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:         Naeve, Milo M.                      

Title:               Milo M. Naeve papers

Dates:             circa 1950-2010

Call No.:         Col. 983

Acc. No.:        2017x144

Quantity:        40 boxes, 1 oversize folder, one volume on shelf

Location:        8 E 4-6, F 3-4, G 6, map case D, drawer 4

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Milo Merle Naeve was a museum curator, most notably serving as the first Field-McCormick Curator of American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he worked for seventeen years before his retirement in 1991.   Mr. Naeve received his bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Colorado, where he also met Nancy Jammer, who became his wife.  He received his master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture in 1955; his thesis was on Philadelphia artist John Lewis Krimmel.  He served in the army and worked at Winterthur Museum, where he was the founding editor of Winterthur Portfolio; Colonial Williamsburg, where he was curator of furniture; and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, before joining the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975, where he was hired to administer the newly-formed Department of American Arts.

 

In addition to curating exhibits for the AIC, Mr. Naeve pursued interests in American painting, sculpture, architecture, silver, and furniture; later in life, he also became interested in American landscape gardening, and was researching a book on that subject in the last years of his life.  He lectured widely, and wrote a number of articles and several books, including John Lewis Krimmel: An Artist in Federal America, Identifying American Furniture: Colonial to Contemporary (two editions), and The Classical Presence in American Art. 

 

In 1991, Mr. Naeve was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts.  He served on several boards, including the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Biggs Museum of Art.  He was a member of a number of professional societies and the Grolier Club, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.  He died in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, in 2009.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Chiefly research papers of Milo M. Naeve, with some personal materials as well.  Of especial interest are his research notes about Philadelphia artist John Lewis Krimmel.  In the 1950s, Naeve wrote his master’s thesis on this artist.  In 1987, his book on Krimmel John Lewis Krimmel: An Artist in Federal America was published.  In the early 21st century, he researched and wrote a paper about a newly uncovered Krimmel sketchbook.  (It is not known if the paper were ever published, nor is the current location of the sketchbook known.)  Other topics covered by his notes are Asian influences on American arts, furniture of George Washington, landscape gardens in America, Louis Comfort Tiffany, American silver, artist Fidelia Bridges, and others.  For an article comparing New England chairs, Mr. Naeve drew templates of various parts of various chairs, and those are found in the collection.  Mrs. Naeve reported that Mr. Naeve very rarely wrote a script for the talks he gave; rather, he spoke from his notes and memory; the notes, slide lists, and slides for some of these talks are present in the collection.  Some materials pertain to Mr. Naeve’s career at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and at the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

           

ORGANIZATION

 

Order of papers: Krimmel-related materials; bulk of collection; WPEAC papers; materials pertaining to contemporary craft furniture makers; slides.

 

 

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. Milo M. Naeve.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

            People:

                        Bridges, Fidelia, 1834-1923.

Krimmel, John Lewis, 1786-1821.

Emlen family.

 

Topics:

            Art Institute of Chicago.

            Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.

Architect-designed furniture.

            Artist-designed furniture.

            Chair design – 18th century.

            Collectors and collecting.

            Decorative arts, American.

            Furniture, American.

            Furniture, American - 20th century - Exhibits.

            Museum curators.

            Lectures.

Research notes.

Slides (Photography)

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 8 E 4-6, F 3-4, G 6, map case D, drawer 4

 

 

 

Box 1: John Lewis Krimmel: correspondence about him and about Naeve’s book

 

Folder 1:          Krimmel: correspondence about: 1955-1959

 

Folder 2:          Krimmel: correspondence about: 1960-1962, January-February

 

Folder 3:          Krimmel: correspondence about: 1962: March-December; 1963, 1965-1966

 

Folder 4:          Krimmel: correspondence about: 1970s

 

Folder 5:          Krimmel: correspondence about: 1981-1987

 

Folder 6:          Krimmel: correspondence about: 1988-1989

 

Folder 7:          Krimmel: correspondence about: 1990-2007

 

 

Box 2: John Lewis Krimmel: works by Krimmel: notes, correspondence, photos

 

Folder 1:          Krimmel: various works

 

