Meyer Schapiro papers, 1919-2006

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Series IV: Writings

This series houses all of Schapiro's writings, from published articles, books, and reviews, to unpublished manuscripts, essays, and translations. For writings that were published during Schapiro's lifetime, the 1995 publication Meyer Schapiro: the bibliography compiled by Lillian Milgram Schapiro was used throughout this series for consistency and to source where articles and reviews first appeared. Information relating to all material published posthumously and that post-dates the 1995 bibliography were retrieved from the archival material itself.


Subseries: IV.1: Administrative records, 1960s-2003

Files in this subseries contain records that aided in the administrative management of Schapiro's writings. The bulk of this material comprises lists of published and unpublished writings.



Box 219 Folder 1 Bibliographies, 1960s


Box 219 Folder 2 Unpublished writings -- Lists, 1970s


Box 219 Folder 3 Published writings -- Lists and notes, 1970s-1980s


Box 219 Folder 4 Published writings -- Correspondence and notes, 1979


Box 219 Folder 5 Bibliographies, 1980s


Box 219 Folder 6 Literary executorships -- Notes, 1983-1990s


Box 219 Folder 7 Published books -- List, 1985


Box 219 Folder 8 Unpublished books --List, 1985


Box 219 Folder 9 Literary executorships -- Drafts, notes, and correspondence, 1980s


Box 219 Folder 10 Unpublished writings -- Notes, 1980s-1990s



Box 657 Folder 1 to 2 Unpublished writings -- List, 1990, (2 Folders)


Box 657 Folder 3 to 4 Unpublished writings-- Lists, 1990s, (2 Folders)

(Compiled by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 657 Folder 5 Works released after published bibliography -- List, circa, 2003


Subseries: IV.2: Articles, 1929-1994

Schapiro began publishing articles focused on art and architecture as early as 1929, the year he completed his doctoral dissertation. By 1931, the journal Art Bulletin published parts of his dissertation "The Romanesque Sculpture of Moissac." Since those early years, Schapiro continually published articles in newspapers, journals, and other serials throughout his life. This subseries contains only those articles that have been published, for unpublished works, consult Subseries: IV.3: Essays, Subseries: IV.4: Manuscripts, and Subseries: IV.8: Translations and Poetry in this series. For publications, consult Subseries: IV.5: Publications.

All bibliographic information in this subseries was retrieved from Lillian Milgram Schapiro's 1995 publicationMeyer Schapiro: the bibliographypublished by George Braziller Inc. Bibliographic information is provided for an article's original publication, consult the published bibliography for information on reprinted versions.

To facilitate the discovery of records, this subseries is arranged chronologically by decade as follows: Sub-Subseries: IV.2.1: 1929-1930s, Sub-Subseries: IV.2.2: 1940s, Sub-Subseries: IV.2.3: 1950s, Sub-Subseries: IV.2.4: 1960s, Sub-Subseries: IV.2.5: 1970s, Sub-Subseries: IV.2.6: 1980s.


Sub-Subseries: IV.2.1, 1929-1930s



Box 220 Folder 1 "The south transept portal of Saint-Sernin in Toulouse" -- Draft typescript and notes, 1929 --, 1929

(InParnassus1, no. 3 (1929): 22-23)


Box 220 Folder 2 "Art" -- Typescript and notes, circa 1930s --, 1930s

(InEncyclopedia of the Social Sciences.New York: Macmillan)


"The Romanesque sculpture of Moissac" --

(Revisions of doctoral dissertation. InArt Bulletin13, no. 3 (September 1931): 249-352, and no. 4 (December 1931): 464-531)


Box 220 Folder 3 Typescripts and notes, 1931


Box 220 Folder 4 Typescripts, 1931

(Typescripts chiefly on Moissac porch reliefs. Correspond to pages 178-222 of dissertation)


Box 220 Folder 5 Illustration lists, 1931


Box 220 Folder 6 Annotated typescript, 1931

(Typescript paginated 1-109)


Box 220 Folder 7 Annotated typescript, 1931

(Typescript paginated 110-221)


Box 220 Folder 8 "Engels on Goethe" -- Annotated typescript, 1932

(InNew Masses, September 1932 13-14)


Box 220 Folder 9 "Matisse and Impressionism -- Annotated typescript, 1932 --, 1932

(InAndrocles(Columbia College, New York) 1, no. 1 (February 1932): 21-36. Accompanied by annotated photocopy of article. Typescript was created in 1992)


Box 220 Folder 10 "Architects and the crisis: an open letter to the architects, draughtsman, and technicians of America" -- Editorial notes and clippings,, 1932

(Published in a pamphlet created by the Architects' Committee of League of Professional Groups for Foster and Ford)


Box 220 Folder 11 "Pottery" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, and research notes,, 1934

(InEncyclopedia of the Social Science12: 280-283. New York: Macmillan: 1934)


Box 220 Folder 12 to 13 "Taste" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, and research notes,, 1934, (2 Folders)

(InEncyclopedia of the Social Sciences,14: 523-525. New York: Macmillan, 1934)


Box 220 Folder 14 "New documents on St.-Gilles" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, research notes, and annotated reprints, 1935

(InArt Bulletin17, no. 4 (December 1935): 414-431)


"Race, nationality and art"

(InArt Front2 (March 1936): 10-12)



Box 658 Folder 1 Typescript and notes, 1936


Box 658 Folder 2 Typescript and clipping, 1936

(Photocopy of typescript prepared in 1998)


Box 658 Folder 3 to 5 Research notes, 1936, (3 Folders)


Box 658 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1936


Box 658 Folder 7 Publication, 1936


"Social bases of art"

(In American Artists Congress, New York,Proceedings,no. 1 (1936): 31-37)


Box 658 Folder 8 Typescript and research notes, 1936


Box 658 Folder 9 Proof and clipping, 1936



Box 221 Folder 1 "The public use of art" -- Annotated clipping and editorial note, 1936

(InArt Front2 (November 1936): 4-6)


Box 221 Folder 2 "Further documents on St.-Gilles" -- Typescript, annotated reprint, research notes, and correspondence,, 1937

(InArt Bulletin19, no. 1 (March 1937): 111-112)


"From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silos "

(InArt Bulletin21 no. 4 (December 1939): 313-374)


Box 221 Folder 3 Annotated typescript, 1939


Box 221 Folder 4 Footnotes and corrections, 1939


Box 221 Folder 5 Proofs and annotated reprints, 1939


Box 221 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1939-1940

(Correspondence chiefly with the Toledo Museum of Art)


Box 221 Folder 7 "The sculpture of Souillac" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, and research notes, 1939

(InMediaeval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter,ed. W. R. W. Koehler, 359-387. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939)


Sub-Subseries: IV.2.2, 1940s


"The Carolingian copy of the calendar of 354" --

(InArt Bulletin22, no. 4 (December 1940): 270-272


Box 221 Folder 8 Annotated typescript, correspondence, and annotated reprint, 1940


Box 221 Folder 9 Annotated proof and research notes, 1940


"Courbet and popular imagery: an essay on realism and naiveté" --

(InJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes4, no. 3-4 (1940-1941): 164-191)


Box 221 Folder 10 Annotated typescript, 1940


Box 221 Folder 11 Annotated outlines and notes, 1940


Box 221 Folder 12 "A note on the inscription of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela" -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1942

(InSpeculum17, no. 2 (April 1942): 261-264



Box 222 Folder 1 "Cain's jaw-bone that did the first murder" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, research notes, and annotated reprint,, 1942

(InArt Bulletin24, no. 3 (September 1942): 205-212)


Box 222 Folder 2 "The image of the disappearing Christ, the ascension in English art around the year 1000" -- Typescript, correspondence, research notes, and annotated reprint,, 1943

(InGazette des Beaux-Arts23 (March 1943): 135-152)


"The angel with the ram in Abraham's Sacrifice: a parallel in Western and Islamic art"

(InArs Islamica10, no. 1-2 (1943): 134-147)



Box 659 Folder 1 Annotated typescript, research notes, correspondence and reprints,, 1943


Box 659 Folder 2 Correspondence and reprints, 1943


"The religious meaning of the Ruthwell Cross"

(InArt Bulletin24, no. 4 (December 1944): 242-245)


Box 659 Folder 3 Annotated typescripts, research notes, revisions, and annotated reprint,, 1944-1963


Box 659 Folder 4 to 6 Research notes, 1940s-1960s, (3 Folders)


Box 659 Folder 7 Correspondence, 1944-1963



Box 222 Folder 3 "The myth of Oedipus" -- Annotated typescripts, 1944

(InThe Myth of Oedipus with Six Original Etchings by Kurt Seligmann,9-18. New York: Durlacher Bros.-R. Kirk Askew, Jr., 1944)


Box 222 Folder 4 "A note on Max Weber's politics" -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1945

(InPolitics2, no. 2 (February 1945): 44-48)


"'Muscipula Diaboli,' the symbolism of the Mérode altarpiece"

(InArt Bulletin27, no. 3 (September 1945): 182-187)


Box 222 Folder 5 Annotated typescript, correspondence, proofs, research notes, and annotated clippings,, 1945


Box 222 Folder 6 Annotated typescript, 1945


Box 222 Folder 7 Research notes and correspondence, 1945


Box 222 Folder 8 "On a painting of Van Gogh: crows in the wheat field" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, and annotated reprints,, 1946

(InView,Fall 1946 8-14)


Box 222 Folder 9 "A note on 'The Open City': some comments on Farrel's review" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, research notes, and clippings,, 1946

(InNew International12 no. 10 (December 1946): 311-313)


Box 222 Folder 10 "On the aesthetic attitude in Romanesque art" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, and research notes,, 1947-1948

(InArt and Thought: Essays in Honour of A.K. Coomaraswamy,130-150. London: Luzac and Co., 1947)



Box 223 Folder 1 "A Life Roundtable on modern art" -- Transcripts, correspondence, and research notes,, 1948

(InLife, October 11, 1948 58-59)


Box 223 Folder 2 "Fromentin as a critic" -- Research notes and corrections, 1949-1963

(InPartisan Review16, no. 1 (January 1949): 25-51)


Box 223 Folder 3 "The place of the Joshua Roll in Byzantine history" -- Annotated reprint, research notes, and correspondence,, 1946-1949

(InGazette des Beaux-Arts35 (March 1949): 161-176). Originally a paper presented at the Premier Congrès International Byzantino-Slave et Oriental, New York, April 28, 1946)


Sub-Subseries: IV.2.3, 1950s


Box 223 Folder 4 "Essay in Symposium, Religion and the Intellectuals" -- Typescript, proof, clipping,, 1950

(InPartisan Review17, no. 4 (April 1950): 331-339)


Box 223 Folder 5 "The Joseph scenes on the Maximianus Throne in Ravenna" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, research notes, and annotated clipping,, 1950-1952

(InGazeete de Beaux-Arts40 (July 1952): 27-38)


"Rebellion in art: [The Armory Show]"

(InAmerica in Crisis,ed. Daniel Aaron, 202-242. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952)


Box 223 Folder 6 Typescript, 1952


Box 223 Folder 7 Research notes and correspondence, 1951-1952


Box 223 Folder 8 Illuminated Manuscripts (11th century through the 16th Century) from the Bibliothèque of Their Highnesses the Dukes d'Arenberg -- Research notes and correspondence, 1952-1959

(Published by Jacques Seligmann and Co. Schapiro provided research for this publication but was never cited as an author)


Box 223 Folder 9 "Style" -- Reprints, correspondence, and research notes, 1946-1953

(InAnthropology Today, ed. Alfred Kroeber, 287-312. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953. Originally a paper presented at the Wenner-Gren Foundation, International Symposium in Anthropology, New York, June 9-20, 1952)


Box 223 Folder 10 "Two Romanesque drawings in Auxerre and some iconographic problems -- Annotated typescript, research notes, reproductions list, and annotated clipping,, 1954

(InStudies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene,ed. Dorothy Miner, 331-349. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954)


Box 223 Folder 11 "The younger American painters of today" -- Proof, 1955

(InThe Listener, January 26, 1956 146-147. Accompanied by reminiscences and clippings from 1999 by Lillian Milgram Schapiro about Meyer Schapiro's visit to the United Kingdom in 1956`)


"Leonardo and Freud: an art-historical study"

(InJournal of the History of Ideas17, no. 2 (April 1956): 147-178)



Box 224 Folder 1 Annotated typescript, 1956


Box 224 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1955-1975


Box 224 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1956-1986


Box 224 Folder 4 Research notes, 1956


Box 224 Folder 5 Proofs, drafts, and research notes, 1956


Box 224 Folder 6 Offprints, corrections, and reprints, 1956-1968


Box 224 Folder 7 Research file, 1950s


Box 224 Folder 8 Commentaries, 1973-1986


Introduction to Illustrations for the Bible by March Chagall. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1956


Box 224 Folder 9 Annotated typescripts, 1956


Box 224 Folder 10 Research notes and correspondence, 1956


"On an Italian painting of the flagellation of Christ in the Frick Collection"

(In Scritti di Storia dell'Arte in Onore di Lionello Venturi ed. M. Salmi, 1: 29-53. Rome: De Luca, 1956)


Box 224 Folder 11 Annotated typescript, correspondence, corrections, and annotated reprint,, 1956


Box 224 Folder 12 Research notes, correspondence, and reproductions, 1956-1959



Box 225 Folder 1 "The liberating quality of avant-garde art" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, and program,, 1956-1957

(InArt News56, no. 4 (Summer 1957): 36-42. Originally presented at the American Federation of Arts Convention, Houston, April 1957)


Box 225 Folder 2 Introduction to Arshile Gorky-- Research notes,, 1957

(InArshile Gorky, by Ethel Schwahacher. New York: Macmillan for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957)


"Notes on Castelseprio"

