The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Robertson, Stanley, 1937-2003                                             

Title:               Papers

Dates:             1970-2003, bulk 1984-2000

Call No.:         Col. 746

Acc. No.:        04x154

Quantity:        78 boxes (ca.23 cu. ft.)

Location:        502 A-B 1-4, C 3-4

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Stanley Robertson was a master gilder and a conservator of gilded objects and frames, who mostly worked in the Washington, D.C. area.  He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on July 9, 1937, the son of Jean Ayton and George Samuel Robertson.  He took a circuitous route to becoming a conservator.  He studied art history and chemistry in college and worked in advertising before becoming a musician.  For more than ten years, he was a member of The Society of Seven, a well-known music group based in Honolulu, Hawaii.  His interest in music led him into learning how to repair musical instruments.  An instrument that needed repair to its gilding inspired him to learn how to gild. 

 

Mr. Robertson became an apprentice gilder in Paris, where he studied for three years.  During this time, he assisted the conservators working on a chateau in Meaux, France.  Following his apprenticeship, Stanley worked in California for a short time but returned to England for additional journeyman training in frame repair.  He made a special study of period frame styles.  Having become an American citizen while living in Hawaii, he decided to return to the United States when a job for a frame conservator became available at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.  He worked there for over two years (1984-1986), and then left to set up his own private practice, Chelsea Lane Conservation Studio.  Mr. Robertson’s clients included the Office of the Architect of the U.S. Capitol, the Federal Reserve System, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery, the Pentagon, the Bass Museum of Art (Miami, Florida), the Ringling Museum (Sarasota, Florida), The Hermitage of Andrew Jackson, schools, private individuals, and other museums, art galleries, and historic houses. 

 

Mr. Robertson was also active in conservation organizations.  He was a member of the Guild of Master Craftsmen (Great Britain), the Society of Gilders, the Washington Conservation Guild, and a professional associate of the American Institute for Conservation.  He taught classes in gilding for the Campbell Center for Preservation and the Smithsonian Resident Associate program.  He gave lectures about the history of frames and frame styles.  He wrote magazine articles and a chapter in the book Gilded Wood: Conservation and History, which was based on the talk he gave at the 1988 Gilded Wood Symposium held in Philadelphia.  He was also a member of the St. Andrew’s Society, having never forgotten his Scottish roots.

 

Stanley Robertson died on May 4, 2003, of lung cancer, perhaps caused by chemicals used in his work.  He was survived by his wife Sandra Spence and by his former wife Amanda Raphaelson.  He had no children.      

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Contains information relating to Stanley Robertson’s career as a gilder and frame conservator.  Included are treatment and survey reports; communications from the various associations to which he belonged; articles and other information about frames and gilding; copies of lectures he gave and articles he wrote; notes and handouts from the classes he taught at the Campbell Center and through the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program; correspondence; calendars; recipes for gesso, sizes, and other materials used in the gilding process; advertisements for his business; and his records of employment by the National Gallery of Art.  Photographs and slides of many of the items on which he worked are part of the collection.  (Regretfully, few are identified.)  As well, there are trade catalogs from makers of frames.  Some of the molds he created to make decorations for frames are also included with the papers.  There are a few of his tools, probably used for carving rather than gilding.  Cassette and video tapes relating to gilding are in the collection as well.  Although most of the collection post-dates Robertson’s return to the United States in 1984, there are a few documents relating to his time with the Society of Seven, a copy of his naturalization papers, and notes kept during his gilding apprenticeship in Paris.

 

 

ORGANIZATION

           

Most of the papers were not in folders or were in folders without titles when the collection came into this repository.  Therefore, the papers had to be arranged as seemed best, and folder titles were assigned.  Legal size files are in Box 32.  Postcards, and oversized articles, designs and tracing, and photographs, are in Boxes 38-39. 

 

Some of the photographs were filed with correspondence and treatment reports, and were left where they were found.  Most photos, however, were filed separately, and many were in unlabeled albums or folders.  Some packets of prints include negatives, but many other negatives are filed separately.  Trade catalogs are filed together and are arranged alphabetically by company name, not by product.

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of Sandra Spence.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Frames and framing.

            Gilding – Conservation and restoration.

            Art – Conservation and restoration.

            Art restorers.

 

            Photographs.

            Correspondence.

            Slides.

            Trade cards.

            Trade catalogs.

            Gilders.

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 502 A-B 1-4, C 3-4

 

Note: There are no boxes with the numbers 42, 43, or 78.

 

 

Box 1:

 

Folder 1:          Abberbach, Iris [client]

 

Folder 2:          Adair, Bill (Gold Leaf Studios)

 

Folder 3:          “After the Arrival” – exhibit catalog with photos

 

Folder 4:          American Institute for Conservation (A.I.C.)

 

Folder 5:          A.I.C. – Outreach Committee

 

Folder 6:          A.I.C. – Wooden Artifacts Group (WAG)

 

Folders 7-8:     Apprenticeship notes 

 

Folder 9:          “Art history and its connection to ornament in the form of wood molding and picture frames” – notes for a book?

