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Basin-wide magnetostratigraphic framework for the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Author:: Finarelli, John A. Search this; Hamzi, Walid Search this; Wing, Scott L. Search this; Clyde, William C. Search this; Chew, Amy Search this; Schankler, David Search this

Object Type:: Smithsonian staff publication; Electronic document

Year:: 2007

Topic:: Paleobiology Search this; Natural History Search this

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EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:SILSRO_82075

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Wyoming

Maker:: Cruver Manufacturing Company Search this

Physical Description:: cellulose nitrate (overall material)

Measurements:: overall: 3 cm x 5 cm; x 1 3/16 in x 1 15/16 in; overall: 2 1/16 in x 1 1/8 in x 1/8 in; 5.23875 cm x 2.8575 cm x .3175 cm

Object Name:: Pin; Celluloid Pin

Place made:: United States: Illinois, Chicago

Associated Place:: United States: Wyoming; United States: New Jersey

ID Number:: 2006.0098.0240

Accession number:: 2006.0098

Catalog number:: 2006.0098.0240

See more items in:: Medicine and Science: Chemistry

Data Source:: National Museum of American History

GUID:: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-51f0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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In search of Hollywood, Wyoming : the silent years, 1894-1929 / by William R. Huey

Author:: Huey, William R Search this

Physical description:: 127, [9] p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Type:: Biography

Place:: Wyoming

Date:: 1985; C1985

Topic:: Motion picture industry Search this; Motion picture actors and actresses Search this; Western films--History and criticism Search this; Silent films--History and criticism Search this

Call number:: PN1993.5.U815H8 1985X

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_288134

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Fifty houses : images from the American road / Sandy Sorlien ; with a foreword by William Least Heat-Moon

Author:: Sorlien, Sandy 1954- Search this

Physical description:: xxiii, 105 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm

Type:: Pictorial works; Illustrated works

Place:: United States

Date:: 2002; ©2002

Topic:: Dwellings--States Search this; Architectural photography--States Search this; Travel photography--States Search this; Architecture, Domestic--States Search this; Dwellings--U.S. states Search this

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_725491

Chester Beach papers

Creator:: Beach, Chester, 1881-1956 Search this

Names:: American Academy in Rome Search this; Architectural League of New York Search this; Cleveland Museum of Art Search this; Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France) Search this; Frontier Art Colony Search this; Mark Hopkins Institute of Art Search this; National Academy of Design (U.S.) Search this; National Sculpture Society (U.S.) Search this; Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915: San Francisco, Calif.) Search this; Salmagundi Club Search this; Salon d'automne Search this; Allen, Mary Jester Search this; Beach, Eleanor Murdock Search this; Blumenschein, Ernest Leonard, 1874-1960 Search this; Carrington, Fitz Roy, 1869-1954 Search this; Couper, William, 1853-1942 Search this; Fitchen, Eleanor Beach Search this; French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 Search this; Greacen, Edmund W., 1876-1949 Search this; Hancock, Walker Kirtland, 1901-1998 Search this; Jackson, Hazel Brill Search this; Jennewein, Carl Paul, 1890- Search this; Kuhn, Brenda, 1911- Search this; Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949 Search this; Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934 Search this; Leibig, Bonnie Search this; MacMonnies, Frederick William, 1863-1937 Search this; Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940 Search this; Nelson, Laurence, 1887-1978 Search this; Nisbet, Robert H., 1879-1961 Search this; Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 Search this; Piexotto, Jessica B. Search this; Winter, Ezra, 1886-1949 Search this

Extent:: 7.32 Linear feet

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Scrapbooks; Sketches; Christmas cards; Drawings; Photographs; Prints; Sketchbooks

Date:: 1846-1999; bulk 1895-1999

Summary:: The Chester Beach papers measure 7.32 linear feet and date from 1846 to 1999, with the bulk ot the material dating from circa 1900 to 1999. The work and professional activities of Beaux Arts sculptor Chester Beach (1881-1956) and his family's efforts to exhibit and sell work from the estate are documented by project files, business records, correspondence, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs. The papers also include many artist-designed Christmas cards sent and received by the Beach family, and artwork by Chester Beach and others.

