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The gallery of illustrious Americans: containing the portraits and biographical sketches of twenty-four of the most eminent citizens of the American republic, since the death of Washington / From daguerrotypes by Brady - engraved by D'Avignon. C. Edwards Lester, editor, 1850

Creator:: Lester, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards), 1815-1890 Search this

Subject:: Brady, Mathew B. Search this; D'Avignon, Francis Search this

Record number:: (DSI-AAA_CollID)8072; (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210243; AAA_collcode_lestchar

Theme:: Audio - Visual

Data Source:: Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210243

Orange Disaster (Linda Nochlin)

Artist:: Deborah Kass, born 1952 Search this

Sitter:: Linda Nochlin, 1931 - 2017 Search this

Medium:: Silkscreen and acrylic on canvas

Dimensions:: Two panels each measuring: 304.8 × 190.5 cm (120 × 75"); Overall: 304.8 × 381 cm (120 × 150")

Type:: Painting

Place:: United States\New York\Cattaraugus\Brooklyn

Date:: 1997

Topic:: Costume\Dress Accessory\Scarf Search this; Costume\Jewelry\Watch\Wrist watch Search this; Linda Nochlin: Female Search this; Linda Nochlin: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Feminist Search this; Linda Nochlin: Visual Arts\Art Historian Search this; Portrait Search this

Credit Line:: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:: NPG.2019.112

Restrictions & Rights:: Usage conditions apply

Copyright:: © 1997 Deborah Kass

See more items in:: National Portrait Gallery Collection

Exhibition:: Women in the Arts

On View:: NPG, North Gallery 140

Data Source:: National Portrait Gallery

GUID:: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4b1d835f0-cc6b-48a9-ac17-06fdce683272

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:npg_NPG.2019.112

Clint Eastwood

Artist:: Philippe Halsman, 02 May 1906 - 25 Jun 1979 Search this

Sitter:: Clint Eastwood, born 31 May 1930 Search this

Medium:: Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:: Image: 34.3 × 27.3 cm (13 1/2 × 10 3/4"); Sheet: 35.5 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11"); Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16")

Type:: Photograph

Date:: 1971

Topic:: Weapon\Gun Search this; Indeterminable Search this; Costume\Dress Accessory\Tie\Necktie Search this; Clint Eastwood: Male Search this; Clint Eastwood: Performing Arts\Director\Motion Pictures Search this; Clint Eastwood: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie Search this; Clint Eastwood: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Hotelier Search this; Clint Eastwood: Oscar Search this; Clint Eastwood: Politics and Government\Public Official\Mayor\Carmel, CA Search this; Portrait Search this

Credit Line:: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of George R. Rinhart

Object number:: S/NPG.77.200

Restrictions & Rights:: Usage conditions apply

Copyright:: © Philippe Halsman Archive

See more items in:: National Portrait Gallery Collection

Data Source:: National Portrait Gallery

GUID:: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm459b6d02e-3d72-46e0-9c9c-cabd14e487c2

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:npg_S_NPG.77.200

E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers

Creator:: Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985 Search this; Richardson, Constance, 1905- Search this

Names:: Archives of American Art Search this; Castano Galleries (Boston, Mass.) Search this; Detroit Institute of Arts Search this; Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Search this; Historical Society of Pennsylvania Search this; Macbeth Gallery Search this; National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.) Search this; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) Search this; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Search this; Philadelphia Museum of Art Search this; White House (Washington, D.C.) Search this; Peale family Search this; Allen, Joseph Search this; Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 Search this; Andrews, Wayne Search this; Aram, Siegfried F. Search this; Bishop, Isabel, 1902-1988 Search this; Bostick, William A. Search this; Bouché, Louis, 1896-1969 Search this; Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks), 1903- Search this; Castano, Giovanni, 1896-1978 Search this; Cohn, Harold Search this; Copeland, Lammot du Pont Search this; Culver, Charles B. (Charles Beach), 1908-1967 Search this; Fleischman, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur), 1925-1997 Search this; Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-2003 Search this; Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981 Search this; Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 Search this; Freeman, Michael W. Search this; Garrison, Eve Josephson, 1903-2003 Search this; Groce, George C., 1899- Search this; Hardy, Jeremiah Pearson, 1800-1889 Search this; Heil, Walter, 1890-1973 Search this; Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967 Search this; Jungwirth, Irene G. (Irene Gayas), 1913- Search this; Krentzin, Earl, 1929- Search this; Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953 Search this; Lee-Smith, Hughie Search this; Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979 Search this; Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991 Search this; Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954 Search this; Mast, Gerald, 1908-1971 Search this; McDermott, John Francis, 1902- Search this; Middeldorf, Ulrich Alexander, 1901- Search this; Morse, John D., 1906- Search this; Moser, Liselotte, 1906-1983 Search this; O'Keeffe, Georgia , 1887-1986 Search this; Oliver, Andrew, 1906- Search this; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 Search this; Pleasants, J. Hall (Jacob Hall), 1873-1957 Search this; Ripley, Sidney Dillon, 1913-2001 Search this; Rockefeller, John D., 1906- Search this; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 Search this; Rutledge, Anna Wells Search this; Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903- Search this; Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965 Search this; Simper, Fred, 1914- Search this; Simpson, Corelli C. W. Search this; Soria, Regina, 1911- Search this; Spark, Victor D. (Victor David), 1898-1991 Search this; Speck, Walter, 1895- Search this; Stevens, William B. Search this; Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958 Search this; Vose, Robert C. (Robert Churchill), 1911-1998 Search this; Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972 Search this; Wedda, John Search this; Woolfenden, William E. (William Edward), 1918-1995 Search this; Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 Search this