Folder 2:          Krimmel: various works and attributed works

 

Folder 3:          Krimmel: “Cherry Seller”

 

Folder 4:          Krimmel: country frolic and dance: notes

 

Folder 5:          Krimmel: dance scenes

 

Folder 6:          Krimmel: “Election Day at the State House”

 

Folder 7:          Krimmel: “Fighting Dogs, or Cake Woman in Distress”

 

Folder 8:          Krimmel: “Fourth of July in Center Square”: notes

 

Folder 9:          Krimmel: “Going to Market”: notes and correspondence

 

Folder 10:        Krimmel: “Pepper-Pot”

 

Folder 11:        Krimmel: “Pepper-Pot”: court documents

 

 

Box 3: John Lewis Krimmel: works by Krimmel: notes, correspondence, photos

 

Folder 1:          Krimmel: portrait of Johann Christoph Friedrich Hoecklin

 

Folder 2:          Krimmel: portrait of Jacob Ritter, Sr.

 

Folder 3:          Krimmel: sketch for “Return from Market”

 

Folder 4:          Krimmel: “Self Portrait with Family”

 

Folder 5:          Krimmel: works not attributed: “Tavern Scene, or Village Politicians”

 

Folder 6:          Krimmel: studies for “Village Tavern” and a German funeral

 

Folder 7:          Krimmel: sketches owned by the Tiers; history of sketchbooks; correspondence with the Tiers

 

Folders 8-9:     Krimmel: sketchbooks

 

Folder 10:        Krimmel: sketchbooks: watermarks

 

 

Box 4: John Lewis Krimmel: “Bethlehem” sketchbook; and Krimmel family

 

Folder 1:          Krimmel: “Bethlehem” sketchbook: description

 

Folder 2:          Krimmel: “Bethlehem” sketchbook: drafts of article

 

Folder 3:          Krimmel: “Bethlehem” sketchbook: drafts (old)      

 

Folder 4:          Krimmel: “Bethlehem” sketchbook: final copy of article     

 

Folder 5:          Krimmel: “Bethlehem” sketchbook: photos, with page numbers     

 

Folder 6:          Krimmel: “Bethlehem” sketchbook:photos   

 

Folder 7:          Krimmel: “Bethlehem” sketchbook: research            on Bethlehem and other topics

 

Folder 8:          Krimmel: biographical information

 

Folder 9:          Krimmel: genealogy: John Jacob Krimmel (1846-1928) and ancestors

 

Folder 10:        Krimmel: correspondence with Peter Krimmel and information on family

 

 

Box 5: John Lewis Krimmel:

 

Folder 1:          Krimmel: Ebingen, Germany: histories

 

Folder 2:          Krimmel: articles and publications about him

 

Folder 3:          Krimmel: Naeve’s critique of article by Janet Marstine

 

Folder 4:          Krimmel: book by Naeve: reviews, photography charges, summary of contents, editorial comments

 

Folder 5:          Krimmel: talks by Naeve: notes, 1966, 2005, 2007

 

Folder 6:          Krimmel: notes

 

Folders 7-8:     Krimmel: notes: Society of Artists

 

 

Box 6: John Lewis Krimmel: thesis, photos

 

Folder 1:          Krimmel: thesis by Naeve, 1955

 

Folder 2:          Krimmel: thesis; draft of chapter 1

 

Folder 3:          Krimmel: thesis: notes

 

Folder 4:          Krimmel: Photostats for thesis

 

Folders 5-6:     Krimmel: photographs of works by him        

 

Folders 7-8:     Krimmel: photographs for Naeve’s book

 

Box 7: John Lewis Krimmel:

 

note cards for thesis;

 

Box 8: John Lewis Krimmel:

 

Folder 1:          notes and note cards for thesis;

                                    [note: most note cards are not in a folder, but are bundled in the box]

 

Folder 2:          slides of Krimmel’s works

 

Folder 3:          Diaries: 1961 sabbatical: Europe, Krimmel research

 

Folder 4:          1961 research trip to Europe: letters of introduction, postcards [not just about Krimmel, however]

 

 

Book on shelf: John Lewis Krimmel: An Artist in Federal America, by Milo M. Naeve (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987)  (this was Mr. Naeve’s copy)

