Thomas Weston Fels (AC 1967) Papers
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Fels, Thomas Weston
Biographical History for: Thomas Weston Fels (AC 1967) Papers
Biographical Note Thomas Weston Fels (AC 1967) is an art historian, curator and writer specializing in American culture, photography and art. Born in Baltimore, MD in 1946, Fels attended The Putney School in Vermont before enrolling at Amherst College. He was part of a group of Amherst College alumni and others who established and lived on a communal farm in Montague, Massachusetts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He attended the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, earning his MA in 1984. Since 2005, Fels' research and writing has focused on the era of the 1960s, including the founding of the Famous Long Ago archives at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Fels resides in southern Vermont, and is active in arts programming locally and beyond. Thomas Weston Fels has worked as consultant and curator to a number of museums, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum at the Southern Vermont Arts Center. In 1986 he was named a Chester Dale Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 1998-1999, he was a Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow of the Huntington Library in California. Among the numerous exhibitions he has organized are presentations of the work of the photographers Eadweard Muybridge, and A. J. Russell. His exhibition Carleton Watkins: Western Landscape and the Classical Vision was presented at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1990. Fire and Ice: Treasures from the Photograph Collection of Frederic Church at Olana, was shown at the Dahesh Museum, in New York, and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Its companion volume, published by Cornell University Press in 2002, was nominated for numerous awards. Fels is the author of many other catalogs and articles, including O Say Can You See: American Photographs 1839-1939 (MIT Press and the Berkshire Museum, 1989), Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, 1849-1950 (Roberts Rinehart Publishers and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992), Sotheby's Guide to Photographs (H. Holt, 1998), and Farm Friends (RSI Press, 2008). He has given public lectures at the Boston Athenaeum, the Addison Gallery, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. See Appendix A for a list of Fels' exhibitions, projects, and publications.
The material in this collection was gathered and maintained by Thomas Weston Fels. The collection was gifted to the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections in 2009-2011 and is ongoing.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Thomas Weston Fels Papers document the professional activities of Thomas Weston Fels (AC 1967), including research, writing, correspondence, and exhibition planning documents and notes from throughout his professional education and career as a curator and writer. Also included are materials relating to Fels' book Farm Friends: From the late sixties to the west seventies and beyond, which chronicles his life on a communal farm in Montague, Massachusetts in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and follows the lives and activities of selected farm members.
Some series and subseries of the Thomas Weston Fels Papers are temporarily restricted for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes
Requests for permission to publish material from the Thomas Weston Fels Papers should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Published material in the collection may be subject to copyright restrictions.
The Marshall Bloom (AC 1966) Papers at Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, and the Famous Long Ago Archive founded by Fels at the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst contain materials related to the Montague Farm and its residents.Curatorial Office Records of Thomas Weston Fels, 1994-1996, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.Thomas Weston Fels, Carleton Watkins: Photographer (Williamstown, MA: Williams College/Clark Art Institute, 1983).Robert J. Phelan and Thomas Weston Fels, (Organised, and with essays by), Eadweard Muybridge. Animal Locomotion. Images from the Philadelphia years 1885-1985 (University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, 1985).Thomas Weston Fels (edited, and with an afterword by), Thomas Hart Benton, Frank Lloyd Wright : a transcript of the addresses and exchanges between Frank Lloyd Wright & Thomas Hart Benton, Providence, Rhode Island, November 11, 1932 (Williamstown, Mass.: Williams College Museum of Art, 1985). Fels, Thomas Weston. Destruction and Destiny: the Photographs of A.J. Russell; Directing American Energy in War and Peace, 1862-1869. (Pittsfield, Mass.: Berkshire Museum, 1987).Fels, Thomas Weston. O Say Can You See: American Photographs, 1839-1939: One Hundred Years of American Photography from the Collection of George R. Rinhart. (Berkshire Museum and MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 1989).Fels, Thomas Weston. Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, 1849-1950. Santa Barbara, Calif: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992.Thomas Fels (essay), Kevin Avery (introduction). Fire and Ice: Treasures from the Photographic Collection of Frederic Church at Olana. (New York: Dahesh Museum of Art; Ithaca [N.Y.]: Cornell University Press, 2002).Fels, Thomas Weston. Farm Friends: from the late sixties to the west seventies and beyond (North Bennington, Vt.: RSI Press, c2008).See Appendix A for a fuller list of Fels' publications.
Processed in 2011-2012 by Sara Smith, Archives and Special Collections Specialist; Christina Barbour, graduate student intern, Simmons College; and Lauren Delapenha (AC 2014), Student Assistant.
Art and photography
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Art historians
Art museum curators
Communal living -- Massachusetts -- Montague
Counterculture--United States--History--20th century
Nineteen Sixties
Photography--Exhibitions
Photography--United States
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Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Williams College Museum of Art
Famous Long Ago archive
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Studies in the history of art (Williamstown, Mass.)
