Emily Hall Tremaine -
anti-Nazi It Girl, 20th c. art collector


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This Emily Hall Tremaine -Tremaine Collection / Miller Company micro-site at artdesigncafe is the authoritative, researched source and centralized, online disseminator of information focused on the Modernist art and design achievements of Emily Hall Tremaine (1908-87) and Burton Tremaine (c. 1902-91).

Overlooked for too many years and falling through various cracks, artdesigncafe took action starting in 2016 with this Tremaine / Miller Co. documentation recovery and dissemination pursuit. The effort has resulted in many taking another closer look at their highly influential art and design organizing and collecting work, an important force in Post-World War II American Modernism.

With the Tremaine’s initial Modernist Painting toward Architecture (1947-52) crossover power engine and interest in varied creative fields— fine art, architecture, product design, interior design, graphic design, new patented lighting technology, and world-class communications, it is expected that the Tremaine work will be of historical interest for decades and centuries to come.


OVERVIEW OF SECTIONS

A. Continued overview re. the work of Emily Hall Tremaine and Burton Tremaine
B. Painting toward Architecture (1947-52) information and sources
C. Miller Company (focus: 1924-85) information and sources
D. Exhibitions and publications regarding works in the former Tremaine Collection
E. Spotlight: Tremaine Collection exhibition (1984) and auctions (1988, 1991)
F. Spotlight: The Tremaines and Louise Lawler
G. Publications mentioning Emily Hall Tremaine
H. Regarding the Emily Hall Tremaine papers at the Smithsonian


> I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s

The "original It Girl" Emily Hall Tremaine performed media coverage rock’n roll back in the 1930s.

Self-made, she spun articles through wire services published across American newspapers and beyond. Then she took on California Nazis in 1940-41 occupying newspapers for over four months. (After WWII, she applied this knowledge to her art activity, placing works into hundreds of shows and publications.)

Meet one of the coolest and craziest ladies of the 20th century. See the independent, fact-based, 2019+ research project that many are talking about.

Emily Hall Tremaine


> Listen to a 13-min introduction and 15-min discussion. For a preview, see Nazis in California: Emily Hall Tremaine fights back (1933-45)".

J. Emily and fashion design over the years
K. Developing list of artworks in the former collection and related designs


Like some art people you may know, Emily’s artworks were her children. In the coming years, it is expected that a catalogue raisonné of the highest quality will be published to honor the extraordinary work of Emily Hall Tremaine and Burton Tremaine. Contact the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to inquire about the current status.




A. Continued introduction - Emily Hall Tremaine and Burton Tremaine: A dynamic force in American Modern art and design

Over the years, there were many art finds by the Tremaines, often purchased early on in artist’s careers. Their acquisitions included Andy Warhol’s Marilyn diptych (1962), voted the third most influential Modern artwork in 2004 in a Turner Prize survey. Emily is credited with suggesting the two panels be placed side-by-side. In 1980, she sold the artwork to the Tate Gallery in London. Other finds include Jasper Johns’s Three flags (1958), since 1980 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and featured on several, varied publication covers. In the Netherlands, Emily is known as the first owner of Piet Mondrian’s Victory Boogie Woogie (1942-44), a prized artwork in the country today. At the official unveiling of VBW in The Hague in 1998 after the purchase was Dutch Queen Beatrix with curators comparing the work’s significance to, among others, the Mona Lisa. Yes, the Mona Lisa.

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Design commissions over the years by the Tremaines included the unbuilt Tremaine House (1948) by Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx, recognized for fusing rectilinear and organic orientations in art and design at an important time in America. The Tremaines even had a hand in Walter de Maria’s iconic Lightning field (1977), letting the artist set up and test the work on their land in Arizona, prior to the siting in New Mexico.

Before PtA in the 1930s, Emily Hall Tremaine worked in the publishing field, achieving national level media attention for her work and also her life. However, it was only after meeting and marrying Burton Tremaine that her interest and exhibition of artworks took off. It is their conversations that are understood to have developed the Tremaine Collection and the power of their selections can be seen in the exhibitions of the works to the present day.

Also contributing to the former Tremaine Collection discussion are: Louise Lawler’s Tremaine Pictures— both photoworks and new, related editions, over 200 so far— showing Tremaine-owned artworks in their New York and Connecticut interiors; and the selected Tremaine-owned works in the well-known 1988 and 1991 Christie’s auctions after Emily’s death. Further, criticism by the Guerrilla Girls for the male-only artist selection of works that ended up at auction also contribute to the discussion with continued exhibition of their critical poster. (However, note that numerous works by female artists collected by the Tremaines over the years were left out at the auction, not at Sotheby’s as stated in the artwork, but Christie’s).

Further, off in Australia and circling back to Painting toward architecture, the impact of the initial project is well-known via the work of architect Harry Seidler. Over the years, Seidler frequently mentioned the influence of the Painting toward architecture book and its impact on his work. In fact, after Emily’s death, he later acquired an important Van Doesburg work in the original PtA, an image featured in a travelling exhibition of his work in the 2010s, and the artwork was later donated to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.




B. Painting toward Architecture (1947-52 / 1944 - c. 1960)

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Painting toward architecture exhibition as installed at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (January-February 1950). Courtesy the Karl Kamrath Collection, University of Texas at Austin architectural archives. (See FN "Photo A" for list of works in the photo.)

"The part that the Medicis played in Renaissance Italy can be best approximated today by such great corporations as those that I have named and the fact that the Miller [Company] recently won an award for having made the best use of the fine arts to promote high standard in the [caliber] of their own products is truly significant." (Adelyn D. Breeskin, Director, Baltimore Museum of Art, excerpt from speech, 4 April 1948, at opening of Painting toward Architecture, at one of 28+ venues.)


After decades under historical dust, Painting toward architecture (1947-52) since 2017 has gained attention and is being revisited— and often looked at in any depth for the first time— by Modern art and design scholars. However, more extensive documentation recovery of the important Post-WWII initiative is needed.


See PTA resources


B.1: Overview article - "Rethinking ’Painting toward architecture’ (2017)"

B.2: Painting toward architecture - Miller Co. press release

B.3: Painting toward architecture: Documentation and historical information

B.4: Painting toward architecture - artworks and designs

B.5: Spotlight - "Painting toward architecture: Three works, three histories, three Modern mysteries" (2017) (on Mondrian’s Victory Boogie Woogie and other VBW representations; unbuilt Tremaine House designed by Niemeyer and Burle Marx; and the unbuilt design by Frank Lloyd Wright for Meteor Crater)

B.6: Spotlight - "Van Doesburg artworks in Painting toward Architecture"


Current state of documentation: At this juncture, any original archive of PtA-era documentation that may have been maintained at an earlier time is presumed lost. If you know of anything, please do contact artdesigncafe.com. Important details of this history have to date, been lost.

The Emily Hall Tremaine’s papers at the Smithsonian (see section H. below) do not include exhibition files prior to 1962. There are bits and pieces of documentation scattered in the papers and difficult to find quickly, and nothing as of 2021 is yet organized at that resource for this era. artdesigncafe took documentation recovery action starting in 2016 and as of 2021, the documentation listed above functions as the Painting toward architecture archive.

Of highest importance to the PtA mystery are more details and documentation related to lighting and commercial interior design applications, the stated purpose of the PtA project, and graphics, and how both may have been presented as an aside to art / architecture exhibitions (28+).



C. Miller Company (1924-1985 focus)

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Above, two Modernist graphic designs (left, cover of the Miller Company’s 1945 Ceilings Unlimited catalogue; right, cropped view of 1948 advertisement by Serge Chermayeff highlighting interior design concept with lighting by Morris Lapidus for the Miller Company).


The Miller Company work focused on residential and then commercial lighting. Research is needed to better understand the strands of Modernism at the company, particularly related to 1930s lighting design, particularly by Leroy C. Doane, and Burton Tremaine’s design management. This is important to understanding the predecessor work leading to Painting toward Architecture (1947-52). Currently very little is known.

Below are links to two developing documentation compilations by artdesigncafe.


See Miller Company documentation


C.1: Miller Company product designs in collections, historical lighting installations, and exhibitions. (See 1945-65 for occasional art - graphic design - product design - interior design - architecture PtA-era crossovers.)

C.2: Miller Company design catalogues and historical information. (See 1945-65 for occasional art - graphic design - product design - interior design - architecture PtA-era crossovers.)



D. Exhibitions and publications regarding works in the former Tremaine Collection

Combining her great eye for emerging contemporary art and rock-solid communications skills, Emily Hall Tremaine enabled her artworks to be in hundreds of exhibitions and shown and mentioned in hundreds of publications. A full understanding of this extensive work is in process.

Below are links to resources developed by artdesigncafe:


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E. Spotlight: Tremaine Collection exhibition (1984) and auctions (1988, 1991)

The Tremaine Collection exhibition (1984) at the Wadworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, was an important exhibition showing a selection of the later state of the collection. It is important to note that many works prior were donated, sold or traded for other artworks. Regarding the artworks in the 1988 and 1991 auctions, these are listed, as shown in the catalogue for quick reference.

Below are links to resources developed by artdesigncafe:


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F. Spotlight: The Tremaines and Louise Lawler

Louise Lawler’s Tremaine pictures series is an important disseminator of the Tremaine art legacy. However, the "Tremaine" connection over the years at times has been lost across the number of photos and later manifestations by the artist. The compilation below identifies the photos, and the artworks shown in the photos, for researchers.

Below is a link to a resource developed by artdesigncafe:


F.1: Louise Lawler. The Tremaine pictures. List of photoworks (with Tremaine-owned artworks identified in the photos) (2007)



Emily Hall Tremaine 1930s

G. Publications mentioning Emily Hall Tremaine

An important creative force in Post-WWII America, Emily Hall Tremaine was mentioned in several artistic contexts across art, design and communications in a variety of publications after WWII. Before WWII, Emily was the "original It Girl" as a socialite-celebrity during the Nazi era in California.

Please note, many publications that mention Tremaine-owned works also mention the Tremaines in some way. This can be seen via photo credits, and regarding exhibitions, being listed as lenders.

Below is a developing selected compilation by artdesigncafe. For more substantial media mentions of Emily before 1945 and that context, see below "section I: Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s".





1890-2014 - Emily’s papers

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1890-2014 - Emily Hall Tremaine papers

(1890-2004). Emily Hall Tremaine (1908-87) papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

> This source has been digitized and contains a wealth of documentation. Please note that certain elements were added into Emily’s papers after her death, and for any bits raising questions, it’s best to seek independent confirmation of the documentation and source.





"EMILY, BARONESS VON ROMBERG", ORIGINAL IT GIRL, 1928-38

Emily Hall Tremaine

Left: The first publicity wave of Emily and Max von Romberg, c. 3 August 1928, after their society wedding months earlier. Right: In 1933, this "mug shot" was distributed by a news photo agency in 1933. The caption suggests they are playing a game, getting incorrect information into print as a joke. Placing key messages into the media later appears to become Emily’s specialty. This photo, but Max cropped out, ends up following Emily after his death awkwardly, and into the 1940-41 divorce case media coverage.


Key mass media coverage events

Emily Hall Tremaine

Sample tabloid article, mass distributed in newspaper supplements across America in March 1936, facilitated by Emily Hall Tremaine (then Von Romberg) during her work for her start-up Aperitif magazine.



1934-36 - with Aperitif mag

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Emily Hall Tremaine

Cropped view of page in Emily Hall Tremaine’s 1930s scrapbook showing multiple media coverage on her and her work at Aperitif magazine. In August 1935, Emily transformed or staged a defamation threat into a media / publicity event with national news coverage, promoting the magazine.

Aperitif magazine was owned and managed by Emily Hall Tremaine (then Von Romberg) and her husband Max in some varying combination in 1934-36. It featured provocative content and put forth California-based writers with an anti-Nazi slant.

In the 1930s, Emily and Max were celebrities during a time when minor royalty and socialites were in celebrity-oriented media coverage, and polo— Max was a polo player— was reported on the sports pages. Today’s equivalent would be a couple like Paris Hilton dating a baseball player— and they have minor royal titles and that’s also of interest.

Also at this time, more black-and-white photos are used in newspapers, with many utilizing photos of Max and Emily. Arguably, media / communications practice was developing then, and Emily as a self-made was mastering that.

See the webpage, Apéritif magazine (1934-36), issues, contents, media coverage & shocking context, for more information.



Emily Hall Tremaine 1937

Another media cycle, here via a tabloid supplement distributed to multiple newspapers. Flanders, Virginia Lee. (23 May 1937). Love trumps jinx card of death. The Post-Press (El Centro, CA); Five Star Weekly supplement, p. 3, full page article.


1938 - Max’s plane crash / death

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Max von Romberg plane crash

Front page of Asbury Park Sunday Press with press photo showing the wreckage of the plane crash causing the death of Max von Romberg in New Jersey in 1938. He was flying his plane to a polo match, and was also quietly securing American citizenship and expatriating from Germany, unknown to the public. See 5 June 1938 entry below.


In June 1938, Emily’s husband Max von Romberg was flying a plane from New York over to New Jersey to attend a polo match and the plane crashed. He was reported to have died instantly. The cause of the crash, given the dangerous Nazi / anti-Nazi context in America at that time, is suspicious. There were conflicting eyewitness reports, and the crash seems to never have been properly investigated, during the earlier age of the aviation industry.

For more information about Emily’s crazy 1930s, see below "I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s".

1938 - news brief - Max dies, plane crash

AP (Rumson, NJ). (4 June 1938). Poloist killed in plane crash [re. the death of the former husband of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Von Romberg)] [no photo]. Hasting Daily Tribune (Hastings, NE), p. 3, col. 5. (Viewed 20 June 2021. P01180).

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1938 - news brief - Max, plane crash, dies

AP (Rumson, NJ & Santa Barbara). (4 June 1938). Baron killed in plane crackup [re. the death of the former husband of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Von Romberg)] [no photo]. San Pedro News-Pilot (San Pedro / Los Angeles), p. 1, col. 2. (Viewed 29 November 2019. P01046-47).

1938 - news brief - Max dies, plane crash

AP (Runyon [sic], NJ, June 4). (4 June 1938). Aviator killed in plane crash [re. the death of the former husband of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Von Romberg)] [no photo]. The Chico Enterprise (Chico, CA), p. 1, col. 3. (Viewed 21 June 2021. P01185).

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1938 - article - Max, plane crash, dies

(Special dispatch, Red Bank, N. J., June 4.) (4 June 1938). Von Romberg dies as plane crashes; Baron, Converse descendant, trapped as ship bursts into flames [re. the death of the former husband of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Von Romberg)] . New York Post, p. 1, col. 7 [no photo] & p. 2, col. 7 [portrait photo of Max]. (Viewed 13 November 2019. P00018; P00892).

"Baron Maximilian von Romberg, polo-playing descendant of the Converse family, New York bankers, was killed today when he failed to bail out in time after his small sport model plane caught fire and exploded.... The plane crashed in flames into the North Shrewsbury River, off Lewis Point, Fair Haven, N. J. ... His body was entangled in the lines of his parachute... The Baron had been staying at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. His wife, the former Emily Hall, was understood to be at the Von Romberg home in Santa Barbara, Cal." (Excerpt from above.)


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1938 - news brief - Max, plane crash, dies

Unknown news agency (Red Bank, N. J., June 4). (4 June 1938). Flyer crash victim [Max]; Plane crashes in river in New Jersey [re. the death of the former husband of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Von Romberg)] [no photo]. Madera Tribune (Madera, California), p. 1, col. 5. (Viewed 11 November 2019. P00083).

1938 - spotlighted article with photo / caption - Max, plane crash, dies

(Staff correspondent, Fair Haven, NJ). (5 June 1938). German flier killed as plane falls in river; Romberg’s body taken from wreckage— was en route to Eatontown for polo [re. the death of the former husband of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Von Romberg)] [photo of plane wreckage on riverside] [Photo at top of this section]. Asbury Park Sunday Press (New Jersey), pp. 1-2. (Viewed 9 December 2019. P00816; P01088).

Front page full length headline: Baron dies in Fair Haven crash

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This media coverage compilation is in development.









EMILY AS "EMILY SPRECKELS", ORIGINAL IT GIRL, 1939-45

Key mass media coverage events


Emily Hall Tremaine

1939 - Emily marries Spreckels

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In August 1939, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Emily von Romberg), married sugar heir Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr. in the famous, or by then, notorious Spreckels clan. Shortly thereafter, World War II began in Europe, and the US remained neutral until the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941.

This was a wickedly dangerous and bizarre time with Nazi German officials, etc., still going in and out of the US, and there was some level of support for Nazi Germany within America. During this time, spying by various persons with access took place.

The announcement of the marriage sometimes was reported on the front pages of American newspapers, and sometimes with an interesting cropped, column-wide photo of Emily. Bizarrely it was from an earlier photo of Emily with Max in 1936 at Aperitif magazine, and just one year earlier, he died in a suspicious plane crash.

See the media coverage across the US and beyond: Emily Hall Tremaine (then Von Romberg) marries Spreckels - publicity outputs, Emily-style.

For more information about Emily’s pre-1945 life, see below section "I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s".




Emily Hall Tremaine

L to R: Max von Romberg with Emily in the media in multiple news outlets in 1936 (from her scrapbook); announcement of Emily marrying Spreckels in 1939 with Emily in multiple news outlets, notice the re-used photo by the media with Max, then deceased, cropped out; Emily wearing diamonds reported in multiple news outlets in January 1940.



1940 - Emily & diamonds

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Note: In 1940, Emily Hall Tremaine, then Spreckels, wore a reported 500k or 1m worth of diamonds to the Beaux Arts Ball in New York. The amount of 1m is estimated at 14.5-220m in today’s worth. (See https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare.) It is thought her doing this was partly a statement that she had arrived into a higher profile tier after marrying a Spreckels, and at the same time, a piss take. She was reported to have had armed guards with her.

This "media event" shows "unity / variety" across the media and is pre-Warhol. The difference is, Emily, a self-made master of media, was doing it across wire services, and had done so since about 1935.

For more information about Emily’s pre-1945 life, see below "I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s".



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See the media coverage compilation: Emily Hall Tremaine - diamond skull publicity (1940).


Emily Hall Tremaine




Emily Hall Tremaine

Sample media coverage from the 1940-41 divorce case, Emily vs. Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr., that shocked the United States for 4-6 months with a multiple news cycle. It is thought that Emily pursued this— battling Nazi support in elements of American high society and business— not only against Adolph, but his wider sphere, in consultation with Ellis M. Zacharias, head of US Pacific area naval intelligence. Further research will provide clarity. (See the listings below for 7 September 1940 and 10 December 1940 for more information about these news clips.)


1940 - Emily vs Adolph in court

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Emily Hall Tremaine divorce

1930s California publicity queen Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) sued her husband for divorce just a year after marriage, occupying American newspapers for months with allegations of his pro-Nazism and spousal violence. While specifically directed at him, what known impact was there regarding his family’s hotel, shipping and other interests? Was this a wider attack on pro-Nazism in America, in connection to US Naval Intelligence publicity strategies? Does the 1940 presidential election have anything to do with this?

Click to see: Emily Hall Tremaine - crazy anti-Nazi media coverage (1940).

For more information about Emily’s pre-1945 life, see below "I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s".



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Emily Hall Tremaine deposition

Cropped view, secret deposition, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels), 2 October 1940, presumably later placed by Emily in consultation with her lawyer in the divorce court record. In a Q&A, Emily finally "speaks" about the California Nazi / anti-Nazi intrigue herself. This was proudly unearthed after 80 years by R. J. Preece / artdesigncafe. Also see Emily’s initial filing in which she stated that she found the Nazi cause to be repugnant and against her principles and ideals.





Emily Hall Tremaine divorce

(13 November 1940). Mrs. Spreckels may tell all. The Times (San Mateo, CA), p. 2.





Emily Hall Tremaine divorce

Sample media coverage, 10 December 1940. Adolph fired back with a bombshell and accused Emily of being the Nazi. Left: Buffalo Evening News. Right: on front page of Altoona Tribune in Pennsylvania.




1940 - Adolph vs Emily in court

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Emily Hall Tremaine divorce

Cropped views of Emily Hall Tremaine, then known as Emily Spreckels in early September 1940 (left) and December 10, 1940 (right) in the Daily News (New York) and on the front page of the Buffalo Evening News. See details in articles listings above and below.

For more information about Emily’s pre-1945 life, see below "I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s".

1940 - news mention - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

(10 December 1940). It happened last night [with paragraph mention: "Nazi charges reversed"]. Seminole Producer (Seminole, OK), p. 6, col. 2. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01831).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif.). (10 December 1940). Both parties charge Pro-German activity in action for divorce; Adolph B. Spreckles [sic] and his wife hurl charges of Naziism in suit in California [no photo]. The Niagara Falls Gazette (New York), p. 9. (Viewed 11 December 2019. P00027).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif.). (10 December 1940). Pro-Nazism charges mark Spreckels suit [no photo]. Rochester Times-Union (New York), p. 4, col. 2. (20 December 2019. fultonhistory.com: Rochester NY Times Union 1940 b - 1544. P00973).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif.). (10 December 1940). Spreckels hurl pro-Nazi charges [no photo]. Utica Observer-Dispatch (New York), p. 5, col. 3. (Viewed 23 December 2019. fultonhistory.com: Utica NY Observer 1940 - 8886. P00893).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal.). (10 December 1940). Sugar heir and wife hurl pro-Nazi accusations in coast divorce suit [no photo] ((above). Shreveport Journal (Louisiana), p. 2. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03336).

Front page headline: "We will defeat entire world," Hitler tells cheering Nazis

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1940 - photo / caption - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Photo/caption: Charged with Naziism [(above); with cropped photo of Emily wearing diamonds]. Altoona Tribune (Altoona, PA), p. 1, col. 6. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01438).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Not Nazi, wife is, Spreckels claims [no photo]. Daily News (New York), p. 57. (Viewed 16 December 2019. P00230).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Pro-Nazi charges are swapped in divorce suit [no photo]. Daytona Beach Morning Journal (Florida), p. 1, cols. 3-4. (Viewed 26 December 2019. P01143-44).

Front page headline context: 1,000 Italians captured by British

1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Spreckels says she, not he, is Nazi enthusiast [no photo]. Chicago Daily Tribune, p. 12. (Viewed 16 December 2019. P00227).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Spreckels says wife friendly to Nazi cause [no photo]. Daily Boston Globe, p. 22. (Viewed 16 December 2019. P00229).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Spreckels says wife is pro-Nazi— not he [no photo] (above). The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), p. 1, col. 4. (Viewed 26 February 2023. P02256).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Sugar heir denies "Pro-nazi" charge [no photo]. Okmulgee Daily Times (Okmulgee, OK), p. 1, col. 3. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01440).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Wife called him pro Nazi to hide own support for Hitler, Spreckels says [reused photo, or illustration, cropped, of Emily wearing diamonds]. The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada), p. 3. (Viewed 17 December 2019. P00231).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Wife favored Nazis, charges Spreckels heir; she sought to cover up friendliness to Hitler, he says [no photo]. Atlanta Constitution (Georgia), p. 12, col. 2. (Viewed 16 December 2019. P00225).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Both parties to Spreckels divorce suit cry “Naziism” [no photo] (above). The Bakersfield Californian, p. 3. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03339).

Front page headline: Hitler says he’ll defeat entire world; slaps U.S.

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Charges of Nazi sympathies made by both Spreckels; sugar king says wife named dog Swastika; she replies that husband Hitler flag [reused photo, cropped, of Emily wearing diamonds]. [presumably 1st version of paper with area focus, see second & third versions below]. Buffalo Evening News (New York), p. 1. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03328).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Here Swastika! Wife called her dog that, says Spreckels in alimony fight [no photo]. The Evening Sun (Baltimore, MD), p. 2. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03333).

"… Spreckels, heir to millions made in Hawaiian sugar, steamship lines and Pacific Coast hotel and realty operations, accused his wife of keeping a statuette of Hitler in her home before their marriage…" (Excerpt from above.)