Extent:: 28.7 Linear feet

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Photographs; Manuscripts; Interviews; Diaries; Transcripts; Sketches; Lectures

Place:: Detroit (Mich.)

Date:: 1814-1996; bulk 1921-1996

Summary:: The papers of art historian E. P. Richardson measure 28.7 linear feet and date from 1814-1996, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1921-1996. Within the papers are scattered biographical materials; acquisition files for Richardson's personal art collection; professional and personal correspondence with colleagues, art historians and critics, artists, museums, galleries, and dealers; numerous writings, including manuscripts and research files for his published books, articles, and lectures; general research notebooks and files compiled by Richardson on a wide variety of art-related topics and artists; professional and committee files; as well as a smaller amount of Constance C. Richardson's papers.

Scope and Contents:: The papers of art historian E. P. Richardson measure 28.7 linear feet and date from 1814-1996, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1921-1996. Within the papers are scattered biographical materials; acquisition files for Richardson's personal art collection; professional and personal correspondence with colleagues, art historians and critics, artists, museums, galleries, and dealers; numerous writings, including manuscripts and research files for his published books, articles, and lectures; general research notebooks and files compiled by Richardson on a wide variety of art-related topics and artists; professional and committee files; as well as a smaller amount of Constance C. Richardson's papers.

Biographical materials include certificates, awards, and honorary degrees, membership information, personal and family photographs, a few sketches, and a transcript of an oral history Interview with E.P. Richardson conducted by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1982.

There are acquisitions files for the Richardsons' personal art collection that invoices, photographs, correspondence with galleries and collectors, appraisals, price lists, and artwork examination forms.

Correspondence is with colleagues, art dealers, collectors, museums and museum curators, foreign scholars, organizations, galleries, artists, art historians and critics, publishers, editors, librarians, friends, and family. Topics regard purchasing art for various collections, consultations about art and collecting including authentications and attributions, publishing, general art history, lectures, and personal matters, among other topics. There is correspondence with the Archives of American Art, Castano Galleries, Lawrence Fleischman, James Thomas Flexner, Alfred V. Frankenstein, George Croce, Walter Heil, Earl Krentzin, Wilmarth Lewis, Russel Lynes, John Francis McDermott, Philadelphia Museum of Art, J. Hall Pleasants, Anna Rutledge, Charles Sellers, Smithsonian Institution, Regina Soria, Victor Spark, William Stevens, Robert Vose, William Woolfenden, and many others. Scattered correspondence with artists is with Isabel Bishop, Louis Bouche, William Bostick, Eve Garrison, Edward Hopper, Irene Jungwirth, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Hughie Lee-Smith, Reginald Marsh, Gerald Mast, Georgia O'Keefe, Charles Sheeler, Walt Speck, and John Wedda, among many others. The greatest extent of correspondence is with Andrew Wyeth, Harold Cohn, and Frederick Simper. There is also personal correspondence with family and friends, and between E.P. and Constance Richardson.

E.P. Richardson's prominence as an art historian, writer, and expert on collecting is well documented through his prolific writings. Materials include drafts, notes, typescripts, and outlines for articles, exhibition catalog essays, and lectures. Also found are research files and publishing documentation for Richardson's books, including Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America (1948), Painting in America (1956), Charles Willson Peale and his World (1983), and American Romantic Painting (1944). There are also miscellaneous notes and four diaries. Two of the diaries comment on the social and cultural life of Detroit; the authenticity of paintings; Richardson's reflections on contemporary American painting, thoughts about museums, dealers, artists, and art historians (especially Wilhelm R. Valentiner); and travel.

Notebooks compiled by Richardson on a wide variety art-related topics cover nearly six decades. There are also numerous research files organized Richardson about individual artists and art history. And, the art collector files contain reference materials about art collectors and their collections including Lamont du Pont Copeland, Michael W. Freeman, Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Allen, and the Marquis de Somerlous. There are three index card file boxes containing bibliographic data on published books and articles.

