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Howard Dearstyne
A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Harry G. Heiss
1992
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2001
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Table of Contents for Howard Dearstyne
Collection Summary
Selected Search Terms
* Names:
* Subjects:
* Occupations:
Administrative Information
* Provenance:
* Processing History:
* Transfers:
* Copyright Status:
* Preferred Citation:
Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Description of Series
* Subject File, 1911- 1986, n.d.
* Writings File, 1948- 1978, n.d.
Container List
* SUBJECT FILE, 1911- 1986, n.d.
* WRITINGS FILE, 1948- 1978, n.d.
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Collection Summary
Creator: Dearstyne, Howard
Title: Papers of Howard Dearstyne 1911-1986 (bulk 1953-1971)
Size: 6,300 items; 18 containers; 7.2 linear feet
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Architect, architectural historian, educator, and photographer.
Correspondence, writings, lectures, exhibit brochures, art catalogs,
artwork, and other papers relating primarily to Dearstyne's research on the
history of the Bauhaus art school, the school's influence on the
development of modern art and 20th century architecture, and two Bauhaus
masters, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Selected Search Terms
Names:
Albers, Josef
Blomeier, Hermann
Danforth, George
Drewes, Werner, 1899-
Dubin, Henry
Ebert, Wils, 1909-
Erffa, Helmut von, 1900-1979
Graeff, Werner, 1901-1978
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Hilberseimer, Ludwig
Klee, Paul, 1879-1940
Kranz, Kurt
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
Neumann, Eckhard
Nierendorf, Karl
Pahl, Pius E., 1909-
Peterhans, Walter, 1897-1960
Schlemmer, Oskar, 1888-1943
Schmocker, Erdmann, 1931-
Bauhaus
Illinois Institute of Technology
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Dearstyne, Howard. Inside the Bauhaus (1986)
Subjects:
Architecture
Architecture, Colonial--Virginia--Williamsburg
Art
Art schools--Germany
City planning
Design
Nature (Aesthetics)
Photography, Artistic
Schools of architecture--Illinois
Occupations:
Architects
Architectural historians
Educators
Photographers
Administrative Information
Provenance:
The papers of Howard Dearstyne, architect, photographer, architectural
historian, and educator, were deposited in the Library of Congress by
Marjorie Smolka in 1988. The deposit was converted to a gift in 1991.
Processing History:
A description of the Dearstyne Papers appears in Library of Congress
Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1988, pp. 30-35.
Transfers:
Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial
divisions of the Library. Slides, drawings, and some photographs have been
transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division. Maps have been
transferred to the Geography and Map Division. An audiotape has been
transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound
Division. Books, articles, and pamphlets have been transferred to the Rare
Book and Special Collections Division. All transfers are identified in
these divisions as part of the Howard Dearstyne papers.
Copyright Status:
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Howard Dearstyne is
governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Preferred Citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: container number, Howard Dearstyne Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Date Event
1903 , Aug.
2 Born, Albany, N.Y.
1925 A.B., Columbia College, New York, N.Y.
1925 - 1928 Studied at Columbia School of Architecture, Columbia
University, New York, N.Y.
1928 - 1932 Studied at Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
1932 - 1933 Studied at Bauhaus, Berlin, Germany
1933 - 1934 Studied privately under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1935 - 1939 Designer, Wallace K. Harrison and J. A. Fouilhoux,
architects, New York, N.Y.
1940 - 1941 Designer, Raymond Loewy, New York, N.Y. , and Antonin
Raymond, New Hope, Pa.
1941 - 1942 Instructor in architecture and structural design, Black
Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C.
1943 - 1944 Assistant professor and resident architect, Lawrence
College, Appleton, Wis.
1944 Married Barbara Louise Timmons
1944 - 1946 Head, Department of Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
1946 - 1956 Assistant architectural records editor, Colonial
Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va.
1946 - 1957 Lecturer in architectural design, College of William and
Mary Williamsburg, Va.
1954 - 1957 Director, Society of Architectural Historians
1957 - 1971 Associate professor of architecture, School of Architecture
and Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago,
Ill.