 

 

 

Box 9: personal materials about Naeve

 

Folder 1:          Awards and recognition

 

Folder 2:          Biographical sketches, resumes, lists of publications

 

Folder 3:          college research paper: “Rock Painting of the Aboriginal Australians”

 

Folder 4:          Diplomas

 

Folder 5:          Driving expenses, between Colorado and Wilmington, 1954-1957

 

Folder 6:          High school, college, early life

 

Folder 7:          Memberships

 

Folder 8:          Obituaries and memorial service

 

Folder 9:          Photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Naeve

 

Folder 10:        U.S. Army: military service

 

 

Box 10:

 

Folder 1:          “The American Artist’s Self-Portrait in the Conversation piece”: notes for proposed exhibit

 

Folder 2:          The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC): Antiquarian Society

 

Folder 3:          The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC): Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building, September 6, 1988 (the materials in this folder were removed from a notebook with that title)

 

Folder 4:          The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC): John Singer Sargent exhibit

 

Folder 5:          The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC): “New wing” letters, 1988

 

Folder 6:          The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC): potpourri and docent talks

 

Folders 7-8:     The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC): endowed position and retirement letters

 

Folder 9:          articles by Naeve

 

 

Box 11: articles

 

Folder 1:          Article: “Dutch colonists and English style…”: notes and correspondence

 

Folders 2-3:     Article: “Eighteenth Century Massachusetts turret-top tea tables…”

 

Folder 4:          Article: “John Glinn’s Clock Case…”

                                    [note: the title should have been “George Glinn’s clock case”]

 

Folder 5:          Article: “Louis Comfort Tiffany and the reform movement…”

 

Folder 6:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: charts, notes, templates

                                    [the article appeared in Newport History, spring 2003; see also oversize folder of templates]

 

Folder 7:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: the AIC chair

 

Folder 8:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Bayou Bend chair

 

Folder 9:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Colonial Williamsburg chair

 

Folder 10:        Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Denver Art Museum chair

 

Folder 11:        Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Detroit chair

 

 

Box 12: articles, book

 

Folder 1:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Eddy family chairs (private owners)

 

Folder 2:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Israel Sack Inc. chair

 

Folder 3:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Moses Brown School chair

 

Folder 4:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Newport Historical Society chair

 

Folder 5:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Preservation Society of Newport County chair

 

Folder 6:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: private collection B

 

Folder 7:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: private collection C

 

Folder 8:          Article: “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 …”: Winterthur Museum chair

 

Folder 9:          articles: book reviews for Sack Heritage Group web site, 2002-2009

 

Folder 10:        Book: Identifying American Furniture: correspondence

 

Folder 11:        Book: Identifying American Furniture: Art Deco

 

Folder 12:        Book: Identifying American Furniture: draft, contract, advertising

 

Folder 13:        Book: Identifying American Furniture: reviews

 

Folder 14:        Book: Identifying American Furniture: second edition

 

 

Box 13:

 

Folder 1:          Book: Identifying American Furniture (second edition): with Naeve’s notes

 

Folders 2-3:     Book: Identifying American Furniture: thank you letters

 

Folder 4:          book proposal and lecture: “Robert Adam Comes to America” [see also slides]

 

Folder 5:          “Fidelia Bridges’ Bird Nest and Ferns: A Crucible of themes …”: typecript and photos

 

Folder 6:          Bridges, Fidelia: biographical notes

 

Folder 7:          Bridges, Fidelia: books illustrated by her

 

Folder 8:          Bridges, Fidelia: photos, negatives

 

Folder 9:          Bridges, Fidelia: pigment analysis of painting, and notes

 

 

Box 14:

 

Folder 1:          Chinoiserie at Monticello and other places

 

Folder 2:          Colonial Williamsburg: Naeve’s appointment as curator

 

Folder 3:          Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

 

Folder 4:          Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center: photographs and newspaper clippings

 

Folder 5:          Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center: publications

 

Folder 6:          Correspondence (not related to Krimmel)