(InArt Bulletin39, no. 4 (December 1957): 295-239


Box 225 Folder 3 Annotated typescripts, galleys, correspondence, research notes, and annoyed reprints,, 1957


Box 225 Folder 4 to 5 Research notes, 1957, (2 Folders)


Box 225 Folder 6 Research file, 1957


Box 225 Folder 7 Reproductions, 1957


Box 225 Folder 8 "Simultaneous contract in painting" -- Annotated clipping, 1957

(InProblèmes de la couleur,ed. Ignaee Meyerson, 248-253. Paris: Sevpen, 1957. In French)


"New light on Seurat"

(InArt News57, no. 2 (April 1958): 22-24, 44-45, 52)


Box 225 Folder 9 Galley proofs and research notes, 1958


Box 225 Folder 10 Typescript, correspondence, and clippings, 1958-1974

(Typescript in French)


Box 225 Folder 11 Clippings, 1958


"The decoration of the Leningrad Manuscript of Bede"

(InScriptorium12, no. 2 (1958): 191-207)


Box 225 Folder 12 Annotated typescript and annotated reprints, 1958


Box 225 Folder 13 Research notes, correspondence, and proofs, 1958-1959


Box 225 Folder 14 Proceedings of the Congrès International Extraordinaire des Critiques d'art--Typescripts, drafts, research notes, correspondence, and pamphlets,, 1959


Box 225 Folder 16 "A note on the Mérode Altarpiece" -- Annotated clipping, 1959

(InArt Bulletin41, no. 4 (December 1959): 327-328)


"A note on the wall strips of Saxon churches"

(InJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians18, no. 4 (December 1959): 123-125)


Box 225 Folder 17 Proof, research notes, and correspondence, 1959



Box 633 Folder 7 Reproductions, 1959



Box 226 Folder 1 to 11 Published articles -- Periodicals, journals, and clippings, 1950s, (11 Folders)



Box 227 Folder 1 to 9 Published articles -- Periodicals, journals, and clippings, 1950s, (9 Folders)


Sub-Subseries: IV.2.4, 1960s


"An illuminated English Psalter of the early thirteenth century"

(InJournal of the Warburg and CourtauldInstitutes 23, no. 3-4 (1960): 179-189)



Box 228 Folder 1 Annotated typescripts, annotated reprint, and research notes, 1960


Box 228 Folder 2 Proofs, research notes, correspondence, and reproductions, 1957-1960


Box 228 Folder 3 "On the humanity of abstract painting" -- Typescript, 1960

(InProceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters,no. 10 (1960): 316-323)


Box 228 Folder 4 "Preface" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, and research notes,, 1959-1960

(InIsrael, Ancient Mosaics.New York: New York Graphic Society, 1960 5-13)


"Mr. Berenson's Values"

(InEncounter16, no. 1 (January 1961): 57-65)


Box 228 Folder 5 Annotated typescripts, proofs, and corrections, 1961


Box 228 Folder 6 Research notes, proofs, and correspondence, 1960-1961


Box 228 Folder 7 Research notes and correspondence, 1961


Box 228 Folder 8 Forward to Forrest Bess -- Annotated typescript, research notes, catalogs, correspondence, and clippings,, 1962-1988

(Published in an exhibition catalog for the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, January 8-27, 1962)


Box 228 Folder 9 "Jan Müller, XXXI Biennale, Venezia, 1962" -- Annotated typescripts,, 1962

(In2 Pittor, 2 Scultori, Stati Uniti d'America,exhibition catalog for the Venice Biennale published by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York)


Box 228 Folder 10 "Cézanne as watercolorist" -- Annotated typescript, 1963 -- Published as an introduction to the M. Knoedler and Co., New York, exhibition catalog Cézanne's Watercolors., 1963


Box 228 Folder 11 "On Alexander Calder" -- Annotated typescript, 1963 --, 1963

(InMacDowell Colony Report for 1963,11-12. Peterborough, NH, and New York, 1964. Accompanied by French translation)


Box 228 Folder 12 "The bowman and the bird on the Ruthwell Cross and other works: the interpretation of secular themes in early Mediaeval religious art" -- Annotated reprints,, 1963

(InArt Bulletin45, no. 4 (December 1963): 351-355)


"A relief in Rodez and the beginnings of Romanesque sculpture in southern France"

(InStudies in Western art: acts of the Twentieth International Congress of the History of Art,ed. Millard Meiss et al., 1: 40-66. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963. Originally a paper presented at the Twentieth International Congress of the History of Art, September 1961)


Box 228 Folder 13 Outlines and research notes, 1961-1963


Box 228 Folder 14 Research notes, 1961-1963


Box 228 Folder 15 to 16 Drafts and research notes, 1961-1963, (2 Folders)


Box 228 Folder 17 "Kurt Seligmann-the early years" -- Annotated typescript, research notes, gallery invitations, and exhibition calendar,, 1964

(Foreword to a D'Arcy Galleries, New York, exhibition catalog, January 27-February 15, 1964)


Box 228 Folder 18 "On the relation of patron and artist: comments on a proposed model for the scienties" -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and reprints,, 1964

(InAmerican Journal of Sociology70, no. 3 (November 1964): 363-369)



Box 229 Folder 1 "Diderot on the artist and society" -- Typescript, research notes, and corrections,, 1964

(Preface toSociety and the Freedom of the Creative Man in Diderot's Thought,by Joseph I. Waldauer, 5-11. Geneva and Paris: Droz, 1964)


Box 229 Folder 2 "Jews in Russia" Draft, research notes, and clippings, 1965

(Letter to theNew york timeseditor signed with Saul Bellow, Richard Hofstadter, and Eugene Rabinovitch)


Box 229 Folder 3 "On the role of art in contemporary society" -- Typescript and research notes,, 1966

(InProceedings of the International Symposium on Fine Arts in the East and West,80-87. Tokyo: Compiled by the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, 1966. Originally a paper presented at the International Symposium on Fine Arts in the East and West, Tokyo, 1966 April 4)


"On perfection, coherence, and unity of form and content"

(InArt and Philosophy: a symposiumed. Sidney Hook, 3-15. New York: New York University Press, 1966. Originally a paper presented at the Philosophy of Art Symposium of the Institute of Philosophy, New York, 1964)


Box 229 Folder 4 Typescripts and research notes, 1964-1966


Box 229 Folder 5 Drafts and research notes, 1964-1966


Box 229 Folder 6 "An Irish-Latin text on the angel with the ram in Abraham's sacrifice" -- Annotated typescripts, correspondence, research notes, reproductions, and annotated offprints,, 1967

(InEssays in the History of Art Presented to Rudolf Wittkower7-19. New York: Phaidon, 1967)


Box 229 Folder 7 "Sima" -- Annotated clipping, 1968

(Preface to the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris exhibition catalog, November 7-December 23, 1968)


"The apples of Cézanne: an essay on the meaning of still-life"

(InArt News Annual34 (1968): 35-53


Box 229 Folder 8 Annotated typescript, correspondence, corrections, and research notes, ,, 1968


Box 229 Folder 9 Annotated typescript, correspondence, and research notes, 1968


Box 229 Folder 10 Annotated typescript, 1968

(In French)


"The still life as a personal object - a note on Heidegger and Van Gogh"

(InThe Reach of Mind: Essays in Memory of Kurt Goldstein,ed. Marianne L. Simmel, 203-209. New York: Springer, 1968)


Box 229 Folder 11 Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1968


Box 229 Folder 12 Annotated proofs and lists, 1968


Box 229 Folder 13 Reviews, 1968


Box 229 Folder 14 "On some problems in the semiotics of visual art: field and vehicle in image-signs" -- Annotated typescripts, correspondence, and corrected offprints,, 1966-1969

(InSemiotica1, no. 3 (1969): 223-242. Originally presented as a per at the Second International Colloquium on Semiotics, Kazimierz, Poland, September 1966)


Box 229 Folder 15 "Religious imagination and the artist" -- Annotated clipping and corrections,, 1965-1969

(InARC Directions,no. 7 (Fall 1969): 1-4. Original paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 5, 1965)


Box 229 Folder 16 "Minor White" Annotated typescript and notes, 1969

(Postface toMirrors, Messages, Manifestations,by Minor White. New York: An Aperture Monograph, 1969)



Box 230 Folder 1 to 9 Published articles-- Periodicals, journals, and clippings, 1960s, (9 Folders)



Box 231 Folder 1 to 10 Published articles -- Periodicals, journals and clippings, 1960s, (10 Folders)


Sub-Subseries: IV.2.5, 1970s


"The miniatures of the Florence Diatessaron (Laurentian Ms. Or. 81): their place in late Medieval art and supposed connection with early Christian and Insular art"

(InArt Bulletin50, no. 4 (December 1973): 494-531. Article included results from a Columbia University seminar held Spring 1969)



Box 232 Folder 1 Annotated typescripts, 1969-1973


Box 232 Folder 2 Footnotes, 1969-1973


Box 232 Folder 3 Proofs and research notes, 1969-1973


Box 232 Folder 4 Research notes, 1969-1973


Box 232 Folder 5 Research notes, 1969-1973


Box 232 Folder 6 Student reports, 1969


Box 232 Folder 7 Reproductions, 1973


Box 232 Folder 8 "Picasso's woman with a fan: on the transformation and self-transformation" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, proofs, and research notes,, 1976

(InEssays in Archaeology and the Humanities: in Memoriam Otto J. Brendel,249-254. Mainz: Verlag Phillipp von Zabern, 1976)



Box 691 Schapiro, Meyer [Comments on James T. Farrell's achievements], [S. Londonderry, Vermont], 1978 August 9, 1 t.ms.

Commendation on James T. Farrell in reply to the request of the University of Chicago Alumni Association in considering him for their Professional Achievement Award.

Cataloged.



Box 233 Folder 1 to 5 Published articles -- Periodicals, journals and clippings, 1970s, (5 Folders)


Sub-Subseries: IV.2.6, 1980s



Box 234 Folder 1 to 4 Published articles -- Periodicals, journals and clippings, 1980s, (4 Folders)


Subseries: IV.3: Essays, 1930s-1990s

Writings in this subseries constitute work that has never been published. These individual essays were originally housed with material found in Series V: Research files, Subseries: V.5: Research notes. What differentiated these texts from Schapiro's unorganized research notes is that he provided these essays with a clear title heading, allowing them to be well defined individual texts. Given their subject and title specificity, they have been organized chronologically in this subseries to facilitate their discovery. These essays are either in the format of prose or are prepared as outlines. Consult Series V: Research files, Subseries: V.5: Research notes for related material and on the arrangement of those records.



Box 235 Folder 1 "What is an artist? -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 2 "di Chirico and Futurism" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 3 "The function of art" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 4 "Essay for Hook's journal" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 5 "Historicism and taste" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 6 "Art and social change" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 7 "Is romantic movement an expression of bourgeois society vs. feudal classes?" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 8 "Kallen paper : on completeness, perfection and unity: an operational analysis" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 9 "American conception of aristocracy" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 10 "Propaganda and truth" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 11 "Balzac, Colonel Chabert" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 12 "The extrapolation of unity in aesthetics" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 13 "What is the new and revolutionary element in the work of these three artists?" -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1930s

(The three artists referred to are: Courbet, Manet, and Matisse)


Box 235 Folder 14 "Naturalism" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 15 "On liberal bourgeois art criticism" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 16 "Modern artist's relation to real world" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 17 "Impressionistic conception of architecture"-- Typescript, circa, 1930s

(Title supplied by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 235 Folder 18 "Style or character of the modern building" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s

(Title supplied by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 235 Folder 19 "Cubism as geometric impressionism" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s

(Title supplied by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 235 Folder 20 "The artist in industrial society" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s

(Title supplied by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 235 Folder 21 "Judgment of value in works of art" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 22 "On the causes of provincial archaism" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 23 "On the subject matter of abstract arts" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 24 "The musical subject in modern painting" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 25 "The taste for wit in civilized societies" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 26 "Is true art revolutionary?" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 27 "What is a 'late period'?" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 28 "Perspective as an expressive form" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 29 "On elementary art education" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 30 "The role of class in art" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 31 "Philosophy of art in the middle ages" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 32 "On indirectness and disproportion in development of art" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 33 "Individualism in art and society" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 34 "On the changes in costume" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 35 "The prize picture" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 36 "Art history and social history" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 37 "On a permanent federal art project" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 38 "The sources of pragmatism" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 39 "On the modern 'rivalry' of poetry and science" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 40 "Notes on the aesthetics of architecture" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 41 "Lewis, time and western man" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 42 "Prinzhorn, Bildnerei der Gefangenen" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 43 "Aesthetics of perception" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 44 "Buchanan, poetry and mathematics" -- Typescripts and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 45 "Jews and modern art" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 235 Folder 46 "The problem of constants" -- Annotated typescripts, research notes, and clippings, circa, 1930s



Box 660 Folder 1 "Plekhanov's 'Art and Society'" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 660 Folder 2 "Theory of physioplastic art -- Holograph papers, circa, 1930s


Box 660 Folder 3 "Aesthetic truth" --Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s


Box 660 Folder 4 "Problems of revolutionary art" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 660 Folder 5 "Artistic changes and linguistic changes" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 660 Folder 6 "Jacob and the angel" -- Annotated typescript, early draft, and research notes, circa, 1930s

(Essay relating to Christian-Irish iconography)


"The Eiffel Tower"


Box 660 Folder 7 Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s

(Accompanied by a transcription created in 1992)


Box 660 Folder 8 Research file and reproductions, circa, 1930s


Box 660 Folder 9 "Cinema" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 660 Folder 10 "Cinema" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s

(Chiefly on animation and Mickey Mouse)


Box 660 Folder 11 "Science and Impressionism" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s


