Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: [email protected]

Descriptive summary

Title: Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers

Dates: 1940-1986

Accession number: 1987.A.0082

Creator: Cynthia J. McCabe

Extent: 32 boxes

Repository: Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126

Languages: English

Scope and content of collection Consists of correspondence, photocopies of archival documents, photographs, slides, and other ephemera collected by art historian Cynthia Jaffe McCabe in preparation for a planned exhibit regarding the work of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of Fry and various artists and intellectuals, including and Henri Matisse, in and around Villa Air Bel, the Emergency Rescue Committee offices in , and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts and other materials related to other projects.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access.

Restrictions on reproduction and use: Restrictions on use. Some material may be under copyright. Fair use applies.

Preferred citation: Preferred citation for USHMM archival collections; consult the USHMM website for guidance.

Acquisition information: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by the estate of Cynthia Jaffee McCabe in 1987.

Historical note Cynthia Jaffee McCabe was a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the , where she curated the 1976 exhibit "The Golden Door: Artist- Immigrants of America, 1876-1976." She died in 1986 in Rio de Janeiro, where she was doing preliminary work on a Hirshhorn exhibition of contemporary Latin American art.

System of arrangement Arrangement is thematic.

Indexing terms Fry, Varian, 1907-1967. Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985. Emergency Rescue Committee. Righteous Gentiles in . Artists--France. Marseille (France) Photographs. Correspondence.

CONTAINER LIST

Box 1 1. Hirschhorn Inventory 2. Misc. Galleries 3. Unlabeled (Misc.?) 4. Miscellaneous 5. Exhibition sharing Miami-Dade 6. Anni Albers 7. AlCopley [sic] 8. Antonio Amaral 9. Milet Andrejevic 10. Annot 11. Stephen Antonakos 12. Thelma Appell 13. Arakawa 14. Boris Aronson 15. Luis Cruz Azaceta 16. Norio Azuma 17. Banerjee 18. Herbert Bayer

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19. Hannes Beckmann 20. Dan Ben-Shmuel 21. Adolf Benca 22. Misc. Artists 23. Natuar Bhavsar 24. Eugene Berman 25. Ben Berns 26. Werner Bischof 27. Peter Blume 28. Fritz Blumenthal 29. Fernando Botero 30. Louise Bourgeois 31. Maria Brito-Avellana 32. Muska Brezinski 33. Agnes Brodie 34. Hans Gustav Burkhardt 35. Rudolph Burckhardt

Box 2 1. Humberto Calzada 2. Pablo Cano 3. Federico Castellon 4. Giorgio Cavallon 5. Vija Celmins 6. Marc Chagall 7. Ching Ho Cheng 8. Chermayeff 9. J. George Cisneros, Jr. 10. Ruffin Cooper, Jr. 11. Ching-Huang Chung 12. Gil Cuatrecasas 13. D’Ascenzo-Bramnick 14. Felix de Weldon 15. Sari Dienes 16. Werner Drewes 17. Friedel Dzubas 18. Donati 19. Elliott Erwitt 20. Philip Evergood 21. Emilio Falero 22. Jose Antonio Fernandez-Muro 23. Ralph Fasanella 24. Michael Felton 25. Carolina Flores

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26. Mary Frank 27. Robert Frank 28. Antonio Frasconi 29. Isac Friedlander 30. Fernando Garcia 31. Carmen Lomas Garza 32. Antonio Giraudier 33. Carl Glassman 34. Alan Glovsky 35. Ruben E. Gonzales 36. Arshik Gorky 37. John Gregory 38. George Grosz 39. Luis Guerra

Box 3 1. Louis Guglielmi 2. Bernard Gusson 3. Esther Gyory 4. Ernst Haas 5. Dieter Hacker 6. Raoul Hague 7. Gordon Hart 8. Stanley William Hayter 9. Julio Hernandez-Rojo 10. Eva Hesse 11. Stefan Hirsch 12. Hans Hofmann 13. John Hovannes 14. Masuo Ikeda 15. Eeva Inheri 16. Angelo Ippolito 17. Lotte Jacobi 18. Agnes Jacobs 19. Alfred Jensen 20. Wolf Kahn 21. Aristodemus Karldis 22. Sherry Zvares Kasten 23. Eva and Paul Kolosvary 24. Suzanne Lacy 25. Julio Larraz 26. Mauricio Lasansky 27. Bruce Latimer 28. Rico Lebrun

