20 linear feet.
7 linear feet of photographs.
150 lantern slides.
3.5 linear feet of printed material.
Restricted by contract; family correspondence is closed.
Inventory with index.
Croatian sculptor and faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, 1954-1962.
Correspondence and photocopies of correspondence with other artists, museums and galleries, admirers of his work, Yugoslav emigrants, clients who have commissioned work, and friends and family; contracts, reports, and architectural plans relating to his commissions; his unpublished manuscripts of poetry, a novel, a play, and two books on Michelangelo; articles on and interviews with Mestrovic; and contracts and inventories relating to the disposition of his homes, artwork, and other possessions left in Yugoslavia when he and his family fled the country during World War II.
Correspondence deals with his approach to art; arrangements for exhibits, publications, and castings of his sculpture; the commissioning and sale of his work; the history and politics of Croatia, Serbia, and other Yugoslav republics; the events and aftermath of World War II; and the plight of friends who remained behind in Yugoslavia after the war.
Correspondents include Ljubo Babic, Milan Curcin, Cvito Fiskovic, Josip Hamm, Fedor Kabalin, Vladko Macek, Dominik Mandic, OFM, Pavle Ostovic, Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, Josip Broz Tito, Ante Trumbic, Maurice Lavanoux, Nikola Tesla, Milan Marjanovic, Malvina Hoffman, and John Foster Dulles.
Also an extensive collection of photographs of Mestrovic's work, his studios, his family, and his friends; and a collection of published articles on his art and relevant art history, his exhibits and publications, and Yugoslav history and politics.
Source: Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Collections of photographs and published articles were assembled largely by the Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame and came to the Archives of the University of Notre Dame with the Mestrovic Papers and the Snite Museum's records.
In English, Croatian, German, Italian, French, Russian, and other languages.