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.
Summary:
Mr. Flagg offers to clean a sketch by Washington Allston which Mrs. Johnson owns, and asks to purchase it as well.
Citation:
Jared B. Flagg letter to Laura Winthrop Johnson relating to Washington Allston sketch, 1892 Jan. 30. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reel 2814 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Biography Note:
Jared Bradley Flagg, an Episcopalian priest, painter, writer and founder of the Yale Art Library, was the nephew of painter Washington Allston, and wrote the Life and Letters of Washington Allston. Johnson (b. Laura Winthrop) wrote prose and poetry, including Poems of Twenty Years (1874), 800 Miles in an Ambulance (1899), and The Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop (1884). Her father, Francis Bayard Winthrop, Jr. of New Haven, Conn., collected works of art, including those of Allston.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Donated 1961 by Winslow Ames, grandson of Laura Winthrop Johnson.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001