Archives of American Art
Gyorgy Kepes papers
Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001
AAA.kepegyor
Archival Resource Key
21.2 Linear feet
1909-2003
bulk 1935-1985
The papers of Hungarian-born artist, art theorist, and educator, Gyorgy Kepes, measure 21.2 linear feet and date from 1909-2003, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1935-1985. The papers document Kepes's career as an artist and educator, and as founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), through biographical material, correspondence, writings by Kepes and others, project files, exhibition files, printed material, sketchbooks, artwork, sound recordings and motion picture films, and photographic material.
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Biographical / Historical
Painter, designer, art theorist, and educator, Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001), was born in Selyp, Hungary, and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. He worked with Moholy-Nagy in Berlin and London before joining him at the New Bauhaus (later the Chicago Institute of Design) in 1937.
Kepes taught courses at the New Bauhaus from 1937 to 1945, and published Language of Vision in 1944, summarizing the educational ideas and methods he had developed during his time at the institute. In 1946 he accepted a teaching position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) where he initiated a program in visual design.
In 1956 Kepes published The New Landscape in Art and Science, in which he presented images from nature that were newly accessible due to developments in science and technology, and explored his ideas for a common language between science and the visual arts.
In 1965, these ideas were apparent in Kepes's proposal of an expanded visual arts program at M.I.T., which would "build new as yet undetermined bridges between art and engineering and science," according to the minutes of an M.I.T. Art Committee meeting in March of that year. Kepes's vision dovetailed with M.I.T.'s vested interest in promoting the arts, and faculty and administrators were open to the argument that "The scientific-technical enterprise needs schooling by the artistic sensibilities." In 1967, they appointed Kepes Director of M.I.T.'s Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS).
Kepes retired from the regular faculty at M.I.T. in 1967, to focus on his role as director of CAVS, where he worked to provide artists with opportunities for exploring new artistic forms on a civic scale through a working dialogue with scientists and engineers. Early fellows of the center included Maryanne Amacher, Joan Brigham, Lowry Burgess, Jack Burnham, Piotry Kowalski, Otto Piene, Vassilakis Takis, and Wen-Ying Tsai.
In 1965-1966 Kepes edited a six-volume series entitled Vision + Value, published by George Braziller, Inc. Each volume featured essays that centered around a core theme: The Education of Vision; Structure in Art and Science; The Nature and Art of Motion; Module, Symmetry, Proportion, Rhythm; Sign, Image, Symbol; and Man-Made Object. Contributions came from prominent artists, designers, architects, and scientists of the time including Rudolf Arnheim, Saul Bass, Marcel Breuer, John Cage, R. Buckminster Fuller, Johannes Itten, Marshall McLuhan, and Paul Rand.
Kepes experimented widely with photography, producing abstract images through the application of fluids and objects to photographic paper. He also took commercial work throughout his career, producing designs for all kinds of objects, including books and stained glass windows for churches. He returned to painting in the 1950s, and his development as a painter continued throughout his career at M.I.T., where he remained until his retirement in 1974, and beyond. His paintings, which were abstract and often incorporated organic shapes and hints of landscapes, can be found in museums such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Kepes received many awards during his lifetime, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1958); the Gold Star Award of the Philadelphia College of Art (1958); the National Association of Art Colleges Annual Award (1968); the California College of Art Award (1968); and the Fine Arts Medal from the American Institute of Architects (1968). In 1973 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member, and became a full academician in 1978. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Conditions Governing Access
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Conditions Governing Use
Authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce requires written permission from Juliet Kepes Stone or Imre Kepes. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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Existence and Location of Copies
All of the sound recordings in the collection were digitized for research access and are available at Archives of American Art offices. Researchers may view the original reels for the archival notations on them, but original reels are not available for playback due to fragility.
Some of the motion picture films were transferred to VHS in 2003 with a grant from the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Portions of the collection and material lent for microfilming are available on 35mm microfilm reels 1211 and 5303-5321 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gyorgy Kepes lent papers for microfilming in 1974 and donated material to the Archives of American Art in a series of gifts between 1974 and 1993.
Processing Information
The collection received a preliminary level of arrangement after donation and was microfilmed on reels 5303-5321. Motion picture film reels were inspected and re-housed in 2016-2018 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The collection was processed and described in a finding aid by Stephanie Ashley in 2018.
Related Materials
Additional papers of Gyorgy Kepes can be found at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Visual Studies Special Collection.
Preferred Citation
Gyorgy Kepes papers, 1909-2003, bulk 1935-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents
The papers of Hungarian-born artist, art theorist, and educator, Gyorgy Kepes, measure 21.2 linear feet and date from 1909-2003, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1935-1985. The papers document Kepes's career as an artist and educator, and as founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), through biographical material, correspondence, writings by Kepes and others, project files, exhibition files, printed material, sketchbooks, artwork, sound recordings and motion picture films, and photographic material.
Correspondence provides a wide range of documentation on all aspects of Kepes's career including his collaborations and friendships with artists, architects, writers, scientists, and fellow educators including Rudolf Arnheim, Alexander Calder, Henry Dreyfuss, Charles and Ray Eames, Clive Entwhistle, R. Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, S. W. Hayter, Jean Hélion, Laszlo and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Lev Nussberg, Robert Osborn, George Rickey, Saul Steinberg, Kenzo Tange, Robert Jay Wolff, and Jekabs Zvilna. Correspondence also documents the evolution of Kepes's vision for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, which he established in 1967, and his subsequent leadership of CAVS at M.I.T. Records document his collaborations with students and fellows including Lowry Burgess, Jack Burnham, Piotry Kowalski, Margaret Mead, Otto Piene, Alan Sonfist, Athena Tacha, Vassilakis Takis, Philip Thiel, Harold Tovish, and Wen-Ying Tsai. Correspondents also include people who contributed to Kepes's Vision + Value series, including Michael Blee, Kazuhiko Egawa, Jean Hélion, and others. Correspondence includes three motion picture films, including what appears to be an early version of Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames.
Writings include notes and manuscripts for articles and essays in which Kepes explored ideas evident in his books The New Landscape and Language of Vision, and submitted to publications such as Daedalus, Design, Domus, and Leonardo. Writings also include manuscripts for lectures, and draft manuscripts documenting Kepes's collaborative work with fellow M.I.T. professor Kevin Lynch on city planning, which culminated in Lynch's research project "The Perceptual Form of the City."
A small group of "Times Square Project" files documents Kepes's proposal for a lightscape in Times Square that was ultimately not realized.
Teaching files include sound recordings of circa five symposia and discussions held at M.I.T., the Illinois Institute of Technology, and elsewhere, some featuring Kepes and including Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and others.
Exhibition files include documentation of three exhibitions, including Light as a Creative Medium (1968) and a Kepes exhibition at Saidenberg Gallery (1968). They also record Kepes's involvement in designing the 1968 Triennale di Milano.
Printed material includes a substantial collection of announcements and catalogs for Kepes exhibitions, lectures, and other events, and includes catalogs and announcements for scattered exhibitions of his wife, artist and illustrator, Juliet Kepes. Clippings from newspapers and magazines include articles about Kepes, and contain some copies of published writings and designs by him. The series also includes sound recordings and motion picture films containing original material for a CBS television series "The 21st Century," probably as part of the episode "Art for Tomorrow," which appear to feature M.I.T. fellows Jack Burnham and Vassilakis Takis. Another motion picture film of an Italian documentary "Operazione Cometa" can also be found here.
Two sketchbooks contain pen and ink and painted sketches by Kepes. Artwork by Kepes includes original poster designs, caricatures, and many pencil, and pen and ink sketches and paintings on paper and board, including designs for stained glass. Artwork by others includes ink on mylar sketches by D. Judelson and Konstancija Brazdys, and a sketch by Harold Tovish. Also found are circa seventeen motion picture films and four sound recordings, the majority of which are untitled and by unidentified artists, but include films by M.I.T. fellows Otto Piene, Vassilakis Takis, Philip Thiel, Harold Tovish, Wen-Ying Tsai, and others.
Photographs are of Kepes, Juliet Kepes, and other family members; students, colleagues, and friends, including R. Buckminster Fuller, Serge Chermayeff, Harry Bertoia, Varujan Boghosian, Alexander Calder, Marchall McLuhan, Margaret Mead, Herbert Read, I. A. Richards, Saul Steinberg, and William Wurster; and of Kepes in his studio. There are also photos of exhibition installations in which Kepes's work appeared or which he designed, and photos of his artwork and of images for publications which he wrote or edited. Photos by others include artwork by established artists and work by students, as well as photographs arranged by subjects such as cityscapes, forms found in nature, light patterns, mechanical devices, and photomicrographs. A collection of lantern slides with similar content to the photos of artwork and photos by subject is also found in this series and includes a lantern slide of Picasso creating a design with light.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as eleven series.
- Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1940-circa 1980 (0.25 linear feet; Boxes 1, 28)
- Series 2: Correspondence, 1936-1984 (5.7 linear feet; Boxes 1-7, 28 OV 33, FCs 39-41)
- Series 3: Interviews and Transcripts, 1954-1970 (4 folders; Box 7)
- Series 4: Writings and Notes, 1948-circa 1980s (1.4 linear feet; Boxes 7-8, 28)
- Series 5: Times Square Project Files, 1972-1974 (6 folders; Box 9)
- Series 6: Teaching Files Sound Recordings, circa 1953-1972 (0.7 linear feet; Box 9)
- Series 7: Exhibition Files, 1958-1973 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 9-10)
- Series 8: Printed Material, circa 1922-1989 (3.6 linear feet; Boxes 10-12, 28-29, OVs 35, 37, FCs 42-49)
- Series 9: Sketchbooks, circa 1940s-circa 1970s (2 folders; Box 12)
- Series 10: Artwork and Moving Images, circa 1924-2003 (2.5 linear feet; Boxes 12, 13, OVs 33-36, 38, FCs 50-62)
- Series 11: Photographs, 1909-1988 (10.4 linear feet; Boxes 13-32)
Separated Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reel 1211) including ninety-eight letters to Kepes from colleagues, 1946-1974. Lent materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Art -- Philosophy
Artists' studios--Photographs
City planning
Educators--Massachusetts--Cambridge
Times Square (New York, N.Y.)
Caricatures
Designs
Motion pictures (visual works)
Photographs
Sketchbooks
Sketches
Sound recordings
Arnheim, Rudolf
Bertoia, Harry
Blee, Michael
Boghosian, Varujan
Brazdys, Konslancija
Burgess, Lowry, 1940-
Burnham, Jack, 1931-
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-
Dreyfuss, Henry, 1904-1972
Eames, Charles
Eames, Ray
Egawa, Kazuhiko
Entwhistle, Clive
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988
Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005
Kepes, Juliet
Kowalski, Piotry
Lynch, Kevin, 1918-1984
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978
Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1905-
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
Nusberg, Lev, 1937-
Osborn, Robert Chesley, 1904-1994
Piene, Otto, 1928-
Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893-1968
Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979
Rickey, George
Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961
Sonfist, Alan
Tacha, Athena, 1936-
Takis, Vassilakis
Tange, Kenzō, 1913-
Thiel, Philip
Steinberg, Saul
Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008
Tsʻai, Wen-ying, 1928-
Wolff, Robert Jay, 1905-
Wurster, William Wilson
Zvilna, Jēkabs, 1913-1997
Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Illinois Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Saidenberg Gallery
Triennale di Milano (Milan, Italy)
Biographical Material
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
0.25 Linear feet
Boxes 1, 28
circa 1940-circa 1980
Scope and Contents
Biographical material consists of awards, certificates, and medals from schools including Carnegie-Mellon University, Loyola University, and M.I.T, and associations such as the American Institute of Architects; biographical notes and resumes including an entry in Who's Who; and a folder of personal financial records such as checks and miscellaneous receipts.
Awards, Certificates, and Medals
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940-1972
1
1-7
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 1
Biographical Notes and Resumes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1980
1
8
Personal Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
1963-1974
1
9
Oversized Awards, Certificates and Medals from Box 1, Folders 1-7
Archival Resource Key
28
1
Correspondence
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
5.7 Linear feet
Boxes 1-7; 28, OV 33, FCs 39-41
1936-1984
Scope and Contents
Correspondence represents almost one quarter of the collection and relates to all aspects of Kepes's career including his relationships and collaborations with artists, architects, and writers; his ideas and achievements as an educator and aesthetic theorist; the publication of his writings; and exhibitions which featured both his artwork and his designs.
Artists, architects, writers, and colleagues represented here include Josef Albers, Rudolf Arnheim, Marcel Breuer, Alexander Calder, Henry Dreyfuss, Charles and Ray Eames, Clive Entwhistle, R. Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, S. W. Hayter, Jean Helion, Laszlo and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Lev Nussberg, Robert Osborn, George Rickey, Saul Steinberg, Kenzo Tange, Robert Jay Wolff, Jekabs Zvilna, and various colleagues and fellows at M.I.T.
M.I.T. correspondence documents the early planning stages for CAVS from 1963 on, including details of Kepes's vision for the program and his efforts to gain support for its funding. Also documented are events and ongoing activities at CAVS and in the visual arts department at M.I.T. , including the organization of symposia and other events, and Kepes's interactions with fellows including Margaret Mead, Otto Piene, Athena Tacha, Vassilakis Takis, Philip Thiel, Harold Tovish, and Wen-Ying Tsai.
Correspondence with publishers such as George Braziller, Inc., Paul Theobald and Company, M.I.T. Press, and others document the publication of Kepes's writings including the publication of The New Landscape in Argentina and Japan, and foreign language editions of Vision + Value. Also documented are Kepes's submissions to various periodicals including Daedalus, Design, Domus, Leonardo, Time and Life magazines, and Transignia, as well as correspondence with artists and others who contributed to the Vision + Value series, including Michael Blee, Kazuhiko Egawa, Jean Hélion, and others.
There is correspondence with many universities and other educational institutions, often in regard to visits by Kepes for exhibitions, lectures, and other programs, including universities throughout the United States and abroad in countries such as Columbia and Mexico. Also found is a small amount of scattered correspondence with galleries who showed and sold artwork by Kepes, including Saidenberg Gallery.
The series includes 3 motion picture films, including what appears to be an early version of the Charles and Ray Eames film Powers of Ten.
Addison Gallery of American Art (Sara Weeks)
Archival Resource Key
1966-1968
1
10
Adrian, Marc
Archival Resource Key
1962-1971
1
11
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1970
1
12
Albers, Josef
Archival Resource Key
1943-1960
1
13
Alexander, Christopher
Archival Resource Key
1965
1
14
Alfieri, Bruno
Archival Resource Key
1960
1
15
Alliance Graphique Internationale
Archival Resource Key
1963-1964
1
16
Allphin, Willard
Archival Resource Key
1967
1
17
American Academy in Rome
Archival Resource Key
1966-1974
1
18
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Archival Resource Key
1972-1981
1
19
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Archival Resource Key
1946-1976
1
20-22
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Archival Resource Key
1969-1972
1
23
American Federation of Arts
Archival Resource Key
1961-1968
1
24
American Heritage
Archival Resource Key
1968
1
25
American Institute of Architects
Archival Resource Key
1967-1969
1
26
Aquinas College
Archival Resource Key
1970-1971
1
27
Archives of American Art
Archival Resource Key
1965-1973
1
28
Arnheim, Rudolf
Archival Resource Key
1963-1974
1
29
Art College of Ontario
Archival Resource Key
1969-1974
1
30
Art Institute of Chicago
Archival Resource Key
1942-1973
1
31
Arts and Crafts Center
Archival Resource Key
1971
1
32
ArtsCanada
Archival Resource Key
1968-1969
1
33
Athens Technological Institute/Athens Center of Ekistics
Archival Resource Key
1967-1974
1
34-39
A, General
Archival Resource Key
1962-1979
1
40
A, General
Archival Resource Key
1943-1972
2
1-2
Balieu, Joost
Archival Resource Key
1962
2
3
Bank Street College of Education, Arts in Education Committee
Archival Resource Key
1968
2
4
Bauhaus Archiv
Archival Resource Key
1965-1974
2
5
Beinart, Julian
Archival Resource Key
1959-1974
2
6
Belluschi, Pietro
Archival Resource Key
1963-1974
2
7
Bennington College
Archival Resource Key
1946-1956
2
8
Benthall, Jonathan
Archival Resource Key
1973
2
9
Bernhard, Ruth
Archival Resource Key
1961-1962
2
10
Beverly Tercentenary Celebration Committee
Archival Resource Key
1968
2
11
Bill, Max
Archival Resource Key
1953-1968
2
12
Bihalji-Meri, O.
