Farm Friends: from the late sixties to the west seventies and beyond

ma237 Thomas Weston Fels (AC 1967) Papers Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Sara Smith, Archives and Special Collections Specialist. Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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2012 Finding aid encoded in NoteTab Pro. Encoded by Peter A. Nelson. 2012-10-08 Finding aid written in English Collection Overview Fels, Thomas Weston Thomas Weston Fels (AC 1967) Papers 1972-2008 1983-2004 23 records storage boxes, 2 flat boxes, 1 media box (25 linear ft.) English Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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The Thomas Weston Fels Papers document the professional activities of writer and curator Thomas Weston Fels (AC 1967), including research, writing, correspondence, and exhibition planning documents and notes from throughout his professional education and career. Also included are materials relating to his book Farm Friends: from the late sixties to the west seventies and beyond. 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.

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.

Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into four series:

CURATORIAL PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS [1987-2006] ARTS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS [1981-2006] WRITINGS AND RESEARCH [1983-2008] BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL [1980-1995] Appendix A: Exhibitions, projects and publications list Exhibitions Carleton Watkins, Photographer, Clark Art Institute, MA, 1983 Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion, Images from the Philadelphia Years, SUNY/Albany, NY; Berkshire Museum, MA, 1985 America in Transition: Benton and his Contemporaries, 1920-1940, Williams College Museum of Art, MA, 1985 Destruction and Destiny, The Photographs of A. J. Russell, Berkshire Museum, MA; Wesleyan University, CT; Middlebury College, VT, 1987 Rube Goldberg, Drawings and Cartoons, Williams College Museum of Art, 1987 O Say Can You See: American Photographs 1839-1939; Photography from the Collection of George R. Rinhart, Berkshire Museum, MA; Bowdoin College, ME, 1989 From Mill to Museum: History and Change at the Marshall Street Complex, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, MA; School of Architecture, R.P.I, NY, 1989 Samuel Butler, Photographer, with related symposium and supporting exhibition "Photography and Art History," Clark Art Institute, MA, 1989-90 Carleton Watkins: Western Landscape and the Classical Vision, Getty Museum, CA, 1990 Comrades and Cameras: Photographs from Latvia and Other Soviet Republics, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 1991 Classic Cities: The Art of Athens and Rome in Photographs of the Nineteenth Century, Berkshire Museum, MA, 1991; Dahesh Museum, New York, 1996 Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Crocker Art Museum; Laguna Art Museum, CA, co-curator, 1992 Art and Invention: The Work of George A. C. Holt (1902-1988), Bennington College, VT, 1994 A la Pintura: Artists Books by Robert Motherwell, Bennington College, VT, 1994 Sculpture at Naumkeag: Celebrating Great American Sculpture in One of America's Beautiful Gardens, The Trustees of Reservations, MA, 1994 After Strange Gods: Prints of Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin, Clark Art Institute, MA, 1994 Portraits of the Artist: Portraits and Self-portraits of Nineteenth Century French Artists, in Prints, Clark Art Institute, MA, 1994 Yet In Memory: Gifts to the Department of Prints and Drawings from the Late Jeffrey Shedd, Clark Art Institute, MA, 1994 Documents and Dreams: Drawings and Prints of Eugene Delacroix, Clark Art Institute, MA, 1995 Curator's Choice: Works Acquired by Rafael Fernandez, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 1975-1994, Clark Art Institute, MA, 1995 Old and New: Photographs from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute, Clark Art Institute, 1995 Photographs of Alice Burr: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered, Wesleyan University, 1998; University of Maryland, 2001; California Historical Society, 2005; Santa. Barbara Museum of Art, 2006 Luigi Lucioni: A Centenary Retrospective, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, 2000 Napoleon in Egypt: History, Archaeology and Art, SVAC, Manchester, 2000 Art & Soul: Artists of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, 1922-1950, SVAC, Manchester, 2001 Yester Years: Artists of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, 1950-2000, SVAC, Manchester, 2001 Artists as Travelers, Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, 2001; SVAC, 2002 Fire and Ice: Treasures from the Photograph Collection of Frederic Church at Olana, Dahesh Museum, New York, 2002, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2002-3 The Vermont Experiment: Helen and Scott Nearing at Forest Farm, Stratton Foundation and Wild Root Arts, Brattleboro, VT, 2002 Fine Art: Exceptional Works from the Collection of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, SVAC, 2002 Patsy Santo: Paintings and Watercolors, Patsy Santo Paintings Trust, Bennington, VT, 2002 Pleissner, Connaway, Lucioni, SVAC, 2002 Nature Personified: Prints from John James Audubon's Classic 'Quadrupeds of North America, SVAC, 2003 Brother Thomas: Earth, Spirit, Fire - The Ceramics of Brother Thomas Bezanson, SVAC, 2003 Jenny Holzer: Truisms, SVAC, 2003- Eleanor Lanahan By Herself, (to accompany 'Zelda By Herself'), SVAC, 2004 Pat Adams: Paintings, The Bennington Museum, 2004 Gardens and Flowers from the Permanent Collection, (to accompany 'American Garden Legacy'), SVAC, 2004 Fusion Prints: The Gotham Series - Extraordinary Images of an Exceptional City, SVAC, 2004; Cooper Union, NY, 2004; Hall of Science, Queens, 2005; Tufts University, 2005; Rutgers University, 2008 Working Vermont: Land and Life from the Permanent Collection of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, (co-curator), SVAC 2004 Ray Bub: Ceramics, SVAC, 2004 In the Moment: The Still Life Paintings of Joseph Ablow, Janet Fish, and David Rohn, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, 2005 Joan Griswold: Paintings, The Bennington Museum, 2005 Berta Burr: Paintings, The Bennington Museum, 2005 Further exhibitions, 2005 and after: Jan Lourie, Patsy Santo, Frank Howard, Four Sculptors, Judy Kniffin, Robert Truskowski, Ken Leslie (Northeast); Alice Burr (San Francisco and Santa Barbara). Books O Say Can You See, American Photographs 1839-1939, MIT Press, 1989 Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, (with Therese Heyman and David Travis), Roberts Rinehart, 1992 Catalogue of Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, contributor, 1996 Carleton Watkins, J. Paul Getty Museum, In Focus series, contributor, 1997 