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Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection

Creator:: Philadelphia Museum of Art Search this

Names:: Milch Galleries Search this; Abbe, Robert Search this; Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953 Search this; Bartlett, Paul, 1881-1965 Search this; Beal, Gifford, 1879-1956 Search this; Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 Search this; Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967 Search this; Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999 Search this; Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 Search this; Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948 Search this; Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 Search this; Curran, Charles C. (Charles Courtney), 1861-1942 Search this; De Creeft, José, 1884-1982 Search this; Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968 Search this; Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938 Search this; Eakins, Susan Macdowell Search this; Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 Search this; Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941 Search this; Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973 Search this; Force, Juliana, 1876-1948 Search this; Graham, John, 1887-1961 Search this; Haskell, Ernest, 1876-1925 Search this; Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935 Search this; Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis), b. 1891 Search this; Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973 Search this; Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954 Search this; McCarter, Henry, 1866-1942 Search this; Mechlin, Leila, 1874-1949 Search this; Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-1952 Search this; Mullikin, Mary Augusta, 1874-1964 Search this; Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 Search this; Roberts, George B., Mrs Search this; Sartain, William, 1843-1924 Search this; Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest), 1892-1970 Search this; Sloan, John, 1871-1951 Search this; Valentin, Curt, 1902-1954 Search this; Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976 Search this; Zigrosser, Carl, 1891- Search this

Extent:: 4 Microfilm reels

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Microfilm reels

Place:: China -- Description and Travel

Date:: 1866-1968

Scope and Contents:: Correspondence, printed material, writings, and other personal papers collected by Carl Zigrosser and Leila Mechlin and later added to by others, all relating to American art.; REELS P10-P11 and P14: Letters to Leila Mechlin, Henry Schnakenberg and Hudson Walker. Correspondents include Robert Abbe, John Taylor Arms, Cecelia Beaux, Paul Bartlett, Gifford Beal, Paul Cadmus, Charles Curran, Royal Cortissoz, Kenyon Cox, Philip Evergood, John David Graham, Reginald Marsh, Joseph Pennell, John Sloan and many others. Some letters include printed material and photographs. Mechlin material includes writings, photographs and letters from Mary Augusta Mullikin describing her life and travels in China, 1933. Also included are letters from Adolph Dehn and Jose de Creeft to Juliana Force; from Ernest Haskell and Kenneth Hayes Miller to Carl Zigrosser; miscellaneous letters from Marc Chagall, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Louis Eilshemius and Childe Hassam; an autobiography of William Sartain; and material on Thomas Eakins, including letters, a list of expenses, 1867, and motion study material,including writings, sketches and photographs taken with a camera invented by Eakins.; REEL 4547: Charles Burchfield letters; Susan and Thomas Eakins material; Jacques Lipchitz correspondence; Henry McCarter letters; and Carl Zigrosser correspondence. The Burchfield letters consist of 41 items, 1929-1947, from Burchfield regarding exhibitions, sales, and his paintings. The Eakins material includes letters from Susan Eakins to the Milch Galleries, 1933-1935, regarding the sale of Thomas Eakins' work, receipts from the Milch Galleries, Thomas' expense book, ca. 1866, for daily living in Paris and Switzerland and an autographed account of expenses while at school in Paris, April 12, 1867, a photograph of Susan Eakins by Carl van Vechten, a photograph of Eakins, and 71 engraved portraits from the collection of Thomas Eakins.; The Lipchitz correspondence is with R. Sturgis Ingersoll regarding Lipchitz's commission for the sculpture "Prometheus." Also included are 8 letters from Curt Valentin to Ingersoll regarding Lipchitz. The McCarter material includes 66 letters, 1933-1942, some containing sketches, from McCarter to Mrs. George B. Roberts regarding paintings, frames, exhibitions, and offering painting advice. The Zigrosser correspondence is regarding the purchase of prints from the regional projects of the WPA for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and later included in the exhibition "Between Two Wars" at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Included are invoices and inventories of the prints from the various offices.