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series
Series 1: PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS [1987-2006]
Series 1 contains notes, research, correspondence, architectural sketches, and press releases relating to Fels' work as curator of art exhibitions and projects, including proposals and completed projects and programs.
Saratoga Museum - folklife and oral history project 1984
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center - correspondence and notes 1984
Modern Art of the Print exhibition - exhibition installation photographs and publicity 1984
Carleton Watkins - audiocassettes (2) 1983
Carleton Watkins - research - California History Magazine 1978-1981
Carleton Watkins - "Photographer" - publication 1984
Carleton Watkins - research - other exhibitions n.d
Photography and Art History Symposium - notes 1990
Photography and Art History Symposium - notes, correspondence 1989-1990
Photography and Art History Symposium - Helene Roberts article and correspondence (1 of 2 folders) 1988-1990
Photography and Art History Symposium - Helene Roberts - keynote address and "Saturday A.M. discussion" - audiocassette [1990]
Photography and Art History Symposium - "Saturday A.M. discussion" continued - audiocassette [1990]
Photography and Art History Symposium - Ralph Lieberman lecture - audiocassette [1990]
Photography and Art History Symposium - report 1990
Photography and Art History Symposium - notes, correspondence, papers presented 1990
Photography and Art History Symposium - Samuel Butler exhibition - articles 1989-1990
Photography and Art History Symposium - Samuel Butler exhibition - notes, text, gallery layout 1989-1990
Samuel Butler exhibition - Bolton Museum and Gallery - correspondence 1989-1990
Samuel Butler exhibition -Bolton Museum and Gallery - exhibition catalogs 1986-1990
Paul Katz - materials and correspondence 1985, 1996
Correspondence with MIT program in Science, Technology, and Society 1991
Correspondence with Print Collector's Newsletter (Jackie Brody) 1985-1989
Mass MoCA - From Mill to Museum exhibition and lecture - notes and publicity 1989
Carleton Watkins - Getty Museum exhibition 1990
Lands Wide Open exhibition - Williams College Museum of Art 1992
Miscellaneous projects, proposals, correspondence 1983-1992
Views: The Journal of Photography in New England, volume 4:3-5:1 1983
Á La Pintura / Art and Invention exhibition - Bennington College 1994
Miscellaneous projects, proposals, correspondence 1992-1999
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion exhibition 1985
Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition and catalog 1984-1985
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog research, notes, text 1985
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog notes and text 1984-1985
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - financial 1985
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog images ca. 1985
Eadweard Muybridge - illustrations and negatives - Williams College n.d.
Eadweard Muybridge - Robert B. Haas correspondence 1985
Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition - frame measurements n.d.
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - photographic negatives ca. 1985
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog final publication 1985
Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition - publicity and lecture notes 1987-1988
Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition - lecture notes (cards) 1987-1988
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition, catalog, lecture - correspondence and notes 1987-1988
Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition and lecture - notes and research 1984-1987
Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition and catalog - correspondence, notes 1983
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - correspondence, text 1983
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog text 1983
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog text [1983]
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog -- text and notes [1983]
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - draft text [1983]
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog text - "draft 3" [1983]
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - text and notes [1983]
Carleton Watkins - exhibition research, text and correspondence 1983
Carleton Watkins - exhibition - notes (cards) ca. 1983
Carleton Watkins - prints for publication ca. 1983
Carleton Watkins - Photographer exhibition -- catalog images 1983
Carleton Watkins - Clark Art Institute exhibition - label text and installation photographs 1983
Carleton Watkins - Clark Art Institute exhibition - publicity 1983
Carleton Watkins - Clark Art Institute exhibition - George Dimock correspondence 1983
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - correspondence 1983
Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - photographs 1983
Centre Canadien d'Architecture - exhibition planning and cataloging project correspondence 1983-1991
Williamstown art articles 1984
Thomas Hart Benton - Restoration… - exhibition catalog and correspondence 1984
Thomas Hart Benton - Restoration…exhibition - planning documents and notes 1984-1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition - correspondence 1984-1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition and catalog - correspondence and plans 1985
Thomas Hart Benton -America in Transition exhibition- planning documents 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-text and planning documents 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-text and exhibition labels 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - The America Today Murals-Williams College Museum of Art exhibition catalog 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America Today exhibition-publicity 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-correspondence and publicity 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-planning documents and notes documents-photocopies 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America Today exhibition-America in the 1920s and 30s series brochure planning documents and text 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-press releases 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition- Williams College Museum of Art installation photographs 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition- Williams College Museum of Art installation contact sheets and photographic negatives 1985
Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-lecture at Albany Institute 1985
Frank Lloyd Wright / Thomas Hart Benton- draft publication text and planning documents 1985
Frank Lloyd Wright / Thomas Hart Benton- draft publication text and planning documents and notes 1985
Frank Lloyd Wright / Thomas Hart Benton- publication text 1985
Faneuil Hall - Faneuil Hall Restoration and Preservation Trust - Cradle of Liberty ca. 1989
Faneuil Hall - research, notes 1981
Faneuil Hall - research 1991-1992
Faneuil Hall - research - George P.A. Healy ca. 1991
Faneuil Hall - research and illustrations 1991
Faneuil Hall - research and illustrations 1992
Faneuil Hall - research - Daniel Webster ca. 1992
Faneuil Hall - conservation - background and treatment proposal 1991
Faneuil Hall - NEH grant and symposium - correspondence, notes 1991
Faneuil Hall - research - conferences ca. 1991
Faneuil Hall - financial - correspondence, invoice, notes 1991-1992
Faneuil Hall - symposium - notes, correspondence 1991-1992
Faneuil Hall - correspondence and research images 1992
Rube Goldberg exhibition - comics, press, clippings n.d.
