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Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
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.
Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1948-2004, bulk 1994-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1948-2004, bulk 1994-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1948-2004, bulk 1994-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1948-2004, bulk 1994-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Richard Murray research material regarding Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1948-2004, bulk 1994-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Mural research files include photocopies, book chapters, bibliography cards, notes, photographs, printed material, and scattered correspondence. Files for cities cover Boston, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Paul, and Washington, D.C. Files for states include Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin, among others. Artist files are found for John White Alexander, Edwin Blashfield, Kenyon Cox, John LaFarge, Will H. Low, H. Siddons Mowbray, John Warner Norton, Violet Oakley, Maxfield Parrish, John Singer Sargent, Edward Steichen, N.C. Wyeth, and many others. General mural research files include materials such as bibliographies, catalogs, an index, a history of murals, hand-drawn statistical graphs, Murray's notes on the National Society of Mural Painters meeting minutes from 1895 to 1909, the Union League of New York, and women artists.
Arrangement:
The series is arranged as 4 subseries.
Missing Title
1.1: Murals by City, 1960s-2003
1.2: Murals by State, 1896-2003
1.3: Murals by Artist, 1926-2000
1.4: General Mural Research, 1910-2006
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Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
The subseries is arranged alphabetically by state name.
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Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Found here are photographs of Thayer, his family, friends, studio, house, as well as photographs of his artwork. Also found are negatives, color transparencies, and slides of these photographs. Of note are photographs of a Thayer exhibition at the Lyman Allyn Museum and photographs of x-rays of Thayer paintings.
Researchers should note that all photographs of Thayer, his family, house, studio, and artwork are copy prints of original photographs which Richard Murray requested from the owners for his research. Most of the original photographs of Thayer and his family can be found in archival collections at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement note:
Photographs are arranged by subject. Negatives and transparencies are also arranged by subject, but slides are arranged in no particular order.
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Richard Murray research material regarding Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1948-2004, bulk 1994-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Subject files are more general in nature and focus on a wide variety of art-related topics, such as American and European art history, advertising, art criticism, art training at the École des Beaux-Arts, artists' studios in New York City, the artist Delacroix, civic art and religion, French arts, German murals, the Guilded Age and Progressive Era, immigration, interior decoration, the Municipal Art Society, pageantry, progressivism, Puvis de Chavannes, and Reverend Phillips Brooks.
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Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Photographic materials include negatives and one contact sheet of Murray's family and friends; photographs and negatives of murals in capital buildings, courthouses, public schools, private residences, and other buildings located in Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Paris, and other cities; and images of the American Academy in Rome, the Hotel de Ville, World's Fairs, and a wide variety of other topics. There are also two copies of microfilm of the Kenyon Cox papers at the Archives of American Art, annotated by Murray.
Arrangement:
This series is arranged alphabetically by city name, then arranged alphabetically by other titles thereafter.
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Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
The subseries is arranged alphabetically by artist surname.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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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.
Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
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.
Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
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.
Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
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.
Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
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.
Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding mural painting in the United States, 1896-2006, bulk 1970-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Project files document Richard Murray's various research projects regarding Abbott Handerson Thayer. Included are records regarding the exhibition "Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art" which he curated at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Museum of American Art) in 1999. These files include planning documents, loan forms, press clippings, conservation requests, exhibition text, and exhibition checklists. Additional project files are primarily for his proposed book on Abbott Thayer and include research grant applications, fundraising, photograph orders, and reviews of the initial manuscript. Also found is Murray's correspondence regarding his Thayer projects. Correspondence is with fellow Thayer scholars, collectors, art museums, and Thayer family members.
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Collection Citation:
Richard Murray research material regarding Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1948-2004, bulk 1994-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
