Correspondence of John La Farge with author Henry Adams, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, architect Russell Sturgis, Mary Cadwalader Jones (sister-in-law of Edith Wharton), and others, 1850-1910; of Bancel La Farge, 1893-1939, including correspondence of his wife, Mabel La Farge, with letters from John La Farge, Mrs. John La Farge, Mary Cadwalader Jones, artists Jean Julien Lemordant and George Dudley Seymour, and Grace Edith Barnes, John La Farge's secretary; and correspondence of Henry Adams La Farge, relating almost exclusively to the work of his grandfather, mostly with owners of art work, museum officials and art historians, 1922- 1972; writings by John LaFarge, 1893-1911, on American painting, and printed copies of articles, lectures, verses, and critical comments; articles, pamphlets, and clippings on La Farge and his work, 1896-1972; business records, including cash account books of John La Farge, 1895-1898, his will, 1910, and receipts of Henry Adams; exhibition catalogs, 1878-1968; photographs, 1850-1938 and undated, of John La Farge, his family, his paintings and stained glass windows, and a stereoscopic of John Hay.
Provenance:
These five reels of microfilm were made available to the Archives of American Art in 1985 by Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, which retains the originals. A sixth, restricted reel containing the catalog of the works of La Farge compiled by Henry Adams La Farge was not included. The arrangement of the papers devised by the Yale University Library.
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Manual of the Jarves collection of early Italian pictures, deposited in the galleries of the Yale school of fine arts. Being a catalogue, with descriptions of the pictures contained in that collection, with biographical notices of artists and an introductory essay, the whole forming a brief guide to the study of early Christian art. By Russell Sturgis, jr
Annotated bibliography of fine art : painting, sculpture, architecture, arts of decoration and illustration / by Russell Sturgis ; music by Henry Edward Krehbiel ; edited by George Iles
The interdependence of the arts of design; a series of six lectures delivered at the Art institute of Chicago, being the Scammon lectures for 1904, by Russell Sturgis ... with one hundred illustrations from photographs
Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871 Search this
Extent:
60 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1866-1878
Scope and Contents:
Correspondence with contributors to THE GALAXY, of which Church was editor with his brother, Francis Pharcellus Church.
Correspondents include: Eugene Benson (40 letters), Clarence C. Cook, William P. W. Dana, James J. Jarves, John La Farge, Charles Lanman, William J. Linton, Benson J. Lossing, Maria R. Oakey, Thomas B. Read, William J. Stillman, Russell Sturgis, Bayard Taylor, and Henry T. Tuckerman.
Provenance:
Microfilmed 1956 by the Archives of American Art with other art-related papers in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library. Included in the microfilming project were selected papers of the Art Division and the Prints Division.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Records relating to the Chapter's commission of a memorial window for the Litchfield Historical Society. Included are: letters, 1905-1907 between Frederic Crowninshield, the artist who executed the commission, and members of the Window Committee (including Elizabeth C. Barney Buel, Chairman of the Committee and Regent of Chapter), two letters, 1905, from Russell Sturgis, architect, to Buel, one letter from Buel to Rev. Stoors O. Seymour, President of the Litchfield Historical Society and his reply to her,
and one letter, 1905, from Charles R. McNeil of Ross & McNeil, the architects who built the Litchfield Historical Society. Also includes fourteen committee reports submitted by Elizabeth C. Barney Buel and the Book and Unveiling Committees; an undated brochure explaining the memorial window project and soliciting contributions; and a program from the official unveiling of the window, July 5, 1907.
Biographical / Historical:
Founded 1899.
Other Title:
Mary Tallmadge Chapter. Daughter [sic] of the American Revolution (microfilm title)
Provenance:
These records window, were given to the Litchfield Historical Society in 1909, when the project was completed.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