1967 - 1968 Associate editor, Inland Architect
1979 , Mar.
7 Died, Alexandria, Va.
1986 Inside the Bauhaus, edited by David Spaeth (New York, N.Y.:
Rizzoli, 1986. 288 pp.)
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Howard Best Dearstyne (1903-1979) span the years 1911-1986,
with the bulk of the items concentrated in the period from 1953 to 1971.
The collection relates almost exclusively to Dearstyne's research interest
in the Bauhaus, the influential German art and architecture school founded
by Walter Gropius in 1919. Included are correspondence, exhibit brochures
and catalogs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, and a book
draft.
The collection is arranged in two series, a Subject File and a Writings
File. The Subject File comprises 80 percent of the collection and contains
mostly secondary materials collected by Dearstyne in support of his
lifelong interest in the Bauhaus and its two best-known masters, Gropius
and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In this series are newspaper and magazine
articles on the Bauhaus, its history, and especially its influence on the
development of modern art and twentieth-century architecture. Dearstyne
corresponded with many of the school's instructors and graduates, as well
as with other architects, designers, and artists influenced by Bauhaus
principles, and his papers include exhibit brochures and catalogs of their
work, together with letters and some original artwork sent to him.
Principal correspondents include Josef Albers, Hermann Blomeier, George E.
Danforth, Werner Drewes, Henry Dubin, Wils Ebert, Helmut von Erffa, Werner
Graeff, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Paul Klee, Kurt Kranz, Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe, the Museum of Modern Art, Eckhard Neumann, Karl Nierendorf, Pius E.
Pahl, Walter A. Peterhans, Oskar Schlemmer, and Erdmann Schmocker There is
also material documenting Dearstyne's pursuit of photography as a serious
art form, including magazine articles written by him and texts of his
lectures. Some material in the Subject File is in German.
Dearstyne published on a wide array of subjects, including the architecture
of colonial Virginia --especially Williamsburg --modern art, architectural
design and city planning, design in nature, art photography, and the
Bauhaus. . The Writings File includes drafts of three reports Dearstyne
wrote in 1953-1954 on the King's Arms Tavern, the King's Arms Barber Shop,
and the Alexander Purdie House and its outbuildings in Williamsburg.
Another work, which was "in progress" during most of Dearstyne's teaching
career, was Inside the Bauhaus, a history of the design school and his
experience there. The only American graduate of the Bauhaus, Dearstyne was
immensely affected by its teachings and concepts, especially those of its
last master, Mies van der Rohe. Twenty-three years after being a student of
Mies at the Bauhaus, Dearstyne became a professor at the Illinois Institute
of Technology's School of Architecture, then under the direction of his
former teacher. An early draft of the book and related correspondence,
primarily requests for permission to publish copyrighted photographs or
illustrations, are in the Writings File. Other writings by Dearstyne may be
found in the Subject File.
Some material received with this collection has been transferred to other
divisions of the Library, where they have been identified as part of these
papers. Photographs, slides, and drawings have been transferred to the
Prints and Photographs Division. Maps of Germany, Berlin, Dessau, Hessen,
Thuringen, central European railways, central Europe and the Berlin Crisis
of 1960, and fighting fronts of World War II have been transferred to the
Geography and Map Division An audiotape of a lecture by Dearstyne on the
Bauhaus has been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division. Books, articles, and pamphlets on a variety of
topics have been transferred to the Rare Book and Special Collections
Division.
Description of Series
Box Series
BOX Subject File, 1911 - 1986 , n.d.
1-14
Correspondence, exhibit brochures and catalogs, newspaper
clippings, and magazine articles, primarily documenting the
history of the Bauhaus and the careers of its graduates. Also in
this series are photostats of Bauhaus publications and records
from the files of Walter Gropius and Bauhaus-Archiv in Darmstadt,
Germany. Some material in this series is in German.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or name of correspondent.
BOX Writings File, 1948 - 1978 , n.d.
14-18
Typed drafts of three architectural reports written by Dearstyne
on the King's Arms Tavern, the King's Arms Barber Shop, and the
Alexander Purdie House for Colonial Williamsburg in 1953-1954.