Provenance:: Material on reels P10-P11 and P14 lent for microfilming, 1954, by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Additional material on reel 4547 was microfilmed in 1991 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. The idea for the archives originated with Carl Zigrosser, who donated material, solicited it from others (mainly Henry Schnakenberg, Leila Mechlin and Hudson Walker), or pulled it from the files of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Museum continues to add to the collection. It is not connected to the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

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

Rights:: Authorization to publish, quote or reproduce requires written permission from Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives. Contact Reference Services for more information.; The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:: Artists -- United States Search this

Topic:: Art, American Search this; Artists' writings Search this; Motion study -- Photographs Search this

Identifier:: AAA.philmuss

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a2730a20-b93d-4840-8872-6bd20fe24b55

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-aaa-philmuss

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Australia - China by way of interesting ports

Author:: Burns, Philp & Co Search this

Physical description:: 22 unnumbered pages illustrations 21 cm

Type:: Books

Place:: China; New Guinea; Philippines; Hong Kong (China); Vietnam; Chine; Viêt-nam; Hong Kong

Date:: 194u

Topic:: Travel Search this; Description and travel Search this; Descriptions et voyages Search this

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_1158940

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Traveling the Silk Road : ancient pathway to the modern world / Mark Norell, Denise Patry Leidy & the American Museum of Natural History with Laura Ross

Title:: Silk Road

Author:: Norell, Mark Search this; Leidy, Denise Patry Search this; Ross, Laura 1956- Search this; American Museum of Natural History Search this

Physical description:: 260 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 24 x 26 cm

Type:: Books

Place:: Asia; Silk Road

Date:: 2011; C2011

Topic:: Trade routes--History Search this; History Search this; Description and travel Search this; History, Local Search this

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_976562

Mary Slusser Collection

Extent:: 28.57 Cubic feet

Culture:: Nepal -- Architecture Search this; Nepal -- Art Search this

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials

Place:: Bhaktapur (Nepal); Nepal; Kathmandu Valley (Nepal); Nepal -- Description and Travel; Tibet (China); Vietnam; Canada; Himalaya Mountains

Date:: 1933-2017

Scope and Contents:: Mary Slusser (1918-2017) was a prominent scholar of Nepalese art, architecture, and cultural history. This collection contains personal files, professional correspondence, research files, travel documents, and photographs. The research files relate to her study of specific subjects and contain mixed media. Photographic materials include prints, slides, negatives, contact sheets, and digital images on compact discs in both color and black and white. Most of the collections are related to her study of Nepal, though other countries are represented including Tibet, Laos, China, and Vietnam. Subjects include firsthand observations of objects and sites; notes on secondary sources; correspondence with fellow scholars; manuscript drafts; and records of her work on the gallery space, and guide to, the Patan Museum. The earliest materials date from 1951 during the beginning of her time living abroad alongside her husband, while both worked for the State Department. The materials continue through 2017, reflecting her dedicated scholarship and travel through the end of her life.

Arrangement:: The collection is organized into five series:

• Series 1: Biographical Materials

• Series 2: Correspondence

• Series 3: Research Files

• Series 4: Travel Files

• Series 5: Photographic Materials

Biographical / Historical:: Dr. Mary Slusser (1918-2017) was born as Mary Shepherd in Welland, Ontario to George Percy and Ethel Mary Shepherd. Her family moved to Michigan the following year and Slusser became a naturalized US citizen in 1934. Slusser followed her sister, Dorothy Shepherd (1916-1992), to the University of Michigan, where Mary graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1942. During her studies at Michigan, she met Robert Slusser, whom she would marry in 1944. Slusser moved to New York City in 1942, again following the path of her sister, Dorothy, who had enrolled in graduate school at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Slusser undertook some coursework at NYU as a part-time student. Slusser would eventually complete her graduate studies at Columbia University, earning a PhD in anthropology in 1950. She completed some of her coursework at Harvard University, while her husband studied at nearby Tufts University. Her dissertation was titled "Preliminary archeological studies of northern Central Chile."

Next, Slusser worked as a research analyst at the US State Department. Her husband also worked at the agency and spent much of his career completing foreign service appointments as an economist with USAID. Slusser accompanied her husband to his various overseas posts, beginning in 1954 in Vietnam. The Slussers would live and work abroad in Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Guinea, Nepal, and Tunisia. Slusser continued to work for the State Department as a field anthropologist. Mary received funding from the Smithsonian to acquire a small collection of Nepalese artifacts. She immediately took to learning about the art and culture of the region. She found a dearth of English-language information on the area and did her own field work and engaged with local scholars to fill in the gaps. She remained in Nepal for five years, contracted by the Smithsonian to write a guide to Nepal. Her research would lead to Nepal Mandala: A Cultural Study of Kathmandu Valley, a two-volume set of text and images, predominantly her own photographs, which was published in 1982.