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29. Mia Le Comte 30. Leonid 31. Les Levine 32. Alexander Liberman 33. Knox Martin 34. Cesar Augusta Martinez 35. Maryan 36. Andre Masson 37. Giessel Mayer 38. Peter Max 39. Ed McGwoin 40. Leon Gordon Miller 41. Wang Ming 42. George Miyasaki 43. Lisette Model 44. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 45. Malcolm Morley 46. Naoto Nakagawa 47. Ernst Neizvestny 48. Louise Nevelson 49. Alexander Nezhadanov 50. Don Nice 51. Roy Nicholson

Box 4 1. Juan Nickford 2. Constantino Nivola 3. Isamy Noguchi 4. Farhad Ostovani 5. William Pachner 6. Judith Peck 7. Pei 8. Niki de Saint Phalle 9. Renate Ponsold 10. Alice Prin 11. Bernard Reder 12. Simon Rodia 13. Arturo Rodriguez 14. Paul Rotterdam 15. Jack Rutberg 16. Kikuo Saito 17. John Salt 18. Joseph Anthony Salvatore 19. Vladimir Salaman

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20. Lucas Samaras 21. Sasson Soffer 22. Berthold Schmutzhart 23. Alvena Seckar 24. Kurt Seligmann 25. Zoltan Sepeshy 26. Daniel Serra-Badue 27. Sert 28. Ben Shahn 29. Wendy Shapiro 30. Susana Sierra 31. Koloman Sokol 32. Chaim Soutine 33. Isaac Soyer 34. Raphael Soyer 35. Julian Stanczak 36. Hedda Sterne 37. Richard Thompson 38. Walasse Ting 39. Francesc Torres 40. George Trakas 41. Jesse Trevino 42. Jakc Tworkov 43. Igor Tulipanov 44. Urry 45. Lorenzo Villacorta 46. Andy Warhol 47. Arthur Fellig Weegee

Box 5 1. Misc. 2. Ruth Weisberg 3. Katherine Williams 4. Fumio Yoshimura 5. Ossip Zadkine 6. Malchen Zeldis 7. Karl Zerbe 8. Antonio Frasconi 9. Andrew Kertesz 10. Pablo Cano 11. Rafael Ferrer 12. Luis Jimenez 13. Jiro Naito 14. Mario Algaze

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15. Luis Cruz Azaceta

Box 6 1. Komar-Melmio 2. Joshua Neustein 3. Kuryluk 4. Naul Ojeda 5. Nam June Paik 6. Lucio Pozzi 7. Guileermo Pulido 8. Unknown 9. Jochen Seidel 10. John Stockdale 11. Athena Tacha 12. Masami Teraoka 13. Cesar Trasobares

Box 7: 1. Judy Baca: The Great Wall of LA 2. Royal Chicano Air Force 3. New York 4. Afghanistan Refugees 5. Africa 6. Asian-American Artists (general) 7. Asian-Americans 8. Chinese 9. Japanese 10. Southeast Asia 11. Vietnam: “The World Left Behind” 12. Cuban Artists 13. Cuban-American Experience 14. Cuba: “The World Left Behind” 15. Cubans: “The New Americans” 16. England: “The World Left Behind” 17. English immigrant artists 18. Haitians 19. Haitian Artists 20. Hispanic immigrants 21. Mexican-Americans: “The New Americans” 22. Mexican

Newspaper clippings, 1960s-1980s Box 8: 1. Lito Cavalcante

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2. Christo (3 folders) 3. Questionnaires 4. Shigeko Kubota 5. Arman 6. Siah Armajani 7. Sonia Balassanian 8. Zigi Ben-Haim 9. Fragonard 10. Daniel Chester French 11. El Greco 12. Fantin-Latour 13. Gabo 14. Gaudier-Brzeska 15. Giacometti

