Menil Archives
Jermayne MacAgy at The Tojan Horse: The Art of the Machine, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 1958. Photo: Eve Arnold
Rosalind Constable Collection, Menil Archives. Photo: Don Quaintance
The Menil Collection, 1987. Photo: Ben Smusz
Renzo Piano speaking at the Menil Collection, 2007. Photo: George Hixson
Dominique de Menil with students, faculty and staff of the Art Department, University of St. Thomas, Houston, 1968. Photo: Goran Milutinovich
Rice Media Center and Rice Museum, Rice University, Houston. Barnstone & Aubry, architects, completed 1970 and 1969. Photo: Hickey-Robertson
Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize ceremony with Monseñor Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Nelson Mandela, Dominique de Menil, President Jimmy Carter, Governor Ann Richards, Sebastian Suy Perebal, and Ramiro de León at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, 1991. Photo: David Crossley
No food or beverages are allowed in the Archives. Use only pencils when taking notes. Cotton gloves (provided by the Archives) must be worn when handling photographs and other delicate materials.
Note that researchers assume the responsibility to secure required permissions to copy, quote and/or publish any materials in the collection.
Research hours are Monday–Thursday, 9:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., by appointment only.
Archival Holdings
3363 San Felipe (Menil House) / Finding Aid
Alexander Iolas Papers, 1946–1987
Alexander Iolas/René Magritte Letters, 1946–1963
Barragan Building Project, 1984–1997 / Finding Aid
Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
Charles James Papers, 1928–1997 / Finding Aid
Collection Research / Finding Aid
Couturier Archives. The Papers of Father Maire-Alain Couturier, O.P.
Cy Twombly Gallery Building Project
David Grainger Whitney’s Jasper Johns Research Papers, 1951–1992 / Finding Aid
David Grainger Whitney Trust, Bequest, 2005 / Finding Aid
David McManaway Papers, 1979–2010
David Sylvester’s René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné Research Papers / Finding Aid
David Sylvester’s René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné Research Papers—Book Inventory / Finding Aid
Dominique de Menil 3363 SF Collection Room Research Papers
Exhibition History Records
Film and Media Collection
Future Exhibition files, 1953–1997 / Finding Aid
Jermayne MacAgy Papers, 1914–1980
Jim Love Papers, 1927–2006 / Finding Aid
John and Dominique de Menil Papers
Marie-Alain Couturier / Finding Aid
Marvin Chauncey Ross Research Papers, 1930–1988
Programs
Project/Grant Files
Rice University / Finding Aid
Rothko Chapel, 1964–2003 / Finding Aid
Roy Fridge Journals, June 1959–August 1997 / Finding Aid
Roy Fridge Papers, 1927–2007 / Finding Aid
Susan Barnes’s Rothko Chapel Research Documentation for Act of Faith / Finding Aid
TMC Building Project
University of St. Thomas Records
Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement / Finding Aid
