0.4 Linear feet ((175 items partially microfilmed on 2 reels))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Description and Travel
Date:
1840-1977
Scope and Contents:
Correspondence, sketches, a journal, biographical information, printed materials, and photographs of George Parton, and his artist sons Arthur, Ernest, and Henry.
REEL 723: Biographical material, correspondence, and sketches.
REEL 3894: Henry Woodbridge Parton's journal of a sketching trip to the White Mountains, N.H. with Arthur and Ernest Parton, 1871; correspondence; 22 sketches, undated and 1866-1877, 5 signed by Ernest Parton; biographical material; clippings and magazine articles; and two photographs.
UNMICROFILMED: Photocopy of the section of the Parton family biography written by Charles Parton; and award certificates from the Universal Exposition, Paris, to Arthur Parton, 1895, Ernest Parton, 1895 and 1900, and from the World's Columbian Exposition to Ernest, 1893.
Biographical / Historical:
George and Elizabeth Parton, Hudson, N.Y., parents of artists Arthur, Ernest, and Henry; associated with the Hudson River School of painting.
Provenance:
Material on reel 723 lent for microfilming by Sonia Parton Whelan, 1974. Material on reel 3894 and unmicrofilmed Parton family biography were donated 1981 and 1988 by Charles Parton. The award certificates were donated 1992 by Anna W. Saxton. Whelan, Parton and Saxton are the grandchildren of Arthur Parton.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
10 Items (photographic prints, b&w, 19 x 24 cm. and smaller.)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1880-1900
Scope and Contents:
Included are photographs of: J.G. Brown, Carle J. Blenner, Bruce Crane, J.H. Dolph, Gilbert Gaul, James McDougal Hart, Francis Coates Jones, Arthur Parton, Henry P. Smith, and Carleton Wiggins.
Biographical / Historical:
Art museum (1880-1905) in Worcester, Mass.
Provenance:
Donated by the Worcester Art Museum in 1963. The photographs were initially placed in AAA's Photographs of Artists Collection I and II, separated by artist depicted, and microfilmed on reels 439-441 and 1817-1818. They have been subsequently scanned and compiled together under Worcester Art Museum.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Transcripts and handwritten drafts of interviews of 86 artists and architects associated with the National Academy of Design, conducted by Lockman. Also included are a few biographical sketches.
Interviewees include: Mrs. Edwin Austin Abbey, Wayman Adams, Robert I. Aiken, Ernest Albert, Alonzo R. Beal, Edward A. Bell, Edwin H. Blashfield, Roy H. Brown, George E. Browne, Arnold Brunner, Alexander S. Calder, Carleton T. Chapman, Benjamin West Clinedinst, Alphaeus Cole, Timothy Cole, Irving E. Couse, Robert B. Crane, Charles C. Curran, B. Franklin De Haven, William R. Derrick, Louis P. Dessar, Thomas W. Dewing, Frederick I. Dielman, Edward Dufner, John W. Dunsmore, Jared B. Flagg, John G. Flanagan, August R. Franzen, Daniel C. French, Sherry E. Fry, Edward Gay, Cass Gilbert, Walter Granville-Smith, Chester Harding, Childe Hassam, Charles W. Hawthorne, William H. Howe, Henry S. Hubbell, William H. Hyde, William S. Jewett, Francis C. Jones, Dora Wheeler Kieth, William Fair Kline, Jonas Lie, Louis Loeb, Will H. Low, Edward McCartan, Frederick MacMonnies, Herman A. MacNeil, Gari Melchers, Francis Luis Mora, H. Siddons Mowbray, Raymond P. R. Neilson, George G. Newell,Robert H. Nisbet,
Ivan G. Olinsky, Willard Dryden Paddock, Walter L. Palmer, Arthur Parton, William McGregor Paxton, Ernest C. Peixotto, Joseph Pennell, Edward H. Potthast, Henry Prellwitz, Wilhelm F. Ritschel, Henry Rittenberg, Frederick Roth, Carl Rungius, Emily Sartain, John Sartain, William Sartain, Henry B. Snell, Robert Spencer, Egerton Swartwout, Douglas Volk, Bessie & Robert Vonnoh, Horatio Walker, Harry Watrous, Adolph Weinman, Charles D. Weldon, William Whittemore, Irving Wiles, Frederick B. Williams, and Cullen Yates.
Biographical / Historical:
DeWitt Lockman was a portrait painter, New York, N.Y. He studied in Europe, 1891-1892 and 1901-1902; a pupil of James H. Beard, Nelson N. Bickford and William Sartain; and was president of the National Academy of Design and records secretary of the New York Historical Society.
Provenance:
Lent 1973 by the New York Historical Society.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Topic:
Artists -- United States -- Interviews Search this
Architects -- United States -- Interviews Search this