Robert Slusser retired in 1980, and he and Mary permanently settled in Washington, DC. Her scholarly work took her to museums, first at the Museum of African Art as a curatorial assistant from 1975 to 1978, and then a post-doctoral fellowship at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1989. After her fellowship, Slusser was asked to remain at the museum as a research associate, an unpaid position she held for the rest of her career. Slusser continued to publish works on Nepalese art, including the 2010 book, The Antiquity of Nepalese Wood Carving: a Reassessment, co-authored with Paul Jett, a conservator at the museum. Slusser used carbon dating tests to show that many Nepalese wood sculptures were much older than originally thought. Slusser also contributed to the establishment of the Patan Museum in Nepal, which opened in 1997. She served as the museum's cultural advisor and curator and wrote the museum guide and many of the exhibition materials.

Slusser continued to travel to Nepal and other parts of central Asia well into her eighties, often visiting remote sites on foot with the aid of local guides. Slusser stayed active at home, continuing her research work despite declining eyesight and hearing. She died in 2017 at age 98.

Related Materials:: Mary Shepherd Slusser papers, circa 1950 – circa 1995, National Museum of National History, National Anthropolgical Archives, NAA.1983.0407

Dorothy Shepard Photographs, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, FSA.A2015.12

Russell Hamilton Postcard and Photograph Collection, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, FSA.A2001.13

Russell Hamilton postcards, between 1900-1909, National Museum of African Art, Eliot Elisophon Photographic Archives, EEPA.2003-001

Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.

Rights:: Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the National Museum of Asian Art's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.

Topic:: Wood-carving Search this; Art, Asian -- Research Search this; Sculpture Search this; Photography -- Archives Search this

Citation:: Mary Slusser Collection, FSA.A2015.21. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Gift of Mary Slusser.

Identifier:: FSA.A2015.21

See more items in:: Mary Slusser Collection

Archival Repository:: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc353b3a07b-752e-43ad-a50d-d8fb86c5b628

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-fsa-a2015-21

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tours

Creator:: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969 Search this

Extent:: 3.68 Cubic feet (consisting of 8 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders.)

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Travel brochures; Commercial correspondence; Letterheads; Receipts; Print advertising; Business cards; Invoices; Business letters; Publications; Business records; Business ephemera; Ephemera; Correspondence; Advertising fliers; Advertisements; Advertising; Advertising mail; Advertising cards; Printed ephemera

Place:: Australia -- Description and Travel; Austria -- description and travel; Spain -- description and travel; Scotland -- description and travel; Colorado -- description and travel; Ireland -- description and travel; England -- description and travel; Europe -- description and travel -- 1910-1950; China -- Description and Travel; Mexico -- description and travel; Europe -- description and travel; Canada -- Description and Travel; United States -- description and travel

Date:: 1844-1966

Summary:: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

Scope and Contents:: Tours consists of business records and advertisements created by tourism companies and rail lines, travel guides to varied countries and geographic areas, and other select items such as travel advice, resources on hotels and resorts, and travel-related events or lectures.

No expansive business documentation exists for any company represented within the records. The strength of the collection lies in its breadth of information about other countries, states, or geographic locations provided for the purposes of informing travelers. While no substantial material concerning the history and development of the tourism industry exists within the collection, this subject category provides substantial resources for researchers interested in sorts of information that was made available to tourists, types of travel and tours available, and background about resources and perceptions of promoted vacation destinations over a long time period.

Arrangement:: Tours is arranged in three subseries.

Business Records and Marketing Material

Genre

Subject

Forms Part Of:: Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.

Series 1: Business Ephemera

Series 2: Other Collection Divisions

Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers

Series 4: Photographic Reference Material

Provenance:: Tours is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.

Restrictions:: Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.