Archival Resource Key
1967
2
13
Blee, Michael
Archival Resource Key
circa 1943-1974
2
14
Boston 200: Office of the Boston Bicentennial
Archival Resource Key
1973
2
15
Boston University
Archival Resource Key
1968-1974
2
16
Brambilla, Robert
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
2
17
Braziller, George/George Braziller, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1967-1974
2
18
Brighton College of Art (Jean M. Creedy)
Archival Resource Key
1965-1969
2
19
Brockton Art Center
Archival Resource Key
1968-1969
2
20
Bronowski, Jacob
Archival Resource Key
1957-1967
2
21
B, General
Archival Resource Key
circa 1943-1974
2
22-24
Calder, Alexander and Louisa
Archival Resource Key
1950-1973
2
25
Cambridge Art Association
Archival Resource Key
1966-1972
2
26
Cape Cod Art Association Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1969
2
27
Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
2
28
Carnegie-Mellon University
Archival Resource Key
1968-1971
2
29-31
Cauman, John
Archival Resource Key
1973
2
32
Centro y Arte y Comunicacion
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1972-1973
2
33
Chermayeff, Serge
Archival Resource Key
1947-1967
2
34
City of Cambridge
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1960-1966
2
35
Claus, Juergen
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1970-1972
2
36
Cleveland Museum of Art
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1961-1973
2
37
Club of Rome
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1970-1974
2
38-43
Cole, & Weber, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1970
2
44
Commission on the Humanities in the Schools
Archival Resource Key
1967-1969
2
45-46
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Archival Resource Key
1964-1965
2
47
Cornell University
Archival Resource Key
1965-1969
2
48
C, General
Archival Resource Key
1942-1974
2
49-51
Daedalus
Archival Resource Key
1959-1974
2
52
Davis, Douglas
Archival Resource Key
1973
2
53
DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park
Archival Resource Key
1961-1969
2
54
DeMarco, Richard
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
2
55
Design (Elio Cenci)
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
2
56
Domus (Gio Ponti)
Archival Resource Key
1961-1973
2
57
Dreyfuss, Henry
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
2
58
duCharme, Louis A. (Young & Rubicam, Inc.)
Archival Resource Key
1970-1971
2
59
D, General
Archival Resource Key
1947-1974
2
60-61
Eames, Charles and Ray
Archival Resource Key
1950-1973
Includes 2 film reels.
2
62
Scope and Contents
Includes a report to M.I.T. President Howard Johnson from Charles Eames as a member of the 1969-1970 Arts Commission with recommendations written by Eames.
Correspondence includes two motion picture films: "Powers of Ten," (circa 1968) which is possibly an earlier version of the 1977 film by Charles and Ray Eames; and "Farming the Sea" (1967). Film reels stored separately in film cans numbered 39-40.
Powers of Ten by Charles Eames
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1950-1973
FC 39
Farming at Sea
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
FC 40
Education Development Center
Archival Resource Key
1972
2
63
Egawa, Kazuhiko
Archival Resource Key
1965
2
64
Elek, Paul (Elek Books Ltd.)
Archival Resource Key
1968-1974
2
65
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Archival Resource Key
1972
3
1
Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Archival Resource Key
1964
3
2
Entwistle, Clive
Archival Resource Key
1965
3
3
Everson Museum of Art
Archival Resource Key
1963, 1973
3
4
Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc. (Billy Kluver)
Archival Resource Key
1966-1972
3
5
E, General
Archival Resource Key
1958-1974
3
6
Fallani, Mario
Archival Resource Key
1965-1968
3
7
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Archival Resource Key
1971-1972
3
8
Flocon, Albert
Archival Resource Key
1961-1974
3
9
Flores, Ricardo
Archival Resource Key
1971-1971
3
10
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in OV 33
Ford Foundation
Archival Resource Key
1968-1969
3
11
Frontiers of Learning Lecture Series
Archival Resource Key
1967-1968
3
12
R. Buckminster Fuller
Archival Resource Key
1967-1974
3
13
F, General
Archival Resource Key
1949-1978
3
14-15
Galerie Moos, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
3
16
Galerie Parnass/R. Jahrling
Archival Resource Key
1958-1959
3
17
Gibson, James J.
Archival Resource Key
1964-1967
3
18
Giedion, Siegfried
Archival Resource Key
1951-1966
3
19
Glaser, Esther
Archival Resource Key
1962-1965
3
20
Goeritz, Matias
Archival Resource Key
1967-1973
3
21
Greene-Mercier, Zoe
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
3
22
Gregotti, Vittoria (Edilizia Moderna)
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1964-1966
3
23
Gropius, Walter
Archival Resource Key
1937-1973
3
24
Gropius Foundation/Lecture
Archival Resource Key
1969-1970
3
25
Gutman, Judith Maria
Archival Resource Key
1971
3
26
G, General
Archival Resource Key
1950-1973
3
27-28
Haacke, Hans
Archival Resource Key
1968-1971
3
29
Haar, Charles
Archival Resource Key
1965-1972
3
30
Haar, Francis
Archival Resource Key
1968-1974
3
31
Hampshire College
Archival Resource Key
1967
3
32
Hanson, Bill
Archival Resource Key
1962-1969
3
33
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1967-1971
3
34
Harvard Business Review
Archival Resource Key
1970
3
35
Harvard University
Archival Resource Key
1947-1974
3
36-39
Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum
Archival Resource Key
1954-1974
3
40
Harvard University Press
Archival Resource Key
1963-1966
3
41
Hayter, S. W.
Archival Resource Key
1967-1969
3
42
Hélion, Jean
Archival Resource Key
1950-1972
3
43
Hiler, Hilaire
Archival Resource Key
1962-1963
3
44
Hill, Anthony
Archival Resource Key
1964-1969
3
45
Hodin, J. P.
Archival Resource Key
1961-1973
3
46
Hofer, Philip
Archival Resource Key
1963-1973
3
47
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1962-1968
3
48
Holter, Patra
Archival Resource Key
1971-1972
3
49
Holton, Gerald
Archival Resource Key
1963-1971
3
50
Honkavaara, Sylvia
Archival Resource Key
1966-1971
3
51
House and Garden
Archival Resource Key
1970-1973
3
52
Houghton Mifflin Company
Archival Resource Key
1963-1973
3
53
Hudson, Tom
Archival Resource Key
1963-1964
3
54
H, General
Archival Resource Key
1955-1974
3
55-57
Ihara, Michio
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
3
58
Illinois Arts Council
Archival Resource Key
1969-1972
3
59
Indiana University
Archival Resource Key
1968-1973
3
60
Institute of Contemporary Art
Archival Resource Key
1960-1974
3
61
Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of Technology
Archival Resource Key
1969-1973
3
62
Institute of International Education
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
3
63
International Center for Integrative Studies
Archival Resource Key
1967-1973
3
64-67
International Association for Cultural Freedom
Archival Resource Key
1969-1970
3
68
Internationales Design Zentrum
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
4
1
International Fund for Concerned Photography, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1967-1974
4
2-6
Itten, Johannes
Archival Resource Key
1961-1962
4
7
I, General
Archival Resource Key
1936-1974
4
8
Jakobson, Ronan
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
4
9
Japan Pottery Design Center
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
4
10
John Dewey Society Lecture, Ward Madden
Archival Resource Key
1966-1969
4
11
Joint Center for Urban Studies
Archival Resource Key
1965-1970
4
12
Jones, Cranston
Archival Resource Key
1961-1969
4
13
J, General
Archival Resource Key
1959-1973
4
14
Katzen, Lila
Archival Resource Key
1971
4
15
Kepes, Gyorgy and Joan White
Archival Resource Key
1968-1971
4
16
KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines
Archival Resource Key
1959-1965
4
17
Koch, Erik, Lord's Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1963-1973
4
18
Kostrisky, George E.
Archival Resource Key
1966-1969
4
19
Kowalski, Piotr
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
4
20
Kupferberg, C. A. (Florian Kupferberg Verlag)
Archival Resource Key
1970-1971
4
21
K, General
Archival Resource Key
1950-1974
4
22-23
Lacerda, Carlos
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
4
24
Lehigh University
Archival Resource Key
1972
4
25
Loyola University
Archival Resource Key
1969-1972
4
26
L, General
Archival Resource Key
1947-1974
4
27
MacDonald, Angus
Archival Resource Key
1965-1971
4
28
Malina, Frank L., Leonardo
Archival Resource Key
1969-1974
4
29
Massachusetts College of Art
Archival Resource Key
1964-1972
4
30
M.I.T. Alumni Association
Archival Resource Key
1969
4
31
M.I.T. Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Archival Resource Key
1963-1973
4
32
M.I.T. General
Archival Resource Key
circa 1943-1974
4
33-37
M.I.T. Press
Archival Resource Key
1961-1974
4
38-39
Meyer, Howard R.
Archival Resource Key
1969
4
40
Meyer, John R.
Archival Resource Key
1968
4
41
Michael Berger Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1971
4
42
Michigan State College
Archival Resource Key
1947
4
43
Moholy-Nagy, László (publications about)
Archival Resource Key
1948-1973
4
44
Mondadori Publishing Company, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1964-1969
4
45
Morris, Charles
Archival Resource Key
1951-1958
4
46
Morton, James, Urban Training Center for Christian Mission
Archival Resource Key
1965-1974
4
47
Mumford, Lewis
Archival Resource Key
1961-1970
4
48
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Archival Resource Key
1968-1973
4
49
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, School of
Archival Resource Key
1947-1972
4
50
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
4
51
Museum of Modern Art
Archival Resource Key
1948-1973
5
1
M, General
Archival Resource Key
1961-1974
5
2-3
National Academy of Design
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
5
4
National Endowment for the Arts
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
5
5
National Endowment for the Humanities
Archival Resource Key
1974
5
6
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Archival Resource Key
1967-1974
5
7-12
New England School of Art, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1971-1973
5
13
New Orleans Museum of Art
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
5
14
New York State Teachers Association
Archival Resource Key
1964-1969
5
15
New York Studio School
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
5
16
Nicoletti, Manfredi
Archival Resource Key
1960-1974
5
17
Nusberg, Lev
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
5
18
N, General
Archival Resource Key
1949-1973
5
19-21
Ohio State College
Archival Resource Key
1970
5
22
Ohio State University
Archival Resource Key
1950-1973
5
23
Ong, Walter J.
