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The Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Collection http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4c6004f0 No online items INVENTORY OF THE JOSEPH A. BAIRD, JR. COLLECTION Processed by Pamela Pearl Wilson; machine-readable finding aid created by Jim Sylva Department of Special Collections General Library University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616-5292 Phone: (530) 752-1621 Fax: (530) 754-5758 Email: [email protected] © 2001 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. INVENTORY OF THE JOSEPH A. D-231 1 BAIRD, JR. COLLECTION INVENTORY OF THE JOSEPH A. BAIRD, JR. COLLECTION Collection number: D-231 Department of Special Collections General Library University of California, Davis Davis, California Contact Information Department of Special Collections General Library University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616-5292 Phone: (530) 752-1621 Fax: (530) 754-5758 Email: [email protected] Processed by: Pamela Pearl Wilson Date Completed: December 1995 Encoded by: Jim Sylva © 2001 Descriptive Summary Title: The Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Collection Date (inclusive): 1977-1992 Collection number: D-231 Origination: Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Extent: 46 linear feet in 45 archives boxes and 2 folio boxes. Repository: University of California, Davis. General Library. Dept. of Special Collections. Davis, California Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Department. Language: English. Provenance Purchase of the Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Collection was made possible by the University of California Systemwide Shared Purchase Program. The collection was deposited in the Special Collections Department, Shields Library, in 1977. Upon the suggestion of Dr. Baird, the research files of Dr. Elliot Evans were acquired and added to the collection in 1978. Additional materials were added in the form of donations and purchases since that time and supplemental files from Dr. Baird were also interfiled into the collection. Following the death of Dr. Baird in 1992, the collection was closed, rearranged, and reindexed. Twenty monographs were extracted from the collection and cataloged for the Rare Books section of the Special Collections Department. Two monographs were similarly extracted and cataloged for the Main Library stacks. Also, thirteen serial publications were extracted and added to the Main Library's holdings as needed. The Clyde F. Trudell Collection was extracted and given its own collection number, D-24. Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights INVENTORY OF THE JOSEPH A. D-231 2 BAIRD, JR. COLLECTION The Library can only claim physical ownership of the Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property. Preferred Citation The Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Collection, D-231, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis. Biography Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr. was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. He began his studies in art history at Oberlin College where he received a bachelor's degree and then attended Harvard University where he first earned a master's degree and finally a doctorate in art and architectural history in 1951. He taught at the University of Toronto (1949-1953) before coming to Davis in 1953. Beginning as a lecturer in the Art Department, he retired as a full professor of fine arts in 1985. He continued to work as a consultant and art appraiser until his death in 1992. From 1962-1963 and 1967-1970, he was curator and art consultant to the California Historical Society. Traveling widely, he also taught at other institutions, including a visiting professorship at the University of Mexico under the auspices of the U.S. State Department. He was the founder and long-time owner of The North Point Gallery in San Francisco, which specialized in master works by American artists and rare historical photographs, until it was sold in 1985. While he was teaching at Davis, he helped develop art history programs, organize exhibitions, and develop the art collection on campus. Art and Book Dealers, Galleries, Historical Societies, Libraries, Museums and Other Related Institutions in the Bay Area and Nearby. 1962 Time's Wondrous Changes: San Francisco Architecture, 1776-1915.1962 The Churches of Mexico, 1530-1810.1962 Historic Lithographs of San Francisco.1972 The West Remembered: Artists and Images, 1837 -1973.1973 Northern California Art: An Interpretive Bibliography to 1915.1977 Scope And Content This collection contains biographical information pertaining to primarily northern California artists and architects of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Research notes for two of Dr. Baird's publications, Catalogue of Original Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors in the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection (1968) and Historic Lithographs of San Francisco (1972), offer additional biographical and art historical information. His unpublished catalog on the prints in the Honeyman Collection at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley is also included. Extensive card files on individual California artists, compiled by both Dr. Baird and Dr. Evans, have been combined to document many minor artists. In addition, copies of the file cards from the Ferdinand Perret Research Library of the Arts and Affiliated Sciences, now owned by the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, offers another source of information on California artists. These cards contain biographical facts and selected titles of works and provenance of artists who were born in and/or worked in California in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emphasis is on southern California artists of the early twentieth century, although many northern California figures are also included. A large catalog collection documents the more important exhibitions of California art. These exhibition catalogs are a source of biographical data, photographs, and bibliographies of California artists. Information on particular aspects of California art have been included in the subject files. The subject files contain a collection of essays and articles on California art, several bibliographic files which include a bibliography of California architecture, the West and Western art, and printmaking in California. The California architecture files include Historic American Buildings Surveys reports, architectural photographs, on-site notations and maps, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and catalogs relating to specific public and private buildings. Also, included are detailed content surveys of The California Architect & Building News for the years 1879 to 1900 prepared by Dr. Baird's students. Information about several private collections is also included in this collection. The collection is lacking in materials on modern artists, photographers, and sculptors. The Archives of American Art, a bureau of the Smithsonian Institute, has a west coast area center in San Francisco which includes primary source material on California art and artists. INVENTORY OF THE JOSEPH A. D-231 3 BAIRD, JR. COLLECTION SERIES 1: Artists and Architects of California. Boxes 1-20, SERIES 1: Artists and Architects of California. 46-47. Scope and Content Note Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by artist or architect. Research notes, personal correspondence, biographical information, catalogs, brochures, flyers, monographs, photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, and bibliographic citations. Also included are the scrapbook pages made by Maude T. Pook and other Sacramento women interested in promoting the arts. Boxes 20-21. SERIES 2: Ferdinand Perret Files. Scope and Content Note Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by artist or architect. Biographical facts, selected titles of works, and provenance. Boxes 22-30, 47. SERIES 3: Subject Files. Scope and Content Note Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by subject. California places and/or events, associations, museums, artists organizations, California architecture, and information on private collections. Research notes, catalogs, brochures, flyers, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, essays, booklets, and photographs. Boxes 31-39, 46. SERIES 4: Exhibit and Dealer Catalogs. Scope and Content Note Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by state, city, institute, and date. Flyers are rough sorted alphabetically by name. Catalogs of art exhibits and art exhibit flyers, exposition catalogs, art institute publications, and gallery exhibit and dealer's sales catalogs. Boxes 39-40, 47. SERIES 5: Serials. Scope and Content Note Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by title. Annual reports, bulletins, journals, calendars, membership lists, and yearbooks. Boxes 40-42. SERIES 6: Other's Works. Scope and Content Note Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by title (author's name or art class number?). Student papers and class publications, masters thesis and thesis projects. Boxes 42-45. SERIES 7: Dr. Joseph A. Baird, Jr.'s Works. Scope and Content Note Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by title. Research notes, editorial materials, journal articles, introduction to other's works, chapters in monographs or serials, North Point Gallery publications, and Crocker Art Gallery Centennial research papers written by Dr. Baird. INVENTORY OF THE JOSEPH A. D-231 4 BAIRD, JR. COLLECTION Container List Box 1 Box 1, Folder 1 Creator/Collector: Abdy, Rowena Meeks Notes: 10 pp. notes, prints of artwork Box 1, Folder 2 Creator/Collector: Adam, William Notes: 2 notecards, 5 pp. notes
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