                                    [includes correspondence pertaining to Naeve’s appointment to Winterthur staff in 1957; and a 1966 letter from Henry Francis du Pont about Naeve’s resignation to go to Colonial Williamsburg]

 

Folder 7:          Decorative Arts Society: Robert C. Smith Award

                                    [Mr. Naeve was a member of the award committee]

 

Folder 8:          Emlen genealogy: descendants of Caleb Emlen and Maria Graff (married 1808): compiled by Charles Caleb Cresson from papers of Rosalie Hall, 1891

                                    [it is not known why Mr. Naeve had this document]

 

Folder 9:          Ernst, Max: bed

 

Folder 10:        Franklin Institute: Constitution and By-Laws, 1840 [printed booklet]

 

Folder 11:        Harvard University: President’s Chair, with samples removed for testing

 

Folder 12:        “History of Collecting in America”: correspondence and notes

 

 

Box 15:

 

Folder 1:          “History of Collecting in America”: “Americana and American Life”/”Americana in American Life” [both titles found]

 

Folder 2:          “History of Collecting in America”: “The American Wing and American Taste”

 

Folder 3:          manuscript: “Collecting”: [a draft, with outline]

 

Folder 4:          manuscript: “Collecting”: [several drafts]

 

Folder 5:          Landscape garden in America: project outline and book outline

 

Folders 6-7:     Landscape garden in America: drafts

 

Folder 8:          Landscape garden in America: miscellaneous research notes and lecture preparation

 

 

Box 16:

 

Folders 1-5:     Landscape garden in America: notes

 

Folder 6:          Landscape garden in America: notes: A. J. Downing

 

Folder 7:          Landscape garden in America: notes: introduction

 

 

Box 17:

 

Folder 1:          Landscape garden in America: notes: George Washington and Mount Vernon

 

Folder 2:          newspaper articles mentioning Milo Naeve

                                    [for articles about his talks, see also folders: Talks by Mr. Naeve: notices]

 

Folder 3:          Palmer, Erastus Dow: research and article on “Imogen” [bust at the AIC]

 

Folder 4:          Philadelphia City Hall

 

Folders 5-6:     Reynolds family (carvers): research notes    

 

Folder 7:          Rococo: notes and talk

 

Folder 8:          Rush, William: analysis of work

 

Folder 9:          Silver: An American Art: The Milo M. Naeve Collection of American Silver at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

Folder 10:        Talk and publication: “ABCD’s of Collecting” [see also slides]

 

 

Box 18: talks

 

Folder 1:          talk: “American Art: Tides of Taste in Three Centuries of Collecting,” 1960s

 

Folder 2:          talk: “American Chinoiserie,” Wadsworth Athenaeum, Nov. 2003 [see also slides]

 

Folder 3:          talk: “American Impressionists Abroad and at Home”

 

Folder 4:          talk: “American Silver” and “Collecting American Silver and Gold”

 

Folder 5:          talk: “American Tea Tables”  [see also slides]

 

Folder 6:          talk: “Arts in Federal Alexandria” [see also slides]

 

Folder 7:          talk: Asian influence, miscellaneous notes and including notes on John M. Bair (died 1964), with slide list for Royal Oak talk, 2002

 

Folder 8:          talk: “Celebrating a Movement” [arts and crafts at the AIC], 2000 [see also slides]

 

Folder 9:          talk: “Chinese Influence on American Arts,” NYU conference, 1996

                                    [see also “Oriental Presence in American Art”]

 

Folder 10:        talk: “Classical Presence in America Art”: slides lists [see also slides]

 

Folder 11:        talk: “The Connoisseur of Paintings,” 1984

 

Folder 12:        talk: “Courtly Grace in a Wilderness Place’ [Queen Anne style] [see also slides]

 

Folder 13:        talk: “DNA of Chippendale Furniture” [see also slides]

 

Folder 14:        talk: “Furniture Carving in Colonial and Federal America” 

 

 

Box 19: talks

 

Folder 1:          talk: “Influence of Photography on Painting”

 

Folder 2:          talk: “John Singer Sargent” [see also slides]

 

Folder 3:          talk: “Leaves, Paint, and Ink: The Landscape Garden in Anglo-American Arts” [see also slides]

 