 

Folder 10:        Art history - outline

 

Folder 11:        “The Art of the Gilder: Appendices” – translated from Watin’s The Painter’s, Gilder’s, and Varnisher’s Art, 1785 [typescript]

 

Folder 12:        Bankoff, Barbara [client]

 

Folder 13:        “Basic Gilding Process” - photos

 

Folder 14:        Bass Museum of Art (Miami Beach, Fla.): photo contact sheets [client]

 

Folder 15:        Bass Museum of Art (Miami Beach, Fla.): photos

 

 

Box 2:

 

Folder 1:          Bass Museum of Art (Miami Beach, Fla.): reports and correspondence

 

Folder 2:          Bibliography and glossary

 

Folder 3:          Bigelow, Deborah

 

Folder 4:          Bolus chart

 

Folder 5:          Bond, Christopher [client]

 

Folder 6:          Brault, Albert [client]

 

Folder 7:          Bryan, Marguerite [client]

 

Folder 8:          Business ideas

 

Folder 9:          Campbell Center – advanced gilding, 2001

 

Folder 10:        Campbell Center - catalogs

 

Folder 11:        Campbell Center – correspondence and miscellaneous information

 

Folder 12:        Campbell Center – gilding workshop, 2000

 

 

Box 3:

 

Folder 1:          Campbell Center – handouts

 

Folder 2:          Campbell Center – lecture notes, 1988-1991

 

Folder 3:          Campbell Center - notes

 

Folder 4:          Campbell Center – program material

 

Folder 5:          Campbell Center – student information and evaluations

 

Folder 6:          Caramoor [Estate: Katonah, N.Y.]

 

 

Box 4:

 

Folders 1-2:     “The Care and Maintenance of the Gilded Object” – various versions [article by S. Robertson]           

 

Folder 3:          Carousel horse belonging to Bonnie Cohen

 

Folder 4:          “Cartouches and Decorative Small Frames,” ed. by E.V. Gillon, Jr. (Dover publication)

 

Folder 5:          Class and lecture questions

 

Folder 6:          Clients, A-H

 

Folder 7:          Clients, I-N

 

Folder 8:          Clients, O-Z and uncertain names

 

Folder 9:          Commonwealth Conservation Center (Harrisburg, Pa.) [client]

 

Folder 10:        Computer disks

 

Folder 11:        Conservation of Art on Paper, Inc.

 

 

Box 5:

 

Folder 1:          Conservation promotion survey

 

Folder 2:          Conservation workshops, schools, classes, and programs

 

Folder 3:          Conservators

 

Folder 4:          Contacts: names, addresses, phone numbers [see also Box 6]

 

Folder 5:          Corcoran Gallery of Art [client]

 

Folder 6:          Correspondence, 1970s

 

Folder 7:          Correspondence, 1980, 1982-1984

 

Folder 8:          Correspondence, 1985-1989

 

Folder 9:          Correspondence, 1990-1992

 

 

Box 6:

 

Contacts: names, addresses, phone numbers [see also Box 5, folder 4]

 

 

Box 7:

 

Folder 1:          Correspondence, 1993-1999  

 

Folder 2:          Correspondence, 2000-2002

 

Folder 3:          Correspondence, no year

 

Folder 4:          Correspondence not to or from Stanley Robertson

 

Folder 5:          Cortese, Alfred W. [client]

 

Folder 6:          Daughters of the American Revolution

 

Folders 7-8:     Designs and tracings  

 

Folder 9:          Dimensions [title from folder, with note: “to be returned to E. Baker,” frames in unknown location]

 

Folder 10:        Disson, Malcolm

 

Folder 11:        Eli Wilner & Co.

 

Folder 12:        Environmental Law Institute

 

Folder 13:        Federal Reserve System [client]

 

 

Box 8:

 

Folder 1:          Foy, Jessica – “American-made Picture Frames from the Colonial Era”

 

Folder 2:          Frame of 17th century mirror: photos

 

Folder 3:          Frame profiles

 

Folder 4:          Frame restoration/reproduction

 

Folder 5:          Frame styles - lecture

 

Folder 6:          Frames

 

Folder 7:          Frames, American

 

Folders 8-9:     Frames - articles         

 

 

Box 9:

 

Folder 1:          Frames - auctions

 

Folder 2:          Frames, Dutch

 

Folder 3:          Frames, Dutch - profiles

 

Folder 4:          Frames, English

 

Folder 5:          Frames - examples

 

Folder 6:          Frames – examples of styles

 

Folder 7:          Frames – exhibits

 

 

Box 10:

 

Folder 1:          Frames, French

 

Folder 2:          Frames, German

 

Folder 3:          Frames - history

 

Folder 4:          Frames, Italian

 

Folder 5:          Frames, Italian – articles in German

 

Folder 6:          Frames, Italian – exhibit in Munich

 

Folder 7:          Frames, Italian – frames and paintings from sales catalogs

 

 

Box 11:

 

Folder 1:          Frames - notes

 

Folders 2-4:     Frames - photographs

 

Folder 5:          Frames – photographs of details

 

Folder 6:          Frames – sketches and notes

 

Folder 7:          Frames – Frames – style details

 

Folder 8:          Freer, Charles L.