Rights:: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:: Railroads -- 19th century Search this; Railroads -- 20th century Search this; Health resorts Search this; Automobile travel Search this; Railroads -- 1860-1900 Search this; Railroads -- 1874-1910 Search this; Travel Search this; Hotels Search this; Automobile travel -- United States Search this; Railroads -- Dining-car service Search this; Railroads Search this; Railroad companies Search this; Tourist trade -- 1900-1910 Search this; Tourism Search this; Maps, Tourist Search this; Transportation Search this; Railroads -- History Search this; Railroads -- Trains Search this; Sleeping cars (Railroads) Search this; Air travel Search this; Travel -- 1890-1930 Search this; Tourist trade -- Postcards Search this; Travel -- 1910-1920 Search this; Railroad travel Search this; Description and Travel Search this; Family vacations Search this; Tourist trade -- 1910-1940 Search this; Railroad stations Search this; Tourist trade -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.) Search this; advertising -- Transportation Search this; Vacations Search this; Railroad passenger cars Search this

Genre/Form:: Travel brochures; Commercial correspondence; Letterheads; Receipts; Print advertising; Business cards; Invoices; Business letters; Publications -- Business; Business records; Publications; Business ephemera; Ephemera; Correspondence; Advertising fliers; Advertisements; Advertising; Advertising mail; Advertising cards; Printed ephemera

Citation:: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tours, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:: Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

Identifier:: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Tours

See more items in:: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tours

Archival Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8ec3d919a-fdba-4173-8a85-5b72a71d4dfa

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0060-s01-01-tours

Jerome Blum papers, 1915-circa 1969, bulk 1919-1935

Creator:: Blum, Jerome, 1884-1956 Search this

Subject:: Blum, Frances Search this; Dreiser, Theodore Search this; Anderson, Sherwood Search this

Type:: Photographs

Place:: Tahiti -- description and travel

Citation:: Jerome Blum papers, 1915-circa 1969, bulk 1919-1935. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York Search this; Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago Search this; Painters -- New York (State) -- New York Search this

Theme:: Lives of artists Search this

Record number:: (DSI-AAA_CollID)9565; (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211766; AAA_collcode_blumjero

Theme:: Lives of artists

Data Source:: Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211766

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Lorenzo James Hatch and Hatch family papers, bulk 1902-1914

Creator:: Hatch, Lorenzo James, 1856-1914 Search this

Subject:: Sun, Yat-sen Search this; Yuan, Shikai Search this; Hatch, Grace Search this; Harrison, Effie C. Search this

Type:: Scrapbooks; Photographs

Place:: China -- Social conditions -- 1644-1912; China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912; China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912; China -- description and travel

Citation:: Lorenzo James Hatch and Hatch family papers, bulk 1902-1914. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:: Engravers Search this

Theme:: Lives of artists Search this

Record number:: (DSI-AAA_CollID)10222; (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213298; AAA_collcode_hatclore

Theme:: Lives of artists

Data Source:: Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_213298

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Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection, 1866-1968

Creator:: Philadelphia Museum of Art Search this

Subject:: Eakins, Thomas Search this; Force, Juliana Search this; Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis) Search this; Roberts, George B., Mrs Search this; Sartain, William Search this; Abbe, Robert Search this; Arms, John Taylor Search this; Bartlett, Paul Search this; Beal, Gifford Search this; Beaux, Cecilia Search this; Burchfield, Charles Ephraim Search this; Cadmus, Paul Search this; Chagall, Marc Search this; Cortissoz, Royal Search this; Cox, Kenyon Search this; Curran, Charles C. (Charles Courtney) Search this; De Creeft, José Search this; Dehn, Adolf Search this; Dewing, Thomas Wilmer Search this; Eakins, Susan Macdowell Search this; Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel) Search this; Evergood, Philip Search this; Graham, John Search this; Haskell, Ernest Search this; Hassam, Childe Search this; Lipchitz, Jacques Search this; Marsh, Reginald Search this; McCarter, Henry Search this; Mechlin, Leila Search this; Miller, Kenneth Hayes Search this; Mullikin, Mary Augusta Search this; Pennell, Joseph Search this; Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest) Search this; Sloan, John Search this; Valentin, Curt Search this; Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean) Search this; Zigrosser, Carl Search this; Milch Galleries Search this

Place:: China -- description and travel

Citation:: Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection, 1866-1968. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:: Art, American Search this; Artists' writings Search this; Motion study -- Photographs Search this