Scope and Contents:: The Chester Beach papers measure 7.32 linear feet and date from 1846 to 1999, with the bulk ot the material dating from circa 1900 to 1999. The work and professional activities of Beaux Arts sculptor Chester Beach (1881-1956) and his family's efforts to exhibit and sell work from the estate are documented by project files, business records, correspondence, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs. The papers also include many artist-designed Christmas cards sent and received by the Beach family, and artwork by Chester Beach and others.

Biographical material consists of biographical notes, identification cards, and a membership certificate.

Project files contain correspondence, financial records, notes, drawings and plans, research materials, printed matter, and photographs that document commissions for sculpture, medals and coins, monuments, and Beach's own projects. Among the most thoroughly documented projects are a fountain sculpture for the grounds of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Sun, Earth, Fountain of the Waters, and Zodiac) and the Edward W. Bok Memorial in Mountain Lake, Florida; both commissions were executed in conjunction with the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Business records include Chester Beach's general business correspondence and correspondence concerning consignments. An address book records names, addresses, and occasionally indicates prices of services and supplies used by the sculptor. Other record books detail expenses and income of the studio building Beach owned, with a list of the effects of the former owner, sculptor William Couper; bronzes cast; sales, with titles, prices, and buyers; names and addresses of clients, dealers, and suppliers; and instructions for cleaning and bronzing plaster.

Family correspondence consists mainly of letters, many mentioning Chester Beach, and addressed to Mrs. Chester Beach and daughter Eleanor Beach Fitchen. Estate correspondence and related documents concern efforts to exhibit, sell, and research Beach's remaining work. These records, for the most part, were created by Mrs. Fitchen who acted as sales agent, ran the Chester Beach Memorial Studio, and maintained the Beach archive. Of particular interest is a series of letters from Brenda Kuhn that relate what she learned from handling the estate of her father, Walt Kuhn; in addition, she offered ideas and advice about exhibitions, the Memorial Studio, and the Beach Centennial.

Beach designed his family's annual Christmas cards, most of which incorporate images of their three daughters. A complete set, preserved in an album, includes a few later cards that reproduce artwork by his widow. Many of the cards received - some with original artwork - are from artist friends, among them: Ernest Blumenschein, Edward W. Greacen, Hazel Brill Jackson, Paul Jennewein, Bonnie Leibig, F. Luis Mora, Robert Nisbet, and Ezra Winter. Also of note are a card from Walker Hancock bearing a photograph of his studio; a painting of Beach's Sylvan at Brookgreen Gardens, reproduced on Anna Hyatt Huntington's card; and a card from Beach patron Mary Jester Allen containing a brief note about the Frontier Art Colony she had established near Cody, Wyoming.

Among the drawings and sketches by Chester Beach are student work, designs for some of his Christmas cards, and a sketchbook containing drawings of sculpture. Work by other artists consists of prints, including one by Ezra Winter.

Three scrapbooks, largely comprised of newspaper clippings and other printed material, contain a variety of other items, including: letters from the American Academy in Rome, Architectural League of New York, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Daniel Chester French, Hazel Brill Jackson, Frederick MacMonnies, National Academy of Design, National Sculpture Society, Jessica B. Piexotto, and Salon d'Autome. There are also awards and certificates from the National Academy of Design, Panama-Pacific International Exposition; bookplates and a place card Beach etched for Mr. and Mrs. George Davison; and an unfinished poem by FitzRoy Carrington. Photographs within the scrapbooks are of a night school class Beach attended at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco, Beach at work in his studio, and a portrait of him painted by G. Laurance Nelson.

Printed material includes Panama-Pacific International Exposition guide books, brochures about the Chester Beach Memorial Studio in Brewster, New York, and catalogs for solo and group exhibitions.

Photographs and glass plate negatives of artwork are mainly of Chester Beach's sculpture and include views of work in progress. Also found are photographs of drawings and sculpture from his student years in California and Paris. Pictures of work by other artists are portraits of Chester Beach painted by G. Laurance Nelson and by his daughter, Natalie Beach McLaury. Among the photographs of Chester Beach are several by Gertrude Kasebier, circa 1910. Other pictures show Beach in his studio, Beach with family and friends, and a "Dinner tendered to Edmund W. Greacen by Samuel T. Shaw, Salmagundi Club, March 2, 1922." Places documented are Beach's boyhood home in San Francisco, the interiors of his studios, and Brookgreen Gardens. Miscellaneous subjects are nude models.

