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Creator:

Macbeth Gallery  Search this

Names:

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943  Search this

Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910  Search this

Macbeth, Robert W. (Robert Walker), 1884-1940  Search this

Macbeth, William, 1851-1917  Search this

McIntyre, Robert G. (Robert George), b. 1885  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889  Search this

Extent:

131.6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Daguerreotypes

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Date:

1947-1948

1838-1968

bulk 1892-1953

Summary:

The Macbeth Gallery records provide almost complete coverage of the gallery's operations from its inception in 1892 to its closing in 1953. Through extensive correspondence files, financial and inventory records, printed material, scrapbooks, reference and research material, and photographs of artists and works of art, the records document all aspects of the gallery's activities, charting William Macbeth's initial intention to lease his store "for the permanent exhibition and sale of American pictures" through over sixty years of success as a major New York firm devoted to American art. The collection measures 131.6 linear feet and dates from 1838 to 1968 with the bulk of the material dating from 1892 to 1953.

Scope and Content Note:

The Macbeth Gallery records provide almost complete coverage of the gallery's operations from its inception in 1892 to its closing in 1953. The records document all aspects of the gallery's activities, charting William Macbeth's initial intention to lease his store "for the permanent exhibition and sale of American pictures" through over sixty years of success as a major New York firm devoted to American art. The collection measures 131.6 linear feet and dates from 1838 to 1968 with the bulk of the material dating from 1892 to 1953.

The gallery's correspondence files form the core of the collection and illuminate most aspects of American art history: the creation and sale of works of art, the development of reputations, the rise of museums and art societies, change and resistance to change in the art market, and the evolution of taste. Ninety-five feet of correspondence house substantial and informative letters from dozens of important American painters and sculptors, including older artists and younger contemporaries of the gallery in its later years. There are also letters from collectors, curators, other galleries, and critics.

The financial files found in the collection offer insight into the changing economic climate in which the gallery operated. They include information ranging from the details of individual sales and the market for individual artists, to consignment activities and artist commissions, to overviews of annual sales. This information is augmented by the firm's inventory records and the photographs of artwork with their accompanying records of paintings sold. The inventory records provide details of all works of art handled by the gallery, both sold and unsold, and the buyers who purchased them; the photographs of artwork include images of artwork sold with accompanying sales information.

The highlight of the gallery's printed material is the publication Art Notes. Although published only until 1930, Art Notes provides an excellent and detailed view of the gallery's exhibition schedule and the relationship of the gallery owners with many of the artists whose work they handled. It was a house organ that also provided a running commentary on events in the art world. The gallery's 19 fragile scrapbooks, maintained throughout the firm's history, provide further coverage of activities through exhibition catalogs and related news clippings. Printed material from other sources provides a frame of reference for activities in the art world from the mid-19th to the mid-20th-centuries and includes an almost complete run of the rare and important pre-Civil War art publication The Crayon.

Reference files record the interest which the gallery owners took in the work of early portrait painters and in later artists such as George Inness and Winslow Homer. Together with the immense volume of correspondence with buyers and sellers of paintings by the great portraitists and the Hudson River School found in the gallery's correspondence files, these records are still useful sources of information today and underscore the deep interest that the Macbeths and Robert McIntyre took in 18th and 19th-century American art.

The photographs of artists found here are a treasure trove of images of some of the major figures of the 19th and 20th-centuries. There are photographs of artists such as Chester Beach, Emil Carlsen, Charles Melville Dewey, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, George Inness, Maurice Prendergast, and Julian Alden Weir, many of them original prints and the majority of them autographed.

With the exception of the "The Eight" and a few of their contemporaries, an important aspect of art history, the modernist movement, is generally represented in the Macbeth Gallery records only in a negative form as the three successive proprietors of the gallery showed very little interest in this area. Nevertheless, the collection is a highly significant source of information on many of the major and minor figures in American art in the period after 1890.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into eight series:

Series 1: Correspondence, 1838-1968 (Box 1-95, 163-164, OV 165; 96.2 linear feet)

Series 2: Financial and Shipping Records, 1892-1956 (Box 96-110; 11.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Inventory Records, 1892-circa 1957 (Box 111-113; 3.0 linear feet)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1838-1963 (Box 114-119, 162; 5.0 linear feet)

Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1892-1952 (Box 120-130; 3.3 linear feet)

Series 6: Reference Files, 1839-1959 (Box 131-132; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 7: Miscellaneous Files, 1912-1956 (Box 133-134; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 8: Photographs, circa 1880-circa 1968 (Box 135-161; 12.1 linear feet)

Historical Note:

The Macbeth Gallery was established in 1892 by William Macbeth, a Scotch-Irish immigrant who had spent ten years with the print dealer Frederick Keppel before he opened his doors to the art-buying public at 237 Fifth Avenue in New York. Despite the prevailing interest in foreign art at that time, particularly in that of the Barbizon and Dutch schools, Macbeth was determined to dedicate his gallery to "the permanent exhibition and sale of American pictures, both in oil and water colors."

Although some of the gallery's earliest exhibitions were of work by European artists, the business soon became the only gallery in continuous operation that kept American art permanently on display. In the January 1917 issue of Art Notes, Macbeth recounts those early days remembering that "The opening of my gallery......was a rash venture under the existing conditions, and disaster was freely predicted." Nevertheless, he struggled through the financial crisis of 1893 and persisted with his devotion to American art; slowly the market for his pictures grew more amenable.

Macbeth moved to more spacious quarters at 450 Fifth Avenue in 1906 and two years later undertook what was to become the major event in the gallery's early history: the 1908 exhibition of "The Eight," featuring work by Arthur B. Davies, Willam J. Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan. "The Eight" were an unlikely combination of social realists, visionaries and impressionists eager to challenge the dominating influence of the National Academy. The exhibition received an immense amount of publicity and instantly entered into art history as a successful assault on tradition.

Despite the splash that the exhibition made and its implications for the future of American art, nothing that the gallery did subsequently indicated that Macbeth intended to capitalize on its significance. It is true that Macbeth supported many artists later considered leaders in American art when the public would pay no attention to them because of their modernist tendencies; Arthur B. Davies, Paul Dougherty, Maurice Prendergast, Theodore Robinson, and F. Ballard Williams all held their first exhibitions at his gallery. Nevertheless, neither Macbeth nor the gallery's two successive proprietors, Robert G. McIntyre (William's nephew) and Robert Macbeth (William's son), who joined the gallery in 1903 and 1906 respectively, ever developed a true interest in modern art. The November 1930 issue of Art Notes summarizes their collective disdain for modernism, stating: "We believe that, by and large, modern art is amusing. We are heretical enough to believe that much of it was started for the amusement of its creators and that no one was more surprised than they when it was taken seriously by a certain audience to whom the bizarre and the unintelligible always makes an appeal." So while the Macbeths and McIntyre cetainly championed American artists and insisted they deserved as much recognition as the Europeans, their deepest and most abiding interest was undoubtedly the established artists of the 18th and 19th-centuries and those of the early 20th-century who continued in a more conservative style. Artists such as Emil Carlsen, Charles Harold Davis, Frederick C. Frieseke, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Chauncey F. Ryder, Abbot Handerson Thayer, J. Francis Murphy, A. H. Wyant were the gallery's bread and butter.