Theme:: Art organizations Search this

Record number:: (DSI-AAA_CollID)10619; (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214161; AAA_collcode_philmuss

Theme:: Art organizations

Data Source:: Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214161

Paul Jenkins papers, circa 1915-2010

Creator:: Jenkins, Paul, 1923- Search this

Subject:: De Kooning, Willem Search this; Jenkins, Esther Ebenhoe Search this; Bluhm, Norman Search this; Krasner, Lee Search this; Baber, Alice Search this; Erma, Thomas Search this; Prantl, Karl Search this; Dusanne, Zoe Search this; Prince, Frank Search this; Guggenheim, Peggy Search this; Gilot, Francoise Search this; Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) Search this; New York University Search this; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Search this; Martha Jackson Gallery Search this

Type:: Travel diaries; Manuscripts; Sketches; Watercolors; Prints; Collages; Visitors' books; Photographs; Scrapbooks

Place:: China -- description and travel

Citation:: Paul Jenkins papers, circa 1915-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:: Abstract expressionism Search this; Artists' studios -- Photographs Search this; Medals -- Design Search this; Painters -- France -- Paris Search this; Painters -- New York (State) -- New York Search this

Theme:: Lives of artists Search this

Record number:: (DSI-AAA_CollID)13668; (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)274646; AAA_collcode_jenkpaul2

Theme:: Lives of artists

Data Source:: Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_274646

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A.W. Bahr Papers

Creator:: Bahr, A. W. Search this

Names:: Bahr, A. W. Search this; Cammell, Charles Richard Search this

Extent:: 1.25 Linear feet

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Letters; Manuscripts; Photographs

Place:: Connecticut; Japan -- Description and Travel; England; China -- Description and Travel; Japan; China

Date:: 1919-1957

Summary:: Abel William Bahr was a coal merchant and general importer born in China who became an important collector of Chinese art. Several books and catalogues have been published about his collection. His papers include numerous drafts and notes about his memoirs as a collector, correspondence with other collectors and photographs of Chinese art objects, from jade to pottery to paintings.

Scope and Content Note:: This collection contains manuscript drafts and notes for Bahr's memoir, written by Bahr himself and C.R. Cammell, who was also the editor of The Connoisseur magazine. Other papers include correspondence with collectors of Chinese art or other figures in the art world, such as Lord Kitchener, the King and Queen of Sweden, Walter Muir Whitehill, Kenjiro Matsumoto and Senator Theodore Francis Green, among others. The bulk of the collection contains approximately 300 photographs of different Chinese art objects, from jade figurines to pottery to paintings. Most of these photographs are unidentified, but some of them include marginalia that indicate that they were of Bahr's own art objects for publication in books or articles. Photographs which are identified point to art objects also belonging to Bahr. The photographs have been organized based on the object type in the photograph, such as painting, statue or figurine.

Arrangement:: The collection is arranged into 7 series:

Series 1 -- Memoirs, [1944-1956]

Series 2 -- Correspondence, 1919-1957 [bulk 1947-1957]

Series 3 -- Clippings, 1948, no date [bulk no date]

Series 4 -- Other Writings, no date

Series 5 -- Images, no date

Series 6 -- Catalog Images, 1935, no date

Series 7 -- Art Object Photographs, no date

Biographical Note:: 1877 -- Born in Shanghai to German father and Chinese mother

Circa 1880s -- Educated at St. Xavier's School in Shanghai

Circa 1894 -- Work as a clerk at a wholesale and retail coal merchant's office, left solely in charge during the first Sino-Japanese war, encouraged by backers to start his own business

1898 -- Goes into business with shipping friend, started the Central Trading Company

1900 -- Marries Miss Helen Marion Southey (daughter of Mr. T.S. Southey, in Hong Kong. Working at firm of Hopkins Dunn and Company. Begins construction on his first house, Fairview, outside the settlement on North Honan Road Extension, first son born[?]