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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Naziism charged in divorce suit [no photo]. Big Spring Daily Herald (Big Spring, TX), p. 1, col. 5. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01829).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Naziism factor in divorce suit [no photo]. Daily Sentinel (Rome, New York), p. 4, col. 8. (Viewed 11 December 2019. fultonhistory.com: Rome NY Daily Sentinel 1940 - 4759. P00971).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Pro-Nazi activity cause for divorce [no photo]. Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, OR), p. 1, col. 7. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01812).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Pro-Nazi acts figure in suit for a divorce (including Adolph’s allegations including Emily having a statuette of Hitler, 1934 [sic, 1933] prince visit, Von Romberg seeking position in Hitler’s government, Leni, entertained German government, named dog Swastika, gave him bracelet with swastika engraving, and had swastika on her house, and investigated by DOJ) [no photo]. Meriden Daily Journal, p. 7, col. 1. (Viewed 25 July 2023. N00020).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Pro-Nazi charges flung by both sides in Spreckels case [no photo]. Fort Worth Star Telegram (Texas), p. 2. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03338).

Front page headline: "We’ll whip world," – HITLER

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif, Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Pro-Nazi charges mark society divorce suit [no photo]. Sunbury Daily Item (Sunbury, PA), p. 1, col. 2. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01897).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

A. P. (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckel ze Nazi? [no photo]. New York Sun, p. 29, cols. 7-8. (16 December 2019. fultonhistory.com: New York NY Sun 1940 a - 0987. P00974).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal.). (10 December 1940). Spreckels accuses wife of pro-Nazism [portrait photo of Adolph; and photo of Emily with head turned to the side, cropped from “Work together, live apart” (1936)]. Des Moines Register, p. 1. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03331).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckels asserts wife is pro-Nazi; he is, she replies [with re-used and cropped photo of Emily wearing diamonds (above) (presumably 2nd version of paper with area focus, see first version above). Buffalo Evening News, p. 31, cols. 2 & 3. (Viewed 27 November 2019. fultonhistory.com: Buffalo NY Evening News 1940 a - 6004. P00975).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckels both say other is pro-Nazi; wife named dog Swastika, sugar king adds; he showed Hitler flag, she replies [reused photo, cropped, of Emily wearing diamonds] [presumably 3rd version of paper with area focus, see first & second versions above]. Buffalo Evening News (New York), p. 1. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03329).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckels charges wife with pro-Nazi activities [no photo]. Evening-Recorder (Amsterdam, NY), p. 11, col. 4. (16 December 2019. fultonhistory.com: Amsterdam NY Daily Democrat and Recorder 1940 Dec-1941 Feb Grayscale - 0091. P00034).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckels family linked with pro-Nazi activities [no photo]. St. Joseph News-Press (Missouri), p. 13. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03337).

Front page headline: "We will defeat world," Nazi Fuehrer thunders

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckels suit has pro-Nazi flavor [no photo]. Roseburg News-Review (Roseburg, OR), p. 1, col. 8. (Viewed 26 June 2021. P01810).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif, Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckles [sic] accuses wife of screening own Nazi sympathy [no photo]. Medford Mail Tribune (Medford, OR), p. 3, col. 5. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01811).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckles [sic] and wife accuse each other of being pro-Nazi [no photo] (above). The Tampa Daily Times, (Florida) p. 9. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03326).

Front page headline: British cut Italian lines in Egypt; “We will defeat entire world,” says Hitler

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckles [sic] charge each other with pro-Nazi leanings; German sympathy is made issue in divorce argument [no photo] (above). The Evening Independent (St. Petersburg, Florida), pp. 1 & 20, col. 8. (Viewed 26 December 2019. P01130-33).

Front page headline context: Business leaders warn nation against Hitler

1940 - news article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckles [sic] couple hurl charges of pro-Nazism [no photo]. Indiana Evening Gazette (Indiana, PA), p. 1, cols. 7-8. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01826).

Front page headline: Hitler tells munition workers Nazis will defeat "entire world"

Next to article: "Windsors are in the U. S. now"

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif.). (10 December 1940). Sugar fortune heir denies Nazi charges [no photo]. Cortland Standard (New York), p. 1, col. 4. (Viewed 11 December 2019. fultonhistory.com: Cortland NY Standard 1940 - 3357. P00972).

Front-page headline context: Hitler "will defeat entire world"

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Sugar fortune heir denies pro-Nazism [no photo]. Corpus Christi Times (Texas), presumably p. 16, col. 2. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01828).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec 10). (10 December 1940). Sugar heir accuses wife of pro-Nazism; Adolph B. Spreckels replies to divorce suit charge that he supported Hitler’s cause [with reused photo of Emily and Adolph after their marriage]. St. Louis Dispatch, p. 3A, cols. 2-3. (Viewed 18 January 2023. P03125).

1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

Associated Press (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Hawaiian sugar heir, wife brand each other as Nazis [no photo]. Youngstown Vindicator (Ohio), p. 6, cols. 2-3. (Viewed 26 December 2019. P01141-42).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

(Exclusive) Santa Barbara, Dec. 9. (10 December 1940). Nazi sympathies laid to wife by Spreckels; sugar heir files voluminous answer to divorce suit charges of former baroness [no photo] [cropped view of article above]. Los Angeles Times, p. 2. (Viewed 22 December 2021. P02134).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, charge rejected

Presumably INS (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 9.) (10 December 1940). Pro-Nazi charge of his wife is denied [no photo]. The Kearney (Kearney, NE), p. 8, col. 1. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P02270).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

(Santa Barbara, Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Wife pro-Nazi, Spreckels declares; Hitler statue in home, mate says in reply [no photo]. San Francisco Examiner, p. B (third page). (Viewed 21 January 2024. N00610).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

Santa Barbara (Special). (10 December 1940). Spreckels charges wife is the pro-Nazi of his family [no photo]. The Ventura County Star-Free Press (Ventura, CA), p. 2, col. 6-7. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01892).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

U. P. (Santa Barbara, Cal.). (10 December 1940). Charges wife, not himself, pro-Nazi [no photo]. Fremont Morning Eagle (Fremont, NE), p. 3, col. 1. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01827).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

United Press (Santa Barbara, Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Spreckels hurls Nazi charge back at wife [no photo]. San Bernardino Daily Sun (California), p. 2. (Viewed 11 November 2019. P00081).

Newspaper context: two columns to the right, photo and caption showing "Smoking ruins of Coventry [England] after Nazi raid"

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

U. P. (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Pro-Nazi charge hurled back at wife by Spreckels heir [no photo] (above). Philadelphia Inquirer, p. 2, cols. 7-8. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P02026; P00233-34).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

UP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Spreckels claims wife has Nazi bent [no photo]. Salt Lake City Tribune, p. 4, col. 6. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01439).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

UP (Santa Barbara, Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Spreckels hits back at wife [(above), no photo]. The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), p. 1, col. 4. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01899).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

UP (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 9). (10 December 1940). Spreckles [sic] accuses wife in divorce suit answer; sugar heir says spouse tries to whitewash own activities [(above) with reused photo, cropped, of Emily wearing modish hat]. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania), p. 1, cols. 3-4 (Viewed 20 October 2019. P00224).

Newspaper front page context: headline across the page - "British blitzkrieg begun in Egypt; Greeks drive for another seaport; 1,000 Fascists taken in first clash, report; Graziani army hit in fashion of Nazi push" [(above) with photo "London church wrecked by Nazi bomb"]. Three columns over, article title: "Hitler will speak today to armament workers" [no photo]; one column over: "Watch for Nazi crew", Havana, Cuba


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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

UP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckels says wife, not he, is pro-Nazi [with portrait photos of Adolph and Emily]. St. Louis Star-Times (Missouri), p. 6. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03327).

Front page headline: Nazis to strike harder blows, Hitler says

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

UP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Sugar heir accuses wife of pro-Nazism [no photo]. The Falls City Journal (Falls City, NE), p. 1, col. 2. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01441).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

U.P. (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Wife dubbed dog ’Swastika,’ boosted Nazis, says magnate [no photo] [above]. Brooklyn Eagle (New York), p. 1, col. 3. (Viewed 18 October 2019. fultonhistory.com: Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle 1940 a Grayscale 0042. P00005).

Front page headline, full-width: "Will defeat the world— [says] Hitler"

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1940 - photo / caption - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

Unspecified news / photo agency. (10 December 1940). Photo / caption: She’s a Nazi, he declares [(above) with incorrect portrait photo of Adolph, likely his second cousin with the same name; and photo of Emily with head turned to the side, cropped and turned photo from “Work together, live apart” (1936)]. Atlantic City Press (New Jersey), p. 2. (Viewed 31 January 2024. P03330).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

Unspecified wire service (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 10). (10 December 1940). Spreckels links wife to Nazis [no photo]. Evening Independent (Massillon, OH), p. 5, col. 3. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01894).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif.). (11 December 1940). Mate pro-Nazi Spreckels says in divorce row [no photo]. Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, TX), p. 5, col. 4. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01832).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 10). (11 December 1940). Spreckels hurl Nazi charges [no photo]. Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, TX), p. 12, col. 3. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01444).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

AP (Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec 11). (11 December 1940). Pro-Nazi charges are made in divorce suit [no photo]. Vernon Daily Record (Vernon, TX), p. 6, col. 3. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01443).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

UP (Santa Barbara). (11 December 1940). Spreckels charge each other with Nazi leanings [no photo]. Binghampton Press (New York), p. 9, col. 2. (Viewed 20 October 2019. P00236).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds

UP (Santa Barbara, Cal. Dec. 10). (11 December 1940). Heir to sugar fortune denies favoring Nazis [no photo] (above). The Eau Claire Leader (Eau Claire, WI), presumably p. 5, col. 4. (Viewed 27 February 2023. P01442).

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Cropped media coverage showing "Emily fighting back, again": Left in the Daily News in New York on 22 December 1940; right in the Daily News in Los Angeles on 20 December 1940. See details below.



1940 - Emily fights back, again

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The judge threw out the counter-allegations made by Adolph against Emily, but this was reported in less than 5% of the volume of American newspapers that reported on Adolph’s counter-allegations. The reporting was mainly in California, perhaps as Christmas was coming up. The reputational impact on Emily, partly being in this cloud and also his counter-allegations— without context— continues to this day.

1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

(20 December 1940). Mrs. Spreckels says no Nazi [no photo]. The Times (San Mateo, CA), p. 3, col. 5. (Viewed 5 April 2021. P01907).

"… In an affadavit, filed by Mrs. Spreckels in answer to Spreckels’ counter charge that it was the former Baroness von Romberg, not he, who was the pro-Nazi, the society beauty claimed that the swastika she removed from her Montecito home decorations was just an old Indian design and had no Germanic meaning.

She said she had to remove any semblance of swastikas around her mansion because of Spreckels’ pro-Hitler actions. His activities as a pro-Nazi were attracting too much public attention, she said…

Mrs. Spreckels explained that the statue of Hitler was nothing but a toy sent to the Baron von Romberg as a joke shortly before his death in an airplane crash several years ago…" (Excerpt from above.)

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

AP (Santa Barbara, Dec. 20). (20 December 1940). Emily Spreckles [sic] denies charges [no photo]. The Chico Enterprise (Chico, California), p. 1. (Viewed 10 February 2024. newspapers.com. P01833; P03354).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

AP (Santa Barbara, Dec. 20). (20 December 1940). Mrs. Spreckels denies charge [no photo] (above). Palo Alto Times (California), p. 1. (Viewed 10 February 2024. P03349).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

AP (Santa Barbara, Dec. 20). (20 December 1940). Mrs. Spreckels files divorce suit affidavit [no photo]. Sacramento Bee (California), p. 5. (Viewed 10 February 2024. P03352).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

Exclusive (Santa Barbara, Dec. 19). (20 December 1940). Mrs. Spreckels hits back at mate; charges of pro-Nazi leanings countered [no photo] (above). Los Angeles Times, p. 2. (Viewed 10 February 2024. P03351).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

INS (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 20). (20 December 2024). Mrs. Spreckels denies any liking for Nazis [no photo] (above). Evening World Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), p. 12, col. 5. (Viewed 11 February 2024. P03355).

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Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

INS (Santa Barbara, Dec. 20). (20 December 1940). Mrs. Spreckels says she is not pro-Nazi [no photo] (above). The Post-Enquirer (Oakland, California), p. 19. (Viewed 11 February 2024. P03358).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

(Santa Barbara, Dec. 19). Wife replies on Spreckels’ Nazi charges; friends old line Germans, former baroness says in divorce suit; emblem declared Indian [no photo] (above). San Francisco Examiner, p. 4. (Viewed 11 February 2024. P03357).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

United Press (Santa Barbara, Dec. 19). (20 December 1940). Wife charges Nazi leanings [no photo]. San Bernardino Daily Sun, p. 1, col. 4. (Viewed 23 December 2019. P00108; P01449).

Front-page headline context: Nazis rush air aid to Italy; Fascist armies yield new ground to British, Greeks

1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

U. P. (Santa Barbara). (20 December 1940). It’s Mrs. Spreckels’ turn to hurl pro-Nazi charges again [no photo]. Ventura County Star-Free Press (Ventura, CA), p. 1. (Viewed 10 February 2024. newspapers.com. P01450).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

U. P. (Santa Barbara). (20 December 1940). It’s Mrs. Spreckels’ turn to hurl pro-Nazi charges again [no photo]. Ventura Weekly Post and Democrat (Ventura, CA), p. 1. (Viewed 10 February 2024. newspapers.com. P03350).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

U. P. (Santa Barbara). Nazi charges in Spreckels battle [no photo] (above). Santa Maria Daily Times (Santa Maria, CA), p. 8, cols. 3-4. (Viewed 11 February 2024. P03356).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

U. P. (Santa Barbara, Cal.). (20 December 1940). Mrs. Spreckels accuses spouse of Nazism [no photo]. Fremont Morning Eagle (Fremont, NE), p. 19. (Viewed 10 February 2024. P01906).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

U. P. (Santa Barbara, Dec. 19). (20 December 1940). "He’s a Nazi and I’m not", counters Mrs. Spreckels [no photo] (above). Daily News (Los Angeles), p. 23. (Viewed 10 February 2024. P01908).

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1940 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

U. P. (Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec. 20). (20 December 2024). Spreckels favors Nazi cause, wife charges to court [no photo]. San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune, p. 5. (Viewed 10 February 2024. P03353).

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1940 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

U. P. (Santa Barbara, Dec. 20). (20 December 1940). Swastikas cited again in Spreckels action [no photo]. Hollywood Citizen-News (Hollywood, CA), p. 5. (Viewed 10 February 2024. P01451).

Newspaper context, above: articles "Bund member list checked; ledger notes indicate Nazis in U. S. forces" and "F.D.R. ’interested’ in ledger seizure"

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1940 – news article - Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Spreckels) divorce action, Adolph responds, Emily fires back

Special (Santa Barbara). (22 December 1940). Who’s pro-Nazi? Spreckels, 4th hurl swastikas at each other [with photo of Emily with Spreckels]. Daily News (New York), p. 3. (Viewed 22 November 2019. P00247).

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Cropped media coverage on 20 December 1940. Left, in the Los Angeles Times. Right, in Palo Alto Times (near San Francisco). See above for more details.





Santa Barbara Museum of Art Von Romberg Gallery

After Emily curiously dismissed the divorce case, two months later and three years after Max died in a suspicious plane crash, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art with the Von Romberg Gallery opened in June 1941. Max and Emily were accused to have been pro-Nazi publicly by Spreckels just nine months earlier, reported all over US media for 2+ months. A portrait of Max hung in the gallery. Some in the Santa Barbara’s elite, and also those in the Western US art museum world, were in attendance for the opening. An associated museum social event was held at her villa. A key speech was given against Hitler and what he stood for.

After the divorce case, Emily and Adolph lived apart. She was only able to secure a divorce from him until after the Yalta Conference towards the end of World War II. Why? Spousal privilege?



1945 - Emily secures divorce

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After Emily Hall Tremaine (then Spreckels) dismissed the divorce case in 1941 for unknown reasons, they did not reconcile but lived apart. In 1943, she attempted to divorce him again, and then she dismissed that. After the Yalta Conference in 1945, Emily finally divorced Adolph. It’s unclear why there were delays, but it is thought to involve practical WWII elements and spousal privilege.

For more information about Emily’s pre-1945 life, see below "I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s".

1945 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (then Spreckels) granted divorce

(1 April 1945). Mrs. Spreckels granted divorce [re-used photo, cropped, of Emily wearing diamonds in 1940]. Los Angeles Times, p. 3. (Viewed 7 December 2019. P00299).

"The married life of Mrs. Emily Spreckels, social leader, and Adolph Spreckels, sugar-fortune heir, marked during its six years by three divorce actions, apparently was definitely terminated yesterday... all papers in the case, including a property settlement were ordered sealed by the court... [In 1940] each filed an answer denying the other’s allegations... " (Excerpt from above).


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1945 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine (then Spreckels) granted divorce

AP (Las Vegas, March 31). (1 April 1945). Adolph B. Spreckels divorced [no photo]. New York Times, p. 29. (Viewed 7 December 2019. P00301).

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EMILY AS "EMILY HALL TREMAINE", THE ART COLLECTOR, 1945-87

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1945 - Emily marries Tremaine

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After Emily finally divorced Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr., shortly afterwards she married Burton Tremaine and more or less then officially moved to New York and Connecticut. This was the last social-oriented wire service media round for Emily. Afterwards, her media skills were focused on her developing art / design collection with Burton. In essence, she moved the media frame away from herself to her artworks.

What’s interesting given her previous media / comm practice is we don’t see photos of her or around the wedding. None also were in her scrapbook. Given the shocking 1940-41 media waves with re-used photos, it suggests in this case that she opted out and was moving on, and/or this was desired by Burton as a businessman, etc., in other words, to keep it as low-key as possible.

1945 - social brief - Emily to marry Tremaine

Santa Barbara, Calif., April 13, (AP). (14 April 1945). Mrs. Spreckels will be wed to B. G. Tremaine. Meriden Record, p. 3, col. 1. (Viewed 21 July 2023. P03065).

1945 - social brief - Emily marries Tremaine

Phoenix, Ariz., May 1 (AP). (2 May 1945). B.G. Tremaine, baron’s widow wed in Phoenix [interestingly no mention of Spreckels in chosen AP news in Meriden paper.] Meriden Record, p. 3, col. 1. (Viewed 21 July 2023. P03066).


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1945-49 - text mentions (Emily)

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1948 - article mention - Emily and Painting toward architecture

(19 January 1948). Art in the factory. Newsweek, p. 90. (Updated 28 August 2021. AAA00300.)

"’This is no Barnum & Bailey play,’ says Mrs. Burton G. Tremaine, Jr., art director of the company and wife of its owner. ’Our scheme is directed toward a small industrial audience— engineers and designers who have open minds, or they wouldn’t be in the business. We reach up to them, not down.’" (Excerpt from article above.)


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1948 - article mention - Emily and Painting toward architecture

(February 1948). Art for architecture’s sake. Interiors, pp. 76-81. (Updated 2 June 2018. AAA00294; AAA03308.)

"There are certain differences between the Milller collection and those of the giant corporations we mentioned... the important difference lies in the collection itself... unlike the average company collection, it was not assembled to meet the approval of the masses..."

"We cannot refrain from mentioning that the original idea for the program was contributed by Mrs. Burton G. Tremaine, Jr. who insists on staying in the background although she is entitled to official recognition not as the boss’s wife but as the company’s art director, and a skilled hand at advertising techniques." (Excerpt from article above.)


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1948 - book review mention - Emily and Painting toward architecture

D. D. (1 October 1948), “Painting toward architecture” [book review]. Architectural Forum, 89(4), pp. 158-59. (Updated 28 August 2021. AAA00240.)

"The key to Mr. Hitchcock’s text is in the title’s connective word toward which might imply a sense of distance as well as direction... through Mrs. Burton Tremaine, wife of the president, the whole program has been intelligently and, from a commercial point of view, unostentatiously made available to public appreciation." (Excerpt from above.)


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1949 - exhibition guide - Emily as jury alternate for MoMA advertising / editorial art show

(1949). A guide to the 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club [15 March - 17 April 1949], (third page). ["Jury members... alternates... Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Jr.; Art Director; The Miller Company... ".] Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Viewed 28 August 2021. AAA00563).

1949 - newspaper brief

(19 Feb 1949). Mrs. Tremaine lends Braque painting [Tremaine has lent The Black Rose by Braque for a retrospective exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art and also for its viewing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York]. Meriden Daily Journal, p. 1. (Viewed 22 July 2023. N2-00036).

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1949 - newspaper mention

(21 Feb 1949). City items [mention: Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Jr. has lent The Black Rose by Braque for a retrospective exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art and also for its viewing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York]. Meriden Record, p. 12, col. 4. (Viewed 22 July 2023. N2-00037).

1949 - press release - Emily as jury alternate for MoMA advertising / editorial art show

(c. February 1949). Press release: Museum exhibits selections from Art Directors Club annual competition [with mention: "Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Jr., Art Director, The Miller Company, alternate"; she’s the only woman listed in the entire group]. Exhibition: The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club; Museum of Modern Art, New York (15 March - 17 April 1949). (Viewed 28 August 2021. Q00222).




1960s - text mentions (Emily)

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1965 - brochure with exhibition checklist - A New York collector selects...

(c. January 1965). A New York collector selects... brochure [with exhibition checklist; exhibition with works selected by Emily Hall Tremaine at the San Francisco Museum of Art (22 January - 14 February 1965); works presumably not in the Tremaine Collection]. artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 9 October 2021).

1965 - article mention - Emily and Washington Gallery of Modern Art exhibition

Hudson, Andrew. (26 September 1965). The show’s simply too large for the gallery [with mention of several loaned works by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, and mention of exhibition at the former Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC]. Washington Post, G9. (Viewed 31 August 2021. K01211).

"Why is the Washington Gallery of Modern Art showing an exhibition of ’20th century painting and sculpture’ culled from private collections in Connecticut? The answer according to the catalogue introduction written by Gerald Nordland, the Gallery’s director, is: because Emily Tremaine picked up a suggestion made at a meeting of the Gallery’s National Advisory Committee ’and romanced it into a full-scale program with one state’s private collections to be reviewed at the beginning of the season each year.’ ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1966 - article mention

Zinsser, William K. (15 October - 1 November 1966). The Pop collectors. The East Village Other [New York], pp. 7-8. [Viewed 28 August 2021. EHT-08-04-02(-03); K01313].

"... Mr. Tremaine told me on the phone that he and his wife want no publicity... I put some questions to them by mail. These Mrs. Tremaine answered in a long and interesting letter ... The works that [the Pop collectors] bought so inexpensively have since become the old masters, in great demand for exhibitions here and abroad... they are generous stewards of their trust, constantly sending the works off like children bound for boarding school...

"... Except for Mrs. Tremaine, the pop art collectors are men..." (Excerpt from above.)


1967 - article mention

Witchel, Lawrence. (17 March 1967). The underground— where the action is; Checkbooks of wealthy have given respectability to Pop Art movement ["... Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Jr. are ’in’..."]. Tonawanda News (Tonawanda, New York), p. 8. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00272).

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1967 - article mention

Witchel, Lawrence. (14 April 1967). The underground: Where the action is; Mini-skirted maids dig "the beat bit" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine]. Philadelphia Daily News, p. 34. (Viewed 28 August 2021. K01160).

"... Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Jr., are ’in’. They have a barn in Connecticut which always filled with a constantly-changing display of art which is one of the Nation’s most important collections of contemporary canvases, construction, assemblages and sculptures... " (Excerpt from above.)


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1969 - feature article

Baro, Gene. (15 February 1969). Decisive art collection [on the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine art collection with many photos of works in Tremaine interiors]. Vogue, pp. 132-41, 150, 152. (Viewed 30 August 2021. K01215-22).

"... Do the Tremaines always agree? They are tolerant of their differences, indulgent of one another’s enthusiasms. ’Personally, I don’t see it,’ Mr. Tremaine may say, deadpan, ’but Emily likes it, and she’s always right.’ In fact, these two have an exquisite sympathy that the visitor senses at once. The splendid collection represents both of them, yet is unified. It is as if it reflected a single sensibility, a single intelligence. Their give-and-take is a shared understanding." (Excerpt from above.)


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1969 - article mention

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor). (1 November 1969). Exhibit of mid-century painting, sculpture opens Metropolitan’s centennial celebration [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The Mercury (Pottstown, PA), presumably p. 13. (Viewed 10 August 2021. Q00001).

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1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor). (1 November 1969). Museum of art celebrates centennial [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s "Marilyn Monroe diptych" and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Johnson City Press-Chronicle (Johnson City, Tennessee), p. 14. (Viewed 25 October 2023. S00150).

