Scope and Contents
Correspondence; artwork, including sketchbooks and two busts; photographs and negatives; printed material, including clippings; and other related papers documenting the life and work of the artist Bernard Perlin. Material pertaining to Perlin's work creating propaganda art as an artist-correspondent for Fortune and Life magazines during the Second World War is present, as is material documenting his later landscape and figurative painting.
Dates
- 1940-2006
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Box 34 (videocassettes): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Box 34 (videocassettes): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
The Bernard Perlin Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Bernard Perlin, 1998, 2006, and 2007, and David Leddick, 2010.
Arrangement
Organized into six groupings: February 2006 Acquisition, May 2007 Acquisition, September 2007 Acquisition, November 2010 Acquisition, 1998 Acquisitions, and 2002 Acquisition.
Material within this collection has been organized by acquisition reflecting the fact that the collection has been acquired in increments over time. In order to locate all relevant material within this collection, researchers will need to consult each acquisition described in the Collection Contents section.
Material within this collection has been organized by acquisition reflecting the fact that the collection has been acquired in increments over time. In order to locate all relevant material within this collection, researchers will need to consult each acquisition described in the Collection Contents section.
Extent
21.23 Linear Feet ((30 boxes) + 2 art, 4 broadside.)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Correspondence, artwork, photographs, negatives, and other printed material.
Biographical / Historical
Bernard Perlin (1918-2014) was an American painter and an artist-correspondent for Life and Fortune magazines during World War II. He began working as an artist in 1938, when he received a fellowship to paint in Poland; he then painted murals for the United States Treasury Department and the United States Maritime Commission.
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing in 2014, including rehousing and in some instances minimal organization. Various acquisitions associated with the collection have not been merged and organized as a whole. Each acquisition is described separately in the contents list below, identified by a unique call number and titled according to month and year of acquisition.
The finding aid for this collection is compiled from individual preliminary lists for each acquisition that were created at or around the time of receipt by the library. The preliminary lists were migrated to comply with current archival descriptive standards and merged into a single file in 2007-2008. As part of the migration, modifications were made to the formatting of individual lists; however, the content of the lists was neither modified nor verified.
As a rule, descriptive information found in the Collection Contents section is drawn in large part from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
This collection includes materials previously identified by the call numbers Uncat MSS 851, Uncat ZA File 710, Uncat Za File 385 Uncat MSS 970, Uncat MSS 1250, Uncat ZA MS 566, and YCAL MSS 1216.
The finding aid for this collection is compiled from individual preliminary lists for each acquisition that were created at or around the time of receipt by the library. The preliminary lists were migrated to comply with current archival descriptive standards and merged into a single file in 2007-2008. As part of the migration, modifications were made to the formatting of individual lists; however, the content of the lists was neither modified nor verified.
As a rule, descriptive information found in the Collection Contents section is drawn in large part from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
This collection includes materials previously identified by the call numbers Uncat MSS 851, Uncat ZA File 710, Uncat Za File 385 Uncat MSS 970, Uncat MSS 1250, Uncat ZA MS 566, and YCAL MSS 1216.
- Art, American -- 20th Century
- Artists -- United States
- Artists -- United States -- 20th Century
- Busts (figures) -- United States -- 20th Century
- Drawings (visual works) -- United States -- 20th Century
- Fortune (New York, N.Y.)
- Negatives -- United States -- 20th Century
- Perlin, Bernard, 1918-2014
- Photographs -- United States -- 20th Century
- Sculpture (visual work) -- United States -- 20th Century
- Sketchbooks -- United States -- 20th Century
- War correspondents -- United States
- War correspondents -- United States -- 20th Century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda
- Title
- Guide to the Bernard Perlin Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Beinecke staff
- Date
- November 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2014: [Revision description not specified]
- 2010-02-10: Transformed with yale.addEadidUrl.xsl. Adds @url with handle for finding aid. Overwrites @url if already present.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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