When William Macbeth died in 1917 Robert Macbeth took up the reins with the assistance of Robert G. McIntyre . Although they incorporated the business as William Macbeth, Inc., in 1918 the gallery continued to be known, as it always would be, simply as Macbeth Gallery. Macbeth and McIntyre continued to show work in the same vein as the elder Macbeth. They concentrated primarily on oil paintings at this time, having found by the 1920s that "oils are all that our gallery owners will buy," though they also exhibited an occasional group of watercolors and pastels in addition to bronzes and other sculpture by contemporary American artists such as Chester Beach and Janet Scudder.

Of the early American painters the Macbeths and McIntyre were particularly interested in colonial portraits and miniatures, especially those painted by prominent artists in the latter part of the eighteenth century such as John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully and John Trumbull. In its early years the gallery also handled the work of a few prominent American etchers including Frank W. Benson, Emil Fuchs, Daniel Garber, Childe Hassam and Chauncey F. Ryder. The print department was generally discontinued, however, in the late 1930s although the gallery continued to show prints by contemporaries such as Stow Wengenroth.

In 1924 relative prosperity allowed the gallery to move uptown to 15 East Fifty-seventh Street. When the 1930s brought new financial hardship for the gallery Macbeth and McIntyre took a variety of approaches to boosting sales. In 1930 they decided to hold only group exhibitions throughout the season to the exclusion of one-man shows, and also held some special exhibitions of paintings priced at a hundred dollars each in the hope that they could tempt those "willing to take advantage of a rare chance to secure representative examples of good art at a most attractive price." A move to smaller quarters at 15 East Fifty-seventh Street in 1935 was made with the intention of concentrating their efforts on the work of fewer contemporary artists, while continuing to handle the work of the older Americans they had long supported.

When Macbeth died suddenly and unexpectedly in August 1940 following an operation for appendicitis, McIntyre continued to run the gallery with the assistance of Hazel Lewis. During the 1940s McIntyre and Lewis showed primarily contemporary art in a wide range of media including oil, watercolor, pastel, drawing and sculpture, while continuing, as always, to show the occasional group of 19th-century Americans. The great success of the gallery's later years was undeniably Andrew Wyeth whose first exhibition, held at Macbeth Gallery in 1937, resulted in the sale of all twenty-two paintings cataloged.

Although subsequent Wyeth exhibitions were also successful, McIntyre struggled financially throughout the 1940s and periodically considered liquidating the company. Although "vitally interested" in contemporary art by people such as Robert Brackman, Jay Connaway, Carl Gaertner, James Lechay, Herbert Meyer and Ogden M. Pleissner he found that, for the most part, it did not pay. McIntyre continued operations until 1953 when he decided that doing so for profit was not only a financial burden but also ran contrary to his desire to spend more time devoted to his first love, early American art. When the lease expired on 11 East Fifty-seventh Street in April 1953 McIntyre did not renew it. After closing the gallery's doors he sold art from his New York apartment and from his home in Dorset, Vermont. He officially dissolved William Macbeth, Inc., in 1957.

The history of the Macbeth Gallery is a long and distinguished one with each successive proprietor making a significant contribution to art in America. William Macbeth helped establish an audience and a market for American art when few were willing to give it serious consideration. Robert Macbeth continued to cement the gallery's reputation as one of the leading firms in New York and was instrumental in organizing the American Art Dealers Association. Robert G. McIntyre claimed in a letter to Lloyd Goodrich, dated 22 June 1945, that the thing of which he was most proud was "the share I have had in the formation of the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art, at Andover, Massacusetts." McIntyre was widely respected in the art community as a dealer, as an adviser to curators, and as a scholar whose research and book on Martin Johnson Heade helped "rediscover" an important American artist. One of his most significant and lasting contributions to the history of art in America, however, was undoubtedly his gift of the gallery's historical records to the Archives of American Art.

Related Material:

Among the holdings of the Archives of American are a small collection of scattered Robert McIntyre's papers and 9 items of William Macbeth's papers. Macbeth Gallery exhibition catalogs are also available in the American Art Exhibition Catalog collection and the Brooklyn Museum Records, both loaned and microfilmed collections.

An extensive collection of Macbeth Gallery exhibition catalogs are also held by the Frick Art Reference Library and the Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Provenance:

The bulk of the Macbeth Gallery records were donated and microfilmed in several installments between 1955 and 1966 by Robert G. McIntyre and Estate. Additional Macbeth Gallery printed material was donated by Phoebe C. and William Macbeth II, grandchildren of William Macbeth, in 1974.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Fragile original scrapbooks are closed to researchers.

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.

Topic:

Curators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Eight (Group of American artists)  Search this

Art directors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Artists -- United States  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Daguerreotypes

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk 1892 to 1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Grant Program. Digitization of the scrapbooks was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. Correspondence, financial and shipping records, inventory records, and printed material were digitized with funding provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Walton Family Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.macbgall

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Macbeth Gallery records

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-macbgall

Creator:

Newnam, Edward A.  Search this

Names:

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851  Search this

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916  Search this

Hewitt, W. K. (William Keesey), 1817-1893  Search this

Inman, Henry, 1801-1846  Search this

Linton, Frank Benton Ashley, 1871-1943  Search this

Meyers, Samuel  Search this

Penington, Edward, 1766-1834  Search this

Rourke, Constance, 1885-1941  Search this

Rubicam, Jonathan  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

19 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1935-1978

Scope and Contents:

Letters to Newnam written in response to queries regarding portraits Newnam is painting or selling. Included are letters, 1937, from Victor Morris Tyler, Morris Tyler, and Constance Rourke regarding a Henry Inman portrait of John J. Audubon which Newnam wishes to copy; from Mildred Steinbach,1952, Asst. Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library regarding portraits by Thomas Eakins of Frank Linton and Samuel Meyers; from Hannah J. Howell, 1952-3, Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library regarding photographs of Gilbert Stuart's portraits of Edward Penington and Mrs. Penington; from Raymond Rubicam, 1955, regarding his purchase of a portrait by William K. Hewitt of his great uncle Jonathan Rubicam; also included is a photograph of the portrait; from Howell, 1957, thanking Newnam for a photo of a painting by Gustavus Hesselius; letters and a photograph regarding a portrait of Baroness Brudenell, 1966 and 1970; and a letter from Marguerite Coolbaugh, 1978, regarding a photograph of Abraham Lincoln.

Biographical / Historical:

Art dealer and portrait painter; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Provenance:

Donated 1994 by Edward A. Newnam.

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.