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1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor). (2 November 1969). Art show reveals New York impact [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s "Marilyn Monroe diptych" and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The Columbus Ledger (Columbus, Georgia), p. C-9. (Viewed 25 October 2023. S00151).

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1969 - article mention

Associated Press (New York). (8 November 1969). Metropolitan Museum show: New York art, 1940-1970 [with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Citizen-Advertiser (Auburn, New York), p. 12. (Viewed 16 November 2021. Q00013).

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1969 - article mention

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor). (8 November 1969). N. Y. paintings and sculpture:1940-1970 [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. La Crosse Tribune (Wisconsin), p. 15. (Viewed 25 October 2023. S00152).

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1969 - news mention

Associated Press (New York). (9 November 1969). Art show demonstrates dominant force [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The New Mexican (Santa Fe), p. C3. (Viewed 13 August 2021. Q00002).

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1969 - article mention

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York). (9 November 1969). N. Y. art school’s dominance keys the Metropolitan show [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Sunday Home News (New Brunswick, NJ), p. A-11. (Updated 8 August 2021. K01204).

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1969 - article mention

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (9 November 1969). "New York School of Art" shapes Metropolitan Museum’s big opener [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The Robesonian (Lumberton, NC), p. 10A. (Viewed 12 August 2021. Q00003).

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1969 - article mention

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (9 November 1969). Show reviews New York dominance [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Austin American-Statesman (Texas), p. T20. (Updated 8 August 2021. K01205).

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1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (15 November 1969). N. Y. school art on display [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Preview supplement, p. 3, accompanying Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota). (Viewed 11 November 2023. S00253).

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1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (16 November 1969). N. Y. painting, sculpture: Review on giant scale [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin), p. A-16. (Viewed 12 November 2023. S00255).

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1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (16 November 1969). New York’s rise in art spotlighted [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Enquirer and News (Battle Creek, Michigan), p. B-8. (Viewed 12 November 2023. S00254).

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1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (19 November 1969). New York painting on view [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Daily News Leader (Staunton, Virginia), p. 5. (Viewed 17 December 2023. S00256).

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1969 - news mention

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York). (20 November 1969). N. Y. painting and sculpture: 1940-’70 [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Times-Leader / The Evening News (Wilkes-Barre, PA), p. 4. (Viewed 13 August 2021. Q00004).

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1969 - article mention

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (21 November 1969). Abstract art heavy in major Met show [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Olean Times Herald (Olean, New York), p. 17. (Viewed 11 August 2021. AAA00567).

1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (23 November 1969). Exhibit of Modern art reviews N. Y. School [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The Spokesman-Review , p. 14f. (Viewed 17 December 2023. S00257).

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1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (2 December 1969). New York School of Painting supplants Parisian School [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Somerset Daily American (Somerset, Pennsylvania), presumably p. 3. (Viewed 17 December 2023. S00258).

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1969 - article mention

Associated Press (New York). (6 December 1969). Giant review comprehensive [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland), p. 13. (Viewed 16 November 2021. Q00533).

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1969 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (7 December 1969). N. Y. paintings and sculpture: 1940-1970 [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine]. TV pull-out and movies supplement, p. 9-D, accompanying Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee). (Viewed 12 November 2023. S00259).

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1969 - article mention

Smith, Miles A.. (19 December 1969). N. Y. Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970 [referring to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York exhibition; with mention of Warhol’s "Marilyn Monroe diptych" and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The Saratogian (Saratoga Springs, NY); Saratoga Scene supplemental magazine, p. 2. (Viewed 18 August 2021. Q00103).




1970s - text mentions (Emily)

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1970 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (26 February 1970). Art exhibit of 1940 to 1970 [referring to "New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970" exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; with mention of Warhol’s Marilyn diptych and Emily Hall Tremaine; the show apparently ended 1 February 1970]. The Morning Press (Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania), p. 11-A. (Viewed 12 November 2023. S00261).

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1970 - article mention - Warhol’s Marilyn diptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

Smith, Miles A. (AP Arts Editor) (New York - AP). (16 March 1970). Metropolitan exhibit: N. Y. Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970 [referring to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York exhibition; with mention of Warhol’s "Marilyn Monroe diptych" and Emily Hall Tremaine; the show apparently ended 1 February 1970]. Cortland Standard (Cortland, New York), p. 20. (Viewed 18 August 2021. Q00104).

1970 - article mention

Cimons, Marlene (presumably) (Los Angeles Times). (12 October 1970). J. Carter Brown, National Gallery of Art Director, stacks up an impressive list of accomplishments [with mention of Tremaine Collection]. Watertown Daily News (Watertown, New York), p. 4. (Viewed 12 September 2021. Q00340).

"... Today Brown sits in a large airy office on the gallery’s first floor... [he] decked [the walls in his office] with several abstract and op art paintings borrowed from the collection of [Emily and] Burton Tremaine ..." (Excerpt from above.)


1971 - article mention, photo

Richard, Paul. (1 September 1971). Moving into the 20th century [article about the National Gallery of Art, and discussions about acquisition of the Tremaine Collection]. Washington Post, Style section, pp. D1, D8 (illustrated). (Updated 8 August 2021. K01206-07).

"... Though [J. Carter] Brown will not discuss it, it has been learned that he has been negotiating with [Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine] of Meriden, Conn., and New York City, whose collection of more than 300 pictures of the 20th century is among the world’s finest... " (Excerpt from above.)


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1973 - feature article - selected Tremaine Christmas cards in Wadsworth Atheneum show

UPI (Madison, CT). (23 December 1973). Friends get novel card from couple [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine as senders of unique Christmas cards; with mention of selection on view in Greetings, gifts and announcements at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (unknown start date - 30 December 1973)]. The Hartford Courant, p. 4A. (Viewed 9 October 2021. Q00665).

"... ’I just thought I’d do something different with our big collection of these cards by displaying them like paintings. Perhaps they can also provide Christmas card designers with inspiration,’ Mrs. Tremaine, a former graphic artist, says..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1975 - article mention

Rose, Barbara. (March 1975). How I found paradise [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine in St. Martin]. Vogue, p. 162. (Viewed 29 August 2021. K01196).

"... If absolute elegance is what you’re after, stay at La Samanna; in the whitewashed terrace dining room... you might see Benny Goodman, Berry Gordy or Motown, art collectors [Burton and Emily Hall] Tremaine... At La Samanna, there are bizarre juxtapositions: millionaires from Madrid, politicos from Paris, journalists, artists, photographers, lawyers— the busiest people in the world who are looking for the quietest, most discreet spot in which to recharge. You could run into painters Jasper Johns, Mark Lancaster, and Sven Lukin; art dealers Betty Parsons, Lawrence Rubin, and Janie C. Lee ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1979 - exhibition catalogue mentions

Carmena, Jr., E. A. (1979). Mentions of Emily Hall Tremaine [pp. 7, 8, 9, 15, 65, 99, 107]. In Mondrian: The Diamond Compositions exhibition catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. (Viewed 25 November 2023. S00487).




1980-84 - text mentions (Emily)

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1980 - spotlighted article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Glueck, Grace. (27 September 1980). Painting by Jasper Johns sold for million, a record [with photos of Three flags, the artist and published purchase invoice (1959 USD$900, [c/o] Miller Company, Meriden, CT); mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York]. New York Times, pp. 1, 12. (Viewed 29 August 2021. K01163-64).

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1980 - spotlighted article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Steele, Ned. (27 September 1980). Artist John’s "Three Flags" runs up Whitney flagpole & sets a record at $1M [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Daily News (New York), unknown page. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00213).

"... ’Three Flags’, which had been lent to the Whitney for a recent exhibition, will be put on display temporarily in the museum lobby gallery Oct. 14-19, museum officials said. It will go on permanent display next year..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1980 - article mention - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

(27 September 1980). People [mention of. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio), p. 2. (Viewed 13 November 2023. S00292).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). $1 million painting [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Indianapolis News (Indiana), p. 2. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00203).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). $1 million is paid for flags painting [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, regarding sale of artwork to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, for USD$1 million]. Scranton Times (Scranton, PA), p. 2. (Viewed 26 October 2023. S00158).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). Jasper Johns’ painting sells for $1 million [re. Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Shreveport Journal (Shreveport, LA), p. 3a. (Viewed 26 October 2023. S00159).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). Johns’ painting sold for $1 million [re. Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Washington Post, p. A8. (Viewed 29 August 2021. K01167).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). Painting sells for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Oregon), p. 24. (Viewed 13 November 2023. S00208).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). Painting sold for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Reno Evening Gazette (Nevada), p. 2A. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00204).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). Record $1 for art by Johns [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Des Moines Tribune (Iowa), p. 1. (Viewed 13 November 2023. S00293).

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1980 - article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). "Three flags" art bought for $1 million [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, regarding sale of artwork to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, for USD$1 million]. Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, Oregon), p. 17. (Viewed 26 October 2023. S00156).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). "Three flags" nets $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska), p. 2. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00205).

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1980 - article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP (New York). (27 September 1980). U. S. painting sold for $1 million [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, regarding sale of artwork to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, for USD$1 million]. Lancaster New Era (Lancaster, PA), p. 1. (Viewed 26 October 2023. S00155).

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1980 - photo / caption - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

(AP photo). (27 September 1980). Photo caption: "Worth a million... " [with photo and mention of Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Whitney Museum of American Art and Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The Evening Sun (Baltimore, MD), p. 3. (Viewed 6 November 2023. S00209).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (27 September 1980). Painting sold for $1 million [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, regarding sale of artwork to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, for USD$1 million]. Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), p. 1. (Viewed 26 October 2023. S00157).

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1980 - article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Glueck, Grace (Times News Service) (New York). (27 September 1980). A million dollars for a Jasper Johns [re. Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Rutland Herald (Vermont), p. 3. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00154).

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1980 - article mention - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

(New York). (27 September 1980). Whitney Museum pays $1 million for Johns painting [Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York]. The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), p. 66. (Viewed 30 August 2021. K01165).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

New York Times. (27 September 1980). Johns painting for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Fresno Bee (California), p. A12. (Viewed 13 November 2023. S00296).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

New York Times Service. (27 September 1980). Johns art sold for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas), p. C32. (Viewed 13 November 2023. S00294).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

New York Times Service. (27 September 1980). Painting is sold for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia), p. A-8. (Viewed 13 November 2023. S00297).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Possible wire service. (27 September 1980). Museum pays $1 million for painting [Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York]. Atlanta Constitution, p. 3B. (Viewed 30 August 2021. K01318).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Presumably Daily News wire services. (27 September 1980). $1 million art sold [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. The Daily News (Longview, WA), p. A6. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00206).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Presumably Daily News wire services. (27 September 1980). Painting sells for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio), p. 2. (Viewed 6 November 2023. S00211).

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1980 - article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

(28 September 1980). Local artist’s work sells for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with two photos of Johns]. The Journal News (White Plains, New York), pp. 1A & 16A. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00303).

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1980 - photo / caption - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

AP Laserphoto. (28 September 1980). Photo / caption: $1 million for living artist’s work (Caption: "The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has paid $1 million for a painting by Jasper Johns. The work, ’Three flags’ ... was sold... [by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]... "). Chicago Tribune, p. 2. (Viewed 2 September 2021. Q00235).

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1980 - feature article, photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). $1 million for living painter’s work [Jasper Johns’s Three flags, sold by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with photo of artwork]. Philadelphia Inquirer, p. 26-A. (Viewed 1 September 2021. Q00233).

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1980 - news brief w/ photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). $1 million for "Three flags" [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with photo of artwork]. Waterloo Courier (Waterloo, Iowa), presumably p. 7. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00308).

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1980 - article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). Couple paid [$900] for it, sold it for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Miami Herald (Florida), p. 23-A. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00304).

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1980 - article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). Flag painting bought for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. St. Joseph News-Press (St. Joseph, Missouri), p. 2C. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00306).

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1980 - article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). Johns painting nets $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Tri-City Herald (Pasco, Richland, Kennewick, Washington), p. 45. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00307).

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1980 - news brief w/ photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). Johns’ "Three flags" bought for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with photo of artwork]. Statesman-Journal (Salem, Oregon), p. 3A. (Viewed 13 November 2023. S00299).

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1980 - article w/ photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). NY museum buys Jasper Johns painting for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with photo of artwork]. Arizona Republic (Phoenix), p. B14. (Viewed 15 November 2023. S00300).

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1980 - article w/ photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). Painting of flags sold for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with photo of artwork]. Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana), p. C-16. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00301).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). Painting rockets from $900 to a cool million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Times Colonist (Victoria, BC, Canada), p. 33. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00305).

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1980 - article w/ photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). Painting sells for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with photo of artwork]. The Times (Munster, Indiana), p. B-6 [with short preview on p. A-2. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00302).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (28 September 1980). Painting sets record [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. The Independent-Record (Helena, Montana), p. 11. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00310).

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1980 - article w/ photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Glueck, Grace (New York Times). (28 September 1980). $1 million pop art painting is tops for living artist [re. Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with photo of artwork]. Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), p. E-3. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00298).

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1980 - article mention - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton & Emily Hall Tremaine

Krieger, R. E. (28 September 1980). People in the news [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, regarding sale of artwork to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, for USD$1 million]. Hartford Courant, p. A2. (K01166).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

New York Times Service. (28 September 1980). 1958 Johns painting sold for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Fort Myers News-Press (Ft. Myers, Florida), p. 19A. (Viewed 15 November 2023. S00318).

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1980 - article w/ photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

New York Times Service. (28 September 1980). Johns painting draws highest price for living artist’s work [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with photo of artwork]. Minneapolis Tribune (Minnesota), p. 2A. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00295).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

(NYTS, New York, Sept. 27). (28 September 1980). Record price [for Jasper Johns’s Three flags by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York]. South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), p. 5. (Viewed 1 September 2021. Q00232).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Unspecified wire service. (New York). (28 September 1980). $1 million painting [re. Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; no photo]. Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California), p. 4A. (Viewed 13 November 2023. S00216).

1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

UPI (New York). (28 September 1980). Record price [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Sunday Journal and Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), p. 2A. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00314).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

UPI (New York). (28 September 1980). Painting sold for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Tyler Courier-Times-Telegraph (Tyler, Texas), p. 5. (Viewed 14 November 2023. S00315).

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1980 - article mention - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

(29 September 1980). $1-million art sale amuses the artist [Jasper Johns re. Three flags sale by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York]. The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), p. A14. (Viewed 31 August 2021. K01171).

"... The Tremaines have a collection The [New York] Times says ’is known as one of the outstanding holdings of contemporary art in the United States’... The Times quoted [Johns] as saying he felt ’nothing other than amusement’ about the selling price..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1980 - article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (29 September 1980). Couple paid [$900] for it, sold it for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Miami Herald (Florida), p. 12-AW. (Viewed 24 November 2023. S00313).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Associated Press (New York). (29 September 1980). Painting sold for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Tucson Citizen (Tucson, Arizona), p. 7A. (Viewed 24 November 2023. S00454).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Presumably unspecified wire service agency. (29 September 1980). People [with mention of Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Calgary Herald (Alberta, Canada), p. D15. (Viewed 24 November 2023. S00451).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

UPI (New York). (29 September 1980). Johns work sold for $1 million [Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York]. Los Angeles Times, part VI, p. 5. (Viewed 30 August 2021. K01170).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

UPI (New York). (29 September 1980). Painting sells for $1 million; said top price for living artist [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. The Tennessean (Nashville, TN), p. 11. (Viewed 24 November 2023. S00449).

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1980 - news brief - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

UPI (New York). (29 September 1980). "Three flags" painting sells for $1 million [re. Jasper Johns’s Three flags; mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine; to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; with no photo]. Idaho Statesman (Boise, Idaho), p. 8B. (Viewed 24 November 2023. S00455).

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1981 - article mention - Three flags sold for USD$1 million, Marilyn diptych sold, by Tremaines

Saltzman, Cynthia. (31 July 1981). Meet Arnold Glimcher, who links the worlds of art and commerce [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Wall Street Journal, pp. 1, 8. (Updated 8 August 2021. K01213).

"... The Whitney Museum of American Art paid $1 million last September to acquire ’Three flags’, Jasper Johns’s lush pop-art painting of the Stars and Stripes...

[Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine] originally purchased the painting for $900 in 1959 from Leo Castelli... More recently the Tremaines have been doing business with the Pace. (After the gallery exhibited 10 pop-art paintings from the Tremaine collection last year, for example, one of them, Andy Warhol’s ’Marilyn Monroe Diptych’, was sold to the Tate Gallery for $300,000.) ... " (Excerpt from above.)


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1980 - feature article - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Wilson, William. (1 October 1980). Record art sale poses question [with mention of Jasper Johns’s Three flags sold by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York]. Los Angeles Times, pp. I1 (illustrated), I4. (Viewed 31 August 2021. K01172).

"If a Jasper Johns painting can sell for $1 million, what will it cost museums to build collections of quality contemporary art? ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1980 - article (quiz) mention - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

(4 October 1980). Saturday news quiz; Answers to quiz [with mention of Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. New York Times, pp. 21, 39. (Viewed 2 September 2021. Q00230; Q00236).

"Questions are based on news reports in the Times in the last week... [Question:] 19. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine of Meriden, Conn. sold ’Three flags’ for $1 million. What is ’Three flags’?" ... [Answer:] ’The Whitney Museum of American Art purchased ’Three flags’, the Jasper Johns painting considered a precursor of the Pop Art movement." (Excerpt from above.)


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1980 - article mention -Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Webb, Charles. (18 October 1980). Some other things worth saving [with brief mention: ".. In 1959, a Connecticut couple bought Jasper Johns’ ’Three flags’ for $900 and sold it for $1 million in 1980... "]. San Bernardino Sun (presumably Sunday Parade magazine supplement) (San Bernardino, CA), p. 20. (Viewed 1 September 2021. Q00094).

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1981 - article mention

Saltzman, Cynthia. (31 July 1981). Meet Arnold Glimcher, who links the worlds of art and commerce [with mention of Jasper John’s Three flags and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Wall Street Journal, pp. 1, 8. (Updated 16 August 2021. K01213).

"The Whitney Museum of American Art paid $1 million last September to acquire ’Three flags’, Jasper Johns’s lush pop-art painting of the Stars and Stripes... The man who represented the painting’s owners in the sale... was Arnold Glimcher, the president and owner of the Pace Gallery in New York...

The owners of ’Three flags’, Connecticut industrialist Burton Tremaine and his wife [Emily], originally purchased the painting for $900 in 1959 from Leo Castelli, the artist’s dealer..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1981 - article mention - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Webb, Charles. (18 October 1981). Some other things worth saving [with brief mention: ".. In 1959, a Connecticut couple [Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine] bought Jasper Johns’ ’Three flags’ for $900 and sold it for $1 million in 1980... "]. Courier Express (Buffalo, New York) (presumably Parade magazine supplement), p. 18. (Viewed 8 September 2021. Q00305).

1981 - article mention - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine

Webb, Charles. (18 October 1981). Some other things worth saving [with brief mention: ".. In 1959, a Connecticut couple [Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine] bought Jasper Johns’ ’Three flags’ for $900 and sold it for $1 million in 1980... "]. San Bernardino Sun (presumably Sunday Parade magazine supplement) (San Bernardino, CA), p. 20. (Viewed 1 September 2021. Q00094).

1983 - article mention

Hoving, Thomas. (September 1983). 101 top collectors [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Connoisseur, pp. 108-18. (Viewed 29 August 2021. K01114-17).

"... 93, Emily and Burton Tremaine ... The owners are showing signs of deaccessioning, which, if they do it right, won’t hurt— as long as the best goes public someday." (Excerpt from above.)


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1984 - brochure - exhibition guide - Tremaine Collection show

(c. 1984). A guide to the exhibition - The Tremaine Collection: 20th century masters brochure. 4 pp. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. (Viewed 9 October 2021. K00244).

"... For almost 50 years [Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine] have been in tune with the cutting edge of the progressive, formalistic tradition in the 20th century... around 1950 they began to turn more and more to contemporary American artists, purchasing works by Rothko, Pollock, Johns and others. In the early 1960s they were among the very first to buy Pop Art..." (Excerpt from above.)


  • Offline - Wadsworth Atheneum archive.

1984 - exhibition checklists - Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection exhibition

(c. 1984). Exhibition checklists for The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters exhibition at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. Wadsworth Atheneum archive. (Please note, during a January 2018 review, a precise list was not known. Two lists conflict the number of works at 123 and 132 and the guide states 150 works.)

  • Offline - Wadsworth Atheneum archive, Hartford, CT.
  • Contact the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation for more information and current status.

1984 - lecture transcript - Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine Collection exhibition opening

(25 February 1984). Philip Johnson lecture on Chick Austin and Burton & Emily Hall Tremaine (on the occasion of the Tremaine Collection exhibition opening), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. (Viewed 3 November 2021).



1984 - spotlighted article mention - Tremaine Collection in Wadsworth Atheneum show

Glueck, Grace. (8 April 1984). A collection that breathes the spirit of Modernism [with focus on exhibition of the Tremaine Collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT]. New York Times. (Viewed 29 November 2023. S00530).





1985-89 - text mentions (Emily)

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1986 - article mention - designer’s listed client: Emily Hall Tremaine

(2 July 1986). Designer moves north to start a new business; Daniel Sterling Swortfiguer settling in Old Forge area. Boonville Herald (Boonville, NY), p. 13. (Viewed 26 September 2023. Q01187).

"Among his private residential clients are [Burton and Emily Hall] Tremaine, of New York, owners of the Tremaine Collection…" (Excerpt from above.)


1987 - article mention

G. G. (3 May 1987). A gallery of owners and their troves [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. New York Times, p. H26. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00255).

"Every museum has a shopping list, not only of the works it wants, but of the collectors who might be persuaded to provide them...

... Emily and Burton Tremaine, New York. Treasures such as Mondrian’s ’Victory Boogie Woogie’, a tondo painting by Robert Delaunay, and works by Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Jasper Johns share billing with works by younger artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1987 - obituary

Glueck, Grace. (17 December 1987). Emily Hall Tremaine, designer and collector, dies. New York Times. (Updated 15 April 2021. K00049).

"Emily Hall Tremaine, a designer and art collector, who with her husband Burton assembled one of the outstanding American holdings of 20th-century art, died yesterday at her home in Madison, Conn. ..." (Excerpt from above.)


1987 - obituary

(Madison). (18 December 1987). Emily Hall Tremaine, patron of the arts. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 2. (Viewed 9 October 2023. S00047).

"… ’Emily Tremaine is widely admired not just for her intelligence and sensibility, but equally so for her courage’ … Some of the better known paintings the Tremaines own include… Mondrian’s ‘Victory Boogie-Woogie’… " (Excerpts from above.)


1987 - obituary

Johnson, Joanne. (17 December 1987). Emily Hall Tremaine, 79; collected contemporary art. Hartford Courant, p. B12. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00247).

"Emily Hall Tremaine, one of the first collectors of contemporary American and European art, who was credited with opening the door to widespread appreciation of that genre, died Wednesday at her home in Madison. She was 79...

... Some of the better-known paintings the Tremaines owned included... Mondrian’s ’Victory Boogie-Woogie’... Memorial donations may be made to Planned Parenthood of New Haven..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Art collector [Emily Hall Tremaine]. Lancaster New Era (Pennsylvania), p. 33. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01167).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn). (18 December 1987). Art collector dies [re. Emily Hall Tremaine]. Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska), p. 16. (Viewed 28 September 2023. Q01178).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Art collector dies [re. Emily Hall Tremaine]. Spokane Chronicle (Washington), p. 4. (Viewed 23 September 2023. Q01175).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Art collector Emily [Hall] Tremaine dies. Independent Record (Helena, Montana), p. 2B. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01166).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Contemporary art collector Emily [Hall] Tremaine dead at 79. Scranton Times (Pennsylvania), p. 24. (Viewed 21 September 2023. Q01164).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Emily [Hall] Tremaine, art collector, dies at 79. Muncie Evening Press (Indiana), p. 27. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01169).