Rube Goldberg exhibition - research, notes, correspondence n.d.
Rube Goldberg exhibition - research and correspondence 1986-1987
Rube Goldberg exhibition - research and notes n.d.
Rube Goldberg exhibition - research - chronology, notes n.d.
Rube Goldberg exhibition - research and notes 1987
Rube Goldberg exhibition - budget and finances 1987-1988
Rube Goldberg exhibition - notes, exhibition labels 1987
Rube Goldberg exhibition - drafts of exhibition publications 1987
Rube Goldberg exhibition - exhibition publications, press release, press clippings 1987
Rube - travelling exhibition - correspondence, notes, and labels n.d.
Rube - IBM exhibition - correspondence, notes 1987
O Say Can You See exhibition - research materials (4 folders) n.d.
O Say Can You See exhibition catalog - correspondence and notes 1988
O Say Can You See exhibition and catalog - planning 1988
O Say Can You See exhibition catalog 1988-1989
O Say Can You See exhibition catalog - "extra text" 1988-1989
O Say Can You See exhibition catalog - illustrations 1989
O Say Can You See exhibition - correspondence 1987-1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog publication (2 folders) 1988-1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - printer's proof 1989
O Say Can You See - "extra text" ca. 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition and catalog correspondence 1989
O Say Can You See - press 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition invitations 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - photographic negatives and contact sheets ca. 1989
O Say Can You See - press releases and articles 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - correspondence and promotional material 1988-1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - text ("penultimate") 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - text edit (12/1) ca. 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - text edits (11/28) ca. 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - draft text ca. 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - text edit (Fels essay) 1989
O Say Can You See - Berkshire Museum correspondence 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - images ca. 1989
O Say Can You See - notes for exhibition catalog 1988-1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition - production notes 1988
O Say Can You See - exhibition - notes 1988
O Say Can You See - exhibition - notes (cards) ca. 1988
O Say Can You See - exhibition - label text and gallery arrangement 1989
O Say Can You See - notes for Fels essay 1988
O Say Can You See - exhibition - lists of artworks 1989
O Say Can You See - exhibition - matting and framing sheets ca. 1989
O Say Can You See - Hudson Hills Press correspondence 1988-1998
O Say Can You See - exhibition at Bowdoin College Museum of Art - correspondence 1989-1990
O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - printer's proofs ca. 1989
Williams College Museum of Art - exhibition proposals and planning 1991-1992
Dartmouth College - Humanities Research Institute - correspondence 1992-1993
Paris travel and research - correspondence and notes 1996
New England Museum Association - newsletters, museum promotional materials 1997-2004
Canajoharie Annual Regional Juried Art Show 2001
Brattleboro Museum - Passages, Destinations and other exhibitions - correspondence and notes 2001
Brattleboro Museum - Vermont Artists as Travelers exhibition - correspondence and notes 2000-2002
Amsterdam travel and research - correspondence and notes 2002
Society of California Pioneers- Documenting Eden: The Wine Country Photographs of Turrill and Miller exhibition - correspondence, notes, brochure 2004
Society of California Pioneers- Documenting Eden: The Wine Country Photographs of Turrill and Miller exhibition - photographs 2004
Better Bennington Corporation 2004
Brattleboro Museum - correspondence and notes 2004-2005
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - correspondence, contracts, calendars 1989-1992
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - catalog 1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - photography collection survey and report 1990
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - notes and text 1990
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - correspondence 1990
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - slides 1990
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - magazines/research 1988-1989
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - magazines 1990-1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - publicity 1992
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - correspondence and planning documents and notes 1991-1992
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - research, notes, correspondence 1990
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - research, notes 1990
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - notes, correspondence, text 1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - draft text 1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - exhibition catalog - draft ca. 1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - notes, text, correspondence 1990
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - manuscript ca. 1990
Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - notes, correspondence, financial 1990-1991
Butcher seminar - exhibition planning documents and notes 1984
Farm Security Administration exhibition 1985
Williams College Museum of Art - correspondence and notes 1984-1985
Williams College Museum of Art 1984-1985
Correspondence with George Dimock related to Exploiting the View: Photographs of Yosemite & Mariposa 1984-1985
New England Monthly - correspondence 1984-1985
exhibition planning (various) 1984-2006
Centre Canadienne d'Architecture - exhibition planning and correspondence 1983-1986