Archival Resource Key
1966-1967
5
24
Ontario College of Art
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
5
25
Osborn, Robert
Archival Resource Key
1961-1973
5
26
Oster, Gerald
Archival Resource Key
1965-1967
5
27
Osze, Andrew
Archival Resource Key
1964-1965
5
28
Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg
Archival Resource Key
1962
5
29
O, General
Archival Resource Key
1961-1973
5
30
Palmer & Dodge (Raya S. Dreben)
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
5
31
Pan Am Building
Archival Resource Key
1962-1963
5
32
Paul Theobald and Company
Archival Resource Key
1961-1973
5
33
Phillips Exeter Academy
Archival Resource Key
1966-1967
5
34
Phoenix Art Museum
Archival Resource Key
1964-1967
5
35
Photographic Society of Japan
Archival Resource Key
1960
5
36
Provincetown Art Association
Archival Resource Key
1971-1973
5
37
P, General
Archival Resource Key
1951-1974
5
38-39
Rand, Paul
Archival Resource Key
1960-1965
5
40-41
Richards, I. A.
Archival Resource Key
1962-1972
5
42
Richmond, Norman
Archival Resource Key
1962
5
43
Richter, Hans
Archival Resource Key
1963-1967
5
44
Rickey, George
Archival Resource Key
1962-1971
5
45
Rockford Art Association
Archival Resource Key
1965-1968
5
46
R, General
Archival Resource Key
1955-1974
5
47
Saidenberg Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1960-1973
5
48
Sarabhai, Vickram
Archival Resource Key
1962-1970
5
49
Schnebli, Dolf
Archival Resource Key
1966-1973
5
50
Scripps College
Archival Resource Key
1970-1973
5
51
Sert, Jose Luis
Archival Resource Key
1971-1973
5
52
Smith College
Archival Resource Key
1965-1969
5
53
Smithsonian Institution
Archival Resource Key
1968-1974
5
54
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Archival Resource Key
1957-1973
5
55
Southeastern Community College
Archival Resource Key
1969
5
56
Southern Illinois University
Archival Resource Key
1972
5
57
Stanford University
Archival Resource Key
1964-1973
5
58
State University of New York at Binghampton
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
5
59
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Archival Resource Key
1971-1972
5
60
Steinberg, Saul
Archival Resource Key
1961-1963
5
61
Structurist
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
5
62
Szépmuvészeti Múzeum
Archival Resource Key
1970
5
63
S, General
Archival Resource Key
1940-1984
5
64-65
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in in Box 28 Folder 2
S, General
Archival Resource Key
1940-1984
6
1
Tange, Kenzo
Archival Resource Key
1960-1971
6
2
Terrazas, Eduardo
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
6
3
Thiel, Phiip
Archival Resource Key
1957-1973
6
4
Time/Life Magazines/Building
Archival Resource Key
1961-1971
6
5
Tokyo Cinema Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1963-1966
6
6
Scope and Contents
Correspondence came with film: a documentary by Tokyo Cinema, Inc., "Life is Born" (circa 1963).
Life is Born
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1963
FC 41
Toledo Museum of Art
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
6
7
Transigna
Archival Resource Key
1970-1971
6
8
Townley, Hugh
Archival Resource Key
1965-1972
6
9
Tulane University
Archival Resource Key
1971-1974
6
10
Tulbert, David (White Ox Films)
Archival Resource Key
1968-1973
6
11
T, General
Archival Resource Key
1944-1973
6
12
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Archival Resource Key
1971-1974
6
13
United States Government and White House
Archival Resource Key
1964-1973
6
14
Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajura
Archival Resource Key
1972
6
15
Universidad de los Andes
Archival Resource Key
1971-1973
6
16
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1969-1971
6
17-18
Università Internazionale Dell'Arte di Firenze e Venezia
Archival Resource Key
1972
6
19
University Center in Virginia, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1970-1971
6
20
University of California
Archival Resource Key
1952-1973
6
21
University of Cincinnati
Archival Resource Key
1965-1974
6
22
University of Connecticut
Archival Resource Key
1971-1974
6
23
University of Delaware
Archival Resource Key
1968
6
24
University of Hartford
Archival Resource Key
1968-1971
6
25-26
University of Hawaii
Archival Resource Key
1955-1977
6
27-28
University of Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1950-1973
6
29
University of Iowa
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
6
30
University of Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
6
31
University of Manitoba
Archival Resource Key
1969-1970
6
32
University of Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
1948-1974
6
33
University of New Hampshire
Archival Resource Key
1962-1969
6
34
University of North Carolina
Archival Resource Key
1961-1965
6
35
University of Oregon
Archival Resource Key
1964-1965
6
36
University of Rhode Island
Archival Resource Key
1967
6
37
University of Rochester
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
6
38
University of South Florida
Archival Resource Key
1968-1974
6
39
University of Toronto, H. Marshall McLuhan
Archival Resource Key
1959-1972
6
40
University of Virginia (includes publication Modulus)
Archival Resource Key
1966-1973
6
41
University of Washington
Archival Resource Key
1951-1967
6
42
University of Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
1963-1972
6
43
U, General
Archival Resource Key
1942-1979
6
44-45
Vancouver Art Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
6
46
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Archival Resource Key
1969-1973
6
47
V, General
Archival Resource Key
1949-1973
6
48
Wadsworth Atheneum
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
6
49
Walls, Michael
Archival Resource Key
1967-1971
6
50
Washington University
Archival Resource Key
1945-1970
6
51
Weeks, Edward (Ted)
Archival Resource Key
1962-1973
6
52
Weiss, Jack (Low's Incorporated)
Archival Resource Key
1964
6
53
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Archival Resource Key
1967-1969
6
54
Werner, Heinz
Archival Resource Key
1951-1969
6
55
Weslyan University/Press
Archival Resource Key
1962-1969
6
56
Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo
Archival Resource Key
1970-1971
6
57
Wheaton College
Archival Resource Key
1947-1971
6
58
Whyte, Lance
Archival Resource Key
1957-1967
6
59
Willet Stained Glass Studios
Archival Resource Key
1967-1972
6
60
Wolff, Robert Jay
Archival Resource Key
1961-1972
6
61
Workman, Lillian Garrett
Archival Resource Key
1965-1967
6
62
Wurster, William W.
Archival Resource Key
1961-1970
6
63
W, General
Archival Resource Key
1948-1974
6
64-66
X, General
Archival Resource Key
1973
6
67
Yaddo
Archival Resource Key
1965
6
68
Yale University, Jack Tworkov
Archival Resource Key
1965-1971
6
69
York University
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
6
70
Y, General
Archival Resource Key
1957-1974
6
71
Zvilna, Jekabs
Archival Resource Key
1961-1974
6
72
Z, General
Archival Resource Key
1960-1982
6
73
First Names Only
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1974
7
1
Illegible/Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-1985
7
2
Publication of Foreign Language Editions of Books by Kepes
Archival Resource Key
1960s
7
3-5
Publication Permissions
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
7
6-7
Oversized from S, General from Box 5, Folder 63-64
Archival Resource Key
28
2
Oversized Flores, Ricardo from Box 3, Folder 10
Archival Resource Key
OV 33
Interviews and Transcripts
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
4 Folders
Box 7
1954-1970
Scope and Contents
The series includes transcripts of two interviews with Kepes as interviewee and interviewer respectively. Also found are sound recordings of an interview with Kepes regarding the first collaborative exhibition at CAVS, Exploration, and a sound recording of an interview of Takis (probably CAVS fellow Vassilakis Takis) by Edward J. W. Cooper conducted for a Boston public radio station.
Existence and Location of Copies
Sound recordings have been digitized for research access.
Interview with Gyorgy Kepes about the exhibition Exploration, by Marshall Lay
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1970 April 7
7
8
Interview of Takis for "The Art World" WBUR Radio Series by Edward J. W. Cooper
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1968 November 11
7
9
Transcript of Interview with John Cage, James T. Farrell and Andreas Feininger by Kepes
Archival Resource Key
1954 December 10
7
10
Transcript of Interview with Kepes by American Association for Advancement of Science (December 1968)
Archival Resource Key
1969
7
11
Writings and Notes
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
1.4 Linear feet
Boxes 7-8, 28
1948-circa 1980s
Arrangement
Series is arranged as three subseries.