Box 9: 1. Dina Dar 2. Rimma and Valery Gerlouin 3. Juan Gonzalez 4. Mindy Wiesel 5. Yamagushi 6. Patrick Ireland 7. H.N. Han 8. Lido Cavalcante 9. Alain Kirili

Box 10: 1. Lido Cavalcante 2. Nam June Paik 3. Derek Boshier 4. Skunder Boghossian 5. Giotto 6. Calder 7. Canaletto 8. Canova 9. Carles 10. Cassatt 11. Cellini 12. Cezanne 13. Chagall 14. Christo 15. Anshutz 16. Gleizes

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17. Van Gogh 18. Goldberg 19. Golfinopoulos 20. Gorky 21. Gottlieb 22. Goya 23. Greenough 24. Grosz 25. Gussow 26. Gwathmey 27. Harnett 28. Fred Sommer 29. Agam 30. Agostini 31. Albers 32. Bacon 33. Baizerman 34. Barye 35. Baskin 36. Bellows 37. Bonton 38. Bernini 39. Benton 40. Max Bill 41. Bissier 42. Brancusi 43. Bourgeois 44. Alexander Brook 45. Burford 46. Frederick Church 47. Chryssa 48. Clodion 49. Coleman 50. Cyril Connolly 51. Corinth 52. Cornell 53. Cremean 54. Dali 55. Daubigny 56. Daugherty 57. Daumier 58. A.B. Davies

Box 11

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1. Stuart Davis 2. Lindsey Decker 3. Degas 4. Derivera 5. Diebenkorn 6. Di Suvero 7. DuBois 8. DuBuffett 9. Duchamp 10. Arp 11. Auerbach-Levy 12. Avery 13. Hopper 14. Horwitt 15. Ipousteguy 16. Margaret Israel 17. Jenkins 18. Johns 19. Kadishman 20. Kandinsky 21. Kent 22. Kerkam, Earl 23. Kahnna 24. Klee 25. Kline 26. Kohn 27. Kokoschka 28. Landfield 29. Lardera 30. Lassaw 31. Laurent 32. Jacob Lawrence 33. Isadore Levy 34. Eakins 35. Eilshemius 36. Epstein 37. Noguchi 38. O’Keefe 39. Orr 40. Padovano 41. Picasso 42. Pierluca 43. Polaack 44. Pomodoro

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45. Hartley 46. Hassam 47. Henri 48. Hepworth 49. Hofmann 50. Lichtenstein 51. Lippold 52. Luks 53. Macdonald-Wright 54. Magritte 55. Ray Man

Box 12 1. Yves Tanguy 2. Miscellaneous scraps of folders and copyprints, The Unknown War

Box 13 1. Manship 2. Manzu 3. Marini 4. Marisol 5. Maurer 6. Michelangelo 7. Minsky 8. Miro 9. Modiglinai 10. Mondrian 11. Monet 12. Moore 13. Morandi 14. Motherwell 15. Munch 16. Myers, Jerome 17. Nadelman 18. Nevelson 19. Newman 20. Nivola 21. Rodin 22. Rogers, John 23. Rosso 24. Rouault 25. Rousseau, Henri 26. Rubens

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27. Ryder 28. Sander 29. Schamberg 30. Schoffer 31. Schwitters 32. Shahn 33. Siquerios 34. Siskind 35. Sloan 36. Sprinchorn 37. David Smith 38. Tony Smith 39. Soyer, Moses 40. Stieglitz 41. Stella, Joseph 42. Still 43. Storrs 44. Thompson, Bob 45. Torres-Garcia 46. Tovish 47. Trajan 48. Troubetskoy 49. Trumbull 50. Turner 51. Twachtman 52. Ulrich 53. Vasarely 54. Da Vinci 55. Voulkos 56. Vuillard 57. Warhol 58. Weber, Hugo 59. Weber 60. Webster 61. Weir 62. West, Benjamin 63. Whistler 64. Wingate, Arline 65. Wood, Grant 66. Wyeth 67. Zorach 68. Zajac 69. Remington 70. Renoir

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71. George Rickey 72. Rivers 73. Robinson, Theodore 74. Porter, David 75. Fairfield Porter 76. Redon 77. Rembrandt