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs, 1998 Poets and Pioneers, Fifty Lives in the History of Bennington, Bennington Banner and Town of Bennington, 1999 Fire and Ice: Treasures from the Photograph Collection of Frederic Church at Olana, Cornell University Press, 2002 (nominated for Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award, College Art Association, and Philip Johnson Award, Society of Architectural Historians) Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond, RSI / Chelsea Green, 2008 (received an Eric Hoffer Award for excellence in independent publishing) Selected Essays, Articles and Reviews "Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West," Picturescope, Spring 1984 "Pat Adams," Arts (NY), Summer 1984 "Landscape and the Partition of Photography," Print Collectors Newsletter (PCN), Nov-Dec 1985 "Inherence/Inheritance: From Canyon de Chelle to Wall Street," PCN, March-April 1986 "Sun Gardens, Victorian Photographs by Anna Atkins,"History of Photography, Fall 1986 "Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875: The Photographer as Social Recorder," PCN Jan-Feb 1988 "The Pane of It All," (restoring the stained glass of Harvard's Memorial Hall), Boston Business, Feb-March 1988 "Regionalism by Choice," Bostonia, March-April 1988 "Western Culture's Place in the Sun," Bostonia, May-June 1988 "Landscapes of Desire: Photography and the Corporation," PCN, May-June 1988 "A Transatlantic Collaboration," Bulletin of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Spring/Summer 1988 "Thomas Krens: An Interview," PCN, July-August 1988 "Images and Events: Photography as an American Art," PCN, March-April 1989 "Reconstructing the Language of Art," Bulletin of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Fall 1989 "Phyllis Lambert, An Interview," PCN, Nov-Dec 1989 "The Pleasures of Drawing," Bostonia, May-June 1990 "Sakhalin," (picture research), Bostonia, May-June 1990 "The Photographs of Samuel Butler: A Self-portrait," PCN, July-August 1990 "Photography and Art History: Symposium Report," Visual Resources, Vol.VII, 1990 "Student and Teacher: An Interview with John Walsh and Julius Held," PCN, Nov-Dec 1990 "Firenze Lucida: Photographs by Lucy Cobos," Bostonia, Jan-Feb 1991 "Undecisive Moments: New Perspectives on Photography in Nineteenth-century America," PCN, March-April 1992 "Walking Into History," Bostonia, Summer 1992 "Lands Wide Open," Art in America, Nov 1992 "Hope and Fear, Unity and Division," PCN, March-April 1993 "Signifyin' a Nation: Kitchen Comedies and Other Discoveries of a Post-modern Provacateur," PCN, September-October 1995 "California Roundup," "Angling Olmsted," and other pieces, On Paper magazine, Winter and Spring issues, 1997 "Narratives of Paradise," On Paper, Fall 1997 "St. Cloud, 1926," The Mind's Eye, Spring 1999 "Radical in the Berkshires," Berkshires Week, July 1999 "The Dhurrie in Depth," Design Times, October-November 2000 "The Stones of Venice," Design Times, March-April 2001 "Economy: Thoreau at the Millenium," The Mind's Eye, Fall 2001 "Fourth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show," Sculpture magazine, Jan-Feb 2002 "Paper Bridges: Photography and History in Woodstock," Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY 2003 "Narrative of Surprising Conversions: Irv in New York," The Mind's Eye, Spring, 2003 "Roger Fenton's 'Flowers and Fruit,'" Gastronomica, Summer, 2004 Introduction to Elizabeth Hapgood, Heirs of Fission, Pioneers of Fusion, 2005 Introduction and afterword to new edition of Steve Diamond, What the Trees Said, 2006 "Troubled Prophet: The Life & Death of Michael Metelica," The Mind's Eye, Spring, 2006 "A friend who revealed what the trees said," Hill Country Observer, September 2006 "War Correspondents: The Vietnam-era letters of John Merson and Marshall Bloom," Amherst, Fall 2009 "The Ceramics of Karen Karnes," The Walloomsac Review, Vol. 3, May 2010 "Shirley Jackson, Novels and Stories," The Walloomsac Review, Vol. 5, May 2011 "Presence in the Barn: Jon Maslow in the Sixties," in Schlepper, Clara Maslow, ed., iUniverse, 2011 "David Rohn: Paintings," Brattleboro Reformer, 2012 "The Reverend Billy Project: From rehearsal hall to super mall," The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2012 Catalogs Carleton Watkins, Photographer, Clark Art Institute, MA, 1983 Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion, SUNY/Albany, NY, 1985 Thomas Hart Benton/Frank Lloyd Wright, Studies in the History of Art III, Williams College Museum of Art, MA, 1985 Destruction and Destiny, The Photographs of A. J. Russell, Berkshire Museum, MA, 1987 Comrades and Cameras, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 1991 The Park-McCullough House, Park-McCullough House Association, VT, 1998 Photographs of Alice Burr, Alice Burr Trust, 1998 Charles Turrill's 'Greatest Hobby, for Documenting Eden, Society of California Pioneers, 2005 Selected Public Lectures Art and exhibition-related: Addison Gallery of American Art, Albany Institute of History and Art, Bennington Museum, Boston Athenaeum, Clark Art Institute, Historic Deerfield, J. Paul Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Middlebury College, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Wesleyan University Organized Duchamp to Gehry: 20th Century American Art and Architecture, History of Art Timeline Series, SVAC, Winter 2005. Lecturers included faculty from Dartmouth, Skidmore, and Williams Colleges. Talks and lectures on contemporary history: Middlebury Public Library / Vermont Humanities Council lecture series (2006); Annual symposium on social change, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2005, 2007); readings from Farm Friends (2008): bookstores, schools, radio and television in the Northeast and Washington, DC. Featured on local television shows focusing on culture and the arts: Patsy Santo, Frank Howard, Shirley Jackson, arts and development. Reviews of Work Significant notices and reviews of Fels' work have appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, USA Today, and the CBS Evening News, as well as Art New England, Bostonia, the Print Collector's Newsletter, and other local and regional publications.

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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.

Fels, Thomas Weston Williams College Museum of Art Bennington (Vt.) Art and photography Art historians Art museum curators Communal living -- Massachusetts -- Montague Counterculture--United States--History--20th century Exhibition catalogs Famous Long Ago archive Studies in the history of art (Williamstown, Mass.) Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 Nineteen Sixties Photography--Exhibitions Photography--United States Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 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.

Materials are arranged by project and chronologically within each.