 

Folder 9:          Freer Gallery [client]

 

 

Box 12:

 

Folder 1:          Freer Gallery

 

Folder 2:          Freer Gallery, 1996 [photos]

 

Folder 3:          Freer Gallery – American Collection – photos of exhibit

 

Folder 4:          Freer Gallery – American Collection – treatment reports

 

Folder 5:          Freer Gallery – article on frames

 

Folder 6:          Freer Gallery – Dewing paintings

 

Folder 7:          Freer Gallery – frame conservation reports

 

Folder 8:          Freer Gallery – frame restoration (mainly photos)

 

 

Box 13:

 

Folder 1:          Freer Gallery – photos for reports

 

Folders 2-3:     Freer Gallery – photographs of frames          

 

Folder 4:          Fund for Fine Arts [client]

 

Folder 5:          Furniture and cabinet makers - articles

 

Folder 6:          Furniture restoration, including gilding

 

Folder 7:          German Embassy [client]

 

Folder 8:          Gesso grounds

 

Folder 9:          Getty Museum

 

Folder 10:        Gherman, Bruce – of Picture Framing Magazine

 

Folder 11:        Gilding and gold leaf – articles

 

 

Box 14:

 

Folders 1-2:     Gilding and gold leaf – articles

 

Folders 3-4:     Gilding and painting – articles

 

Folder 5:          Gilding Conservation Symposium, 1988

 

Folder 6:          Gilding Conservation Symposium, 1988 - correspondence

 

Folder 7:          Gilding Conservation Symposium, 1988 – notes on talks

 

 

Box 15:

 

Folder 1:          Gilding Conservation Symposium, 1988 – Robertson’s paper, with photos and negatives

 

Folder 2:          Gilding on parchment

 

Folder 3:          Gilding – photocopies of books

 

Folder 4:          Gilding process - photographs

 

Folder 5:          Gilding supply sources

 

Folder 6:          Gilding: water gilding - articles

 

Folder 7:          Glenelg Country School [client]

 

Folders 8-9:     Gold and gilding

 

 

Box 16:          

 

Folder 1:          Gold and gold beating

 

Folder 2:          Goodwood (Estate: Tallahassee, Fla.) [client]

 

Folder 3:          Green, Malcolm

 

Folder 4:          Guttman Picture Frames Associates

 

Folder 5:          “Handbook on the Care of Picture Frames and Mirror Frames” [notes for a book?]

 

Folder 6:          The Hermitage (Estate: Hermitage, Tenn.) [client]

 

Folders 7-8:     The Hermitage (Estate: Hermitage, Tenn.) – frame conservation survey

 

Folder 9:          Hill, John – furniture forgeries

 

Folder 10:        Home study course in interior design – one from New York School of Interior Design (1963) and two from Judd Magazines (1923)

 

Folder 11:        House of H. Heydenryk, Jr., Inc. - survey

 

Folder 12:        Huckel, Angela – translation of paper given at Gilding Conservation Symposium, 1988

 

Folder 13:        International Society of Appraisers

 

Folder 14:        Japanning

 

Folder 15:        Keith Mueller Color System

 

 

Box 17:

 

Folder 1:          Kimbrough, Leftwich [client]

 

Folder 2:          Knott House (Tallahassee, Fla.) [client]

 

Folder 3:          Knott House (Tallahassee, Fla.) – antique mirror survey, 1991 [includes photos]

 

Folder 4:          Knott House (Tallahassee, Fla.) - photographs

 

Folder 5:          Labels from frames

 

Folder 6:          Library of Congress [client]

 

Folder 7:          Lightner Museum (St. Augustine) – N.I.C. information about surveys

 

Folder 8:          Lightner Museum (St. Augustine) - survey

 

Folder 9:          Love, Jeanne – Oberlin symposium

 

Folder 10:        Maginnis, Owen B. – “How to Join Mouldings” [photocopy]

 

Folder 11:        Magnus, Sylvie – includes photos of paintings

 

 

Box 18:

 

Folder 1:          Mandell, George and Marianne [clients]

 

Folder 2:          Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

 

Folder 3:          Mason, Bruce D. – “On the Sampling of Wooden Objects”

 

Folder 4:          Mazze, Diane L. [client]

 

Folder 5:          Mellon, Paul [client]

 

Folder 6:          Metal leaf gilding

 

Folder 7:          Metals, application of

 

Folder 8:          Metropolitan Museum of Art - frame exhibit [mostly photos]

 

Folder 9:          Metropolitan Museum of Art – frames

 

Folder 10:        Ministry of Public Buildings and Works (London)

 

Folder 11:        Mirrors – glass and frames

 

Folders 12-14: Miscellaneous notes  

 

Folder 15:        Missouri Historical Society [client]

 

Folder 16:        Morven Park (Estate: Leesburg, Va.) [client]

 

 

Box 19:

 

Folder 1:          Mount Vernon Ladies’ Associate [client]

 

Folder 2:          Moxon, Joseph – “Mechanick Exercises” – section on joinery [photocopy of 1970 reprint]

 

Folder 3:          Mulford, Mr. and Mrs., Lafayette House, Alexandria, Va. [client]

 

Folder 4:          Murphy, Herman Dudley – frame designer

 

Folder 5:          Museum of Florida History/Florida History Associates

 

Folder 6:          NASA and National Air and Space Museum

 

Folder 7:          National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine [client]

 

Folder 8:          National Building Museum

 

Folder 9:          National Gallery (London)

 

Folder 10:        National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – applications from job seekers

 

Folder 11:        National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – correspondence, 1964-1983

 

Folder 12:        National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – correspondence, 1984-1990, n.d.

 

Folder 13:        National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – employment records

 

Folder 14:        National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – frames

 

 

Box 20:

 

Folder 1:          National Gallery of Art (D.C.) - frames

 

Folder 2:          National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – lecture notes

 

Folder 3:          National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – reframing portrait by Leonardo da Vinci

 

Folder 4:          National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – reports on inappropriate frames

 

Folder 5:          National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – “Treasure Houses of Britain” exhibit

 

Folder 6:          National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – “Treasure Houses of Britain” – work notes

 

Folder 7:          National Gallery of Art (D.C.) – treatment reports, monthly reports, etc.

