0.02 Linear feet (ca.11,000 items (on 13 microfilm reels))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1875-1955
Scope and Contents:
REELS NY59/20-NY59/29: Student registers, 1877-1905; ledgers, 1878-1889, attendance records, 1879-1903; model engagement books, 1878-1882; membership lists and members' meeting records, 1875-1900; press clippings, 1889-1892; constitution and by-laws, minutes, 1875-1897, and correspondence,1895-1900, of the Board of Control; instructors' expense accounts, 1904-1911; Paris prize documents, 1891-1897; supplies ordered,1897-1901; monitors record, 1897-1906; instructors expenses, 1904-1911, and printed materials, 1906-1910.
REEL 2786: A catalog of art classes for the 1886-1887 season and two programs for "The Dream Ball," 1951 and 1955.
REEL 4909: Catalog of classes for the 1885-1886 season.
REEL 1818: Copyprints of art classes at the Art Students League, ca. 1900-1940. Teachers pictured include J. Carroll Beckwith, William M. Chase, Kenyon Cox, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Sloan, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Included is a print of a women's life class at the League, ca. 1905.
Biographical / Historical:
Art school. Organized in 1875 by students as a revolt against the National Academy of Design school.
Provenance:
Material on reels NY59-20-29 lent for microfilming by the Art Students League, 1959. Items on reels 2786 and 4909 were donated, 1960. Copyprints on reel 1818 were copied from the originals lent by the Art Students League, 1972.
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.
Occupation:
Art students -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Topic:
Art -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Ernest Knee and Len Bouché. Dolly and John Sloan and friends sitting on a wall at the Sloan's Santa Fe Ranch, 1939. Ernest Knee photographs of John and Dolly Sloan, 1939. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Ernest Knee and Len Bouché. Dolly and John Sloan seated at the table in their Santa Fe home, 1939. Ernest Knee photographs of John and Dolly Sloan, 1939. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
15 Items (photographic prints, b&w, 21 x 26 cm. or smaller)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1939
Scope and Contents:
Photographs of the Sloans in and about their ranch in Santa Fe. Two photographs show Sloan painting in his studio, and two show him making a bookshelf. Other people pictured include: Jozef Bakos, Teresa Bakos, and Will Shuster. Copyprints of original negatives made by Len Bouche.
Biographical / Historical:
John Sloan (1871-1951) was a painter, printmaker, illustrator, and teacher from New York, N.Y. and Santa Fe, N.M. He was a member of the artists' group known as "the eight."
Ernest Knee (1907-1982) was a Canadian photographer who worked primarily in New Mexico.
Provenance:
Donated 1972 by Sylvia Loomis. Microfilmed 1973 with Photographs of Artists Collection I and scanned in 2003.
0.4 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1916-1964
Scope and Contents:
Correspondence, photographs, business records, exhibition catalogs, writings and notes.
Reel 3646: Correspondence, undated and 1938-1939, regarding Lawson, from Edith Glackens, Dolly Sloan, Max Kuehne, and Samuel Shaw; 3 photographs of Lawson and ca. 60 photographs of his art work; and writings and notes, including a poem about Lawson by Harriet Gray Blackwell and Hill's biographical notes on Lawson.
Also miscellaneous financial and business records, 1938-1940 and undated, including shipping forms, price lists for works of art, vouchers, bills of lading, and letters concerning Lawson's mural for the Short Hills, New Jersey Post Office; and exhibition catalogs and checklists, 1919-1962.
Unmicrofilmed: membership card for Ernest Lawson in the Civic Music Association of Miami, 1938-1939; a photocopy of a letter regarding F. C. Frieseke's award for the painting "Summer" at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition; 3 letters to Sidney Hill from Lawson's friend, Katherine Powell regarding Lawson, 1961-1962; 2 clippings, undated and 1964; 2 exhibition catalogs for Lawson's work at the Babcock Gallery, 1943, and at the Milch Gallery, 1950; a photograph of Margaret Lawson, ca. 1926; 23 photographs of Lawson's paintings; a color transparency and 6 negatives of works of art.
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian; owner of Berry-Hill Galleries, New York City. Wrote ERNEST LAWSON, AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST 1873-1939 (1968) with Sidney Hill.
Provenance:
Material on reel 3646 donated 1982 and unmicrofilmed material donated 1985 by Henry D. Hill.
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.
Ernest Knee and Len Bouché. John Sloan and friends under a trellis at Sloan's Santa Fe Ranch, 1939. Ernest Knee photographs of John and Dolly Sloan, 1939. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
