Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895) : American painter of hearth and homeland : [exhibition] 10 September-3 December 1995 / with essays by Ann Gregory Terhune, Sylvia Yount, Naurice Frank Woods, Jr
Thomas Hovenden. Thomas Hovenden, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. letter to Charles Henry Hart, 1890 December 26. Charles Henry Hart autograph collection, 1731-1918. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Photocopy of 10 page transcript of lecture delivered by Knerr to the Montgomery County (Pa.) Historical Society on Apr. 25, 1942. Title as written at top of first page is "The art of Thomas Hovenden." Also included is a photocopied newspaper clipping of an article titled "Artist's 'mother' lived here" which interviews people who modeled for Hovenden's painting "Breaking the Home Ties."
Provenance:
Donated by Anne R. Fabbri, director of the Noyes Museum, in 1988. Fabbri interviewed Mr. Knerr while doing research on Hovenden and Knerr sent her these materials in the 1970's.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
The Robert Henri papers date from 1880 to 1954. included are 26 diaries, dating from 1880 to 1928. The collection also includes writings, scrapbooks, printed material, and miscellany.
Reels 885-887: 25 diaries kept by Robert Henri, August 15, 1881 to October 20, 1928 (some entries with illustrations). Henri writes about his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Paris; his instructors Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden, and Adolphe Bouguereau, and fellow students Alexander Stirling Calder, Edward Redfield, Charles Grafly, and others; his opposition to the National Academy of Design and academic painting between 1902 and 1912; the exhibition of The Eight in 1908; the 1910 Exhibition of Independent Artists; the MacDowell Club; the founding of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors; and other topics. Also included are typescripts of 4 plays; scrapbooks of clippings, 1888-1954 and loose clippings; 82 photographs of Henri, including a group photo of Henri, Elmer MacRae, Maxfield Parrish, and four unidentified women, classes, and models; a letter and receipt from John Sloan; clippings regarding The Eight; and a copy of Memoirs of My Dead Life, by George Moore, annotated by Henri.
Reel 1654: Robert Henri diary, May to November 1880. Henri writes about his daily activities as a 15-year-old boy growing up on the Platte River, including entries on family events, playing with his brothers and friends, fishing, celebrating July 4th, bailing hay for his father, a dance and fair, and houses in Cozad, Nebraska (122 pages).
Biographical / Historical:
Robert Henri (1865-1929) was a painter and instructor in New York, N.Y.
Provenance:
Material on reels 885-887 was lent by Mrs. Janet LeClair, the widow of John LeClair, nephew of Henri's sister-in-law, Violet Organ. Organ inherited these papers and planned on using them in a biography of Henri which was never written. The papers passed to John LeClair upon Organ's death in 1959 and subsequently donated to Yale University. Organ donated other Henri papers, including correspondence, notes, notebooks, photographs and other manuscript material to Yale University's Beinecke Library in the 1960s. The diary on reel 1654 was lent by Dr. Robert Gatewood, a cousin of Robert Henri, who reported that he had at one time possessed several of Henri's illustrated boyhood stories and other diaries which were all destroyed in a fire.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
A scrapbook of clippings, letters, engravings and photographs.
Biographical / Historical:
Genre painter; New York City and Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Born in Dunmanway, Ireland. He came to New York City in 1863. Elected a member of the National Academy in 1882. Exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming, 1954, by Mrs. Livingston Corson.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
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