Arranged alphabetically by report title. A typed draft of
Dearstyne's book, Inside the Bauhaus, and correspondence,
primarily requests for permission to publish copyrighted
photographs or illustrations, are arranged by chapter. Note that
other writings by Dearstyne, dealing principally with
photography, can be found in the Subject File.
Container List
Box Contents
SUBJECT FILE, 1911 - 1986 , n.d.
BOX 1 Adler, Bruno, 1949
Albers, Josef, 1929-1978, n.d.
(6 folders)
Alfred Flechtheim Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 1927
Architects
Caricatures, 1957
German, 1959
Architectural center proposal, 1943, n.d.
Architecture
Italy, Fascist, 1934
Modern
Germany, 1927-1934, 1962, n.d.
Information on books about, 1929, n.d.
"La Casa Bella," 1930-1931
Art
Advertising, 1945
Bauhaus theory, 1932, n.d.
German
Articles, 1931-1934, 1957, n.d.
Associations, n.d.
BOX 2 Collections under Nazis, 1945-1946
Critics meeting in Munich, 1961
Galleries, 1929-1931
Barcelona Exposition, Barcelona, Spain, 1929
Bauausstellung [architectural exhibit] Berlin, Berlin,
Germany, 1931
(2 folders)
Bauer, Rudolf, n.d.
Bauhaus
Berlin, Germany, newspaper article, 1933
Darmstadt, Germany, Bauhaus-Archiv, 1961-1978,
n.d.
(7 folders)
Dessau, Germany
Building erection and completion, 1926,
1965, 1978, n.d.
Catalog, n.d.
Defense, 1927
BOX 3 Meisterhauser [master houses], 1926
Meyer, Hannes, conflict over dismissal,
1930
"Notes on Steel Construction, Strength of
Materials, Engineering Construction, and
Statics," n.d.
(3 folders)
General
Bauhausbucher [Bauhaus books], 1926-1927,
1949, 1967, n.d.
Bookbindery, 1964
Books and literature, 1951, 1968-1970, n.d.
Class notes, ca. 1930
Correspondence, 1962-1965
Diplomas, 1929-1935, 1954, n.d.
Exhibitions
Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass., 1966-1967, n.d.
Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, Ill., 1969-1971, n.d.
(3 folders)
BOX 4
(1 folder)
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
N.Y., 1937-1939, n.d.
Museum of Science and Industry,
Chicago, Ill., 1961-1967, n.d.
Post-World War II, 1931-1972, n.d.
(2 folders)
Furniture, 1928
Lectures, 1950, 1962, n.d.
Lighting fixtures, dishware, etc., n.d.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, symposium
lecture, 1969
Notes on missing Bauhaus manuscripts,
1967-1968, n.d.
Painters, 1919-1920, 1929-1941, 1954-1964
Performances, 1930-1931
Personnel, 1928, 1935, 1947, 1954, 1962,
n.d.
(2 folders)
Principles, 1940, 1950, n.d.
Printed matter
In English, 1930, 1953, 1966-1972,
n.d.
BOX 5 In German, 1928-1931, 1961
Television manuscript and Chicago, Ill.,
lecture, 1957-1960, n.d.
Typography, 1956
Whiffen, Marcus, article, 1962-1965, n.d.
(2 folders)
Weimar, Germany
1923 exhibition, 1923-1924, n.d.
Der Austausch [The Exchange], 1919
Catalogs and programs, 1919-1922
Correspondence, 1924
Feininger, T. Lux, reminiscences, 1947-1960
Frankfurt, notes from, 1925
Internal problems, 1923, n.d.
Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses [Circle of
Friends of Bauhaus], n.d.
Meisters' [masters'] signatures, 1922
Object design, n.d.
Opinions, n.d.
Principles, 1921-1922, n.d.
Reminiscences, 1965
Social life, n.d.
Bayer, Herbert, 1959, n.d.
Berlin, Germany, 1966, n.d.
Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C., 1972
Blaser, Werner, 1974-1977, n.d.
Blaue Reiter [Blue Rider], 1914, 1963, n.d.