- 4.1 Writings by Kepes, 1948-circa 1980s
- 4.2 Writings by Kepes and Others, circa 1950s-1974
- 4.2 Writings by Others, circa 1950s-circa 1970s
Writings By Kepes
4.1
Archival Resource Key
1948-circa 1980s
Scope and Contents
Applications and proposals are for an undated grant to design and construct an electronic kinetic generator, a 1959 Guggenheim application related to the creative use of light, and a 1974 proposal for Boston Harbor.
Untitled essays are on subjects such as Asian scrolls, artistic idiom, perceptions of the spatial and complex dynamic environments, the man-made environment, contemporary cities, the dialog between man and light, environmental light and shadow, the energy crisis, kinetic aspects of visual experiences, and technology and randomness in twentieth century art.
Published writings by Kepes are articles for journals such as Art and Architecture, Daedalus, Graphis, Leonardo, and others. Scattered additional published writings may be found in Series 8: Printed Material.
Lists include lists of artwork and writings by Kepes, and several lists of his commitments in the early 1970s. Additional scattered and incomplete lists relate to illustrations and photographs for various publications, and invitees to exhibitions.
Notes relate to subjects such as light and color, including an outline for a book on light, and continuity and sequence, and include a group of illustrated notes from the 1940s which appear to relate to Education of Vision, which was volume 1 of Vision + Value.
The series includes one sound recording of a lecture Kepes delivered to the International Institute of Design.
Arrangement
Writings are arranged by type, and chronologically thereafter. Writings with circa dates are at the beginning of the category to which they belong. Lists and notes are arranged at the end of the series respectively, and follow the same chronological arrangement.
Existence and Location of Copies
The sound recording has been digitized for research access.
Applications/Proposals
Archival Resource Key
circa 1959-circa 1974
7
12
Articles/Essays
Archival Resource Key
"A Sketch of Plot for a Future Work: Modern Painting and New Theatre"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
7
13
"Art and the Universities: Two Other Cultures"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
7
14
"Juan Gris: His Life and Work"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
7
15
"The Shaping of the Exhibition"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
7
16
Untitled
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
7
17-20
"Form and Motion"
Archival Resource Key
1948
7
21
Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1955
7
22
"A Mobile Light Mural" (for Art in America)
Archival Resource Key
1960
7
23
Introduction to The Visual Arts Today
Archival Resource Key
1960
7
24
"Light in Art and Architecture"
Archival Resource Key
1963
7
25
Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1965
7
26
"Toward Civic Art" (for Leonardo)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1968
7
27
Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1968
7
28
Untitled (for ArtsCanada)
Archival Resource Key
1969
7
29
"A Proposal"
Archival Resource Key
1970
7
30
Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
7
31
"Light-Art on a New Scale"
Archival Resource Key
1974
7
32
Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1974
7
33
Untitled, Regarding "Design and Technology in Hagia Sophia," by William MacDonald
Archival Resource Key
1974
7
34
Book Excerpt, Language of Vision
Archival Resource Key
1973
7
35
Fragments
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
7
36
Lectures
Archival Resource Key
Untitled
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
7
37
International Institute of Design Lecture
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
circa 1950s-circa 1960s
7
38
"Aesthetics on a Civic Scale"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
7
39
"Aesthetics of Everyday Life"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
7
40
Cooper Union Lecture, "The Integration of Architecture and the Allied Arts"
Archival Resource Key
1958
7
41
Columbia University Seminar Talk, "A Painter's Response to the Idiom of Science"
Archival Resource Key
1965
7
42
UCLA Arts Council, "Arts for a Changing Scale"
Archival Resource Key
1969
7
43
Gropius Lecture
Archival Resource Key
1970
7
44-46
Introductory Lecture (Venice Lecture?)
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
7
47-48
Tulane Lecture
Archival Resource Key
1973
7
49
Berlin/Ontario College of Art Lecture, "Art in a Civic Place"
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
7
50-53
Manuscript in Hungarian
Archival Resource Key
1937
7
54
Published Writings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-1973
7
55-59
Lists
Archival Resource Key
Artwork and Writings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-circa 1980s
8
1
Bibliography for "The Perceptual Form of the City"
Archival Resource Key
1956
8
2
Commitments
Archival Resource Key
1971-1974
8
3
Illustration Captions for Unidentified Publications/Exhibitions
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
8
4
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1966-1974
8
5
Photographs Missing from The New Landscape
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
8
6
Notes
Archival Resource Key
On Continuity/Sequence
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1950s
8
7
On Visual Communication
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1950s
8
8
Outline for "Revision of Vision"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1950s
8
9
Quotations of/Biographical Notes on Various Authors
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1960s
8
10
On "Education of Vision/Visual Fundamentals"
Archival Resource Key
1940-1951
8
11-16
Miscellaneous Notes
Archival Resource Key
1953-1960
8
17
On "Aspects of a City"
Archival Resource Key
1956-1957
8
18
Daedalus Notes and Writings
Archival Resource Key
1959
8
19
On Light and Color
Archival Resource Key
1961
8
20
Lecture Notes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1965
8
21
Outline for Book on Light
Archival Resource Key
1974
8
22
Illustration Photocopies for Unidentified Publication
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
8
23
Writings by Kepes and Others
4.2
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-1974
Scope and Contents
This series comprises primarily draft manuscripts documenting Kepes's collaborative work with M.I.T. professor Kevin Lynch. Kepes and Lynch co-directed a five-year research project funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, "The Perceptual Form of the City," which became the foundation of Lynch's research on city planning.
Also found are writings in the form of annotated manuscripts, and related records including correspondence, for a book proposed by Kepes to M.I.T. Press, entitled "Art on a Public Scale." Files include requests for contributions to CAVS fellows from Kepes, and submissions and some scattered correspondence from Lowry Burgess, Margaret Mead, Carl Nesjar, Bill Parker, Otto Piene, Keiko Prince, Alan Sonfist, Athena Tacha, and others.
By Kepes and Lynch
Archival Resource Key
"A Framework for the Form of City Study and Some Topics for Study"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
8
24
"Art and Civilization (6), Shapes of Enclosed Spaces"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
8
25
"Perception of Environmental Symbols"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
8
26-30
Responses to Environment
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
8
31
Research Proposal, "Perceptual Form of the City"
Archival Resource Key
1953
8
32
Boston Environment
Archival Resource Key
1956
8
33
Essays for "Art on a Public Scale"
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
8
34-37
Writings By Others
4.3
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
In addition to writings about Kepes, this series also contains writings on subjects of interest to Kepes by authors and colleagues including S. Giedion, Michio Ihara, Cranston Jones, Marshall McLuhan, Alan Sofist, and Philip Thiel.
About Kepes by Unidentified Authors
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
8
38
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 2
About Kepes, Essays for Exhibition Gyorgy Kepes: Works in Review
Archival Resource Key
circa 1973
8
39-41
Articles/Essays by Authors B-C
Archival Resource Key
1960s-1970s
8
42
Articles/Essays by Authors D-G
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1970s
8
43
Articles/Essays by Authors H-L
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1970s
8
44
Articles/Essays by Authors M-S
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1970s
8
45
Articles/Essays by Authors T-Z
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1970s
8
46
Articles/Essays by Authors by Unidentified Authors
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
8
47
Contributions to Book Arts of Participation
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
8
48-51
Student Proposals
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957-circa 1972
8
52
Oversized About Kepes by Unidentified Authors from Box 8, Folder 38
Archival Resource Key
28
2
Times Square Project Files
Series 5
Archival Resource Key
6 Folders
Box 9
1972-1974
Scope and Contents
This series documents a project proposed by Kepes "for the orchestration of the lightscape at Times Square," which was ultimately not realized. It includes the proposal and related correspondence with New York's Office of Midtown Planning, as well as correspondence documenting efforts to raise money and support for the project, plans, and supporting photographic and printed material.
Times Square Project
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
9
1-6
Teaching Files Sound Recordings
Series 6
Archival Resource Key
0.7 Linear feet
Box 9
circa 1953-1972
Existence and Location of Copies
All of the sound recordings in this series have been digitized for research access.
Scope and Contents
This series consists primarily of sound recordings of various symposia, most of which took place at M.I.T. CAVS. Kepes is probably featured in many of the recordings, although the recording for the Symposium on Architectural Lettering is the only one labeled specifically to indicate his participation, and also includes Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and others.
Teaching notes for two seminars and a class, can also be found in the series.
Arrangement
Records are arranged chronologically.
Symposium on Architectural Lettering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Archival Resource Key
circa 1953
2 original sound tape reels, and duplicates on 2 sound cassettes.
