Isabella Zuralski-Yeager

Bio

Isabella Zuralski-Yeager is senior special collections cataloger at the Getty Research Institute. She writes finding aids for archival collections and catalog prints and drawings for the Research Library. She's written finding aids for numerous collections, including the Wassily Kandinsky papers, the Wilhelm Arntz papers, the Julius S. Held papers, the Heim Gallery records, the Albert Renger-Patzsch papers, the Galerie Schmela records, and a collection on Bauhaus typography. She has cataloged European prints, as well as rare books from the library's collections on festivals, and is a member of the library's bibliography team. She earned her PhD in art history in 1984 from the University of Cologne, Germany, and joined the Getty Research Institute in 1989 after working in the antiquarian book trade.

Special Collections Management, Getty Research Institute Senior Special Collections Cataloger

Stories

  1. Rosa Bonheur and Other Women Artists of the Belle Époque

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    Painting of a woman in a dark dress with her arm draped around a bull’s neck

    Records of the Parisian gallery Tedesco frères tell a story of commercial success

    Mar 16, 2021

  2. How George Grosz, an Émigre from Nazi Germany, Found Calm in Cape Cod

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    Abstract yellow sandy dunes beneath a blue and white sky

    Beachy watercolors from the artist contrast with earlier critiques of German society

    Apr 28, 2020

  3. Joseph Cornell’s Mail Art

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    Three envelopes, one with a broken stamp seal, a hand-written letter, pieces of paper, and a bird call whistle.

    A look inside newly catalogued letters and collages by the American pioneer of collage and assemblage art

    Jun 27, 2017

  4. Nazi Art Looting in Holland

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    Black and white photograph of a living-room with antique furniture, tapestry, sculptures and paintings

    Rare documents from the Dutch art market during World War II shed light on Nazi strategies for looting art for their planned Führermuseum

    Apr 11, 2017

  5. 100,000 Pieces of Ephemera Tell the Story of 20th-Century Art

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    Spread of multiple cards each with artwork featuring abstract black lines and colros

    After nine years of meticulous processing, Wilhelm Arntz’s collection of 20th-century art ephemera is ready to be explored.

    Apr 28, 2015

  6. Heinrich Geissler’s Groundbreaking Archive

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    Print depicting an allegorical female naked figure covering breasts with hands, surrounded by animals

    The influential curator’s research files illuminate the culture of exchange among 16th- and 17th-century artists in German-speaking Europe

    Dec 2, 2014

  7. Nazis Collecting Art

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    Black and white picture of a gallery with paintings in gilded frames on the walls

    Rare information about the art market during World War II

    Aug 27, 2012

  8. The Sky Gets a Chance—Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Office Baroque”

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    Printed invitation to Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition at Galerie Schmela

    Artifacts from Gordon Matta-Clark’s daring sculpture Office Baroque

    Mar 6, 2012

  9. Artwork by Richard Tuttle Discovered in the Archive of Galerie Schmela

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    Handmade envelope and card, addressed and inscribed by Richard Tuttle to Alfred and Monika Schmela

    An unusual set of cards by Richard Tuttle emerges in the archives

    Jan 2, 2012

  10. Welcome to Alfred Schmela’s Art Gallery!

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    A torn piece of red paper with the name “Schmela” printed and a portrait of a man (Schmela) drawn with a black marker.

    An important archive on postwar art is now available for research at the Getty Research Institute

    Jun 29, 2011