Blomeier, Hermann, 1959-1974, n.d.
BOX 6 Bredendieck, Hin, 1962
Brenner, Daniel, 1973-1977, n.d.
Breuer, Marcel, 1936-1938, 1948-1952, 1958-1977, n.d.
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.
General, 1933, 1948-1963, 1969-1972, n.d.
Pictures and notes, 1962
Children's art, 1929-1930
City planning, Germany, 1927
Cologne, Germany, 1928, 1958, n.d.
Concrete house, Albany, N.Y., 1937
Constructivism, 1969
Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Personnel and exhibits, 1945, 1961-1962, 1974,
n.d.
Structural design in nature, 1946
Cubism and abstract art, 1965, n.d.
Dadaism and surrealism, 1936, 1965-1968
Danforth, George E., 1964-1974, n.d.
Dearstyne, Howard
Address books, n.d.
Architectural designs, 1968
Facts about, 1932, 1968, n.d.
Writings and lectures
1930, 1943-1959
(3 folders)
BOX 7 1961-1970, 1977, n.d.
(2 folders)
Design, Germany, recent, 1957, n.d.
Doesburg, Theo van, 1929, 1952
Doubleday, Abner, 1954-1958, n.d.
Drewes, Werner, 1965-1971, n.d.
Dubin, Henry, 1929, 1961-1963, n.d.
Ebert, Wils, 1961-1976, n.d.
(3 folders)
Erffa, Helmut von, 1957-1965, 1971
Exhibitions
German art, 1931-1937, n.d.
Degenerate art, Munich, Germany, 1937
Expressionism, 1957, n.d.
Fabre Line tour, 1925
Feininger, Lyonel, 1931, 1937, 1944-1946, 1957-1963, 1975,
n.d.
Film, German and French, 1939
Flechtheim Gallery See Container 1, Alfred Flechtheim
Gallery
Forbat, Fred, 1969
Franciscono, Marcel, manuscript on Bauhaus, 1969, n.d.
Freundlich, Otto, 1958
BOX 8 Furniture 1966, n.d.
(2 folders)
Futurism, 1945, 1958-1962, 1968, n.d.
G [magazine], 1923, 1964, n.d.
Germany
Books on, 1968, n.d.
Present day, 1957
Universities, 1962
Giedion, Sigfried, n.d.
Graeff, Werner, 1962-1977, n.d.
(2 folders)
Grohmann, Will, 1955
Gropius, Walter
Architectural works, 1927-1965, n.d.
(2 folders)
Attacks on, 1926-1928
Bibliography, 1951, n.d.
Buildings, standardization and mass production,
1925-1927
Career, 1962, 1974, n.d.
Correspondence, 1911-1924, 1933-1935, 1946-1947,
1955-1956, 1969, n.d.
Notes on Gropius files, n.d.
Obituary articles, 1969-1970, n.d. (includes
Gropefest pin)
Sketches, n.d.
BOX 9 Speeches and writings, 1937-1942, 1952-1965, 1978,
n.d.
(2 folders)
Grote, Ludwig, 1957
Guggenheim Museum, New York, N.Y., 1937
Haring, Hugo, n.d.
Harrison, Wallace Kirkman, 1935-1941, 1958, n.d.
Hassenpflug, Gustav, 1957-1960
Hilberseimer, Ludwig, 1956, 1963, 1971-1972
Hirschfield-Mack, Ludwig, 1962
Hitler, Adolf, 1937-1943, 1955, n.d.
Hofer, Karl, 1941
Hoffmann, Hubert, 1968, n.d.
Hohenberg, Marguerite, 1962, n.d.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.
Institute of Design, 1937-1943, 1961-1968, n.d.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, film, 1957-1959, 1967,
n.d.
(4 folders)
Student work under Dearstyne, 1966
Indiana Dunes Center, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore,
1968
Inland Architect, 1966-1969, n.d.
Itten, Johannes, 1965-1967, n.d.
Jawlensky, Alexes von, 1963-1964
Kandinsky, Wassily
1928-1934, 1941-1945, 1952-1974, n.d.