 

Folder 8:          National Museum for Women in the Arts [client]

 

Folder 9:          National Museum of American Art [client]

 

Folder 10:        National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) [client]

 

Folder 11:        National Portrait Gallery (D.C.) [client]

 

 

Box 21:

 

Folder 1:          National Trust for Historic Preservation [client]

 

Folder 2:          National Trust for Historic Preservation – housekeeping manual for Woodrow Wilson house

 

Folder 3:          National Trust for Historic Preservation – photographs for book

 

Folder 4:          Newark Museum (N.J.)

 

Folder 5:          Norton Art Conservation, Inc. [client]

 

Folder 6:          North Carolina Governor’s Mansion

 

Folder 7:          North Carolina Museum of Art – photographs of frames and paintings

 

Folder 8:          Notes [not otherwise identified]

 

Folder 9:          Notes about British museums

 

Folder 10:        Oberlin notes

 

Folder 11:        Old Economy Village [client]

 

Folder 12:        Ornaments – cast and free

 

Folder 13:        “The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher’s Companion,” 1867 [photocopy]

 

Folder 14:        Paul Mitchell, Ltd.

 

Folder 15:        Pennsbury Manor

 

 

Box 22:

 

Folder 1:          Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission [client]

 

Folder 2:          The Pentagon [client]

 

Folder 3:          Philadelphia Museum of Art [client]

 

Folder 4:          Photographs – miscellaneous – black and white

 

Folder 5:          Photographs – miscellaneous – color

 

Folder 6:          Photographs – mounted: Winterthur text panels; frames; gilded woodwork

 

Folder 7:          Portrait of a woman - photographs

 

Folder 8:          Prints

 

Folder 9:          “The Proper Care of Gold Leafed Frames” – text and photos for article by S. Robertson

 

Folder 10:        Proposed Garbisch exhibition

 

Folder 11:        Quebec Basilica (Canada)

 

 

Box 23:

 

Folders 1-2:     Recipes, formulas, etc.          

 

Folder 3:          Ringling Museum (Sarasota, Fla.) [client]

 

Folder 4:          Robertson, Stanley – advertisements for his business

 

Folder 5:          Robertson, Stanley – advertisements – mock-ups, drafts, and ideas 

 

Folder 6:          Robertson, Stanley – article for The Construction Specifier, with photos

 

 

Box 24:

 

Folder 1:          Robertson, Stanley – articles

 

Folder 2:          Robertson, Stanley – business permit

 

Folder 3:          Robertson, Stanley – “Dad’s file”

 

Folder 4:          Robertson, Stanley – idea file

 

Folder 5:          Robertson, Stanley – lecture for Washington Conservation Guild

 

Folder 6:          Robertson, Stanley – lecture on frame styles

 

Folder 7:          Robertson, Stanley – lecture materials

 

Folder 8:          Robertson, Stanley – lectures [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 25:

 

Folder 1:          Robertson, Stanley – lectures [continued from previous box]

 

Folder 2:          Robertson, Stanley – personal

 

Folder 3:          Robertson, Stanley – “Portfolio of Lectures, Workshops, and Presentations”

 

Folder 4:          Robertson, Stanley – proposed book - draft

 

Folders 5-6:     Robertson, Stanley – proposed book - notes 

 

Folder 7:          Robertson, Stanley – resumes, descriptions of business, etc.

 

Folder 8:          Robertson, Stanley – survey forms

 

 

Box 26:

 

Folder 1:          Robertson, Stanley – web site

 

Folder 2:          Rockefeller Estate [client]

 

Folder 3:          St. Lukes Gallery (Ellen and Nizar Jawdat) [client]

 

Folder 4:          Science for conservators: cleaning [photocopy]

 

Folder 5:          Scottish organizations: St. Andrew’s Society, Clan Robertson

 

Folder 6:          Slides in carousels - lists

 

Folder 7:          Smith, Nora Jean

 

Folder 8:          Smithsonian Institution – conservation programs

 

Folder 9:          Smithsonian Institution – Resident Associate Program (RAP) – classes taught by Robertson

 

Folder 10:        Smithsonian Institution – Resident Associate Program (RAP) – notes

 

Folder 11:        Smithsonian Institution – Resident Associate Program (RAP) – student evaluations

 

Folder 12:        Society of Gilders

 

 

Box 27:

 

Folder 1:          Society of Gilders – annual meeting notices

 

Folder 2:          Society of Gilders – correspondence

 

Folder 3:          Society of Gilders – membership and officer lists

 

Folder 4:          Society of Seven [music group]

 

Folder 5:          Society of the Cincinnati (Anderson House Museum) – proposal with Page Conservation, Inc.

 

Folder 6:          Solvent test sheets and fumigation information

 

Folder 7:          Solvents, cleaners, adhesives, varnishes

 

Folder 8:          Stewart-Treviranus Associates [client]

 

Folder 9:          Stone Ridge Country Day School (Bethesda, Md.) [client]

 

Folder 10:        Student’s class notes (student unknown)

 

Folder 11:        Styles of ornament and French decorative mirrors

 

 

Box 28:

 

Folder 1:          Survey of gilding styles, cleaning methods, and toning techniques

 

Folder 2:          Technical class stuff – recipe and process

 

Folder 3:          Thompson, Reid [client]

 

Folder 4:          Thornton, Jonathan - workshop

 

Folder 5:          Tools, materials, and moldings

 

Folder 6:          Tools: planes, chisels, gilding tools, etc.

