James Schuyler Papers, 1947-1991 (MSS 78)

Restrictions: Original media formats are restricted. Viewing/listening copies are available for researchers.

Extent: 14 Linear feet (29 archives boxes, 4 card file boxes, 1 carton, 5 map case folders)

Papers of James Schuyler (1923-1991), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and member of the New York School circle of poets and painters. A New York City resident since 1950, Schuyler moved among prominent artists and writers of the period and worked as an art critic and associate editor for Art News from 1955 to circa 1962, and in the Museum of Modern Art beginning in 1957. He published his first novel, Alfred and Guinevere, in 1958 and continued a distinguished career, publishing twelve books of poetry and two additional novels, including A Nest of Ninnies with John Ashbery. Schuyler's collection of poems entitled The Morning of the Poem won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. The bulk of the materials date between 1950 and 1970, with a second field of concentration in the late 1980s, and include correspondence with contemporary writers and visual artists, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Also included are manuscripts and typescripts; Art News materials; notebooks; diaries; miscellaneous subject files; and rare audio recordings.

Born on November 9, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, James Marcus Schuyler experienced a peripatetic childhood. His family lived for a time in Downer's Grove, a suburb of Chicago, then Washington, D.C., and later Chevy Chase, Maryland. His parents divorced early in Schuyler's childhood and he remained with his mother and step-father. At the age of twelve, his family moved to Buffalo, New York, and two years later to East Aurora, a suburb outside of Buffalo.

Schuyler attended Bethany College in West Virginia from 1941 to 1943. There he pursued interests in history, architecture, and literature. During World War II, in 1943, he joined the U.S. Navy. He spent the next two years on a destroyer in the North Atlantic, protecting convoys. He remained in the Navy after the war.

In 1947, Schuyler moved to the Isle of Ischia in Italy for two years. There he lived in the rented house of W.H. Auden, whom he had met in New York. Schuyler served as Auden's secretary, typing the manuscript for Auden's book Gnomes and Auden's translation of Jean Cocteau's "Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde." Schuyler also attended the University of Florence at this time, and he began writing poetry. Although he returned to New York briefly, an inheritance allowed him the financial independence to return to Florence in mid-1950.

Schuyler began writing seriously in the late 1940's, but an important breakthrough in his career came in 1951. As a result of his correspondence with Howard Moss, Moss published Schuyler's poem "Salute", written in the hospital in White Plains, New York. Moss later published three of Schuyler's short stories in the magazine Accent along with a poem entitled "Three Penny Opera" by Frank O'Hara. At a party, Moss introduced Schuyler to Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, who had been Moss's schoolmates at Harvard.

Schuyler soon became involved with the so-called New York School of writers and artists. By 1951, he and Frank O'Hara shared an apartment on 49th Street, where they were later joined by John Ashbery after Ashbery's return from France. Schuyler worked for a while at a bookshop on 54th street and later, with the financial assistance of a friend, devoted himself to writing what would become his first novel, Alfred and Guinevere. By 1955 he was working for the magazine Art News as an art critic and associate editor. His colleagues at Art News included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, and Elaine De Kooning. For this journal Schuyler reviewed exhibitions and wrote articles. By 1957 he was also working for the Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Circulating Exhibitions.

Schuyler's writing career expanded greatly in the mid-1950s and 1960s. He wrote the libretto for Paul Bowles' recording entitled A Picnic Cantata (1955) and two off-broadway plays, Presenting Jane (1952) and Shopping and Waiting (1953). In 1958 he published his first novel, Alfred and Guinevere, a book about children and their perceptions. Then came two collections of verse, Salute (1960) and May 24th or So (1966).

Between 1961 and 1973, Schuyler lived with the Fairfield Porter family in Southampton, Long Island, and moved among New York poets and painters, including Fairfield Porter, Kenward Elmslie, Ron Padgett, and Joe Brainard. He collaborated with Kenward Elmslie on the off-broadway play Unpacking the Black Trunk (1965).

Collaborating with John Ashbery, Schuyler published the novel A Nest of Ninnies in 1969. Begun early in their relationship, the novel is a satire on suburbanites and their lifestyles. This work appeared at the same time as Schuyler's first major collection of poetry Freely Espousing (1969).

Schuyler's productivity reached a zenith during the 1970s, with the publication of numerous collections of poems including The Crystal Lithium (1972); A Sun Cab (1972); Penguin Modern Poets 24, with Kenneth Koch and Kenward Elmslie (1973); Hymn to Life (1974); Song (1976); The Fireproof Floors of Witley Count: English Songs and Dances (1976); and The Home Book: Prose and Poems 1951-1970 (1977). Schuyler also produced his third novel entitled What's for Dinner, published in 1978. His last work of the decade was The Morning of the Poem (1980), for which he received a Pulitzer Prize.

Although well-known and successful by the early 1980s, Schuyler turned to a life of reclusion as poor health and financial difficulties hindered his writing. He continued to live in New York City, and published two collections of poetry: A Few Days (1985) and Selected Poems (1988).

In addition to a Pulitzer Prize for The Morning of the Poem, Schuyler received the Longview Foundation award (1961), the Frank O'Hara Prize (1969), two National Academy for the Arts grants (1969, 1972), an American Academy award (1977), and an Academy of American Poets fellowship (1983).

"James Schuyler's is a poetry of perception, the recognition of shapes out of the indiscriminate sensory field," wrote George Butterick in Contemporary Poets (1985). "Reading him," wrote Butterick, "there is a sense of focusing field glasses; always the sharper image results...Schuyler is determined to possess the natural world without a lapse into symbolism. Nature is not to be quarreled with, nor confused with human needs. The world is distinguishable among its parts as well as from the observing narrator. He has tried life and it fits; life matches art..."

Schuyler died on April 12, 1991.