Williams College Museum of Art - notes on photography collection 1987
Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) photography study - correspondence 1987
Clark Art Institute - correspondence 1987-1989
Centre Canadienne d'Architecture / Phyllis Lambert - correspondence and notes 1987-1995
Articles and publicity materials on the work of photojournalist Kevin McKiernan 1987-1990
A.J. Russell - Destruction and Destiny exhibition - press and catalog 1989
A.J. Russell - articles and correspondence 1982-1991
MIT Press - correspondence with David E. Nye 1989
MIT Press - notes (cards) ca. 1988
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - lecture and exhibition - correspondence and publicity 1989
Art of California Magazine - "In House" correspondence 1990
J. Paul Getty Museum and Trust - correspondence and information 1990-1998
Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center - correspondence and information 1990-1998
American Federation of Arts - proposals and planning 1992
Antiques magazine - correspondence 1992
American Graphic Arts Museum information 1992
Massachusetts Historical Society - correspondence with Chris Steele and information 1992-1993
International Center of Photography - correspondence with Ellen Handy 1994-1995
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art - correspondence, alumni magazine 1996
Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition and lecture - correspondence, notes, proposal 1996
Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition and lecture - notes, text 1996
Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition - correspondence, printed material 1996
Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition - notes (cards) 1996
Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition - publicity 1996-1999
Berkshire Museum- Classic Cities exhibition - correspondence and notes 1996-1997
Brooklyn Museum of Art - correspondence and notes 1998
Dahesh Museum- Fire and Ice exhibition - correspondence and notes 2001
Dahesh Museum- Fire and Ice exhibition - press 2002
Entourage: Exhibitions - marketing packet n.d.
Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - drafts, budget, invoices 1993-1994
Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - research n.d.
Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - correspondence, notes 1993-1994
Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - correspondence 1993
Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - pamphlets, press release, press coverage 1993-1994
Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - press 1994
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Luigi Lucioni exhibition - notes, correspondence, publication 2000
Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Art and Soul; Lucioni 2001
Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Yester Years 2001
Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Noland's Nolands 2001
Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Steichen, Scavullo 2003
Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Audubon, Bezanson 2003
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Painted Curtains - notes, research, correspondence 2003-2004
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Stieglitz exhibition - press coverage, correspondence, notes 2005
Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - After Strange Gods 1994
Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Portrait of Artists 1994
Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Yet in Memory 1994
Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Documents and Dreams 1995
Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Curator's Choice 1995
Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Old and New 1995
Clark Art Institute - exhibition proposals n.d.
Clark Art Institute - correspondence, notes 1994
Clark Art Institute - correspondence, notes 1994-1995
Clark Art Institute - correspondence, notes 1998-2000
Clark Art Institute - publications, pamphlets, news clippings 1994-1999
Clark Art Institute - The Clark Today 1996, 1999, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art - annual report 1981-1986
Williams College Museum of Art - annual report 1987-1991
Clark Art Institute - Paris travel - notes, museum brochures 1994
Clark Art Institute -Pont Aven travel - correspondence, notes, exhibition brochures 1994
Clark Art Institute - announcement of Assistant Curator position 1994-1995
Clark Art Institute - Paris travel - correspondence, notes 1995
Clark Art Institute - New York travel - notes, expenses 1995
Southern Vermont Arts Center - publications, pamphlets, photographs 2000-2003
Southern Vermont Arts Center - press coverage 2000-2003
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 1999-2000
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 2001-2002
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 2002-2003
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 2003-2004
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 2004-2005
Southern Vermont Arts Center - area guides, correspondence n.d.
Southern Vermont Arts Center - brochures, correspondence, notes 2000
Southern Vermont Arts Center - job description, contract, performance reviews 2000-2002
Southern Vermont Arts Center - invoices 2000-2001
Southern Vermont Arts Center - invoices, correspondence 2002-2003
Southern Vermont Arts Center - invoices, correspondence 2004
Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibition planning documents, notes, correspondence, news clippings 2004
Southern Vermont Arts Center - correspondence 2003-2005
Southern Vermont Arts Center - news clippings 2001-2004
Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibition research 2004
Southern Vermont Arts Center - correspondence, brochures, news clippings 2006
Clark Art Institute - notes n.d.