 

Folder 7:          Townsend and Goddard of Newport, Rhode Island

 

Folder 8:          Trinity College (D.C.)

 

Folder 9:          Trumbull, John – frames for his works [photocopies of original documents]

 

Folder 10:        U.S. Army.  Center of Military History.  Museum Division.  [client]

 

Folder 11:        United States Capitol – Office of the Architect – correspondence [client]

 

 

Box 29:

 

Folder 1:          United States Capitol – Office of the Architect – notes

 

Folder 2:          United States Capitol – Office of the Architect – photos of restoration of frames

 

Folder 3:          United States Department of State [client]

 

Folder 4:          United States General Services Administration [client]

 

Folder 5:          United States National Park Service [client]

           

Folder 6:          United States Treasury Department [client]

 

Folder 7:          Varnish and wax

 

Folder 8:          Varnishes and finishes

 

Folder 9:          Walker, C. Howard, “The Theory of Mouldings” [photocopy]

 

Folder 10:        Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore) [client]

 

Folder 11:        Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore) – photographs

 

 

Box 30:

 

Folder 1:          Washington Conservation Guild – correspondence, 1991-1995

 

Folder 2:          Washington Conservation Guild – correspondence, 1996-1997, n.d.

 

Folder 3:          Washington Conservation Guild – meeting and seminar notices

 

Folder 4:          Washington Conservation Guild – minutes of board meetings

 

Folder 5:          Washington Conservation Guild – miscellaneous

 

Folder 6:          Whistler, James – paintings and frames

 

Folder 7:          The White House

 

Folder 8:          White, Stanford – frames

 

Folder 9:          Wisconsin – Capitol

 

 

Box 31:

 

Folder 1:          Wolbers’ class notes

 

Folder 2:          Wolbers’ course notes

 

Folder 3:          Wolbers’ notes

 

Folder 4:          Wolbers’ working notes

 

Folder 5:          Wood

 

Folder 6:          Woodlawn (Estate: Mt. Vernon, Va.) [client]

 

Folder 7:          Workshop: Conservation and Historic Technology of Picture Frames

 

Folder 8:          Workshop: Enzymes, detergents, resin soaps

 

Folder 9:          Workshop notes: good and bad

 

Folder 10:        Zolan Studio (Donald Zolan) [client]

 

 

Box 32: (legal size files):

 

Folder 1:          Articles

 

Folder 2:          Bibliography

 

Folder 3:          Cleaning

 

Folder 4:          “Le Cornici Italiane” [photocopy]

 

Folder 5:          Designs and tracings

 

Folder 6:          “Il Doratore,” by T. Turco [photocopy]

 

Folder 7:          Frame templates – Italian version

 

Folder 8:          Frames, European

 

Folder 9:          Information requests received through an ad in the Magazine Antiques

 

Folder 10:        “Manual of Gilding and Compo Work,” by C.A. Kunou [photocopy]

 

Folder 11:        United States Capitol – paintings

 

 

Box 33:           Calendars, 1986-1989

 

Box 34:           Calendars, 1990-1993

 

Box 35:           Calendars, 1994-1998

 

 

Box 36: videotapes

 

Folder 1:          “Moldmaking Techniques using Latex Rubber,” tapes 1 and 2 of 2, issued by Castcraft, Memphis, Tenn.

 

Folder 2:          instruction booklets to accompany videotapes in folder 1, issued by Castcraft

 

Folder 3:          Engraving/sandblasting demonstration video, issued by Paragrahics Corp.;

 

“Furniture and Cabinet Repair for the Professional,” with Allen Holste and Lee Ann Preston, issued by Star Finishing Products, Hinsdale, Ill.

 

Folder 4:          “Dutch Masters,” issued by Intropics [no box];

 

                        “Period Frame: Thomas Gainsborough, 1764 work, ‘Portrait of General Honywood,’” issued by Conservation Laboratory of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, May 1996

 

 

Box 37: audio cassette tapes

 

Side A: Frame style lecture, Mar. 1988, revised version; side B: “Care and Maintenance of Gilt Wood Objects”

 

Side A: An overview of the cleaning of gilt wood surfaces; side B: gold edge lecture (3 minutes) (practice)

 

A.I.C. meeting, Philadelphia, May 1981, no. 301

 

National Gallery of Art, “Impressionism, 1874-1886,” no. 1076

 

National Gallery of Art, “Watteau,” no. 10003

 

National Gallery of Art, “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” commentary by Ibrahim el-Nawawy for slides 1-20

 

National Gallery of Art, “The Treasure Houses of Britain: Highlights,” no. 1067A

 

Side A: “Prince Charles Speaks at THB, 11/11/85”; side B: NGA, “Impressionism, 1874-1886,” no. 1076A

 

 

Box 38: oversize

 

Assorted packets of postcards and greeting cards, many of paintings with gilded frames

 

The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300-1900, by Richard R. Brettell and Steven Starling, published by the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Includes added color photographs of some of the frames depicted in the book.