Occupation:

Portrait painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Art dealers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Topic:

Portrait painting -- United States  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.newnedwa

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-newnedwa

Creator:

Tolman, Ruel P. (Ruel Pardee), 1878-1954  Search this

Names:

National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)  Search this

Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930  Search this

Ferris, Stephen James, 1835-1915  Search this

Fielding, Mantle, 1865-1941  Search this

Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904  Search this

Harlan, Roma C., 1912-  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Washington D.C. -- Photographs

Date:

1887-1958

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence; photographs; index card files; books; pages from a notebook; artwork; notes and diagrams; and printed material.

Correspondence with Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1927-1928, Ferris's widow, 1930-1941, and others, 1926-1945, regarding Ferris's gift to the Smithsonian Institution of his prints, paintings, miscellaneous items, and works of art by his father Stephen James Ferris. Included are photos of Mrs. Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's studio, 1939, and his brass vessel collection; 21 letters from artist Jean Leon Gerome to Stephen James Ferris (in French, 9 with translations), 1887-1903; a letter and a postcard from Gerome to J. L. G. Ferris, 1903; notes to the Ferrises from Gerome's widow, 1904; and an invitation to Gerome's memorial service, 1904.

Pages from a notebook, circa 1940, and a sketch by Tolman; a 1929 letter from Mantle Fielding, regarding miniatures by Gilbert Stuart; and correspondence between Roma Harlan and Tolman, while Tolman was Director of the National Collection of Fine Arts.

Card files on art collections, artists, dealers, collectors, sales transactions and lost paintings; photographs, mostly 1930s, of Tolman's family, dealers, collectors, galleries, places visited, Smithsonian buildings, scenes of Washington, D.C., works of art and miscellaneous subjects; the book " The Life and Works of Edward Greene Malbone, 1777-1807" by Tolman, 1958; letters, 1910-1948 and undated; notes and diagrams about color and painting; artwork, undated and 1921-1951, including etchings, prints, watercolor sketches, many produced as Christmas cards; printed material including newspaper clippings, 1910-1952 and two exhibition catalogs, 1920 and 1924. Also included are a catalog of works, undated, by Charles Gruppe, signed by Gruppe, and the book "Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature" by Theodore Bolton, 1921, signed by Tolman. A photograph of Tolman and Bolton seated, 1950, is attached to the cover page of the book.

Biographical / Historical:

Ruel P. Tolman (1878-1954) was a museum director and printmaker in Washington, D.C. Tolman was the Director of National Collection of Fine Arts, 1946-1948.

Provenance:

Card files and some photographs donated 1979 by Thomas M. Beggs, Tolman's successor as director of NCFA. Material on reels 2677 and 3480 transferred 1981 and 1986 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Additional unmicrofilmed material transferred 2006 and 2015 from SAAM/NPG library.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Art museum directors -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.tolmruel

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-tolmruel

Creator:

Mount, Charles Merrill  Search this

Names:

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

0.4 Linear feet ((on 2 microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

[ca. 1950-1960]

Scope and Contents:

54 photographs of 32 Gilbert Stuart portraits in private and public collections in Ireland accompanied by Mount's description of each portrait, including sitter, the size, the date if known, the collection in which it was found, and a critique of the work.

Biographical / Historical:

Art historian.

Provenance:

Donated 1962 by Charles Mount.

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.

Occupation:

Portrait painters  Search this

Art historians  Search this

Topic:

Portraits -- Ireland -- Expertising  Search this

Portrait painting -- 18th century -- Expertising  Search this

Portrait painting -- 19th century -- Expertising  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.mounchar

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mounchar

Creator:

Historical Society of Pennsylvania  Search this

Names:

Carey & Hart  Search this

Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this

Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911  Search this

Abbey, Mary Gertrude, d. 1931  Search this

Alexander, Archibald, 1772-1851  Search this

Allston, Washington, 1779-1843  Search this

Bayley, Frank W.  Search this

Beale, Pennel  Search this

Belcher, Wm. (William)  Search this

Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902  Search this

Brodhead, Col  Search this

Burrell, B.  Search this

Carey, Edward L., 1806-1845  Search this

Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879  Search this

Catlin, George, 1796-1872  Search this

Ceracchi, Giuseppe, 1751-1801  Search this

Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889  Search this

Cheney, John, 1801-1885  Search this

Clarke, Miss  Search this

Claypoole, James, Sr., 1720-1796  Search this

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834  Search this

Cox, James, 1751-1834  Search this

Curren, Mr  Search this

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888  Search this

Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824  Search this

Dickinson, John, 1732-1808  Search this

Dillwyn, William, 1743-1824  Search this

Donnehue, Humphrey  Search this

Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, ca. 1736-1784  Search this

Duane, William J. (William John), 1780-1865  Search this

Dunlap, William, 1766-1839  Search this

Eliot, S.  Search this

Elliott, James B.  Search this

Elwyn, Langdon, Mrs  Search this

Fielding, Mantle, 1865-1941  Search this

Francis, John W. (John Wakefield), 1789-1861  Search this

Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944  Search this

Gillingham, Harrold E. (Harrold Edgar), 1864-1954  Search this

Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852  Search this

Harding, George, 1882-1959  Search this

Hayes, Charles P.  Search this

Hollingsworth, Levi, 1739-1824  Search this

Hosack, David, 1769-1835  Search this

Howell, Mr.  Search this

Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879  Search this

Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906  Search this

Inman, Henry, 1801-1846  Search this

Jackson, William  Search this

Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893  Search this

Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921  Search this

Kimball, Henry H. (Henry Hastings), b. 1835  Search this

Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889  Search this

Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891  Search this

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903  Search this

Lippincott, J. B. (Joshua Ballinger), 1813-1886  Search this

Livermore, George, 1809-1865  Search this

Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932  Search this

Madison, James, 1751-1836  Search this

Marchant, Edward Dalton, 1806-1887  Search this

Martin, John Hill, 1823-1906  Search this

McAllister, John A.  Search this

McMurtrie, James, fl. 1843-1864  Search this

Monaghan, James  Search this

Montgomery, John C., Mrs  Search this

Moody, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1917  Search this

Murray, J.  Search this

Myers, Albert Cook, 1874-1960  Search this

Nathans, Isabella  Search this

Nathans, Rebecca  Search this

Neagle, John, 1796-1865  Search this

Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864  Search this

Ogden, C. S.  Search this

Otis, Bass, 1784-1861  Search this

Paca, John  Search this

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809  Search this

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827  Search this

Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870  Search this

Peale, James, 1789-1876  Search this

Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902  Search this

Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860  Search this

Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885  Search this

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926  Search this

Penrose, Clement B. (Clement Biddle), 1832-1911  Search this

Piggot, Robert, 1795-1887  Search this

Randolph, Benjamin, 1737 or 8-1791  Search this

Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872  Search this

Richards, William Trost, 1833-1905  Search this

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796  Search this

Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939  Search this

Rossiter, Thomas Prichard, 1818-1871  Search this

Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895  Search this

Rush, William, 1756-1833  Search this

Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852  Search this

Sartain, John, 1808-1897  Search this

Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904  Search this

Schreiner, Jacob  Search this

Shrigley, James, 1814-1891  Search this

Smith, Russell, 1812-1896  Search this

Snowden, James Ross  Search this

Snyder, W. D.  Search this

Somerville, Dr.  Search this

Stanbridge, J. C.  Search this

Stephens, Charles H., 1855?-1931  Search this

Stone, Frederick D. (Frederick Dawson), 1841-1897  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872  Search this