Clark Art Institute - exhibition schedules 1994
Clark Art Institute - annual report 1993-1994 ca.1995
Clark Art Institute - exhibition notes 1995
Clark Art Institute - collection list 1995
Clark Art Institute - collection development - notes, correspondence 1994-1995
Clark Art Institute - notes 1991-1994
Clark Art Institute - trustee presentation - notes, correspondence 1995
Clark Art Institute - collection development - research, notes 1995
Clark Art Institute - invitations 1995
Clark Art Institute - correspondence 1991-1996
Clark Art Institute - correspondence 1995-1996
Clark Art Institute - correspondence 1994-1995
Clark Art Institute - Janet and Fred Ley correspondence 1995-1996
Clark Art Institute -Michelle Chomette (photography dealer) - correspondence, brochures 1995
Clark Art Institute -Gary Edwards (photography dealer) - correspondence, invitations 1995
Clark Art Institute -Hans P. Kraus (photography dealer) - correspondence, notes 1995
Clark Art Institute - Mack Lee (photography dealer) - correspondence, notes, slides 1995
Clark Art Institute -Charles Schwartz (photography dealer) - correspondence 1995
Clark Art Institute - articles by Michael Conforti 1994
Clark Art Institute - Richard Tepe print - research, correspondence 1995
Clark Art Institute - the Equinox - correspondence, notes 1994-1995
Clark Art Institute - Emile Jellineck - correspondence, images 1995
Clark Art Institute - photography dealers - correspondence 1994-1995
Clark Art Institute - Carleton Watkins exhibition - correspondence, research 1995
Daguerreotype forum - correspondence, brochures 1995
Clark Art Institute - photography collection - correspondence, notes 1995
Clark Art Institute - photography collection - correspondence, research, notes 1995-1996
Clark Art Institute -photography collection -correspondence, notes 1993-1996
Clark Art Institute - gallery brochures n.d.
Clark Art Institute - London travel - correspondence, notes 1995
Clark Art Institute - publications - journal and report 1999-2001
Vermont Arts Exchange - notes, newsletters 1995-1997
Vermont Arts Exchange - administrative documents, notes 1994-1996
Vermont Arts Exchange - Shea Mill project 1993
Vermont Arts Exchange - Sage Mill project 1995
Vermont Arts Exchange - correspondence 1997
Elm Street Arts - notes, news clippings 1993-1994
Elm Street Arts - meeting minutes, administrative documents, finances 1993
Elm Street Arts - correspondence, invitations, news clippings 1993-1995
Vermont Council on the Arts - annual reports 1994-1995
Vermont Council on the Arts - correspondence 1993-1996
Fire and Ice - exhibition proposal and research 2001
Fire and Ice - Dahesh Museum of Art - publications, press clippings 2002-2003
Fire and Ice exhibition - press coverage, correspondence, guest list 2002
Fire and Ice - Fire & Ice: Treasure from the Photographic Collection of Frederick Church at Olana - correspondence, press release, reviews 2002
Fire and Ice - press release, press coverage 2002
Fire and Ice exhibition - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - pamphlets 2002
Series 2: ARTS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS [1981-2006]
Series 2 contains material relating to Fels' career working for arts and cultural organizations, both as an independent consultant and as institutional staff. Included are documents pertaining to his administrative posts at institutions including the Bennington Cultural and Arts Council, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Elm Street Arts, Park-McCullough House Association, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Vermont Arts Exchange, and the Williams College Museum of Art. Documentation of Fels' work related to mounting exhibitions is found in Series 1. This series is organized according to the employing institutions.