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1987 - article - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Famed art collector [Emily Hall Tremaine] was Montana native. Great Falls Tribune (Montana), p. 2B. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01184).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Obituaries… Emily [Hall] Tremaine. The Daily News (Lebanon, PA), p. 23. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01165).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Obituaries: Emily [Hall] Tremaine. Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana), p. 2A. (Viewed 23 September 2023. Q01172).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn). (18 December 1987). Deaths elsewhere... Emily Tremaine ["Emily Hall Tremaine, one of the first major collectors of contemporary American and European art, died Wednesday at age 79" (Excerpt in full)]. Kokomo Tribune (Kokomo, Indiana), p. 12. (Viewed 3 September 2021. Q00240).

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1987 - article - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn). (18 December 1987). Emily Tremaine, 79. Montana Standard (Butte), p. 2. (Viewed 28 September 2023. Q01177).

"Emily Hall Tremaine, a Butte native and a collector of contemporary art credited with being one of the country’s leading art connoisseurs, died Wednesday at her home here…" (Excerpt from above.)


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1987 – news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Major art collector dies [Emily Hall Tremaine]. South Bend Tribune (Indiana), p. C6. (Viewed 24 September 2023. Q01182).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Obituaries… E. Tremaine [Emily Hall Tremaine]. Pottstown Republican (Pottstown, PA), p. 2. (Viewed 24 September 2023. Q01183).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.) (18 December 1987). Obituaries... Emily Tremaine, art collector ["... ’Emily Tremaine is widely admired not just for her intelligence and sensibility, but equally so for her courage,’ Andrea Miller-Keller, curator of contemporary art and acting chief curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum... "]. Newsday (Long Island, New York), p. 41. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00249).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Obituaries… Emily [Hall] Tremaine. Kokomo Tribune (Indiana), p. 12. (Viewed 8 October 2023. Q01181).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Obituary: Emily Hall Tremaine. Daily News (New York), p. 92. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00248).

"... Montana-born Emily Tremaine... said in 1984 she and her husband introduced Warhol and Lichtenstein: ’At first we thought, well of course, the man who’s doing the soup cans (Warhol) must know the man who’s doing the garbage cans (Lichtenstein).’ ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

Associated Press. (18 December 1987). Notables… Emily Hall Tremaine. Kansas City Star, p. 7B. (Viewed 24 September 2023. Q01173).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

Associated Press (Madison, Conn.). (18 December 1987). Deaths elsewhere… Emily [Hall] Tremaine. Corpus Christi Caller-Times (Texas), p. 18D. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01168).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

Associated Press (Madison, Conn). (18 December 1987). Obituaries… Collector of major art works dies at 79 [announces the death of Emily Hall Tremaine]. Salinas Californian (Salinas, CA), p. 4A. (Viewed 21 September 2023. Q01163).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP). (18 December 1987). Deaths elsewhere… Emily Hall Tremaine. St. Petersburg Times, p. 15B. (Viewed 8 October 2023. Q01180).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP). (18 December 1987). Deaths elsewhere... Emily Hall Tremaine ["... assembled one of the outstanding American holdings of 20th-century art..."]. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 12. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00250).

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1987 - article mention - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP). (18 December 1987). Deaths elsewhere: ... Emily Hall Tremaine ["... assembled one of the outstanding American holdings of 20th-century art..."]. Tampa Bay Times (Florida), p. 15B. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00252).

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1987 - news mention - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP). (18 December 1987). Elsewhere… Emily Hall Tremaine. Reporter-Dispatch (Carmel, NY), p. A6. (Viewed 23 September 2023. Q01174).

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1987 - article mention - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP). (18 December 1987). Passings... Emily Hall Tremaine, Modern art collector ["... one of the nation’s leading collectors of modern art... "]. Los Angeles Times, p. 34. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00251).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP) Madison, Conn. (18 December 1987). Deaths: Emily Hall Tremaine. Alabama Journal (Montgomery, AL), p. 25. (Viewed 23 September 2023. Q01170).

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1987 - obituary - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (19 December 1987). Obituaries… Emily [Hall] Tremaine. The Rock Island Argus (Illinois), p. A5. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01176).

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1987 - article mention - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP). (19 December 1987). Deaths elsewhere... Emily Hall Tremaine ["... one of the first major collectors of contemporary American and European art..."]. Orlando Sentinel (Florida), p. D10. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00253).

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1987 - article mention - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP). (19 December 1987). Deaths elsewhere... Emily Hall Tremaine ["... one of the first major collectors of contemporary American and European art..."]. Pittsburgh Press, p. B4. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00254).

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1987 - news mention - Emily passes away

(Unspecified wire service.) (19 December 1987). Deaths [… Emily Hall Tremaine, 79]. Winston-Salem Journal North Carolina), p. 2. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01185).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

(Presumably AP). (Madison, Conn.) (20 December 1987). Obituaries… Emily [Hall] Tremaine; bought contemporary artworks. Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), p. B20. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01186).

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1987 - news mention - Emily passes away

(21 December 1987). Passages… Emily Hall Tremaine. The State (Columbia, SC), p. 4C. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01188).

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1987 - news brief - Emily passes away

AP (Madison, Conn.). (21 December 1987). Major art collector dies [Emily Hall Tremaine]. Ventura Star Free Press (California), p. A-5. (Viewed 9 October 2023. Q01189).

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1987 - book mention, photo - Three flags sold for USD$1 million by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine (1980)

Kurtz, Bruce D. (1987). Visual imagination: An introduction to art [with mention and photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags, sold in 1980 by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine for $1 million to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], [p. 54 (photo of artwork), fig. 3-30]. Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ. (Viewed 1 September 2021. K01153-55; K01157).

1988 - essay; auction catalogue - first auction of selected Tremaine works

Christie’s New York. (1988). Introduction [by Tracy Atkinson, Curator of the Tremaine Collection]. Contemporary art from The Tremaine Collection, (9 November 1988), 74 pp. Christie’s New York. (Viewed 14 October 2021. K00635; K00666-68).

"... It is no exaggeration to observe that Burton and Emily Tremaine taught several generations what it meant to be great collectors... Among living artists almost every work was acquired within the year of its creation... Although proceeds from earlier disposals were turned back into the collection, during recent years some sales benefited instead the foundation which will one day be formed from Emily Tremaine’s estate. The foundation, which will further several of her interests during her lifetime, will benefit from the results of the present sale..." (Excerpt from above.)


ADC: It is important to note here the vagueness of "benefit" here. Referring to Emily Hall Tremaine’s public probate file and will held in Madison, CT, in principle, she owned half of the art collection, which was specified to go to her named foundation. The other half was owned by Burton Tremaine. As specified in her will, most of her substantial personal assets also went to her foundation. Also note that the foundation remit at that time, as stated by Atkinson, should be confirmed. (16 October 2021.)


1988 - article mention - Emily passes away

Robinson, Walter. (February 1988). Obituaries [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine]. Art in America, p. 174. (Viewed 7 October 2021. Q00645).

"... Emily Hall Tremaine, 79, ar[t pa]tron who with her husband, Bu[rton,] was a pioneering collector of con[tem]porary American and European a[rt. In] 1980 the Tremaines made front-[page] news when they sold Jasper Jo[hns’] Three Flags to the Whitney Mu[seum] for $1 million; they had purchase[d the] painting for $900 in 1959..." (Excerpt from above.)


1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita. (8 September 1988). Christie’s to auction works from two art collections [with mention: "Emily and Burton Tremaine’s postwar and modern art— are to be auctioned in November at Christie’s... 34 works from their collection..."]. New York Times, p. C20. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00739).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne. (13 September 1988). Johns, Pollock works top art cache set for auction [with mention: "Thirty-two contemporary artworks from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection will go on the auction block Nov. 9 at Christie’s New York..."]. Los Angeles Times, Part VI, pp. 1 & 3. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00740-41).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita. (14 September 1988). $210 million worth of art is to be auctioned. [with mention of 1988 Tremaine auction]. New York Times, p. C19. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00742).

"... Christie’s contemporary art sale begins with the sale of the postwar part of the collection formed by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine— 32 works valued as a total of more than $20 million ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(Journal News Service.) (15 September 1988). Major U. S. art auction likely to net more than $20 million [regarding the auction of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. Edmonton Journal (Alberta, Canada), p. D7. (Viewed 18 October 2023. Q01190).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita (New York Times Service). (15 September 1988). Record number of artworks on the block in New York [with mention of the sale of 32 works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada), p. C5. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00743).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (16 September 1988). Christie’s slates contemporary art auction [regarding selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA), p. 8A (additional page not identified). (Viewed 23 October 2023. Q01195).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (16 September 1988). Contemporary art sale likely to set records [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Journal-News (Nyack, New York), p. C4. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00744-45).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (17 September 1988). Major works to be sold from Tremaine collection [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Hartford Courant, Connecticut Living section, pp. G1 & G2. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00774-75).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(Los Angeles Times.) (18 September 1988). Art auction expected to set records [regarding the auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. Tallahassee Democrat (Florida), p. 10G. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00120).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(Los Angeles Times.) (18 September 1988). Christie’s auction of contemporary art may set records [regarding the auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. Morning Call (Allentown, PA), p. F3. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00124).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(Los Angeles Times). (18 September 1988). Contemporary art sale expected to set records [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Sun (Baltimore, MD), Arts & Entertainment section, p. 5N. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00748).

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1988 - news brief - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (18 September 1988). Art auction expected to set records [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Courier-News (Bridgewater, NJ), p. C-6. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00746-47).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (18 September 1988). Auction of contemporary art expected to set records [regarding the auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. Rapid City Journal (Rapid City, South Dakota), p. B5. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00122).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times News Service). (18 September 1988). Sale may set records for contemporary art [regarding the auction of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. Palm Beach Post (Florida), p. 4L. Viewed 18 October 2023. Q01196).

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1988 - news brief - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Presumably unspecified wire service. (18 September 1988). Art sale expected to net $20 million [regarding the auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. El Paso Times (Texas), p. E1. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00123).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita (New York Times). (18 September 1988). Fortune in art to be auctioned [with mention of the auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. St. Petersburg Times, p. 3F. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00119).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita (N.Y. Times News Service). (18 September 1988). Sotheby’s, Christie’s houses will hold major art sale in early November [with mention of the auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. Daily Press (Newports News - Hampton, VA), p. H6. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00118).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita (N.Y. Times News Service). (18 September 1988). Sotheby’s, Christie’s set major sales for November [with mention of the auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), p. 3E. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00121).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita (N.Y. Times News Service). (18 September 1988). Sotheby’s, Christie’s to offer art auctions [with mention of the auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. South Bend Tribune (Indiana), p. B2. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00125).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(N.Y. Times News Service.) (19 September 1988). Priceless paintings for sale [with the mention of the forthcoming auction of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection at Christie’s]. The Morning Times (Scranton, PA), p. C1. (Viewed 20 October 2023. S00117).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (21 September 1988). Tremaine artworks auctioned [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Toronto Star (Canada), p. D4. (Viewed 3 September 2021. Q00262).

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1988 - news brief - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times. (23 September 1988). Contemporary art auction in November expected to set some world records [with focus on selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection to be auctioned at Christie’s]. Atlanta Constitution, p. 6C. (Viewed 21 October 2023. S00115).

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1988 - news brief - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times. (23 September 1988). Contemporary art auction in November expected to set some world records [with focus on selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection to be auctioned at Christie’s]. The Atlanta Journal. p. 6C. (Viewed 21 October 2023. S00116).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita (N.Y. Times News Service). (25 September 1988). Huge art auction scheduled; paintings worth over $210 million [with mention of the auction of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine art collection]. Chapel Hill Newspaper (North Carolina), p. 5E. (Viewed 20 October 2023. S00112).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(New York Times News Service.) (25 September 1988). Sotheby’s Christie’s slate major sales [with mention of the 9 November auction of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine art collection]. Greensboro News & Record (North Carolina), p. H3. (Viewed 20 October 2023. S00111).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Berry, Heidi L. (29 September 1988). The laws of supply and desire; record-breaking sums are making big business take auction houses seriously [with mention of works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. Washington Post, Washington Home section, pp. 11-15, 19. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00758).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Voland, John. (6 October 1988). Morning report [including mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine Collection artworks on view at Maisonette Room, Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA (c. 6-8 October 1988)]. Los Angeles Times, Part VI, p. 2. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00783-84).

"... Works from what is being called the most important group of contemporary paintings ever to come to auction will be exhibited in Los Angeles today ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Conlon, Michael (Reuter, Chicago). (8 October 1988). Contemporary art expected to fetch record prices at Christie’s sale [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada), p. C8. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00749).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times. (23 October 1988). Contemporary art on auction block [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, NJ), p. E4. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00750-51).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Berry, Heidi L. (3 November 1988). Auctioning three major art collections [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Washington Post, Washington Home section, pp. 11-16. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00772-73; K00779-82).

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1988 - advertisement - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Christie’s New York (Park Avenue). (4 November 1988). Advertisement: "... Viewing this weekend; Contemporary art from the [Burton and Emily Hall] Tremaine Collection [4-9 November]. New York Times. p. C29. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00778).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita. (4 November 1988). Auction houses offer a century of art in 7 days of sales [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. New York Times, Weekend section, pp. C1 & C28. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00776-77).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Howells, Beverley. (6 November 1988). [Burton and Emily Hall] Tremaine collection under the hammer in New York [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned by Christie’s]. Sunday Morning Post / South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Living section, p. 4. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00752).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(Los Angeles Times) (New York). (9 November 1988). New York art auctions offer high-priced work [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Montreal Gazette (Canada), p. H5. (Viewed 3 September 2021. Q00263).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(Los Angeles Times). (9 November 1988). Picasso tops slate at auction [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Kenosha News (Wisconsin), p. 12. (Viewed 20 October 2023. S00110).

"... The sales begin [tonight] with Christie’s $20 million auction of 32 contemporary works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, billed as ’the finest group of contemporary art ever to appear at auction’". (Excerpt from above.)


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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne. (9 November 1988). Record prices expected at N. Y. auctions [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Los Angeles Times, p. H1. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00753).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

(10 November 1988). Christie’s sells painting by Johns for $7 million [Jasper Johns’s White flag; with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Wall Street Journal, p. 1. (Viewed 15 September 2021. Q00266).

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1988 - article mention - White flag sold for $7 million

AP (New York). (10 November 1988). Painting brings $37.3m [incorrect, clarified in first sentence as $7.04m; regarding Jasper Johns’s White flag; among 32 works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Citizen (Auburn, New York), p. 5. (Viewed 4 September 2021. Q00271).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

Lipson, Karin. (10 November 1988). Record price raised for "White flag" [Jasper Johns’s White flag; with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Newsday (Long Island, NY), p. 9. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00754-55).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (10 November 1988). Records expected to fall in New York auctions [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Philadelphia Inquirer, p. 4-C. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00761).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

(New York). (10 November 1988). Johns’ painting brings record $7 million [Jasper Johns’s White flag; with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Journal-News (Nyack, New York), Metro section, p. B5. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00759-60).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

New York (Reuter). (10 November 1988). He’s waving the flag for $7.04 million [Jasper Johns’s White flag; with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada), p. 1. (Viewed 3 September 2021. Q00257).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

New York (Reuter). (10 November 1988). Jasper Johns’ painting White Flag sold for record $7.04 million [with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s; "... The total sale price for the Tremaine collection was $25,824,700 with 15 records set"]. Toronto Star (Toronto, Canada), Section D, p. D1. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00762).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

(New York Times). (10 November 1988). Jasper Johns’s painting fetches record $7 million [White flag; with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s for $25.8 million previous evening, "tripling the record for a single owner’s contemporary art collection"]. Montreal Gazette (Canada), p. C13. (Viewed 3 September 2021. Q00264).

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1988 - news brief - White flag sold for $7 million

New York Times. (10 November 1988). Record $7 million for Johns painting [with mention of the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, with certain works sold at Christie’s]. Redwood City TimesTribune (Redwood City, CA), p. A-12. (Viewed 17 October 2023. S00109).

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1988 - news brief - White flag sold for $7 million

(New York Times.) (10 November 1988). There’s no surrender as "White flag" art sells for $7 million [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska), p. 3. (Viewed 20 October 2023. Q01194).

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1988 - news brief - White flag sold for $7 million

(N.Y. Times.) (10 November 1988). Jasper Johns’ painting fetches record for work by living artist [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Anniston Star (Anniston, Alabama), p. 12A. (Viewed 20 October 2023. S00113).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

(New York Times News Service.) (10 November 1988). Jasper Johns’ painting sets record at auction [among other works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Wichita Eagle-Beacon (Wichita, Kansas), p. 8D. (Viewed 24 October 2023. S00126).

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1988 - news brief - White flag sold for $7 million

Presumably unspecified wire service. (10 November 1988). Record amount paid for painting [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), p. A2. (Viewed 19 October 2023. Q01191).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

Reif, Rita. (10 November 1988). Johns’s ’White flag’ is sold for record price [in hard copy article, photo of Jasper Johns’s White flag; with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. New York Times, p. C26. (Updated 2 September 2021. H00524; K00737).

1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

Reif, Rita (N.Y. Times News Service). (10 November 1988). "Flag" painting sells at auction for $7 million [among other selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection auctioned at Christie’s]. Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, GA), p. D-5. (Viewed 24 October 2023. S00114).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

Rizzo, Frank. (10 November 1988). Madison couple’s "White flag" brings banner price at auction [with photo of Jasper Johns’s White flag; with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Hartford Courant, p. A4. (Viewed 4 September 2021. K00623).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Tully, Judd (Special, New York, Nov. 9). (10 November 1988). $37 million contemporary art sale [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Washington Post, Style section, pp. B1 & B20. (Viewed 4 September 2021. K00763-64).

"... The Tremaines bought early and in depth, often straight out of the artist’s studios, especially the work of pop artists who— in the early 1960s— were still unknown..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1988 - news brief - White flag sold for $7 million

Unspecified wire service. (10 November 1988). [Untitled news brief with focus on White flag painting by Jasper Johns sold for $7 million, among other works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Los Angeles Times, p. 2. (Viewed 24 October 2023. Q00265).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Zebora, Jim. (10 November 1988). Tremaine art auction sets records [regarding selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection auctioned at Christie’s]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), pp. 1 & 4. (Viewed 24 October 2023. Q00259).

1988 - news brief mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times (New York). (11 November 1988). Art auction breaks day-old record [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Citizen Register (Yorktown Heights, NY), p. A13. (Viewed 1 November 2023. S00131).

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1988 - news brief mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times (New York). (11 November 1988). Art auction breaks day-old record [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Daily Item (New Rochelle, NY), p. A13. (Viewed 1 November 2023. S00135).

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1988 - news brief mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times (New York). (11 November 1988). Art auction breaks day-old record [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Daily Times (New Rochelle, NY), p. A13. (Viewed 1 November 2023. S00132).

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1988 - news brief mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times (New York). (11 November 1988). Art auction breaks day-old record [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Herald Statesman (Yonkers, NY), p. A13. (Viewed 1 November 2023. Q01192).

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1988 - news brief mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(Los Angeles Times.) (11 November 1988). Art auction breaks day-old record [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Reporter Dispatch (Carmel, NY), A13. (Viewed 1 November 2023. S00133).

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1988 - news brief mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times (New York). (11 November 1988). Art auction breaks day-old record [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The Standard-Star (New Rochelle, NY), p. A13. (Viewed 1 November 2023. S00137).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times (New York). (11 November 1988). More art records tumble, painting nets $17 million [focus on Ganz auction, but with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s previous evening]. Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada), p. D11. (Viewed 13 September 2021. Q00267).

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1988 - news brief - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Los Angeles Times (New York). (11 November 1988). New York art sale is breaking records [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), p. 8. (Viewed 1 November 2023. S00138).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne. (11 November 1988). Record-setting sales kick off art auction [with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Los Angeles Times, Part IV, pp. 1 & 15. (Viewed 4 September 2021. K00756-57).

"... Proceeds from the Tremaine sale will go to a trust to be established from Emily Hall Tremaine’s estate. During her life, she supported organizations working for population control, Atkinson said, but the foundation will serve ’broader purposes,’ including education and culture.

The Tremaine collection would have been a spectacular addition to many museums’ collections, but Atkinson indicated that Emily Hall Tremaine became disenchanted with museums about 20 years ago..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (11 November 1988). Record prices expected at auctions [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s, "the finest group of contemporary art ever to appear at auction..."]. Press & Sun Bulletin (Binghamton, NY), p. 6D. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00766-67).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times) (New York). (11 November 1988). Sale painting picture of art-hungry buyers [regarding selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection auctioned at Christie’s]. Boca Raton News (Florida), pp. 1A & 9A. (Viewed 1 November 2023. S00129).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

(New York Times). (11 November 1988). Johns’ "White flag" brings $7 million [among selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection auctioned at Christie’s]. Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), p. 11E. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00128).

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1988 - article -White flag sold for $7 million

(New York Times News Service). (11 November 1988). Painting sets record for work by living artist [with focus on White flag painting by Jasper Johns sold for $7 million, among other works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. 28E. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00134).

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1988 - article - White flag sold for $7 million

Reuters (New York). (11 November 1988). Record [CDN]$8.65 million for Johns painting [with mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada). (Viewed 3 September 2021. Q00258).

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1988 - news brief - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Unknown wire service. (11 November 1988). People in the news [mention of works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s, and new record for artist, Jasper Johns, a day after at Sotheby’s presumably]. Hartford Courant, p. A2. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00765).

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1988 - news brief - White flag sold for $7 million

Associated Press (New York). (12 November 1988). Johns’ painting sets new high for living artist [with mention of 32 works to be auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), p. 5C. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00768).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (12 November 1988). Artworks bring record bids [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA), p. B11. (Viewed 23 October 2023. S00139).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne (Los Angeles Times). (13 November 1988). High bidding at Sotheby’s had audience gasping [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Fresno Bee (California), p. F19. (Viewed 23 October 2023. S00140).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Muchnic, Suzanne. (13 November 1988). Work of Picasso, others could fetch $300 million [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s; article published AFTER the Tremaine auction]. Asbury Park Press (New Jersey), p. E9. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00136).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita. (16 November 1988). Choppy night at Christie’s: Records and failures [mention: "two works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine were sold... Alberto Giacometti’, ’Man who walks against the rain’... Joan Miro’s ’Women in the night’..."]. New York Times, p. C22. (Viewed 4 September 2021. K00771).

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1988 - article - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita (New York Times). (16 November 1988). Art for millions; Big spenders have been setting new records at N.Y. auction houses [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. St. Petersburg Times (Florida), pp. 1 & 12. (Viewed 23 October 2023. S00141).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

(New York Times Service.) (17 November 1988). 2nd Picasso work is one of 15 lots that didn’t sell [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia), p. B-12. (Viewed 23 October 2023. S00142).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Powers, Mary (Reuters). (17 November 1988). There’s still a bull market for art [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Sacramento Bee, pp. D1 & D4. (Viewed 23 October 2023. S00143).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Reif, Rita (N.Y. Times News Service). (18 November 1988). Gridlock has hit art auction route [with mention of selected works auctioned from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection by Christie’s]. Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA), p. C-2. (Viewed 23 October 2023. S00144).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Powers, Mary (Reuters). (21 November 1988). Dealers bullish on art works as investment [with mention of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection auctioned at Christie’s]. Calgary Herald (Alberta, Canada), p. F3. (Viewed 22 October 2023. S00145).

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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Glueck, Grace. (26 November 1988). The mania of art auctions: Problems as well as profits [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection and its recent auction of selected artworks, including specific mention of Lichtenstein’s I can see the whole room... and a painting by Tom Wesselmann]. New York Times, pp. 1 & 15. (Viewed 3 September 2021. K00770).

"The effect of the huge prices paid at this month’s art auctions are reverberating through the art world... " (Excerpt from above.)


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1988 - article mention - auction of selected Tremaine artworks

Glueck, Grace (N.Y. Times News Service). (26 November 1988). Auction houses dominating art world [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection and its recent auction of selected artworks]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 17. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00127).

1988 - article mention

Reif, Rita. (23 December 1988). Auctions [with mention of Tremaine auction of selected works]. New York Times, p. C29. (Viewed 26 September 2021. Q00269).

"Record worldwide auction sales were reported this week by both Sotheby’s and Christie’s for the fall season that ended Tuesday... At Christie’s auctions in New York of the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection of contemporary art totaled $26 million... " (Excerpt from above.)