Syng, Philip, 1703-1789  Search this

Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927  Search this

Troth, Henry, 1794-1842  Search this

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843  Search this

Vanderlyn, John, 1775-1852  Search this

Vaux, Mr  Search this

Ward, Townsend, 1817?-1885  Search this

Wells, William Hill, 1769-1829  Search this

Wharton, Geo. M. (George Mifflin), 1808-1870  Search this

Wharton, Mr  Search this

Wharton, Thomas Kelah, 1814-1862  Search this

Williams, Henry, 1828-1893  Search this

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867  Search this

Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813  Search this

Woodside, John Archibald, 1781-1852  Search this

Wright, Patience Lovell, 1725-1786  Search this

Wylie, Samuel B. (Samuel Brown), 1773-1852  Search this

Extent:

2 Reels (ca. 150 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Reels

Date:

1760-1935

Scope and Contents:

Letters, mainly from artists, and documents selected from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's miscellaneous manuscript collection (Society Collection). Letters are to various people; 46 of them are to Townsend Ward and a few are to John A. McAllister, photographer. Many of the letters refer to paintings, portraits, commissions, and awards.

Writers of letters include: Edwin Austin Abbey, Mary Gertrude Abbey, F.W. Bayley, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Joseph Ceracchi, John Gadsby Chapman, John Cheney, James Claypool, James Cox, F.O.C. Darley, Joseph Delaplaine, Humphrey Donnehue, William Dunlap, Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, S. Eliot, Charles Fevret De Saint-Memin, Charles Dana Gibson, Harold Edgar Gillingham, Horatio Greenough, George Harding, Levi Hollingsworth, William Morris Hunt, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Horatio Gates Jones, James Reid Lambdin, Will Hicok Low, Edward Dalton Marchant, William Henry Moody, John Neagle, Albert Newsam, Bass Otis, Thomas Paine, Charles Willson Peale, Franklin Peale, James Peale, Jr., Mary Jane Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale, Joseph Pennell, Clement Penrose, Robert Piggot, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Trost Richards, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Peter Frederick Rothermel, William Rush, John Sartain, Stephen Alonzo Schooff (to Townsend Ward), Russell Smith, Charles H. Stephens, Thomas Sully, Philip Syng, John Vanderlyn, N.P. Willis, Alexander Wilson and Patience Wright.

Among the recipients of letters are Archibald Alexander, David S. Brown, William Belcher, Col. Brodhead, B. Burrell, Carey & Hart, Edward L. Carey, Henry C. Carey, Miss Clarke, Mr. Curren, Joseph Delaplaine, John Dickinson, Dr. Dickson, William Dillwyn, William Duane, James B. Elliott, Mrs. Langdon Elwyn, Mantle(?) Fielding, John W. Francis, Charles P. Hayes, David Hosack, Mr. Howell, Major William Jackson, Horatio Gates Jones, John W. Jordan, H.H. Kjmball, C.G. Leland, Joseph Leidy, J.B. Lippincott, George Livermore, James Madison, J. Hill Martin, John McAllister, James McMurtrie, James Monaghan, J. Murray, Albert Cook Myers, Rebecca and Isabella Nathans, John Neagle, C.S. Ogden, John Paca, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, David Rittenhouse, Albert Rosenthal, John Sartain, Jacob Schreiner, James Shrigley, James Ross Snowden, W.D. Snyder, Dr. Sommerville, J.C. Stanbridge, F.D. Stone, Henry Troth, Mr. Vaux, Townsend Ward, William Hill Wells, G.M. Wharton, Thomas Wharton, Henry J. Williams, and Samuel B. Wylie.

Other items include a sonnet of S.T. Coleridge by Washington Allston; business card of Pennel Beale; catalog of medals and coins of silver in the possession of Hon. John Smith compiled by Du Simitière, 1772; printed address by Mrs. John C. Montgomery soliciting donations for the repair of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, destroyed by fire, 1845; William Morris Hunt's admission ticket to Peale's Museum, 1836, stating his height and weight; description of objects on display at the Peale Museum, 1820; a photograph and business card of Benjamin Randolph; invitations and notes to Gilbert Stuart; typescript by Frank H. Taylor on lithography, 1923; subscription book for engravings of paintings by John Trumbull; and a page from John Archibald Woodside's daybook, 1802-1803.

Provenance:

Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Art, Modern -- 17th-18th centuries -- United States  Search this

Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.histsopa

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-histsopa

Collector:

Gratz, Simon  Search this

Names:

Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902  Search this

Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916  Search this

Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848  Search this

Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815  Search this

Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824  Search this

Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886  Search this

Humphreys, Joshua, 1751-1838  Search this

Otis, Bass, 1784-1861  Search this

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827  Search this

Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939  Search this

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872  Search this

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824  Search this

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843  Search this

Extent:

3 Reels (ca. 500 items (on 3 partial microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Reels

Date:

[ca. 1770-1921]

Scope and Contents:

Selected letters, sketches, writings, clippings and printed material collected by Simon Gratz, primarily from the "Painters, sculptors, and engravers" section (ca. 400 items) of the Cultural life, arts and sciences autograph series. Other sections filmed include Benjamin West correspondence; Charles Thomson correspondence; Joshua Humphreys letters; and one or more letters from the following categories: American miscellaneous, European painters and sculptors, Chaplains colonial wars and revolution, Roman Catholic prelates, British Authors, British literary misc., European explorers and antiquaries, American poets, Univ. presidents, American scientists, American authors, American prose, American literary misc., U.S. Senators, and others.

The Painters, sculptors, and engravers section contains ca. 400 items, primarily letters, of prominent eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century American artists, such as Albert Bierstadt, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Asher B. Durand, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, John Trumbull, and others. Many of the letters are addressed to Albert Rosenthal. Also included are sketches, writings, clippings, and printed material pertaining to the artists. The Benjamin West papers, 1877-1819, (reel P23, fr. 1-85) include letters to West, letters from and about West, and cards, a certificate, and engraving of him.

The Charles Thomson papers (reels P21, fr. 800-813 and P22, fr. 1-7) include material relating to craftsmen in New York and Philadelphia, 1784-1787; correspondence with Joseph Delaplaine, 1816-1817, concerning Delaplaine's having a portrait of Thomson painted by Bass Otis; a letter to Thomson from G.P. Norris, Jr., Jan. 26, 1819, referring to Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence; and bills from cabinetmaker Alexander Anderson. The Humphreys' letters are from Charles Willson Peale, Mar. 4, 1795, and William Rush, Apr. 30, 1795.

