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Creator:
Maynard, Richard Field, 1875-1964  Search this
Subject:
Chadwick, Helen  Search this
Coburn, Charles Douville  Search this
Cole, Alphaeus Philemon  Search this
Curran, Charles C. (Charles Courtney)  Search this
MacKenna, Kenneth  Search this
Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis)  Search this
Morse, Beryl  Search this
Rush, Olive  Search this
Vonnoh, Bessie Potter  Search this
Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold)  Search this
Bittinger, Charles  Search this
Wiles, Irving Ramsay  Search this
Wiles, Gladys Lee  Search this
Maynard, Margaret Field  Search this
Tenth Street Studio Building (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Type:
Scrapbooks
Place of publication, production, or execution:
Other
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet; 0.2 Linear feet, Addition
Access Note / Rights:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Summary:
Biographical material, diaries, correspondence, notes, writings, business records, sketches, scrapbook, clippings, and miscellaneous material.
Correspondence, undated and 1906-1979, is mainly letters from Maynard to his parents; also includes letters from Charles Bittinger, Alphaeus P. Cole, Olive Rush, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, and Irving R. Wiles.
Notes and writings, are by Maynard and by his daughter, Sylvia. Business records, 1902-1937, include leases, receipts, miscellaneous financial records, and material relating to his patents.
There are fifty-six sketches, undated and 1902-1915, including a floorplan of Maynard's studio in 1902; a scrapbook, 1895-1898, containing clippings, letters, and 2 sketches, mainly relating to the HARVARD LAMPOON; clippings, 1898-1976; exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1905-1917, miscellaneous printed material, undated and 1898-1901; biographical material, undated and 1938; 7 diaries kept by Maynard, 1888-1899 and 1960; and one, 1897, by Margaret Field Maynard.
Photographs, undated and 1914-1979, are of Maynard, of a trip to Tucson, 1914, of a play entitled "Puppets of Fate", showing F. Luis Mora, Charles C. Curran, Charles Coburn, Kenneth MacKenna (aka Leo Mielziner), and Mr. Hubbell in costume. Also included are photographs of Beryl Morse, Gladys Lee Wiles, Helen Chadwick, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Alphaeus P. Cole in 1979, and a model demonstrating Maynard's invention: a chair which rolls on tracks perpendicular to the easel to facilitate the artist's movement while painting.
ADDITION: Correspondence between Maynard and his father, Isaac N. Maynard, 1931-1933; letters to Maynard and others from his wife Lorraine, 1933; and a few letters to Richard and Lorraine Maynard from their twelve-year-old daughter, Sylvia, 1933 [All letters from Richard and Lorraine Maynard are carbon copies.] Also included are letters to the Richard and Lorraine Maynard from Bessie Potter Vonnoh, writings by Lorraine Maynard, undated, and photographs of Lorraine and Sylvia Maynard, and of Vonnoh, c. 1923.
Citation:
Richard Field Maynard papers, 1895-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
Six diaries and all letters from Maynard to his parents through 1918 are photocopies.
Location of Originals:
Six diaries and all letters from Maynard to his parents through 1918: Originals returned to Sylvia Maynard.
Biography Note:
Painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor. Maynard was a resident and Treasurer of the Tenth Street Studio Building, N.Y.C.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Donated by Sylvia Maynard, daughter of Richard Field Maynard, 1981. An additional 0.2 ft. was received from Maynard via Julie Aronson, who had used the papers in her research on Bessie Potter Vonnoh.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Painting, American  Search this
Theme:
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)7170
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209307
AAA_collcode_maynrich
Theme:
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
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