Arrangement:: The collection is arranged as 10 series. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and closed to researchers.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1910-1947 (4 folders; Box 1)

Series 2: Project Files, 1846-1999 (1.6 linear feet; Boxes 1-2, 11, OV 12-13)

Series 3: Business Records, circa 1900-1958 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 2-3)

Series 4: Writings, 1913-1935 (2 folders; Box 3)

Series 5: Correspondence, 1875, 1933-1996 (0.5 linear feet; Box 3)

Series 6: Christmas Cards, 1909-1961 (0.7 linear feet; Boxes 3-4)

Series 7: Artwork, circa 1900-1955 (0.3 linear feet; Boxes 4, 11)

Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1903-1972 (0.3 linear feet; Box 10)

Series 9: Printed Material, 1910-1997 (0.4 linear feet; Box 4)

Series 10: Photographs, circa 1885-circa 1960s (3.1 linear feet; Boxes 4-9, 11, 14)

Biographical / Historical:: Sculptor Chester Beach (1881-1956) was known for portrait busts, allegorical and mythological figures, coins and medallic art in the Beaux-Arts tradition. He lived and worked in New York City and Brewster, New York.

Chester Beach, son of Chilion Beach and Elizabeth Ferris Beach, was born in San Francisco on May 23, 1881. Beach initially studied at the California School of Mechanical Arts in 1899. He remained in San Francisco and between 1900 and 1902 continued his art training at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art while working as a jewelry designer. To further his career and exposure to artistic trends, Beach moved to New York City in 1903. The following year, he went to Paris, enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and also studied with Raoul Verlet at the Académie Julian.

Upon his return to New York in 1907, Beach established a studio on Tenth Street. He won the National Academy of Design's Barnett Prize for sculpture in 1907 and the Academy elected him an Associate Artist the following year. His increased stature resulted in numerous portrait commissions and eventually led to commissions for monuments and architectural sculpture. In 1910, Chester Beach married Eleanor Hollis Murdock, a painter he met when both were art students in Paris. The couple spent the next two years in Rome; for several years after returning, Beach continued to spend time in Italy and maintained a studio in Rome.

Solo exhibitions of Beach's work were presented at Macbeth Gallery (1912), Pratt Institute (1913), Cincinnati Art Museum (1916), John Herron Art Institute (1916), and Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester (1917). In addition to frequent participation in annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Beach was represented in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), and in group shows at venues including: Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Art Club, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and National Arts Club.

The gold medal presented by Académie Julian (1905), Beach's first award, was followed by many other prizes, among them: American Numismatic Society prize for a medal commemorating the Peace of Versailles (1919) and its Saltus Medal for distinguished medallic art (1946); Architectural League of New York gold medal (1924); National Academy of Design Barnett Prize (1907) and Watrous gold medal (1926); National Arts Club medal and prizes (1923, 1926, 1932); and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition silver medal (1915).

Beach was an Academician of the National Academy of Design, a member of the American Numismatic Society, Architectural League of New York, National Arts Club, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Sculpture Society (President, 1927-1928).

For more than 40 years, Beach lived and worked at 207 East 17th Street. The brownstone, purchased in 1913, was large enough for the family's home, his studio, and additional studios that were rented to other artists. Through barter, Beach acquired land in Brewster, New York, and in 1917 hired Italian stonemasons to build a studio. Later, they erected a summer house for the family. Many old stone walls on the site provided material for both buildings and Beach named the property Oldwalls.

After a long illness, Chester Beach died at Oldwalls on August 6, 1956. The funeral service was held at his Brewster, New York, studio and he is buried in Cold Spring Cemetery, Cold Spring, New York.

Separated Materials:: Also in the Archives of American Art is microfilm of papers lent for microfilming (reels N727-N729 and N68-11) including passports, genealogical materials, photograph albums, travel sketches, travel diaries of Mrs. Beach, and business and family correspondence. While the obituary letters on reel N68-11 are referenced in a scrapbook in Series 8, all other loaned materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:: Chester Beach's daughter, Eleanor Beach Fitchen, lent materials for microfilming in 1967 and 1967. Subsequent papers were donated in 2009 by the estate of Eleanor Beach Fitchen, through her grandson and executor, John Fitchen.

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. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and 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.

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