Biographical material includes genealogical notes, biographical accounts, a baptismal record, marriage license, driver's license, membership cards, an award medal and ribbons, a death certificate, and address books.
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Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Scrapbooks 1-7 primarily contain etchings, watercolor sketches, and scattered printed material and photographs of art work. Scrapbooks 8-12 contain clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, reproductions of art work, scattered letters, price lists, photographs of art work, a photograph of Moore, and the occasional original print.
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Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Letters are from friends and colleagues including Clifford K. Berryman, Paul Bransom, James Russell Lowe, Rowland Lyon, and Francis Bowes Sayre.
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Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Photographs are of Benson Bond Moore, his family, residence, colleagues including members of The Ramblers painting outdoors, and of art work. There are also travel photographs of Alabama, Florida (Miami), Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana (New Orleans), North Carolina, Mississippi (Biloxi), Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Personal business records include a deed for Moore's father's gallery, priced labels for art work, lists of art work, price lists, records of art work sold, bank account records, miscellaneous receipts, and a ledger concerning Moore's works left in trust after his death.
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Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Notes and writings consist of nine poems by Moore, a log book of The Ramblers, lists of art work sold, lists of art work by others, and a funeral registry book listing mourners' names.
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Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Printed material consists of clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, a prospectus from the Society of Animal Artists, book Animals of American History illustrated by Paul Bransom, booklets concerning various printmakers, and reproductions of art work, including portraits of Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis. Brochures concern art schools including the Hill School of Art, arts organizations including the Arts Club of Washington, the Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers Society, and the New York Graphic Society, and the sale of Moore's art work, and travel brochures for New York State.
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Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Art work consists of 1040 drawings, 43 watercolor sketches, 526 etchings, 187 lithographs, 8 paintings, and 5 bas-relief sculptures. Subjects are primarily of wildlife and nature, landscapes, seascapes, urban scapes, and architecture. Portrait drawings and etchings by Moore include those of fellow artists Herbert F. Clark, Robert G. Cornett, August H. O. Rolle, and Charles Seaton. The bas-relief sculptures are of a lion, buffalo, fish, and penguin. Art work by others includes drawings and prints by Arthur Beaumont, Herbert F. Clark, Edwin G. Cassedy, J. C. Claghorn, John Doctoroff, Thomas Handforth, F. Dano Jackley, W. L. Maclean, Arvid Nyholm, Eliot O'Hara, Walter King Stone, and Ruel P. Tolman.
Arrangement note:
A portion of the artwork is organized according to a numbering system of unknown origin, possible created by Moore.
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Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Benson Bond Moore papers, 1902-1995. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.