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming 1955 by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Artists -- United States  Search this

Topic:

Art, Modern -- 17th-18th centuries -- United States  Search this

Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.gratsimo

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-gratsimo

Creator:

Duveen, Albert  Search this

Names:

Centurion (Firm)  Search this

Holland House Corporation of the Netherlands  Search this

Alexander, Francis, 1800-1880  Search this

Allston, Washington, 1779-1843  Search this

Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854  Search this

Ben-Zion  Search this

Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851  Search this

Blackburn, Joseph, fl. 1753-1763  Search this

Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919  Search this

Blauvelt, Charles F., 1824-1900  Search this

Blume, Peter, 1906-1992  Search this

Branchard, Emile Pierre, 1881-1938  Search this

Browere, A. D. O. (Alburtis Dell Orient), 1814-1887  Search this

Brown, John George, 1831-1913  Search this

Buddington, Jonathan  Search this

Buttersworth, James Edward, 1817-1894  Search this

Carter, Dennis Malone, 1827-1881  Search this

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926  Search this

Catlin, George, 1796-1872  Search this

Chabor, Moura  Search this

Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985  Search this

Chambers, Thomas, b. 1807 or 8  Search this

Charlot, Jean, 1898-1979  Search this

Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848  Search this

Constable, John, 1776-1837  Search this

Cope, George, 1855-1929  Search this

Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815  Search this

Crawford, Ralston, 1906-1978  Search this

Cropsey, Jasper Francis, 1823-1900  Search this

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906  Search this

Davies, Arthur B. (Arthur Bowen), 1862-1928  Search this

Despiau, Charles, 1874-1946  Search this

Detre, Roland, 1903-  Search this

Dibble, Thomas R. (Thomas Reilly), 1898-  Search this

Donati, Enrico, 1909-2008  Search this

Doriani, William, 1891-  Search this

Doughty, Thomas, 1793-1856  Search this

Drew-Bear, Jessie, 1877?-1962  Search this

Duncanson, Robert S., 1821-1872  Search this

Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886  Search this

Durrie, George Henry, 1820-1863  Search this

Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919  Search this

Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878  Search this

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916  Search this

Eichholtz, Jacob, 1776-1842  Search this

Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941  Search this

Elliott, Charles Loring, 1812-1868  Search this

Field, Robert, 1769?-1819  Search this

Ganso, Emil, 1895-1941  Search this

Gargallo, Pablo, 1881-1934  Search this

Gelb, Jan, 1906-1978  Search this

Gillman, Paul  Search this

Gullager, Christian  Search this

Hall, George Henry, 1825-1913  Search this

Harding, Chester, 1792-1866  Search this

Harnett, William Michael, 1848-1892  Search this

Harvey, George W., 1855-  Search this

Hays, William Jacob, 1830-1875  Search this

Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894  Search this

Henry, Edward Lamson, 1841-1919  Search this

Hesselius, John, 1728-1778  Search this

Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849  Search this

Hicks, Thomas, 1823-1890  Search this

Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910  Search this

Hudson, Samuel Adams, 1813-1894  Search this

Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906  Search this

Inman, Henry, 1801-1846  Search this

Inness, George, 1825-1894  Search this

Jarvis, John Wesley, 1780-1840  Search this

Johnson, Eastman, 1824-1906  Search this

Johnston, Henrietta  Search this

Johnston, John Bernard, 1847-1886  Search this

Kayn, Hilde B., 1903-1950  Search this

Kelekian, Dikran, 1868-1951  Search this

Lane, Fitz Hugh, 1804-1865  Search this

Lawson, Ernest, 1873-1939  Search this

Lefferts, M. F.  Search this

Leigh, William Robinson, 1866-1955  Search this

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865  Search this

Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933  Search this

Malbone, Edward Greene, 1777-1807  Search this

Maurer, Alfred Henry, 1868-1932  Search this

Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932  Search this

Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874  Search this

Moeller, Louis, 1855-1930  Search this

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872  Search this

Neagle, John, 1796-1865  Search this

Organ, Donald  Search this

Otis, Bass, 1784-1861  Search this

Pach, Walter, 1883-1958  Search this

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827  Search this

Peale, James, 1749-1831  Search this

Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860  Search this

Penn, William, 1644-1718  Search this

Perry, E. W. (Enoch Wood), 1831-1915  Search this

Philippoteaux, Fʹelix Emmanuel Henri, 1815-1884  Search this

Polk, Charles Peale, 1767-1822  Search this

Pope, T. B. (Thomas Benjamin), d. 1891  Search this

Porter, Rufus, 1792-1884  Search this

Prior, William Matthew, 1806-1873  Search this

Quirt, Walter, 1902-  Search this

Ranney, William Tylee, 1813-1857  Search this

Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909  Search this

Robins, Louisa Winslow, 1898-1962  Search this

Roesen, Severin, ca. 1815-ca. 1872  Search this

Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939  Search this

Rossiter, Thomas Prichard, 1818-1871  Search this

Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895  Search this

Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926  Search this

Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852  Search this

Savage, Edward, 1761-1817  Search this

Sawitzky, William, 1880-1947  Search this

Schattenstein, Nikol, 1877-1954  Search this

Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879  Search this

Serres, D.  Search this

Sharples, James, ca. 1751-1811  Search this

Shulman, Morris  Search this

Smibert, John, 1688-1751  Search this

Soudeikine, Serge  Search this

Soutine, Chaim, 1893-1943  Search this

Spencer, Frederick R., 1806-1875  Search this

Stewart, Albert T., 1900-1965  Search this

Street, Robert, 1796-1865  Search this

Strong, William J.  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Sullivan, Charles, 1794-1867  Search this

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872  Search this

Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905  Search this

Tirrell, G.  Search this

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843  Search this

Vanderlyn, John, 1775-1852  Search this

Vanderlyn, Pieter, ca. 1687-1778  Search this

Von Schlegell, William, 1877-1950  Search this

Waldo, Samuel, 1783-1861  Search this

Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965  Search this

Washington, George, 1732-1799  Search this

Weinberg, Elbert, 1928-  Search this

Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919  Search this

Welch, Thomas B., 1814-1874  Search this

Wertmüller, Adolph Ulric, 1751-1811  Search this

West, Benjamin, 1738-1820  Search this

Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915  Search this

Wiltz, Arnold, 1889-1937  Search this

Winner, W. E. (William E), -1883  Search this

Wood, S.  Search this

Wood, Thomas Waterman, 1823-1903  Search this

Extent:

5 Microfilm reels

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Date:

[ca. 1831-1950]

Scope and Contents:

Files on ca. 150 American artists and art subjects, selected from Duveen's art reference files. Included are photographs of paintings in other collections, auction and exhibition catalogs, miscellaneous publications.

