http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3g50355c No online items Finding aid for the Julius S. Held papers, ca. 1921-1999 Isabella Zuralski. Finding aid for the Julius S. Held 990056 1 papers, ca. 1921-1999 Descriptive Summary Title: Julius S. Held papers Date (inclusive): ca. 1918-1999 Number: 990056 Creator/Collector: Held, Julius S (Julius Samuel) Physical Description: 168 box(es)(ca. 70 lin. ft.) Repository: The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 [email protected] URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390 Abstract: Research papers of Julius Samuel Held, American art historian renowned for his scholarship in 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, expert on Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. The ca. 70 linear feet of material, dating from the mid-1920s to 1999, includes correspondence, research material for Held's writings and his teaching and lecturing activities, with extensive travel notes. Well documented is Held's advisory role in building the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. A significant portion of the ca. 29 linear feet of study photographs documents Flemish and Dutch artists from the 15th to the 17th century. Request Materials: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record for this collection. Click here for the access policy . Language: Collection material is in English Biographical / Historical Note The art historian Julius Samuel Held is considered one of the foremost authorities on the works of Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. His advice was sought by other art history scholars, private collectors, dealers, museums, and auction houses in the United States and abroad. For many years his opinion was the final word in matters of attribution of artworks in his field of expertise. Held was born in 1905 in Mosbach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died in 2002 in Bennington, Vermont. He was married to Ingrid-Märta Pettersson (1905-1986), an art conservator, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Held studied art history at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Vienna, and Freiburg. In 1930 he obtained his Ph.D. from the university of Freiburg under Hans Jantzen, writing on Dürer. In 1931 he became assistant to Max Friedländer at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. In 1934 Held fled Nazi Germany to the United States and became a U.S. citizen in 1940. Held began his academic career in 1935 as a lecturer in art history at the New York University. In 1937 he was hired as a lecturer at Barnard College, Columbia University, where he was appointed assistant professor in 1944, advanced to associate professor in 1950, full professor in 1954, and served as chairman of the Art History Department from 1967 to 1970. In 1971 Held retired from Barnard College and moved from New York to Bennington,Vermont, where he continued to teach for ten years as Clark Professor of Art in the graduate program for art history at Williams College, and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Held also lectured at other institutions: as Carnegie Lecturer from 1936 to 1937 at the National Gallery in Ottawa, visiting lecturer from 1943 to 1944 at Bryn Mawr College, visiting professor from 1946 to 1947 at the New School for Social Research, visiting professor in 1954 and 1958 at Yale University, lecturer with the American College Council for Summer Study Abroad in 1957, and Andrew W. Mellon visiting professor at University of Pittsburgh from 1972 to 1973. He also served as academic advisor at Marlboro College from 1965 to 1980, and as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1967. During the 1950s Held was asked by Luis Ferré, the Governor of Puerto Rico, to advise the new art museum in Ponce. His participation in the selection and acquisition of important European works of art elevated the museum to world recognition. Held published extensively. Among his most significant and influential works are Rubens in America (with Jan-Albert Goris, 1947), Rubens, selected drawings (1959), Rembrandt's Aristotle and other Rembrandt studies (1969), 17th and 18th century art (with Donald Posner, 1971), and Rembrandt studies (1991). At the age of 75 Held issued his landmark study, the two-volume critical catalog Oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens (1980). Finding aid for the Julius S. Held 990056 2 papers, ca. 1921-1999 Held's classical education influenced his approach to art history. At the time when the discipline was favoring iconography and other more "empirical" methods of study, Held maintained the primacy of connoisseurship as one of the tools of the art historian. Held was also actively engaged in matters related to the memory of the Jewish Holocaust. In 1988 he was instrumental in creating a memorial to his boyhood synagogue in Mosbach, destroyed during Kristallnacht. Access Open for use by qualified researchers. Publication Rights Contact Library Rights and Reproductions . Preferred Citation Julius S. Held papers, ca. 1918-1999, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession number 990056. http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa990056 Acquisition Information Acquired by the repository in 1999 from Julius Held. Some letters and Held's library list were received in 2003 from Held's family. Seven boxes of Held material were received from the National Gallery in late 2004. Processing History The collection was rehoused in 1999. An index to the collection was made available in the Getty Research Institute's research files. Between 2001-2004, Isabella Zuralski processed the collection and wrote this finding aid. A few items (letters, a copy of Held's library catalog) were received in 2003 from the Held estate; these were integrated into the archive. Seven boxes of papers received in 2004 have not yet been processed. Related Archival Materials Microfilm of Held's correspondence with Leonard Baskin, Saul Baizerman, and J. Paul Getty is available at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: Julius Samuel Held papers concerning Saul Baizerman and Leonard Baskin, 1947-1976 , Inv. no. 20560. In 2002, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. acquired Julius Held's collection of rare books. Many of the books were collected for their illustrations by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Albrecht Dürer, and Anthony van Dyck. The collection comprises ca. 280 volumes. Separated Materials 22 publications, including 16 monographs, 5 issues of various periodicals, and 1 auction catalog have been transferred to the Getty Research Institute's Research Library. Archives of American Art journal. [New York, N.Y.] : The Archives, c1971-. Vol. 21, no. 1 (1981)Baldwin-Wallace College. The Cosla collection presented by Badwin Wallace College. [Berea, Ohio : The College, 19--]C.G. Boerner (Firm) Ausstellung A. Ostade. Düsseldorf : C.G. Boerner, [1960]Charlton, John, 1909- The Banqueting House Whitehall / John Charlton. [London] : H.M. Stationary Off., c1964.Detroit Institute of Arts. Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of the City of Detroit. [Detroit, Mich.] : The Institute, Vol. 24, no. 2 (1944)Held, Julius Samuel, 1905- The Holocaust, from a distance / by Julius S. Held. University Park, PA : Jewish Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, c1997. Humbert de Superville, David Pierre Giottino, 1770-1849. David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville : virtuose et savant (1770-1849). [France : s.n., 1998]Junius,Hadrianus, 1511-1575. Hadrani Ivnii medici emblemata. Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1565. 1969 reprint. Master drawings : people and animals through five centuries. [New York : Herbert E. Feist, 1971] Methuen, paul Ayshford Methuen, Baron, b. 1886. An historical account of Corsham Court : the Methuen collection of pictures and the furniture in the state rooms / by Lord Methuen. [Corsham, England] : Corsham Estate, 1971. Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie. Bulletin du Musée national de Varsovie. Varsovie : Le Musée, Vol. 7, no. 3 (1966) Nieuwsbrief. Den Haag : Mauritshuis, jaarg. 5, nr. 2 (1992) The Parcae : two marble busts by Michaelangelo for the tomb of Julius II. New York, N.Y. : Paul Rosenberg & Co., [1980]Ponce Art Museum. El Museo de Arte de Ponce / texto, ilustraciones y presentación de René Taylor. [Ponce, Puerto Rico : Fundación Luis A. Ferré, 196-]Ponce Art Museum. Inauguración del Museo de Arte de Ponce : Fundación Luis A. Ferré. [Ponce, Puerto Rico] : El Museo, 1965.Ponce Art Museum. Nineteenth century paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, Fundación Luis A. Ferré / an exhibition organized by Hayden Gallery Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 17-June 8, 1974. [Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Committee on the Visual Arts, 1974]Ponce Art Museum. Museo de Arte de Ponce. [Ponce, Puerto Rico] : El Museo, [1990?]Price, Frederic Newlin. Edward Hicks 1780-1849. [Swarthmore, Pa.] : Benjamin West Society, Swarthmore College, c1945.Robinson, Franklin Westcott. Gabriel Metsu, the letter. San Diego, Calif. : Timken Art Gallery, c1985. El Sol. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico : Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, Abril 15, 1966Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. Old master paintings from the collection of Thomas J. Finding aid for the Julius S. Held 990056 3 papers, ca. 1921-1999 Bryan (1802-1870). New York : Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1971.United States. Secret Service. Know your money. Washington : United States. Secret Service, Treasury Dept., 1946. Scope and Content of Collection The Julius S. Held papers constitute a comprehensive archive of a preeminent American art historian renowned for his scholarship in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. More then 70 linear feet of material, dating from the mid 1920s to 1999, provides access to a broad and detailed study of Held's professional life, his scholarly development, and his working methods. Ca. 27 linear feet comprises correspondence, of which the predominant portion constitutes correspondence with distinguished art historians and other scholars.