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Collection Citation:
Nelson and Henry C. White research material, circa 1851-1961. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
Correspondence with Augustus Tack and Frank W. Benson.
REEL 2786: Four letters to Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Schirmer; three from Benson regarding the portrait of their daughter, Gertrude Schirmer, painted by Benson in 1899; and one from Grace Schirmer to her husband Gustave.[microfilm title: Frank W. Benson]
REEL 3471: Four letters: three from Schirmer to her sister, Evelyn Benedict, relating personal matters and thoughts about her portrait by Augustus Vincent Tack; and a fourth letter from Tack to Schirmer on her 80th birthday recalling the portrait and reminiscing about Schirmer's husband, Gustave.
Biographical / Historical:
Sitter for portrait by Augustus V. Tack; Brooklyn, New York.
Other Title:
Frank W. Benson papers [microfilm title, reel 2786]
Provenance:
Donated by Gertrude Helen Fay, Schirmer's daughter, 1974.
Restrictions:
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The papers of Boston and Ironbound Island, Maine, painter Dwight Blaney measure 3.3 linear feet and date from circa 1883-1944, with twenty slides of a family album dated circa 1993. The bulk of the material dates from circa 1883 to the 1920s. The collection includes scattered personal papers including pencil and pen sketches by Blaney and his brother Henry Blaney; three of Blaney's notebooks on art history; printed material including exhibition catalogs for Blaney and others; a scrapbook of news clippings about John Singer Sargent and photographs of artwork by Sargent; photographs including images of Blaney and his home, John Breck and his studio, and a portrait of John Singer Sargent; and one hundred and ninety-nine glass plate negatives, primarily of Blaney's artwork and interiors of his homes. Also found are three glass plate negatives of paintings by John Singer Sargent, and one glass plate of Sargent seated on Blaney's boat painting Blaney, who is painting on the shore.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of Boston and Ironbound Island, Maine, painter Dwight Blaney measure 3.3 linear feet and date from circa 1883-1944, with twenty slides of a family album dated circa 1993. The bulk of the material dates from circa 1883 to the 1920s. The collection includes scattered personal papers including pencil and pen sketches by Blaney and his brother Henry Blaney; three of Blaney's notebooks on art history; printed material including exhibition catalogs for Blaney and others; a scrapbook of news clippings about John Singer Sargent and photographs of artwork by Sargent; photographs including images of Blaney and his home, John Breck and his studio, and a portrait of John Singer Sargent; and one hundred and ninety-nine glass plate negatives, primarily of Blaney's artwork and interiors of his homes. Also found are three glass plate negatives of paintings by John Singer Sargent, and one glass plate of Sargent seated on Blaney's boat painting Blaney, who is painting on the shore.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as five series.
Series 1: Personal Papers, circa 1883-circa 1920s (0.3 linear feet; Box 1, OV 4)
Series 2: Notebooks, circa 1920s (0.4 linear feet; Box 2)
Series 3: Printed Material, 1883-1927, 1944 (0.2 linear feet; Box 3)
Series 4: Scrapbook on John Singer Sargent, 1920s (0.2 linear feet; BV 5)
Series 5: Photographic Material, circa 1880s-1920s, circa 1993 (Boxes 3, 6-10)
Biographical / Historical:
Boston and Ironbound Island, Maine, painter Dwight Blaney (1865-1944), studied at the Boston Art School from 1886 to 1888, and in 1891 traveled to Europe where he met his future wife, Edith Hill, and spent two years sketching and working as a tour guide. Blaney married Hill on his return to the United States and the couple settled in Boston, but also had a home on Ironbound Island in Maine's Frenchman Bay. Over time the family acquired the entire island and John Singer Sargent and other painters came to visit and paint there in the summer months.
Blaney was known for his Impressionist paintings in oil and watercolor, including landscapes, snow scenes, genre, and city views. He often visited Bermuda and was artistically inspired by the houses and the landscape there. Blaney was also an art collector and owned one of Monet's Haystacks series, in addition to being an active member of the Walpole Society which collected Americana. Blaney filled his homes with antique furniture, silver, pewter, and other decorative objects.
John Singer Sargent was a guest of the Blaneys on Ironbound Island in the early 1920s, and painted Blaney in The Artist Sketching (1922). He also painted Woods in Maine on the island the same year.
In addition to painting and collecting, Blaney was a malacologist with a serious interest in documenting marine mollusk species.
Separated Materials:
Benjamin Blaney loaned materials for microfilming in 1990. Originals of loaned material, including letters from artists such as John Singer Sargent and Frank Benson, twenty one volumes of sketchbooks, a notebook, a journal, and a scrapbook, were returned to Blaney after microfilming and were not subsequently donated. Loaned material is available on reels 4405-4407 but is not described in the container listing of this finding aid.
Provenance:
The collection was donated by Benjamin Blaney, Blaney's grandson, in 1990. In 1993, slides from a family photo album depicting the Blaney family on a trip to Bermuda were donated by Jeffrey Brown, who purchased the original album from the David Blaney estate.
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The Brandon B. Fortune research material is owned by the Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Collection Citation:
Brandon B. Fortune research material on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, 1977-1993, bulk 1987-1991. Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
The Brandon B. Fortune research material is owned by the Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Collection Citation:
Brandon B. Fortune research material on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, 1977-1993, bulk 1987-1991. Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
The Brandon B. Fortune research material is owned by the Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Collection Citation:
Brandon B. Fortune research material on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, 1977-1993, bulk 1987-1991. Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Richard York Gallery records, circa 1865-2005, bulk 1981-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care Fund
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Collection Citation:
Richard York Gallery records, circa 1865-2005, bulk 1981-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care Fund
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Collection Citation:
Richard York Gallery records, circa 1865-2005, bulk 1981-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care Fund
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Collection Citation:
Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk 1892 to 1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Grant Program. Digitization of the scrapbooks was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. Correspondence, financial and shipping records, inventory records, and printed material were digitized with funding provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Walton Family Foundation.