Box 14 1. Folders of images of exhibits, unknown 2. Empty envelopes and folders 3. Hague 4. Art of the Holocaust 5. Gropper 6. Christo

Box 15 1. Immigrant artists/American experience 2. Arnold Friedmann—McCabe MA thesis, research (5 folders)

Box 16 1. Arnold Friedmann—McCabe MA thesis, research 2. Arnold Friedmann—bibliography cards 3. Arnold Friedmann—catalogues 4. Arnold Friedmann—Glenn Coleman 5. Arnold Friedmann—undergraduate thesis 6. Arnold Friedmann—misc. research (5 folders)

Box 17 1. Small metal briefcase, formerly held Varian Fry exhibit slides created by McCabe

Box 18 1. Correspondence—McCabe, with ERC clients and workers 2. Exhibition plan 3. Handwritten notes 4. Photo Identifications 5. Exhibition outline 6. “Wanted by the : Saved by America” article 7. Dissertation proposal, 1983 8. Dissertation outline drafts 9. Exhibition notes 10. Toby Quitslund, “Un Hero Legendaire”

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Box 19 1. VF photos—inventory 2. “The New Americans”—Jewish 3. “The New Americans”—Italian 4. Italian Immigrants 5. Italian-American Artist 6. Latin American Artists 7. Middle East 8. Mid-East Artists 9. Salvadoran Exodus 10. Polish-American Artists 11. Polish Immigration 12. Wall 13. “The New Americans”—Puerto Rico 14. Puerto Rico 15. Soviet Union 16. Soviet Defection 17. Soviet Artists 18. US Immigration and Naturalization Service—general immigrant experience (1970s)

Box 20 1. CJM—Personal 2. Misc. Exhibition catalogs 3. Unidentified

Box 21 1. Immigrant artists—photo negs of articles 2. CJM personal—Zachary McCabe 3. Immigrant artists: Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies 4. Immigrant artists: bios 5. Immigrant artists—exhibition 6. Immigrant artists: catalogues 7. Immigrant artists—clippings (2 folders)

Box 22 1. “The Muses Flee Hitler” colloquium brochure, 1980 (6 copies) 2. Photographic prints of colloquium 3. Artwork: “Golden Door”—immigrants 4. Green binder of articles on immigrants and immigration (clippings ca. mid-1970s)

Box 23 1. Immigrant settlement in the United States

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2. Balch, travel 1982 3. Early proposals 4. Immigrant experience—general files 5. Florida 6. Immigration legislation 7. “The Golden Door” 8. “The new Americans”—General 9. “The New Americans”—specific 10. “The New Americans”—Depression 11. “The New Americans”—The ‘American Way’ viewed by immigrants 12. “The New Americans”—Communication problems 13. “The New Americans”—Self-portraits 14. “The New Americans”—view the American landscape 15. Statue of Liberty 16. Visual Themes

Box 24 1. 1967 2. 1966 3. 1965 4. 1963 5. 1946 6. 1959 7. 1945 8. 1944 9. 1943 10. 1941 11. 1940 12. Undated 13. CJM correspondence, 2 copies of the Ministry of the Interior 14. Varian Fry manuscript (partial)

Box 25 1. Misc. clippings and correspondence 2. Bibliography 3. Muses: program

Box 26 1. Varian Fry photographs (originals, copyprints, photocopies) 2. Villa Air Bel (originals, copyprints, photocopies) 3. ERC photos in offices (originals, copyprints, photocopies) 4. Misc. and unidentified photos (originals, copyprints, photocopies) 5. Misc. photos (originals, copyprints, photocopies)

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Box 27 1. Chagall, Marc 2. Duchamp, Marcel 3. Lipchitz, Jacques 4. Matisse, Henri 5. Ernst, Max 6. Surrealist exhibitions in New York, 1942 7. Chapter on