Papers of James Schuyler, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and member of the New York School circle of poets and painters. A New York City resident since 1950, Schuyler moved among prominent artists and writers of the period and worked as an art critic and associate editor for Art News from 1955 to circa 1962, and in the Museum of Modern Art beginning in 1957. He published his first novel, Alfred and Guinevere, in 1958 and continued a distinguished career, publishing twelve books of poetry and two additional novels, including A Nest of Ninnies with John Ashbery. Schuyler's collection of poems entitled The Morning of the Poem won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. The bulk of the materials date between 1950 and 1970, with a second field of concentration in the late 1980s, and include correspondence with contemporary writers and visual artists, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Also included are manuscripts and typescripts; Art News materials; notebooks; diaries; miscellaneous subject files; and rare audio recordings.

Accessions Processed in 1992

Contains manuscripts or typescripts for most of Schuyler's works, in addition to abundant correspondence, especially with painters, poets, and writers of the New York School circle.

Arranged into eight series: 1) ORIGINAL FINDING AID, 2) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 3) CORRESPONDENCE, 4) WRITINGS, 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 6) SUBJECTS, 7) AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS, and 8) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.

Accession Processed in 1993

This substantive accession provides a wealth of biographical information, and includes correspondence from Schuyler's lovers and closest friends, initially withheld from the collection.

Arranged into five series: 9) CORRESPONDENCE, 10) WRITINGS, 11) PHOTOGRAPHS, 12) OTHER WRITERS, and 13) MISCELLANEOUS.

Container List

Accessions Processed in 1992

ORIGINAL FINDING AID

Box 1 Folder 1
Original Finding Aid

Produced by Raymond Foye, a close friend and "archivist" for James Schuyler. It consists of a list of folder titles, in most cases generated by Foye, with detailed descriptions of the materials which he inventoried.

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

Box 1 Folder 2
Articles about James Schuyler, 1983

Hillringhouse, Mark. "An Interview with James Schuyler."

Box 1 Folder 3
Articles about James Schuyler, 1960

Moore, Marianne. "The ways our poets have taken in fifteen years since the war." NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

Box 1 Folder 4
Articles about James Schuyler, 1960

Moss, Howard. "James Schuyler: Whatever Is Moving." Edited photocopy

Box 1 Folder 5
Autobiographical sketch
Box 1 Folder 6
Biographical materials
Box 1 Folder 7
Publications list
Box 1 Folder 8
Pulitzer Prize Certificate

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and thereunder chronologically. The materials date from 1948 to 1987, with the greatest concentration of letters from the 1950s and 1960s. Included is extensive correspondence with many prominent writers and visual artists including Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Many of the letters are detailed, carefully written, and of great literary merit in themselves. Correspondence with publishers about specific publications is located with manuscript materials under individual titles in the series WRITINGS.

Box 1 Folder 9
Miscellaneous correspondents, A to Z
Box 1 Folder 10
Academy of American Poets, 1983
Box 1 Folder 11
Allen, Don, 1959-1969
Box 1 Folder 12
American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, 1982
Box 1 Folder 13-15
Ashbery, John, 1956-1987
Box 1 Folder 16
Auden, Wystan, ca. 1948
Box 1 Folder 17
Authors League Fund, 1982
Box 1 Folder 18
Batie, Nancy, 1969
Box 1 Folder 19
Berkson, Bill, 1967 - 1969
Box 2 Folder 1
Berrigan, Sandy and Ted, 1964 - 1982
Box 2 Folder 2
Blaine, Nellie, 1959 - 1968
Box 2 Folder 3
Bowles, Paul, 1966
Box 2 Folder 4-7
Brainard, Joe, 1964 - 1983
Box 2 Folder 8
Brownstein, Michael, 1971
Box 2 Folder 9
Burckhardt, Edith, 1958 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 10
Burckhardt, Helen, 1961
Box 2 Folder 11
Burckhardt, Rudy, ca. 1950
Box 2 Folder 12
Button, John, 1956 - 1968
Box 2 Folder 13
Carnegie Fund for Authors, 1982 - 1983
Box 2 Folder 14
Cherry, Herman, 1959
Box 2 Folder 15
Clark, Thomas, 1966 - 1971
Box 2 Folder 16
Coolidge, Clark, 1971 - 1972
Box 2 Folder 17
Dash, Robert, 1961 - 1975
Box 2 Folder 18
Davis, Lotte Lenya
Box 2 Folder 19
DeKooning, Elaine, 1960
Box 2 Folder 20
DiCapua, Michael, 1964 - 1967
Box 2 Folder 21
Droll, Donald, 1958 - 1971
Box 2 Folder 22
Elmslie, Kenward, 1964 - 1980
Box 2 Folder 23
Epstein, Barbara, 1963
Box 2 Folder 24
Fagin, Larry
Box 2 Folder 25
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Inc., 1979
Box 2 Folder 26
Fitzdale, Bobby, 1960
Box 3 Folder 1
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1960
Box 3 Folder 2
Freilicher, Jane, 1963 - 1975
Box 3 Folder 3
Gold, Arthur, 1953 - 1960
Box 3 Folder 4
Golde, Morris, 1969
Box 3 Folder 5
Groffsky , Maxine, 1967 - 1982
Box 3 Folder 6
Guest, Barbara, 1960 - 1975
Box 3 Folder 7
Guston, Philip and Musa, 1969
Box 3 Folder 8
Haberman, Daniel, 1975
Box 3 Folder 9
Hartigan, Grace
Box 3 Folder 10
Hazan, Joe, 1966 - 1967
Box 3 Folder 11
Heilemann, Charles, 1949 - 1950
Box 3 Folder 12
Hillringhouse, Mark, 1983
Box 3 Folder 13
Howard, Brian, 1948
Box 3 Folder 14
Katz, Alex, Ada, and Vincent, 1960 - 1971
Box 3 Folder 15
Koch, Kenneth, Janic and Katherine, 1957 - 1981
Box 3 Folder 16
Leslie, Alfred, 1959
Box 3 Folder 17
LeSueur, Joseph, 1965 - 1971
Box 3 Folder 18
Martory, Pierre, 1959
Box 3 Folder 19
Marvin Josephson Associates, Inc, 1967 - 1968
Box 3 Folder 20
Matthews, Harry, 1960 - 1980
Box 3 Folder 21
Merrill, James, 1961 - 1969
Box 3 Folder 22
Montgomery, George, 1957 - 1965
Box 3 Folder 23
Moynihan, Anne, 1966 - 1969
Box 3 Folder 24
Museum of Modern Art (fellow employees), 1957 - 1961