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Collection Citation:
Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk 1892 to 1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Grant Program. Digitization of the scrapbooks was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. Correspondence, financial and shipping records, inventory records, and printed material were digitized with funding provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Walton Family Foundation.
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Collection Citation:
Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk 1892 to 1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Grant Program. Digitization of the scrapbooks was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. Correspondence, financial and shipping records, inventory records, and printed material were digitized with funding provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Walton Family Foundation.
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Collection Citation:
Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk 1892 to 1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Grant Program. Digitization of the scrapbooks was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. Correspondence, financial and shipping records, inventory records, and printed material were digitized with funding provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Walton Family Foundation.
Letters are primarily from family members, artists, museum staff concerned with work in Egypt, and art patrons involved with Smith's charitable pageants. Correspondents include Cecilia Beaux, Frank Benson, George DeForest Brush, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Denman Ross. There are scattered letters from Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Henry James, Charles G. Loring, Paul Manship, General John J. Pershing, John Singer Sargent, and Abbott Handerson Thayer.
See Appendix for a list of correspondents in Series 2
Appendix: Correspondents in Series 2:
Abbas, Abdul Baba, 1912
Abbott, Holker, 1917
Abdullah, Mohamed, 1938
Abingdon, The Countess of, 1940, 1941
Aldrich, Eleanor, 1940
Aldrich, J.B., 1896
Aldrich, William T., 1931
Alexander, L.G., 1894
Alma Tadema, Sir Lawrence, 1894
American Express Company, 1934
American Federation of Arts, 1940, 1941, 1942
American Red Cross, 1917, 1945, 1946
Baldwin, Florence, 1898
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941, 1943
Bartlett, Frederic Clay, 1910
Bass, R.P. and Edith, 1932, 1932
Beaulieu, Elizabeth, 1943
Beaux, Cecilia, undated, 1899
Bennett, Esther, 1895, 1899
Bennett, Sophie, 1897, 1899, 1903
Benson, Eugene, undated
Benson, Frank Weston, 1899, 1943, 1945
Berenson, Bernard, 1897
Bey, Sahfik Ghorbal, 1948, 1949
Bey, A. Heikal, 1948, 1949
Bigelow, W. Sturgis, undated, 1893, 1901
Bittinger, Charles, 1950
Bliss, Robert Woods and Mildred, 1916, 1940
Boston Breeze, 1931
Bradley, Kate A., 1919
Breasted, Charles, 1931
Breckingham, Eugenia B., 1893, 1943
Brejant, Grace M., 1895
Brewster, Frederick and Margaret, 1936
Bridges, Styles, 1939, 1940
British War Relief Society, 1941
Brooklyn Museum, 1933, 1943
Brown family, undated, 1894, 1895, 1986, 1899
Brown, Frederick and Ida, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1900
Brown University, 1929
Brummer Gallery, Inc., 1937
Brush, George de Forest, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1935
Buck, Matilda S., 1897
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1912, 1917
Burbank, Mr., 1943
Cabot, Arthur J. and Sally, 1896
Calhoun, Lucy, 1910
Cambridge: Superintendent of Schools, 1942, 1943
Carey, Arthur Astor, 1902
Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1931
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1940, 1941, 1942
Carter, Mary Duncan, 1937
Cartland, Joseph, 1898
Chace, Lucretia G., 1909
Chandler, J.E., 1894
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1911
Chinese Republic, 1944
Churchill, Winston, 1901, 1945
Clements, Cyril, 1946
Coca Cola Company, 1943
Constable, William George and Olivia, undated, 1942, 1943, 1949
Taylor, William and Rebecca Smith, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938
Teachman, Jessie, 1897, 1905
Thayer, Abbott Handerson, undated
Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer Memorial, 1941
Tobey, Charles W., 1939, 1942
Tomita, Kojiro, 1936, 1937, 1943, 1947
Turner, C.Y., 1902
Turner, Ross, 1896
Union League Club, 1918
United China Relief, Inc., 1944
United Nations Relief Fund, 1942
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1931, 1943
Vanderbilt, Mrs. George and Cornelia, 1923
Vanelli, Caesar, 1929, 1930
Vaughan, Henry Goodwin, 1936
Volpi, Elia, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907
von Pustau, Helene, 1895, 1899
Walters, Thorstina Jackson, 1929
Wang, Lucy C., 1944
War Finance Committee (New Hampshire), 1944
Warren, H. Langford, 1907
Warren, Harold B., 1931
Webster, Laurence and Edith, 1941
Webster, Sue, 1916
Weems, Katharine Lane, 1965
Wendelstadt, Baron Wendelstadt, 1894, 1896, 1897
Wheeler, Roy R., 1932, 1946
White, Elise, 1931
Whitman, Paul, undated, 1893, 1899, 1901, 1902
Willard, Belle, 1931
Williams, Ben Ames, 1928
Yale University, 1915, 1934
Yamanaka and Company, 1930, 1931
Young, Hugh H., 1941, 1942
Zatelli, H., 1897
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Collection Citation:
Joseph Lindon Smith papers, 1647-1965, bulk 1873-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.