1 Photographic print ((mounted on cardboard), black and white, mount 8.5 x 10.5 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Bristol County -- Easton
Date:
07/14/1908
General:
The F.L. Ames estate in North Easton, Massachusetts was known as Langwater. View of rear of cottage.
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An interview of Eleanor M. Garvey conducted 1997 February 28-June 13, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art in Garvey's office, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Garvey discusses her childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts; majoring in art history at Wellesley College under Serape der Nersessian, Alexander Campbell, Agnes Abbott, and Kenneth Conant; study of education at Clark University, with drawing classes at the art school of the Worcester Art Museum; and the extremely useful experience working at the Museum under Charles Sawyer and Louisa Dresser.
Working as an art librarian and museum curator at Wellesley College (1947-1952), and art history professors John McAndrew, Sidney Freedberg, James O'Gorman; moving on to the Newark Museum (1952-1953) and its collections and administration under Katherine Coffey.
Joining the Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Houghton Library in 1953 beginning as secretary to curator Philip Hofer; Hofer's work on illustrated books; the development of the Houghton Library from the so-called "Treasure Room" of the main Harvard Library under the direction of George Parker Winship; Garvey's close relationship with William Bentinck-Smith, a Houghton patron and an authority on type design; the status of women professionals at Harvard.
Continued discussion of Houghton patron William Bentinck-Smith; publications and exhibitions while at Houghton, including: "The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960" (1961), "The Turn of a Century, 1885-1970" (1970), "Henry Hobson Richardson and His Office: Selected Drawings" (1974), and "Artists of the Book in Boston, 1890-1910" (1988), as well as her current project producing a catalog of 18th century Venetian illustrated books and her involvement in seminars on artists' books.
Biographical / Historical:
Eleanor M. Garvey (1918- ) is a curator and writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
General:
Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes as X digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 30 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
24 letters received, including 4 from Henry Hobson Richardson, 2 from Charles F. McKim, 1 each from Stanford White and William Rutherford Mead, others from C.W. Norcross and Charles D. Gambrill. 50 additional items include biographical information about Rutan, photographs and illustrations of architecture (many annotated by Henry-Russell Hitchcock), a list of buildings Rutan worked on, and miscellany.
Biographical / Historical:
Architect; Boston, Mass. Started working as an architect with H.H. Richardson's firm, Gambril and Richardson, New York, in 1869. He moved with the firm to Boston, and upon Richardson's death in 1886 created the firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, where he remained for the rest of his career.
Provenance:
Donated 1973 by Charles Strickland, grandson of Rutan.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
REEL 676: Four record books, 1884-1894, kept by Richardson and his successors Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, including 2 books listing architectural drawings sent; a receipt book; a ledger of statements, employee, client and other accounts.
REEL 1184: 64 letters, mostly family correspondence; 2 genealogical charts; photographs of Richardson and family, among them carte-de- visites by Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, J. A. Whipple, and Levitsky, of Richardson, his wife, and brother Chris; a calling card; typewritten correspondence between Mrs. John Cole Hayden and her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Richardson; and lists.
Biographical / Historical:
Architect; Boston, Massachusetts.
Provenance:
Material on reels 643 & 676 lent for microfilming by Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott, Richardson's business successors, 1972 and 1973. Material on reel 1184 donated by Miss Julia R. Shepley, Richardson's granddaughter, 1972.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
No access restrictions. Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886 Search this
Type:
Correspondence
Date:
1865 Jul. 05
Citation:
H. H. (Henry Hobson) Richardson. H. H. Richardson to his brother, 1865 Jul. 05. H. H. (Henry Hobson) Richardson papers, 1857-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The Spirit of H.H. Richardson on the midland prairies : regional transformations of an architectural style / edited by Paul Clifford Larson with Susan M. Brown
H.H. Richardson and his office, a centennial of his move to Boston, 1874 : selected drawings : [exhibition organized by the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, October 23-December 8, 1974, Albany Institute of History and Art, January 7-February 23, 1975, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smith...
Title:
Henry Hobson Richardson and his office; selected drawings