Correspondence with Kynaston McShine, Alvin Novak, Ed Potoker

Box 3 Folder 25
Myer, John Bernard, 1961 - 1968
Box 3 Folder 26
National Endowment in the Arts, 1985
Box 3 Folder 27
THE NEW YORKER, 1971 - 1982

See also WRITINGS - POETRY - Miscellaneous poems submitted to THE NEW YORKER

Box 3 Folder 28
North, Charles and Paula, 1973 - 1983
Box 3 Folder 29
Novak, Alvin, ca. 1975-1760

See CORRESPONDENCE - Museum of Modern Art

Box 3 Folder 30
O'Hara, Frank, 1956 - 1961
Box 3 Folder 31
Padgett, Ron, 1966 - 1975
Box 3 Folder 32
Park, Darragh, 1975
Box 3 Folder 33
P.E.N. American Center, 1982
Box 3 Folder 34
POETRY, 1967 - 1968
Box 3 Folder 35
Poets Foundation, 1960 - 1968
Box 3 Folder 36
Polach, Frank, 1975
Box 3 Folder 37
Porter, Anne, 1956 - 1975
Box 3 Folder 38
Porter, Elizabeth, 1967 - 1971
Box 3 Folder 39
Porter, Fairfield and John, 1956 - 1973
Box 3 Folder 40
Porter, Katie, 1956 - 1969
Box 3 Folder 41
Pousett-Dart, Richard, 1960
Box 3 Folder 42
Pulitzer Prize Board, 1981
Box 3 Folder 43
Resnich, Milton, 1959
Box 3 Folder 44
Ridenour Family, 1956 - 1975
Box 3 Folder 45
Rorem, Ned
Box 3 Folder 46
Schjeldahl, Peter, 1965
Box 3 Folder 47
Schloss, Edith, 1947
Box 3 Folder 48
Schneeman, George, 1971
Box 3 Folder 49
Schuyler, James, 1975
Box 3 Folder 50
Thomson, Virgil, 1980
Box 4 Folder 1
Towle, Tony, 1968 - 1970
Box 4 Folder 2
Waldman, Anne, 1968 - 1972
Box 4 Folder 3
Weaver, Bill, 1949 - 1959
Box 4 Folder 4
Wieners, John, 1959 - 1965
Box 4 Folder 5
Windham, Don, 1948
Box 4 Folder 6
Winkfield, Trevor, 1968 - 1973
Box 4 Folder 7
YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE, 1969

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) WRITINGS: Arranged into six subseries: A) Poetry B) Prose, C) Journal Articles and Reviews, D) Diaries, E) Notebooks, and F) Notes.

A) Poetry: The largest subseries of WRITINGS, including published and unpublished works. The materials are arranged alphabetically under a combination of descriptive title, published title, and author's title. Included in this subseries are materials for Schuyler's Pulitzer Prize winning book The Morning of the Poem, as well as The Crystal Lithium, A Few Days, Freely Espousing, and The Home Book: Prose and Poems, 1951-1970. Includes typescripts with holograph revisions, although there are abundant examples of holograph manuscripts. A large portion of poems were originally organized by Schuyler in folders titled "miscellaneous." These folders have been grouped in a sub-subseries as "miscellaneous collected poems" and reorganized alphabetically by title, or for untitled poems, by first line. Although these folders contain some published poems, most are unpublished.

B) Prose: Includes materials for Alfred and Guinevere, Early in '71, What's for dinner?, and A Nest of Ninnies. The notes and manuscripts for A Nest of Ninnies provide numerous examples of the method of Schuyler's collaboration with Ashbery. Also includes shorter prose works, including prose fragments and leaves, which are located at the beginning of the subseries under "miscellaneous prose."

C) Journal Articles and Reviews: Materials related to Schuyler's work for Art News during the late 1950s and early 1960s. These materials include annotated typescript drafts for feature articles on artists, reviews of exhibitions, and pocket-size notebooks with original notes created during assignments and interviews. Among the artists represented in the Art News materials are Joe Brainard, Paul Georges, Fairfield Porter, and Ludwig Sander.

D) Diaries: Two early diaries are included here, one dated 1955 and the other undated. Later Schuyler diaries remained in the author's possession.

E) Notebooks: A variety of items written or collected by Schuyler, including poems, prose works, recipes, newspaper clippings, and messages. The notebooks are organized chronologically. They often relate to a particular place (e.g. "Calais, Vermont") or a time period.

F) Notes: Folders containing miscellaneous groups of notes.

Poetry

Box 4 Folder 8
Collabs with Helena Hughes, 1980

Typescripts

Box 4 Folder 9
Collage poem for Kenward Elmslie, 1970
Box 4 Folder 10
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Typescript sent to the printer with printer's annotations
Box 4 Folder 11
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Typescript poems with holograph revisions
Box 4 Folder 12
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Photocopy of typescript
Oversize MC-038-01
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Galleys
Box 4 Folder 14
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Reviews
Box 4 Folder 15
Ducal Days, also titled as Shrine Exit

Numerous versions with holograph revisions and annotations

Box 4 Folder 16
FEW DAYS - Original typescript with corrections and additions (before editing)
Box 4 Folder 17
FEW DAYS - First and second version (photocopy and typescript)
Box 4 Folder 18
FEW DAYS - Photocopy of revised typescript
Box 4 Folder 19
Fireproof Floors of Whitley Court

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 4 Folder 20
FREELY ESPOUSING - Correspondence with Doubleday, 1968 - 1969
Box 4 Folder 21
FREELY ESPOUSING - Holograph with typescript first drafts
Box 5 Folder 1
FREELY ESPOUSING - Working drafts
Box 5 Folder 2
FREELY ESPOUSING - Complete typescript with revisions
Box 5 Folder 3
HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescripts of poems, 1951 - 1970

With holograph revisions

Box 5 Folder 4
HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescript of prose, 1951 - 1970

Entitled "The Home Book"

Box 5 Folder 5
HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescript with holograph revisions, 1951 - 1970

Of a prose piece entitled "Current Events"

Box 5 Folder 6
HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Photocopy of corrected typescript
Box 5 Folder 7
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Typescript and holograph notes
Box 5 Folder 8
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Typescript and holograph notes
Box 5 Folder 9
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Holograph note
Box 5 Folder 10
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Edited typescript
Box 5 Folder 11
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Photocopy of typescript
Box 5 Folder 12
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Photocopy of PARIS REVIEW appearance of work
Box 5 Folder 13
Miscellaneous collected poems, 1950s

Includes: Beautiful Outlook, Sestina, A Grave, Palisades, In the cafe I sat and Watched the rain, I do not always understand why at you say, and: August, smelling of ripe grapes and afternoon.