Folder 4:          talk: “Newport Furniture and its American Cousins”: slides lists [see also slides]

 

Folders 5-6:     talk: “Oriental Presence in American Art”

                                    [see also “Chinese Presence in American Art”]

 

Folder 7:          talk: “Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello”

 

Folder 8:          talk: “Twentieth Century Crafts: A Compass for Research”

 

Folder 9:          talk: “The Washingtons and Furniture,” 1995 [see also slides on Washington]

 

Folder 10:        talk on collecting, 1968-1970

 

 

Box 20: talks

 

Folder 1:          talk on folk art, at symposium in New York City, 1985

 

Folder 2:          talk on George Washington

 

Folder 3:          talk on glass, 1960s

 

Folder 4:          talk on pottery, 1960s (with notes)

 

Folder 5:          talk on 20th century craft

 

Folder 6:          talk on 20th century silver

 

Folder 7:          talks on various subjects, various places, 1980s-1990s

 

Folder 8:          talk to Colonial Dames, Washington, D.C., 75th anniversary, 2007

 

Folder 9:          talks for Royal Oak Foundation

 

 

Box 21:

 

Folder 1:          talks: Parnham House lecture: correspondence and information

 

Folder 2:          talks: Parnham House lecture: outline and notes

 

Folder 3:          talks by Mr. Naeve: notices

 

Folder 4:          talks by Mr. Naeve: notices and newspaper clippings

 

Folder 5:          talks and lectures: some notices, notes, correspondence

 

Folder 6:          Winterthur Museum: course outline, and outline of student painting lecture

 

Folder 7:          Winterthur Portfolio

 

Folder 8:          Wistar glass

 

 

Box 22: WPEAC materials, 1950s

 

Folder 1:          course syllabus, fall 1954; notes on 17th century and William and Mary styles; room list and maps

 

Folder 2:          lecture announcements, 1957-58, undated

 

Folder 3:          notes and exams for first semester of first year

 

Folder 4:          notes on readings and other notes; outline for “Finance in England, 1600-1800”

 

Folder 5:          “William and Mary Period’: “Queen Anne Period”; classical period

 

Folder 6:          “American Chippendale Furniture”: paper, with photographs

 

Folder 7:          “Empire Cabinetmakers”: notes, January 1955

 

Folder 8:          Bedsteads: photographs and notes; and miscellaneous: photographs and notes

 

Folders 9-10:   Chairs: armchairs: photographs and notes

 

 

Box 23: WPEAC materials, 1950s

 

Folder 1:          Chairs: Children’s chairs; Corner chairs; Easy chairs: photographs and notes

 

Folder 2:          Chairs: Side chairs: photographs and notes

 

Folder 3:          Chests: photographs and notes

 

Folder 4:          Cupboards and chests: photographs and notes

 

Folder 5:          Clocks; Daybeds; Desks: photographs and notes

 

Folder 6:          Looking glasses; Settees and benches; Spice chests: photographs and notes

 

Folder 7:          Stands: photographs and notes

 

Folders 8-9:     Tables: photographs and notes          

 

 

Box 24: contemporary craft furniture, chiefly 1990s

 

Variously found in these files are notices of exhibits, exhibit brochures or catalogs, trade catalogs, correspondence, and photographs and slides of artists’ work.  Not all files contain all these materials.

 

Folder 1:          American Society of Furniture Artists

 

Folder 2:          Anderson, David

 

Folder 3:          Beeken/Parsons (Bruce Beeken and Jeff Parsons)

 

Folder 4:          Bennett, Garry Knox

 

Folder 5:          Burton, Scott

 

Folder 6:          Caligari

 

Folders 7-8:     Castle, Wendell          

 

Folder 9:          Cederquist, John

 

Folder 10:        Cockrell, Jon

 

Folder 11:        Dean, Peter S.

 

Folder 12:        Doner, Michele Oka

 

 

 

Box 25: contemporary craft furniture, chiefly 1990s

 

Variously found in these files are notices of exhibits, exhibit brochures or catalogs, trade catalogs, correspondence, and photographs and slides of artists’ work.  Not all files contain all these materials.