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1985-89 - text mentions (EHTF)

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1990s - text mentions (Emily)

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1991 - obituary - Burton Tremaine passes away

Fowler, Glenn. (27 March 1991). Burton G. Tremaine, executive, 89, dies; a collector of art. New York Times. (Viewed 24 February 2019. K00048).

"... Mr. Tremaine and his wife, Emily Hall Tremaine, began collecting art [in 1944]. By the early 1980’s the Tremaine collection had grown to more than 400 works by Europeans and American artists... In 1980, the Tremaines sold ’Three flags’, an early painting by Jasper Johns, to the Whitney Museum for $1 million..." (Excerpt from above.)


1991 - obituary

(30 March 1991). Obituaries... Burton G. Tremaine; Collector of American, European Art [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine]. Los Angeles Times, p. A18, cols. 1-2. (Viewed 14 October 2021. Q00660).

"Burton G. Tremaine, 89, who with his late wife, Emily, assembled one of the finest collections of 20th-Century art in the country... In 1980 the Tremaines sold ’Three flags,’ by Jasper Johns to the Whitney Museum for $1 million..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - news brief - plans for second Tremaine auction of selected works

(New York). (7 June 1991). Christie’s plans fall sale of the Tremaine Collection [on 5 November; with mention of "the late Burton and Emily Tremaine"]. Wall Street Journal, p. C10, col. 6. (Viewed 14 October 2021. Q00662).

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1991 - feature article - second Tremaine auction

Reif, Rita. (7 June 1991). 50 paintings to be sold from Tremaine estate. New York Times, p. C3. (Updated 29 August 2021. H00525; K00738).

"... The Tremaine collection is being sold from the estate of Mr. Tremaine, who died on March 23 at the age of 89. He was chairman emeritus of the Miller Company of Meriden, Conn., a manufacturer of sheet metal products and lighting fixtures. [Emily Hall Tremaine], a designer, died in 1987 ..." (Excerpt from above.)


1991 - feature article - second Tremaine auction of selected works; works currently on view at Wadworth Atheneum

Tully, Judd (New York, June 6). (7 June 1991). Major Moderns for sale; Christie’s to auction renowned collection [of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine (estates); works currently on view at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT]. Washington Post, C2. (Viewed 14 October 2021. Q00663).

"... This time, Christie’s has guaranteed the trove... assures the consignors, the separate estates of Burton G. Tremaine and Emily Hall Tremaine, of millions ... McCaughey [Wadsworth Atheneum Director] said that some of the paintings are owned by Emily Tremaine’s estate and some jointly by her and her late husband..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - article mention

Glueck, Grace. (24 June 1991). One art dealer who’s still a high roller [about Larry Gagosian; mention of Burton and Emily Tremaine and Piet Mondrian’s Victory boogie woogie]. New York Times, p. C9, C16. (Viewed 16 October 2021. Q00664).

"... Mr. Gagosian worked his way up to such resale clients as Burton and Emily Tremaine, from whose celebrated collection of post-World War II art he sold prizes like Piet Mondrian’s ’Victory boogie-woogie,’ to Mr. Newhouse for a price reported to be $11 million..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Peers, Alexandra. (30 October 1991). Big fall auction will be a test of art market’s recovery hopes [with mention of second Tremaine auction and photo of Fernand Leger’s Le petit dejeuner]. Wall Street Journal, pp. C1, C19. (Viewed 30 October 2021. Q00665).

"... Christie’s opens the two weeks of sales Tuesday night with the season’s highlight: the modern art collection of the late Burton and Emily Tremaine, superstar collectors whose trademark was spotting historically important works. Ironically, it was the huge success of the first auction of works from their collection in November 1988... that jump-started the boom in contemporary art..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - news brief mention - second Tremaine auction

Artner, Alan G. (31 October 1991). Modern masters; Works from Tremaine collection going on the block at Christie’s [with mention of second auction of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine and photo of Fernand Leger’s Le petit dejeuner]. Chicago Tribune, p. 13C. (Viewed 30 December 2021. Q00913).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Peers, Alexandra. (31 October 1991). U. S. art auctions will be a test of market’s hopes for recovery [with mention of second Tremaine auction, and possible relevant Tremaine Collection artwork illustration(s)]. Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong-based), p. 13. (Viewed 30 October 2021. Q00666).

"... Christie’s opens the two weeks of sales Tuesday night with the season’s highlight: the modern art collection of the late Burton and Emily Tremaine, superstar collectors whose trademark was spotting historically important works..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - advertisement - second Tremaine auction

Christie’s Park Avenue (New York). (1 November 1991). Advertisement: "... Important Modern Paintings from The Tremaine Collection; Auction: Tuesday, November 5 at 7 p.m. ..." New York Times, p. C27, col. 2. (Viewed 21 November 2021. Q00915).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Vogel, Carol. (1 November 1991). A crucial auction test: Will prices keep falling? [With mention of selected works from Tremaine Collection, and photo of Fernand Leger’s Le petit dejeuner]. New York Times, pp. C1, C15. (Viewed 30 October 2021. Q00667).

"... ’The Tremaines put together a very personal collection, buying among the best of what was available,’ explained Michael Findlay, who heads Christie’s department of Impressionist and modern art. ’At the time they bought many of these paintings, the works were by no means the icons they are today’ ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - news listing - second Tremaine auction

(3 November 1991). News listing: "This week; Here are the major business and economic events scheduled for this week: ... Tuesday ... In New York, Christie’s sale of modern paintings from the Tremaine collection startsa two-week round of big art auctions that may indicate whether the market slide has ended... " Los Angeles Times, p. D6, col. 2. (Viewed 21 November 2021. Q00916).

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1991 - advertisement - second Tremaine auction

Christie’s Park Avenue (New York). (3 November 1991). Advertisement: "... Important Modern Paintings from The Tremaine Collection; Auction: Tuesday, November 5 at 7 p.m. ..." New York Times, p. H37. (Viewed 21 November 2021. Q00917).

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1991 - feature article - second Tremaine auction

Rizzo, Frank. (3 November 1991). Tremaine Collection going to auction [about second auction of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Hartford Courant. [Hard copy version title: "Bidding a fond farewell; gavel to signal end of an era", pp. G1, G4.] (Updated 2 November 2021. Q00476; Q00668).

"Works of art from the Connecticut estate of Emily and Burton Tremaine, considered by museum directors, dealers and art writers to be one of the greatest private collections of 20th century art in the world, will go on the auction block beginning Tuesday at Christie’s in New York...

Proceeds from the auction will be split between the family and the foundation set up by Emily Hall Tremaine, who had no heirs. The foundation will likely benefit the arts as well as other organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, a favorite charity of Emily Tremaine...." (Excerpt from above.)


ADC: It is important to note here that in Emily’s 1987 will, she states she owns half of the art collection. As understood, this means half of every artwork, which created understandable challenges when dividing the estates of Emily and Burton. Referring to Emily Hall Tremaine’s public probate file and will held in Madison, CT, by the time of this second auction, with approval by a judge, works were organized into groups. Also, the bulk of Emily’s personal assets went to her named foundation. Also note that the foundation remit at that time, as stated by Atkinson, "likely", should be confirmed. It is not clear where he got this. (16 October 2021.)


1991 - feature article - second Tremaine auction

Tully, Judd. (3 November 1991). Acid test for art’s autumnal auctions; will prices stay low despite high quality? [Article mainly focuses on the second auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine art collection.] Washington Post, p. G01. (Viewed 2 November 2021. Q00670).

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1991 - feature article - second Tremaine auction

Watson, Peter. (3 November 1991). Fare from the modern crowd [about the second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine art collection]. The Observer (London, UK), p. 43. (Viewed 2 November 2021. Q00669).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Muchnic, Susanne (Los Angeles Times). (4 November 1991). Art auctions have no recession but this year’s prices are pedestrian [with mention: "... Despite the cautious mood, 33 pieces from the renowned Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection offer potential excitement at Christie’s ... "]. Toronto Star, p. D2. (Viewed 21 November 2021. Q00918).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press. (5 November 1991). Anxious art world hoping fall sales end market slump [with mention of Christie’s auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine Collection, with mention of first auction in 1988]. Ellwood City Ledger (Ellwood City, Pennsylvania), p. 5. (Viewed 27 September 2021. Q00241).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (5 November 1991). Art world hoping for a new picture [with article mainly concerning second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Rockland Journal-News (Rockland County, New York), p. B4. (Viewed 3 November 2021. Q00675).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (5 November 1991). Art auctions hope for end to slump [with mention of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection to be sold at Christie’s]. Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada), p. C2. (Viewed 30 December 2021. Q00919).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (5 November 1991). Auctioneers to test art market [with mention of second auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection]. The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Canada), p. D15. (Viewed 3 November 2021. Q00674).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (5 November 1991). Cloudy picture; art market nervous about recession as big fall auctions open [with mention of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection to be sold at Christie’s New York]. Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL), p. 3D. (Viewed 7 November 2021. Q00677).

"... Christie’s sales will be anchored by 49 pieces from the Tremaine collection of 20th century art— generally held to be one of the finest ever assembled..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Cox, Dan. (5 November 1991). Auction rooms bid for a better season [with article mainly concerning second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Newsday (Long Island area, New York), pp. 47, 50. (Viewed 3 November 2021. Q00673).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Crocker, Catherine (Associated Press - New York). (5 November 1991). Anxious art world looks to fall sales [with mention of the Christie’s auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine art collection]. Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont), p. 6D. (Viewed 2 November 2021. Q00671).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Crocker, Catherine (Associated Press - New York). (5 November 1991). Art auctions open today in a bid for scarce dollars [with mention of auction of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine Collection]. San Bernardino Sun (San Bernardino, California), section D, presumably p. 35. (Viewed 27 September 2021. Q00242).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Crocker, Catherine (Associated Press - New York). (5 November 1991). Art world hangs hope on auctions [with mention of second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Florida), p. 2E. (Viewed 3 November 2021. Q00676).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (6 November 1991). Apprehensive art world waits for gavel to fall on possible sales of $250 million [with mention of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection to be sold at Christie’s]. Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, Canada). (Viewed 7 November 2021. Q00679).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Crocker, Catherine (Associated Press - New York). (6 November 1991). Art world trying to pull out of slump [with mention of selected works from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection to be sold at Christie’s]. Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, NJ), p. F8. (Viewed 7 November 2021. Q00678).

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1991 - spotlighted wire service article - second Tremaine auction

Kennedy, Dana (New York). (6 November 1991). Fall art auctions kick off with Modern art from Tremaine Collection. Associated Press wire. (Viewed 12 September 2021. Q00341).

"... Part of the [Burton and Emily Hall] Tremaine collection was put on the auction block Tuesday night; the rest will be auctioned during the next two weeks during the big fall art auctions... " (Excerpt from above.)




1991 - article mention - Leger work sells for $7.7m

Associated Press (New York). (6 November 1991). Cubist work sells for $7.7 million [referring to Leger’s "The Breakfast"; with mention of this work and other selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine being sold at auction]. The Index-Journal (Greenwood, South Carolina), p. 14. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00243).

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1991 - feature article - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (6 November 1991). Leger work brings $7.7-million [with article mainly concerning second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada), p. C3. (Viewed 30 December 2021. Q00921).

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1991 - feature article - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (6 November 1991). Painting by Leger goes cheap— $7.7 million [with article mainly concerning second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. The Courier-News (Somerville, New Jersey), p. A-2. (Viewed 30 December 2021. Q00920).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Peers, Alexandra. (6 November 1991). Christie’s auction paints art market as very still life (with mention of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection sold at Christie’s, and Leger’s Le petit dejeuner sold for [over] $7 million). Wall Street Journal, p. A8. (Viewed 7 November 2021. Q00680).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Tully, Judd. (New York, Nov. 5.) (6 November 1991). Ups and downs in first fall test of art market [with large focus on selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine art collection at auction at Christie’s New York]. Washington Post, p. B1. (Viewed 8 November 2021. Q00681).

"... The two artists’ records set tonight were for the Delaunay and the Gris, both from the Tremaine collection ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (7 November 1991). Sale of Impressionist, modern art makes solid showing at Sotheby’s [with mention of second auction of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine at Christie’s]. Rockland Journal-News (Rockland, New York), p. E7. (Viewed 11 January 2022. Q00261).

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1991 - news brief mention - second Tremaine auction

Kennedy, Dana (Associated Press). (7 November 1991). Fernand Leger work fetches $7.7 million at art auction [with mention of second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, New Jersey), p. D6. (Viewed 30 December 2021. Q00926).

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1991 - feature article - second Tremaine auction

Muchnic, Suzanne. (7 November 1991). Fall auction season opens with a whimper [with mention of second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Los Angeles Times, pp. F1, F5. (Viewing 11 January 2022. Q00924).

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1991 - news brief mention - second Tremaine auction

(New York). (7 November 1991). Fall art auction begin [with article mainly concerning second auction at Christie’s of selected works from the collection of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Asbury Park Press (New Jersey), p. E8, col. 1. (Viewed 30 December 2021. Q00925).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Peers, Alexandra (New York). (7 November 1991). Bargain hunting is leading trend at art auctions (with mention of Leger’s Le petit dejeuner sold for USD$7.7 million at Christie’s, from the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection). Wall Street Journal, p. A4. (Viewed 21 September 2023. Q01148).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Peers, Alexandra. (7 November 1991). Disappointing auction at Christie’s paints gloomy picture of art market (with mention of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection sold at Christie’s, and Leger’s Le petit dejeuner sold for [over] $7 million). Asian Wall Street Journal, p. 24. (Viewed 8 November 2021. Q00682).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Vogel, Carol. (7 November 1991). Wary bidding at auctions reflects a weak art market [with extended mention of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine collection sold at auction at Christie’s New York]. New York Times, pp. C19, C22. (Viewed 8 November 2021. Q00683).

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1991 - article mention - second Tremaine auction

Associated Press (New York). (8 November 1991). Impressionist, modern art on the block at Sotheby’s [with mention of selected works in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine being sold at auction]. The Index-Journal (Greenwood, South Carolina), p. 8.C. (Viewed 7 October 2021. Q00244).

"... At a Christie’s sale Tuesday night, the results were mixed. The modern works from the collection of Emily [Hall Tremaine] and Burton Tremaine did well, while the rest of the sale was sluggish... " (Excerpt from above.)


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1991 - advertisment - second wave, second Tremaine auction, additional works

Christie’s New York. (10 November 1991). Advertisement: "... On view today, Contemporary Art including Selections from The [Burton and Emily Hall] Tremaine Collection; Auction: Tuesday, November 12 at 7 p. m." New York Times, p. H35. (Viewed 21 September 2023. Q01150).

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1991 - news brief mention - second wave, second Tremaine auction

(Presumably unknown wire service). (10 November 1991). Art auction sends favorable signals [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine and auction at Christie’s earlier in the week]. The Courier-News (Bridgewater, NJ), p. F1. (Viewed 21 September 2023. Q01149).

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1991 - news brief mention - second wave, second Tremaine auction, additional works

(Presumably unknown wire service). (13 November 1991). Bargain price [with mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. Logansport Pharos-Tribune (Logansport, Indiana), p. 1. (Viewed 7 October 2021. Q00245).

"... Jasper Johns’ ’Device Circle,’ a painting marked by an explosion of primary colors, sold for $4.4 million Tuesday night at Christie’s in New York. The collage was acquired by the late Burton and Emily Tremaine in 1959, the year it was created, and was expected to sell for between $5 million and $7 million ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1995 - test preparation book mention, photo

Sia, Archibald et al. (1995). MSAT (Multiple Subject Assessment for Teachers) [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags and mention of Jasper Johns], pp. 362 (photo of artwork). [Presumably, this was arranged long-term pre-1980, when artwork was sold, as photo credit is to "Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Meriden, CT."] Research & Education Association: Piscataway, NJ. (Viewed 2 September 2021. Q00229).



1998 - spotlighted article mention - VBW sells for $40m

Gleadell, Colin. (5 October 1998). Controversial $40m deal sparks inquiry [regarding the purchase of Piet Mondrian’s Victory boogie woogie by the Dutch government; with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine]. Daily Telegraph (London, England), p. 14. (Viewed 28 November 2023. S00534).

"... [Gemeentemuseum Den Haag] Director Hans Locher claimed [Victory Boogie Woogie] as in the ’same category of universally famous paintings as Rembrandt’s Night watch, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and Picasso’s Guernica’...

Victory boogie woogie was acquired soon after Mondrian’s death in 1944 for $8,000 by US collectors Burton and Emily Tremaine..." (Excerpt from above.)


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1990s - text mentions (EHTF)

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1994 - news brief

(Possibly) Chedekel, Lisa. (11 February 1994). Meriden news notes: Grant to library to help start center [regarding a resource center geared to people with learning disabilities; from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Hartford Courant, p. D4. (Viewed 11 October 2023. S00069).

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1994 - article

Brown, Matthew. (13 February 1994). Charitable group gets first president [Sally Bowles]; [Emily Hall] Tremaine Foundation started work with $1 million gift to Atheneum. Hartford Courant, p. B2. (Viewed 11 October 2023. S00070).

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1994 - article

(17 February 1994). Librarian to leave post for private foundation job [for vice-president position, at the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00063).

1994 - article

Bartolotta, Joe. (17 February 1994). Meriden library director resigns [article about incoming Vice President of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 1. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00074).

1994 - article

Concelman, Nancy. (23 February 1994). Trotta named temporary director of public library [regarding former library director that became the incoming Vice President of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 1. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00075).

1994 - news brief

(27 February 1994). Milestones [“The Meriden Public Library has received a $4,000 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to establish a Learning Disabilities Resource Center at the library”]. Hartford Courant, p. H6. (Viewed 11 October 2023. S00071).

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1994 - article

Campagna, Darryl. (19 March 1994). Bullock reflects on changes during final days at library [article about incoming Vice President of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 11. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00072).

1994 - article

Beniwal, Ratnanjali. (10 June 1994). Library opens learning center; With funds from [Emily Hall] Tremaine Foundation. Record-Journal, (Meriden, CT), p. 13. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00073).

1994 - article mention

Huntington, Richard. (16 July 1994). Nine-foot chicken nets top Albright-Knox Prize [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Buffalo News (New York). (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00078).

"... This year’s juror was Andrea Miller-Keller, the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn..." (Excerpt from above.)


1994 - article

Martin, Nancy. (2 October 1994). In new role at [Emily Hall] Tremaine Foundation, Bullock tries to "look at things in new ways". Record-Journal, (Meriden, CT), pp. 1 & 4. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00076).

"... Before Bullock arrived, the board voted to focus the foundation’s efforts on four areas. Bullock will handle visual arts and population..."

Some of the grants already given in those areas include $365,000 to the National Center for Learning Disabilities...

The [Emily Hall] Tremaine Foundation was among several foundations throughout the nation to fund a forum that brought together environmental groups, business and government agencies to discuss changes to Superfund laws...

Tucked for the past couple of years [into] a third-floor office at the Meriden Enterprise Center on Pratt Street, the [Emily Hall] Tremaine Foundation has been one of the city’s quietest corporate citizens... " (Excerpts from above.)


1994 - article

Smith, James H., Executive Editor. (9 October 1994). Commentary: Bullock sees what’s needed here [regarding her stated perspectives as new Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Vice President]. Record-Journal, (Meriden, CT), p. B1. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00077).

1994 - article

Gillam, Hal. (18 October 1994). Tremaine grant to help river area [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), pp. 1-4. (Viewed 6 October 2023. S00035).

"The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation has pledged $1 million to a Nature Conservancy program aimed at protecting the lower Connecticut River…" (Excerpt from above.)


1995 - article mention

(8 February 1995). Conservancy buys 207 acres abutting park [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 6 October 2023. S00033).

"With the help of $250,000 in state bond money the Connecticut chapter of the Nature Conservancy Tuesday closed on the $1.03 million purchase of 207 acres belonging to Ferdinand W. Coudert...

In October, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation donated $500,000 for the acquisition…" (Excerpt from above).


1995 - UPI wire service article

UPI (Meriden, Conn.) (June 28). (28 June 1995). Learning disability misunderstood [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation] [presumably with placements in some number of US newspapers]. UPI. (Viewed 3 October 2023. S00022).

"Although 2.25 million American school children suffer from learning disabilities, a poll released Wednesday by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation found the problem was woefully misunderstood... " (Excerpt from above.)


1995 - article

Gill, Amanda. (29 June 1995). Foundation to focus on learning disabilities [re. the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 11. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00098).

"A recent public opinion poll has prompted the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to embark on a national public awareness campaign to educate Americans about learning disabilities..." (Excerpt from above.)


1995 - UPI wire service article

UPI. (29 June 1995). Health Notes [with mention: "Learn about learning disabilities... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation... "] [presumably with placements in some number of US newspapers]. UPI. (Viewed 3 October 2023. S00023).

1995 - article mention

Schleis, Paula. (4 July 1995). Most misunderstand learning disabilities; poll shows many people needlessly fear disorders [with mention of poll commissioned by Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio), pp. A1-A4. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00081).

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1995 - UPI wire service article

UPI. (7 July 1995). Health Notes [with mention: "Learning disabilities misunderstood... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation... "] [presumably with placements in some number of US newspapers]. UPI. (Viewed 3 October 2023. S00024).

1995 - article mention

Gillam, Hal. (21 July 1995). Meriden embraces the arts; City hires planner to promote culture [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record Journal (Meriden, CT), pp. 1 & 4. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00099).

"... the Meriden Arts Council also announced that it has received a $10,000 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to pay for the project... " (Excerpt from above.)


1995 - article mention

Borsuk, Dan. (29 July 1995). Did hatred spark suspicious fires? [With mention of commissioned poll regarding perceptions of learning disabilities by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Martinez News-Gazette (Martinez, CA), presumably p. 6. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00082).

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1995 - article mention

Gillam, Hal. (7 August 1995). Administrative turnover high at City Hall [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), pp. 7-8. (Viewed 6 October 2023. S00034).

"… Susan M. Bullock resigned in March 1994 to become vice president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation…" (Excerpt from above.)


1995 - editorial mention

Josephson, Lori. (9 August 1995). Opinion: Understanding and learning disabilities [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio), p. A6. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00083).

"... According to Sally Bowles, the president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation of Meriden, Conn., the Roper-Starch study, for which the foundation paid $125,000, was funded not just to report on public opinion, but to ’lay the foundation for... a public awareness campaign’... " (Excerpt from above.)


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1995 - article mention

(10 November 1995). Arts council given $10,000 grant to study goals in arts education [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota), p. 3C. (Viewed 12 October 2023. S00084).

"… The North Dakota Council on the Arts applied for and received a $10,000 Goals 2000 Arts Education Leadership grant… The grant was established through a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation." (Excerpts from above.)


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1995 - article mention

Sacks, Melinda (Knight-Ridder Newspapers). (12 November 1995). Millionaire broker backs reading-impaired program; Schwab remembers frustration, low self-esteem his dyslexia caused [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and commissioned Roper-Starch poll]. Detroit Free Press, p. 5J. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00085).

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1995 - article mention

Sacks, Melinda (Knight-Ridder Newspapers). (23 November 1995). Reading disabilities; here’s help from one who has been there [with "e" and "d" backwards in "reading" in the title] [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and commissioned Roper-Starch poll]. Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, IL), p. E1. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00086).

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1995 - article mention

Smith, Jacqueline. (10 December 1995). Corporate giving throughout the year [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record Journal (Meriden, CT), pp. E1-E2. (Viewed 24 January 2024. S00872).

"... Many companies have set up foundations to distribute scholarships and funds, such as Napier’s and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation created by the family that leads the Miller Co. in Meriden... " (Excerpt from above.)


1996 - article mention

Sacks, Melinda (Knight-Ridder Newspapers). (7 January 1996). Help with reading offered by a well-known survivor [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and commissioned Roper-Starch poll]. Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), presumably p. 3G. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00087).

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1996 - article mention

(21 January 1996). Lecture series devoted to facets of acquiring art [with mention: "Andrea Miller-Keller, Emily Hall Tremaine curator of contemporary art"]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 6 October 2023. S00036).

1996 - article mention

(13 April 1996). Lewitt mural distinguishes Atheneum’s spacious new lobby [with comments by the Emily Hall Tremaine curator of contemporary art]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00065).