Box 5 Folder 14
Miscellaneous collected poems, 1975 - 1976
Box 5 Folder 15
Miscellaneous collected poems - From a yellow binder

Photocopies

Box 5 Folder 16
Miscellaneous collected poems - Including "After the feast"

Typescript

Box 5 Folder 17
Miscellaneous collected poems - THE NEW YORKER, submissions

Typescript with holograph annotations

Box 5 Folder 18
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems, ca. 1957-1960
Box 5 Folder 19
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems, ca. 1975-1982
Box 5 Folder 20
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems

Folder of miscellaneous poems

Box 5 Folder 21
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems

Folder of miscellaneous poems

Box 5 Folder 22
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems

Folder of miscellaneous poems

Box 5 Folder 23
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems

Folder of miscellaneous poems

Box 5 Folder 24
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems

Written in "Whether schlepping books after-class detention," typescript

Box 5 Folder 25
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems, 1985

Written in collaboration with Jonathan Leake .

Box 5 Folder 26
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled A-F
Box 5 Folder 27
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled G-L
Box 5 Folder 28
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled M-R
Box 5 Folder 29
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled S-Y
Box 6 Folder 1
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled A-H

Arranged alphabetically by first line

Box 6 Folder 2
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled I-P

Arranged alphabetically by first line

Box 6 Folder 3
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled R-Y

Arranged alphabetically by first line

Box 6 Folder 4
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled

Miscellaneous poem fragments

Box 6 Folder 5
MORNING OF THE POEM - Typescripts with holograph revisions
Box 6 Folder 6
MORNING OF THE POEM - Typescripts with holograph revisions
Box 6 Folder 7
MORNING OF THE POEM - Miscellaneous typescripts of poems
Box 6 Folder 8
MORNING OF THE POEM - First draft typescript
Box 6 Folder 9
MORNING OF THE POEM - Early selections of poems by "David"
Box 6 Folder 10
MORNING OF THE POEM - Early selections of poem by "David"
Box 6 Folder 11
MORNING OF THE POEM - "Payne Whitney Poems"

Two pages of galley with revisions

Box 6 Folder 12
MORNING OF THE POEM - Corrected typescript with printer's notes
Box 6 Folder 13
MORNING OF THE POEM - Original blues
Oversize MC-038-02
MORNING OF THE POEM - Galleys
Box 6 Folder 14
MORNING OF THE POEM - Review
Oversize MC-038-03
PENGUIN MODERN POETS 24 - Galleys

Edition devoted to the poetics of James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, and Kenward Elmslie

Box 6 Folder 15
Poem - "This beauty that I see"

Typescript

Box 6 Folder 16
Recent Poem

Photocopies

Box 6 Folder 17
Torcello

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 6 Folder 18
Treasury of Birthday Thoughts

Typescript

Box 6 Folder 19
Within the Dome with Ron Padgett, written at Great Spruce Head Island

Prose

Box 6 Folder 20
Miscellaneous prose
Box 6 Folder 21
Untitled, unpublished prose
Box 6 Folder 22
ALFRED AND GUINEVERE - Correspondence with publishers and agents, 1955 - 1968

Includes correspondence with Brandt & Brandt, David Higham Associates, Ltd, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., HARPER'S BAZAAR.

Box 6 Folder 23
ALFRED AND GUINEVERE - Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7 Folder 1
ALFRED AND GUINEVERE - Pencil sketches for illustrations
Box 7 Folder 2
Boat house

Typescript

Box 7 Folder 3
Bombshell - for Frank O'Hara

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7 Folder 4
Brunch

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7 Folder 5
Duet

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7 Folder 6
Early in '71

Photocopy

Box 7 Folder 7
Epithalamion

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7 Folder 8
Fall - For Frank O'Hara, ca. 1960

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7 Folder 9
Frank at Night, 1952

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7 Folder 10
Gallons of Coffee

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7 Folder 11
Granny's Funeral, 1975

Typescript

Box 7 Folder 12
I don't need your pity, I just don't feel like anything - a pageant

Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7 Folder 13
Letters

Typescript

Box 7 Folder 14
Lizzie Borden

Typescript

Box 7 Folder 15
Meeting to Part

Typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 16
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery, 1968 - 1969

Correspondence with E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.

Box 7 Folder 17
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery

Notebook containing approximately 30 holograph pages by Schuyler and Ashbery, illustrating alternate method used in composing the novel

Box 7 Folder 18-19
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Miscellaneous manuscript leaves
Box 7 Folder 20
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Final typescript
Box 7 Folder 21
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Contract, 1968
Box 7 Folder 22
Notes on abstract painting

Typescript

Box 7 Folder 23
One thing may not lead to another, 1967

Typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 24
Poet and his muse

Typescript

Box 7 Folder 25
Poet and Painter Overture - notes on poetry in Don Allen's NEW AMERICAN POETRY

Typescript

Box 7 Folder 26
They too are Drifting Uptown in a Bus

ca. 1952, typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 27
Unpainted ground

Typescript

Box 7 Folder 28
Untitled typescript

Mrs. Henry Kitzberg, the laughing Charlotte of the class of '13

Box 7 Folder 29
Vita for Fairfield Porter

Typescript and holograph notes

Box 7 Folder 30
What about the Glovers?

Typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 31
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - Original typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7 Folder 32
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - Typescript beginning with holograph revisions
Box 7 Folder 33
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - Final Typescript

Journal Articles and Reviews

ARTnews

Box 7 Folder 34
Articles on artists - Blaine, Nell

"The View from 210 Riverside Drive," Typescript

Box 7 Folder 35
Articles on artists - Brainard, Joe

"Joe Brainard: Quotes and Notes," typescript

Box 7 Folder 36
Articles on artists - Freilicher, Jane

Typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 37
Articles on artists - Georges, Paul

Typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 38
Articles on artists - Kline, Franz

"As American as Franz Kline," typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 39
Articles on artists - Porter, Fairfield

"An Aspect of Fairfield Porter's Paintings," typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 40
Articles on artists - Sander, Ludwig

Typescript with revisions

Box 7 Folder 41
Articles on artists - Tawney, Lenore

Typescript with revisions

Box 33
Notebooks on exhibitions
Box 8 Folder 1
Reviews of artist's exhibitions, 1955 - 1960

Typescript drafts

Box 8 Folder 2
Review of ANTHOLOGY OF MEXICAN POETRY

Work complied by Samuel Beckett and published by Evergreen Press, typescript with revisions

Diaries

Box 8 Folder 3
Diaries, 1955
Box 8 Folder 4
Diary notes

Holograph

Notebooks

Box 8 Folder 5
Compositions, 1959

Contains extensive holograph notes on interviews with Alex Katz, Paul George (unpublished), and Ludwig Sander for ART NEWS

Box 8 Folder 6
Compositions - Paul Georges interview continued, 1959
Box 8 Folder 7
Schooltime - notes on painter and poet Joe Brainard, 1965
Box 8 Folder 8
Green note book - includes notes on painter Paul Burlin

ca. 1969

Box 8 Folder 9
JS, 1969-1972
Box 8 Folder 10
Unfinished novel, written in holograph by Schuyler and Ashbery, 1970
Box 8 Folder 11
Red memo book - includes long prose work On the Train to Buffalo, 1970
Box 9 Folder 1
Yellow memo book - with notes and poems, 1971

Including "Ida," "Marjorie Steward," "The Dew Drop Inn," "Janis Letho," "On awakening," "Diary," "July 8,1971," and "Beautiful Funerals."

Box 9 Folder 2
Copper-colored note book - Contains poems, 1971
Box 9 Folder 3
Stenographer's notes book from hospital in Waterbury, Vermont, 1971

Contains poems "Roxy, a Sunday Blues," "Rosy Rock," and "Daily Planet."

Box 9 Folder 4
Compositions - contains poems, 1971
Box 9 Folder 5
Compositions, 1971

"Calais, Vermont," contains poem entitled "Brain Washed"

Box 9 Folder 6
Compositions - Suffolk Psychiatric Hospital, 1972

Contains poem with first lines "the withholding tax"

Box 9 Folder 7
Yellow Note Book, 1971
Box 9 Folder 8
Schooltime - contains unpublished poems, 1971
Box 9 Folder 9
Two brown note books, 1977

Contains notes and the poems "Smothered in fox grape leaves," and "In the after-dinner lull"

Box 9 Folder 10
Compositions - D. L. & Other Dreams, contains the Howard Grinsberg scene
Box 9 Folder 11
College ruled - contains several pages of poem titles and newspaper clippings

Notes

Box 9 Folder 12-13
Miscellaneous notes
Box 9 Folder 14
Notes on Frank O'Hara's poems
Box 9 Folder 15
Scribbles

WRITINGS OF OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS: Writings of other authors, collected by Schuyler. Among these materials is a poem entitled "To Jimmy" by Frank O'Hara, poems by Kenneth Koch, and a manuscript by Ludwig Sander about Sander's painting.

Box 9 Folder 16
Acconci, Vito Hannibal. "Double Bubble," ca. 1966
Box 9 Folder 17
Ashbery, John

Poems

Box 9 Folder 18
Button, John - program of a recital
Box 9 Folder 19
Feldman, Morton - In Search of an Orchestration, music composition
Box 9 Folder 20
Koch, Kenneth - Pleasure of Peace

Photocopy

Box 9 Folder 21
Koch, Kenneth - November 19th or So

Typescript poem for Schuyler's birthday

Box 9 Folder 22
Meyers, John - The Poets of the New York School

Photocopy with annotations by Schuyler

Box 9 Folder 23
Moore, Marianne - Grantie and Steel

Poem

Box 10 Folder 1
O'Hara, Frank

Poems

Box 10 Folder 2
Porter, Fairfield

Poems

Box 10 Folder 3
Porter, Katy

Poem

Box 10 Folder 4
Sander, Ludwig

Writing on his own painting

SUBJECTS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) SUBJECTS: A number of folders have been arranged alphabetically into the SUBJECTS series. Included are miscellaneous financial records, appointment and telephone books, announcements for poetry readings, memorabilia, and articles about gardening. Materials related to grants and financial aid, dating from the early 1980s, are organized under the granting institutions. An item of interest is a collection of phone messages Schuyler took while housesitting for Kenward Elmslie.