 

Folder 1:          Dunnigan, John

 

Folder 2:          Ebner, David

 

Folder 3:          Esherick, Wharton

 

Folder 4:          Fleishman, Gregg

 

Folder 5:          Ford, Richard

 

Folder 6:          Gehry, Frank

 

Folder 7:          Hoffmann, Wolfgang, for Howell Co.

 

Folder 8:          Holzapfel, Michelle

 

Folder 9:          Hucker, Thomas

 

Folder 10:        Hurwitz, Michael

 

Folder 11:        Jackson, Daniel

 

Folder 12:        Judd, Donald

 

Folder 13:        Kisch, Gloria

 

Folder 14:        Kirchner & Harmon

 

Folder 15:        Kuramata, Shiro

 

Folder 16:        Legrain, Pierre

 

Folder 17:        Lewis, John

 

Folder 18:        Lewis & Clark (James Angivine Lewis and Clark Ellefson)

 

Folder 19:        Lichtenstein, Roy

 

 

Box 26: contemporary craft furniture, chiefly 1990s

 

Variously found in these files are notices of exhibits, exhibit brochures or catalogs, trade catalogs, correspondence, and photographs and slides of artists’ work.  Not all files contain all these materials.

 

Folder 1:          Loeser, Tom

 

Folder 2:          Ludick, Paul

 

Folder 3:          Lueckenhausen, Helmut

 

Folder 4:          Madsen, Kristina

 

Folder 5:          Makepeace, John

 

Folder 6:          Maruyama, Wendy

 

Folder 7:          Mattia, Alphonse

 

Folder 8:          McKie, Judy Kensley

 

Folder 9:          Meister, Howard

 

Folder 10:        Miller, Herman

 

Folder 11:        Monteith, Clifton

 

Folder 12:        Myers, Forrest (Frosty)

 

Folder 13:        Nakashima, George

 

Folder 14:        Osgood, Jere

 

Folder 15:        Paley, Albert

 

Folder 16:        Patriquin, John

 

 

Box 27: contemporary craft furniture, chiefly 1990s

 

Variously found in these files are notices of exhibits, exhibit brochures or catalogs, trade catalogs, correspondence, and photographs and slides of artists’ work.  Not all files contain all these materials.

 

Folder 1:          Payne, Lee

 

Folder 2:          Pfeiffer, Susan

 

Folder 3:          Philbrick, Timothy

 

Folder 4:          Pieronbon, Peter

 

Folder 5:          Pritam & Eames: gallery (various artists represented)

 

Folder 6:          Robsjohn-Gibbings, T. H.

 

Folder 7:          Schriber, James

 

Folders 8-9:     Shire, Peter    

 

Folder 10:        Shull, Randy

 

Folder 11:        Simpson, Tommy

 

Folder 12:        Smith, Gail Freddell

 

Folder 13:        Snyder, Richard

 

Folder 14:        Somerson, Rosanne

 

Folder 15:        Venturi, Robert; including his work for Knoll Co.

 

Folder 16:        Vignelli, Leila and Massimo

 

Folder 17:        Wahl, Wendy [carpet designs, not furniture]

 

 

Box 28: contemporary craft furniture, chiefly 1990s

 

Variously found in these files are notices of exhibits, exhibit brochures or catalogs, trade catalogs, correspondence, and photographs and slides of artists’ work.  Not all files contain all these materials.

 

Folder 1:          Wales & Wales

 

Folder 2:          Werner, Howard

 

Folder 3:          Wilson, Robert

 

Folder 4:          Zuuca, Edward

 

Folder 5:          assorted artists, A-Z

 

Folder 6:          exhibits

 

Folders 7-8:     exhibit catalogs

 

 

Boxes 29-40: slides, from various talks

 

Box 29:           “ABCDs of Collecting”;

                        “American Chinoiserie”

 

Box 30:           “American Tea Tables”;

                        “Arts in Federal Alexandria”

 

Box 31:           “Celebrating a Movement”;

                        “Classical Presence in American Art” [continues in next box]

 

Box 32:           “Classical Presence in American Art” [continued from previous box];

                        “Courtly Grace in a Wilderness Place” [continues in next box]

 