1901 -- Recipient of Victoria Medal for his role as a gunner during the Boxer Rebellion (had joined the Shanghai Volunteers)

1908 -- Shanghai Exhibition of Chinese Art, which he helped to organize and which he loaned many pieces from his own collection. Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society. Publishes a catalogue of the exhibit in 1911, "Old Chinese Porcelains and Works of Art in China: Being Description and Illustrations of Articles selected from an Exhibition held in Shanghai, November 1908"

1909 -- Begins his association with Lord Kitchener; travels with him through China

1910 -- Leaves permanent residence in China, moves to London, England

1911 -- Catalogue of an Exhibition of Early Chinese Paintings from the Collection of A.W. Bahr, published by the Fine Art Society

1915 -- Applies to Foreign Office in London to go to America. (Involved in the art business; the war had stopped all such activities in London)

1927 -- Private printing of the catalogue, "Archaic Chinese Jades collected in China by A.W. Bahr, now in Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, described by Berthold Laufer"

1938 -- "Early Chinese Paintings from the A.W. Bahr Collection" by Osvald Siren, published by the Chiswick Press

1946 -- Leaves England, with his wife, daughter Edna, two sons and their wives and two granddaughters for Canada

1947 -- Metropolitan Museum of Art purchases Chinese paintings from Bahr, collection of archaic jades exhibited in the Royal Ontario Museum. The Met also publishes a portfolio of the painting, 'Ching Ming Shang Ho, Spring Festival on the River' which Bahr had donated to the museum

1948 -- The Met exhibits Bahr's Chinese paintings. Several Chinese art objects on loan to the Art Association of Montreal and exhibited in the new Far East gallery

1949 -- Tang figurine, paint cakes and Han pottery vase on display at the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology

1950 -- Donates Chinese ceramics to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

1951 -- Begins writing his memoir[?]

1952 -- Last visit to London

1954 -- Gets typed draft of memoir. Living in Ridgefield, CT, working with C.R. Cammell

1959 -- Dies

Related Material:: There are no known related materials at any other institution or historical society.

Provenance:: Gift of Penelope Bahr and Helen M. Bahr (Stewart).

Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.

Rights:: Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.

Topic:: Art, Japanese Search this; Art, Chinese Search this

Genre/Form:: Letters; Manuscripts; Photographs

Citation:: A.W. Bahr Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Penelope Jane Bahr and Helen M. Bahr (Stewart), November 12th, 2001.

Identifier:: FSA.A2001.14

See more items in:: A.W. Bahr Papers

Archival Repository:: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc399eaddc0-2457-40a9-959d-f22da779608c

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-fsa-a2001-14

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Oral history interview with Tommy Simpson, 2004 May 6-July 2

Interviewee:: Simpson, Tommy, 1939- Search this

Interviewer:: Cooke, Edward S., 1954- Search this

Subject:: Castle, Wendell Search this; Maloof, Sam Search this; Maruyama, Wendy Search this; McKie, Judy Kensley Search this; Newman, Richard, (Artist) Search this; Sepeshy, Zoltan Search this; Smith, Paul J. Search this; Zucca, Edward Search this; Boston University. Program in Artisanry Search this; Cranbrook Academy of Art Search this; Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.) Search this; Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America Search this; Northern Illinois University Search this; University of Hartford Search this

Type:: Interviews; Sound recordings

Place:: China -- description and travel; Europe -- description and travel

Citation:: Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Tommy Simpson, 2004 May 6-July 2. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:: Decorative arts Search this; Painting -- Study and teaching Search this; Furniture making Search this

Theme:: Craft Search this

Record number:: (DSI-AAA_CollID)11632; (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)248743; AAA_collcode_simpso04

Theme:: Craft

Data Source:: Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_248743

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Oral history interview with Cindy Kolodziejski, 2007 May 5-16

Interviewee:: Kolodziejski, Cindy, 1962- Search this

Interviewer:: Lloyd, Frank, 1951- Search this

Subject:: Albuquerque, Lita Search this; Bacerra, Ralph Search this; Caroompas, Carole Search this; Clark, Garth Search this; Delisle, Roseline Search this; Dowell, Roy Search this; Giegerich, Jill Search this; Lauria, Jo Search this; Lodato, Peter Search this; Marsh, Tony Search this; Mason, John Search this; Nagle, Ron Search this; Pagel, David Search this; Saxe, Adrian Anthony Search this; Sturman, Eugene Search this; Thomason, Barbara A. Search this; California State University, Long Beach Search this; Frank Lloyd Gallery Search this; Garth Clark Gallery (New York, N.Y.) Search this; J. Paul Getty Museum Search this; Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America Search this; Otis College of Art and Design Search this; University of California, Los Angeles. Library Search this