Box 10 Folder 5
49 SOUTH

A literary magazine edited by Schuyler from 49 South Main Street, Southampton, including submissions of poems by various authors

Box 10 Folder 6
Announcements, readings, etc., 1969
Box 10 Folder 7
ANTHOLOGY OF NEW YORK POETS - Contract
Box 10 Folder 8
Appointment and phone books, 1975
Box 10 Folder 9
Books and records receipts
Box 10 Folder 10
CAPS - Creative Artists Public Service Program, 1982
Box 10 Folder 11
Cartoons

Collaboration by F. Porter, Anne Porter, Lizzie Porter, and Schuyler

Box 10 Folder 12
Elmslie, Kenward - Messages for K.E. taken by Schuyler at Elmslie's house, 1971
Box 10 Folder 13
English exam entitled Practical criticism
Box 10 Folder 14
Financial Records - Chase Manhattan Bank, 1960
Box 10 Folder 15
Financial Records - Guaranty Trust Company of New York, 1947 - 1948
Box 10 Folder 16
Financial Records - Manufacturers Trust Company, 1958 - 1961
Box 10 Folder 17
Financial Records - Miscellaneous materials
Box 10 Folder 18
Financial Records - Museum of Modern Art - Pay receipts, 1959 - 1961
Box 10 Folder 19
Financial Records - Security National Bank

ca. 1968-1973

Box 10 Folder 20
Gardening
Box 11 Folder 1
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Box 11 Folder 2
Joke recipes for magazine put out by Carol Gallup
Oversize MC-038-04
Koff's Calendar, 1979
Box 11 Folder 4
LOCUS SOLUS

Prospectus to John Ashbery and Harry Mathews suggesting what Locus Solus should be

Box 11 Folder 5
Longview Foundation, Inc.

ca. 1961

Box 11 Folder 6
Medicaid application guidelines
Box 11 Folder 7
Memorabilia
Box 11 Folder 8
Miscellaneous materials
Box 11 Folder 9
N.E.A. grant applications, 1984
Box 11 Folder 10
New York Foundation for the Arts grant materials
Box 11 Folder 11
Newspaper clippings
Box 11 Folder 12
Record lists

AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS: Reel-to-reel (with audiocassette back-ups) tapes of Schuyler reading his work. Included are selections from Freely Espousing, The Crystal Lithium, and The Morning of the Poem, in addition to other works. These are especially valuable in light of Schuyler's reluctance to read in public.

Box 12 Folder 3
Box 12 Folder 4

From Freely Espousing, includes: February, Faberge, Now and Then, Buried at Springs, Salute. From Crystal Lithium, includes: Empathy and New Year, In Earliest Morning, An East Window on Elizabeth Street, Scarlet Tanger.

Box 12 Folder 5-9
Box 12 Folder 10-12

ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES

Box 13 Folder 1
Originals of preservation photocopies
Box 13 Folder 2
Originals of preservation photocopies
Box 13 Folder 3
Originals of preservation photocopies
Box 13 Folder 4
Originals of preservation photocopies

Accession Processed in 1993

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) CORRESPONDENCE: Because the bulk of the added correspondence dates from 1988 to 1991, when Schuyler was at the height of his artistic powers, exchanges with important writers help reflect Schuyler's mature vision. Hundreds of widely-dated postcards, also initially withheld, help document the quality and the activity of the friendship which surrounded Schuyler. Many of Schuyler's correspondents are known painters and poets. Among the major correspondents are Tom Carey, Helena Hughes, Anne Dunn, and Joe Brainard.