Box 660 Folder 12 "Fascism and art" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 660 Folder 13 "The Medieval City" -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 660 Folder 14 "On the language of Joyce" -- Typescript, research notes, and drawings, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 660 Folder 15 "Parallelism of early Christian and Modern art -- Annotated outlines, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 660 Folder 16 "On continuity as a principle of grouping" -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 660 Folder 17 "Significance of monochromatic painting in modern times" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 660 Folder 18 "The collector" -- Typescript and notes, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 660 Folder 19 "The aesthetics of cinema" -- Typescript, 1932

(Potentially published in the magazineNew Masses)



Box 236 Folder 1 "On the principle of good continuation" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 236 Folder 2 "On connoisseurship" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 236 Folder 3 "Historical concepts" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 236 Folder 4 "On history of art as a discipline" -- Outline, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 236 Folder 5 "The magazine cover" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 236 Folder 6 "Italian medieval baptistery as a revival of Christian antiquity" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s-1940s


Box 236 Folder 7 "Note on problem of analogies of science and painting in 19th century -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1930s-1950s


Box 236 Folder 8 "Abstract art and impersonality" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s-1950s


Box 236 Folder 9 "Geometry and Cubism" -- Typescript, circa, 1930s-1950s


Box 236 Folder 10 "Romanesque sculpture: narrative forms and linguistic parallels" -- Typescript and research notes,, 1931-1933


Box 236 Folder 11 "The cinematic art" -- Typescript, 1932


Box 236 Folder 12 "The art of being an artist" -- Annotated typescript, 1933

(Essay on Jean Cocteau'sLe sang d'un poète)


Box 236 Folder 13 "Léger" -- Annotated typescript, 1935


Box 236 Folder 14 "The southwest tower of the cathedral of Chartres: an architectural analysis" -- Annotated typescripts, correspondence, and slide lists,, 1935


Box 236 Folder 15 "Painting and cinema: photomontage and painting" -- Typescript and outlines,, 1938


Box 236 Folder 16 "Malraux's Man's fate" -- Typescript, 1938


Box 236 Folder 17 "Expressionism and Fauves" -- Typescript, research notes, reproductions, and clippings,, 1938


Box 236 Folder 18 "Modern and insane art" -- Outline, circa, 1940s


Box 236 Folder 19 "Significance of modern naïve painting" -- Outline, circa, 1940s


Box 236 Folder 20 "On freedom and responsibility of the artist" -- Outlines, circa, 1940s


Box 236 Folder 21 "The fine arts and the unity of mankind" -- Typescripts, research notes, correspondence, and clippings,, 1940s

(Correspondence is with Ernest Nagel relating to the essay)


Box 236 Folder 22 "The new gallery of contemporary art and its design" -- Annotated typescript,, 1940s

(Essay is chiefly on the gallery "Art of This Century")


Box 236 Folder 23 "Psychoanalysis and art" -- Typescript, 1940s


Box 236 Folder 24 "Laocoön and the scientists/physiologists" -- Annotated and corrected typescripts, correspondence, research notes, and reproductions,, 1940s

(Corrected typescript created in 1975)


Box 236 Folder 25 "On heliocentric orbits of Venus and Mercury" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, research notes, and reproductions,, 1940s


Box 236 Folder 26 "The inferno of Silos" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1940s

(Essay was given to André Breton circa 1942 for publication in a surrealist periodical. The essay was never published)


Box 236 Folder 27 Entries to be written for the International Encyclopedia of United Science-- Outlines and notes, circa, 1940s

(Topics include "knowledge" and "experience")


Box 236 Folder 28 Entries to be written for the International Encyclopedia of United Science-- Outlines and notes, circa, 1940s

(Topics include "classification," "valuation," "science," "judgment," "criticism," and the "foundations of art investigation")


Box 236 Folder 29 "Griffith's Intolerance thirty years later"-- Typescript and correspondence,, 1946

(Correspondence with Herman Singer, editor of the magazineThe Call)


Box 236 Folder 30 "On photography and painting in 19th and 20th century"-- Outlines, drafts, research notes,, 1940s-1960s

(Accompanied by a compilation of Schapiro's states on photography by Robert Bergman)


Box 236 Folder 31 "On the new art as critical reactions against existing order of life" --- Outline, circa, 1940s-1960s


Box 236 Folder 32 "On the rarity of Pericope books in the Carolingian period" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1940s-1960s


Box 236 Folder 33 "On Heidegger's concept of history" -- Typescript, circa, 1940s-1960s


Box 236 Folder 34 "What do students get from art courses?" -- Typescript, circa, 1940s-1960s


Box 236 Folder 35 "On hostility to science" -- Typescript, outline, and research notes,, 1941-1942


Box 236 Folder 36 "On dialectics" -- Typescript, 1943

(Accompanied by the article "Social change and original sin: answer to Niebuht" by Sidney Hook)


Box 236 Folder 37 Preface to album of prints for Rose Fried -- Typescript, 1946


Box 236 Folder 38 "A note on the proposed expansion of the museum" -- Annotated typescript, correspondence, and clippings,, 1946-1947

(Essay is chiefly on the proposed expansion of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)


Box 236 Folder 39 Preface to Parker Tyler's publication Rodin -- Typescript and notes, 1950s

(Accompanied by Tyler's essay "Watteau's great Cythera" and clippings relating to Renoir and Rodin)


Box 236 Folder 40 "Children's art and adult creation" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1950s


Box 236 Folder 41 "The two senses of the figure in the study of art" -- Typescript, circa, 1950s

(Based on a lecture given at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Accompanied by correspondence and drawings)


Box 236 Folder 42 Entries to be written for an unidentified encyclopedia-- Outlines, notes, and correspondence, circa, 1950s-1977

(Topic addressed is chiefly "art as knowledge")



Box 237 Folder 1 "The two concepts of pattern in cultural anthropology and history" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 2 "'Pattern' and 'structure' as concepts of cultural form in ethnology" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 3 "On value statements" -- Typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 4 "Valuation and the conditional in perception of art" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 5 "On theory of proportion" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 6 "On style analysis and value" -- Typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 7 "On the personal and on feeling in art and science" -- Typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 8 "Reason in art criticism" - Outline, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 9 "On the concepts of the haptic and the tactile in art" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 10 "Perspective as an expressive form" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 11 "On expressive and aesthetic-constructive function in pictorial composition" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 12 "Logical truth and aesthetic truth" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 13 "Aesthetic truth" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 14 "The historian and what really happened" -- Typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 15 "Criticism and aesthetics" -- Typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 16 "What determines the choice of objects to be studied?" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 17 "Concept of personality in art" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 18 "The script of our time" -- Typescript, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 19 "On the cross nimbus" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 20 "The illustrations of the Codex Amiatinus" -- Annotated outline, research notes, and reproductions, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 21 "On 8th century peacock sarcophagus" -- Annotated outline, research notes, and reproductions, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 22 "On some relations of science and modern art" -- Annotated outline, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 23 "Some relations of science and art in the 19th century" -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and outlines, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 24 "On the concept of form in classic and post-classic Renaissance art" -- Typescript and research notes, circa, 1950s


Box 237 Folder 25 "On the concept of creativeness from point of view of a historian of art" -- Typescripts, correspondence, research notes, and clippings,, 1950s-1960s

(Essay is a compilation of Schapiro's writings that are paginated and include the following topics: "On creativity" ; "On abstract forms as test objects" ; The unconscious as a source of imagery" ; "On the tests for artistic ability" ; and "Concept of regression in art")


Box 237 Folder 26 "The Auxerre fragment" -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and reproductions, circa, 1950s-1960s


Box 237 Folder 27 "On teleology and modern art" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1950s-1970s


Box 237 Folder 28 "On abstract art as a sociological problem" -- Outline, circa, 1950s-1970s


Box 237 Folder 29 "Princess Casamassima" -- Typescript, 1953


Box 237 Folder 30 "Social freedom and the artist's freedom" -- Typescript, 1953

(Based on a lecture given at Teachers College)


Box 237 Folder 31 "On knowledge of technique and relation of practical and theoretical knowledge of the arts" -- Typescript,, 1956


Box 237 Folder 32 "On Jewish sources of Christian art" -- Annotated outline and clippings,, 1957


Box 237 Folder 33 "Duerer's [sic] monument for a victory over the peasants" -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and clippings,, 1957


Box 237 Folder 34 "On artists and criticism" -- Typescript, 1958


Box 237 Folder 35 "'New images of man'" -- Typescript, 1959

(Essay on the Museum of Modern Art exhibition of the same name)


Box 237 Folder 36 "The third modernism" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 37 "The place of myth in modern art" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 38 "The psychologizing of politics" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 39 "On spontaneity" -- Outline, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 40 "On communication and the arts" -- Outline, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 41 "Architecture and the other arts" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 42 "The size of painting or sculpture" -- Outline and research notes, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 43 "On representation and schema" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 44 "Character of love in late Impressionist culture" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 45 "Unity of power in politics" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 46 "On religion as a remedy of present disorder" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 47 "On the historical (i.e. sociological) explanation of abstract art" -- Outline, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 48 "On abstraction in painting and style" -- Annotated typescripts and outlines, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 49 "The single note: on a type of modern painting" -- Outline, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 50 "On freedom of expression and the quality of art" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 51 "Judgment and the grounds of value in art" -- Outlines, typescripts, and research notes, circa, 1960s

(Includes writing on C.I. Lewis)


Box 237 Folder 52 "How does modern adaptation of Persian painting differ from Persian art?" -- Typescript, circa, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 53 "On the ethical polemics against relativism …" -- Typescript, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 54 "On objective ethics" -- Typescript, 1960s


Box 237 Folder 55 "On religion and 'ultimate concern'" -- Typescript, 1960s



Box 238 Folder 1 "Wilson, this room …" -- Annotated typescript, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 2 "Art history and 'history'" -- Typescript, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 3 "On the support of artists" -- Outline, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 4 "State of the art market" -- Typescript, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 5 "On concept of two cultures (the two half-cultures)" -- Annotated outline,, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 6 "On art world as an institution and a social activity"-- Outline, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 7 "On the reactions in art during and after the first war" -- Outline, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 8 "On concept of abstraction and pure art" -- Typescript, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 9 "Filippo Lippi's Adoration of the infant Jesus" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 10 "On analogy of science and art"-- Annotated typescript, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 11 "Pictorial perspective and rationality" -- Annotated typescripts, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 12 "Content (and science and art)" -- Annotated typescript, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 13 "On culture, style, and politics" -- Typescript, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 14 "On art as knowledge -- Annotated typescript and editorial notes, 1960s

(Editorial notes by Lillian Milgram Schapiro from the 1990s)


Box 238 Folder 15 "On art schools" -- Outline, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 16 "On art teaching in the colleges" -- Annotated outline, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 17 "On Petrus Christus' portrait of a Carthusian: the shining face and the fly" -- Outline, research notes, and reproductions,, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 18 "Cubism and Cézanne" -- Annotated typescript and notes, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 19 "On sign and mark in Cubist painting" -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 20 "On pictures as signs" -- Annotated typescript, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 21 "On the universals and the singular in styles" -- Annotated outline, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 22 "Cubist painting and language" -- Annotated outline and research notes,, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 23 "Cubist signs and writing" -- Annotated outline, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 24 "On the ornamentation of Milan, Ambrosius 45 supplement" -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 25 "On Canterbury Cotton psalter" -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 26 "On the value of modern art" -- Annotated typescript and outlines, 1960s

(Essay is a critique of a Kenneth Clark article on modern art)


Box 238 Folder 27 "Randall Jarrell" -- Typescript and research notes, 1960s

(Accompanied by holograph papers of "Jerome" by Jarrell given to Schapiro in 1957)


"The trilingual inscription on the cross and Jan van Eyck's art"


Box 238 Folder 28 Annotated typescript, 1960s-1990s

(Typescript is interleaved with Schapiro's research notes)


Box 238 Folder 29 Annotated typescripts, correspondence, research notes, and clippings,, 1960s-1990s

(Correspondence is with Otto Brendel. Typescript is interleaved with Schapiro's research notes)


Box 238 Folder 30 Research file, 1960s-1990s


Box 238 Folder 31 Reproductions, 1960s-1990s


Box 238 Folder 32 "Gandy Brodie" -- Typescript, transcripts, and clippings, 1960s-1970s

(Essay was read at Brodie's memorial service. Accompanied by Schapiro's other writings on Brodie)


Box 238 Folder 33 "On art history and the historian" -- Outlines, notes, and clippings,, 1960s


Box 238 Folder 34 "A note on the Pilate scenes in the Rossano Gospels" -- Annotated typescript, drafts, and research notes,, 1961-1962


Box 238 Folder 35 "A note on perspective and illusion" -- Annotated typescript and drafts,, 1962


Box 238 Folder 36 "On disappearance of perspective in painting" -- Annotated typescript, circa, 1964


Box 238 Folder 37 "On despotism, freedom and the quality of art" -- Outline, 1966


Box 238 Folder 38 "On drawing from memory and from objects" -- Outline, 1966


Box 238 Folder 39 "A problem for iconographers: Adam and Eve clothed in the temptation and fall" -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and clippings,, 1970s


Box 238 Folder 40 "On the graphic analysis of form in painting" -- Annotated typescript and editorial notes,, 1970s

(Editorial notes by Lillian Milgram Schapiro from the 1990s)


Box 238 Folder 41 "The content of modern art" -- Outlines and clippings, 1970s



Box 239 Folder 1 "Papyraceas texturas" -- Annotated typescript and research notes, circa, 1970s-1980s


Box 239 Folder 2 "Raphael's Madonna of the chair" -- Annotated typescript, drafts, and research notes, circa, 1970s-1980s


Box 239 Folder 3 "Philosophy in painting: on modern theory of art" -- Typescript, 1970s

(Accompanied by an edited version from 1996)


Box 239 Folder 4 "Barnett Newman: in memoriam" -- Typescript, research notes, clippings, and press releases,, 1970

(Title supplied from original file heading)


Box 239 Folder 5 "The Campbell soup can: an experiment in size, meaning, affect in painting" -- Typescript and research notes,, 1971


Box 239 Folder 6 Eulogy for Parker Tyler -- Typescript and clippings, 1974

(Eulogy given at Tyler's memorial service)


Box 239 Folder 7 "The pictures of Enoch in the Junius manuscript of Caedmon"-- Annotated typescript, correspondence, research notes, and reproductions,, 1980s

(Typescript is interleaved with Schapiro's research notes)


Box 239 Folder 8 "On the tomb of an abbot in Cluny" -- Typescripts and research notes, circa, 1980s


Box 239 Folder 9 "Corot studio" -- Typescript and editorial notes, 1980s-1990s

(Essay is derived from the text found in the manuscript "Philosophy and worldview in painting" which is originally based on Schapiro's Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts given in 1968. Editorial notes by Lillian Milgram Schapiro from the 1990s)


Box 239 Folder 10 "Delacroix's painting of Michelangelo in his studio" -- Annotated typescript, research notes, clippings, and reproductions,, 1980

(Typescript is interleaved with Schapiro's research notes)


Box 239 Folder 11 "Representation, appearance and illusion" -- Annotated typescript, 1982


"The altar sculpture on Brunelleschi's bronze panel of Abraham and Isaac"


Box 239 Folder 12 to 13 Annotated typescript, research notes, and reproductions, 1984, (2 Folders)


Box 239 Folder 14 "The canvas and the battlefield: on the metaphor of the avant-garde" -- Annotated typescript, research notes, correspondence, and reproductions,, 1990s

(Typescript is interleaved with Schapiro's research notes)


Subseries: IV.4: Manuscripts, 1930s-2002

Subseries IV.4 contains unpublished material that Schapiro wrote, organized, and edited for intended publication. Among the titles included in this subseries are "The content of modern art: studies in the painting of the end of the nineteenth century from Manet to Munch," "Pablo Picasso'sGuernica," "The serpent with a woman's head in the temptation of Eve: researches on the invention of an image," and "Relativity and the interpretation of modern painting."