1 1 Saratoga Museum - folklife and oral history project 1984 1 2 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center - correspondence and notes 1984 1 3 Modern Art of the Print exhibition - exhibition installation photographs and publicity 1984 1 4 Carleton Watkins - audiocassettes (2) 1983 24 T4-T5 Carleton Watkins - research - California History Magazine 1978-1981 1 5 Carleton Watkins - "Photographer" - publication 1984 1 6 Carleton Watkins - research - other exhibitions n.d 1 7 Photography and Art History Symposium - notes 1990 1 8 Photography and Art History Symposium - notes, correspondence 1989-1990 1 9-10 Photography and Art History Symposium - Helene Roberts article and correspondence (1 of 2 folders) 1988-1990 24 T1 Photography and Art History Symposium - Helene Roberts - keynote address and "Saturday A.M. discussion" - audiocassette [1990] 24 T2 Photography and Art History Symposium - "Saturday A.M. discussion" continued - audiocassette [1990] 24 T3 Photography and Art History Symposium - Ralph Lieberman lecture - audiocassette [1990] 1 11 Photography and Art History Symposium - report 1990 1 12 Photography and Art History Symposium - notes, correspondence, papers presented 1990 1 13 Photography and Art History Symposium - Samuel Butler exhibition - articles 1989-1990 1 14 Photography and Art History Symposium - Samuel Butler exhibition - notes, text, gallery layout 1989-1990 1 15 Samuel Butler exhibition - Bolton Museum and Gallery - correspondence 1989-1990 1 16 Samuel Butler exhibition -Bolton Museum and Gallery - exhibition catalogs 1986-1990 1 17 Paul Katz - materials and correspondence 1985, 1996 1 18 Correspondence with MIT program in Science, Technology, and Society 1991 1 19 Correspondence with Print Collector's Newsletter (Jackie Brody) 1985-1989 1 20 Mass MoCA - From Mill to Museum exhibition and lecture - notes and publicity 1989 1 21 Carleton Watkins - Getty Museum exhibition 1990 1 22 Lands Wide Open exhibition - Williams College Museum of Art 1992 1 23 Miscellaneous projects, proposals, correspondence 1983-1992 26 1 Views: The Journal of Photography in New England, volume 4:3-5:1 1983 1 24 Á La Pintura / Art and Invention exhibition - Bennington College 1994 1 25 Miscellaneous projects, proposals, correspondence 1992-1999 2 1 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion exhibition 1985 2 2 Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition and catalog 1984-1985 2 3 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog research, notes, text 1985 2 4 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog notes and text 1984-1985 2 5 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - financial 1985 2 6 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog images ca. 1985 2 7 Eadweard Muybridge - illustrations and negatives - Williams College n.d. 2 8 Eadweard Muybridge - Robert B. Haas correspondence 1985 2 9 Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition - frame measurements n.d. 2 10 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - photographic negatives ca. 1985 2 11 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog notes and text 1984-1985 2 12 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition catalog final publication 1985 2 13 Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition - publicity and lecture notes 1987-1988 24 2 Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition - lecture notes (cards) 1987-1988 2 14 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition, catalog, lecture - correspondence and notes 1987-1988 2 15 Eadweard Muybridge - Animal Locomotion - exhibition and lecture - notes and research 1984-1987 2 16 Eadweard Muybridge - exhibition and catalog - correspondence, notes 1983 2 17 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - correspondence, text 1983 2 18 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog text 1983 2 19 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog text [1983] 2 20 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog -- text and notes [1983] 2 21 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - draft text [1983] 2 22 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog text - "draft 3" [1983] 2 23 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - text and notes [1983] 2 24 Carleton Watkins - exhibition research, text and correspondence 1983 24 3 Carleton Watkins - exhibition - notes (cards) ca. 1983 2 25 Carleton Watkins - prints for publication ca. 1983 2 26 Carleton Watkins - Photographer exhibition -- catalog images 1983 2 27 Carleton Watkins - Clark Art Institute exhibition - label text and installation photographs 1983 2 28 Carleton Watkins - Clark Art Institute exhibition - publicity 1983 2 29 Carleton Watkins - Clark Art Institute exhibition - George Dimock correspondence 1983 2 30 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - correspondence 1983 2 31 Carleton Watkins - exhibition catalog - photographs 1983 3 1 Centre Canadien d'Architecture - exhibition planning and cataloging project correspondence 1983-1991 3 2 Williamstown art articles 1984 3 3 Thomas Hart Benton - Restoration… - exhibition catalog and correspondence 1984 3 4-5 Thomas Hart Benton - Restoration…exhibition - planning documents and notes 1984-1985 3 6 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition - correspondence 1984-1985 3 7 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition and catalog - correspondence and plans 1985 3 8-10 Thomas Hart Benton -America in Transition exhibition- planning documents 1985 3 11 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-text and planning documents 1985 3 12 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-text and exhibition labels 1985 3 13 Thomas Hart Benton - The America Today Murals-Williams College Museum of Art exhibition catalog 1985 3 14 Thomas Hart Benton - America Today exhibition-publicity 1985 3 15 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-correspondence and publicity 1985 3 16 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-planning documents and notes documents-photocopies 1985 3 17 Thomas Hart Benton - America Today exhibition-America in the 1920s and 30s series brochure planning documents and text 1985 3 18 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-press releases 1985 3 19 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition- Williams College Museum of Art installation photographs 1985 3 20 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition- Williams College Museum of Art installation contact sheets and photographic negatives 1985 3 21 Thomas Hart Benton - America in Transition exhibition-lecture at Albany Institute 1985 3 22 Frank Lloyd Wright / Thomas Hart Benton- draft publication text and planning documents 1985 3 23 Frank Lloyd Wright / Thomas Hart Benton- draft publication text and planning documents and notes 1985 3 24 Frank Lloyd Wright / Thomas Hart Benton- publication text 1985 25 4 Faneuil Hall - Faneuil Hall Restoration and Preservation Trust - Cradle of Liberty ca. 1989 4 1 Faneuil Hall - research, notes 1981 4 2 Faneuil Hall - research 1991-1992 4 3 Faneuil Hall - research - George P.A. Healy ca. 1991 4 4 Faneuil Hall - research and illustrations 1991 4 5 Faneuil Hall - research and illustrations 1992 4 6 Faneuil Hall - research - Daniel Webster ca. 1992 4 7 Faneuil Hall - conservation - background and treatment proposal 1991 4 8 Faneuil Hall - NEH grant and symposium - correspondence, notes 1991 4 9 Faneuil Hall - research - conferences ca. 1991 4 10 Faneuil Hall - financial - correspondence, invoice, notes 1991-1992 4 11 Faneuil Hall - symposium - notes, correspondence 1991-1992 4 12 Faneuil Hall - correspondence and research images 1992 4 13 Rube Goldberg exhibition - comics, press, clippings n.d. 4 14 Rube Goldberg exhibition - research, notes, correspondence n.d. 4 15 Rube