Bennington projects - museum proposals 2000
North Bennington Station activities 2003
North Bennington Station - View from Here 2003
Bennington - creative economy 2003-2005
North Bennington - Burr harpsichord concert and exhibition 2004-2005
North Bennington - Arts at the Station / The View from Here 2006
North Bennington Station activities - Press 2003
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - newsletters and June Arts brochures 2004-2006
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2005
"BBC"/Arts 2004-2005
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) 2006
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2007 2007
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2004 - artist materials, correspondence 1998, 2004
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2004 - artists' contracts [RESTRICTED] 2004
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2004 - planning documents, notes, correspondence 2004
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - planning documents, correspondence, notes 2004
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - publicity - Tempo articles 2004
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2005 - planning documents, notes, correspondence, publicity 2005
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - clippings, "Making History" article 2004
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - planning documents and notes 2004
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) activities 2004-2006
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2005, Arts Summit, Arts and Culture Task Force 2005-2006
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2006 2006
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - publicity - Downtown Bennington; Arts Weekend 2007
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - correspondence, project notes 2007-2008
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - Shirley Jackson Festival/"All Aboard for Fun" 2006-2007
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - Shirley Jackson Festival/"All Aboard for Fun" - Correspondence and scripts 2008
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - brochure ca. 2008
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - board meeting notes and correspondence 2007-2008
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - board meeting notes and correspondence 2008
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - fundraising 2008
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - publicity 2008
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - publicity (oversized) 2008-2009
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - board meeting notes and correspondence 2009
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - fundraising 2009
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - publicity 2009
Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) [RESTRICTED] 2006-2008
Park-McCullough House - board activities - collections inventory 1987-1997
Park-McCullough House - long range plan 1991, 1998
Park-McCullough House - board activities (2 folders) 1996
Park-McCullough House - event ideas 1996-1997
Park-McCullough House - site plan 1997
Park-McCullough House - board activities (2 folders) 1997
Park-McCullough House - research and notes 1996-1998
Park-McCullough House - events - Charles A. Burroughs Lecture 1997-1998
Park-McCullough House - booklet and board correspondence 1997-1998
Park-McCullough House - newsletter 1997-1998
Park-McCullough House - events - Evenings on the Verandah 1997-1998
Park-McCullough House - board activities [RESTRICTED] 1998
Park-McCullough House - board activities 1998
Park-McCullough House - resignation from board [RESTRICTED] 1998
Park-McCullough House - board activities (2 folders) [RESTRICTED] 1998
Park-McCullough House - fundraising 1998
Park-McCullough House - events - Evenings on the Verandah 1998
Park-McCullough House - events - collectibles fair 1998
Park-McCullough House - events - Ted Gilley and Kitsey Canaan 1998
Park-McCullough House - booklet - printers proofs 1998
Park-McCullough House - board activities (3 folders) 1998-1999
Park-McCullough House - research, notes, correspondence 1998-1999
Park-McCullough House - booklet - correspondence and notes 1998-1999
Park-McCullough House - board activities 1998-1999
Park-McCullough House - board activities (2 folders) 1998-1999
Park-McCullough House - board activities - correspondence and notes (2 folders) 1998-1999
Park-McCullough House - board activities - [RESTRICTED] 1999
Park-McCullough House - board activities / director search 1999
Park-McCullough House - board activities 1999
Park-McCullough House - "Archive Notebook section 13" n.d.
Series 3: WRITINGS AND RESEARCH [1983-2008]
Series 3 contains research notes, correspondence and draft text related to Fels' published and unpublished articles and books, including Farm Friends: From the late sixties to the west seventies and beyond. Writing and research related to exhibition catalogues are included in Series 1.
North Bennington Newsletter - grant proposal, correspondence 1997
North Bennington Newsletter - research 1997
North Bennington Newsletter - drafts, publication n.d.
Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - research n.d.
Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - research 1999
Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - research, notes n.d.
Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - drafts (5 folders) 1999
Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - correspondence, invoices 1999
Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - "Poets and Pioneers" publication - print draft 1999
Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - "Poets and Pioneers" publication - responses ca. 1999
Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - Bicenquinquagenary volumes I-III; The Shopping Guide, July 30, 1999 1999
Bennington history panels - proposal 1997
Bennington history panels - research 1997
Bennington history panels - drafts 1997
Bennington history panels - print drafts 1997
Bennington history panels - correspondence, notes 1998-99
Art New England - New England houses article 1983
Art New England - "Elements of the New England Rural Landscape" article 1983
Art New England - "Next to Nature" review 1983
Bennington Banner - "Revolutions Per Minute" and "The Suspended Object" reviews 1983
Art New England -"New Decorative Art" review 1983
Kalman Zabarsky review - notes and research 1983
Review of Peter Palmquist's Carlton Carleton Watkins, Photographer 1983
Art New England - correspondence 1983
Miles Hyman exhibition review n.d.
