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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: United States 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 Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse, in and around Villa Air Bel, the Emergency Rescue Committee offices in Marseille, 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 Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts and other materials related to other projects.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

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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

Smithsonian Institution, 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 the Holocaust. 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 Gestapo: 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. Berlin 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 Max Ernst

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 Marseilles

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 consul

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 Jews” 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, Jacqueline Lamba

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: Columbia University (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 the New Republic

24. Arnold Schoenberg

25. Documents removed from other folders in 2001 (post-war naturalization paperwork for Hans

Richter)