 

An American gazetteer from ca. 1793-1795 – covers and some pages are missing (the book begins with the entry for Baltimore);

contains these folded maps: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia (which includes the territories which became Alabama and Mississippi), New Jersey, Kentucky, Maine (only part of map remains), Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Northwest Territory (partial map only), Southwest Tennessee (which became Tennessee), and Vermont

[Tennessee is not yet a state, but Kentucky is]

 

Sign about Albemarle Street city’s lease, from London, ca.1892

 

Roche, Serge, Cadre français et etrangers du XV au XVIII siecle [photocopy; another copy is in box 41]

 

Designs and tracings

 

Oversize photographs: three paintings, part of a frame is included in one photo

 

 

Box 39: oversize

 

Roche, Serge, Cadre français et etrangers du XV au XVIII siecle [photocopy; another copy is in box 40]

 

Small, Tunstall, and Woodbridge, Christopher.  Mouldings of the Wren & Georgian Periods.  [photocopy]

 

Frames – examples [photocopies of pictures]

 

Profile et Tournages, 1 serie, recueil de documents de styles gothique…, 1680 motifs releves et dessines sous la direction de Ed. Bajot.  [photocopy, plates 1-60]

 

Profile et Tournages, 2 serie, recueil de documents de styles gothique…, 1680 motifs releves et dessines sous la direction de Ed. Bajot.  [photocopy, plates 1-60]

 

 

                       

Box 40: Slides

 

Folder 1:          “The Art of the Picture Frame,” slide pack and booklet from National Portrait Gallery (London)                    

 

Folder 2:          Berlin Dahlem Painting Gallery, with identification list

 

Folder 3:          Bigelow, B.

 

Folder 4:          Birmingham Museum

 

Folder 5:          Frames

 

Folder 6:          Gilding

 

Folder 7:          Gold beating (Whiley)

 

Folder 8:          Harrisburg and Gettysburg frame

 

Folder 9:          Knott House (Tallahassee, Fla.)

 

Folder 10:        Lectures

 

 

Box 41: slides

 

Folder 1:          Lectures

 

Folder 2:          Miscellaneous

 

Folder 3:          National Gallery of Art (D.C.)

 

Folder 4:          Paris gilding

 

Folder 5:          Philadelphia Museum

 

Folder 6:          Studio work and studio frames

 

Folder 7:          Unlabeled sheets of slides

 

Folder 8:          various projects: Anderson House (Society of the Cincinnati), Carracci frame, The Hermitage (Tenn.), tondi project, U.S. Capitol, U.S. Department of the Treasury

 

Folder 9:          Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore)

 

Folder 10:        “unfilled,” “to be sorted,” “mixed,” “extras”

 

 

[Box 42, Box 43: numbers not used]

 

 

Box 44: slides

 

The slides in this box were in unlabeled packages, and many of the slides themselves are also unlabeled.

 

 

Box 45: slides

 

Ashmolean Museum;

Caramoor [note: some may not be from there];

colonial;

Copenhagen Museum;

Dulwich

 

 

Box 46: slides

 

Egypt;

frames

 

 

Box 47: slides

 

Frames

 

 

Box 48: slides

 

Freer;

gilding;

Knott House talk;

lecture on styles

 

 

Box 49: slides

 

Lecture slides

 

 

Box 50: slides

 

Lectures;

Mellon horse;

“Mill Race” (statue);

miscellaneous

 

 

Box 51: slides

 

Miscellaneous – titles;

National Gallery of Art;

NGA – Treasure Houses of Britain;

NGA - Impressionists

 

 

Box 52: slides

 

Nice corners;

Orientalist paintings;

personal;

putti heads – Grant frame – Corcoran;

St. Augustine survey;

Scottish wedding;

silver gilt rebuild

 

 

Box 53: slides

 

“So You Want to be a Gilder?!”;

Stone Ridge Country Day School;

textile frames;

Reid Thompson

 

 

Box 54: slides

 

U. S. Capitol speakers’ portraits;

Van Eyck;

Vanonni head piece and Feast of Gods frame;

Victorian walnut/gold [see also Box 61]

 

 

Box 55: slides

 

Historic frames;

special frames,

coats of arms, cartouches;

all about gold and gilding

 

 

Box 56: slides

 

Tools;

empty frames;

studio work and conservation;

Heinz frame;

Museum of American History (Smithsonian) – gothic mirror;

colonial mirror;

miscellaneous

 

 

Box 57: slides

 

Gilding and gold leaf;

“Frames, Glorious Frames”;

early frames

 

 

Box 58: slides

 

Frame styles lecture;

frame styles – extras;

frame styles – origins and international examples

 

 

Box 59: slides

 

Smithsonian – CAL class;

cleaning and Venetian mirror

 

 

Box 60: slides

 

Tondo series;

Triton – Rags to Riches;

NGA conservation slides;

Frame in a bag

 

 

Box 61: slides

 

Interesting workshop slides;

arched frame;

Victorian walnut/gold [see also Box 54]

 

 

Box 62: photos, negatives

 

Folder 1:          Photos: Capitol frames

 

Folder 2:          Photos: Larry’s Antiques, Buffalo, N.Y.