"Williams Museum offers 'Radical Painting' exhibition" review 1984
Pat Adams review - correspondence and research 1983-1984
Arts Magazine, Summer 1984 - Pat Adams review 1984
Pat Adams Paintings: A Survey 1952-1979 exhibition catalog 1980
Art New England - review of Six in Bronze exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art 1984
Art New England - review of Moholy-Nagy exhibition at Wellesley College 1985
Art New England - review of Garry Winogrand exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art 1985
Picturescope - review of Peter Palmquist's Carleton Watkins, Photographer - magazine and correspondence 1985
History of Photography quarterly - review of Sun Gardens: Victorian Photographs by Anna Atkins 1986
Art New England - "This Land: American Regionalism and its Sources" 1986
The New Criterion - correspondence 1986-1987
Julius Held interview - transcript, notes, research 1984-1987
Julius Held articles 1989-1995
Print Collector's Newsletter - review of "Landscape as Photograph" 1985
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Inherence / Inheritance" article 1986
Print Collector's Newsletter - Thomas Krens interview (2 folders) 1988
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Landscapes of Desire" review 1988
Print Collector's Newsletter - review of "Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala" 1988
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Images and Events: Photography as…" article 1989
Print Collector's Newsletter - Mass MoCA party 1989
Print Collector's Newsletter - Phylis Lambert interview 1989
Print Collector's Newsletter - Samuel Butler article 1990
Print Collector's Newsletter - John Walsh/Julius Held interview - correspondence and notes 1990
Print Collector's Newsletter - John Walsh/Julius Held interview 1990
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Photography and the Spoken Word" and "Northern Report" 1991
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Motion Pictures" / report from the West 1992
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Undecisive Moments" review 1992
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Hope, Fear, Unity and Division" review 1993
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Enchanted Art" and "Moscow on the Raritan" 1993
Print Collector's Newsletter - "Signifyin' a Nation" 1995
On Paper - review of "Points of Entry" series 1997
Chronicle Books - correspondence 1993
Park-McCullough House - newsletter and other writing projects 1998-1999
Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio - Berkshire Eagle article, "Radical in the Berkshires" - research, exhibition catalog 1998-1999
"History Seen through the Camera Lens" - Berkshire Eagle article 1999
Seymore Pioneer Museum/ Society of California Pioneers - "Points of Interest, the Lawrence and Houseworth Albums" - text for book jacket and exhibition panels 2000
Design Times - book reviews, correspondence 2000-2001
Sculpture, a publication of the International Sculpture Center - "Fourth Annual Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Festival" article 2001-2002
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Park - photographs 2001
Photography: A Guide to Collecting - book proposal, correspondence, draft text 2003-2004
Hudson Hills Press - Prints of John Himmelfarb - book flap text 2004
Gastronomica - "Roger Fenton's 'Flowers and Fruit'" article 2004
"A guide to New York" - Bennington Banner article 2005
On Paper journal - Northeast Roundup - notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings 1996-1997
On Paper journal - California Roundup - correspondence, art brochures, notes 1996-1997
Constellation magazine - "Paper Bridges" article (Woodstock) - correspondence 2002
"Focus on Collecting" Symposium (Toronto) - correspondence, copies of speech, Contact magazine 1999 May
AfterImage journal - ArtScene newsletter - Visual Studies Workshop 1996-1997
Cleveland catalog - biographies, correspondence, notes, "Legacy of Light" brochures 1996
Boston Business Journal - "The Pane of it All" article on Harvard's Memorial Hall - notes, drafts, Harvard Magazine excerpt 1987-1988
Boston Business Journal copies - correspondence, notes 1987
Bostonia magazine - "Regionalism by Choice" article, draft, notes 1988
Bostonia - "Western Culture's Place in the Sun", correspondence, drafts, notes 1988
Bostonia - "The Pleasures of Drawing", notes, drafts, other art-related articles 1990
Bostonia - Sakhalin Island (photo research) 1990
Bostonia - "Firenze Lucida: Photographs by Lucy Cobos", correspondence and notes re article 1990-1991
Bostonia - "Walking into History", notes, correspondence 1992
The J. Paul Getty Trust - bulletin, newsletter, AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus), correspondence, notes 1988-1989
The J. Paul Getty Trust - RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) - article, bulletin, drafts, The Research Libraries Group newsletter, correspondence, notes 1987-1988
Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA) / International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) - articles, memos, drafts ca. 1981-1986
Correspondence between Thomas Fels and Robert and Mary Lou Treat re Charles Knowles' Psalm Book, miscellaneous 2002-2005
Correspondence out to Vivian Fine and Ben Karp, notes, Toulouse-Lautrec brochure 1992
Print listings, Clark Art Museum Store 1993
James MacGregor Burns - research, notes, correspondence 1992
Lerner House addition - description, architectural drawings 1993
Cummings Studios publicity - correspondence, notes, sketches of advertisements, newspaper photocopies 1988-1989
Cummings Studios publicity - Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, correspondence, invoice, notes 1988
Bill Botzow - exhibitions - essay and publicity 1988, 1990
Berkshire Museum Photograph Collection - NEA research, accession records, notes, correspondence (2 folders) ca. 1989
Berkshire Museum - Classic Cities - exhibition text, correspondence 1990
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - uncorrected proof; printed copy 1998
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes; Owl Books - Trade Paperbacks catalog; miscellaneous clippings from newspapers and alumni magazines 1998-1999
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes, illustrations, outlines, sample text 1996