Schapiro continually revisited and reworked his previous writings, transcripts, and research notes to compile these manuscripts. As a result, work on one single manuscript could cross several decades and, after Schapiro's death, would continue to be worked on by his wife Lillian Milgram Schapiro. In each individual instance, original order created by Schapiro or his wife Lillian Milgram Schapiro was maintained. Every effort was made to contextualize these manuscripts by highlighting historical documentation contained elsewhere in the collection to give these writings a fuller understanding. To that end, included after each title are arrangement notes for how the manuscript is organized, their organizational structure, and, if applicable, the rationale on the final title chosen


"The introduction of the Romanesque in Silos"

(No substantial information about this manuscript exists, other than the same subject matter is found in Schapiro's published article "From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silos." Related material can be found in Subseries: V.5: Research notes. The manuscript deals chiefly with the sculpture found in cloister of the abbey at Santo Domingo de Silos and its differentiation from manuscript illumination and other Romanesque sculpture. There are no indications that the manuscript was ever published and Schapiro prepared it as if it were ready for publication as evidenced by the inclusion of references for illustrations within the text.)



Box 240 Folder 1 Typescript, 1930s


Box 240 Folder 2 to 7 Drafts and notes, 1930s, (6 Folders)


"How the fish ate up the house"

(Schapiro's children's story was created in the 1930s for his daughter and was originally a hand sewn booklet made up of his typescripts and drawings. In 2004 Lillian Milgram Schapiro would revisit the story by adding text and other illustrations by Schapiro to create an expanded manuscript version for potential publication)


Box 240 Folder 8 Hand-sewn booklet, 1930s

(Accompanied by a 2004 typescript created by Lillian Milgram Schapiro with added text and illustrations)


Box 240 Folder 9 Correspondence, 2004


"The content of modern art: studies in the painting of the end of the nineteenth century from Manet to Munch"

(According to correspondence in file 18 of Box 242 of this series, plans to publish this manuscript began in 1937 when Oxford University Press, New York, initiated contract discussions with Schapiro. There was also an agreement between Oxford University Press and the Museum of Modern Art to collaborate on the publication in 1939 but that never materialized. In an announcement dated 1938 found in file 19 of Box 242 of this series, Phaidon Press was to publish the manuscript as "The content of modern art: studies in painting from Manet to Munch." That publication was also never realized. There are three variations of the title; the longer version is used since it includes variants from the other two titles. When possible, file titles below were supplied or condensed using Schapiro's annotations or text to guide users to the contents found in the manuscript. Original file order is maintained to preserve Schapiro's ordering. As a result, file titles may not include sequential sequencing such as section numbers. Files have research notes and editorial notes interleaved in the typescript sheets)



Box 241 Folder 1 Section I: themes -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s

(Typescript is paginated 1-65 by hand. P)


Box 241 Folder 2 Section Ia: myth and imagination in modern art -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 241 Folder 3 Section Ib: themes/common subjects -- Outline, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 241 Folder 4 to 5 File on the meaning of content -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s, (2 Folders)


Box 241 Folder 6 to 7 Section II: surface and randomness -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s, (2 Folders)


Box 241 Folder 8 Section IIIa: Cubism, Picasso, and Cezanne -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 241 Folder 9 to 10 Section IV: theory of causes and changes-- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s, (2 Folders)



Box 242 Folder 1 File chiefly on the predominance of France. -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 2 to 6 Section IV: theory of causes and changes-- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s, (5 Folders)


Box 242 Folder 7 File on surface and randomness -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 8 File chiefly on the theory of structure, painting and literature, and the inferiority of sculpture -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 9 File chiefly on classifications -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 10 File chiefly on the content of subject matter and themes -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 11 File chiefly on themes and their valuation -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 12 File chiefly on theme, subject, and objects -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 13 File chiefly on the content of expression and randomness -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 14 File chiefly on nature and perspective -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 15 File chiefly on the geometrical object -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 16 File chiefly on the survival of works of art and content -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 17 Section IVb: Towards a new content and conclusion -- Outlines, annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes,, 1930s


Box 242 Folder 18 Correspondence, 1937-1946


Box 242 Folder 19 Announcement, 1938


"Georges Seurat"

(Files associated with this manuscript are largely in outline format and filed by subject. In the 1990s Lillian Milgram Schapiro used Schapiro's outline in file 1, Box 243 as a guide to reconstruct this manuscript. However, file naming conventions below follow title headings of the outlines and are arranged matching content to outline titles as closely as possible. Section titles of the manuscript indicated in the outline are given at the end of each file description)



Box 243 Folder 1 General outlines, research notes, and correspondence, 1940s-1950s


Box 243 Folder 2 "Paradox of taste" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section I: Distinctiveness of his art)


Box 243 Folder 3 "Taste for archaic forms and simplicity" -- Outlines and research notes,, 1940s-1950s

(Section I: Distinctiveness of his art)


Box 243 Folder 4 "Early paintings before Baignade" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section II: the early works)


Box 243 Folder 5 "Seurat" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section II: the early works)


Box 243 Folder 6 "Baignade" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section IV: the Baignade)


Box 243 Folder 7 "Seine at Courbevoie" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section VI: The landscapes of circa 1884-1886)


Box 243 Folder 8 "Later works" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section VII: the new phase: 1887-1890)


Box 243 Folder 9 "Circus" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section XII: Cirque)


Box 243 Folder 10 "The large landscapes: 1885-1890" -- Outlines, research notes, and annotated typescripts,, 1940s-1950s

(Section XIII: the landscapes of 1888-1890)


Box 243 Folder 11 "Drawings for La Grande Jatte" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section XIV: the drawings)


Box 243 Folder 12 "On Seurat and science" -- Outlines and research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section XV: Seurat and science: color, composition, physiognomic)


Box 243 Folder 13 to 14 File chiefly on Seurat's theory -- Outlines, research notes, and correspondence,, 1940s-1950s, (2 Folders)

(Section XVI: Development of theory)


Box 243 Folder 15 "Sutter" -- Research notes, 1940s-1950s

(Section XXII: appendices)


Box 243 Folder 16 Research file, 1940s-1950s


"A bible from Cluny with paintings of the eleventh and twelfth centuries"

(This manuscript is concerned with an illuminated manuscript that forms part of the Fondi di Cluni held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and especially with the illuminated manuscript Latin 15176. Schapiro originally wrote this in 1948 but continually worked on the text through to the 1960s)



Box 244 Folder 1 Typescript, 1948


Box 244 Folder 2 Annotated typescript, 1948

(First draft of manuscript)


Box 244 Folder 3 Annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes, 1940s-1960s

(Typescript is interleaved with Schapiro's research and editorial notes. The final version of the manuscript is included in this file along with other draft versions)


Box 244 Folder 4 to 13 Research notes, 1940s-1960s, (10 Folders)



Box 245 Folder 1 Research file, 1940s-1960s


Box 245 Folder 2 Notes on reproductions, 1940s-1960s


Box 245 Folder 3 to 8 Reproductions, 1940s-1960s, (6 Folders)


Box 245 Folder 9 Forward to a publication on Chagall. -- Annotated typescript, outlines, research notes, and correspondence,, 1953

(This was to be published by Holbein Verlag publishers in Germany)


"Pablo Picasso's Guernica"

(From a book jacket design in file 5 of Box 248 in this series and correspondence in file 9 Box 248, this manuscript was to be published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York as "Guernica: studies, postscripts" possibly in the 1970s or 1980s. Schapiro wrote consistently on Picasso's Guernica, and material found in these files is culled from the 1940s through the 1990s. Files are organized by a pagination scheme devised by Lillian Milgram Schapiro in the 1990s through the 2000s relying on Schapiro's original annotations on the typescripts. Her notes and lists relating to the reconstruction of the manuscript can be found in file 5 of Box 248)



Box 246 Folder 1 Pages 1-6 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 2 Pages 1-7 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 3 Pages 1, 6, 9 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 4 Pages 1, 4, 6, 9 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 5 Pages 1-18 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 246 Folder 6 Pages 1-24 -- Annotated typescripts, outlines, and notes, 1940s-1980s


Box 246 Folder 7 Pages 1-29 -- Research and editorial notes, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 8 Pages 1-29 -- Research and editorial notes, 1940s-1990s

(Chiefly on the evolution ofGuernicaand the attitude of Picasso towards Fernande Olivier)


Box 246 Folder 9 Pages 1-29 -- Research and editorial notes, 1940s-1990s

(Chiefly on Alexandre Millerand)


Box 246 Folder 10 Pages 7-12 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 11 Pages 13-17 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s

(Material is based on Schapiro's 1966 lecture "Guernica" presented at Harvard University's Carpenter Design Center)


Box 246 Folder 12 Pages 18-31 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s

(Material is based on Schapiro's 1966 lecture "Guernica" presented at Harvard University's Carpenter Design Center)


Box 246 Folder 13 Pages 18-51 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s

(Material is based on Schapiro's 1966 lecture "Guernica" presented at Harvard University's Carpenter Design Center)


Box 246 Folder 14 Pages 19-20 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 15 Pages 19-20 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s

(Typescripts chiefly on Picasso's preparatory drawings)


Box 246 Folder 16 Pages 19-35 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s

(Typescript is interleaved with Lillian Milgram Schapiro's research and editorial notes)


Box 246 Folder 17 Pages 19-35 -- Research notes and reproductions, 1940s-1990s


Box 246 Folder 18 Pages 20-57 -- Research notes, 1940s-1990s


Box 246 Folder 19 Pages 30-34 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 20 Pages 36-56 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s


Box 246 Folder 21 Pages 36-56 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s

(Typescript is interleaved with Lillian Milgram Schapiro's research and editorial notes)


Box 246 Folder 22 Pages 36-50 -- Research and editorial notes, 1940s-1990s



Box 247 Folder 1 Pages 57-58 [?] -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s


Box 247 Folder 2 Pages 57-60 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 247 Folder 3 Pages 61-98 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s

(Typescript is interleaved with Lillian Milgram Schapiro's research and editorial notes)


Box 247 Folder 4 Pages 61-97 -- Research and editorial notes, 1940s-1990s


Box 247 Folder 5 to 6 Drafts and research notes, 1940s, (2 Folders)

(Accompanied by Lillian Milgram Schapiro's editorial notes. These early drafts formed the basis for the paginated typescripts from the 1980s)


Box 247 Folder 7 to 9 Research notes and outlines, 1970s-1980s, (3 Folders)


Box 247 Folder 10 Research file, 1940s-1990s



Box 248 Folder 1 to 4 Research files, 1940s-1990s


Box 248 Folder 5 Editorial file, 1970s-2000

(Chiefly Lillian Milgram Schapiro's page reconstruction of manuscript and correspondence with Jeffrey Hoffeld. Accompanied by design for book cover)


Box 248 Folder 6 to 7 Reproductions, 1940s-1990s


Box 248 Folder 8 Reproduction lists and correspondence, 1940s-1990s


Box 248 Folder 9 Correspondence, 1980

(Correspondence is with the Museum of Modern Art regarding potential publication)


"Impressionism" --

(Material from this manuscript is based on Schapiro's Indiana University Patten Lectures from 1961. Schapiro would revise and annotate transcripts from these lectures for potential publication largely in the 1980s and 1990s with the editorial support of Lillian Milgram Schapiro. Materials found in these files were posthumously published in 1997 by George Braziller and edited by James Thompson asImpressionism: reflections and perceptions.The files in this subseries are organized according to Schapiro's own 1985 outline for the manuscript found in file 8, Box 252 in this subseries. While Thompson generally followed Schapiro's outline for the publication, Schapiro's scheme varies on section titles and organization. Schapiro also has additional sections and content and hence its inclusion into this subseries)



Box 249 Folder 1 Section I: introduction-- Outlines and research notes, 1960s-1990s


Box 249 Folder 2 Section I: introduction -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 249 Folder 3 Section I: introduction -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s

