Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Allen Tanner writes a brief autobiography for the liner notes of his 1967 album Allen Tanner Plays Bach, Debussy, Scriabin, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and Steinert.
Location: MC 2013.13 B4, F39
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1960-1979
This postcard is an advertisement for Allen Tanner's 1967 album Allen Tanner Plays Bach, Debussy, Scriabin, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Steinert.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F56
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1960-1979
In this letter to Dick Fletcher, Allen Tanner writes about opera singer Mary Garden for a biography project. He describes meeting Garden in Chicago after watching her perform in "Pelleas" around 1916-1917.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F31
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
In this letter to Janet Figler, mother of donor Liz Hamill Howard, Allen Tanner writes that he no longer gives piano lessons due to ongoing health problems. He also offers musical training advice for Hamill Howard.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F28
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
In this letter to Liz Hamill Howard, Allen Tanner describes where he purchased an Alexander Scriabin album, and offers advice to Hamilll Howard on her piano playing technique.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F47
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
Judith B. Jones writes to Allen Tanner regarding a biography of Edith Sitwell written by Victoria Glendinning.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F43
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
Allen Tanner writes to Victoria Glendinning regarding her biography on Edith Sitwell, and expresses his disappointment that Glendinning did not contact him for information on Sitwell.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F43
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
In this letter to author Victoria Glendinning, Allen Tanner writes about his and Pavel Tchelitchew's friendship with English poet Edith Sitwell, as well as the end of their friendship with Gertrude Stein.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F44
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
In this letter, Allen Tanner writes that he is displeased with how author Victoria Glendinning has characterized him in her biography of English poet Edith Sitwell.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F44
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
In this letter to his Uncle Allen Tanner, Robert Tanner describes his genealogical research and reconnection with distant family members. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F82
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
Allen Tanner describes Margaret Anderson's reaction to being fingerprinted after her conviction for publishing obscene material in the Little Review, James Joyce's Ulysses.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F30
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Essays and Dissertations
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In this brief essay draft, Allen Tanner describes the ballet "Ode," which Pavel Tchelitchew designed the sets for. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F44
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
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This news clipping describes a piano recital by Allen Tanner at the home of Signor Gianni Parente.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F23
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
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In this draft essay, Allen Tanner writes about piano technique.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F32
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
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In this essay draft, Allen Tanner writes about growing up in a musical family in rural Illinois, and his disappointment regarding Edith Sitwell's depiction of Pavel Tchelitchew in her autobiography. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F40
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
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This news clipping describes a performance by Chicago pianist Wanda Paul of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski's symphony. Allen Tanner is listed as a close friend of Szymanowski.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F23
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
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This newspaper article describes the musical talents of Allen Tanner and his siblings.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F21
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
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This social column by Mrs. Henry Field describes Allen Tanner's return to the United States from Europe with Pavel Tchelitchew. Field also hints at the end of Tanner's friendship with Gertrude Stein.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F28
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
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In this draft essay, Allen Tanner writes about the women with whom Pavel Tchelitchew associated, including Hadley Hemingway, Russian ballerina Catherine Devilliers, and artist Stella Bowen. ...
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F43
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
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In this draft essay, Allen Tanner argues that Russian composer Alexander Scriabin's talents and contributions are overlooked by younger musicians. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F35
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
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In this essay, pianist Allen Tanner recalls the end of his relationship with his partner of 12 years, Russian artist Pavel Tchelitchew. Tanner writes: "The parting--at the station--was dreafully tragic--for his face bore the quiet, withdrawn anguish I had seen only a few times before...of a...
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F47
Subject: LGBT History, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
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In this letter to R. Kirk Askew, owner of the Durlacher Bros. art gallery, Allen Tanner tells Askew that he wants Askew's wife Constance to have one of Pavel Tchelitchew's drawings--the "Ode" sketch. The last page appears to be part of a different letter, or essay, and focuses on Russian music....
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F8
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
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In this letter to R. Kirk Askew, owner of the Durlacher Bros. art gallery, Allen Tanner discusses the sale of several Pavel Tchelitchew paintings in Askew's gallery. He also mentions his health and the death of one of Tchelitchew's sisters. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F8
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
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In this draft letter, Allen Tanner writes to Margaret Anderson about their first meeting in Chicago. He also discusses her past relationships with fellow editor of the Little Review Jane Heap, and opera singer Georgette LeBlanc.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F5
Subject: LGBT History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
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In this draft letter, Allen Tanner writes to author Parker Tyler to assist Tyler in writing his book The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew. Tanner discusses the dissolution of his and...
Location: MC 2013.3, B2, F6
Subject: LGBT History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
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