Box 33:           “Courtly Grace in a Wilderness Place” [continued from previous box];

“DNA of Chippendale Furniture”;

“John Singer Sargent” [continues in next box]

 

Box 34:           “John Singer Sargent” [continued from previous box];

“Tea Drinking” [continues in next box]

 

Box 35:           “Tea Drinking” [continued from previous box];

                        Tiffany talk

 

Box 36:           furniture talk at Parnham House;

                        General furniture slides (mostly craft furniture);

                        “Leaves, Paint and Ink” [landscape gardens) [continues in next box]

 

Box 37:           “Leaves, Paint and Ink” [landscape gardens) [continued from previous box];

                        “Newport Furniture and its American Cousins” [continues in next box]

 

Box 38:           “Newport Furniture and its American Cousins” [continued from previous box];

                        Silver slides [continues in next box]

 

Box 39:           Silver slides [continued from previous box];

                        Washington, George;

                        “Robert Adam Comes to America” [continues in next box]

 

Box 40:           “Robert Adam Comes to America” [continued from previous box]

 

 

 

Oversize folder (in map case D, drawer 4)

 

Templates for New England chairs (see Boxes 12-13)


Milo Naeve bibliography

[note: copies of these items were removed from collection because of their availability elsewhere in the library]

 

American Art Jouranl.

            v. 11, no. 3 (July 1979): “An Aristocratic Windsor in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.”

v. 19, no 3 (1987): “Dutch Colonist and English Style in New York City: Silver Syllabub Cups by Cornelius Kierstede, Gerrit Onckelbag, and Jurian Blanck, Jr.

            v. 21, no. 1 (1989): “William Rush’s Terracotta and Plaster Busts of General Andrew Jackson.”

           

American Furniture, 1996.  Edited by Luke Beckerdite.  Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for Chipstone Foundation, 1996.

            Naeve contributed “Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Reform Movement in Furniture Design: the J. Matthew Meier and Ernest Hagen Commission of 1882-1885”

 

The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: the First One Hundred Years.  Chicago: AIC, 1977.

            Naeve wrote catalog notes

 

Antiques at Colonial Williamsburg.  New York: Magazine Antiques, 1968.

            Naeve contributed article “The American Furniture.”

 

The Art Quarterly.

            Spring 1959: “New Jersey furniture Exhibition at the Newark Museum”

 

The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art.

            v. 3, no. 5 (holiday 2002): “A Pair of Art Nouveau Copper-Inlaid Silver Compotiers by Tiffany”

 

The Classical Presence in American Art.  Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

 

A Decade of Decorative Arts: the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Chicago: AIC, 1986.

            Lynn Springer Roberts was co-author, and others contributed.

 

Delaware Antiques Show, 1972 show catalog.

            Naeve contributed “The Way West: American Furniture in the Pikes Peak Region, 1872-1972.”

 

Furniture History.

                        v. 28 (1992): “”John Glinn’s Clock Case of 1750 for Henry Bromfield of Boston, Massachusetts.”  [The title mistakenly refers to John Glinn; in fact the article is about George Glinn.]

 

Identifying American Furniture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, Colonial to Contemporary.  Nashville: AASLH, 1981.

 

Maryland Historical Magazine. 

            v. 84 (summer 1989): book review of The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family, vol. 2: Charles Willson Peale: The Artists as Museum Keeper, 1791-1810.

 

A Neglected History: 20th Century American Craft.  New York: American Craft Museum, 1990.

            Naeve contributed article “Twentieth-Century Craft: A Compass for Research.”

 

Newport History.  (Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society)

            v. 72, no. 248 (spring 2003): “A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 and Attributions to the Job Townsends of Newport, Rhode Island.”

 

150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings: Selections from the Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art.  Library Company of Philadelphia and Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art, 1999.

            Naeve wrote catalog entries.

SOFA New York: Sculptural Objects & Functional Art.  New York: Expressions of Culture, 2000.

            Naeve contributed “Keys for Collectors and Connoisseurs; The A, B, C, Ds”

 

Treasures of America and Where to Find them.  Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader’s Digest, 1974.

            Naeve was thanked for his “invaluable contributions,” but these are not specified.