(Early draft of this section)


Box 249 Folder 4 Section I: introduction -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s

(First draft of this section. Missing pages 1, 2, and 4)


Box 249 Folder 5 Section Ia 1: the seer, the seeing and the seen -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s

(Early draft of this section)


Box 249 Folder 6 Section Ia 1: the seer, the seeing and the seen -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1960s-1990s

(Corrected draft of this section)


Box 249 Folder 7 to 9 Section Ia 1: the seer, the seeing and the seen -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1960s-1990s, (3 Folders)


Box 249 Folder 10 Section Ia 2: nature and environment -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 249 Folder 11 Section Ia 2: nature and environment -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s

(Early draft of this section)


Box 249 Folder 12 to 13 Section Ib 1: the city -- Annotated typescripts and notes, 1960s-1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 249 Folder 14 Section Ib 2: the crowd -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 249 Folder 15 Section Ib 3: the railroad -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 249 Folder 16 Section Id: performers -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 249 Folder 17 Section Ie: on the imagination of the impressionists -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s



Box 250 Folder 1 to 4 [Section IIa: the impression: the concept in philosophy and art] -- Annotated typescripts and notes,, 1960s-1990s, (4 Folders)

(Section title was supplied from original file heading. Schapiro's outline does not divide Section II, but titles it "The impression: its psychological, philosophical, and moral connotations")


Box 250 Folder 5 to 6 [Section IIb: the impression, confirmed] -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s, (2 Folders)

(Section title was supplied from original file heading. Schapiro's outline does not divide Section II, but titles it "The impression: its psychological, philosophical, and moral connotations")


Box 250 Folder 6 [Section IIc: portraiture] -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s

(Typescript is annotated to indicate that this section was to be placed at the end of this section)


Box 250 Folder 7 [Section IId: Jean-François Raffaëlli] -- Outlines and research notes,, 1960s-1990s

(Annotations indicate material was to be part of section II)


Box 250 Folder 8 to 10 Section III: the aesthetic of impressionism -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s, (3 Folders)



Box 251 Folder 1 to 2 Section III: the aesthetic of impressionism -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 251 Folder 3 Section IV: impressionism and science -- Annotated typescript, 1960s-1990s


Box 251 Folder 4 Section IV: impressionism and science -- Research notes, 1960s-1990s


Box 251 Folder 5 to 6 Section V: Monet -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1960s-1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 251 Folder 7 to 10 Section VI: Impressionism in history -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s, (4 Folders)


Box 251 Folder 11 Section VI: Impressionism in history -- Research notes, 1960s-1990s

(Research notes chiefly on Impressionism and Rococo)



Box 252 Folder 1 Section VIa: Impressionism in history: Impressionism and literature -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 252 Folder 2 Section VIa: Impressionism in history: Impressionism and literature -- Research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 252 Folder 3 Section VIb: Impressionism in history: from Realism to Impressionism -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 252 Folder 4 Section VII: reactions against Impressionism -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 252 Folder 5 Section VII: reactions against Impressionism -- Outlines and research notes,, 1960s-1990s


Box 252 Folder 6 Research notes, 1960s-1990s

(Notes on photography, architecture, popular imagery, and Camille Pissarro)


Box 252 Folder 7 Research notes and early drafts, 1960s-1990s


Box 252 Folder 8 to 9 Manuscript outlines and reproduction lists, 1960s-1990s


Box 252 Folder 10 Reproduction lists, 1960s-1990s


"Philosophy and world-view in painting"

(While this manuscript would be published posthumously as an essay in the 1999 George Braziller publicationWorldview in painting: art and society: selected papers, Volume 5,Schapiro worked continuously since the 1960son revising and drafting components of this manuscript for publication. Material in these manuscript files are retained in this subseries because content differs considerably from the 1999 publication. The manuscript draws on lectures on the topic of philosophy and art given in the 1950s and the 1960s and files in this subseries include material from those lectures. In the 1990s Lillian Milgram Schapiro edited and supervised the reconstruction of the text for the 1999 publication. Her editorial notes are also retained in these files. )



Box 253 Folder 1 to 3 Annotated typescripts, outlines, and research notes, 1960s-1990s, (3 Folders)

(Typescript is interleaved with Lillian Milgram Schapiro's research and editorial notes)


Box 253 Folder 4 Transcripts, research notes, and correspondence, 1960s-1990s

(File contains source material used for this manuscript from lectures given at these institutions: Vasser College, 1957 ; Brooklyn College, 1965 ; University of Texas, 1965 ; Harvard University, 1966)


Box 253 Folder 5 Transcripts and research notes, 1960s-1990s

(Transcripts and notes are chiefly from a 1965 lecture given at the University of Texas)


Box 253 Folder 6 Transcript, 1958

(Holograph papers of Schapiro's lecture "Philosophy in painting" given in Baltimore, Maryland in 1958)


Box 253 Folder 7 Research and editorial notes, 1960s-1990s


Box 253 Folder 8 Research and editorial notes, 1960s-1990s

(Material chiefly on Henri Bergson and Cubists)


Box 253 Folder 9 to 10 Research and editorial notes, 1960s-1990s, (2 Folders)

(Chiefly additions and notes to lectures by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 253 Folder 11 Research file, 1960s-1990s


Box 253 Folder 12 Correspondence, 19990s


Box 253 Folder 13 "Dwarfs on the shoulders of giants" -- Annotated typescripts, research notes, outlines, and editorial notes,, 1970s-1990s

(An unpublished essay in manuscript form accompanied by editorial notes reconstructing the text by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


"The serpent with a woman's head in the temptation of Eve: researches on the invention of an image" --

(This manuscript is dedicated to the art historian Otto Pächt on his 70th birthday. Schapiro began this manuscript in the 1970s and continued to revise and expand it through the 1980s. In the original typescript, Schapiro annotated an alternate subtitle as the following: "on invention and tradition in the illustration of a canonical religious text." In a subsequent, corrected typescript, found in file 1, Box 254 Schapiro would then again alter the subtitle as "an essay on iconographic invention." The latter typescript does not carry a dedication to Pächt either. The original title is used as it contains variations of all three titles)


Box 253 Folder 14 Pages 1-36 -- Annotated typescript and research notes, 1970s-1980s

(Typescript is interleaved with Schapiro's research notes)


Box 253 Folder 15 Pages 37-80 -- Annotated typescript and research notes, 1970s-1980s

(Typescript is interleaved with Schapiro's research notes)



Box 254 Folder 1 Corrected draft-- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1970s-1980s


Box 254 Folder 2 to 8 Research notes, 1970s-1980s, (7 Folders)


Box 254 Folder 9 Reproductions, 1970s-1980s


"Sigmund Freud's Gradiva"

(This manuscript is not complete and is largely reconstructed by Lillian Milgram Schapiro using Schapiro's outlines, research notes, and annotated typescripts from circa 1970s)



Box 255 Folder 1 Research notes, outlines, and drafts, 1970s-1990s

(Material is interleaved with Lillian Milgram Schapiro's research and editorial notes)


Box 255 Folder 2 Research notes, 1970s


Box 255 Folder 3 to 5 Editorial notes, 1970s-1990s

(Notes are chiefly Lillian Milgram Schapiro's attempt at reconstructing the manuscript)


Box 255 Folder 6 Research file, 1970s-1990s


"Matisse"

(This manuscript is based on lectures given at Columbia University in 1965and in New Orleans in February 1966. The transcripts and typescripts, however, were created in 1975 and were continued to be revised and expanded by Schapiro until the 1990s as a manuscript)


Box 255 Folder 7 Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1975-1993


Box 255 Folder 8 Annotated typescripts and reproductions list, 1975-1993


Box 255 Folder 9 Editorial file, 1975-1993


"Words in pictures: the perspectives of the viewer and the reader"

(This manuscript is based on Schapiro's 1976 lecture "Perspective and script: the viewer and the reader in Medieval representations" given at the medieval painting symposium held at the University of Pittsburgh in honor of Carl Nordenfalk. As outlined in his editorial note in file 1, Box 256, Schapiro had two versions of this manuscript: 1) the original lecture typescript; and 2) an enlarged second version. According to Schapiro, the second version was enlarged to reflect the "revived interest in the use of writing on the canvas in 20th century art." Schapiro didn't develop these concepts due to lack of time, but the files incorporate his research and editorial notes to reflect his interest in these concepts. Schapiro continually changed the title of this manuscript, see file 3 Box 256 for an editorial note on title variations especially as they relate to the use of the term "semiotics." The title used reflects Schapiro's consistent use of the phrase" Words in pictures" to refer to this manuscript)



Box 256 Folder 1 Annotated transcript, research notes, and editorial notes, 1976-1996

(The title of the transcript uses the original University of Pittsburgh lecture from 1976)


Box 256 Folder 2 Annotated typescript and research notes, 1976-1996


Box 256 Folder 3 Annotated typescripts, research notes, and editorial notes, 1976-1996


Box 256 Folder 4 to 5 Research notes, 1976-1996, (2 Folders)


Box 256 Folder 6 Correspondence, programs, research notes, and editorial notes, 1976-1996


"Relativity and the interpretation of modern painting"

(This manuscript was referred to by Schapiro as "Albert Einstein and Cubism," but the title used is supplied from the first page of the typescript found in file 1 Box 257. According to Lillian Milgram Schapiro in a letter found in file 8 Box 258 this manuscript is loosely based on Schapiro's 1979 lecture "Einstein and Abstract art" given at a Hebrew University symposium commemorating the centennial of Albert Einstein's birth. In correspondence found in Folder 8, Box 258, Schapiro signed off to include his contribution to the symposium in a book to be published by Princeton University Press titledAlbert Einstein, historical and cultural perspectives : the centennial symposium in Jerusalem,but it was never included in the final publication of 1982. Material found in these manuscript files are largely research notes, drafts, and revisions that Schapiro wrote in the 1980s. In the 1990s Lillian Milgram Schapiro worked with Joseph Masheck to edit and reconstruct the text, but the material was never published. The pagination scheme used below is based on annotations that also match original file order)



Box 257 Folder 1 Pages 1-18 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s


Box 257 Folder 2 Pages 13-24 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s


Box 257 Folder 3 Pages 24-26 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s


Box 257 Folder 4 Pages 28-38 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s


Box 257 Folder 5 Pages 37-53 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s


Box 257 Folder 6 Outlines and research notes, 1970s-1980s

(Material is chiefly on Schapiro's lecture "Einstein and Abstract art" given at Hebrew University)


Box 257 Folder 7 to 9 Research notes, 1980s, (3 Folders)



Box 258 Folder 1 to 3 Research notes, 1980s, (3 Folders)


Box 258 Folder 4 to 6 Research files, 1980s, (3 Folders)


Box 258 Folder 7 Reproductions list, 1980s


Box 258 Folder 8 to 9 Editorial notes and correspondence, 1980-1990s, (2 Folders)


"Vico on the visual arts"

(Although three files contain typescripts that include a title statement and some pagination, this manuscript is primarily composed of compiled drafts and research notes. There are several files titled "Footnotes and sources" that include a sequential pagination scheme that is not included in the manuscript typescripts. In 1997 Lillian Milgram Schapiro would revisit this manuscript with David Rosand for potential publication, but the project was never realized)



Box 259 Folder 1 Early drafts -- Annotated typescripts, research notes, and correspondence,, 1970s-1980s

(Correspondence is chiefly with Giorgio Tagliacozzo of the Institute for Vico Studies)


Box 259 Folder 2 to 5 Early drafts -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s, (4 Folders)


Box 259 Folder 6 to 7 Pages 1-15 --Footnotes and sources, 1980s-1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 259 Folder 8 Pages 3-15 -- Footnotes and sources, 1980s-1990s


Box 259 Folder 9 to 10 Pages 10-15 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s-1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 259 Folder 11 Pages 16-24 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s-1990


Box 259 Folder 12 Pages 16-44 -- Footnotes and sources, 1980s-1990s


Box 259 Folder 13 Pages 18-24 -- Footnotes and sources, 1980s-1990s


Box 259 Folder 14 Pages 25-38 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 259 Folder 15 Pages 39-50 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 259 Folder 16 Pages 39-49 -- Footnotes and sources, 1980s-1990s



Box 260 Folder 1 General footnotes and sources, 1980s-1990s


Box 260 Folder 2 to 4 Research notes, 1970s-1990s, (3 Folders)


Box 260 Folder 5 to 10 Research files, 1980s-1990s, (6 Folders)


Box 260 Folder 11 Correspondence and editorial notes, 1990s

(Correspondence with between David Rosand and Lillian Milgram Schapiro regarding the manuscript. Accompanied by Lillian Milgram Schapiro's organization of the manuscript in a photocopied format)


Box 260 Folder 12 "Classification on aesthetics" -- Editorial notes, 1980s-1990s

(According to a note by Lillian Milgram Schapiro, this manuscript was lost and all the editorial notes contained in this file serve as reminisces. Meyer Schapiro writes that the manuscript was based on the Columbia University course Theory and methods of art history (Art History G6001x) which was focused on theories of classification in the arts. Material on this course can be found in Boxes 187-188 of Series III and sound recordings of those lectures can be found in Series VII, Subseries VII.2))


"On Freud's forgetting of 'Signorelli'"

(An unpublished work dealing with Freud'sPsychopathology of Everyday Life)



Box 261 Folder 1 Annotated typescripts, outlines, research notes, and correspondence,, 1980s-1990s


Box 261 Folder 2 Research file and notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 261 Folder 3 Research file, 1980s-1990s


"Wolvinius Magister Phaber: the crowning of an artist in the early Middle Ages"

(Composed of three organized parts and largely paginated, this manuscript includes a large portion of footnotes that Schapiro meticulously compiled. In an annotation to the title statement of the manuscript found in file 4, Box 261, the original term used for "crowning" is "consecration." The annotated title is used for clarity. Consult file 14, Box 261 for Schapiro's section titles and general outline of the manuscript. Schapiro would generally interleave his research notes into the files with paginated manuscripts)