9
7-8
Teaching Notes
Archival Resource Key
1964
9
9
Symposium on Science and Art
Archival Resource Key
Center for Theoretical Physics session I
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1968 March 20
9
10
Luncheon Address and Banquet Address
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1968 March 21
9
11
Scope and Contents
Includes luncheon address by James R. Killian, Jr. and banquet address by Howard W. Johnson
Center for Theoretical Physics, Sessions 2 and 3; CAVS Session 1
Archival Resource Key
4 Sound tape reels
1968 March 21
9
12-13
CAVS Sessions 3 and 4
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1968 March 22
9
14
Bauhaus Symposium at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1968 September 15-19
9
15
Symposium on "Art in Civic Scale"
Archival Resource Key
1971
3 sound tape reels
9
16-17
Discussion on "Art and the Environment"
Archival Resource Key
1972 February 14
4 sound tape reels
9
18-19
Exhibition Files
Series 7
Archival Resource Key
0.4 Linear feet
Boxes 9-10
1958-1973
Scope and Contents
This series comprises scattered records for several exhibitions, and more comprehensive documentation of the 1968 exhibition Light as a Creative Medium and accompanying symposia, at Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Records include proposals, sketches and plans, related correspondence, photographs of the exhibition, and printed material.
Also found are correspondence and photographs related to Kepes's involvement in the design of the 1968 Milan Triennale, lists and notes related to a 1968 Kepes exhibition at Saidenberg Gallery, and a guest book signed by attendees of an unidentified Kepes exhibition in 1958.
Arrangement
Records are arranged in rough chronological order.
Guest Book from Kepes Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1958
9
20
Light as a Creative Medium (1968)
Archival Resource Key
1963-1968
9
21-26
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 3
Triennale di Milano (1968)
Archival Resource Key
1967-1968
9
27-29
Saidenberg Gallery Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1968
10
1
Invitation List for Science Museum Exhibitions
Archival Resource Key
1973
10
2
Oversized Light as a Creative Medium from Box 9, folders 22-27
Archival Resource Key
28
3
Printed Material
Series 8
Archival Resource Key
3.6 Linear feet
Boxes 10-12, 28-29, OVs 35, 37, FCs 42-49
circa 1922-1989
Scope and Contents
Printed material provides an extensive overview of Kepes's career and activities through news clippings and magazine and journal articles, catalogs, and announcements of exhibitions, lectures, symposia, and other printed matter.
Brochures for publications include those for Language of Vision and the Vision + Value series.
Clippings are from newspapers, magazines, and other publications. Many are about Kepes, including reviews of exhibitions and publications. Some files may also contain published writings by Kepes, or designs by him, such as a 1940 copy of Direction magazine with a back cover designed by Kepes.
Programs are for events such as school commencements and award ceremonies.
Exhibition announcements and catalogs provide a fairly comprehensive record of solo and group exhibitions in which Kepes was represented. Also found are scattered catalogs and announcements for exhibitions of Juliet Kepes. Lecture announcements and press releases are primarily for events in which Kepes was involved.
The series includes sound and motion picture film recordings of a CBS television series "The 21st Century." The recordings are not the final production copies but contain original material presumably filmed for the episode entitled "Art for Tomorrow." They appear to feature CAVS fellows Jack Burnham and Vassilakis Takis, and may also relate to some additional motion picture films found in Series 10.2.
Also found is a motion picture film reel that appears to be of an educational Italian television program "Operazione Cometa."
Arrangement
Records are arranged by type, and chronologically thereafter.
Existence and Location of Copies
All sound recordings of "21st Century Art" have been digitized for research access.
Blueprints and Plans
Archival Resource Key
circa 1958-1970s
10
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 29, Folder 1 and OV 37
Booklets
Archival Resource Key
circa 1922-1984
10
4-6
Brochures, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1960-1974
10
7-8
Brochures for Museums/Galleries
Archival Resource Key
1942-1968
10
9
Brochures for Publications
Archival Resource Key
1941-1966
10
10
Brochures for Schools
Archival Resource Key
circa 1941-circa 1971
10
11
Calendars of Events
Archival Resource Key
circa 1941-1986
10
12
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1935-1969
10
13-45
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1970-1989
11
1-9
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs, Kepes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1937-1987
11
10-32
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in OV 35
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs for Others
Archival Resource Key
circa 1946-1985
11
33-38
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 4
Lecture Announcements (mostly Kepes)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1939-1959
11
39-40
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 4 and OV 37
Lecture Announcements (mostly Kepes)
Archival Resource Key
1960-1981
12
1-3
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1951-circa 1975
12
4-5
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 4
Press Releases
Archival Resource Key
1943-1986
12
6
Programs
Archival Resource Key
1940-1986
12
7
Sound Recordings and Motion Picture Film of CBS Television Series "The 21st Century"
Archival Resource Key
Unedited Sound Recordings
Archival Resource Key
6 Sound tape reels
1968
12
8-10
Motion Picture Films folders
Archival Resource Key
1968
12
11
Paper material relating to 21st Century Art, reels 1-3
Archival Resource Key
1968 November 25
12
12
Scope and Contents
Labels read "Subject: Incredible Journey," and "Art Livesey." Majority of content is a man sitting at a desk. It ends with two men talking to each other and looking at books. Possibly footage for the 1969 episode "Art for Tomorrow." Film reels stored separately in film cans numbered FC 45-46.
Paper material relating to 21st Century Art, reels 4-6
Archival Resource Key
1968 November 25
12
13
Scope and Contents
Labels read "Interview Burnham and Landon Pix; Art-Livesey," and "MIT pix art Burnham/Takis." Content is similar to motion picture film of Reels 1, 2, and 3. Film reels stored separately in film cans numbered FC 47-48.
CBS 21st Century Art
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
FC 42
CBS 21st Century Art Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
FC 43
21st Century: Art, Takis Exhibit, sound
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1968
FC 44
21st Century: Art, reels 1-3, picture
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1968-11-25
FC 45
21st Century: Art, reels 1-3, sound
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1968-11-25
FC 46
Film Reel from Box 12, Folder 13
Archival Resource Key
FC 47
21st Century: Art, reels 4-6, sound
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1968-11-25
FC 48
Operazione Cometa
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1965
FC 49
"Operazione Cometa" di Mino E. Damato
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
circa 1960s
12
14
Scope and Contents
Possibly an educational film about comets in Italian. May be part of "Traveling Among the Stars," an Italian television show with Mino Damato. Film reel stored separately in film can numbered FC 49.
Reproductions of Artwork by Kepes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
12
15-16
Scope and Contents
Oversized Reproductions of Artwork housed in Box 29, Folder 2
Reproductions of Artwork by Others
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
12
17-18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 29, Folder 2
Oversized Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs for Others from Box 11, Folders 33-38
Archival Resource Key
28
4
Oversized Lecture Announcements (mostly Kepes) from Box 11, Folders 39-40
Archival Resource Key
28
4
Oversized Miscellaneous from Box 12, Folders 4-5
Archival Resource Key
28
4
Oversized Blueprints and Plans from Box 10, Folder 3
Archival Resource Key
29
1
Oversized Reproductions of Artwork by Kepes from Box 12, Folder 15-16
Archival Resource Key
29
2
Oversized Reproductions of Artwork by Others from Box 12, Folder 17-18
Archival Resource Key
29
2
Oversized Exhibition and Lecture Announcements from Boxes 11-12
Archival Resource Key
OV 35
Oversized Exhibition and Lecture Announcements from Boxes 11-12
Archival Resource Key
OV 37
Oversized Blueprints and Plans from Box 10, Folder 3
Archival Resource Key
OV 37
Sketchbooks
Series 9
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
Box 12
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
This series comprises two sketchbooks. The untitled sketchbook is primarily filled with pen and ink sketches and accompanying notes. The American Academy in Rome sketchbook primarily contains pen and ink and painted sketches.
Sketchbook, Untitled
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
12
19
Sketchbook, American Academy in Rome
Archival Resource Key
1961
12
20
Artwork and Moving Images
Series 10
Archival Resource Key
2.5 Linear feet
Boxes 12, 13, OVs 33-36, 38, FCs 50-62
circa 1924-2003
Arrangement
Series is arranged as two subseries.
- 10.1: Artwork by Kepes, circa 1930s-circa 1970s
- 10.2: Artwork by Others, circa 1924-2003
Artwork by Kepes
10.1
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
Artwork by Kepes includes five caricatures for "The Emperor's New Clothes" (1934), and eleven folders of pencil, pen, and ink sketches with accompanying notes, in addition to circa sixteen large format paintings and painted sketches on paper and board. Sketches and paintings include designs for exhibitions and publications, stained glass designs, and studies for paintings. Posters includes a series of thirteen posters designed by Kepes for a 1977 exhibitions during his artist-in-residency at Dartmouth College.
Also found are four stencils of numerical and elliptical forms.