 

Folder 3:          Photos: oversize

 

Folder 4:          Oversize photos with negatives

 

Folder 5:          Negatives: black and white

 

Folder 6:          Negatives: sheets 1-10

 

Folder 7:          Negatives: sheets 11-30

 

Folder 8:          Negatives: sheets 31-50

 

Folder 9:          Negatives: sheets 51-65

 

Folder 10:        large negatives of frames and a portrait

 

 

Box 63: Photo album of places where Stanley Robertson worked

 

Folder 1:          McDuffee- Mongeon Galleries, Portland, Oregon

 

Folder 2:          Baldacchino, Los Angeles

 

Folder 3:          Renaissance Antique Restoration

 

Folder 4:          Maury, Pierre, Paris

 

Folder 5:          A lot, Jean, Paris

 

Folder 6:          P. Levi (Antique Frames) Ltd., England

 

Folder 7:          Upbrook Studios, England

 

 

Box 64: Polaroids

 

Box 65: Polaroids

 

Box 66: Polaroids

 

Box 67: Photos from albums

 

[note: most of the albums were not identified and generic labels, such as “frames” and “paintings” have been assigned to the packets containing photos from those unnamed albums]

 

Ashmolean Musuem, Oxford (2 packets);

Assorted frames;

Capitol frames (4 packets);

Dolphin sculpture, incense burner, Triton sculpture (2 packets);

Dutch, Italian, French frames (3 packets)

Eagle frame with balls;

18th-19th century frames (Polaroids)

Fogg, Boston;

Frame studios (2 packets);

Framed paintings (Polaroids)

Framed paintings (2 packets)

Framed paintings in museums (4 packets)

Frames (2 packets)

 

 

Box 68: Photos from albums

 

Frames (with sizes and order numbers on back) (3 packets);

Frames and portraits (2 packets);

Gilding a cornice (Polaroids);

Making and gilding a round frame;

National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh;

National Portrait Gallery, London (2 packets);

Paintings in frames (various museums) (4 packets);

Paintings in a museum;

Picture frames (2 packets – from different albums);

Reducing a frame in size and other photos (mostly Polaroids);

Restoring a frame (Polaroids);

Stanley Robertson at work in a lab;

Stanley Robertson at work;

Size and cotton and molds;

Statue and picture frames;

Upbrook Studio (3 packets)

 

 

Box 69: Photos from albums; grouped and loose photos

 

[note: A number of photos were in groups – in envelopes, tied together, etc. – and these have been kept together.  However, a large number of photos were also just loose, and they have been divided into smaller groups to fit into the packets.  Many of the groups of photos were not labeled and have been assigned labels, generally something simple such as “frames,” but sometimes more distinctive, such as “frames in storage.”  Many of the groups of photos had their negatives filed with them, and these negatives are in the packets with the photos.  Other negatives are in Box 62.]

 

Album: Victoria and Albert Museum;

Album: Victoria and Albert Museum; National Gallery, Edinburgh (3 packets);

Album: Workshop frames;

The Academy and work, spring 1997;

Acorn frame (2 packets);

Anderson House (Society of the Cincinnati) (2 packets);

Army picture frames [Secretaries of War] (4 packets);

Army – portraits of Secretaries of War;

assorted – some suited for PFM articles;

Bass Museum (negatives only);

“Battle of Gettysburg” and another frame;

“The Big One and some American frames”;

brackets – two pairs – Hermitage, Tennessee (also photos of gold beaters);

Brault – some;

Capitol girandole [mirror] (2 packets);

Carved dragon’s tail and some frames;

Cornices (pair); cornices (#2 3, 4);

Dolphin carving (prints and negatives) and negatives of paintings;

Dolphins, painting, frames (negatives only of dolphins, prints of painting);

Duplicates for frame article – gilding process, pieces of frame, etc.

 

 

Box 70: grouped and loose photos

 

Frames (39 packets)

 

 

Box 71: grouped and loose photos

 

Frames (8 packets);

Frames, including one for a Secretary of War;

Frames (mostly black and white prints);

Frames – Gilding Symposium (black and white prints);

Frames (possibly Neptune trophy frame in SR’s studio);

Studio frames (negatives also include people at a meeting) (2 packets);

Frames – in situ, in studio;

Frames – mostly silver gilt;

Frames, dolphin figures;

Frames - for PFM mag. [Picture Framing Magazine];

Frames – mostly back of a frame;

Frames (negatives only); blocks with “Paul Mellon” inscribed;

Frames, people;

Frames, meeting;

Frames, workshop;

Round frames and other objects (some black and white prints);

Frames, equipment (black and white);

Frames; harp;

Frames – include a mirror, a portrait by St. Menin, and a sculpture

Frames in storage;

Frames – Baroque;

Frames – many are oval;

Frame, gilding process;

Frames and mirror frame

 

 

Box 72: grouped and loose photos

 

Frames, eagle;

Frames with giraffe skin;

Frames with paintings;

Frames and pieces of frames;

Frames – one has a crown;

Frame with crown; personal photos (probably part of Christmas in the Keys);

Frames in workshop;

Frames; SR at work on eagle, basket of fruit, and frame;

Frame with columns;

Framed pictures in a museum;

Freer;

Freer – negatives only (3 packets);

Freer and Corcoran;

Freer & studio – John – Lou – Aug. 1996;

Freer conservation – Stanford White frame;

Freer – Empire – Corcoran – assorted – some suitable for PFM articles;

Freer – 1st batch;

Freer frames;

Freer painting;

Freer – Peacock Room – Whistler; Spanish;

Freer – Whistler “Princess” and frame; Kimbrough Stanford White frame;

Freer – Stanford White frames (2 packets);

Freer – Studio – Mt. Vernon;

French gilding crew – Corcoran gilding site (Phillipe Recuttez);

Furniture – chairs with tapestry covers;

Furniture (gilt); tools; molds; etc.;

Piece of furniture and frames (2 packets);

Piece of furniture;

Piece of furniture; National Trust frames; gilded crest

 

 

Box 73: grouped and loose photos

 

Gilded architectural details;

Gilded furniture; frames; wine cellar;

Gilt frames, with double-headed eagle and a flying eagle;

Glenelg School and others;

Glenelg School (2 packets);

