Papers of curator Herschel Browning Chipp concern the provenance, conservation, publication and exhibition of the painting "Washington rallying the troops at Monmouth," 1854, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, owned by the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum.
correspondence, research notes, press releases, newsclippings, photographs, conservation reports, and 2 unpublished manuscripts, "Washington at Monmouth" by John D. Hicks, and "Emanuel Leutze's Mural Westward the Course of Empire Takes Us Way" by Justin G. Turner, and documents regarding the program and budget for the 1965 exhibition of the Leutze painting.
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian, writer, museum curator, and educator; Berkeley, Calif. Born 1913. Died 1992.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1984 by Herschel Browning Chipp.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.