Box 261 Folder 4 Part I: pages 1-12 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 261 Folder 5 Part I: pages 13-26 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 261 Folder 6 Part I: pages 27-39 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 261 Folder 7 Part I: edited versions -- Annotated typescripts and editorial notes,, 1980-1990s

(Edits and notes are largely by Judy Sund and completed in 1983. Lillian Milgram Schapiro's editorial notes are also included)


Box 261 Folder 8 Part I: editorial file --, 1980s-1990s

(Photocopy of assembled typescripts and research notes compiled by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 261 Folder 9 Part II -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 261 Folder 10 Part II: edited drafts, 1980s-1990s

(Drafts edited by Robert Melzak and include three versions: Schapiro's original; the edited version; and a transcription of an unknown recording. Accompanied by correspondence and computer disk carrying electronic files)


Box 261 Folder 11 Part III -- Research notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 261 Folder 12 to 13 Early drafts and research notes, 1980s-1990s


Box 261 Folder 14 Outlines, 1980s-1990s



Box 262 Folder 1 Footnote indexes, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 2 Footnotes 1-10 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 3 Footnotes 1-37 -- Early drafts, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 4 Footnotes 1-44 -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 5 Footnotes 11-20 -- Printouts, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 6 Footnotes 21-37 -- Printouts, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 7 Footnotes 34-37 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 8 Footnotes, 38-58 --Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 9 Footnotes 59-79 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 262 Folder 10 Footnotes 73-80 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s



Box 263 Folder 1 Footnotes 81-91 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 263 Folder 2 Footnotes 92-100 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 263 Folder 3 Footnotes 101-108 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990


Box 263 Folder 4 Footnotes 109-118 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 263 Folder 5 Footnotes 123-130 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 263 Folder 6 Footnotes 131-142 -- Printouts and annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 263 Folder 7 Footnotes: Part I -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 263 Folder 8 Complete footnotes -- Annotated typescripts, 1980s-1990s


Box 263 Folder 9 Complete footnotes -- Printout, 1990s

(Created by Robin Sand following Schapiro's complete footnotes found in file 8, Box 263)



Box 264 Folder 1 Reproductions and lists, 1980s-1990s


Box 264 Folder 2 to 3 Research files, 1980s-1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 264 Folder 4 "Selected essays in the history of art: Hebrew edition" -- Correspondence and editorial notes,, 1993-2003

(This publication was to be edited by Mordechai Omer and published by the Tel Aviv University of Art Gallery and Old Jaffa Press. Omer began working with Schapiro in 1993 to formulate a list of works to be translated and published, but that was never realized. Lillian Milgram Schapiro began working on this project in 2003 but a published work never materialized. Title was derived from editorial notes found in the file)


"Burial at Ornans"

(Referring to the painting by Gustave Courbet, this manuscript survives primarily as printouts created using Schapiro's research notes and outlines from the 1940s-1960 found in files 5 and 6 in Box 264. Similar elements and motifs in this manuscript can be found in Shapiro's published article "Courbet and popular imagery: an essay on realism and naïveté" published in the Warburg Journal. In the 1990s Lillian Milgram Schapiro circulated Schapiro's research material on Courbet to Maura Reilly and Robin Sand to reconstruct the text into manuscript form. As a result, files for this manuscript have printout versions interleaved with Lillian Milgram Schapiro's editorial notes and Schapiro's photocopied notes in a semi-paginated format. When possible, pagination was supplied using annotations provided)


Box 264 Folder 5 to 6 Research notes, outlines, and clippings, 1940s-1960s


Box 264 Folder 7 Pages 1-10 -- Printouts, editorial notes, and research notes, 1996-1996


Box 264 Folder 8 Page 4a -- Printouts, editorial notes, and research notes, 1996-1997



Box 265 Folder 1 Pages 11-14 -- Printouts, editorial notes, and research notes, 1996-1997


Box 265 Folder 2 Corrected draft -- Printouts and editorial notes, 2000


Box 265 Folder 3 Edited draft -- Printouts and correspondence, 2002

(Edited draft was created by Robin Sand and correspondence in this file details her edits in comparison to the published Courbet essay)


Box 265 Folder 4 Edited draft -- Printouts and correspondence, 2002

(Edited draft was created by Maura Reilly and accompanied by correspondence relating to comparisons with the published Courbet essay)


Box 265 Folder 5 Editorial notes, 1996-1997

(Notes are by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 265 Folder 6 to 7 Research files, 1980s-1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 265 Folder 8 Reproductions and research notes, 1960s-1980s


Box 265 Folder 9 Correspondence, 2002


Subseries: IV.5: Publications, 1928-2009

Subseries IV.5 contains material relating to all of Schapiro's work that were published either in his lifetime or posthumously. This includes material from all of his "Selected Writings" series published by George Braziller, Inc. a s well as books that were published posthumously and edited and compiled by Lillian Milgram Schapiro.

For articles and reviews that were reprinted in Schapiro's "Selected Writings" series, consult Subseries: IV.2: Articles and Subseries: IV.6: Reviews where they are filed.

While the bulk of the material dates after 1950, the earliest record in this subseries isArt in the contemporary worlda 1928 reprint ofAn introduction to contemporary civilization in the west: a syllabus.



Box 266 Folder 1 Art in the contemporary world ( 928; reprint of An introduction to contemporary civilization in the west: a syllabus. New York: Columbia University Press). -- Photocopies


Vincent van Gogh. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1950 and reprints, 1950


Box 266 Folder 2 to 4 Introduction and individual art works -- Annotated typescripts, 1940s-1950, (3 Folders)


Box 266 Folder 5 Introduction and research notes -- Annotated typescripts, 1940s-1950

(Includes notes and studies that were not published in the 1950 publication)


Box 266 Folder 6 Preface -- Annotated typescripts, 1940s-1950


Box 266 Folder 7 Research notes, 1940s-1950

(Includes notes and studies on St. Remy and Auvers that were not published)


Box 266 Folder 8 to 9 Research notes, 1940s-1950 (2 Folders, 1940s-1950


Box 266 Folder 10 Correspondence and reviews, 1951-1973


Box 266 Folder 11 Reviews, 1950s

(Reviews in German)


Box 266 Folder 12 Correspondence, 1950s-1980s


Paul Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1952 and reprints., 1952


Box 266 Folder 14 Pages 1-108 -- Annotated typescripts, 1940s-1952



Box 267 Folder 1 Introduction, acknowledgements, and reproductions list -- Annotated typescripts,, 1940s-1952


Box 267 Folder 2 German translation -- Annotated typescript, 1956

(Published in Cologne, Germany by M. Dumont Schauberg)


Box 267 Folder 3 to 9 Drafts and research notes, 1940s-1952, (7 Folders)


Box 267 Folder 10 Proofs, 1952


The Parma Ildefonsus: a Romanesque illuminated manuscript from Cluny, and Related Works. New York: College Art Association of America,, 1964


Box 267 Folder 11 Annotated book, 1964


Box 267 Folder 12 Research notes, 1950s-1964

(Notes chiefly on text, history, and styles)


Box 267 Folder 13 Research notes, 1950s-1964

(Notes chiefly on ornament and history of the manuscript)


Box 267 Folder 14 Research notes, 1950s-1964

(Notes chiefly relating to Cluny and Burgundinian manuscripts)


Box 267 Folder 15 Research notes, 1950s-1964

(Notes chiefly on Limoges manuscript of Ildefonsus from the Bibliothèque nationale de France)



Box 268 Folder 1 to 5 Research notes and drafts, 1950s-1964, (5 Folders)


Box 268 Folder 6 to 8 Research notes and correspondence, 1950s-1964, (3 Folders)


Box 268 Folder 9 Manuscripts cited -- Index, 1964


Box 268 Folder 10 Reviews, 1964


Words and pictures: on the literal and the symbolic in the illustration of a text. Approaches to Semiotics series 11, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1973.



Box 269 Folder 1 to 2 Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1960s-1973, (2 Folders)


Box 269 Folder 3 Drafts and research notes, 1960s-1973


Box 269 Folder 4 to 6 Research notes, 1960s-1973, (3 folders)


Box 269 Folder 7 Editorial notes, 1960s-1973


Box 269 Folder 8 Reproductions lists, 1960s-1973


Box 269 Folder 9 Correspondence, reproductions, and clippings, 1970s-1980s


Box 269 Folder 10 Correspondence, 1960s-1970s

(Accompanied by review of the Italian translation)


Box 269 Folder 11 Correspondence, 1970-1996


Selected Papers I: Romanesque Art. New York: George Braziller, 1977.



Box 270 Folder 1 Annotated book, 1977


Box 270 Folder 2 Preface -- Research notes, 1970s


"From Mozarbic to Romanesque in Silos"


Box 270 Folder 3 Reproductions, 1970s



Box 633 Folder 8 Reproductions, 1977



Box 270 Folder 4 "The sculpture of Souillac" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 270 Folder 5 "On geometrical schematism in Romanesque art" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 270 Folder 6 "A relief in Rodez and the beginnings of Romanesque sculpture in southern France" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 270 Folder 7 "Two Romanesque drawings in Auxerre and some iconographic problems" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 270 Folder 8 Footnotes, 1976

(Chiefly footnote number 66 of Moissac essay. Accompanied by research notes and correspondence)


Box 270 Folder 9 to 12 Correspondence and editorial notes, 1970s, (4 Folders)


Box 270 Folder 13 Reviews, 1977


Selected Papers II: Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries. New York: George Braziller, 1978 1982., 1978



Box 271 Folder 1 Annotated book, 1978


Box 271 Folder 2 Prefatory note -- Annotated typescript, 1978


Box 271 Folder 3 "The apples of Cézanne: an essay on the meaning of still-life" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 4 "Courbet and popular imagery" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 5 "On a painting of van Gogh" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 6 "Seurat" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 7 "Picasso's Woman with a fan" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 8 "Chagall's Illustration for the Bible" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 9 "Introduction of modern art in America: the armory show" -- Reproductions,1 970s


Box 271 Folder 10 "Arshile Gorky" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 11 "The nature of abstract art" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 12 "Recent abstract art" -- Reproductions, 1970s


"Mondrian: order and randomness in painting"

(While Schapiro worked on this essay for several years, it was first published in this volume)


Box 271 Folder 13 Annotated typescript, 1960s-1970s


Box 271 Folder 14 Research notes and drafts, 1960s-1970s


Box 271 Folder 15 Research ntoes, 1960s-1970s


Box 271 Folder 16 Reproductions, 1978


Box 271 Folder 17 Footnotes, 1970s


Box 271 Folder 18 Unpublished Matisse essay -- Reproductions, 1970s



Box 272 Folder 1 to 3 Correspondence and editorial notes, 1970s, (3 Folders)


Box 272 Folder 4 to 5 Reviews, 1978, (2 Folders)


Selected Papers Ill: Late Antique, Early Christian, and Medieval Art New York: George Braziller, 1979.


Box 272 Folder 6 "A note on the Mérode altarpiece" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 7 "Ancient mosaics in Israel: late antique art: pagan, Jewish, Christian" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 8 "The Joseph scenes on the Maximianus throne in Ravenna" -- Reprductions,, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 9 "The place of the Joshua Roll in Byzantine history" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


"The frescoes of Castelseprio"


Box 272 Folder 10 Reproductions, 1970s



Box 633 Folder 9 Reproductions, 1979



Box 272 Folder 11 "Notes on Castelseprio" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 12 "The Carolingian copy of the Calendar of 354" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 13 "The religious meaning of the Ruthwell Cross" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 14 "The bomwan and the bird on the Ruhwell Cross and other works" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 15 "Marginal images and drôlerie" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 16 to 17 "The decoration of the Leningrad manuscript of Bede" -- Reproductions,, 1970s, (2 Folders)


Box 272 Folder 18 "A note on the wall strips of Saxon churches" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 19 "'Cains jaw-bone that did the first murder" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 272 Folder 20 "The image of the disappearing Christ" -- Reproductions, 1970s



Box 273 Folder 1 "The angel and the ram in Abraham's sacrifice" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 273 Folder 2 "The Beatus Apocalypse of Gerona" -- Reproductions, 1970s


Box 273 Folder 3 "An illuminated English psalter of the early thirteenth century" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 273 Folder 4 "On an Italian painting of the flagellation of Christ in the Frick collection" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 273 Folder 5 "The Bird's Head Haggada, an illustrated Hebrew Manuascript circa 1300" -- Reproductions,, 1970s


Box 273 Folder 6 to 7 Correspondence and editorial notes, 1970s


Box 273 Folder 8 Reviews, 1979


Box 273 Folder 9 Corrections and editorial notes, 1977-1979

(Includes material from the first two volumes of Schapiro's selected works)


Box 273 Folder 10 Arte romanica. Translated by Adriano Sofri. Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1982. -- Reviews,, 1982

(Italian translation ofSelected Papers I: Romanesque Art)


Style, Artiste et Société. Translated by Blaise Allan et. al. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1982.