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes, illustrations, outlines, sample text (3 folders) 1997
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes, illustrations, outlines, sample text (2 folders) 1998
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes, illustrations, outlines, sample text 1997-1998
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - manuscript 1998
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - manuscript with Denise's comments 1997
Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - annotated manuscript 1997
Leo and Wolfe Photography - correspondence; brochures 1992-1996
Margo Archer - photograph list n.d.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - correspondence; excerpts from Guide to Photographic Collection at the Smithsonian Institute 1990
Correspondence with Irving Barrett, sample prints 1994
Correspondence with Victoria Blasco 1991-1998
Correspondence with Margarita Borissova 1994
The French Library and Cultural Center - correspondence with Phyllis Dohanian 1996
Kevin Bubriski - resume copies, personal statement, correspondence 1993
Kevin Bubriski - invitations to exhibitions on Nepal and Tibet, correspondence, excerpt on documentary photography 1991-1994
Correspondence with Sheryl [Conkelton] 1990
Hallmark Cards - "Acquisitions", correspondence with Keith Davis, notes 1972-1999
Warren and Margot Coville Photographic Collection, correspondence with Kathy Erwin 1996-1997
Correspondence with Eliza Mabry, Marion Goethals and Linda Shearer 1994-1995
The J. Paul Getty Museum - A.J. Russell photograph listings 1987
Correspondence with Ruth Ann Fredenthal 1986-2000
JMMS - Artist Technical Services 1995
Correspondence with Therese Heyman 1991-1994
News from the Oakland Museum - "Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography" 1992
Correspondence with Georgine MacGarvey regarding exhibition at The Equinox hotel 2003-2005
Art Exhibitions - Curatorial Assistance Inc. - correspondence with Graham Howe 1995-1996
Correspondence with H. Travers Newton 1997
Farm Friends - Advance reading copies, printed drafts (3 folders) 2007
Farm Friends - Chelsea Green publishing catalog 2008
Farm Friends - printers' spread (2 folders) ca. 2006
Farm Friends - correspondence - Stephen Lerner 2006
Farm Friends - draft with Stephen Lerner comments, p. 1-102 2006
Farm Friends - draft with Stephen Lerner comments, p. 103-202 2006
Farm Friends - draft with Stephen Lerner comments, p. 203-end 2006
Farm Friends - proposal and draft text 1993
Farm Friends - project description/proposal, sample text 1990s
Farm Friends - "original manuscript" p. 1-103 2004
Farm Friends - "original manuscript" p. 104-209 2004
Farm Friends - "original manuscript" p. 210-337 2004
Farm Friends - typescript, with editorial comments, p. 1-98 2003
Farm Friends - typescript, with editorial comments, p. 146-234 2003
Farm Friends - typescript, with editorial comments, p. 235-325 2003
Farm Friends - typescript - I. "In the Beginning" 2003
Farm Friends - typescript - II. "Garden of Eden" 2003
Farm Friends - typescript - III. "Afterlife" 2003
Farm Friends - typescript, "post-permissions," p. 1-123 2007
Farm Friends - typescript, "post-permissions," p. 124-241 2007
Series 4: BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS [1980-1995]
Series 4 contains material specific to Fels' graduate studies in the History of Art at Williams College, and subsequent fellowship and employment activities.
Graduate school programs and internships - research, brochures 1980-1983
Museum brochures, newspaper clippings 1980-1984
Employment search - correspondence 1980-1981
Williams College - administrative documents, Clark Art Institute Annual Report 1980-1983
Williams College - graduate school application, personal statement 1981
Williams College - correspondence 1981-1985
Employment applications - correspondence, notes ca. 1983
Employment and fellowship applications - notes, notebook 1983-1984
Resume - drafts and notes 1984
Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1984
Resume - drafts and notes 1984-1989
Proposals and inquiries - correspondence, research 1985
Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1985
Chester Dale Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art - application, articles, correspondence 1985-1987
Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1985-1996
Employment applications - correspondence, research 1987-1989
Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1990-1991
Harvard University Art Museums - employment correspondence 1991-1993
Smithsonian Institute - employment application and correspondence - use copy 1991
Smithsonian Institute - employment application and correspondence [RESTRICTED] 1991
Employment - correspondence, notes, research 1991-1992
Transcripts, test scores [RESTRICTED] 1969-1983
Rockefeller - Warren Weaver Fellows Program - application, correspondence 1992
Research copy - Library of Congress - employment applications 1992
Library of Congress - employment applications [RESTRICTED] 1992
Williams College - alumni office and graduate program correspondence 1992
Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - administrative documents, brochures, newsletters 1992-1993
Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - administrative forms, handbooks, notes 1992-1993
Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - correspondence, notes 1992-1993
Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - student papers, evaluations [RESTRICTED] 1993
Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - correspondence with students [RESTRICTED] 1993
Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - administrative forms, schedules 1993
Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - research bibliography n.d.
Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1993-1995
Center for Creative Photography - Ansel Adams Research Fellowship - application materials and correspondence 1993-1995
Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1196-1999
Employment applications - correspondence, resumes, notes 1997-2002
Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1999-2000
Columbia University - National Arts Journalism Program - application materials and correspondence 2001-2002
Fellowships and Williams College graduate program - newsletters, updates, correspondence 1994-2004
Biographical statements, resumes, notes n.d.-2008