Photographs, University Correspondence and Events, 1965-1997

Photographs, University Correspondence and Events

Mainly correspondence related to Bela Petheo as a teacher. Also informal photos, a few St. John's University publications, and a few documents related to events at St. John's and elsewhere in Minnesota.

Informal photos, all but one black and white, from 3 1/2 x 4 to 8 x 10. Includes one contact sheet. Bela Petheo in the studio, with students, with self-portraits, or at his Duluth show.

Bela Petheo, Painter and Graphic Artist. Résumé, undated. 1971?

Letter to E. Daniel Ankrum, March 24, 1972. Bela Petheo would like to talk with 3M about using polymer-coated litho paper for hand printing from stone.

Letter from Michael Blecker, April 18, 1972. Thank-you note about Alumni-College Day.

Alumni College Day, April 8, 1972. Brochure. Bela Petheo gave a presentation.

Letter from Michael Blecker, February 8, 1972. A classmate of his appreciated Bela Petheo's article on college exhibitions.

Enclosed: Calendar of Exhibitions, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, February and March, 1972.

Letter from Donald C. Celender, March 24, 1972. Invitation to review exhibition by graduating seniors at Macalester College.

Correspondence about the Correctional Facilities Art Workshop Project, November 23, 1970-December 3, 1971.

Letter to Charles L. Crane, September 30, 1968. The Art Department does not have its own gallery yet. Bringing in a MOMA exhibit. Bela Petheo will soon have a show at Stout State.

Letter from John Crosby, July 7, 1997. Sorry he missed Bela Petheo's retirement party. Laura still talks about how supportive Bela was.

Letter from Dietrich Reinhart, July 21, 1997. He admired Laura Crosby's exhibit at the Benedicta Arts Center, and recalls a photo exhibit she did years earlier about student volunteer programs. Handwritten note at bottom: "After his death, I painted his portrait. He was also briefly my student in my art hist. class. BP, 2011."

Letter to Bill Gabbert, September 17, 1971. Information for planning an exhibit of Bela Petheo's work at Willmar State Junior College. Possible exchange of exhibits.

Letter from Willis Guthrie, May 12, 1972. Thank-you letter for a lecture Bela Petheo gave at Carroll College (Wisconsin).

Letter to Henry R. Hope, March 23, 1971. About an article in Art Journal and the reaction to it. Bela Petheo sends "Notes" on the topic, for possible publication.

Letters from Mrs. Robert Klein, October 26, 1974 and November 11, 1974. One of Bela Petheo's paintings won an award in the National Small Painting Exhibition. Confusion about price.

Correspondence with Allen Klink, April 26-April 30, 1968. Stout State proposes a summer exhibition of Bela Petheo's work; he suggests mid-October instead.

Letter to Philip Larson, March 5, 1975. Bela Petheo is disappointed but not surprised by Larson's response to Jim Hendershot's idea for a show at the Walker. The other museums in Minneapolis are no more supportive of figurative art, and not even all landscape artists are the same. CC'ed to James Burpee and Paul Olsen. 2 copies.

Letter from Philip Larson, February 21, 1975. Mentions Jim Hendershot's art. Does not think that Bela Petheo's proposal for an exhibit of portraiture would fit at the Walker Art Center, where they are highlighting experimental work.

Letter from Bruce McClain, October 31, 1972. Congratulations on successful October exhibition at Gustavus Adolphus College. Honorarium enclosed.

Movalli Gallery, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Business card, undated. September 1, 1997 or later. Handwritten correction to area code.

Letter to Malcolm Myers, September 30, 1968. Invitation to Bela Petheo's exhibit at the Coffman Memorial Union Art Gallery. Bela would also be available for questions.

Correspondence with Carlo Quintavalle, Vincent Tegeder, and Ernesto Moro, May 29, 1967-October 8, 1968. Some letters are in Italian. Quintavalle, an art professor, proposed a booklet about Bela Petheo as a painter and graphic artist. Ernesto Moro was with the publisher Nuova STEP, Parma. The booklet itself is in Bela Petheo's Rank and Tenure file (1583:4), and Alcuin Library has an autographed presentation copy.

Letter from Gunther Rolfson, November 21, 1972. Thanks for sending program from show at the Red River Art Center.

Letter to James Roy, October 16, 1967. Thanks for holding exhibition. Invitation for St. Cloud State faculty to show their work at St. John's.

Print, Drawing and Painting Exhibition by Bela Petheo. Postcard. Invitation to exhibition opening. St. Cloud State College, October 9, 1967.

Letter to Orville Running, September 30, 1968. Thanks for invitation to show work at Decorah College. Encloses information on recent exhibits.

Letter to Thomas Stark, March 26, 1968. Could the date of a show at the Coffman Memorial Union Gallery be moved back a week?

Letters from Frances Stillman, March 11, 1972 and April 21, 1972. Widow of Ary Stillman appreciated Bela Petheo's article in Art Journal.

Letter from Dean Swanson, October 14, 1968. Would like to discuss a possible loan of material from the Walker Art Center to the College of Saint Benedict and St. John's University.

Letter from Hilary Thimmesh, October 23, 1967. Urges Bela Petheo to stay on campus during January term rather than travel to New Orleans.

Letter to Michael Wentworth, May 21, 1971. Reaction to "Painterly Realism" exhibition catalog. Photocopy.

Letter from Urbach Zsuzsa, end of July, 1997. Travel plans. Asks about Bela Petheo's retirement. In Hungarian.

Letter addressed to "Egregio Signore Commandante," no date. Bela Petheo says that he is a friend of Donald Celender, mentions Julian Plante. In Italian. 2 copies. Handwritten note on one: "Unknown addressee? BP, 2011."

Community, December 1, 1972. Has article by Willem Ibes on the state of the music program at St. John's, which is prefaced by a note saying there will be a companion piece on the plastic arts written by Bela Petheo in the next issue. Also, article on p. 4 by Bela Petheo, "Art historians examine art history's place in liberal arts curriculum."

Inserted: "'I admire the wheels of my touring Bugatti': Plastic arts at SJU," by Bela Petheo. Community, February 23, 1973, p. 2, 4. Photocopy on legal paper.

Community, vol. 4, no. 7, April or May, 1972. "Bela Petheo Lectures at Mac" article on p. 4.

The Record, November 16, 1973. Cover art by Bela Petheo?

Sunday Bulletin, November 3, 1974. Published by the Liturgical Press. Cover art by Bela Petheo? Drawing of St. Martin de Porres caring for a prisoner. Two-color printing. 2 copies.

The Versailles of Louis the XIVth, by Thomas F. Hedin. Poster for lecture. May 8. 2006? 2 copies.

Arrowhead Exhibit, Art Institute at Tweed. Exhibition catalog for group show. 42nd Annual Arrowhead Exhibit, 1976. Bela Petheo won a Merit Award for his acrylic "Self-Portrait on Balcony."

Saint John's Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1969-75. Announcement by Bela Petheo of upcoming exhibition, to be held January 10-29, 1976. January, 1976.

Kanyusik, Theiler, Betzold. Poster for exhibitions by senior art students. St. John's University Art Gallery, April1-May 25, 1969. Has staple holes.

Psych. 4-page manuscript by Bela Petheo. Undated. No earlier than 1965. How does art communicate something real? Probably a companion piece to Networks of Art.

Networks of Art, by James Peters. Undated. No earlier than 1974. The relation between art and science. Probably a companion piece to manuscript Psych.