Creator:

Burleigh, Sydney Richmond, 1853-1931  Search this

Names:

Providence Art Club  Search this

Extent:

9 Volumes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Volumes

Sketchbooks

Date:

1875-1914

Scope and Contents:

Nine sketchbooks with drawings from art classes, from his travels in England, France, Holland, Italy, and Switzerland, and for book illustrations. Three photographs of Burleigh and one of his house in Little Compton, Rhode Island, were inserted in the sketchbooks and have been microfilmed with them.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter and illustrator. Burleigh studied under Paul Laurens in Paris. He was founder of the Art Workers Guild as well as an officer in the Providence Art Club from 1886 to 1931.

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming 1985 by the Providence Art Club.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Illustrators  Search this

Painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketchbooks

Identifier:

AAA.burlsydn

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c2546e3c-8ada-4cfe-8cb4-34b8673a88c1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-burlsydn