Caricatures, Photographic Artwork, and Posters
Archival Resource Key
1934-1977
12
21
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 9 and OVs 33-34
Sketches and Paintings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
12
22-29
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 5 and OVs 33, 35, 36 and 38
Sketches
Archival Resource Key
1935-1973
12
30-32
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 5 and OVs 35, 36 and 38
Stencils
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
12
33
Oversized Photographic Artwork from Box 12, Folders 21
Archival Resource Key
28
9
Oversized Sketches and Paintings from Box 12, Folders 22-32
Archival Resource Key
28
5
Oversized Sketches and Paintings from Box 12, Folder 22-32
Archival Resource Key
OV 33
Oversized Posters from Box 12, Folder 21
Archival Resource Key
OV 34
Oversized Sketches and Paintings from Box 12. Folders 22-32
Archival Resource Key
OV 35
Oversized Sketches and Paintings from Box 12, Folders 22-32
Archival Resource Key
OV 36
Oversized Sketches and Paintings from Box 12, Folders 22-32
Archival Resource Key
OV 38
Artwork by Others
10.2
Archival Resource Key
circa 1924-2003
Scope and Contents
Artwork by others includes a portrait sketch of Kepes by Joe Fener, Budapest, 1924; an ink on mylar sketch by Konstancija Brazdys; a folder of ink on mylar sketches by D. Judelson; and a sketch by Harold Tovish.
The remainder of the series consists of motion picture films and sound recordings by various artists, including several who were colleagues of Kepes and fellows at M.I.T. and CAVS, including Otto Piene, Vassilakis Takis, Harold Tovish, and Wen-Ying Tsai. Some of these recordings may be related to the CBS television series "21st Century Art" recordings found in Series 8.
Existence and Location of Copies
Sound recordings have been digitized for research access. Some of the motion picture films were transferred to VHS and digital betacam in 2003.
Sketches and Prints
Archival Resource Key
circa 1924-1985
12
33-35
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 6
Papers relating to film of Boston City Scenes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1955
12
36
Amateur Motion Picture Film of Boston City Scenes
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1955
FC 50
Papers relating to film of Building Construction
Archival Resource Key
circa 1952-circa 1953
12
37
Amateur Film: Building Construction
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1952-1953
FC 51
Various Artists motion picture film files
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1960s
12
38
Scope and Contents
For access copies, see VHS and digital betacam in Box 12, Folder 39 and Box 13, Folder 1.
Unidentified Film
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
FC 52
Films by Various Artists: Untitled by P.C. Sugar, circa 1953; Untitled by Melvin Smith, 1954; "Experiments in Synoptic Recording of Spatial Experience" Philip Thiel, December, 1959
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
Films seem to be spliced together
16mm
FC 53
Films by Various Artists: E. D. Cizek Spring, 1965; "Coney Island" January 1966 ("Night Light" by R. Dattner); Untitled Michael Southworth, May 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
FC 54
Films by Various Artists: CBS-"Art"-M.I.T. Tovish Exhibit & Takis Pix only; "Twentieth Century" Harold Tovish
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
FC 55
Films by Various Artists: "Light Line Experiment" Otto Piene, workprint, original, cut negative
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
FC 56
Motion Picture Films by Various Artists, Compilation video
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (Digital Betacam)
duplicate
2003
12
39
Scope and Contents
Films on Compilation: 1. Unidentified 2. CBS -"Art" - M. I. T. Tivish Exhibit and Takis Pix only. 3. "Twentieth Century" Harold Tovish. 4. "Twentieth Century" Harold Tovish. 5. Untitled by P. C. Sugar, ca 1953. 6. Untitled by P. C. Sugar, ca 1953. 5. Untitled by Melvin Smith, 1954. 8. "Experiments of Spatial Experience" P Theil, Dec. 1959. 9. "Copley Square" 1961. 10. E. D. Cizek Spring 1965 11. E. D. Cizek Spring 1965 12. "Coney Island" January 1966 ("Night Light" by R Dattner) 13. Untitled Michael Southworth, May 1967 14. "Light Tower" David Morris, June 1968. 15. "Light Line Experiment" Otto Plene (workprint) 16. "Light Line Experiment" Otto Plene (orginal) 17. Otto Plene
Motion Picture Films by Various Artists, Compilation video
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
duplicate
2003
13
1
Scope and Contents
Films on Compilation: 1. Unidentified 2. CBS -"Art" - M. I. T. Tivish Exhibit and Takis Pix only. 3. "Twentieth Century" Harold Tovish. 4. "Twentieth Century" Harold Tovish. 5. Untitled by P. C. Sugar, ca 1953. 6. Untitled by P. C. Sugar, ca 1953. 5. Untitled by Melvin Smith, 1954. 8. "Experiments of Spatial Experience" P Theil, Dec. 1959. 9. "Copley Square" 1961. 10. E. D. Cizek Spring 1965 11. E. D. Cizek Spring 1965 12. "Coney Island" January 1966 ("Night Light" by R Dattner) 13. Untitled Michael Southworth, May 1967 14. "Light Tower" David Morris, June 1968. 15. "Light Line Experiment" Otto Plene (workprint) 16. "Light Line Experiment" Otto Plene (orginal) 17. Otto Plene
Motion Picture Films, Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
3 Film reels
16mm
1 Film reel
8mm
circa 1950s-circa 1960s
13
2
Scope and Contents
Subjects of films include reflections off a grid of disks; squares of different sizes forming patterns; an unidentified skyline; and a street scene. Film reels housed in film cans numbered FC 57-60.
Reflections Off a Grid of Discs
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
8mm
circa 1960s
FC 57
Reflections Off a Grid of Discs
Squares Forming Patterns 1
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
circa 1965
FC 58
Squares Forming Patterns 1
Squares Forming Patterns 2
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
circa 1965
FC 59
Squares Forming Patterns 2
Skyline and Street Scenes, Boston, MA
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
circa 1950s
FC 60
Skyline and Street Scenes, Boston, MA
Tsai Wen-Ying Kinetic Sculptures
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
1960s-1970s
FC 61
Tsai Wen-Ying Kinetic Sculptures
Untitled Film by Woolf & Lau
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
8mm
1964
FC 62
Motion Picture Film, Untitled, by Wen-Ying Tsai
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
16mm
circa 1960s
13
3
Scope and Contents
Film reel housed in film can numbered FC 61.
Motion Picture Film, Untitled, of Colored Light Patterns by Woolf and Lau
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
8mm
circa 1964
13
4
Scope and Contents
Film reel housed in film box numbered FC 62.
Sound Recordings, Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
4 Sound tape reels
13
5-6
Scope and Contents
Sound recordings include the following content: an unidentified man's reminiscences of Cambridge, Massachusetts; an unidentified man's reminiscences of Warsaw, Poland; unidentified literary readings and spoken word with musical accompaniment; and an unidentified musical recording with label "The slip."
Oversized Sketches and Prints from Box 12, Folder 33-35
Archival Resource Key
28
6
Photographs
Series 11
Archival Resource Key
10.4 Linear feet
Boxes 13-32
1909-1988
Arrangement
Photographs are arranged as six subseries.
- 11.1: Photographs of People and Events, 1909-1980
- 11.2: Photographs of Exhibitions, circa 1930s-circa 1970s
- 11.3: Photographs for Publications, circa 1953-circa 1970s
- 11.4: Photographs of Artwork, circa 1922-1988
- 11.5: Photographs by Subject, circa 1950s-circa 1970s
- 11.6: Lantern Slides, circa 1930s-circa 1970s
Photographs of People and Events
11.1
Archival Resource Key
1909-1980
Scope and Contents
This series includes photos of Kepes, including portraits and photos of him in his studio, and with Juliet Kepes and his children. Also found are photos of colleagues and friends including Harry Bertoia, Varujan Boghosian Alexander Calder, Serge Chermayeff, R. Buckminster Fuller, Oskar Koleoshka, Marshall McLuhan, Margaret Mead, Herbert Read, I. A. Richards, Jonas Salk, Saul Steinberg, Arnold Toynbee, and William Wurster. Some of the photos of colleagues were taken by Kepes. Also found are photos of students at Colby Junior College.
Kepes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960-1980
13
7-8
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 7
Kepes, Juliet Kepes, and Family
Archival Resource Key
1909-1957
13
9-10
Carnegie-Mellon Commencement Album
Archival Resource Key
1971
13
11
Kepes in Studio
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960-circa 1974
13
12
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 7
Kepes with Colleagues
Archival Resource Key
1924-1977
13
13
Colleagues and Friends
Archival Resource Key
1948-1977
13
14
Students
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
13
15
Oversized Kepes and Juliet Kepes from Box 13, Folder 8
Archival Resource Key
28
7
Oversized Kepes in Studio from Box 13, Folder 12
Archival Resource Key
28
7
Photographs of Exhibitions
11.2
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
Exhibition installations represented here include the New Bauhaus photograph exhibition in Chicago (1937); several exhibitions designed by Kepes including Art of the United Nations (1945), Visual Education of Artists at the University of Minnesota (1949), and a Moholy-Nagy exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum (1950); and exhibitions featuring paintings and other artwork by Kepes.