Glue from France;

Gold leaf kit – assorted work samples – assorted frames;

Goodwood (Tallahassee);

Grant frame, some Brault;

Grasshopper (2 packets);

Hermitage – Capitol – Hamish, 1996;

Hermitage – Irish mirror – studio, inside and outside;

House interiors;

Hughes frame, studio frames;

Impressionist frames;

In the park – Vienna – my studio – Julie Meyers;

Incense burner(? – not sure what the object is), frames, bust;

Irish Mirror – Victoria & Albert;

Irish mirror #1 – treatment, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Dec. 1996;

Irish mirror #2 – Ringling Museum, finished Dec. 20, 1996;

Irish mirror – Lady in Blue Dress (copy) – Freer – Stanford White;

Irish mirror with urn (4 packets);

Irish mirror;

Irish sofa; painting;

Knott House, Tallahassee;

Lou – Portrait Gallery rebuild;

Mantel; frames; miscellaneous;

Microscopy photos; frames;

Mirror [in Tallahassee?], another mirror;

Mirror, frame on Christy painting, broken bits;

Mirror, frames, sculpture, etc.;

Mirror

 

 

Box 74: grouped and loose photos

 

Mirror frame (2 packets);

Mirror frame; flowers;

Mirror frame, harp, Wirt portrait frames;

Mirror frame with pearl bird; Lord portraits; Freer frames (takes);

Mirror frames;

Mirror frames; people in an office;

Miscellaneous – studio or workshop, people, puppy, frames, museum exhibit, building;

Miscellaneous – Art Deco chicken, museum , chapel, building being renovated [all in Germany?];

Mix of gilding pictures, including architecture;

Morven Park mirror – “Hapsburg frame” (2 packets);

Mt. Vernon frames;

Nashville [The Hermitage?] (2 packets);

National Gallery – frame for St. Peter;

National Trust donor cases;

New studio – 3701 (2 packets)

Oak & Lion – Irish Georgian;

Oak, assorted frames;

Oberlin – J. Thornton’s class;

Old studio – 4717;

Paris workshop – Pierre Maury;

Personal photos (3 packets);

Personal – include musical group with a man in a kilt (probably SR with The Society of Seven), golf, people (some identified), bull fight, mountain;

Personal – Christmas in the Keys; blue thing with gilt frame;

Personal – England;

Personal: fishing, landscapes;

Personal – Honduras;

Personal – ocean, masquerade party;

Personal – people, Scottish ceremony (Kirking of the Tartan?), dogs, house, etc.;

Personal – landscapes, people, dog;

Personal – people, bonsai, places in D.C.;

Personal – people and buildings; trade show;

Personal – Scottish wedding, furniture;

Personal – SR’s 6oth birthday party

 

 

Box 75: grouped and loose photos

 

Philadelphia frames; gilding technique;

Picture and mirror frames;

Pictures from Hermitage and Pushkin Museums;

Restoration pictures – various;

Ringling gallery;

Ringling Museum (2 packets);

Robertson and school children (possibly Glenelg School);

Robertson carving a wood frame; miscellaneous frames; SR in studio;

John D. Rockefeller IV collection;

School frame;

Screen, dragon, etc.;

Sculpture, furniture, architecture;

Society of Gilders (SOG) – 1992 annual meeting;

92 SOG – Cape May, Aug.;

statures, furniture, mirror frame;

Tallahassee;

Tallahassee frames;

Tallahassee: survey and conservation project;

Tallahassee [Knott House?];

Tallahassee – frames, furniture;

Text panels, paintings;

Thayer frames (2 packets)

Threads caught in a frame (black and white prints);

Tools, frames;

Triton statue, frames;

Varied – screen – dragon – walnut – gold – walnut mirror;

Victoria & Albert – Freer;

Walnut mirror

Stanford White frames, ca.1993;

Stanford White frames at National Portrait Gallery; Stephen Scaffetti;

Wolbers course (3 packets)

Wooden altar;

Work [frames, wooden figure];

Working on frames

 

 

Box 76: Trade catalogs

 

Folders 1-2:     A.P.F., Inc.

 

Folder 3:          Abe Munn Picture Frames, Inc.;

                        Ateliers Ozilou/Yvan Ozilou;

                       

Folder 4:          Bernard Baruch Steinitz, Antiquaire;

                        Constantine’s Manual for Craftsmen, no. 55 (1954)

 

Folders 5-7:     Decorators Supply Corporation, catalogs 119, 124 (after mid-1960s), 127 (1976), 130 (1977), 131 (Mantels, 1978)

 

Folder 8:          Frame Guild

 

 

Box 77: trade catalogs

 

Folder 1:          George Jackson & Sons, ltd.;

Melvin-Thomas Picture Frame Co.;

                        Newcomb-Macklin Co. [see also Thanhardt-Burger Corp.];

 

Folder 2:          Sepp Leaf Products;

                        Stuart R. Stevenson

 

Folder 3:          Thanhardt-Bruge Corp. [see also Newcomb-Macklin Frames]

                       

Folder 4:          Toledo Encadrement d’Art

                       

 

 

[Box 78 – number not used]

 

 

 

Boxes 79-81:

 

These boxes contain an assortment of objects: some tools (probably for carving rather than gilding), plaster casts, identification plates (giving artist and title of work) removed from frames, a wooden ball, some lengths of molding, decorative metal pieces, etc.  One box contains silicon molds used to replicate missing parts of frames.  This box is in storage but may be examined upon request.