Files include: Francis Alexander, Washington Allston, William H. Bartlett, Ben-Zion, Thomas Birch, Joseph Blackburn, Ralph A. Blakelock, Charles F. Blauvelt, Peter Blume, Emile Branchard, Albertis D. O. Browere, John G. Brown, Jonathan Buddington, James E. Buttersworth, Carra, Dennis M. Carter, Mary Cassatt, George Catlin, Centurion, Paul Cezanne, Moura Chabor, Marc Chagall, T. Chambers, Jean Charlot, Thomas Cole, John Constable, George Cope, John S. Copley, Ralston Crawford, Jasper F. Cropsey, Arthur B. Davies, Charles Despiau, Roland Detre, Thomas R. Dibble, Enrico Donati, William Doriani, Thomas Doughty, Jessie Drew-Bear, Robert S. Duncanson, Dunlap, Asher B. Durand, George H. Durrie, Frank Duveneck, Evert Duyckinck, Thomas Eakins, Jacob Eichholtz, Louis M. Eilshemius, Charles L. Elliott, Robert Field, Emil Ganso, Pablo Gargallo, Jan Gelb, Paul Gillman, Christian Gullager, George H. Hall, Chester Harding, William M. Harnett, George Harvey, William J. Hays, George P. A. Healy, Edward L. Henry, John Hesselius, Edward Hicks, Thomas Hicks, Holland House, Charles Fevret de Saint-Memin, Winslow Homer, S. A. Hudson, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, George Inness, John W, Jarvis, Eastman Johnson, Henrietta Johnston, John Johnston, Hilde B. Kayn, Dikran K. Kelekian, Fitz Hugh Lane, Ernest Lawson, M. F. Lefferts, William R. Leigh, Abraham Lincoln, George B. Luks, Edward G. Malbone, Alfred H. Maurer, Louis Maurer, McKay, Alfred J. Miller, Louis C. Moeller, Samuel F. B. Morse, John Neagle, Donald Organ, Bass Otis, Walter Pach, Charles W. Peale, James Peale, Rembrandt Peale, William Penn, Enoch W. Perry, F. E. H. Philippoteaux, Charles P. Polk, T. B. Pope, Rufus Porter, William M. Prior, Walter Quirt, William T. Ranney, Reinhardt, Frederic Remington, Louisa Robins, Severin Roesen, Thomas P. Rossiter, Peter F. Rothermel, Charles M. Russell, Edward Savage, William Sawitzky, Nikol Schattenstein, Christian Schussele, D. Serres, James Sharples, Morris Shulman, John Smibert, Sergei Soudeikin, Haim Soutine, Frederick R. Spencer, Albert Stewart, Robert Street, William J. Strong, Gilbert Stuart, C. (Charles ?) Sullivan, Thomas Sully, Arthur F. Tait, G. Tirrell, John Trumbull, John Vanderlyn, Pieter Vanderlyn, William Von Schlegell, Samuel L. Waldo, Abraham Walkowitz, George Washington, Elbert Weinberg, Julian A. Weir, Thomas B. Welch, Adolph U. Wertmuller, Benjamin West, Anne Whitney, Arnold Wiltz, William E. Winner, S. Wood, and Thomas W. Wood.

The Saint-Memin, Stuart, B. West and Wertmuller files contain material from Albert Rosenthal relating to the above artists.

Arrangement:

Files are arranged alphabetically by artist and subject, rolls NDU1-NDU3; publications and other miscellany were filmed on rolls NDU4-NDU5.

Biographical / Historical:

Albert Duveen was an art dealer and collector with offices in New York, N.Y., specializing in early American art. He was a cousin to Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), 1st Baron Duveen, president of Duveen Brothers art dealers.

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming 1958 by Duveen.

Restrictions:

The Archives does not own the original papers. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.duvealbe2

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-duvealbe2

Creator:

Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, 1910-1974  Search this

Names:

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Mellquist, Jerome  Search this

Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

6.9 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 13 reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1830-1960

Scope and Contents:

The Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers measure 6.9 linear feet and date from 1830-1960. Included is material relating to her involvement with the National Academy of Design

Letters, invoices, and clippings relate to the National Academy Design's exhibitions and exhibition records, 1952-1954. Among the correspondents are Eliot Clark, Charles Downing Lay, Vernon Porter, R.W.G. Vail, and Lawrence Grant White; and Cowdrey's collection of ca. 200 photographs and other reproductions of Gilbert Stuart portraits and the publication Essays on American Art and Artists, Eastern Art League, 1896, signed by Cowdrey. Also included are notes, correspondence, photographs, publications, and clippings collected by Cowdrey for a biography of William Sidney Mount, ca. 1830-1957 microfilmed on reels D362-D363, and a letter from Jerome Mellquist, an art historian and specialist on French modern art, regarding his interests and his work , December 14, 1956. The letter has been microfilmed on reel D9.

Biographical / Historical:

Mary Bartlett Cowdrey (1830-1960) was an art historian in Passaic, New Jersey. Bartlett was author of "National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860," 2 v., 1944 a co-author: "William Sidney Mount, 1807-1868, An American Painter," 1944. Cowdrey was also a collector for Archives of American Art in the late 1950s.

Other Title:

Reel D9: Microfilm title: Jerome Mellquist

Related Materials:

Also in the Archives are papers lent for microfilming on reels N60-11, NY59-5, NY59-11, NY59-18-NY59-19, NY59-29 including files on 19th century American artists compiled by Cowdrey, containing notes, reproductions, clippings, biographical material, and publications; and material microfilmed on reels D75- D78 including alphabetical indexes of artists who exhibited at the National Academy of Design, 1861-1890, including their dates, exhibition dates, their works and prices, and their address at the time of the exhibit, plus notes and correspondence relating to this compilation. This work was intended to be a continuation of Cowdrey's book NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN EXHIBITION RECORD, 1826-1860 (The New York Historical Society, New York, 1943.)

Papers of Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, 1834-1963, are also located at the University of Delaware Library's Special Collections.

Provenance:

Material on reels D362-D363, D9 and unfilmed material donated 1956 and 1966 by Mary Bartlett Cowdrey. In 2001, Paul D. Schweitzer, Cowdrey's friend and Director and Chief Curator of the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, N.Y, donated 0.2 ft. of Cowdrey's files relating to her work on the National Academy of Design. All other papers were lent for microfilming 1956-1966 by Cowdrey.

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:

Artists -- United States  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.cowdmary

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-cowdmary

Creator:

Copley Gallery  Search this

Names:

Bayley, Frank W.  Search this

Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815  Search this

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

65 Items ((on 1 microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1927-1932

Scope and Contents:

Artists' files compiled by Frank W. Bayley, director of the gallery, on John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and others; and miscellaneous notes.

Biographical / Historical:

Art gallery; Boston, Mass.

Provenance:

Donated by Charles D. Childs.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Artists -- United States  Search this

Function:

Art galleries, Commercial -- Massachusetts -- Boston

Identifier:

AAA.coplgall

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-coplgall

Names:

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

1 Microfilm reel

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Date:

[ca. 1828]

Scope and Contents:

Handwritten catalog, 12 p., listing 182 of Stuart's portraits, and 27 of his pictures in Philadelphia. On cover: "Exact copy of the catalog of portraits by Stuart exhibited 1828 in Boston...see Dunlap's History of Design, v.1."