Exhibition Installations
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
13
16
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 8
Exhibition Installations
Archival Resource Key
1937-1973
13
17-19
New Landscape Exhibition Installation, Japan
Archival Resource Key
circa 1958
13
20
Oversized Exhibition Installations from Box 13, Folder 16
Archival Resource Key
28
8
Photographs for Publications
11.3
Archival Resource Key
circa 1953-circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
Photographs in this series provide further documentation of publications written or edited by Kepes, including Language of Vision, The New Landscape, and the Vision + Value volume Module, Symmetry, Proportion, Rhythm.
Language of Vision
Archival Resource Key
circa 1961
13
21
Structure and Art in Science
Archival Resource Key
1965
13
22
"The Artist's Role in Environmental Self-Regulation," Picture Essay
Archival Resource Key
circa 1972
13
23
The New Landscape
Archival Resource Key
circa 1953-circa 1967
13
24-32
The New Landscape 301-400
Archival Resource Key
circa 1953-circa 1967
13
33-36
The New Landscape 301-400
Archival Resource Key
circa 1953-circa 1967
14
1-2
The New Landscape, Discarded Material
Archival Resource Key
circa 1953-circa 1967
14
3-7
Vision + Value Series, "Module"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
14
8
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
14
9
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 8 and Box 29, Folder 3
Oversized Miscellaneous from Box 14, Folder 9
Archival Resource Key
28
8
Oversized Miscellaneous from Box 14, Folder 9
Archival Resource Key
29
3
Photographs of Artwork
11.4
Archival Resource Key
circa 1922-1988
Arrangement
Series is arranged as two subseries.
- 11.4.1: By Kepes, 1928-1941
- 11.4.2: By Others, circa 1922-1988
Scope and Contents
Series includes photographs of artwork by old masters and other established artists as well as students. Also found are photos of artwork by region and genre, and a reel of microfilm from the British Museum containing images of the notes of J.M.W. Turner.
By Kepes
11.4.1
Archival Resource Key
1928-1941
By Kepes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1939-circa 1960s
14
10-11
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 29, Folder 4, and Box 30, Folder 1
By Kepes
Archival Resource Key
1928-1981
14
12-16
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 9, Box 29, Folder 4, and Box 30, Folder 1
By Kepes, Architectural Design/Murals
Archival Resource Key
circa 1948-1968
14
17
By Kepes, Slides
Archival Resource Key
1960s-1970s
14
18
Oversized By Kepes from Box 14, Folders 10-16
Archival Resource Key
29
4
Oversized By Kepes from Box 14, Folders 10-16
Archival Resource Key
30
1
By Others
11.4.2
Archival Resource Key
circa 1922-1988
Artists, A
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 10
Artists, B
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
20
Artists, C-G
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
21
Artists, H-K
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
22
Artists, L
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
23
Artists, M
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
24
Artists, N-P
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
25
Artists, R-T
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
26
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 10
Artists, T, Turner's Studies on Perspective, Microfilm Reel
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1960s
14
27
Artists, V-Z
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
28
Artists, A-Z, Slides
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
29-30
Artists, Unidentified/Various
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
14
31-35
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 11 and Box 30, Folder 2
Artists, Unidentified, Slides
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
14
36-38
Artists, Unidentified, Slides
Archival Resource Key
1960-1970
15
1-3
Students, A
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
15
4-5
Students, B
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
15
6-7
Students, B, F
Archival Resource Key
circa 1949-circa 1960
15
8
Students, H
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960-circa 1984
15
9
Students, J-K
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960-circa 1980
15
10-12
Students, L
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
15
13
Students, P
Archival Resource Key
circa 1986
15
14
Students, S-W
Archival Resource Key
1966-1988
15
15
Students, Z
Archival Resource Key
1978
15
16
Students, Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
circa 1946-circa 1970s
15
17-19
Students, Unidentified, Slides
Archival Resource Key
circa 1969-circa 1970s
15
20-21
Students, "Light"
Archival Resource Key
1949-1961
15
22-33
Students, Stage Sets
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
15
34
By Region/Genre, Asian Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
15
35
By Region/Genre, British Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
15
36
By Region/Genre, Ethnographic Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
15
37
By Region/Genre, French Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
15
38
By Region/Genre, Greek Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
15
39
By Region/Genre, Italian Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
1-4
By Region/Genre, Nicaraguan Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
5
By Region/Genre, Northern European Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
6
By Region/Genre, Russian Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
7
By Region/Genre, Spanish Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1909-circa 1970s
16
8
By Region/Genre, Turkish Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
16
9
Oversized by Artists from Box 14, Folders 19 and 26
Archival Resource Key
28
10
Oversized by Artists, Various and Unidentified from Box 14, Folders 31-35
Archival Resource Key
28
11
Oversized by Artists, Various and Unidentified from Box 14, Folders 31-35
Archival Resource Key
30
2
Photographs by Subject
11.5
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
Subjects include architecture, cityscapes, celestial bodies, and mechanical devices, and also include photographic prints of x-rays and photomicrographs showing experiments with light and other natural phenomena. Many of these photographs were possibly used in teaching.
Aerial Photographs
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
16
10
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 30, Folder 3
Architecture
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
16
11-12
Brickwork/Walls
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
13
Celestial Bodies
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
14
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 1
Children
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
16
15
Citgo Signs
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
16
16
Cityscapes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
16
17-20
Cityscapes/Travel
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
16
21-22
Diagrams and Schematic Drawings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
16
23-27
Experiments and Natural Phenomena
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
16
28
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folders 2-3
Industrial Sites/Waterfront Sites
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
16
29-34
Light Patterns
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
35-36
Mechanical Devices
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
37
Nature/Plants
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
16
38
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 32, Folder 1
People
Archival Resource Key
1930-circa 1950s
16
39
Photomicrographs
Archival Resource Key
1940s-circa 1970s
16
40
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 32, Folder 2-4
X-Ray Photographs
Archival Resource Key
1940s-circa 1970s
16
41
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 32, Folder 5
Oversized Aerial Photographs from Box 16, Folder 10
Archival Resource Key
30
3
Oversized Celestial Bodies from Box 16, Folder 14
Archival Resource Key
31
1
Oversized Experiments and Phenomena from Box 16, Folder 28
Archival Resource Key
31
2-3
Oversized Nature/Plants from Box 16, Folder 38
Archival Resource Key
32
1
Oversized Photomicrographs from Box 16, Folder 40
Archival Resource Key
32
2-4
Oversized X-Ray Photographs from Box 16, Folder 41
Archival Resource Key
32
5
Lantern Slides
11.6
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
Lantern slides reflect the same scope and content found in Series 11.4-11.5. One lantern slide related to "Sequence/Continuity" shows Picasso creating a design with light.
Of Artwork
11.6.1
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
Lantern Slide Notes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1970s
16
42
By Kepes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
17
1
By Others, Artists A-V
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1950s
17
2
By Others, Artists, Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
17
3
By Others, Artists, Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
18
1
By Others, Artists Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
19
1
By Others, Children, Drawings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1960s
19
2
By Others, By Genre/Region, Impressionists
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1960s
19
3
By Others, By Genre/Region, Expressionists and "Fauves"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1960s
19
4
By Others, Students, A-C
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
19
5
By Others, Students C-R
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
20
1
By Others, Students R-Z
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
21
1
By Others, Students, "Light and Color"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
21
2
By Subject
11.6.2
Archival Resource Key
circa 1933-circa 1970s
Architecture, African
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
22
1
Architecture, Belgian
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
22
2
Architecture, Byzantine
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
22
3
Architecture, Greek
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
22
4
Architecture, Indian
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
22
5
Architecture, Ireland, New Grange Prehistoric
Archival Resource Key
1957
22
6
Architecture, Italian
Archival Resource Key
1957
22
7
Architecture, Japanese
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
23
1
Architecture, Mexican
Archival Resource Key
circa 1933-circa 1970s
23
2
Architecture, Moroccan
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
23
3
Architecture, Persian
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
23
4
Architecture, Spanish
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
23
5
Architecture, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
23
6
Architecture, Architectural Drawings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
23
7
Brickwork/Walls
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
23
8
Brickwork/Walls
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
24
1
Cityscapes, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
24
2
Diagrams
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
24
3
Forms from Nature
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
24
4
Forms from Nature
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
25
1
Landscapes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
25
2
"Light/Science"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
25
3
"Module and Rhythm"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
25
4
"Module and Rhythm"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
26
1
Optical Illusion
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
26
2
People
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
26
3
"Sequence/Continuity"
Archival Resource Key
1949-1958
26
4
"Sequence/Continuity"
Archival Resource Key
1949-1958
27
1
Scope and Contents
Includes a lantern slide of Picasso creating a design with light.
Space Perception
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
27
2
Stage Sets
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
27
3
Stained Glass Windows
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
27
4
Views of Boston
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
27
5
Views of French Cities
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
27
6