Letters to Radin from painters, etchers, mezzotinters, wood engravers, lithographers and book-plate designers, primarily from England, but also from Wales, Germany, Austria, Belgium and the U.S.
Correspondents include: Walter M. Aikman, Timothy Cole, Ralph A. Cram, Mallette Dean, William F. Hopson, Dard Hunter, Kathe Kollwitz, Julius J. Lankes, Clare Leighton, Allen Lewis, Warren Mack, Thomas Nason, Christopher Nevinson, Ralph Pearson, Lucien and Esther Pissarro, George Plank, Ernest D. Roth, Rudolph Ruzicka, J. André Smith, Sidney L. Smith, Wilbur Stone, Ernest Watson, William G. Watt, Frederick Weber, and Henry Wolf.
Biographical / Historical:
Physician, print collector; New York City.
Provenance:
Microfilmed 1956 by the Archives of American Art with other art-related papers in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library. Included in the microfilming project were selected papers of the Art Division and the Prints Division.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Letters to Weitenkampf, mainly from artists and collectors concerning examples of their works in the library's collection.
Among the correspondents are: John Taylor Arms, Samuel Putnam Avery, John W. Beatty, George Bellows, Frank W. Benson, George Biddle, James Britton, George Elmer Browne, Mary Cassatt, Royal Cortissoz, Frederick K. Detwiller, Olin Dows, Kerr Eby, Daniel C. French, Arnold Genthe, George O. Hart, Malvina Hoffman, Edward Hopper, Daniel Huntington, Rockwell Kent, Frederick Keppel, Richard Lahey, Will H. Low, Louis Lozowick, H. Siddons Mowbray, Frank A. Nankivell, Thomas W. Nason, Joseph Pennell, Preston Powers, Henry Ward Ranger, William T. Richards, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Lessing J. Rosenwald,Peter F. Rothermel, William Sartain, George H. Smillie, James D. Smillie, Harry Sternberg, Albert Sterner, Lorado Taft, Abbott H. Thayer, Dwight W. Tryon, Douglas Volk, Olin L. Warner, John F. Weir, Julian A. Weir, Harry Wickey, Irving R. Wiles, Thomas W. Wood, Charles H. Woodbury, George H. Yewell, Mahonri M. Young, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Curator; New York City. Chief of the Prints Division, New York Public Library.
Provenance:
Microfilmed 1956 by the Archives of American Art with other art-related papers in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library. Included in the microfilming project were selected papers of the Art Division and the Prints Division.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Nason, Thomas W. (Thomas Willoughby), 1889-1971 Search this
Extent:
4 Reels (ca.2,600 items (on 4 microfilm reels))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Reels
Date:
1916-1978
Scope and Contents:
A photograph of Nason, ca. 1917; an address book; 15-page letter from Nason to Francis Adams Comstock, 1966, with autobiographical and career information; his letters to his future wife, Margaret Warren; correspondence, 1927-1972; three sketchbooks; a photo of prints; two notebooks, 1922-1968, listing prints by title, and giving their edition size, print size, price and buyer information; lists of works on consignment to galleries, sales and price records, bills, and a shipping notebook; printed matter; and miscellany.
Biographical / Historical:
Engraver, block printer, and illustrator; Lyme, Conn.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1978 by Margaret Warren Nason, widow of Thomas Nason.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
The work of Thomas W. Nason, N.A. / by Francis Adams Comstock and William D. Fletcher ; with a biographical essay by Walter Muir Whitehill ; foreword by Philip J. McNiff ; edited by Sinclair H. Hitchings ; with commentaries on prints by Paul Swenson ; Nason's own essay on the history and practice of wood engraving ;and a reprinting of John Taylor Arms' essay on Nason's prints
Author:
Nason, Thomas W (Thomas Willoughby) 1889-1971 Search this