1996 - presumably advertisement mention

Presumably United Way of Meriden and Wallingford [CT]. (12 May 1996). Advertisement: "United Way business contributors... Fair Share Awards... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation…" Record Journal (Meriden, CT), p. G9. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00096).

1996 - article

Fishman, Julie. (11 October 1996). Foundation donates library to Gaylord [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 16. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00100).

"... The new Emily Hall Tremaine Library and Resource Center at Gaylord Hospital... A grant of $250,000 from The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation made the library and resource center possible... " (Excerpt from above.)


1997 - article mention

Garriga, Maria. (28 May 1997). Hospital nearly halfway to goal [with mention of Veterans Memorial Medical Center; "Those donors included the Emily Tremaine Foundation and Miller Co., jointly contributing $250,000..."]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), pp. 1 & 6. (Viewed 24 January 2024. S00875).

1997 - event announcement mention

(14 September 1997). Scene... Visual [with mention of Sister Mary Corita Kent and Donald Moffett exhibition at Wadsworth Atheneum and associated talks by Andrea Miller-Keller, Emily Hall Tremaine curator of contemporary art]. Hartford Courant, p. G2. (Viewed 18 October 2023. S00107).

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1997 - article mention

(17 September 1997). Two lost artists form one exhibit that creates third distinct vision [regarding exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, with comments by the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00064).

1997 - article mention

(6 November 1997). "Evening of Celebration" downtown [At Meriden Public Library; Sponsors of the event included Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. A5. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00101).

1997 - advertisement mention

(13 November 1997). Advertisement: "The Meriden Public Library’s Evening of Celebration V ... sponsors [including] ... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation... " Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. A09. (Viewed 17 October 2023. S00104).

1997 - news brief mention

(4 December 1997). LeWitt sculpture to be unveiled at Connecticut College reception tonight [with guest speaker, Andrea Miller-Keller, the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, Wadworth Atheneum]. The Day (New London, CT), p. C9. (Viewed 17 October 2023. S00105).

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1997 - news brief mention

(8 December 1997). [Untitled news brief / announcement [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Hartford Courant, p. B3. (Viewed 17 October 2023. S00106).

"The Meriden chamber is sponsoring the final 1997 Speakers Series program on ’The fine art of giving and receiving’... Sally Bowles, president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, will also give [her] perspective." (Excerpts from above.)


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1998 - article mention

(15 February 1998). The works of art in movies are no act [with comments by the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00062).

1998 - advertisement mention

United Way of Meriden and Wallingford [CT]. (26 February 1998). Advertisement: "Recognizing Those Who Helped… Make a Differenceper capital giving above national average… The Miller Company… Foundation Leadership… Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation…" Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 7. (Viewed 6 October 2023. S00037).

1998 - article

(3 March 1998). Renowned curator leaving [Wadsworth] Atheneum [Andrea Miller-Keller, Emily Tremaine curator of contemporary art]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00061).

1998 - article mention

(11 November 1998). [Wadsworth] Atheneum appoints 2 curators [incl. Nicholas Baume, the new Emily Hall Tremaine curator of contemporary art]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00060).

1999 - advertisement mention

United Way of Meriden and Wallingford [CT]. (26 February 1999). Advertisement: "Recognizing Those Who Helped… Make a Difference…… Foundation Leadership… Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation… Platinum Awards... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation… Bronze Awards... The Miller Company… " Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 8. (Viewed 24 January 2024. S00873).

1999 - article mention

(2 October 1999). Art provocateurs art and argument [about Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art] [with quote by the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 6 October 2023. S00038).

1999 - news brief mention

(5 October 1999). Bloomfield; Warhol portraits topic at Atheneum ["... Oct. 14 about... Andy Warhol at Prosser Public Library [Bloomfield] ... Nicholas Baume is the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of contemporary art... 7:30 p.m. ... "]. Hartford Courant, p. B5. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00421).

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1999 - listing mention

(14 October 1999). Stepping out... "Lectures... Today; Oct. 14; ’Curator Talk’ on Andy Warhol portraits... By Nicholas Baume, Emily Hall Tremaine curator of contemporary art, Wadsworth Atheneum... Prosser Public Library... Bloomfield..." Hartford Courant, p. 26. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00420).

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1999 - advertisement mention

(15 October 1999). Advertisement: "Andy Warhol: Face to Face... October 16, 1999... Museum Theater at the Wadsworth Atheneum... seminar, chaired by Nicholas Baume, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art... " Hartford Courant, p. A29. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00419).

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2000s - text mentions (Emily)

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2001 - book mention, photo

(2001). The best test preparation for the NYSTCE (New York State Teacher Certification Examinations) [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags and mention of Jasper Johns], pp. 325-26 (photo of artwork). [Presumably, this was arranged long-term pre-1980, when artwork was sold, as photo credit is to "Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Meriden, CT."] Research & Education Association: Piscataway, NJ. (Viewed 1 September 2021. K01001-04).

2005 - test preparation book mention, photo

DenBeste, Michelle et al. (2005). The best teachers’ test preparation for the CSET multiple subjects (California Subject Examination for Teachers) [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags and mention of Jasper Johns], [pp. 367-368 (with photo of artwork)]. [Presumably, this was arranged long-term pre-1980, when artwork was sold, as photo credit is to "Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Meriden, CT."] Research & Education Association: Piscataway, NJ. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00993-96).

2008 - test preparation book mention, photo

Charney, Jean O. et al. (2008). The best teachers’ test preparation for the CSET multiple subjects plus writing skills (California Subject Examination for Teachers) [with photo of Jasper Johns’s Three flags and mention of Jasper Johns], 2nd ed., [pp. 367-68 (photo of artwork)]. [Presumably, this was arranged long-term pre-1980, when artwork was sold, as photo credit is to "Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Meriden, CT."] Research & Education Association: Piscataway, NJ. (Viewed 2 September 2021. K00997-1000).




2000s - text mentions (EHTF)

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2000 - advertisement mention

United Way of Meriden and Wallingford [CT]. (2 March 2000). Advertisement: "Recognizing Those Who Helped… Make a Difference… Gold Firms… The Miller Company… Foundation Leadership… Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation…" Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 6. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00417).

2000 - news brief mention

(9 May 2000). No "disability" label, please [about children’s learning disabilities; the poll was commissioned by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina), p. E1. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00416).

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2000 - article mention

(Washington, DC). (16 May 2000). Poll shows more parents aware of learning disabilities [about children’s learning disabilities; the poll was commissioned by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Abbeville Meridional newspaper (Abbeville, Louisiana), p. 10. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00415).

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2000 - article mention

(17 May 2000). Poll reveals parents fear stigmas [about children’s learning disabilities; the poll was commissioned by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. "Health Care Report - Focus edition" supplement in Alexandria Times-Tribune (Alexandria, Indiana), presumably p. 15. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00413).

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2000 - article mention

(17 May 2000). Poll reveals parents fear stigmas [about children’s learning disabilities; the poll was commissioned by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. "Health Care Report - Focus edition" supplement in Tipton County Tribute (Tipton, Indiana), presumably p. 11. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00412).

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2000 - article mention

Fortner, Ellena. (17 May 2000). Parents of learning-disabled children often fear stigma [about children’s learning disabilities; the poll was commissioned by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas) (possibly a "Northeast Tarrant" edition), pp. 1B & 9B. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00414).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (18 August 2000). Denial can lead to big problems [regarding children’s learning disabilities; with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 25 & 26. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00411).

2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (19 August 2000). Labelling kids; parents fear calling children "learning disabled" [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. The Item (Sumter, SC), p. 4A. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00378).

"... A national poll by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation found that five years ago, 85 percent of respondents surveyed incorrectly associated the term ’learning disabled’ with mental retardation. Today, that figure is 65 percent... " (Excerpt from above.)


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2000 - article mention

Associated Press. (20 August 2000). Back to school: Some parents fear calling children "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Tyler Courier - Times - Telegraph (Tyler, Texas), p. 16. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00384).

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2000 - article mention

Associated Press. (20 August 2000). Children’s learning struggles go untreated [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Bradenton Herald / Bradenton Sunday Herald (Florida), p. 9. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00383).

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2000 - article mention

Associated Press. (20 August 2000). Parents fear "learning disabled" label [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Sunday Herald-Times / The Herald-Times (Bedford / Bloomington, Indiana), p. A13. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00385).

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2000 - article mention

Associated Press [Long Grove, (Illinois)]. (20 August 2000). Labeling children has parents wary [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Sunday Southern / Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, Illinois), p. 13A. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00382).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (20 August 2000). Parents fear calling children "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Battle Creek Enquirer (Michigan), p. 2D. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00379).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (20 August 2000). Rising fear of "learning disabled" label [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Star Gazette (Elmira, NY), p. 3A. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00380).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (20 August 2000). Special Ed stigma feared; some hesitate to ID learning disability [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. The Sunday Journal / Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, New Mexico), p. A7. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00381).

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2000 - article mention

Associated Press. (21 August 2000). Parents fear calling children "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. The Pantagraph (Bloomington-Normal, Illinois), p. A6. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00388).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (21 August 2000). No labels, please; some don’t want children tagged "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), p. C-2. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00386).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (21 August 2000). Parents fear label of "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Iowa City Press-Citizen (Iowa City, Iowa), p. 7A. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00387).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (27 August 2000). "Learning-disabled" does not carry stigma, parents say [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Sunday Post-Dispatch / Post-Dispatch (St. Louis), p. C10. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00389).

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2000 - article mention

Associated Press (Long Grove, Illinois). (28 August 2000). Parents fear calling children "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. The Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana), p. 4B. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00391).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (28 August 2000). Parents fear calling children "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Daily Republican-Register (Mt. Carmel, Illinois), p. 2B. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00390).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (30 August 2000). Some parents fear labeling kids "disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Messenger-Inquirer (Owensburg, Kentucky), pp. 1C & 2C. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00405).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (31 August 2000). Parents fear admitting their kids are "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. The Jackson Sun (Jackson, Tennessee) , pp. 1B & 4B. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00406).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (1 September 2000). Fear of stigma keeps parents from getting aid [regarding children’s learning disabilities; with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. News Journal (Manfield, Ohio), p. 4C. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00408).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (1 September 2000). Parents fear calling children "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Bennington Banner (Bennington, Vermont), p. 8A. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00407).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (4 September 2000). Parents fear calling children "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah), pp. A11 & A16. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00409).

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2000 - article mention

Greenberg, Brigitte (Associated Press). (23 November 2000). Parents fear calling kids "learning disabled" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation poll]. Press Enterprise (Bloomsburg, PA), p. A6. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00410).

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2001 - article - new president for Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation

(25 April 2001). New leadership for Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 3 October 2023. S00025).

"Stewart J. Hudson, former executive director of the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation, in Maryland, is the new president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation in Meriden.

He replaces founding President Sally Bowles..." (Excerpt from above.)


2002 - advertisement mention

United Way of Meriden and Wallingford [CT]. (1 March 2002). Advertisement: "Recognizing Those Who Helped… Make a Difference… Leadership Firms… The Miller Company… Foundation Leadership… Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation… Employee Campaigns / Platinum Awards... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation…" Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 8. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00102).

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2002 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award winners

(24 October 2002). Tremaine grants to museums [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. artnet. (Viewed 4 October 2023. S00028).

"The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation has announced recipients of its $100,000 biennial exhibition awards for 2002, which honor curatorial experimentation. Winners are Sylvia Chivaratanond at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago for "Skin Tight: The Sensibility of the Flesh"; Betti-Sue Hertz at the San Diego Museum of Art for "The Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia"; and Valerie Smith at the Queens Museum of Art for "Down the Garden Path: Artist’s Gardens Since 1960." The shows are slated for 2003 and 2004. The winners were selected by a three-person jury: UCLA Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin, Aldrich Museum director Harry Philbrick and Renaissance Society education chief Hamza Walker." (Excerpt in full)


2003 - advertisement mention

United Way of Meriden and Wallingford [CT]. (21 March 2003). Advertisement: "Recognizing Those Who Helped… Make a Difference… Foundation Contributors… Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation…" Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 18. (Viewed 22 November 2023. S00418).

2003 - exhibition announcement mention

(1 October 2003). Work Ethic at Baltimore Museum of Art (12 October 2003 - 4 January 2004); Des Moines Art Center (15 May - 1 August 2004); Wexner Center for the Arts (17 September 2004 - 2 January 2005) [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. artnet. (Viewed 4 October 2023. S00029).

"... Challenging the rules of both the art world and the workplace, via nearly 80 objects by artists ranging from Andy Warhol to David Hammons and Gabriel Orozco... Curator: Helen Molesworth (Wexner); Funding: Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award, Andy Warhol Foundation, others..." (Excerpts from above.)


2003 - article mention

(c. 12 October 2003). "Work ethic" at Baltimore Museum of Art (12 October 2003 - 4 January 2004) ["Work ethic" is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. Art Daily. (Viewed 28 January 2024. S00922).

2004 - advertisement mention

United Way of Meriden and Wallingford [CT]. (23 March 2004). Advertisement: "Corporate & Financial Leaders... Foundation and Trust Leaders... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation..." Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 8. (Viewed 13 October 2023. S00088).

2004 - article - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award winners

(2 September 2004). [Emily Hall] Tremaine Foundation announces exhibition awards. Philanthropy News Digest. (Viewed 9 October 2023. S00050).

"The two recipients, each of whom will receive $125,000, are the New York City-based Bronx Museum of the Arts, which was recognized for Street Art, Street Life, curated by Lydia Yee; and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, which won for Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, curated by Sabine Eckmann. The exhibitions will be mounted between 2006 and 2007…" (Excerpt from above.)


2005 - article mention

(16 January 2005). People in the news: Appointments and promotions. Philanthropy News Digest. (Viewed 9 October 2023. S00051).

"… The National Center for Family Philanthropy in Washington, D.C., has named SALLY BOWLES… to its board. Bowles, director of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, formerly headed the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation… " (Excerpt from above.)


2005 - news brief - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award

(10 September 2005). Cash for curators [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. artnet. (Viewed 4 October 2023. S00027).

"The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation in Meriden, Conn., is looking for adventurous curatorial talent. The foundation awards an exhibition grant of up to $125,000 to U.S.-based curators..." (Excerpt from above.)


2006 - article mention

(10 June 2006). Campership fund; Dress-down helps young campers [with mention: "... Other donations this week were received from... The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, $1,400".] Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 10. (Viewed 13 October 2023. S00090).

2006 - news announcement - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award winners

(20 September 2006). Elliott leaves Tokyo for Istanbul; [Emily Hall] Tremaine Awards announced. Artforum. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00055).

2006 - news announcement - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award winners

(1 October 2006). [Emily Hall] Tremaine Foundation announces 2006 exhibition award winners. Philanthropy News Digest. (Viewed 9 October 2023. S00052).

2006 - news announcement - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award winners

(Presumably sponsored content.) (presumably 3 October 2006). Winners of 2006 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. Art Daily. (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00004).

> Ralph Rugoff with CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts in San Francisco; Deborah Cullen with El Museo del Barrio in New York; Hamza Walker with The Renaissance Society in Chicago;
> the three-person jury of contemporary art curators included Helen Klisser During, Gallery Director at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center Gallery; Madeleine Grynstejn, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Valerie Smith, Director of Exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art.


2006 - news announcement - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award winners

(19 September 2006). Tremaine curatorial awards announced [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. artnet. (Viewed 4 October 2023. S00030).

"The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation in Meriden, Conn., has announced the 2006 recipients of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Awards..." (Excerpt from above.)


2007 - press / public announcement mention

Creative Capital Foundation, New York. (29 January 2007). Creative Capital grants in visual arts and film / video available in February 2007 [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. e-flux announcements. (Viewed 4 October 2023. S00026).

"... Sustaining support for Creative Capital is currently provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Ford Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and more than 60 other foundations and individuals..." (Excerpt from above.)


2007 - article mention

Presumably Lang, Joel. (4 May 2007). Making a powerful pledge [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00377).

"... One by one, cities and towns across Connecticut are buying into an energy program that its promoters promise will improve public health, free the nation from its addiction to foreign oil and combat global warming all at the same time.

The grand claims are matched by a born-again zeal...

Those groups [funding it] include the state’s own Clean Energy Fund, the John Merck Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, among others..." (Excerpt from above.)


2007 - news brief

(17 August 2007). News near you / Richmond [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Richmond Times-Dispatch, p. B2. (Viewed 13 October 2023. S00095).

"The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts has received a $75,000 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to continue the school’s graduate course Professional Practices for Fine Artists..." (Excerpt from above.)


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2007 - news brief

(28 October 2007). Meriden grant for children’s library [for the Learning Diversity Resource Center; with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. B4. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00103).

2008 - exhibition announcement mention

(24 January 2008). Arte / Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 at El Museo Barrio, New York (30 January - 8 June 2008) [with mention: "Arte ≠ Vida is the recipient of a prestigious 2006 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award"]. Art Daily. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00057).

2008 - press / public announcement mention

El Museo del Barrio. (7 April 2008). ARTE ≠ VIDA at El Museo del Barrio, New York (30 January - 18 May 2008) [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. e-flux announcement. (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00018).

"... Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960 – 2000 is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award and by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust... " (Excerpt from above).


2008 - press / public announcement mention

(17 April 2008). Amateurs at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (23 April - 9 August 2008) [Amateurs is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. e-flux announcements. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00056).

2008 - article mention

(19 April 2008). Fund on way toward goal ["The Meriden-Wallingford Summer Campership Fund has raised $3,700... The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, $1,300..."]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p 11. (Viewed 24 January 2024. S00870).

2008 - article mention

Perlot, Andrew. (4 May 2008). Panel fixes spot along trail with a beech tree [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. B3. (Viewed 13 October 2023. S00094).

"The Conversation Commission... With $5,700 in grants from state Department of Environment Protection and Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the commission has planted about 300 plants along the trail..." (Excerpts from above.)


2008 - news brief mention

(28 July 2008). $2,500 grant ["The United Way of Meriden and Wallingford has announced a $2,500 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation"]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 19. (Viewed 13 October 2023. S00089).

2008 - article mention

(12 August 2008). Artnet news [with paragraph on Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Awards]. artnet. (Viewed 17 January 2024. S00868).

2008 - article

(31 August 2008). Press release: Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation announces winners of exhibition awards. Philanthropy News Digest. (Viewed 17 January 2024. S00867).

Awardees:
> Stephanie Smith, $150,000 for "Feast: Radical Hospitality and Contemporary Art" at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
> Kimberli Meyer, Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked, and Gloria Sutton, awarded $150,000 for "How Many Billboards on the Boulevard?" at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture
> Susan Cross, $135,000 for "Material World: Painting and Sculpture as Environment" at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

"Exhibitions will be mounted between 2009 and 2011."


2008 - article mention

(1 September 2008). New this month in U. S. museums ["Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now"; Bronx Museum; Sept. 14, 2008 - Jan. 25, 2009... Funding (including) The Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award..."]. artnet. (Viewed 17 January 2024. S00869).

2008 - article mention

Moore, George. (7 October 2008). Seeking the trail? Follow the web [about the Meriden Linear Trail website, with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), pp 7-8. (Viewed 24 January 2024. S00871).

"The Meriden Linear Trail will now have a presence on the World Wide Web... A recent $2,500 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation for outreach will cover the cost of the new site... " (Excerpt from above.)


2008 - advertisement mention

Summercamp Fund for Meriden and Wallingford. (2 November 2008). Advertisement: "Thanks to your generosity... Foundations: ... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation... " Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p E14. (Viewed 17 January 2024. S00866).

2009 - article

Preece, R. J. (January / February 2009). Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation: Interview of Nicole Chevalier, Program Director; This foundation based in Meriden, Connecticut is funding professional practice training via its Marketplace Empowerment for Artists (MEA) Program in the US on a national scale. artdesigncafe. (Viewed 9 October 2023.)

2009 - press / public announcement mention

(10 February 2009). I repeat myself when under stress at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (in collaboration with Siemens Arts Program) (13 February - 3 May 2009). e-flux announcements. (Viewed 16 October 2023. S00097).

[Additional mention:] "Winter Exhibitions at MOCAD: Black Is, Black Ain’t, organized by the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and curated by Hamza Walker. Black Is Black Ain’t is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award..." (Excerpt from above.)


2009 - article mention

(10 May 2009). Council for philanthropy elects officers ["The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy... elected officers... Secretary— Stewart Hudson, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (Meriden)..."]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 17 January 2024. S00865).

2009 - article mention

(23 May 2009). Campership raises $14,075 halfway through campaign ["The Meriden-Wallingford Campership Fund... Donations were received this week from... The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, $1000..."]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 15. (Viewed 17 January 2024. S00864).

2009 - advertisement mention

Meriden-Wallingford Summer Campership Fund. (29 July 2009). Advertisement: “… Thanks to your generosity… Foundations… Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation… “ Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 9. (Viewed 13 October 2023. S00091).

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2009 - article mention

Falcone, Amanda. (26 September 2009). Meriden Children Zone Project set to start helping families later this year [with mention: “… funding for the project from a variety of private sources, including the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation…“]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), pp. 13 & 14. (Viewed 13 October 2023. S00092).

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2009 - article mention

Falcone, Amanda. (8 October 2009). City funds Mayor’s clean-up [with mention: "In previous years, the office obtained grants from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation…"]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. 19. (Viewed 13 October 2023. S00094).

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2009 - news announcement - call for submissions

(16 November 2009). Call for Entries: 2010 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. Art Daily. (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00007).

’Past awardees include: Lydia Yee for "Street Art, Street Life" at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Deborah Cullen for "Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000", at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Sylvia Chivaratanond for "Skin Tight: The Sensibility of the Flesh" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Betti-Sue Hertz for "The Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia" at the San Diego Museum of Art; Helen Molesworth for "Work Ethic at the Baltimore Museum of Art"; and Christian Eckart, Osvaldo Romberg and Harry Philbrick for "Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium" at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.’ (Excerpt from above.)


2009 - press / public announcement mention

(19 December 2009). How many billboards? Art In Stead at MAK Center for Art and Architecture (West Hollywood, CA) (5 February - 12 March 2010) [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. e-flux announcements. (Viewed 4 October 2023. S00032).

"How Many Billboards? Art In Stead is generously supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Exhibition Award..." (Excerpt from above.)





2010s - text mentions (Emily)

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2010 - article mention

Wullschlager, Jackie. (23 October 2010). Lunch with the FT: Larry Gagosian; Over swordfish in Mayfair the world’s most successful art dealer talks about his humble beginnings and his "natural feel for selling" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine and Piet Mondrian’s Victory boogie woogie]. Financial Times. (Viewed 15 December 2023. S00723).

2013 - book mentions - Emily and Victory Boogie Woogie

Troy, Nancy. (2013). The afterlife of Piet Mondrian, (p. 38, portrait photo of Emily, 1944). [Chapter 1: Mondrian and money: Victory Boogie Woogie, pp. 9-70.] University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London. (Viewed 29 September 2023. K01223-25; K01230).

2015 - museum website profile

Jozefacka, Anna. (January 2015). Emily [Hall] Tremaine and Burton G. Tremaine Sr [Butte, Mont., 1908 - Madison, Conn., 1987, and Cleveland, 1901 - Rancho Mirage, Calif., 1991]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York website. (Viewed 8 October 2023. S00044).

2016 - book mentions

Stein, Judith E. (2016). Eye of the sixties: Richard Bellamy and the transformation of Modern art, [pp. 127 (regarding Mark di Suvero), 156 (regarding James Rosenquist), 164, 272 (regarding Dan Flavin)]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York. (Viewed 29 September 2023. K01288-95; K01300).

2016 - article mention

Shapiro, Ellen. (20 May 2016). From Picasso to Kiko, through Burle Marx [with mention of the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine House, Santa Barbara area (unbuilt; 1948) with garden designed by Burle Marx]. Print magazine. (Viewed 9 October 2023. S00046).

2017 - feature article - Emily and Painting toward architecture

Preece, Robert. (July / August 2017). Rethinking "Painting toward architecture" (1947-52). Sculpture magazine, pp. 18-21. (Viewed 28 August 2021. K01311).