Type:: Interviews; Sound recordings

Place:: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and views; Arizona -- Description and travel; California -- description and travel; China -- description and travel; Greece -- description and travel; Italy -- description and travel; Nepal -- description and travel

Citation:: Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Cindy Kolodziejski, 2007 May 5-16. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:: Ceramics Search this; Self-taught artists Search this; Women artists Search this; Women painters Search this; Women sculptors Search this

Theme:: Women Search this

Record number:: (DSI-AAA_CollID)13604; (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)270853; AAA_collcode_kolodz07

Theme:: Women

Data Source:: Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_270853

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Oral history interview with Cindy Kolodziejski

Interviewee:: Kolodziejski, Cindy, 1962- Search this

Interviewer:: Lloyd, Frank, 1951- Search this

Creator:: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America Search this

Names:: California State University, Long Beach -- Faculty Search this; Frank Lloyd Gallery Search this; Garth Clark Gallery (New York, N.Y.) Search this; J. Paul Getty Museum Search this; Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America Search this; Otis College of Art and Design -- Students Search this; University of California, Los Angeles. Library Search this; Albuquerque, Lita Search this; Bacerra, Ralph, 1938-2008 Search this; Caroompas, Carole Search this; Clark, Garth, 1947- Search this; Delisle, Roseline Search this; Dowell, Roy Search this; Giegerich, Jill, 1952- Search this; Lauria, Jo Search this; Lodato, Peter Search this; Marsh, Tony, 1954- Search this; Mason, John, 1927-2019 Search this; Nagle, Ron Search this; Pagel, David Search this; Saxe, Adrian Anthony, 1943- Search this; Sturman, Eugene Search this; Thomason, Barbara A. Search this

Extent:: 7 Items (Sound recording: 7 wav files (4 hr., 10 min.), digital); 36 Pages (Transcript)

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Pages; Interviews; Sound recordings

Place:: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and views; Arizona -- Description and Travel; California -- description and travel; China -- Description and Travel; Greece -- description and travel; Italy -- description and travel; Nepal -- Description and Travel

Date:: 2007 May 5-16

Scope and Contents:: An interview of Cindy Kolodziejski conducted 2007 May 5-16, by Frank Lloyd, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the Frank Lloyd Gallery, in Santa Monica, California.; Kolodziejski speaks of moving in her early childhood from Germany to Arizona and finally to California; the divorce of her parents at a young age and her feelings of abandonment; her desire as a young child to be an artist; the early influence of her grandmother, an art teacher; teaching herself how to draw by copying images and creating still-lifes; an influential art teacher in high school who encouraged her to pursue college-level art classes and attend art school after graduation; her decision to enroll at Otis College of Art and Design; her foundation art classes at Otis and increasing interest in ceramics; choosing ceramics as a medium because of its flexibility and of form and potential for imagery; the value of her art education to her career; earning a Master of Fine Arts degree while teaching at California State University, Long Beach; the union of form, function, and imagery in her work, especially seen in a recent exhibition at the Frank Lloyd Gallery titled "Reversal of Fountain"; using the University of California, Los Angeles, libraries to find images at first, and later searching the internet for inspiration; creating pieces which play with and explore gender issues and sexuality; being reviewed and featured in articles which are especially concerned with issues of the body and femininity; the documentation of her art in various periodicals and texts, including a piece she wrote for Ceramics Monthly concerning her own work; gaining exposure through these articles, which helped to advance her career; the painstaking and technical process required to fashion her works of art; showing at the Garth Clark Gallery very quickly after graduation; traveling to Greece, China, Nepal, New York, and Italy, and being influenced by the exposure to the different art and cultures; recent travels with her daughter to Italy and feeling excited and humbled by the beauty of certain works; giving a talk at the Getty Museum about a show entitled "The Royal Menagerie" featuring the Meissen large-scale porcelain animals; participating in group shows in museums, particularly the "Color and Fire" exhibit which showcased important ceramicists from 1950 to 2000; being awarded various grants and feeling that applying for those awards is a very worthwhile experience for many artists; teaching first at the high school level and then in college; her teaching methods; forming friendships with fellow artists and art teachers; integrating the use of technology into her art-making process by finding and manipulating images on the computer; feeling motivated to produce in a positive way for exhibition deadlines; the support and friendships that developed through exhibiting with the Clark Garth and Frank Lloyd galleries; the encouragement and support she has been shown by her family throughout her career; and categorizing herself first and foremost as an artist rather than a craft artist or ceramicist. Kolodziejski recalls, Lita Albuquerque, Jill Giegerich, Peter Lodato, Barbara Thomason, Roy Dowell, Eugene Sturman, Carol Caroompas, Tony Marsh, Ralph Baccera, Adrian Saxe, Ron Nagle, Roseline Delisle, John Mason, Jo Lauria, David Pagel, Garth Clark, and others.