Provenance:

Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Portrait painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Topic:

Portrait painting -- 18th century -- Catalogs  Search this

Portrait painting -- 19th century -- Catalogs  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.cataofae

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-cataofae

Creator:

Campbell, Courtney, 1887-1960  Search this

Names:

Campbell, Orland, 1890-1972  Search this

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

300 Items

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1949-1960

Scope and Contents:

Papers of Courtney Campbell concerning a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Thomas Jefferson, owned, authenticated, and restored by Campbell and his brother, portrait painter Orland Campbell. Includes:

correspondence, a manuscript, notes, rough sketches by Orland Campbell of the portrait, printed material, photographs of works of art.

Provenance:

Mrs. Margaret Friedman is the daughter of Courtney Campbell. She and her mother, Mrs. Courtney Campbell, jointly gave this collection.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Portrait painters  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.campcour

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-campcour

Creator:

Campbell, Orland, 1890-1972  Search this

Names:

Campbell, Courtney, 1887-1960  Search this

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

3.7 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketchbooks

Scrapbooks

Date:

1843-1977

Scope and Contents:

Papers of Orland Campbell pertain to Campbell's career as a portrait artist and to a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Thomas Jefferson, owned, authenticated, and restored by Orland and his brother, Courtney Campbell. Includes:

biographical material, obituaries and condolences, business correspondence, ca. 1920-1970, subject files, research notes, tyescripts, sketchbooks and sketches, family papers, financial material, photographs of Campbell and works of art, thirteen scrapbooks, two books, and miscellany.

Biographical / Historical:

Portrait painter.

Provenance:

Donated 1980 by Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, widow of Orland Campbell.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Portrait painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketchbooks

Scrapbooks

Identifier:

AAA.camporla

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-camporla

Creator:

Campbell, William Pardee, 1914-1976  Search this

Names:

Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

10 Linear feet

1 Linear foot (Addition)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1949-1976

Scope and Contents:

Index card files, ca. 8 feet, on bibliographies, American artists and collectors, European artists, and addresses; research files for an uncompleted Ph.D. thesis on American artist, John Gadsby Chapman, who lived 1808-1889, containing correspondence, notes, writings, and about 100 photographs and photostats of Chapman's letters and work; notes for an article on Gilbert Stuart's portraits of George Washington; clippings, a biographical sketch on Campbell, and miscellany.

ADDITION: Files on artists, arranged alphabetically, containing notes, correspondence and printed material.

Biographical / Historical:

Museum curator at the National Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C. The subject of his extensive research, John Gadsby Chapman, was a landscape, history and portrait painter, also a wood engraver and illustrator.

Provenance:

Donated 1979 by Campbell's widow, Priscilla Campbell, and in 1979 and 1990 as a transfer from the National Gallery of Art.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Portrait painters  Search this

Engravers  Search this

Etchers  Search this

Illustrators  Search this

Landscape painters  Search this

Art historians -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

History painters  Search this

Museum curators -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.campwill

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-campwill

Creator:

Bland Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Names:

Deane, Albert  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

57 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1931-1953

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence.

REEL 132: Correspondence, mostly with John Hill Morgan, discussing the authentication and purchase of eighteenth century American historic engravings and portraits, but also including Harry F. du Pont, collecting American portraits and naval scenes; Josiah K. Lilly, collecting portraits of English and American literary and political figures; David F. Bruce; and others.

REEL D8: Letter to Bland Gallery from Albert Deane of Paramount Studios, New York City, concerning a possible Gilbert Stuart miniature, October 22, 1953.

Biographical / Historical:

Art gallery; New York, N.Y. Specialized in miniatures.

Provenance:

Letters on reel 132 donated by Bland's widow, Jane Cooper Bland, 1970. Material on reel D8 donated by Argosy Bookshop, 1958.

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.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Miniature painting -- United States  Search this

Function:

Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State) -- New York

Identifier:

AAA.blangall

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-blangall

Creator:

Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this

Names:

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872  Search this

Traquair, James, 1756-1811  Search this

West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 -- Christ healing the sick  Search this

Extent:

2 Items (partial microfilm reels)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1760-1884

Scope and Contents:

REEL P24: Visitors' book to Benjamin West's painting "Christ Healing the Sick," and related correspondence and printed material, 1817.

REEL P87: Minutes and excerpts relating to American art and artists; correspondence with Benjamin West; material relating to the loan and donation of art works from West, Thomas Sully, James Traquair and others, Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale deciding where to hang West's painting "Christ Healing the Sick," the commission of art works, and the facilities for exhibiting work at the hospital.

Provenance:

Material on reel P24 microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955. Material on P87 lent for microfilming 1955, by the Pennsylvania Hospital.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Topic:

Art, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.pennhosp

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-pennhosp

Creator:

Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939  Search this

Names:

Rodin Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904  Search this

Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953  Search this

Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886  Search this

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790  Search this

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918  Search this

Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944  Search this

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935  Search this

Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828  Search this

Palmer, Alexander Mitchell, 1872-1936  Search this

Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881-1948.  Search this

Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918  Search this

Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930  Search this

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910  Search this

Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Portraits  Search this

Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919  Search this

Extent:

2.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1860-1940

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence, printed material, and photographs relating to Rosenthal's work, primarily as a portrait painter and collector of American art and artists' papers. Some material pertains to Rosenthal's father, the engraver Max Rosenthal.

Included are: biographical notes and articles by and about Rosenthal and his father, Max; writings by Albert about his father; and reproductions of Albert's work.

Rosenthal's research material on early American art consists of articles on artists, notes about portrait painters, typescript copies of letters of or about early American artists, among them Rembrandt Peale, G.P.A. Healy, and John Rampage, several original letters, including 5 from John Quincy Adams Ward to various people, and one from Ben Silliman to Asher B. Durand, and an engraved copy of a letter from Ben Franklin to Mr. Strahan, July 5, 1775.

Other material includes files on Rosenthal's portraits of French officers who served in the American Revolution; Gilbert Stuart's (George) Washington portraits, 1922-1923; the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia (includes correspondence with Jules Mastbaum, the founder of the museum, and others, 1925-1932); Jean Antoine Houdon's busts of Washington and Lafayette, 1925-1932; Harry T. Peters' book "America on Stone", 1931; and on "Rosen-Thal," Albert's home that was originally the Huffinagle mansion in Buck's County, Pa.

There is voluminous business and other correspondence, 1860-1940, relating to Max, Louis, and Albert Rosenthal's work and to Albert's portraits of Supreme Court Justices. Among the diverse group of correspondents are: Samuel Putnam Avery, William Hunt Diederich, Charles Henry Hart, Sakakichi Hartmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes, A. Mitchell Palmer, Alfred Stieglitz, William Howard Taft, and J. Alden Weir.