Goldberg exhibition - research and correspondence 1986-1987 4 16 Rube Goldberg exhibition - research and notes n.d. 4 17 Rube Goldberg exhibition - research - chronology, notes n.d. 4 18 Rube Goldberg exhibition - research and notes 1987 4 19 Rube Goldberg exhibition - budget and finances 1987-1988 4 20 Rube Goldberg exhibition - notes, exhibition labels 1987 4 21 Rube Goldberg exhibition - drafts of exhibition publications 1987 4 22 Rube Goldberg exhibition - exhibition publications, press release, press clippings 1987 4 23 Rube - travelling exhibition - correspondence, notes, and labels n.d. 4 24 Rube - IBM exhibition - correspondence, notes 1987 5 1-4 O Say Can You See exhibition - research materials (4 folders) n.d. 5 5 O Say Can You See exhibition catalog - correspondence and notes 1988 5 6 O Say Can You See exhibition and catalog - planning 1988 5 7 O Say Can You See exhibition catalog 1988-1989 5 8 O Say Can You See exhibition catalog - "extra text" 1988-1989 5 9 O Say Can You See exhibition catalog - illustrations 1989 5 10 O Say Can You See exhibition - correspondence 1987-1989 5 11-12 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog publication (2 folders) 1988-1989 5 13 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - printer's proof 1989 5 14 O Say Can You See - "extra text" ca. 1989 5 15 O Say Can You See - exhibition and catalog correspondence 1989 5 16 O Say Can You See - press 1989 5 17 O Say Can You See - exhibition invitations 1989 5 18 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - photographic negatives and contact sheets ca. 1989 5 19 O Say Can You See - press releases and articles 1989 5 20 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - correspondence and promotional material 1988-1989 5 21 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - text ("penultimate") 1989 5 22 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - text edit (12/1) ca. 1989 5 23 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - text edits (11/28) ca. 1989 5 24 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - draft text ca. 1989 5 25 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - text edit (Fels essay) 1989 6 1 O Say Can You See - Berkshire Museum correspondence 1989 6 2 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - images ca. 1989 6 3 O Say Can You See - notes for exhibition catalog 1988-1989 6 4 O Say Can You See - exhibition - production notes 1988 6 5 O Say Can You See - exhibition - notes 1988 24 1 O Say Can You See - exhibition - notes (cards) ca. 1988 6 6 O Say Can You See - exhibition - label text and gallery arrangement 1989 6 7 O Say Can You See - notes for Fels essay 1988 6 8 O Say Can You See - exhibition - lists of artworks 1989 6 9 O Say Can You See - exhibition - matting and framing sheets ca. 1989 6 10 O Say Can You See - Hudson Hills Press correspondence 1988-1998 6 11 O Say Can You See - exhibition at Bowdoin College Museum of Art - correspondence 1989-1990 25 2 O Say Can You See - exhibition catalog - printer's proofs ca. 1989 6 12 Williams College Museum of Art - exhibition proposals and planning 1991-1992 6 13 Dartmouth College - Humanities Research Institute - correspondence 1992-1993 6 14 Paris travel and research - correspondence and notes 1996 6 15 New England Museum Association - newsletters, museum promotional materials 1997-2004 6 16 Canajoharie Annual Regional Juried Art Show 2001 6 17 Brattleboro Museum - Passages, Destinations and other exhibitions - correspondence and notes 2001 6 18 Brattleboro Museum - Vermont Artists as Travelers exhibition - correspondence and notes 2000-2002 6 19 Amsterdam travel and research - correspondence and notes 2002 6 20 Society of California Pioneers- Documenting Eden: The Wine Country Photographs of Turrill and Miller exhibition - correspondence, notes, brochure 2004 6 21 Society of California Pioneers- Documenting Eden: The Wine Country Photographs of Turrill and Miller exhibition - photographs 2004 6 22 Better Bennington Corporation 2004 6 23 Brattleboro Museum - correspondence and notes 2004-2005 7 1 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - correspondence, contracts, calendars 1989-1992 7 2 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - catalog 1991 7 3 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - photography collection survey and report 1990 7 4 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - notes and text 1990 7 5 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - correspondence 1990 7 6 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - slides 1990 7 7 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Comrades and Cameras Exhibition - magazines/research 1988-1989 7 8 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - magazines 1990-1991 7 9 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - publicity 1992 7 10 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - correspondence and planning documents and notes 1991-1992 7 11 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - correspondence and planning documents and notes 1991-1992 7 12 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - research, notes, correspondence 1990 7 13 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - research, notes 1990 7 14 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - notes, correspondence, text 1991 7 15 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - draft text 1991 7 16 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - exhibition catalog - draft ca. 1991 7 17 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - notes, text, correspondence 1990 7 18 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - manuscript ca. 1990 7 19 Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Watkins to Weston… exhibition - notes, correspondence, financial 1990-1991 8 1 Butcher seminar - exhibition planning documents and notes 1984 8 2 Farm Security Administration exhibition 1985 8 3 Williams College Museum of Art - correspondence and notes 1984-1985 8 4 Williams College Museum of Art 1984-1985 8 5 Correspondence with George Dimock related to Exploiting the View: Photographs of Yosemite & Mariposa 1984-1985 8 6 New England Monthly - correspondence 1984-1985 8 7 exhibition planning (various) 1984-2006 8 7 1986 8 8 9 Centre Canadienne d'Architecture - exhibition planning and correspondence 1983-1986 8 10 Williams College Museum of Art - notes on photography collection 1987 8 11 Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) photography study - correspondence 1987 8 12 Clark Art Institute - correspondence 1987-1989 8 13 Centre Canadienne d'Architecture / Phyllis Lambert - correspondence and notes 1987-1995 25 3 Articles and publicity materials on the work of photojournalist Kevin McKiernan 1987-1990 8 14 A.J. Russell - Destruction and Destiny exhibition - press and catalog 1989 8 15 A.J. Russell - articles and correspondence 1982-1991 8 16 MIT Press - correspondence with David E. Nye 1989 24 4 MIT Press - notes (cards) ca. 1988 8 17 Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - lecture and exhibition - correspondence and publicity 1989 8 18 Art of California Magazine - "In House" correspondence 1990 8 19 J. Paul Getty Museum and Trust - correspondence and information 1990-1998 8 20 Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center - correspondence and information 1990-1998 8 21 American Federation of Arts - proposals and planning 1992 8 22 Antiques magazine - correspondence 1992 8 23 American Graphic Arts Museum information 1992 8 24 Massachusetts Historical Society - correspondence with Chris Steele and information 1992-1993 8 25 International Center of Photography - correspondence with Ellen Handy 1994-1995 8 26 Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art - correspondence, alumni magazine 1996 8 27 Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition and lecture - correspondence, notes, proposal 1996 8 28 Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition and lecture - notes, text 1996 8 29 Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition - correspondence, printed material 1996 24 5 Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition - notes (cards) 1996 8 30 Dahesh Museum - Classic Cities exhibition - publicity 1996-1999 8 31 Berkshire Museum- Classic Cities exhibition - correspondence and notes 1996-1997 8 32 Brooklyn Museum of Art - correspondence and notes 1998 8 33 Dahesh Museum- Fire and Ice exhibition - correspondence and notes 2001 26 2 Dahesh Museum- Fire and Ice exhibition - press 2002 8 34 Entourage: Exhibitions - marketing packet n.d. 8 35 Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - drafts, budget, invoices 1993-1994 8 36 Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - research n.d. 8 37 Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - correspondence, notes 1993-1994 8 38 Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - correspondence 1993 8 39 Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - pamphlets, press release, press coverage 1993-1994 25 5 Naumkeag Sculpture exhibition - press 1994 9 18 Southern Vermont Arts Center - Luigi Lucioni exhibition - notes, correspondence, publication 2000 9 19 Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Art and Soul; Lucioni 2001 9 20 Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Yester Years 2001 9 21 Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Noland's Nolands 2001 9 22 Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Steichen, Scavullo 2003 9 23 Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibitions - Audubon, Bezanson 2003 9 24 Southern Vermont Arts Center - Painted Curtains - notes, research, correspondence 2003-2004 9 25 Southern Vermont Arts Center - Stieglitz exhibition - press coverage, correspondence, notes 2005 9 26 Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - After Strange Gods 1994 9 27 Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Portrait of Artists 1994 9 28 Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Yet in Memory 1994 9 29 Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Documents and Dreams 1995 9 30 Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Curator's Choice 1995 9 31 Clark Art Institute - exhibitions - Old and New 1995 9 32 Clark Art Institute - exhibition proposals n.d. 9 33 Clark Art Institute - correspondence, notes 1994 9 34 Clark Art Institute - correspondence, notes 1994-1995 9 35 Clark Art Institute - correspondence, notes 1998-2000 9 36 Clark Art Institute - publications, pamphlets, news clippings 1994-1999 25 1 Clark Art Institute - The Clark Today 1996, 1999, 2001 10 1 Williams College Museum of Art - annual report 1981-1986 10 2 Williams College Museum of Art - annual report 1987-1991 10 3 Clark Art Institute - Paris travel - notes, museum brochures 1994 10 4 Clark Art Institute -Pont Aven travel - correspondence, notes, exhibition brochures 1994 10 5 Clark Art Institute - announcement of Assistant Curator position 1994-1995 10 6 Clark Art Institute - Paris travel - correspondence, notes 1995 10 7 Clark Art Institute - New York travel - notes, expenses 1995 10 8 Southern Vermont Arts Center - publications, pamphlets, photographs 2000-2003 10 9 Southern Vermont Arts Center - press coverage 2000-2003 10 10 Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 1999-2000 10 11 Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 2001-2002 10 12 Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 2002-2003 10 13 Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 2003-2004 10 14 Southern Vermont Arts Center - Festival of the Arts - publication 2004-2005 10 15 Southern Vermont Arts Center - area guides, correspondence n.d. 10 16 Southern Vermont Arts Center - brochures, correspondence, notes 2000 10 17 Southern Vermont Arts Center - job description, contract, performance reviews 2000-2002 10 18 Southern Vermont Arts Center - invoices 2000-2001 10 19 Southern Vermont Arts Center - invoices, correspondence 2002-2003 10 20 Southern Vermont Arts Center - invoices, correspondence 2004 10 21 Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibition planning documents, notes, correspondence, news clippings 2004 10 22 Southern Vermont Arts Center - correspondence 2003-2005 10 23 Southern Vermont Arts Center - news clippings 2001-2004 10 24 Southern Vermont Arts Center - exhibition research 2004 10 25 Southern Vermont Arts Center - correspondence, brochures, news clippings 2006 11 1 Clark Art Institute - notes n.d. 11 2 Clark Art Institute - exhibition schedules 1994 11 3 Clark Art Institute - annual report 1993-1994 ca.1995 11 4 Clark Art Institute - exhibition notes 1995 11 5 Clark Art Institute - collection list 1995 11 6 Clark Art Institute - collection development - notes, correspondence 1994-1995 11 7 Clark Art Institute - notes 1991-1994 11 8 Clark Art Institute - trustee presentation - notes, correspondence 1995 11 9 Clark Art Institute - collection development - research, notes 1995 11 10 Clark Art Institute - invitations 1995 11 11 Clark Art Institute - correspondence 1991-1996 11 12 Clark Art Institute - correspondence 1995-1996 11 13 Clark Art Institute - correspondence 1994-1995 11 14 Clark Art Institute - Janet and Fred Ley correspondence 1995-1996 11 15 Clark Art Institute -Michelle Chomette (photography dealer) - correspondence, brochures 1995 11 16 Clark Art Institute -Gary Edwards (photography dealer) - correspondence, invitations 1995 11 17 Clark Art Institute -Hans P. Kraus (photography dealer) - correspondence, notes 1995 11 18 Clark Art Institute - Mack Lee (photography dealer) - correspondence, notes, slides 1995 11 19 Clark Art Institute -Charles Schwartz (photography dealer) - correspondence 1995 11 20 Clark Art Institute - articles by Michael Conforti 1994 11 21 Clark Art Institute - Richard Tepe print - research, correspondence 1995 11 22 Clark Art Institute - the Equinox - correspondence, notes 1994-1995 11 23 Clark Art Institute - Emile Jellineck - correspondence, images 1995 11 24 Clark Art Institute - photography dealers - correspondence 1994-1995 11 25 Clark Art Institute - Carleton Watkins exhibition - correspondence, research 1995 11 26 Daguerreotype forum - correspondence, brochures 1995 11 27 Clark Art Institute - photography collection - correspondence, notes 1995 11 28 Clark Art Institute - photography collection - correspondence, research, notes 1995-1996 11 29 Clark Art Institute -photography collection -correspondence, notes 1993-1996 11 30 Clark Art Institute - gallery brochures n.d. 11 31 Clark Art Institute - London travel - correspondence, notes 1995 11 32 Clark Art Institute - publications - journal and report 1999-2001 12 1 Vermont Arts Exchange - notes, newsletters 1995-1997 12 2 Vermont Arts Exchange - administrative documents, notes 1994-1996 12 3 Vermont Arts Exchange - Shea Mill project 1993 12 4 Vermont Arts Exchange - Sage Mill project 1995 12 5 Vermont Arts Exchange - correspondence 1997 12 6 Elm Street Arts - notes, news clippings 1993-1994 12 7 Elm Street Arts - meeting minutes, administrative documents, finances 1993 12 8 Elm Street Arts - correspondence, invitations, news clippings 1993-1995 12 9 Vermont Council on the Arts - annual reports 1994-1995 12 10 Vermont Council on the Arts - correspondence 1993-1996 12 11 Fire and Ice - exhibition proposal and research 2001 12 12 Fire and Ice - Dahesh Museum of Art - publications, press clippings 2002-2003 12 13 Fire and Ice exhibition - press coverage, correspondence, guest list 2002 12 14 Fire and Ice - Fire & Ice: Treasure from the Photographic Collection of Frederick Church at Olana - correspondence, press release, reviews 2002 12 15 Fire and Ice - press release, press coverage 2002 12 16 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.

