “Village Square with Fish Peddler” (Flagg, no. 100)

 

Folder 28:        Ter Borch, copy after, “Lady Washing Her Hands” (Jones, no. 122)

 

Folder 29:        Turner, F. D., “Steeplechase Scenes” (four paintings) (Rodman, no. 116)

 

Folder 30:        Turner, George A., “Fox Hunting Scenes” (four paintings (Rodman, no. 223)

 

Folder 31:        Ugolino da Siena, “St. Catherine” (Krannert, no. 627)

 

 

Box 10:

 

Folder 1:          Unknown, “Portrait of a Man” (Frank Woods, Rofo 19153)

 

Folder 2:          Unknown, “Portrait of a Man” (Public School Arts Society, no. 214)

 

Folder 3:          Unknown, “Venus and Cupid” (Lou Shapiro)

 

Folder 4:          Unknown, 19th century, “Don Jose” (Beadle, no. 503)

 

Folder 5:          Unknown, 19th century copy, “Madonna and Child” (Fulton, no. 127)

 

Folder 6:          Unknown, 20th century, “Still-life: Flowers” (Nicholson, no. 128)

 

Folder 7:          Unknown, Italian, 15th century, “Head of Saint” (sculpture) (Notre Dame, no. 655)

 

Folder 8:          Unknown, Italian, 16th century, “Lute Player” (Lowenthal, no. 476)

 

Folder 9:          Unknown, Italian, 16th century, “Madonna and Child with St. John” (Namon, RX 5540)

 

Folder 10:        Unknown, Italian, 18th century, “Architectural Scene” (Wentworth, no. 173)

 

Folder 11:        Unknown, Italian, 18th century, “Battle Scene with Horsemen” (Mrs. Rogers, no. 211)

 

Folder 12:        Unknown, Italian, 19th century, “Christ Child in Glory” (Chesrow, no. 71)

 

Folder 13:        Unknown, Japanese, “Buddha” (sculpture) (Farnsworth, no. 420)

 

Folder 14:        Unknown, Mexican, 17th century, “Madonna Enthroned” (Wilson, no. 115)

 

Folder 15:        Unknown, Roman, 18th century, “Adam and Eve Banished from Eden” (A. Clark, no. 179)

 

Folder 16:        Unknown, Russian, icon (1921) (Mrs. Petersen, no. 46)

 

Folder 17:        Unknown, Russian, icon of “Madonna and Child” (Mrs. Rogers, Temp. Rt. No. 43)

 

Folder 18:        Unknown, Russian, icon of “St. Michael” (Mrs. Rogers, Temp. Rt. No. 43)

 

Folder 19:        Unknown, Russian, 16th century(?), double faced icon (Mrs. Hunt, PPL 2461)

 

Folder 20:        Unknown, South American, animal sculpture (Friedman, no. 222)

 

Folder 21:        Unknown, Spanish, 17th century, “Don Luis di Requesens” (Chesrow, no. 71)

 

Folder 22:        Utrillo, M., “Rue Dveret, Paris” (Block, no. 989)

 

Folder 23:        Valtat, Louis, “Trees” (Cummings, Rofo, 22755)

 

Folder 24:        van Beyeren, A., “Still Life” (Krannert, no. 811-A)

 

Folder 25:        van de Velde, Willem I., “Defeat of the Dutch” (Mr. Singer, PPL 2510)

 

Folder 26:        van Mieris, Willem, “David and Bathsheba” (Dr. Pick, no. 651-A)

 

Folder 27:        van Schendel, school of, “Maid Cleaning Up” (Massey, no. 123)

 

Folder 28:        Vibert, J. G., “Cardinal with Portfolio” (Dangler, no. 795)

 

Folder 29:        Vigee-Lebrun, “Portrait of a Lady” (Notre Dame, no. 793)

 

Folder 30:        Villon, Jacques, “Portrait of Walter Pach” (Hubachek, Rofo 18764)

 

Folder 31:        Vlaminck, “Road in the Forest” (Perry, no. 671)

 

Folder 32:        Waldo, “Picture of a White House” (Spencer, no. 176)

 

Folder 33:        Whistler, “Portrait of Dr. William Whistler” (Wentworth, no. 415)

 

Folder 34:        White, Charles, “Black Man Praying” (S. Side C.C., no. 635)

 

Folder 35:        Withoos, “Flowerpiece” (Flagg, no. 112)

 

Folder 36:        Wolkin, H., “Portrait of Robert Stuart” (Stuart, no. 316)

 

Folder 37:        Wood, Grant, “The Appraisal” (no. 117)

 

Folder 38:        Wood, Grant, “Victorian Survival” (no. 117)

 

Folder 39:        Zuccarelli, Francesco, “Landscape with Shepherd” (Asman)

 

 

Box 11:

 

Treatment notes and photographs

 

These note cards are arranged in three groups.  The first group is in reverse numerical order and cover treatments done between 1954 and 1965.  There are no photographs filed with these reports.  The second group is in numerical order (1-342) and covers work done between 1947 and 1952.  Some of these include photos.  (The numbers on these cards do not match with numbers on the treatment reports in Boxes 5-10.)  Lastly, there are some notes on conditions of paintings owned by Smith College, plus some miscellaneous notes about artists.