Mellquist, Jerome
Dates
- Existence: 1905 - 1963
Biography
Jerome Mellquist, born in Minnesota and educated at Carleton College (1926), Columbia University, and Yale University, was an art historian and critic. Mellquist contributed freelance criticism to journals in the United States and Europe and worked as an editor and art consultant, first as the Art Editor for the Brooklyn Eagle in 1936, and later, in the early to mid-1950s, for the American Art section of Collier's Encyclopedia and Unesco. Published works include The Emergence of an American Art (1942) and Paul Rosenfeld: Voyager in the Arts (1948).
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Letters : 128 West 75th Street, New York, New York, to Guy S. Métraux, 2 Lynwood Place, New Haven, Connecticut, 1943 September 11, 1943 November 23
Two typescript letters, signed, discussing travel plans and the recent death of Marsden Hartley. With envelopes.
Henry McBride papers
The papers contain correspondence, writings, and printed ephemera about art documenting McBride's career as an art critic. Major correspondents include Mildred Aldrich, Malcolm MacAdam, Maximilian Mitzlaff, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, and Carl Van Vechten.
Jerome Mellquist papers
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