BOX 10 Undated
Kerkovius, Ida, 1959
Klee, Paul, 1921, 1930, 1938-1940, 1949-1977, n.d.
(2 folders)
Koch, Alexander, 1961
Kolbe, Georg, n.d.
Kranz, Kurt, 1960-1972, n.d.
(2 folders)
Kuhr, Fritz, 1965-1975
Langen, Albert, 1962
Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., 1953, n.d.
Lissitzky, El, 1963
Literature, 1937
Loos, Adolf, 1966, n.d.
Luckhardt, Gebruder, 1935
Ludwig, Edward, 1959-1961, n.d.
Malevich, Kasimir, 1958-1966, n.d.
Marc, Franz, 1956, n.d.
Marcks, Gerhard, 1957
Meyer, Hannes, 1928-1929, 1942, 1949, 1965, n.d.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Correspondence
1933-1966
(4 folders)
BOX 11 1969-1976, n.d.
Essays written by faculty of Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago, Ill., 1966
"Four Great Makers," 1960-1969, n.d.
(2 folders)
Printed matter
1929-1967
(8 folders)
BOX 12 1968-1977, n.d.
(5 folders)
Miscellany, 1928-1934
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, 1947-1950, 1960-1970, n.d.
Muche, Georg, 1962-1963
Munter, Gabriele, 1962
Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., 1938, 1957-1959,
1972-1978, n.d.
(3 folders)
National socialism and art, 1933-1937, 1966-1970, n.d.
Neumann, Eckhard
1960-1967
(2 folders)
BOX 13 1968-1971, n.d.
(2 folders)
Neuner, Hannes, 1960-1973
(2 folders)
Nierendorf, Karl, 1938-1946, n.d.
Pahl, Pius E. 1957-1977, n.d.
(3 folders)
Permanent Exhibition of Decoration, Architecture, and
Crafts, 1938-1939
Peterhans, Walter A., 1936-1944, 1958-1969, 1976-1977,
n.d.
Rebay, Hilla, 1929-1931, 1939, 1945, 1962, n.d.
Reich, Lilly, 1936, 1977, n.d.
Richter, Hans, 1958, 1965, n.d.
Der Ring [The Ring], 1926
Schlemmer, Oskar, 1922-1929, 1953-1972, 1986, n.d.
BOX 14 Schmocker, Erdmann, 1971-1974, n.d.
Sculpture
Negro, 1926, 1957-1968
Oceania, 1923, 1946, 1958-1962, n.d.
Society of Architectural Historians, 1965
Sunlight control, 1955-1961, n.d.
United States Quarterly Book Review, 1953
Valentine Museum, Richmond, Va., 1950, 1957, n.d.
Velde, Henry van de, 1958
Virginia Art Alliance, 1955-1956, n.d.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., 1950-1954,
n.d.
(2 folders)
Wieghardt, Paul and Nelli, 1960-1977, n.d.
Wren Building, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg,
Va.
Addition by Thomas Jefferson, 1951, n.d.
Proposed cultural center extension, 1950
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1943, 1959
WRITINGS FILE, 1948 - 1978 , n.d.
BOX 14 "Architectural Report: The King's Arms and Alexander
Purdie Outbuildings," 1953-1954
(3 folders)
"Architectural Report: The King's Arms Barber Shop,"
1953-1954
(1 folder)
BOX 15
(2 folders)
"Architectural Report: King's Arms Tavern and Alexander
Purdie House," 1953
(6 folders)
"A Century of Photography in the South," n.d.
Inside the Bauhaus
Alternative titles, n.d.
Illustrations, illustration sources, permissions,
1948-1976, n.d.
Permissions to use illustrations, 1949-1978, n.d.
Chapters I-II
(2 folders)
BOX 16 Chapters III-XVII
(16 folders)
BOX 17 Chapters XVIII-XXI
(4 folders)
Publication draft, 1971
Front matter, Chapters I-XII
(11 folders)
BOX 18 Chapters XIII-XXI
(9 folders)
Footnotes
Captions for illustrations
Bibliography
Illustration sources and permissions
Wachsmann, Konrad, 1975, n.d.
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