Subject files, mainly clippings Box 28 1. Surrealists 2. General Research-secondary sources 3. Les Jeux de Marscille/Surrealism, an Interview with Jacques Heiod 4. Tarot of 5. Boyle, Kay (Air Bel visitor) 6. Saturday Evening Post story 11/21/42 “frenchman’s Ship” by Kay Boyle 7. Feingold, “The Politics of Rescue 8. Guggenheim, Peggy 9. Refugee Ships 10. Research Articles 11. French Internment/Transit camps 12. Maps 13. Marseilles-New York book, Edmund van Gider, US 14. Number of Refugees 15. Emigres, Notable 16. Jewish names list 17. Reivew of “Berlin Alexanderplatz” May 7, 1984 18. “Art in the Third Reich”—Alfred Barr Jr. Review, 1933 19. “Australia and the ” Sydney Sun, July 21, 1945 20. Muses Flee Hitler: Correspondence, Clippings 21. Levi-Strauss, Claude 22. Cynthai Jaffee McCabe artists research 23. France-liberation purge of Nazis 24. A. MacLeish article 11/14/1942 “America’s Duty to French Culture”

Box 29 1. Arendt, Hannah 2. Bernhard, George 3. Brauner, Victor

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4. Breton, Andre 5. Breton, 6. Feuchtwanger, Lion 7. Fischmann, Lena 8. Habe, Hans 9. Heilbut, Ivan 10. Helim, Jean 11. Frucht, Karl 12. Kottler, Camille 13. Koffler, Leo 14. Lam, Wifredo 15. Landowska, Wanda 16. Langendorf, Ernst 17. Mann, Heinrich 18. Masson, Andre 19. Mehring, Walter 20. Namuth, Hans 21. Natonek, Hans 22. Oppenheimer, Max 23. Pachter, Henry 24. Pauli, Herta 25. Reder, Bernard 26. Sachs, Nelly 27. Sahl, Hans 28. Serge, Victor 29. Spiro, Eugene 30. Varo 31. Verzeano, Marcel 32. Werfel, Alma 33. Werfel, Franz 34. Wolff, Kurt 35. Obituaries of clients 36. French artists in America, May/June 1942

Box 30 1. ERC—artwork 2. ERC and Varian Fry—excerpt of article by Jean Malaquais 3. ERC—manuscript (partial) by Fry assoc. 4. ERC photos (bad copies) 5. Klaus Barbie 6. Book Burnings 7. Box/Folder inventories: (seems to just be pull slips for McCabe) 8. Barr, Alfred 9. Manuscript: Fry

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10. French culture—wartime 11. Matisse, Henri 12. Miro 13. Schmierer, Paul 14. History of the ERC 15. Vierny, Dina 16. “international League for the Rights of Men and the new Democracy” 17. Articles about Varian Fry 18. Immigrant Artists (non-ERC) 19. Varian Fry articles (source unknown) 20. Lectures, Promotion, post-France 21. Lipschutz letter to Fry’s widow, 9/22/67 22. Fry biography (partial 23. New York Times quotes Fry in Berlin, July 7, 1935 24. Miscellaneous: Varian Fry related articles 25. Wouk, HermanHarvard Advocate, 1934 26. IRRC—promotion 27. Arendt, Hannah “For Love of the World” excerpts 28. Mary Jane Gold 29. Mann, Thomas 30. Maillol, Aristide 31. Hirschmann, Albert O. 32. Thompson, Dorothy 33. Reviews of Surrender on Demand 34. Varian Fry obituaries

Box 31 1. Unpublished forward by Fry to Surrender on Demand 2. ERC: Clippings 3. ERC: artists, refugees, US 4. ERC: administrative files, reports 5. Varian Fry: articles in the New Leader: April-May 1942 6. ERC visa requests 7. VF article “What has Happened to Them Since” in Publishers Weekly, June 23, 1945 8. Fry resume 1942 9. American Friends of German Freedom 10. ERC associates—lists 11. ERC—Pyrenees escape route 12. Vichy declarations and regulations 13. V. Fry arrests and detention 14. The Muses Flee Hitler symposium, DC, 1983 15. Daniel Benedite 16. ERC promotional material 17. Max Ernst

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18. Miscellaneous 19. Capa, Robertg 20. Boss, Homer 21. To be translated 22. Walkowitz 23. Varian Fry articles in 24. Arnold Schoenberg 25. Documents removed from other folders in 2001 (post-war naturalization paperwork for Hans Richter)

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