Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers
Extent and Medium
boxes
32
Creator(s)
- Cynthia J. McCabe
Biographical History
Cynthia Jaffee McCabe was a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution, where she curated the 1976 exhibit "The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976." She died in 1986 in Rio de Janeiro, where she was doing preliminary work on a Hirshhorn exhibition of contemporary Latin American art.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by the estate of Cynthia Jaffee McCabe in 1987.
Scope and Content
The Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers consists of correspondence, photocopies of archival documents, photographs, slides, and other ephemera collected by art historian Cynthia Jaffe McCabe in preparation for a planned exhibit regarding the work of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of Fry and various artists and intellectuals, including Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse, in and around Villa Air Bel, the Emergency Rescue Committee offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts and other materials related to other projects.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic.
People
- Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985.
- Fry, Varian, 1907-1967.
Corporate Bodies
- Emergency Rescue Committee
Subjects
- Artists--France.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- France.
- Marseille (France)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Correspondence.
- Document