Andrew Carnduff Ritchie papers, 1907-1983

Biographical materials include birth certificates, passports, academic records, biographical profiles, awards, resumes, obituaries, and honorary degrees. There are files documenting Andrew Ritchie's military service after World War II as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) section of the U.S. Army, and two files concerning the protection of artwork in the U.S. Found within the MFAA files are correspondence, army forms and reports, photographs of paintings looted from Holland, and awards. There is also a folder of biographical material on his wife, Jane Ritchie.

This series is arranged chronologically. The MFAA material is grouped separately after the other biographical folders.

Alphabetical and chronological correspondence is with artists, friends, museums, galleries, universities, and colleagues in the art world. The alphabetical correspondence includes many letters from artists, including Afro, Alexander Calder, Herbert Ferber, Dimitri Hadzi, Russell Lynes, Jean Helion, Eduardo Paolozzi, Theodore Roszak, Franklin Watkins, and others. There are also condolence letters addressed to Andrew Ritchie's widow, Jane Ritchie. Chronological correspondence is with museums, universities, friends, artists, and colleagues on the subject of travels, lectures, projects, and exhibitions.

Writings include undergraduate and graduate papers and theses from University of Pittsburgh and University of London, lecture drafts, outlines, notes, one disbound notebook from Andrew Ritchie's time working at the Frick Collection, and some writings by others.

Prior to their arrival at the archives, the papers underwent some preliminary arrangement. Insofar as it was possible, the folders dedicated to a specific lecture or paper were labeled by title, then arranged chronologically. Other folders generically labeled "lecture drafts and notes" and "lectures" contained a mixture of drafts and notes on multiple lectures. These folders retained their original titles and were grouped separately, then arranged in loose chronological order. Some of the folders have overlapping dates due to the assortment of lectures and material within.

Andrew Ritchie served on many advisory panels, trustee boards, councils, board of directors, and committees during his career, and the materials related to those activities are included in this series. There are meeting minutes, bulletins, reports, and studies, though the bulk of the material is correspondence. Some of the more voluminous and noteworthy committees and organizations include the College Art Association's study on "The Visual Arts in Higher Education" as well as the Museum of Modern Art's committee on museum collections. There are also a few folders on club memberships.

This series is organized alphabetically by the name of the organization or committee.

This series includes correspondence, printed material, photographs, catalogs, and assorted documents related to art projects and numerous exhibitions for which Andrew Ritchie curated, planned, wrote, or judged. Some of the projects and exhibitions in this series include the Alfred E. Burr Memorial in Connecticutt, the Middelheim Sculpture exhibition in 1971, and the Western Round Table on Modern Art in 1949.

This series is arranged alphabetically by project title.

This series consists of Ritchie's teaching files, the bulk of which documents the Museum Training Fellowship, a curatorial training program at the Yale University Art Gallery. There are also folders documenting Ritchie's professorship at Williams College and as a visiting scholar and lecturer at the University of Sydney and the University of East Anglia. File contents vary but often contain correspondence, program outlines, course materials, recommendations, and a few student papers.

The bulk of the printed material consists of news clippings, some of which are arranged by subject, along with articles by Andrew Ritchie, press releases, magazines, bulletins, and a few exhibition catalogs.

This series is arranged by document type. Some of the news clippings are arranged by subject and others are arranged chronologically.

This series mostly consists of black and white photographs of Andrew Ritchie and his wife with artists, friends, and colleagues at art openings and events. There is one small album of photographs of a birthday party for Jane Ritchie. There are numerous formal portraits of Andrew Ritchie at various points in his career, some of which were taken by the photographer Hans Namuth, and a few portraits of artists. Also included are photographs of artwork. The photographs of events contain images of Ritchie with artists and colleagues. Most of the photographs have annotations written on the verso identifying people, but not much information on the events or locations.

This series is arranged by subject.