"Emily Hall Tremaine and her husband, Burton, the CEO and owner of the Miller Company in Meriden, Connecticut, are mostly remembered as collectors of cutting-edge 1960s art and for the prices commanded when some of their works were sold at auction in 1988 and 1991. But [in c. 1945-55], Mrs. Tremaine was the art director of the company, and she organized a traveling exhibition, “Painting Toward Architecture”, for the developing Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art. The show, which featured some of the biggest names in modern art and architecture, was seen in [28(+) venues] across the U.S. between 1947 and 1952. Combining experimental art and design crossovers, it also achieved a very sophisticated fusion of art, design, and publicity. The show and related initiatives were dynamic, pioneering, and entrepreneurial..." (Excerpt from above.)


2017 - article mention

Preece, R. J. (31 December 2017). Frank Lloyd Wright. Project for Meteor Crater & Painting toward architecture [with extensive mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 3 October 2021).

2017 - article mention

Preece, R. J. (31 December 2017). Oscar Niemeyer / Roberto Burle Marx. Tremaine House & Painting toward architecture [with extensive mention of Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine]. artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 3 October 2021).




2010s - text mentions (EHTF)

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2010 - exhibition announcement mention

(1 April 2010). Material world at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (24 April 2010 - 27 February 2011) [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. artnet. (Viewed 4 October 2023. S00031).

"Seven artists transform MASS MoCA’s second and third floor galleries into a series of time-based, precarious, site-specific installations: Michael Beutler, Orly Genger, Tobias Putrih, Alyson Shotz, Dan Steinhilber, and collaborative team Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen.

Curator: Susan Cross... Funding: Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award." (Excerpt from above.)


2010 - news announcement - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award winners

(11 August 2010). Winners of the 2010 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award announced Artforum. (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00001).

> to Steven Matijcio, João Ribas, Sue Spaid;
> the three-person jury included Deborah T. Cullen-Morales, Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Jens Hoffmann, Director, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and independent art consultant Andrea Spaulding Norris, former Director, Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.


2012 - article mention

(15 March 2012). Movers and shapers: Blanche Podhajski / Brenda Buzzell [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Burlington Free Press (Vermont), p. 3-D. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00376).

"Stern Center for Language and Learning President Blanche Podhajski and Building Blocks for Literacy Coordinator Brenda Buzzell recently presented a free Building Blocks conference in Houston to area Pre-K decision makers and educators. The grant-funded conference was made possible by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation... " (Excerpt from above.)


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2012 - news announcement - Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award winners

Boucher, Brian. (6 November 2012). Burton among recipients of Tremaine Foundation grants. Art in America. (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00003).

> to Johanna Burton, Claire Tancons and Krista A. Thompson, Claire C. Carter;
> jury included Kimberli Meyer, director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles; Dominic Molon, chief curator of the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; and Lilian Tone, Assistant Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.


2013 - article mention

(6 September 2013). Wadsworth Atheneum presents its first collection-based photography exhibition in nearly a decade [re. exhibition An artificial wilderness: The landscape in contemporary photography, on view through 5 January 2014; with mention of the museum’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 24 January 2024. S00876).

2013 - press / public announcement mention

Rauschenberg Project Space. (12 October 2013). Quiet earth at Rauschenberg Project Space, New York. (15 October - 30 November 2013) [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. e-flux announcement. (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00017).

"... Quiet Earth has been made possible through the support of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, with generous contributions by Barclays, The Public Concern Foundation, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation... " (Excerpt from above).


2014 - article mention

(17 January 2014). Westport Arts Center seeks artists for upcoming solos exhibit ["Patricia Hickson, the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, will oversee the SOLOS 2014 exhibit"]. Daily Voice (Westport - Wilton, CT). (Viewed 24 January 2024. S00877).

2014 - article mention

(25 January 2014). João Ribas is the new Deputy Director of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. Art Daily. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00884).

"João Ribas (b. 1979, Portugal) has been appointed as Deputy Director and Senior Curator of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, in Porto, Portugal... Ribas is the winner of ... an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award (2010)... " (Excerpt from above.)


2014 - press release mention

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. (6 February 2014). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art premieres new work by artist Allison Schulnik [6 February - 4 May 2014] [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 9 October 2023. S00048).

2014 - article mention

(9 February 2014). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art premieres new work by artist Allison Schulnik [Feb. 6 - May 4, 2014; with comment by Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the museum]. Art Daily. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00885).

2014 - article mention

(10 February 2014). Claymation animator brings art of stop-motion to [Wadsworth] Atheneum [artist Allison Schulnik (Feb. 6 - May 4, 2014), with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the museum]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00886).

2014 - article mention

(23 February 2014). Highlights From the Wadsworth Atheneum ("Director Susan Talbott [chose 10] items to represent the museum’s most important holdings" with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the museum). Hartford Courant. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00883).

2014 - article mention

May, Justin (submitted by). (30 March 2014). Statewide contest announced [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Hartford Courant, p. H5. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00882).

"Energize Connecticut... contest for students in grades K through 12... Students in grades 9 through 12 compete in the ’Power of Change’ award category, which asks students to propose a community-based project to address an energy-related issue... [this] category was created in collaboration with Connecticut-based foundations Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Hampshire Foundation and the Common Sense Fund ..." (Excerpt from above.)


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2014 - article mention

(1 April 2014). Curators announced for British Art Show 8 [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. Art Daily. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00878).

"Hayward Touring announced the appointment of Anna Colin and Lydia Yee as the curators for British Art Show 8, opening in October 2015 in Leeds, and touring to Edinburgh, Norwich and Southampton... Lydia Yee is Curator at Barbican Art Gallery... She was the recipient of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award in 2006 for Street Art, Street Life... " (Excerpt from above.)


2014 - news brief

(2 April 2014). Michelle Knapik to depart Surdna Foundation; named Tremaine Foundation’s President. Philanthropy New York website. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00879).

2014 - article mention

(22 April 2014). Winners of 2014 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award announced [Winners include curators Andrea Grover, Christian Larsen, Ruth Estévez and Sohrab Mohebbi]. Artforum. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00881).

2014 - article mention

Sutton, Benjamin. (30 April 2014). Ahoy, matey! Exhibition of artists’ boats among 2014 Tremaine Award winners. artnet.com. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00880).

Award winners
> "Andrea Grover’s fantastic-sounding show of artist-built watercraft at the Parrish Museum of Art"
> "Christian Larsen, who will curate an exhibition exploring the interactions between the US and Latin America in art from the mid-20th century to today at the Wolfsonian in Miami"
> "Ruth Estévez and Sohrab Mohebbi, who will mount a show chronicling the history of performing theories in contemporary art at Los Angeles’s REDCAT."

2014 - press / public announcement mention

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. (5 October 2014). Covert Operations at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Arizona (28 September 2014 - 11 January 2015) [with mention of the Emily Hall Exhibition Award]. e-flux announcement. (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00016).

"... Covert Operations is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. The Exhibition Award program was founded in 1998 to honor Emily Hall Tremaine..." (Excerpt from above).


2015 - press release mention

Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. (12 January 2015). EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (7 March - 7 June) ["Curated by Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson 2012 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award Recipient"]. e-flux announcements. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00888).

2015 - article mention

(17 January 2015). Century Arts Foundation underwrites multi-year named position for Parrish Art Museum curator [Andrea Grover]. Art Daily. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00887).

"... Grover’s most recent endeavor is the major exhibition and accompanying publication Radical Seafaring, scheduled for Spring 2016, which has garnered a prestigious Exhibition Award grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation..." (Excerpt from above.)


2015 - article mention

Dunne, Susan. (18 January 2015). Wadsworth Atheneum: A Modern revival; galleries reopened, art reinterpreted [with comment by Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Hartford Courant, pp. A1, A6. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00889).

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2015 - article mention

(1 February 2015). New galleries of Post-War and Contemporary art unveiled at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art ["Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, organized the reinstallation"]. Art Daily. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00890).

2015 - article mention

(2 February 2015). Los Angeles native Michael C. McMillen exhibits at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art [entitled "SIDESHOW", 31 January - 3 May, organized by the museum’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00891).

2015 - article mention

(7 June 2015). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art celebrates 40th anniversary of its MATRIX exhibition series ["Mark Bradford / MATRIX 172"; 4 June - 6 September 2015; with comment by the museum’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 26 January 2024. S00892).

2015 - press / public announcement mention

REDCAT. (3 October 2015). Hotel Theory at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), Los Angeles, CA (3 October - 20 December 2015) [with mention of the Emily Hall Exhibition Award]. e-flux announcement. (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00015).

"... This exhibition is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. The Exhibition Award program was founded in 1998 to honor Emily Hall Tremaine..." (Excerpt from above).


2015 - news brief mention

(11 October 2015). C4 Atlanta selects 14 for art training [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Atlanta Constitution, p. E3. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00913).

"C4 Atlanta, the Atlanta nonprofit that serves artists and arts organizations, has selected 14 metro artists to help pilot Hatch, a program that will teach the legal, financial and ’soft’ skills required to lead community-based art projects.

C4 recently was awarded a two-year, $100,000 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation..." (Excerpt from above.)


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2015 - press release mention

(16 October 2015). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents first exhibition to pair the work of Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe; “Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & dolls,” examines issues of gender and Identity through iconic artists’ work [exhibition from 17 October 2015 to 24 January 2016] [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. (Viewed 7 October 2023. S00041).

2016 - article mention

Allen, Greg. (16 February 2016). “Millennials are not joiners”: On the ground at the College Art Association 206 conference in Washington, DC [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation’s “Stay or go?” forum]. ARTnews. (Viewed 7 October 2023. S00039).

2016 - press / public announcement mention

(23 February 2016). Gallery talk: Vanessa German at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (10 June 2016) [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 7 October 2023. S00040).

2016 - press release mention

Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix. (13 May 2016). Land Tracings [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Arizona Commission on the Arts. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00053).

"Five Arizona artists will be featured in “Land Tracings,” a group exhibition presented by the Arizona Commission on the Arts... These programs are open to the public and presented as part of the Arts Commission’s AZ ArtWorker program, funded by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation." (Excerpts from above.)


2016 - press release

Wadsworth Atheneum. (23 May 2016). Exhibition to highlight diversity of contemporary artists, artworks; "The human touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection" on view at Wadsworth Atheneum beginning Sept. 25, 2016 [with comment by the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00917).

2016 - article

(9 June 2016). Vanessa German confronts social issues of race and violence at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art [announcement of exhibition "i come to do a violence to the lie" (9 June - 4 September 2016) with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 3 January 2024. S00855).

2016 - press / public announcement mention

Wadworth Atheneum. (23 October 2016). Dulce Chacón: Fallen Angels at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (7 October 2016 - 8 January 2017) [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. e-flux announcement. (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00014).

"... ’Dulce Chacón has had a longtime fascination with space and air,’ says Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art Patricia Hickson..." (Excerpt from above.)


2017 - listings mention

(17 January 2017). Art openings and exhibits around the region this week... Slater Memorial Museum, 305 Broadway, Norwich ["The 73rd annual exhibition is juried by Patricia Hickson... Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art..."]. The Day (New London, CT) , p. D2. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00910).

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2017 - article mention

(3 February 2017). Brazilian Conceptual artist Valeska Soares featured at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art [the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art curated the exhibition]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00909).

2017 - press release

Wadsworth Atheneum. (18 April 2017). MoMA paintings by Warhol, Lichtenstein featured in Pop Art exhibition at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hand-painted Pop!, 29 April 29 - 13 August 2017) [with comment by the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00908).

2017 - press release mention

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. (31 May 2017). Mika Tajima contemplates technology and contemporary life in Matrix 177 at Wadsworth Atheneum of Art (1 June - 3 September 2017) [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 9 October 2017. S00049).

2017 - press / public announcement mention

Boucher, Brian. (12 June 2017). Is Capitalism doomed? A new museum [The Museum of Capitalism] imagines the downfall of the economic system [with mention of a $215,000 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. artnet. (Viewed 9 October 2023. S00050).

2017 - press / public announcement mention

REDCAT. (2 July 2017). Chalk Circles at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater), Los Angeles (17 June - 20 August 2017) [with mention of Hotel Theory project and that the project was made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award.] e-flux announcement. (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00013).

2017 - article mention

(1 August 2017). Mika Tajima contemplates technology and contemporary life at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (exhibition on view until 3 September 2017) ["Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art Patricia Hickson is organizing the exhibition"]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00905).

2017 - article mention

(6 October 2017). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents Sam Messer’s newly-completed animation "Denis the Pirate" (5 October 2017 - 11 February 2018) [with comment by the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00906).

2017 - article mention

Takcres, Lauren. (18 December 2017). Sustainable program approved in Durham [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation; by 2018, Sustainable CT had a controversial equity initiative element (see 23 May 2018 listing) that appears to have developed. By 2023 at the latest, DEI was listed as the #1 criterion for assessment, with one element "REQUIRED", for all certification levels]. Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), p. A3. (Updated 12 February 2024. S00911; S00914).

"Durham will be among the first to join a new program for towns to reach sustainability goals... First Selectman Laura Francis helped create [the Sustainable CT municipal certification program]... Sustainable CT is administered by the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University...

Three foundations— Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Common Sense Fund, Hampshire Foundation— supported the creation and coordination of the program... " (Excerpt from above.)


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2017 - news brief mention, link

(30 December 2017). Town of Greenwich joins in the Sustainable CT initiative [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Connecticut Council for Philanthropy website. (Viewed S00943).

2017 - article mention

(30 December 2017). Town of Greenwich joins in the Sustainable CT initiative [by 2018, Sustainable CT had a controversial equity initiative element (see 23 May 2018 listing) that appears to have developed. By 2023 at the latest, DEI was listed as the #1 criterion for assessment, with one element "REQUIRED", for all certification levels]. Greenwich Free Press website. (Viewed 13 February 2024. S00941; S00942).

"... Greenwich is looking at this tool to help us move our sustainability program forward,” said Denise Savageau, director of Conservation department, which is the lead department for Greenwich on the initiative.

"... Three Connecticut philanthropies – The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the Hampshire Foundation, and the Common Sense Fund – have supported the program’s development and launch..." (Excerpt from above.)


2018 - news announcement mention

(15 February 2018). SculptureCenter appoints Sohrab Mohebbi as curator [with mention "... he and co-curator Ruth Estévez received the 2013 the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award..."]. Artforum. (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00012).

2018 - article mention

Russeth, Andrew. (15 February 2018). SculptureCenter names Sohrab Mohebbi curator [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award]. ARTnews. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00907).

"... At REDCAT, Mohebbi organized ... ’Hotel Theory’ a multidisciplinary affair he curated in partnership with Ruth Estevez... It took home the 2013 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award..." (Excerpt from above.)


2018 - press / public announcement mention

Ulrich Museum of Art. (17 April 2018). EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean at Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (21 April - 12 August 2018) ["The exhibition is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award"]. e-flux announcements. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00904).

2018 - announcement mention

Wadsworth Atheneum. (18 April 2018). Tremaine Lecture in Contemporary Art: Mierle Laderman Ukeles (18 April 2018) ["generously supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Fund"]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00898).

2018 - program, "equity", "social justice"

(23 May 2018). The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut awards more than $1.9 million to local nonprofits (from 18 Dec 17: "Three foundations— Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Common Sense Fund, Hampshire Foundation— supported the creation and coordination of the [Sustainable CT] program"; by 2023 at the latest, DEI was listed as the #1 criterion for assessment, with one element "REQUIRED", for all certification levels). The Day (New London, CT). (Viewed 12 February 2024. S00941).

"... Sustainable CT: $50,000 to support eastern Connecticut towns in conservation planning with an equity and social justice lens... " (Excerpt from above.)


2018 - press release

Kentucky Arts Council (Frankfort). (19 July 2018). Press release: Kentucky Arts Council cosponsoring second annual Artists Thrive summit in Berea [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Advocate-Messenger (Danville, KY), p. A6. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00912).

"The Kentucky Arts Council, along with the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and the AIR Institute of Berea College, will present the second annual Artists Thrive Summit, July 31 - Aug. 3, in Berea..." (Excerpt from above.)


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2018 - article mention

(20 June 2018). Bronx Museum of the Arts appoints Deborah Cullen-Morales new Executive Director [with mention: "... She has received an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award..."]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00899).

2018 - article mention

(13 September 2018). Hirshhorn announces museum premiere of Sean Scully’s Venice Biennale "Landline" paintings [exhibition, 13 September 2018 - 3 February 2019]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00893).

".. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalog, featuring an interview of Scully by Aquin, an essay by Patricia Hickson, the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum..." (Excerpt from above.)


2018 - article mention

(9 October 2018). Greenwich earns certification as a sustainable community [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation; by 2018, Sustainable CT had a controversial equity initiative element (see 23 May 2018 listing) that appears to have developed. By 2023 at the latest, DEI was listed as the #1 criterion for assessment, with one element "REQUIRED", for all certification levels]. Greenwich Sentinel (CT). (Viewed 20 February 2024. S00941; S00948).

"Greenwich First Selectman Peter J. Tesei announced that the Town is among the inaugural list of communities certified under the Sustainable CT program...

The program is independently funded, with significant support from three Connecticut philanthropic foundations. The founding funders include the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the Hampshire Foundation, and the Common Sense Fund..." (Excerpt from above.)


2018 - article mention

Koerting, Katrina. (10 October 2018). Ridgefield, Roxbury and New Milford recognized for sustainability [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. By 2018, Sustainable CT had a controversial equity initiative element (see 23 May 2018 listing) that appears to have developed. By 2023 at the latest, DEI was listed as the #1 criterion for assessment, with one element "REQUIRED", for all certification levels]. News Times (Danbury, CT). (Viewed 19 February 2024. S00941; S00947).

’... "New Milford is a forward-thinking community,’ Mayor Pete Bass said in a press release... Bass and Roxbury First Selectwoman Barbara Henry said they look forward to expanding their efforts so they can achieve the silver ranking next year...

Sustainable CT... It’s independently funded, largely by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the Hampshire Foundation and the Common Sense Fund... ’ (Excerpt from above.)


2019 - press release

Wadsworth Atheneum. (9 January 2019). Press release: Wadsworth Atheneum brings acclaimed Landline Series by Sean Scully to the Northeast (23 February - 19 May 2019) [with comment by the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00900).

2019 - news announcement mention

(23 January 2019). Apply for six new editorial and marketing positions at Hyperallergic [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation re. Journalism Fellowship for Curators]. Hyperallergic (New York). (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00011).

2019 - press release

Wadsworth Atheneum. (31 January 2019). Press release: MATRIX 181 at the Wadsworth Atheneum features the paintings of Emily Mae Smith (7 February - 5 May 2019) [with comment by the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00895).

2019 - article mention

(8 February 2019). MATRIX 181 at the Wadsworth Atheneum features the paintings of Emily Mae Smith [exhibition, 7 February - 5 May 2019; with comment by the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00894).

2019 - article mention

(23 February 2019). Wadsworth Atheneum brings acclaimed Landline series by Sean Scully to the Northeast (23 February - 19 May 2019) [with comment by the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00896).

2019 - press release

Wadsworth Atheneum. (20 May 2019). Press release: Portraits by Tom Burr Propel MATRIX Exhibition Series at the Wadsworth Atheneum (6 June - c. September 2019) [with comment by Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00901).

2019 - press release

Wadsworth Atheneum. (23 May 2019). Wadsworth Atheneum acquires Antonakos neon canvas [with comment by the Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Wadsworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00902).

2019 - article mention

(24 May 2019). Wadsworth Atheneum acquires Antonakos neon canvas [with comment by Wadsworth’s Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00903).

2019 - press / public announcement mention

Parsons The New School for Design. (23 October 2019). Museum of capitalism at Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design, New York (30 October - 10 December 2019). e-flux announcements. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00897).

"... This latest iteration of the Museum of Capitalism features a dynamic mix of traveling artifacts and exhibits, supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award..." (Excerpt from above.)


2019 - article / Q&A mention

McCann, Bill. (22 November 2019). 3 questions: Creative Industry Summit [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. The Winchester Sun (Winchester, Kentucky), p. A3. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00914).

Emily Moses, Kentucky Arts Council: "The Kentucky Arts Council wants to start a long-term conversation with Kentuckians about race, equity, access, diversity and inclusion in the arts... our work in this area is supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and we’re thrilled to have their participation in and support of the Summit ..." (Excerpt from above, regarding very controversial DEI programming.)


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2020s - text mentions (Emily)

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2020 - article mention

Adam, Georgina. (7 February 2020). Call me Aggie: The legendary collector making a difference [feature on Agnes Gund with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine]. Financial Times. (Viewed 29 August 2021. K01184).

"... In 1967, aged 29, [Agnes Gund] joined the International Council of MoMA in New York, with the encouragement of art collectors including Emily Tremaine, Ginny Wright and Katherine White.

Gund first saw the work of Mark Rothko on Tremaine’s walls, and bought a key piece from the artist’s studio..."... (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - article mention

Sheets, Hilarie M. (24 March 2021). Agnes Gund, patron and advocate for underknown artists: "We’ve caught up with Aggie to some degree" [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine as early mentor]. ARTnews. (Viewed 12 September 2021. Q00339).

"... Through the collector Emily Hall Tremaine, Gund’s early mentor in the museum world, she had the opportunity to buy all of Ben Heller’s phenomenal Abstract Expressionist collection..." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - feature article

Preece, R. J. (2 August 2021). Meet the other lady behind the diptych; The depiction of the Marilyn Diptych as autobiographical for Emily Hall Tremaine. [On webpage: Andy Warhol (with EHT). Marilyn diptych, (1962): exhibitions and publications.] artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 1 October 2021).

" ... As is widely noted, Emily Hall Tremaine (1908-87) is credited with suggesting that Andy Warhol put the two panels together to create a diptych, to which he agreed. A little known story however is that this work, depicting celebrity and media coverage, multiplication, over-exposure and tragedy, is autobiographical for Emily in the 1930s leading up to World War II..." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - article context (clarification) - Three flags in forthcoming Johns retrospective (NY / PHL)

Mooallem, Stephen. (13 September 2021). The meaning of Jasper Johns; For decades, people have tried to get inside the mind of one of America’s most visionary, enigmatic artists. Now, they finally get their chance [with mention of Johns’s Three flags and forthcoming retrospective]. Harper’s Bazaar magazine. (Viewed 15 September 2021. Q00375).

" ... While Johns’s popularity has waxed and waned, the market for his work has not. In 1980, the Whitney purchased Johns’s Three Flags for $1 million [from Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine], then a record price for the work of a living artist.... In 1988... [White flag (1958)] was auctioned [by Burton Tremaine after Emily’s death] ... which went for $7 million..." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - feature article

Preece, R. J. (14 September 2021). Meet the lady behind Jasper Johns’s Three flags; Emily Hall Tremaine, the American flag and "one million dollars" X 2. [On webpage: Jasper Johns. Three flags, (1958): exhibitions and publications.] artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 1 October 2021.)

"... The sale price of "one million dollars" [by Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York] was certainly primed for wire service report headlines in 1980 for maximum and deep national media penetration, was clearly recognized as such, and reappeared from Emily’s media data bank from 40 years earlier..." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - feature article

Preece, R. J. (16 September 2021). Meet the 1930s art lady predecessor that dove into shocking disclosure; Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe Diptych collaborator, Emily Hall Tremaine, as largely unknown predecessor of Tracey Emin’s art, artist and media approach. [On webpage: Tracey Emin. My bed, (1998): exhibitions and publications.] artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 2 October 2021).

2021 - feature article

Preece, R. J. (16 September 2021). Meet the lady wearing millions in diamonds back in 1940; Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe Diptych collaborator, Emily Hall Tremaine, as publicity predecessor of Damien Hirst’s diamond skull. [On webpage: Damien Hirst. For the love of God, (2007): exhibitions and publications.] artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 2 October 2021).

2021 - article

Preece, R. J. (16 September 2021). The town art lady, Warhol Marilyn diptych collaborator, Emily Hall Tremaine, teaches a thing or two about Sensation: diamonds, disclosure, danger— "sensational allegations" and publicity (1935-41) sensation. [On webpage: Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997): press releases, varied publications and mentions.] artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 2 October 2021).

2021 - feature article

Preece, R. J. (19 September 2021). Meet the other lady behind Warhol’s "A boy for Meg". [On webpage: Andy Warhol. A boy for Meg (1962): exhibitions and publications.] artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 1 October 2021).