13 1 Bennington projects - museum proposals 2000 13 2 North Bennington Station activities 2003 13 3 North Bennington Station - View from Here 2003 13 4 Bennington - creative economy 2003-2005 13 5 North Bennington - Burr harpsichord concert and exhibition 2004-2005 13 6 North Bennington - Arts at the Station / The View from Here 2006 25 6 North Bennington Station activities - Press 2003 13 7 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - newsletters and June Arts brochures 2004-2006 13 8 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2005 13 9 "BBC"/Arts 2004-2005 13 10 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) 2006 13 11 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2007 2007 13 12 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2004 - artist materials, correspondence 1998, 2004 13 13 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2004 - artists' contracts [RESTRICTED] 2004 13 14 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) /June Arts 2004 - planning documents, notes, correspondence 2004 13 15 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - planning documents, correspondence, notes 2004 13 16 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - publicity - Tempo articles 2004 13 17 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2005 - planning documents, notes, correspondence, publicity 2005 13 18 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - clippings, "Making History" article 2004 13 19 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - planning documents, correspondence, notes 2004 13 20 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - planning documents and notes 2004 14 1 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) activities 2004-2006 14 2 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2005, Arts Summit, Arts and Culture Task Force 2005-2006 14 3 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2006 2006 26 3 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC)/June Arts 2004 - publicity - Downtown Bennington; Arts Weekend 2007 14 4 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - correspondence, project notes 2007-2008 14 5 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - Shirley Jackson Festival/"All Aboard for Fun" 2006-2007 14 6 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - Shirley Jackson Festival/"All Aboard for Fun" - Correspondence and scripts 2008 14 7 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - brochure ca. 2008 14 8 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - board meeting notes and correspondence 2007-2008 14 9 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - board meeting notes and correspondence 2008 14 10 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - fundraising 2008 14 11 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - publicity 2008 26 4 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - publicity (oversized) 2008-2009 14 12 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - board meeting notes and correspondence 2009 14 13 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - fundraising 2009 14 14 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) - publicity 2009 14 15 Bennington Cultural and Arts Council (BCAC) [RESTRICTED] 2006-2008 15 1 Park-McCullough House - board activities - collections inventory 1987-1997 15 2 Park-McCullough House - long range plan 1991, 1998 15 3-4 Park-McCullough House - board activities (2 folders) 1996 15 5 Park-McCullough House - event ideas 1996-1997 15 6 Park-McCullough House - site plan 1997 15 7-9 Park-McCullough House - board activities (2 folders) 1997 15 10 Park-McCullough House - research and notes 1996-1998 15 11 Park-McCullough House - events - Charles A. Burroughs Lecture 1997-1998 15 12 Park-McCullough House - booklet and board correspondence 1997-1998 15 13 Park-McCullough House - newsletter 1997-1998 15 14 Park-McCullough House - events - Evenings on the Verandah 1997-1998 15 15 Park-McCullough House - board activities [RESTRICTED] 1998 15 16 Park-McCullough House - board activities 1998 15 17 Park-McCullough House - resignation from board [RESTRICTED] 1998 15 18-19 Park-McCullough House - board activities (2 folders) [RESTRICTED] 1998 15 20 Park-McCullough House - fundraising 1998 15 21 Park-McCullough House - board activities [RESTRICTED] 1998 16 1 Park-McCullough House - events - Evenings on the Verandah 1998 16 2 Park-McCullough House - events - collectibles fair 1998 16 3 Park-McCullough House - events - Ted Gilley and Kitsey Canaan 1998 16 4 Park-McCullough House - booklet - printers proofs 1998 16 5-7 Park-McCullough House - board activities (3 folders) 1998-1999 16 8 Park-McCullough House - research, notes, correspondence 1998-1999 16 9 Park-McCullough House - booklet - correspondence and notes 1998-1999 16 10 Park-McCullough House - board activities 1998-1999 16 11-12 Park-McCullough House - board activities (2 folders) 1998-1999 16 13-14 Park-McCullough House - board activities - correspondence and notes (2 folders) 1998-1999 16 15 Park-McCullough House - board activities - [RESTRICTED] 1999 16 16 Park-McCullough House - board activities / director search 1999 16 17 Park-McCullough House - board activities 1999 16 18 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.