Box 273 Folder 11 "Sur quelques problèmes de sémiotique de l'art visual: champ et véhicule dans les signes iconiques" -- Annotated typescript,, 1970s-1980s


Box 273 Folder 12 to 15 Editorial notes, 1970s-1980s, (4 Folders)


Box 273 Folder 16 to 17 Editorial notes and correspondence, 1970s-1980s, (2 Folders)



Box 274 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1974-1980


Box 274 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1981-1999


Box 274 Folder 3 Reviews, 1982


Box 274 Folder 4 Moderne kunst: 19. und 20. jahrhundert ausgewählte aufsätze. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1982 -- Reviews, 1982, 1982, 1982

(German translation ofSelected Papers II: Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries)


Box 274 Folder 5 Estudios sobre el Románico. Translated by Maria Luisa Balseiro Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1984 -- Reviews, 1984, 1984, 1984

(Spanish translation ofSelected Papers I: Romanesque Art)


The Romanesque sculpture of Moissac. New York: George Braziller,, 1985

(Reprint of Schapiro's dissertation which was originally published in Art Bulletin. This reprint includes photographs by David Finn)


Box 274 Folder 6 Correspondence and editorial notes, 1985


Box 274 Folder 7 Reviews, 1985


Box 274 Folder 8 L'arte moderna translated by Renato Pedio. Turin: Giuliu Einaudi Editore, no date. -- Reviews,, 1986

(Italian translation ofSelected Papers II: Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries


Selected papers IV: theory and philosophy of art: style, artist, and society. New York: George Brazillcr., 1994


Box 274 Folder 9 Preface -- Annotated typescripts and notes, 1990s


"Further notes on Heidegger and van Gogh"

(Previously unpublished essay published for the first time in this volume)


Box 274 Folder 10 to 11 Annotated typescripts, 1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 274 Folder 12 to 13 Annotated typescript and research notes, 1994, (2 Folders)


Box 274 Folder 14 Correspondence, 1981-1994


Box 274 Folder 15 to 16 Research notes, 1994, (2 Folders)



Box 275 Folder 1 Research file, 1994


"Further notes on Freud and Leonardo"

(Previously unpublished essay published for the first time in this volume)


Box 275 Folder 2 to 3 Research notes, 1994, (2 Folders)


Box 275 Folder 4 "On some problems in the semiotics of visual art: field and vehicle in image-signs" -- Reproductions,, 1990s


Box 275 Folder 5 "On perfection, coherence, and unity of form and content" -- Reproductions,, 1990s


Box 275 Folder 6 "Style" -- Reproductions, 1990s


Box 275 Folder 7 "Eugène Fromentin as critic" -- Reproductions, 1990s


Box 275 Folder 8 "Still life as a personal object: a note on Heidegger and Van Gogh" -- Reproductions,, 1990s


Box 275 Folder 9 to 10 Reproductions lists, 1990s, (2 Folders)


Box 275 Folder 11 to 13 Corrections and editorial notes, 1977-1994, (3 Folders)

(Includes material relating to Schapiro's other collected volumes)


Box 275 Folder 14 Contract, 1994


Box 275 Folder 15 Book jacket illustration proof, 1994


Box 275 Folder 16 Reviews, 1994


Oxford art journal 17, no. 1 (1994): 3-104

(Special issue on Meyer Schapiro)



Box 276 Folder 1 Notes and table of contents, 1994


Box 276 Folder 2 "A Vermont visit with Meyer Schapiro (August 1991)" -- Transcript and correspondence,, 1991-1994


Box 276 Folder 3 Reproductions, 1994


Word, script, and pictures: the semiotics of visual language. New York: George Braziller, 1996


Box 276 Folder 4 to 8 Reproductions, 1996, (5 Folders)


Box 276 Folder 9 Reviews, 1996


Impressionism: reflections and perceptions. New York: George Braziller, 1997


Box 276 Folder 10 Correspondence, 1997


Box 276 Folder 11 Reproductions, 1997



Box 277 Folder 1 Reproductions, 1997


Box 277 Folder 2 Reviews, 1997


Box 277 Folder 3 A kind of rapture / Robert Bergman ; introduction by Toni Morrison ; afterword by Meyer Schapiro. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998 -- Printouts, 1998, 1998, 1998

(Printout is an extended text of the work published in 1998. Accompanied by editorial notes by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Worldview in painting: art and society: selected papers, volume 5. Ne York: George Braziller, 1999


Box 277 Folder 4 Annotated book, 1999

(Annotations by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 277 Folder 5 Editorial ntoes, 1999


Box 277 Folder 6 to 7 Correspondence, 1998-1999, (2 Folders)


Box 277 Folder 8 Contract, 1998


Box 277 Folder 9 Reviews, 1999


The unity of Picasso's art. New York: George Braziller,, 2000

(Although published posthumously in 2000 Schapiro himself worked on the draft for this manuscript in 1985 while working with Gittelman Film Association on their video of Schapiro's lecture on Picasso for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Portions of this manuscript incorporate Schapiro's lectures on Picasso from the following institutions: Brandeis University (1967) and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1973). Typescripts, research notes, and outlines can be found for these two lectures at Sub-Subseries: III.3.4: 1960s and Sub-Subseries: III.3.5: 1970s respectively)



Box 278 Folder 1 Annotated typescripts, 1985-2000

(Accompanied by Lillian Milgram Schaipro's editorial notes)


Box 278 Folder 2 Annotated typescripts, 1985-2000

(Typescript chiefly used to consolidate the Brandeis and Albright-Knox lectures for the video presentation)


Box 278 Folder 3 Correspondence and editorial notes, 1985-2000


Box 278 Folder 4 Editorial notes, 1980s


Box 278 Folder 5 to 8 Reproductions, 2000, (4 Folders)


Box 278 Folder 9 Reproductions list and editorial notes, 2000


Box 278 Folder 10 Reviews, 2000


Meyer Schapiro: his painting, drawing, and sculpture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000



Box 279 Folder 1 Preface / John Russell -- Annotated printouts and editorial notes,, 2000


Box 279 Folder 2 Correspondence and editorial notes, 1998-2000


Box 279 Folder 3 Reviews, 2000


Language of forms: lectures on insular manuscript art / foreword by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. ; introduction by Jane E. Rosenthal. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library,, 2005

(Material for this publication is derived from Schapiro's Franklin Jasper Walls lectures held at the Pierpont Morgan library. Consult Sub-Subseries: III.3.4: 1960s for materials relating to that lecture)


Box 279 Folder 4 Chapter 1 -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1987

(Typescript is Schapiro's original and used as reference for the manuscript of this publication)


Box 279 Folder 5 Chapter 1 -- Annotated printouts and editorial notes, 2000


Box 279 Folder 6 Chapter 2 -- Printouts and editorial notes, 2000


Box 279 Folder 7 Chapter 3 -- Printout, 2000


Box 279 Folder 8 Chapter 4 -- Printout, 2000


Box 279 Folder 9 Chapter 5 -- Printout, 2000


Box 279 Folder 10 Chapter 6 -- Printout, 2000


Box 279 Folder 11 to 12 Editorial notes, 1980s-2005



Box 280 Folder 1 Editorial notes, 1980s-2005


Box 280 Folder 2 Reproductions list and reproductions, 1990s-2005


Box 280 Folder 3 Chapters 1-3 -- Reproductions, 2000-2005

(Annotated photocopies)


Box 280 Folder 4 Chapter 4 -- Reproductions, 2000-2005

(Annotated photocopies)


Box 280 Folder 5 Chapter 5 -- Reproductions, 2000-2005

(Annotated photocopies)


Box 280 Folder 6 Chapter 6 -- Reproductions, 2000-2005

(Annotated photocopies)


Box 280 Folder 7 Figures 1-64 -- Reproductions, 2000-2005

(Annotated photocopies)


Box 280 Folder 8 Figures 65-99 -- Reproductions, 2000-2005

(Annotated photocopies)


Box 280 Folder 9 Figures 100-156 -- Reproductions, 2000-2005

(Annotated photocopies)


Box 280 Folder 10 Plates 1-19 -- Reproductions, 2000-2005

(Annotated photocopies)


Box 280 Folder 11 to 13 Reproductions, 2000-2005, (3 Folders)



Box 281 Folder 1 to 10 Reproductions, 2000-2005, (10 Folders)


Box 281 Folder 11 Digital graphic design files, 2005, 1 computer optical disc


Romanesque architectural sculpture: the Charles Eliot Norton lectures / edited with an introduction by Linda Seidel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.


Box 281 Folder 12 Editorial notes, 2006


Box 281 Folder 13 to 14 Correspondence and editorial notes, 1986-2006


Meyer Schapiro abroad: letters to Lillian and travel notebooks / edited by Daniel Esterman.Los Angeles, Calif: Getty Research Institute, c2009.


Box 281 Folder 15 Correspondence, 2001-2003


Box 281 Folder 16 Editorial notes, 2000

(Notes by Lillian Milgram Schapiro)


Box 281 Folder 17 Electronic files of published material -- Seven computer disks ; 3 ½ inch,, 1998

(Created by assistants, these electronic files contain materials from various Schapiro publications )


Box 281 Folder 18 Electronic files of published material -- Five computer disks ; 3 ½ inch,, 1990s-2005

(Created by assistants, these electronic files contain materials from various Schapiro publications. This file includes editorial notes by Lillian Milgram Schapiro wrapped around the disks)


Subseries: IV.6: Reviews, 1930-1972

Schapiro wrote reviews about books and exhibitions throughout his career. This subseries contains all his reviews and are organized chronologically. For consistency, bibliographic information was retrieved from Lillian Milgram Schapiro's bibliography of 1995. Early in his career, Schapiro would occasionally use the pseudonym John Kwait for publishing reviews. According to Lillian Milgram Schapiro's bibliography, Kwait is Schapiro's maternal grandmother's surname. File descriptions will indicate when the pseudonym has been used.

(Early in his career, Schapiro would occasionally use the pseudonym John Kwait for publishing reviews. According to Lillian Milgram Schapiro's published bibliography on Schapiro's work, Kwait is Schapiro's maternal grandmother's surname. File descriptions will indicate when the pseudonym has been used)



Box 282 Folder 1 Review of Ancient Painting from the Earliest Times, by Mary Hamilton Swindler (New Haven, CT, and London, 1929) -- Typescript and research notes,, 1930

(InNew York Herald Tribune Books, 1930 April 6, 16)


Box 282 Folder 2 Review of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, by Jacob Burckhardt (New York and London, 1930) -- Annotated typescripts,, 1930

(InNew York Herald Tribune Books,1930 August 24, 15)


Box 282 Folder 3 "The New Architecture." Review of exhibition of modern architecture at the Museum of Modem Art, New York -- Typescript,, 1932

(InNew Masses, May 1932 23. Published under the pseudonym John Kwait)


Box 282 Folder 4 Review of The Doom of Youth, by Wyndham Lewis-- Annotated typescript, 1932

(InNew Masses, August 1932 27 Published under the pseudonym John Kwait)


Box 282 Folder 5 Review of Early Muslim Architecture by K.A. C. Creswell (New York and Oxford, 1932) -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1932-1935

(InArt and Archaeology33, no. 6 (November-December 1932): 327-28. Expanded version printed inArt Bulletin17, no. 1 (March 1935): 109-14)


Box 282 Folder 6 "Über den Schematismus in der Romanischen Kunst." Review of La Stylistique Ornamentale dans la Sculpture Romane, by Jurgis Baltrusaitis (Paris, 1931) -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1932-1970(In Kritische Benchte zu Kunstgeschichtlichen Literatur 1 (1932-33): 1-21., 1932-1970

(Research notes are chiefly on geometric schematism from the 1970)


Box 282 Folder 7 "John Reed Club Art Exhibition [of the social viewpoint in art]" -- Typescripts,, 1933

(InNew Masses, February 1933 23-24 Published under the pseudonym John Kwait. Text in brackets is found on the typescript but is not included in Lillian Milgram Scahpiro's bibliography. Accompanied by a reply to this article by Jack Burck)


Box 282 Folder 8 Review of Art Now by Herbert Read (New York, 1934) -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1934

(InThe Nation,July 4,1934 25)


Box 282 Folder 9 Review of The Spirit of Man in Asian Art, by Laurence Binyon (Cambridge, MA, 1935) -- Annotated typescript,, 1935

(InNew York Herald Tribune Books, August 4, 1935 12)


Box 282 Folder 10 Review of Seurat and the evolution of La Grande Jatte" (Chicago, 1935) -- Typescript and research notes,, 1935

(In Columbia Review 17 (November 1935): 9-17)


Box 282 Folder 11 "The New Viennese School." Review of Kunstwissenschaftliche Forschungen, vol. 2, edited by Otto Pächt (Berlin and Frankfurt, 1922) -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1936

(InArt Bulletin18, no. 2 (June 1936): 258-66)


Box 282 Folder 12 "Surrealist Field Day." Review of Surrealism by Julien Levy (New York, 1936) -- Clipping, 1937

(InThe Nation, January 23, 1937 102-3)


Box 282 Folder 13 Review of The Pierpont Morgan Library Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts, by Charles Rufus Morey, Belle da Costa Greene, and Meta Harrison (New York, 1934) -- Annotated typescript,, 1937

(InArt Bulletin19, no. 1 (March 1937):126-29)


Box 282 Folder 14 "Blue Like an Orange." Review of Surrealism by Herbert Read (New York, 1937) -- Clipping, 1937

(InThe Nation, September 25, 1937 323-24. Accompanied by annotated photocopy of article)


"A Metaphysics for the Movies." Review of Art and Prudence, by Mortimer J. Adler (New York, 1937)

(InMarxist QuarterlyI, no. 3 (October - December 1937).406-17)


Box 282 Folder 15 Typescript, 1937


Box 282 Folder 16 Drafts and research notes, 1937


Box 282 Folder 17 "Populist Realism."Review of An Artist in America, by Thomas Benton (New York, 1937) -- Typescript, 1938

(InPartisan Review4, no. 2 (January 1938): 55-37. Accompanied by annotated photocopy)


Box 282 Folder 18 "Architect's Utopia." Review of Architecture and Modern Life, by Baker Brownell and Frank Lloyd Wright (New York and London, 1937) -- Annotated photocopy,, 1937

(InPartisan Review4, no. 4 (March 1938): 42-47)


Box 282 Folder 19 "Looking Forward to Looking Backward." Review of The Culture of Cities by Lewis Mumford (New York, 1938) -- Annotated photocopy,, 1938

InPartisan Review5, no. 2 (July 1938): 12-24)