Biographical / Historical:: Cindy Kolodziejski (1962- ) is a sculptor and painter from Venice, California. Frank Lloyd (1951- ) is a gallery owner from Santa Monica, California.

General:: Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 10 min.

Provenance:: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:: Painters -- California -- Venice Search this; Sculptors -- California -- Venice Search this

Topic:: Ceramics Search this; Self-taught artists Search this; Women artists Search this; Women painters Search this; Women sculptors Search this

Genre/Form:: Interviews; Sound recordings

Sponsor:: Funding for this interview provided by Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:: AAA.kolodz07

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9cec3e455-7879-43de-ba7b-9db80c22c835

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-aaa-kolodz07

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Oral history interview with Tommy Simpson

Interviewee:: Simpson, Tommy Search this

Interviewer:: Cooke, Edward S., 1954- Search this

Creator:: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America Search this

Names:: Boston University. Program in Artisanry -- Faculty Search this; Cranbrook Academy of Art -- Students Search this; Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.) Search this; Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America Search this; Northern Illinois University -- Students Search this; University of Hartford -- Faculty Search this; Castle, Wendell, 1932-2018 Search this; Maloof, Sam Search this; Maruyama, Wendy, 1952- Search this; McKie, Judy Kensley, 1944- Search this; Newman, Richard, (Artist) Search this; Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 Search this; Smith, Paul J., 1931- Search this; Zucca, Edward Search this

Extent:: 6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (3 hr., 54 min.), digital, wav); 89 Pages (Transcript)

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Pages; Interviews; Sound recordings

Place:: China -- Description and Travel; Europe -- description and travel

Date:: 2004 May 6-July 2

Scope and Contents:: An interview of Tommy Simpson conducted 2004 May 6-July 2, by Edward S. Cooke, Jr., for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.; Simpson speaks of growing up in rural Illinois; making things as a child; discovering his interest in art at Northern Illinois University; getting an MFA in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art; using the wood shop at Cranbrook; exhibiting at various galleries in New York City and moving to Connecticut; showing work in the "Fantasy Furniture" exhibit at the Museum of Arts & Design; visiting Europe; the New York studio furniture market in the 1960s; writing the book, "Fantasy Furniture"; exhibiting in "Objects USA;" working as artist in residence at the Fairtree Gallery; teaching at the University of Hartford; his work ethic and productivity; living and working in Greenwich, Connecticut; the constraints of being classified as a furniture maker; teaching briefly at the Program In Artisanry and other schools; the increased public interest in fine woodworking in the 1980s; changes in the craft market; writing the book, "Two Looks to Home"; the influence of events on his work; his current interest in making whole interiors; working on commission; the current public interest in craft; expressing themes in his work; his working process in his studio; the future of fine woodworking; the difficulties of working with galleries; designing rugs; and visiting China. Simpson also recalls Zoltan Sepeshy, Wendell Castle, Paul Smith, Sam Maloof, Edward Zucca, Wendy Maruyama, Richard Newman, Judy McKie, and others.

Biographical / Historical:: Tommy Simpson (1939- ) is a furniture maker and sculptor from Washington Depot, Connecticut. Edward S. Cooke, Jr. is a professor from Newtonville, Massachusetts.

General:: Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 54 min.

Provenance:: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:: Cabinetmakers Search this; Sculptors -- Connecticut Search this

Topic:: Decorative arts Search this; Painting -- Study and teaching Search this; Furniture making Search this

Genre/Form:: Interviews; Sound recordings

Sponsor:: Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.