Professional and committee files document Richardson's professional and consulting work for the Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts, National Collection of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the John D. Rockefeller III collection, Winterthur Museum, the White House, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Constance C. Richardson's papers include business and professional correspondence with various institutions, most extensively with the Macbeth Gallery. In addition, there is a smaller amount of personal correspondence, photographs and slides of her artworks, printed materials, two illustrated notebooks on her work, and miscellaneous notes. Also included is Constance's artist palette.

Biographical / Historical:: Art historian, museum director, and writer E. P. (Edgar Preston) Richardson (1902-1985) served as director of the Detroit Institute of Arts (1945-1962) and Winterthur Museum (1963-1966). He was also a board member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1966-1977 and, in 1954, co-founded the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

E. P. Richardson was born in 1902 in Glens Falls, New York and died in Philadelphia in 1985. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1925 and studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for the three years following graduation. In 1930 he became educational secretary at the Detroit Institute of Arts, was quickly named assistant director in 1933, and served as director from 1945 to 1962. He left Detroit to take the position of director of the Winterthur Museum, where he remained until 1966. Richardson married Constance Coleman in 1931. Born in Berlin, Germany in 1905, Constance Coleman Richardson was an award-winning and widely exhibited realist style painter of American landscapes. She gave up painting in the 1960s and died in 2002.

While at the Detroit Institute of Arts, E. P. Richardson co-founded the Archives of American Art with Lawrence Fleischman, and served as the Archives' first director. Richardson was also art advisor to John D. Rockefeller III for over ten years, editor of Art Quarterly from 1938 to 1967, and a member of various boards, including the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Smithsonian Arts Commission, and the National Portrait Gallery. He authored numerous books including ones on artists Washington Allston and Charles Willson Peale, and The Way of Western Art: American Romantic Painting (1939), Painting in America: The Story of Four Hundred and Fifty Years (1956), A Short History of Painting in America (1963), and American Art, an Exhibition of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3d (1976).

Related Materials:: Related collections among the holdings of the Archives of American Art include an interview with E.P. Richardson dated February 6, 1978 conducted by Linda Downs; and several miscellaneous manuscripts that include an E.P. Richardson Letter to Rockwell Kent, June 15 1959; E.P. Richardson letters to Lawrence Arthur Fleischman, May 13, 1962 and August 22 1954; and a Yasuo Kunioshi letter to E.P. Richardson, July 25 1948.

Additional E.P. Richardson papers are found at the Detroit Institute of Arts and in the archives of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

Separated Materials:: The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (reel D46) including E.P. Richardson's research material on Jeremiah P. Hardy. These materials are housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Library and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:: Edith Wilkinson first donated a letter to E. P. Richardson from herself in 1957. E.P. Richardson donated papers to the Archives of American Art in 1958 and 1960 and lent materials for microfilming in 1961. Addition material was donated by Constance Richardson in 1985, and by Martha Fleischman in 2003.

Restrictions:: Use of original material requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact References Services for more information.

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.

Occupation:: Authors -- Michigan -- Detroit Search this; Art historians -- United States Search this

Topic:: Art -- Collectors and collecting Search this; Painting, American Search this; Art, American Search this; Romanticism in art Search this; Art -- History -- Study and teaching Search this

Genre/Form:: Photographs; Manuscripts; Interviews; Diaries; Transcripts; Sketches; Lectures

Citation:: Edgar P. Richardson papers, 1814-1996, bulk 1921-1996. 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.

Identifier:: AAA.richedga

See more items in:: E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-aaa-richedga

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The gallery of illustrious Americans: containing the portraits and biographical sketches of twenty-four of the most eminent citizens of the American republic, since the death of Washington / From daguerrotypes by Brady - engraved by D'Avignon. C. Edwar...

Creator:: Lester, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards), 1815-1890 Search this

Names:: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896 Search this; D'Avignon, Francis, b. 1813 Search this

Extent:: 1 Item ((on 1 microfilm reel))

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials

Date:: 1850

Scope and Contents:: This edition contains only numbers 1-12, biographies of John James Audubon, John Caldwell Calhoun, Lewis Cass, William Ellery Channing, Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, John Charles Fremont, William Hickling Prescott, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, and Silas Warner. Also included with each biography is the semi-monthly journal, FLY LEAF OF ART AND CRITICISM.

Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):: New York: M. B. Brady, F. D'Avignon, C. E. Lester, 1850.

Other Title:: Illustrious Americans (cover title)

Provenance:: The edition which the Archives microfilmed from the National Portrait Gallery did not contain the D'Avignon engravings after the Brady daguerrotypes.