Box 282 Folder 20 Review of L'Art Réligieux Moderne by G. Arnaud d'Agnel (Grenoble, 1936) -- Proof and research notes,, 1939

(InReview of Religion3, no.4 (May 1939): 469-73. Research notes are on "modern Catholic art")


Box 282 Folder 21 Review of The Labors of the Months in Antique and Mediaeval Art to the End of the 12th Century, by J. C. Webster (Evanston, IL, 1938) -- Annotated photocopy,, 1938

(InSpeculum. 16, no. 1 (January 1941): 131-37)


Box 282 Folder 22 Review of The E1izabeth Day McCormick Apocalypse, by Harold Willoughby (Chicago, 1940) -- Typescript and proof,, 1941

(InReview of Religion5, no. 3 (March 1941): 310-12)


Box 282 Folder 23 Review of A Survey of Persian Art by Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman (New York, 1938) --- Annotated typescript,, 1941

(InArt Bulletin23, no. 1 (March 1941): 82-86)


Box 282 Folder 24 Review of Holy Images: An Inquiry into Idolatry and Image-Worship in Ancient Paganism and Christianity, by Edwyn Bevan (New York, 1940) -- Annotated outline and research notes,, 1942

(InReview of Religion6. no. 2 (January 1942): 237-38)


Box 282 Folder 25 Review of The Illustration of Manuscripts of the Septuagint, by Ernest T. De Wald (Princeton, NJ, and London, 1941) -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1942

(InReview of Religion6, no. 2 (January 1942): 239)


Box 282 Folder 26 "Film Chronicle: Mission to Moscow." -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and clippings,, 1943

(InPartisan Review10, no. 3 (May-June 1943): 275-78)


Box 282 Folder 27 Review of Early Christian Art by Charles Rufus Morey (Princeton, NJ, 1942) -- Drafts, research notes, and annotated reprint,, 1944

(InReview of Religion8, no. 2 (January 1944): 165-86)


Box 282 Folder 28 "Flemish Art Reconsidered." Review of The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages, by Baron Joseph van der Elst (New York, 1944) -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1945

(InView5,no. 1 (March 1945.1: 43, 49, 50)


Box 282 Folder 29 Review of Babel's Tower: The Di1emma of the Modern Museum, by Francis' H. Taylor (New York. 1945) -- Correspondence,, 1946

(InArt Bulletin27, no.1 (December 1945): 272)


Box 282 Folder 30 "French Reaction in Exile." Review of La Communion des Forts, by Roger Caillois (Mexico City, 1943) -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and correspondence,, 1945

(InKenyon Review7, no. 1 (Winter 1945),29-42)



Box 283 Folder 1 "How did Spinoza look?" Review of The Face of Benedictus Spinoza, by Simon L. Millner (New York, 1946) -- Annotated typescript and notes,, 1947

(InCommentary4., no. 2 (August 1947): 197-99)


Box 283 Folder 2 "The Last Aesthete." Reviews of Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts, by Bernard Berenson (New York, 1948), and Sketch for a Self-Portrait by Bernard Berenson (New York, 1949) -- Annotated typescripts, research notes, and annotated clippings,, 1949

(InCommentary8, no. 6 (December 1949): 614--66. Page one is missing of typescript)


Box 283 Folder 3 Review of "A blot on the Scutcheon" by Herbert Read in Encounter 1950s[?] -- Annotated typescript, clippings, and correspondence,, 1950s

(This review was never published)


Box 283 Folder 4 Review of Lachen un Weinen: eine Untersuchung nach den Grenzen menschlichen Verhaltens, by A. Francke (Bern, 1950) -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1950

(This review was never published)


Box 283 Folder 5 "The Place of Ireland in Hiberno-Saxon Art." Review of Essai sur les Origines de la Miniature dite Irlandais, by F. Masai (Brussels, 1947) -- Annotated typescript and annotated reprint,, 1950

(InGazette des Beaux-Arts37 (January 1950): 134-8)


"The Artists Creative Process." Review of The Psychology of Art, by André Malraux (New York. 1950)

(InSaturday Review of Literature,February 4, 1950 37)


Box 283 Folder 6 Annotated typescript and research notes, 1950


Box 283 Folder 7 Proof, 1950


Box 283 Folder 8 "Daring Mannerist." Review of Parmigianino by Sydney J. Freedberg (Cambridge, MA, 1950) -- Typescript,, 1950

(InSaturday Review of Literature,October 7,1950 69-70)


Box 283 Folder 9 Review of Santa Maria di Castelseprio, by G. P. Bognetti, G. Chieriei. and A. de Capilani d'Arzago (Milan. 1948) -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and correspondence,, 1950

(InMagazine of Art43, no. 8 (December 1950): 312-13)


Box 283 Folder 10 Review of Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas, by José Gudiol Ricart and Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño (Madrid. 1949)

(InSpeculum26, no. 3 (July 1951): 508-9)


Box 283 Folder 10 Typescript, 1951


Box 283 Folder 11 Typescript, research notes, and correspondence, 1951


Box 283 Folder 12 Review of History of Modern Painting from Picasso to Surrealism, by Maurice Raynal et al., trans. Douglas Cooper (New York, 1950) -- Typescript,, 1951

(InMagazine of Art44, no. 7 (November 1951): 29)


Box 283 Folder 13 Review of The Fresco Cycle of S. Maria di Castelseprio, by Kurt Weitzmann (Princeton, NJ. 1951) -- Annotated typescript, research notes, correspondence, and annotated reprints,, 1952

(InArt Bulletin34, no. 2 (June 1952): 147-63)


Box 283 Folder 14 "The Many da Vincis."Review of Leonardo do Vinci, by Sir Kenneth Clark (Cambridge, 1952) -- Typescript, 1953

(InNew Republic, March 9, 1953 20-21)


Box 283 Folder 15 "Treasury from Byzantium." Review of Byzantine Painting by André Grabar (Geneva and New York, 1953) -- Typescript,, 1954

(InArt News52, no. 9 (January 1954): 52, 85.)


Box 283 Folder 16 "The Content of Painting without Subject." Review of French Painting between the Past and the Present by Joseph C. Sloane (Princeton, NJ, 1951) -- Typescript, research notes, and annotated clippings,, 1954

(InArt Bulletin36. no. 2 (June 1954): 163-65)


Box 283 Folder 17 Review of Pittura e Scultura d'Avanguardia (1890-1950) in Italia, by Raffaele Carrieri (Milan, 1950) -- Typescript, research notes, reprints, and annotated clippings,, 1950

(InErasmus8, no. 1 (January 10, 1955): cols. 13-17)


Box 283 Folder 18 "Unsuspected Treasury." Review of Monuments of Romanesque Art, by Hanns Swarzenski (Chicago, 1954) -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1955

(InArt News54, no. 5 (September 1955): 44, 59,60.)


Box 283 Folder 19 "Humanism and the Demonic in Art." Review of L'Umanesimo e il Demoniaco nell'Arte ed. Enrico Castilli (Rome and Milan, 1953) -- Annotated typescript and research notes,, 1955

(Review of Religion20, no. 1-2 (November 1955): 56-60)


Box 283 Folder 20 Review of Die Bronzetüren des Bonanus von Pisa und des Barisanus von Trani, by Albert Boeckler (Berlin, 1953) -- Typescript, research notes, and annotated clippings,, 1956

(InErasmus9, no. 11-12 (June 25, 1956): cols. 361-63)


Box 283 Folder 21 "German Art in Three Books." Reviews of German Expressionist Painting by Peter Selz (Berkeley, CA, 1957), The German Expressionists by Bernard S. Myers (New York,. 1957), and Modern German Painting, by Hans Konrad Roethel (New York, 1957) -- Typescript and research notes,, 1958

(InNew York Herald Tribune Book Review,January, 5, 1958,4)


Box 283 Folder 22 "Art of the Middle Ages." Review of Early Medieval Painting from the Fourth to the Eleventh Century, by Carl Nordenfalk and André Grabar (New York, 1957) -- Typescript,, 1958

(InNew York' Herald Tribune Book Review,January 26,1958,4)


Box 283 Folder 23 Review of Style and Civilizations by A. L. Kroeber (Ithaca, NY, 1957) -- Typescript and annotated clipping,, 1957

(InAmerican Anthropologist61, no. 2 (April 1959): 303-5.)


Box 283 Folder 24 Review of Die Karolingischen Minaturn, vol. 2; Die Hofschule by Wilhelm Koehler (Berlin, 1958) -- Typescript,, 1960

(InArt Bulletin42, no. 4 (December 1960): 301-2)


Box 283 Folder 25 Review of Interaction of Color by Josef Albers (New Haven and London, 1963) -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and clippings,, 1963

(This review was never published)


Box 283 Folder 26 "The Beatus Apocalypse of Gerona." Review of The Beatus Apocalypse of Gerona, by Jaime Marques Casanovas, Cesar E. Dubler, and Wilhelm Neuss (Olten, Lausanne, and New York, 1962) -- Outlines and research notes,, 1963

InArt News61, no. 9 (January 1963): 36, 49-50.)


Box 283 Folder 27 "Carolingian Classic." Review of The Lorsch Gospels, introduction by Wolfgang Braunfels (New York, 1967) -- Typescript and annotated proof,, 1968

(InArt News67, no. 2 (April 1968): 53)


Box 283 Folder 28 Review of Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, by Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander (Oxford, 1966) -- Typescript,, 1968

(InCahiers de Civilisation Médiévale11, no. 4 (October-December 1968): 625)


Box 283 Folder 29 Review of Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts, by Lillian M. C. Randall -- Annotated typescript, research notes, and annotated clippings,, 1970

(InSpeculum45, no. 4 (October 1970): 684-86)


Box 283 Folder 30 Review of Der Ingeborg Psalter by Florens Deuchler (1967) -- Typescripts and research notes,, 1972

(InCahiers de Civilisation Médiéval5, no. 2 (April-June 1972): 151-53)


Subseries: IV.7: Scrapbooks, 1928-1966

The scrapbooks found in this subseries were compiled by Schapiro and include articles and clippings of Schapiro's work written from eh 1930s to the 1960s. The scrapbooks' titles mirror the volumes of his collected work published by George Braziller and may have been the basis for the organization of those publications.



Box 284 Scrapbook I: early Christian and early Medieval art, 1935-1960



Box 285 Scrapbook II: Romanesque, later Medieval, Gothic and Renaissance art,, 1928-1961



Box 286 Scrapbook III: nineteenth and twentieth century art, 1932-1966



Box 287 Scrapbook IV: Art theory, criticism, the artist, theory and politics,, 1936-1965


Subseries: IV.8: Translations and poetry, 1930s-1943

Schapiro was a well known linguist and wrote several essays on language and semiotics. It comes as no surprise then that he also translated texts, predominantly those that are French. Of all his translations, only two were formally published: the 1943 translation of Andre Masson'sAnatomy of My Universe,of which Schapiro was not credited; and "Three Texts on Science ("A Dream"); Wit and Common Sense; Genius and Method (Lichtenberg, Diderot, Galiani)" published byAnonin 1973.

The bulk of this subseries, however, is dedicated to Schapiro's translations of Charles Baudelaire's texts. Since there were very limited English translations of Baudelaire's writings on art and culture at the time, Schapiro worked on translating them beginning in the 1930s. According to files in this subseries, there were plans to publish these translations, as Baudelaire's work in English had yet to materialize, but that project was never realized.

Also included in this subseries is an extensive file of poems that Schapiro wrote.


Charles Baudelaire

(Since there were very limited English translations of Baudelaire's writings on art and culture at the time, Schapiro worked on translating them beginning in the 1930s. According to correspondence in Folder 18, Box 288, Oxford University Press was to publish these translations as "The Art Criticism of Baudelaire." However, this publication never materialized and by 1948 Oxford University Press and Phaidon Press were again seeking to publish English translations of Baudelaire's work on art. There were discussions for Schapiro to be involved in these 1948 publications given his previous work on their translations, but neither press published them. Titles in quotes used are derived from Schapiro's typescripts)



Box 288 Folder 1 Annotated typescripts, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 2 Research notes, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 3 "Why sculpture is boring" (1846) -- Typescripts, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 4 "The classic museum of the Bonne-Nouvelle bazaar" (1846) -- Annotated typescript,, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 5 Assorted writings of 1846 -- Typescripts, 1930s-1940s, 1846, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 6 "Universal Exhibition of 1855" -- Annotated typescripts, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 7 "The Salon of 1859" -- Annotated typescripts and research notes, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 8 "The painter of modern life" -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 9 "On the essence of laughter and on the comic in general in the plastic arts" -- Annotated typescripts,, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 10 "Some French caricaturists" -- Annotated typescripts, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 11 "Painters and etchers" -- Annotated typescripts, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 12 "The morality of the toy" -- Annotated typescripts and research notes,, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 13 "To the work and life of Eugène Delacroix: to the editor of L'opinion nationale" -- Annotated typescripts,, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 14 [Letters, 1864] -- Annotated typescripts, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 15 to 16 [Assorted short writings, 1860s] -- Typescripts, 1930s-1940s, (2 Folders)


Box 288 Folder 17 Corrections, 1930s-1940s


Box 288 Folder 18 Correspondence, 1944-1948


Anatomy of My Universe / by Andre Masson. New York: Curt Valentin,, 1943

(Schapiro was not credited for the translation of this publication)


Box 288 Folder 19 Resaerch notes, 1943


Box 288 Folder 20 Editorial files, 1996


"Three Texts on Science ("A Dream"); Wit and Common Sense; Genius and Method (Lichtenberg, Diderot, Galiani)." Anon

(published by the Kolokol Press for the editor, Austin, TX, no. 1 (December 31, 1970): 11-12)


Box 288 Folder 21 Research notes, 1970


Box 288 Folder 22 Clippings, 1970s


Box 288 Folder 23 Poetry -- Transcripts and notes, 1930s-1970s

(This file contains Schapiro's personal poetry)