Photographs are of Rosenthal's work and of unidentified portraits possibly by Rosenthal; reproductions of European paintings, miniatures, sculptures; and miscellaneous portraits by various artists.

Unmicrofilmed material (0.4 feet) consists of miscellaneous photographs and reproductions.

Biographical / Historical:

Albert Rosenthal (1863-1939) was a portrait painter, printmaker, writer, and collector in Philadelphia, Pa. Rosenthal was a student of his father, engraver Max Rosenthal, and later published a book about him. He is also known for his portraits of Supreme Court Justices, and his collection of American drawings, which he donated to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1927.

Provenance:

Donated by Albert Duveen, 1959. Duveen collected American artists' and art related papers with the intention of forming an American artists reference facility. He purchased at least some of Rosenthal's papers and much correspondence from the Albert Rosenthal Estate, and subsequently gave them to AAA upon its formation.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Etchers  Search this

Painters  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Portrait painting, American  Search this

Portrait painting -- United States  Search this

Judges -- United States -- Portraits  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.rosealbp

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-rosealbp

Creator:

McIntyre, Robert G. (Robert George), b. 1885  Search this

Names:

Macbeth Gallery  Search this

Colburn, Francis Peabody, 1909-  Search this

Colburn, Francis Peabody, 1909- -- Photographs  Search this

Corbino, Jon, 1905-1964  Search this

Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904  Search this

James, William, 1882-1961  Search this

Macbeth, Robert W. (Robert Walker), 1884-1940  Search this

Macbeth, William, 1851-1917  Search this

Marsh, Felicia Meyer, 1912-1978 -- Photographs  Search this

Morgan, Maud, 1903-1999 -- Photographs  Search this

Morgan, Patrick, 1904- -- Photographs  Search this

Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Extent:

1.4 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 2 reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1903-1957

Scope and Contents:

Personal and research correspondence, artwork; writings; and photographs.

Correspondence consists of eight letters from McIntyre's uncle, William Macbeth, regarding business at the Macbeth Gallery, 1909; letters of condolence upon the death of Robert Macbeth, 1940; a letter to McIntyre from Francis Peabody Colburn enclosing a photograph of himself; letters from Jon Corbino and from William James, both with photographic portraits; a letter to Benhaim Newhouse from Albert Rosenthal about Henry Inman; research correspondence for MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (1949), 1944-1950; correspondence with McIntyre's mother, wife and relatives, 1903-1930; and correspondence with E.P. Richardson concerning various donations made to the Archives of American Art. Art work includes 3 sketchbooks, ca. 1946-1957, containing pencil sketches of Vermont and other locales, and a watercolor sketch. Photographs include snapshots of McIntyre with family and friends, one photograph each of Felicia Meyer Marsh, (wife of Reginald Marsh), Maud Morgan, and Morgan's husband Patrick Morgan, all circa 1940. Writings include typescripts of articles; lectures and notes; and material on portraits by Gilbert Stuart.

Biographical / Historical:

Art dealer and art historian, New York, N.Y. President and director of the Macbeth Gallery and nephew of William Macbeth.

Provenance:

Donated incrementally between 1955-1962 by McIntyre and the McIntyre Estate.

Occupation:

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art historians  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.mcinrobe

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mcinrobe

Creator:

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

Names:

Allston, Washington, 1779-1843  Search this

Crawford, Thomas, 1813 or 14-1857  Search this

DeVeaux, James, 1812-1844.  Search this

Inman, Henry, 1801-1846  Search this

Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843  Search this

West, Benjamin, 1738-1820  Search this

Extent:

vi, 257 p., [8] leaves of plates ; (on partial microfilm reel) (ill., ports., 23 cm.)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1846

Contents:

Washington Allston.--Henry Inman.--Benjamin West.--Gilbert Charles Stuart.--John Trumbull.--James DeVeaux.--Rembrandt Peale.--Thomas Crawford.

Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):

New York : Baker & Scribner, 1846.

Topic:

Artists -- United States -- Portraits  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.lestchar2

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-lestchar2

Collection Creator:

Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985  Search this

Richardson, Constance, 1905-  Search this

Container:

Box 23, Folder 31

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1957-1981

Collection 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.

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:

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.

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

E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers / Series 6: Artist-Subject files

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-richedga-ref1037

Creator:

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918  Search this

Names:

Anshutz, Thomas Pollock, 1851-1912  Search this

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851  Search this

Chase, William Merritt, 1846-1916  Search this

Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900  Search this

Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815  Search this

Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919  Search this

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916  Search this

James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903  Search this

McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891  Search this

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872  Search this

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827  Search this

Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825  Search this

Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860  Search this

Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865  Search this

Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885  Search this

Smillie, James David, 1833-1909  Search this

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828  Search this

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872  Search this

Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921  Search this

Vanderlyn, John, 1775-1852  Search this

Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923  Search this

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910  Search this

West, Benjamin, 1738-1820  Search this

Extent:

1.7 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1731-1918

Summary:

The Charles Henry Hart autograph collection dates from 1731-1917 and measures 1.7 linear feet comprised of 226 letters, portrait prints, and other documents signed by American artists.

Scope and Contents:

The Charles Henry Hart autograph collection dates from 1731-1917 and measures 1.7 linear feet comprised of 226 letters, portrait prints, and other documents signed by American artists.

Originally titled by Hart as "The History of Art in America as Told in a Remarkable Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents of Celebrated American Artists of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century," the collection includes letters and other items signed by Thomas Anshutz, John J. Audubon, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, John Singleton Copley, Kenyon Cox, Thomas Eakins, Jervis McEntee, Samuel F.B. Morse, Charles Willson Peale, Raphaelle Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale, Titian Peale, James Daivd Smillie, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Abbott Handerson Thayer, John Vanderlyn, Elihu Vedder, John Quincy Adams Ward, Benjamin West, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and many others.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 1 series.

Series 1: Charles Henry Hart autograph collection, 1731-1917 (226 items; Box 1-5)

Biographical / Historical:

Charles Henry Hart (1847-1918) was a historian, lawyer, writer, and director, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1882-1904. Widely, he published on the subject of 18th and 19th century portraiture in the United States.

Related Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds the personal papers of Charles Henry Hart, dating from 1774-1930, bulk 1888-1918.

Papers of Charles Henry Hart, 1888-1894, are also located at The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts.

Provenance:

The Charles Henry Hart autograph collection was donated to the Archives of American Art in 1954 as an anonymous gift. It is assumed that Hart assembled the letters. Original collation was two letterbooks entitled "The History of Art in America as Told in a Remarkable Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents of Celebrated American Artists of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century."

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

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.

Topic:

Autographs -- Collections  Search this

Artists -- United States -- Portraits  Search this

Autographs -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Artists -- United States -- Autographs  Search this

Citation:

Charles Henry Hart autograph collection, 1731-1918. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Identifier:

AAA.hartchar

See more items in:

Charles Henry Hart autograph collection

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hartchar