Box 14 Folder 1
Abbot, Mary, 1964 - 1988
Box 14 Folder 2
Allen, Donald
Box 14 Folder 3
AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW - Arthur Vogelsang, 1989
Box 14 Folder 4
Arion Press - Andrew Hoyem, 1984
Box 14 Folder 5
Ashbery, Helen, 1958
Box 14 Folder 6
Ashbery, John, 1966 - 1990
Box 14 Folder 7
A-miscellaneous
Box 14 Folder 8
Berkson, Bill, 1969 - 1990
Box 14 Folder 9
Berrigan, Sandy, 1967 - 1968
Box 14 Folder 10
Berrigan, Ted, 1963 - 1982
Box 14 Folder 11
Brainard, Joe, 1965 - 1991
Box 14 Folder 12
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1989
Box 14 Folder 13
Brodey, Jim, 1980
Box 14 Folder 14
Brownstein, Michael, 1972 - 1982
Box 14 Folder 15
Burckhardt, Edith, 1958 - 1969
Box 14 Folder 16
Burckhardt, Rudy, 1957 - 1985
Box 14 Folder 17
Button, John, 1956 - 1983
Box 14 Folder 18
B-miscellaneous
Box 14 Folder 19
Cameron, Peter, 1988
Box 14 Folder 20
Campbell, Larry, 1990
Box 14 Folder 21
Carcanet Press, Ltd., 1987 - 1990
Box 14 Folder 22
Carey, Harry, Jr. (Dobe), 1981 - 1988
Box 14 Folder 23
Carey, Tom, 1980 - 1991
Box 14 Folder 24
Clark, Tom, 1970 - 1971
Box 14 Folder 25
Cohen, Marc, 1987 - 1991
Box 14 Folder 26
Coolidge, Clark, 1971
Box 14 Folder 27
Corbett, William, 1988 - 1991
Box 15 Folder 1
Cox, Chris, 1980 - 1983
Box 15 Folder 2
Creative Artists Public Service Program, 1982
Box 15 Folder 3
Creeley, Robert, 1988
Box 15 Folder 4
C-miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 5
Dash, Robert, 1963 - 1990
Box 15 Folder 6
De Noyelles, Bill, 1986 - 1990
Box 15 Folder 7
DENVER QUARTERLY (Donald Revell), 1989 - 1990
Box 15 Folder 8
Dia Art Foundation, 1988
Box 15 Folder 9
Dlugos, Tim, 1989
Box 15 Folder 10
Downes, Rackstraw
Box 15 Folder 11
Dunn, Anne, 1979 - 1990
Box 15 Folder 12
D-miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 13
Einzinger, Erwin, 1988 - 1990
Box 15 Folder 14
Elmslie, Kenward, 1965 - 1989
Box 15 Folder 15
Equi, Elaine, 1990
Box 15 Folder 16
E-miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 17
Fagin, Larry, 1968 - 1981
Box 15 Folder 18
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.,, 1967 - 1990
Box 15 Folder 19
Ferguson, Anne Marie, 1971
Box 15 Folder 20
Foye, Raymond, 1986 - 1991
Box 15 Folder 21
Freilicher, Jane, 1957 - 1985
Box 15 Folder 22
F-miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 23
Gizzi, Michael, 1989
Box 15 Folder 24
Gizzi, Peter, 1989 - 1991
Box 15 Folder 25
Gold, Arthur, 1957 - 1980
Box 15 Folder 26
Golde, Morris, 1970 - 1990
Box 15 Folder 27
Grace Tea Company, Ltd., 1990 - 1991
Box 16 Folder 1
Groffsky, Maxine (Maxine Groffsky Literary Agency), 1975 - 1990
Box 16 Folder 2
Guest, Barbara, 1958 - 1990
Box 16 Folder 3
Guston, Musa, 1960
Box 16 Folder 4
G-miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 5
Haberman, Daniel, 1971 - 1988
Box 16 Folder 6
Henry, Gerrit, 1985 - 1987
Box 16 Folder 7
Hillringhouse, Mark, 1982 - 1991
Box 16 Folder 8
Hughes, Helena, 1981 - 1991
Box 16 Folder 9
Hurley, Irma, 1958 - 1989
Box 16 Folder 10
H-miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 11
I-miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 12
Johns, Jasper, 1984
Box 16 Folder 13
J-miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 14
Katz, Alex & Ada, 1968 - 1988
Box 16 Folder 15
Katz, Vincent, 1963 - 1989
Box 16 Folder 16
Kermani, David, 1987 - 1988
Box 16 Folder 17
Kernan, Nathan, 1990 - 1991
Box 16 Folder 18
Kikel, Ridy, 1982
Box 16 Folder 19
Killian, Kevin, 1989
Box 16 Folder 20
Koch, Ed, 1969
Box 16 Folder 21
Koch, Kenneth, 1964 - 1988
Box 16 Folder 22
Koethe, John, 1971
Box 16 Folder 23
K-miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 1
Larry, Michael, 1979 - 1981
Box 17 Folder 2
Landsman's Bookshop Ltd., 1970 - 1991
Box 17 Folder 3
Little, Carl, 1985 - 1990
Box 17 Folder 4
Long, Robert, 1985 - 1991
Box 17 Folder 5
Longview Foundation, Inc., 1961 - 1962
Box 17 Folder 6
Lord, Andrew, 1989
Box 17 Folder 7
L-miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 8
Masters, Greg, 1982 - 1985
Box 17 Folder 9
Mathews, Harry, 1971 - 1984
Box 17 Folder 10
McCann, Sister Jacqueline (aka Mother John Cantius), 1967-1970
Box 17 Folder 11
McClatchy, Sandy, 1987 - 1990
Box 17 Folder 12
McCourt, Jimmy, 1980 - 1989
Box 17 Folder 13
Moore College of Art, 1977 - 1978
Box 17 Folder 14
Moore, Honor, 1988 - 1992
Box 17 Folder 15
Morgan, Bill, 1983 - 1985
Box 17 Folder 16
Mount, Danny, 1985 - 1985
Box 17 Folder 17
Myles, Eileen, 1985 - 1990
Box 17 Folder 18
M-miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 19
NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover, 1988 - 1990
Box 17 Folder 20
NEW YORKER, 1977 - 1990
Box 17 Folder 21
Newgarden, Albert, 1989 - 1991
Box 17 Folder 22
North, Charles, 1971 - 1990
Box 17 Folder 23
Notley, Alice, 1982
Box 17 Folder 24
N-miscellaneous
Box 18 Folder 1
O.BLEK, 1988 - 1990
Box 18 Folder 2
Ousley, John Douglas, 1989 - 1991
Box 18 Folder 3
O-miscellaneous
Box 18 Folder 4
Padgett, Ron, 1964 - 1990
Box 18 Folder 5
Painten, Jim, 1985 - 1986
Box 18 Folder 6
PARIS REVIEW, 1967 - 1991
Box 18 Folder 7
Park, Darragh, 1975 - 1990
Box 18 Folder 8
Peck, Claude, 1986 - 1987
Box 18 Folder 9
Pettet, Simon, 1987 - 1991
Box 18 Folder 10
POETRY, 1969 - 1987
Box 18 Folder 11
Poetry Center, 1988 - 1990
Box 18 Folder 12
Poetry Project, 1967 - 1991
Box 18 Folder 13
Polach, Frank, 1978 - 1991
Box 18 Folder 14
Porter, Anne, 1968 - 1990
Box 18 Folder 15
Porter, Elizabeth
Box 18 Folder 16
Porter, Fairfield, 1956 - 1967
Box 18 Folder 17
Porter, Katherine, 1956 - 1970
Box 18 Folder 18
P-miscellaneous
Box 18 Folder 19
Random House, Inc., 1985 - 1986
Box 18 Folder 20
Residenz Verlag, 1988 - 1991
Box 19 Folder 1
Richie, Eugene, 1988 - 1989
Box 19 Folder 2
Ridenour family, Schuyler's family name
Box 19 Folder 3
Rorme, Ned, 1977 - 1990
Box 19 Folder 4
R-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 5
Schjeldahl, Peter, 1965 - 1972
Box 19 Folder 6
Schuyler, James, 1987 - 1990
Box 19 Folder 7
Smith, Alex, 1977 - 1978
Box 19 Folder 8
Spender, Stephen, 1988
Box 19 Folder 9
Stern, Richard, 1965 - 1990
Box 19 Folder 10
S-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 11
Talbott, Harold, 1980 - 1982
Box 19 Folder 12
Thomson, Virgil, 1985 - 1986
Box 19 Folder 13
Towle, Tony, 1967 - 1978
Box 19 Folder 14
Trinidad, David, 1985 - 1991
Box 19 Folder 15
Trinidad, David, 1985 - 1991
Box 19 Folder 16
T-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 17
U-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 18
Virga, Vincent, 1987 - 1990
Box 19 Folder 19
V-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 20
Waldman, Anne, 1970 - 1989
Box 19 Folder 21
Warsh, Lewis, 1971 - 1981
Box 19 Folder 22
Watershed Foundation, 1985 - 1989
Box 19 Folder 23
Weigel, Tom, 1981 - 1982
Box 19 Folder 24
Winkfield, Trevor, 1968 - 1988
Box 19 Folder 25
W-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 26
Yale University
Box 19 Folder 27
Young, Geoffrey, 1981 - 1989
Box 19 Folder 28
Y-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 29
Zavatsky, Bill, 1977 - 1990
Box 19 Folder 30
Z-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 31
Unidentified & miscellaneous correspondence

