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A Cellar of Fine Vintages / Re: Nitze playing card collection?
« on: April 11, 2016, 01:07:13 PM »If you have any sources of information you can provide as a starting point, it would help. This topic is the first hit in a Google search, with the next two hits being about Freidrich Nietzsche!Here are the entire contents of my search file so far:
Displayed, on loan, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1948
Owned by Anina H. Nitze
http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb3r29n8f4&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00018&toc.depth=1&toc.id=
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00119253.1949.10742804?journalCode=vzde20#.VwVHk_krLcs
I checked the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago and found they had several prints and drawings donated by her. None of their holdings include any playing cards. I haven't done a usual culprits (British Museum, Beineke Library, Sotheby's, and etc...) search yet as I've been somewhat involved in my search for the Krech cards.