"... Emily Hall Tremaine bought this artwork out of Warhol’s studio in 1962. Little-known is that she was a titled social-celebrity herself often in the media in the 1930s, but then dropped out. Did Emily see herself in the painting? ..." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - feature article

Preece, R. J. (20 September 2021). Meet the "mother" of Mondrian’s Victory boogie Woogie. [On webpage: Piet Mondrian. Victory Boogie Woogie, (1942-44): exhibitions and publications.] artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 1 October 2021).

"Was the meeting and acquisition of VBW by Emily Hall Spreckels (later Tremaine) a spiritual, contemporary art "awakening"? Given her life and pursuits before and after, it certainly looks that way..." (Excerpt from above.)


2022 - article mention

Yablonsky, Linda. (31 October 2022). Blurred lines: Louise Lawler captures Jasper Johns’s Three Flags in New York [with photos of Three flags and a photowork based on the painting, and mention of Emily Hall Tremaine]. Art Newspaper. (Viewed 23 November 2023. S00428).

".. This painting has been on continuous view at the Whitney Museum since its 1980 purchase for a record $1m from the storied collectors Burton and Emily Tremaine..." (Excerpt from above.)


2023 - article mention

Keefe, Patrick Radden. (24 July 2023). How Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world [with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine and Piet Mondrian’s Victory boogie woogie]. The New Yorker magazine. (Viewed 15 December 2023. S00740).

"... [Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine] owned Piet Mondrian’s final painting, ’Victory Boogie Woogie,’ and Gagosian... telephoned Si Newhouse and sold him the painting for exactly that amount..." (Excerpt from above.)


n. d. - creative figure page

(undated). Emily Hall Tremaine. RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague website. (Viewed 8 October 2023. S00043).

n. d. - wikipedia page

(undated). Emily Hall Tremaine. Wikipedia. (Viewed 8 October 2023).

n. d. - history page

(undated). Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation: History page. Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation website. (Viewed 8 October 2023. S00042).

"The foundation was established by Emily Hall Tremaine. She and her husband Burton G. Tremaine, Sr., were collectors of 20th century art with an emphasis on work done by artists after 1945. Their collection of more than 400 works was of such quality and scope that it embodied some of the best paintings of the century..." (Excerpt from above.)


n. d. - architect profile, mention

(undated). Philip Johnson (1906-2005) [with photo and mention of "Burton Tremaine Jr. and Emily Hall Estate Additions and Alterations, aka House Barn, 6 Opening Hill Road, Madison CT"]. USModernist website. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00054).

n. d. - short biography - Emily Hall Tremaine / Burton Tremaine

(undated). Tremaine, Sr., Burton G., Mr. and Mrs. [American, he: 1902 - 1991; she: 1908 – 1987]; Tremaine, Burton G. and Emily Hall. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. (Viewed 8 October 2023. S00045).




2020s - text mentions (EHTF)

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2020 - news announcement mention

(24 January 2020). Museum of Arts and Design appoints Christian Larsen as Windgate Research Curator ["... received an Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Exhibition Award.."]. Art Daily. (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00006).

2020 - press / public announcement mention

California Institute of the Arts. (27 February 2020). João Ribas appointed Steven D. Lavine Executive Director of the Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater (REDCAT) and Vice President for Cultural Partnerships ("He is [a previous] winner of... the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award"). e-flux announcements. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00915).

2020 - article mention

(17 March 2020). California Institute of the Arts appoints João Ribas as Executive Director of REDCAT ["He is the winner of ... the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award (2010)"]. Art Daily. (Viewed 27 January 2024. S00916).

2020 - article mention

(8 April 2020). Covid-19 Relief Fund to give $10 million to artists [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Artforum. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00366).

2020 - article preview

(8 April 2020). COVID-19 Relief Fund to give $10 million to artists [with spotlight on Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation] [news brief preview of Artforum article]. Connecticut Council for Philanthropy website. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00059).

2020 - article mention

Alexander, Elizabeth & Arison, Sarah. (8 April 2020). Opinion: The cultural world is ailing. That’s why 23 arts groups have united to give $5,000 to 100 artists every week until September [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. artnet. (Viewed 10 October 2023. S00058).

"… Artist Relief launches today with a $5 million seed gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to match an initial $5 million from the following foundations: [including Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]…" (Excerpt from above.)


2020 - article mention

Carrigan, Margaret. (8 April 2020). Coalition of US arts organisations launch ongoing relief fund for artists affected by coronavirus [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Art Newspaper. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00365).

2020 - article mention

Di Liscia, Valentina. (8 April 2020). Art funders join forces to distribute $10 million to individual artists [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Hyperallergic (New York). (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00367).

2020 - article mention

Granberry, Michael. (8 April 2020). For D-FW artists seeking financial relief, a new national fund offering millions emerges [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Dallas Morning News. (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00005).

2020 - article preview

(13 April 2020). How small arts nonprofits in the US are responding to the existential threat of COVID-19 [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation] [news brief preview of Hyperallergic article]. Connecticut Council for Philanthropy website. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00372).

2020 - article mention

(28 April 2020). Deborah Cullen-Morales joins the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [She "is the recipient of the Emily Hall Tremaine exhibition award"]. Artforum. (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00002).

2020 - article mention

Hoover, Carl. (5 September 2020). Waco artists, businesses team up on masked murals [re: COVID-19; with mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Waco Tribune-Herald (Texas). (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00375).

"... Another avenue of artist support this summer came through The Greenhouse, a six-month Creative Waco arts-business development program. The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation provided funding, as did TFNB Your Bank For Life..." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - article mention

AAMC (Sponsored). (17 January 2021). AAMC Foundation welcomes applications for Curatorial Mentorship Program [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Hyperallergic (New York). (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00021).

"... The Mentorship Program is made possible through the generosity of Barbara Futter, Catherine Futter, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - article mention

McCann, Bill. (29 January 2021). Three questions for Chris Cathers [Kentucky Arts Council excutive director; with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. The Winchester Sun (Winchester, Kentucky). (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00371).

"... With help from the non-profit Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, we have made Artrepreneur available to our Kentucky Crafted artists for one year..." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - announcement

Vartanian, Hrag. (12 May 2021). Calling all curators! Hyperallergic is offering five journalism fellowships for curators; With the support of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Hyperallergic is offering five monthlong journalism fellowships for curators that each include a grant of $5,000. Hyperallergic (New York). (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00364).

2021 - article mention

(5 June 2021). Two immersive sculpture installations by Leonardo Drew on view at the Wadsworth [Hartford, CT] [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00010).

"... The Wadsworth is thrilled to be presenting two major, site-specific projects with internationally-recognized artist Leonardo Drew,” said Patricia Hickson, the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth..." (Excerpt from above.)


2021 - press release statement

(23 November 2021). Press release: Shoreline Arts Alliance receives $20,000 from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation for a second year. Shoreline Arts Alliance website. (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00373).

2021 - preview mention, radio segment

McNicol, Jonathan. (16 December 2021). The art is the idea. A look at Sol LeWitt [written preview; radio broadcast; with guest: former Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Andrea Miller-Keller]. WNPR (Connecticut Public Radio). (Viewed 18 November 2023. S00374).

2022 - article mention

Ahtone, Tahnee. (6 January 2022). Kiowa murals embody Kiowa language, culture, and community [with mention: "...This is part of the 2021/22 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators..."] Hyperallergic (New York). (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00009).

2022 - article mention

Simmons, Frederica. (22 May 2022). I will be a witness: Bessie Harvey and alternative legacies in American Feminist Art; As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Frederica Simmons presents an exhibition to offer insight into their curatorial process. [Here, EHTF indirectly pushing a controversial Woke perspective.] Hyperallergic (New York). (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00363).

2022 - press / public announcement mention

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. (22 September 2022). Drum listens to heart at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (1 September 2022 - 4 March 2023) [with mention: "The exhibition is made possible thanks to generous support from ... Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (EHTF)... "]. e-flux announcements. (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00020).

2022 - announcement mention

(c. November 2022). GREEN 2022 Annual Meeting - The Funders Network (TFN) [ 29 November - 1 December] ["This event is co-sponsored by Connecticut Council for Philanthropy and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation"]. Connecticut Council for Philanthropy website. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00362).

2023 - article mention

Noot, Dakota. (11 January 2023). The founding mother of Southern California’s Chicano drag scene [with mention: "... This is part of the 2022/23 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators... "] [Here, EHTF indirectly pushing a controversial Woke perspective.]. Hyperallergic (New York). (Viewed 1 October 2023. S00019).

2023 - programming context

Savage, Melanie. (28 February 2023). Sustainable CT Marlborough discusses inclusive and equitable community impacts [without mention of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, but deeply worrying develops regarding the second wave of rolling of this scheme, of which the foundation is associated with]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 19 February 2024. S00945).

"On Feb. 25, the Marlborough Sustainable CT team discussed Inclusive and Equitable Community Impacts, at Elmer Thienes-Mary Hall Elementary School.

Leading the discussion was town Director of Planning and Development Peter Hughes. Hughes is also the Fair Housing coordinator and ADA coordinator for the town..." ...

The mission of Sustainable CT, according to the website, is “To foster inclusive, resilient, and vibrant Connecticut municipalities...

Hughes discussed disadvantaged groups, including indigenous people, racialized groups, LGBTQ+ people, at-risk youth...

Other topics explored during the meeting included conscious and unconscious bias, race, racism, white supremacy, white privlege, systematic racim, institutional racism..." (Excerpt from above.)


2023 - article mention

Morgan, Kelli. (14 March 2023). Art, whiteness, and empire; As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Dr. Kelli Morgan presents an exhibition to offer insight into her curatorial process. [Here, EHTF indirectly pushing a controversial Woke perspective.] Hyperallergic (New York). (Viewed 30 September 2023. S00008).

2023 - press release mention

Town of Guilford. (16 June 2023). Press release: Guilford honored as a sustainable CT climate leader [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation; By 2018, Sustainable CT had a controversial equity initiative element (see 23 May 2018 listing) that appears to have developed. By 2023 at the latest, DEI was listed as the #1 criterion for assessment, with one element "REQUIRED", for all certification levels]. Zip06 website (Madison, CT). (Viewed 19 February 2024. S00941; S00944).

"... Sustainable CT, a statewide initiative that inspires and supports communities in becoming more efficient, resilient, and inclusive... ’I am proud of our community’ ... First Selectman Matthew Hoey...

Sustainable CT is independently funded, with strong multi-year support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Hampshire Foundation, Connecticut Green Bank, Common Sense Fund, and the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut..." (Excerpt from above.)


2023 - news announcement mention

(30 September 2023). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art announces curatorial appointment [re. Jared Quinton, Emily Hall Tremaine Associate Curator of Contemporary Art]. Art Daily. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00361).

2023 - article mention

(12 October 2023). Photographer Talia Chetrit featured in Wadsworth Atheneum’s MATRIX Series [on view until January 7, 2024, with comment by Jared Quinton, Emily Hall Tremaine Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth]. Art Daily. (Viewed 28 January 2024. S00921).

2023 - press release mention

Town of Chester. (13 October 2023). Press release: Chester honored with Sustainable CT certification [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. By 2018, Sustainable CT had a controversial equity initiative element (see 23 May 2018 listing) that appears to have developed. By 2023 at the latest, DEI was listed as the #1 criterion for assessment, with one element "REQUIRED", for all certification levels]. Zip06 website (Madison, CT). (Viewed 19 February 2024. S00941; S00946).

’... "Hats off to Cindy Lignar and the Sustainable Chester Team for achieving this prestigious milestone for our small but mighty town! The certification recognizes the inclusive, resilient, and vibrant community of Chester and provides more opportunities for current and future grant funding," said Pat Bandzes, Chester’s Economic Development Commission Chairwoman...

The Sustainable CT program includes actions that help municipalities build community connection, social equity, and long-term resilience...

... Sustainable CT is independently funded, with strong multi-year support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Hampshire Foundation, Connecticut Green Bank, Common Sense Fund, and the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut...’ (Excerpt from above.)


2023 - article mention

Arnott, Christopher. (5 November 2023). Wadsworth museum follows the rules to create an outstanding conceptual art exhibit [Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, (26 October 2023 - 18 February 2024), with comment by Jared Quinton, Emily Hall Tremaine Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 28 January 2024. S00920).

2023 - article mention

(10 November 2023). The Wadsworth Atheneum celebrates its collection of conceptual art with new exhibition [Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, (26 October 2023 - 18 February 2024), with comment by Jared Quinton, Emily Hall Tremaine Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth]. Art Daily. (Viewed 28 January 2024. S00919).

2023 - EHT lecture announcement

Wadsworth Atheneum. (4 December 2023). Announcement: The Emily Hall Tremaine Lecture in Contemporary Art with Janine Antoni [25 January 2024]. Wadworth Atheneum website. (Viewed 28 January 2024. S00918).

n. d. - wikipedia page mention

(undated). Emily Hall Tremaine entry [with mention of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation]. Wikipedia. (Viewed 8 October 2023).

n. d. - foundation profile

(undated). Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation profile. GuideStar website. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00370).

n. d. - foundation profile

(undated). Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation profile. Inside Philanthropy website. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00368).

n. d. - foundation profile

(undated). Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation profile. National Center for Family Philanthropy website. (Viewed 17 November 2023. S00369).

n. d. - history page

(undated). Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation: History page. Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation website. (Viewed 8 October 2023. S00042).

"The foundation was established by Emily Hall Tremaine. She and her husband Burton G. Tremaine, Sr., were collectors of 20th century art with an emphasis on work done by artists after 1945. Their collection of more than 400 works was of such quality and scope that it embodied some of the best paintings of the century..." (Excerpt from above.)





H. Regarding the Emily Hall Tremaine papers at the Smithsonian

The initial, proposed, no. 1 external action by artdesigncafe for the legacy of Emily’s work was the digitization of the Emily Hall Tremaine papers at the Smithsonian, donated in 2005. In this way, researchers would have timely, cost-effective access to the important, surviving documentation that Emily kept regarding hundreds of artworks, particularly regarding purchases and extensive lending for exhibitions and facilitating artwork inclusion in numerous and varied publications. The papers went online in c. January 2020 for the public.


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However, upon review, it became clear that the organization of the papers faced several key challenges and a far more thorough finding aid was needed for far more effective, timely dissemination of important information. So, progress is halfway there. In the meantime, researchers are welcome to contact artdesigncafe for advice on where to find specific documentation. Please note, at this juncture, it can take considerable time, but surprising research jewels are in there. Also note, at times documentation was added to the papers after 1987 when Emily died and at times may require additional confirmation.


H.1: Emily Hall Tremaine papers, 1890-2004, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

H.2: Emily Hall Tremaine Papers at the Smithsonian, reproduction permissions section: Shortlisted guide to artworks. (In development; this guide will save some researchers significant time.)



Emily Hall Tremaine

Cropped view of page in Emily Hall Tremaine’s 1930s scrapbook showing multiple media coverage on her and her work at Aperitif magazine. In August 1935, about the age of 27, Emily (von Romberg, previously) was threatened with a defamation claim; in response she staged—or agreed to— a photo-op, in which she scratched out the complaintant’s name and photo on remaining magazine copies. This was then reported by multiple media outlets. (Note the white slips; she appears to have hired a clipping agency to gather her press coverage.) Was Emily’s work a little-known predecessor to Andy’s Warhol’s interest in multiple media coverage? How familiar was Warhol with news photos and reports about Emily c. 1940 in the Pittsburgh newspapers— and others— via wire services? What did Warhol know about Emily when he met her— and knew her?


I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s

artdesigncafe.com maintains a growing offline archive of materials, over 4000 sources to date, related to the work and life of Emily Hall von Romberg - Spreckels (then Tremaine) prior to 1945, based in Southern California. Please note there are many factual errors in her history, absence of important contexts, and a number of misunderstandings as shown in the accumulated documentation.


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Two books in 2001 & 2019 showed sensation finds and raised legitimate questions about Emily’s stance in the Nazi / anti-Nazi battle in California, 1935-40. First she publicly looks anti-Nazi, then less so with questions, then fiercely anti-Nazi publicly again. What happened? Was she threatened by Germany? See the 2019+ research project looking into this with newly found sources showing her defense.

In 1940, Emily Hall Spreckels (later Tremaine) filed for divorce and courageously stood up and publicly blasted her second husband after a turbulent year-long marriage: "no" to his alleged, extreme spousal violence and "no" to his support for Nazi Germany. Three months after she filed, her husband slammed back with his own pro-Nazi allegations against Emily. As they were two famous socialites, this was reported in almost every media market across the United States, if not all of them, over five months.


Key sources:

[1] Previously unknown, a number of articles show Emily’s in small group gatherings with the US Pacific navy head of SoCal intelligence, the famous Ellis M. Zacharias, the main recipient of SoCal Nazi intelligence. He was known to send his intelligence on Nazi and Japanese activity to Washington. Emily may have indeed been an informant and occasional spy. Her brother-in-law worked for Zacharias as his second-in-command. This is currently being more closely examined via declassified intelligence. (Found March 2023.)

[2] There are numerous news reports on the case in historical newspaper databases in libraries. As with any historical case, best practice is to pull the court record, as it is often a primary source and contains important information. This was pulled by artdesigncafe in July 2021. Inside was a once-thought secret deposition and details regarding Emily’s defense, which presumably Emily put there in consultation with her lawyer.

See the court record with Emily’s deposition. (Emily is finally enabled to speak for herself on these matters!)

[3] See: Associated Press (Santa Barbara, Feb. 15). (16 February 1941). Spreckels’ charge wife is pro-Nazi stricken out. San Francisco Examiner, p. Section I, p. B. (Found August 2023.)

"Adolph Spreckels’ charge that his wife, Emily von Romberg Spreckels, was pro-Nazi was stricken from his answer to her divorce complaint by Superior Judge Ernest D. Wagner today." (Excerpt from above.)

[4] Looking at complicated history in a climate of danger and threats means that not everyone is able to speak directly. Some people, in fact, feel that way regarding certain topics today. This can also affect news coverage.

Reviewing 1935-39 newspapers in America, one quickly sees (a) threats of forced repatriation for German passport holders (like Max and Emily); (b) threats of asset seizure; (c) threats to family and friends in Germany; (d) those taking US citizenship considered to be "traitors"; (e) "traitors" against Nazi Germany beheaded in the country, etc.

In short, this is just the start of a complicated history during a complicated time.

Also refer to the following:

I.1: Preview and audio "Nazis in California: Emily Hall Tremaine fights back (1933-45)", with 13-minute narrative and 15-minute discussion (audio) re. the case of Emily Hall Tremaine.

I.2: Essay: Emily Hall Tremaine’s 1930: In danger, madness, decadence and publicity. (The essay is very detailed.)

I.3: Research project: Historians v. Emily Spreckels (later Tremaine) & her associates, including Philip Johnson: Were they Nazi sympathizers, or anti-Nazi, and spies? (scheduled 2026; fyi, at this juncture, Emily looks like an anti-Nazi and occasional informant / spy to US military intelligence prior to 1945; Max appears to likely be threatened by Nazi agents from Germany in 1936+; Philip and Elza appear anti-Nazi, and Spreckels and Johnson admitted some level of support.).

I.4: Apéritif magazine (1934-36) - issues, contents, media coverage & shocking context.

I.5: Emily Hall Tremaine - publicity outputs, Emily-style (1939) (Emily marries Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr..

I.6: Emily Hall Tremaine - diamond skull publicity (1940).

I.7: Emily Hall Tremaine - crazy anti-Nazi media coverage (1940).

I.8: New discoveries: Emily Spreckels, Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr., Brünninghausen and more.

I.9: New discoveries: Emily von Romberg, Max von Romberg, Brünninghausen and more.

I.10: See selected media compilations in section G above, prior to and including 1945.

I.11: Rachel Maddow’s "Ultra" (2022) & Emily Spreckels (later Tremaine).

I.12: "Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews foiled Nazi plots against Hollywood and America" (2017) & Emily Spreckels (later Tremaine).

I.13: Rachel Maddow’s "PREQUEL: An American Fight Against Fascism" & Emily Hall Tremaine (formerly Von Romberg - Spreckels).


Additionally, the following mentions / contexts may be of interest:

I.14: Essay: "The depiction of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych as autobiographical for Emily Hall Tremaine". (Scroll down to the essay. It is very detailed.)

I.15. Slingshot to contemporary #1: Emily to Sensation (1997): The show that got people talking. (Scroll down to the essay.)

I.16. Slingshot to contemporary #2: Emily to Damien Hirst’s diamond skull (2007). (Scroll down to the essay.)

I.17. Slingshot to contemporary #3: Emily to Tracey Emin’s art, artist and media coverage (Focus on My bed). (Scroll down to the essay.)

For more information, please contact artdesigncafe.com.


emily hall tremaine

New archival research has found that Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) was in close contact with Ellis M. Zacharias (right), head of Pacific US Naval Intelligence regarding Nazi & Japanese threats to California and the US around 1940-41. Zacharias sent his intelligence to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, DC (center).



Emily Hall Tremaine

Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) in Town & Country (March 1941), p. 18.


J. Emily and fashion design over the years

Another area under historical dust concerns Emily’s interest in fashion design over six decades. Numerous designs were donated to the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, but it is understood that most of the designs have yet to be fully processed. Additional donated designs have been identified in the collections of the Phoenix Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Some of the designs have been featured in fashion exhibitions at museums.


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Emily and fashion over the years is a completely unexplored research area— and another research opportunity. Some designs in museums are listed below in the extensive art and design compilation. (Search "fashion" on the page.) Please note that the very limited number of photos of known designs, and photos of Emily in the fashion press and society news in the 1930s, were informally reviewed by a fashion design historian colleague at artdesigncafe in 2019. The assessment was that the designs were "solid Vogue wear", in other words, designs that would have been seen in Vogue over the years.



K. Developing list of artworks in the former collection and related designs

The number of artworks and designs relating to the former Tremaine Collection and Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art is extensive. In total, the number of works of art was over 700, including those related to the Tremaines in some way, and the number of designs has not yet been determined. By c. 2019, artdesigncafe created a working list of the Tremaine work; a definitive list is still in development. This was donated as a gift, to Emily and Burton, to Emily’s foundation.)


"Throughout history the same historical circumstances that have produced great artists have also produced great patrons and collectors, and the Tremaine Collection— taken as a whole— can in itself be seen as an artistic creation of the first magnitude." [Gregory Hedberg in "The history of the Tremaine Collection", p. 23. In The Tremaine Collection: 20th century masters: The spirit of Modernism (1984). Catalogue accompanying the exhibition.]


Spotlighted artists’ and designers’ work with Tremaine contexts:

K.1. Theo van Doesburg. Space-time construction #3, (1923).

K.2. Jasper Johns. Three flags, (1958).

K.3. Piet Mondrian. Victory Boogie Woogie (1942-44).

K.4. Oscar Niemeyer. Beach House for Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, project, Carpinteria, California (maquette, drawings, and collage with Burle Marx), (1947-48). (Unbuilt).

K.5. Andy Warhol. A boy for Meg, (1962).

K.6. Andy Warhol (with EHT). Marilyn Monroe diptych, (1962).

K.7. Frank Lloyd Wright. Architectural design (drawings) for Meteor Crater, AZ (1947-49; unbuilt).


UPDATE, July 2022: The full, precise list of artworks and associated designs (product design, architecture, interior design and fashion design) is certainly not yet known, and with current projection, this mystery may continue for decades.

A handful of further spotlighted works are below.

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However there are the following (in-process) lists that contribute to a definitive list: (a) Emily’s list of artworks in her "black book" in her Smithsonian papers, (c. 1980), noting that this is a c. 1980 snapshot of the collection roughly at / after that time; (b) works listed and mentioned in the Tremaine Collection catalogue (1984), noting there are errors with occasional works listed that are recorded as not received by at least two collections. So, anything should be confirmed. (Emily’s health may have deteriorated into the 1980s); (c) works at times were traded for others and that scope not fully known, especially before 1980; (d) one artwork shown in a Wadsworth Atheneum installation of Painting toward architecture is unidentified. It looks like maybe a (third) Van Doesburg, but unable to confirm; (e) the full range of artworks that Emily owned prior to 1945 are not fully known; (f) a copy of a working list in an Excel sheet was developed and done, and a reference copy donated to Emily’s foundation c. 2019 with a number of works indicated as unconfirmed or problematic in some way.

Further, it is essential to note that all listed titles, precise sizes of artworks, and materials, should be confirmed with current standards.

The most comprehensive, in-process list is held offline at artdesigncafe.com. Contact ADC for further more information.