WRITINGS

Poetry

Box 20 Folder 1
Ajaccio Violets, 1987
Box 20 Folder 2
Andrew Lord Poem, 1989
Box 20 Folder 3
Birds, 1988
Box 20 Folder 4
Blossoming Oakwood, 1989
Box 20 Folder 5
Blue Windows, 1984
Box 20 Folder 6
Cardinal, 1988
Box 20 Folder 7
Chapel, 1989
Box 20 Folder 8
Few Days, poems from

pp. 19-32

Box 20 Folder 9
Friend
Box 20 Folder 10
G Major Quintet, Opus Posthumous, 1988
Box 20 Folder 11
Haze, 1989
Box 20 Folder 12
Horse-Chestnut Trees and Roses, 1985
Box 20 Folder 13
Ilk: a Scottish word meaning..., 1988
Box 20 Folder 14
June 27, 1988
Box 20 Folder 15
Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey!, 1985
Box 20 Folder 16
Light Within, 1987
Box 20 Folder 17
Little Portion, 1988
Box 20 Folder 18
Mark, 1990
Box 20 Folder 19
Mike, 1971
Box 20 Folder 20
Mood Indigo, 1985
Box 20 Folder 21
My Cat, the cat . . ., 1988
Box 20 Folder 22
Noon Office, 1989
Box 20 Folder 23
On the Deck, 1989
Box 20 Folder 24
On the Dresser, 1985 - 1987
Box 20 Folder 25
Orange Cat, 1989 - 1990
Box 20 Folder 26
Over the Hills, 1990
Box 20 Folder 27
Princess Di, 1985
Box 20 Folder 28
Psyche
Box 20 Folder 29
Rain, 1986
Box 20 Folder 30
Rainy Night in Georgia, 1985
Box 20 Folder 31
Reserved Sacrament, 1988
Box 20 Folder 32
Rose of Marion, 1981
Box 20 Folder 33
Roxy, in POETRY, 1981
Box 20 Folder 34
Shaker, 1985
Box 20 Folder 35
Simone Signoret, 1985
Box 20 Folder 36
Six Something, 1990
Box 20 Folder 37
Snoring in New York
Box 20 Folder 38
Three Gardens
Box 20 Folder 39
Under the Hanger
Box 20 Folder 40
View, 1988
Box 20 Folder 41
Vital Signs, 1986
Box 20 Folder 42
White Boats, Blue Boats, 1989
Box 20 Folder 43
Yellow Flowers
Box 20 Folder 44
Your Childhood, 1990
Box 20 Folder 45
Poems: collaboration with Tom Carey
Box 20 Folder 46
Mss. in progress, 1990
Box 20 Folder 47
Poems on Hold, 1984 - 1989
Box 20 Folder 48
Miscellaneous poems

Prose Fiction and Collaborations

Box 21 Folder 1
ALFRED AND GUINEVERE
Box 21 Folder 2
IN COUNTRY WEXFORD, with Helena Hughes
Box 21 Folder 3
IN COUNTRY WEXFORD, with Helena Hughes
Box 21 Folder 4
Love Before Breakfast
Box 21 Folder 5
Small Crimes, with Tom Carey
Box 21 Folder 6
WHAT'S FOR DINNER?, pp. 13-18
Box 21 Folder 7
Prose--various pages
Box 21 Folder 8
Schuyler biograph sketch
Box 21 Folder 9
Article on Paul Burlin, painter
Box 21 Folder 10
Article on Anne Dunn, painter, 1989
Box 21 Folder 11
Article on Darragh Park, painter
Box 21 Folder 12
ART NEWS reviews and notices
Box 21 Folder 13
Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler, Vol. I
Box 21 Folder 14
Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler, Vol. II
Box 21 Folder 15
Notes toward an art review (unidentified)
Box 21 Folder 16
Introduction to Marc Cohen, 12 TON BRIDGE (poems)
Box 21 Folder 17
On Frank O'Hara

Journals

Box 22 Folder 1
Journal pages, 1968
Box 22 Folder 2
Journal pages, 1968 - 1969
Box 22 Folder 3
Journal pages, 1968 - 1969
Box 22 Folder 4
Journal pages, 1971
Box 22 Folder 5
Journal pages, 1981
Box 22 Folder 6
Journal pages, 1984 - 1985
Box 22 Folder 7
Journal, 1985
Box 22 Folder 8
Journal, 1985
Box 22 Folder 9
Journal pages, 1987
Box 22 Folder 10
Journal pages, 1988
Box 22 Folder 11
Journal, 1988
Box 22 Folder 12
Journal pages, 1989
Box 22 Folder 13
Journal, 1989
Box 22 Folder 14
Journal pages, 1990
Box 22 Folder 15
Journal pages, 1990
Box 22 Folder 16
Loose journal pages and miscellaneous notes

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 11) PHOTOGRAPHS: Schuyler's unrecognized skill as a photographer shows itself in the prints and contact sheets which comprise part of the photography series. The recurrence of certain photographic subjects--flowers, still lifes, gardens, landscapes, sunlit rooms--reminds us that Schuyler's poetry, in which similar subjects predominate, is part of an encompassing aesthetic of which each part is, in a sense, incomplete. The community of painters and poets of whom Schuyler was a part seems implicit in Schuyler's work itself, which searches for a pictorial character independent from language. Pictorial arrangements more often found in photography, or in painting, or even in domestic decoration or design, typify Schuyler's best writing, which in turn sublimates them in delicate musical phrases.

Arranged in two subseries: A) Photographs Taken by James Schuyler; B) Photographs Taken by Others.

Photographs Taken By James Schuyler

Box 23 Folder 1
Miscellaneous subjects, prints
Box 23 Folder 2
Miscellaneous subjects, color contact sheets
Box 23 Folder 3
Miscellaneous subjects, black and white contact sheets
Box 23 Folder 4
Miscellaneous subjects, black and white contact sheets
Box 23 Folder 5
Fairfield Porter and family