9 1 North Bennington Newsletter - grant proposal, correspondence 1997 9 2 North Bennington Newsletter - research 1997 9 3 North Bennington Newsletter - drafts, publication n.d. 9 4 Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - research n.d. 9 5 Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - research 1999 9 6 Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - research, notes n.d. 9 7-11 Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - drafts (5 folders) 1999 9 12 Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - correspondence, invoices 1999 25 8 Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - "Poets and Pioneers" publication - print draft 1999 9 13 Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - "Poets and Pioneers" publication - responses ca. 1999 26 5 Bennington Banner - Bennington 250th Anniversary - Bicenquinquagenary volumes I-III; The Shopping Guide, July 30, 1999 1999 9 14 Bennington history panels - proposal 1997 9 15 Bennington history panels - research 1997 9 16 Bennington history panels - drafts 1997 25 9 Bennington history panels - print drafts 1997 9 17 Bennington history panels - correspondence, notes 1998-99 17 1 Art New England - New England houses article 1983 17 2 Art New England - "Elements of the New England Rural Landscape" article 1983 17 3 Art New England - "Next to Nature" review 1983 17 4 Bennington Banner - "Revolutions Per Minute" and "The Suspended Object" reviews 1983 17 5 Art New England -"New Decorative Art" review 1983 17 6 Kalman Zabarsky review - notes and research 1983 17 7 Review of Peter Palmquist's Carlton Carleton Watkins, Photographer 1983 17 8 Art New England - correspondence 1983 17 9 Miles Hyman exhibition review n.d. 17 10 "Williams Museum offers 'Radical Painting' exhibition" review 1984 17 11 Pat Adams review - correspondence and research 1983-1984 17 12 Arts Magazine, Summer 1984 - Pat Adams review 1984 17 13 Pat Adams Paintings: A Survey 1952-1979 exhibition catalog 1980 17 14 Art New England - review of Six in Bronze exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art 1984 17 15 Art New England - review of Moholy-Nagy exhibition at Wellesley College 1985 17 16 Art New England - review of Garry Winogrand exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art 1985 17 17 Picturescope - review of Peter Palmquist's Carleton Watkins, Photographer - magazine and correspondence 1985 17 18 History of Photography quarterly - review of Sun Gardens: Victorian Photographs by Anna Atkins 1986 25 7 Art New England - "This Land: American Regionalism and its Sources" 1986 17 19 The New Criterion - correspondence 1986-1987 17 20 Julius Held interview - transcript, notes, research 1984-1987 17 21 Julius Held articles 1989-1995 17 22 Print Collector's Newsletter - review of "Landscape as Photograph" 1985 17 23 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Inherence / Inheritance" article 1986 17 24-25 Print Collector's Newsletter - Thomas Krens interview (2 folders) 1988 17 26 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Landscapes of Desire" review 1988 17 27 Print Collector's Newsletter - review of "Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala" 1988 17 28 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Images and Events: Photography as…" article 1989 17 29 Print Collector's Newsletter - Mass MoCA party 1989 17 30 Print Collector's Newsletter - Phylis Lambert interview 1989 17 31 Print Collector's Newsletter - Samuel Butler article 1990 17 32 Print Collector's Newsletter - John Walsh/Julius Held interview - correspondence and notes 1990 17 33 Print Collector's Newsletter - John Walsh/Julius Held interview 1990 18 1 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Photography and the Spoken Word" and "Northern Report" 1991 18 2 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Motion Pictures" / report from the West 1992 18 3 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Undecisive Moments" review 1992 18 4 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Hope, Fear, Unity and Division" review 1993 18 5 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Enchanted Art" and "Moscow on the Raritan" 1993 18 6 Print Collector's Newsletter - "Signifyin' a Nation" 1995 18 7 On Paper - review of "Points of Entry" series 1997 18 8 Chronicle Books - correspondence 1993 18 9 Park-McCullough House - newsletter and other writing projects 1998-1999 18 10 Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio - Berkshire Eagle article, "Radical in the Berkshires" - research, exhibition catalog 1998-1999 18 11 "History Seen through the Camera Lens" - Berkshire Eagle article 1999 18 12 Seymore Pioneer Museum/ Society of California Pioneers - "Points of Interest, the Lawrence and Houseworth Albums" - text for book jacket and exhibition panels 2000 18 13 Design Times - book reviews, correspondence 2000-2001 18 14 Sculpture, a publication of the International Sculpture Center - "Fourth Annual Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Festival" article 2001-2002 18 15 North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Park - photographs 2001 18 16 Photography: A Guide to Collecting - book proposal, correspondence, draft text 2003-2004 18 17 Hudson Hills Press - Prints of John Himmelfarb - book flap text 2004 18 18 Gastronomica - "Roger Fenton's 'Flowers and Fruit'" article 2004 18 19 "A guide to New York" - Bennington Banner article 2005 19 1 On Paper journal - Northeast Roundup - notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings 1996-1997 19 2 On Paper journal - California Roundup - correspondence, art brochures, notes 1996-1997 19 3 Constellation magazine - "Paper Bridges" article (Woodstock) - correspondence 2002 19 4 "Focus on Collecting" Symposium (Toronto) - correspondence, copies of speech, Contact magazine 1999 May 19 5 AfterImage journal - ArtScene newsletter - Visual Studies Workshop 1996-1997 19 6 Cleveland catalog - biographies, correspondence, notes, "Legacy of Light" brochures 1996 19 7 Boston Business Journal - "The Pane of it All" article on Harvard's Memorial Hall - notes, drafts, Harvard Magazine excerpt 1987-1988 19 8 Boston Business Journal copies - correspondence, notes 1987 19 9 Bostonia magazine - "Regionalism by Choice" article, draft, notes 1988 19 10 Bostonia - "Western Culture's Place in the Sun", correspondence, drafts, notes 1988 19 11 Bostonia - "The Pleasures of Drawing", notes, drafts, other art-related articles 1990 19 12 Bostonia - Sakhalin Island (photo research) 1990 19 13 Bostonia - "Firenze Lucida: Photographs by Lucy Cobos", correspondence and notes re article 1990-1991 19 14 Bostonia - "Walking into History", notes, correspondence 1992 19 15 The J. Paul Getty Trust - bulletin, newsletter, AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus), correspondence, notes 1988-1989 19 16 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 19 17 Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA) / International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) - articles, memos, drafts ca. 1981-1986 19 18 Correspondence between Thomas Fels and Robert and Mary Lou Treat re Charles Knowles' Psalm Book, miscellaneous 2002-2005 19 19 Correspondence out to Vivian Fine and Ben Karp, notes, Toulouse-Lautrec brochure 1992 19 20 Print listings, Clark Art Museum Store 1993 19 21 James MacGregor Burns - research, notes, correspondence 1992 19 22 Lerner House addition - description, architectural drawings 1993 19 23 Cummings Studios publicity - correspondence, notes, sketches of advertisements, newspaper photocopies 1988-1989 19 24 Cummings Studios publicity - Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, correspondence, invoice, notes 1988 19 25 Bill Botzow - exhibitions - essay and publicity 1988, 1990 20 1-2 Berkshire Museum Photograph Collection - NEA research, accession records, notes, correspondence (2 folders) ca. 1989 20 3 Berkshire Museum - Classic Cities - exhibition text, correspondence 1990 20 4 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - uncorrected proof; printed copy 1998 20 5 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes; Owl Books - Trade Paperbacks catalog; miscellaneous clippings from newspapers and alumni magazines 1998-1999 20 6 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes, illustrations, outlines, sample text 1996 20 7-9 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes, illustrations, outlines, sample text (3 folders) 1997 20 10-11 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes, illustrations, outlines, sample text (2 folders) 1998 20 12 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - correspondence, notes, illustrations, outlines, sample text 1997-1998 20 13 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - manuscript 1998 20 14 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - manuscript with Denise's comments 1997 20 15 Sotheby's Guide to Photographs - annotated manuscript 1997 20 16 Leo and Wolfe Photography - correspondence; brochures 1992-1996 20 17 Margo Archer - photograph list n.d. 20 18 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - correspondence; excerpts from Guide to Photographic Collection at the Smithsonian Institute 1990 20 19 Correspondence with Irving Barrett, sample prints 1994 20 20 Correspondence with Victoria Blasco 1991-1998 20 21 Correspondence with Margarita Borissova 1994 20 22 The French Library and Cultural Center - correspondence with Phyllis Dohanian 1996 20 23 Kevin Bubriski - resume copies, personal statement, correspondence 1993 20 24 Kevin Bubriski - invitations to exhibitions on Nepal and Tibet, correspondence, excerpt on documentary photography 1991-1994 20 25 Correspondence with Sheryl [Conkelton] 1990 20 26 Hallmark Cards - "Acquisitions", correspondence with Keith Davis, notes 1972-1999 20 27 Warren and Margot Coville Photographic Collection, correspondence with Kathy Erwin 1996-1997 20 28 Correspondence with Eliza Mabry, Marion Goethals and Linda Shearer 1994-1995 20 29 The J. Paul Getty Museum - A.J. Russell photograph listings 1987 20 30 Correspondence with Ruth Ann Fredenthal 1986-2000 20 31 JMMS - Artist Technical Services 1995 20 32 Correspondence with Therese Heyman 1991-1994 20 33 News from the Oakland Museum - "Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography" 1992 20 34 Correspondence with Georgine MacGarvey regarding exhibition at The Equinox hotel 2003-2005 20 35 Art Exhibitions - Curatorial Assistance Inc. - correspondence with Graham Howe 1995-1996 20 36 Correspondence with H. Travers Newton 1997 21 1a-1c Farm Friends - Advance reading copies, printed drafts (3 folders) 2007 21 2 Farm Friends - Chelsea Green publishing catalog 2008 21 3-4 Farm Friends - printers' spread (2 folders) ca. 2006 21 5 Farm Friends - correspondence - Stephen Lerner 2006 21 6 Farm Friends - draft with Stephen Lerner comments, p. 1-102 2006 21 7 Farm Friends - draft with Stephen Lerner comments, p. 103-202 2006 21 8 Farm Friends - draft with Stephen Lerner comments, p. 203-end 2006 21 9 Farm Friends - proposal and draft text 1993 21 10 Farm Friends - project description/proposal, sample text 1990s 21 11 Farm Friends - "original manuscript" p. 1-103 2004 21 12 Farm Friends - "original manuscript" p. 104-209 2004 21 13 Farm Friends - "original manuscript" p. 210-337 2004 21 14 Farm Friends - typescript, with editorial comments, p. 1-98 2003 21 15 Farm Friends - typescript, with editorial comments, p. 146-234 2003 21 16 Farm Friends - typescript, with editorial comments, p. 235-325 2003 21 17 Farm Friends - typescript - I. "In the Beginning" 2003 21 18 Farm Friends - typescript - II. "Garden of Eden" 2003 21 19 Farm Friends - typescript - III. "Afterlife" 2003 21 20 Farm Friends - typescript, "post-permissions," p. 1-123 2007 21 21 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.

22 1 Graduate school programs and internships - research, brochures 1980-1983 22 2 Museum brochures, newspaper clippings 1980-1984 22 3 Employment search - correspondence 1980-1981 22 4 Williams College - administrative documents, Clark Art Institute Annual Report 1980-1983 22 5 Williams College - graduate school application, personal statement 1981 22 6 Williams College - correspondence 1981-1985 22 7 Employment applications - correspondence, notes ca. 1983 22 8 Employment and fellowship applications - notes, notebook 1983-1984 22 9 Resume - drafts and notes 1984 22 10 Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1984 22 11 Resume - drafts and notes 1984-1989 22 12 Proposals and inquiries - correspondence, research 1985 22 13 Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1985 22 14 Chester Dale Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art - application, articles, correspondence 1985-1987 22 15 Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1985-1996 22 16 Employment applications - correspondence, research 1987-1989 22 17 Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1990-1991 22 18 Harvard University Art Museums - employment correspondence 1991-1993 22 19 Smithsonian Institute - employment application and correspondence - use copy 1991 22 20 Smithsonian Institute - employment application and correspondence [RESTRICTED] 1991 22 21 Employment - correspondence, notes, research 1991-1992 22 22 Transcripts, test scores [RESTRICTED] 1969-1983 23 1 Rockefeller - Warren Weaver Fellows Program - application, correspondence 1992 23 2 Research copy - Library of Congress - employment applications 1992 23 3 Library of Congress - employment applications [RESTRICTED] 1992 23 4 Williams College - alumni office and graduate program correspondence 1992 23 5 Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - administrative documents, brochures, newsletters 1992-1993 23 6 Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - administrative forms, handbooks, notes 1992-1993 23 7 Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - correspondence, notes 1992-1993 23 8 Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - student papers, evaluations [RESTRICTED] 1993 23 9 Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - correspondence with students [RESTRICTED] 1993 23 10 Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - administrative forms, schedules 1993 23 11 Vermont College of Norwich University - MFA program - research bibliography n.d. 23 12 Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1993-1995 23 13 Center for Creative Photography - Ansel Adams Research Fellowship - application materials and correspondence 1993-1995 23 14 Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1196-1999 23 15 Employment applications - correspondence, resumes, notes 1997-2002 23 16 Employment applications - correspondence, notes 1999-2000 23 17 Columbia University - National Arts Journalism Program - application materials and correspondence 2001-2002 23 18 Fellowships and Williams College graduate program - newsletters, updates, correspondence 1994-2004 23 19 Biographical statements, resumes, notes n.d.-2008