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Comfort family papers relating to George Fisk Comfort, circa 1857-1955

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Creator:
Comfort, George Fisk, 1834-1910  Search this
Subject:
Massaranti, Marcello  Search this
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di  Search this
Cox, Kenyon  Search this
Johnson, Andrew  Search this
Johnson, Eastman  Search this
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts  Search this
Syracuse University. College of Fine Arts  Search this
Type:
Sketchbooks
Place of publication, production, or execution:
Other
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet, (on 3 microfilm reels)
Access Note / Rights:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
Biographical materials, correspondence, manuscripts, notes, sketchbook, subject files, photographs and printed materials documenting George Fisk Comfort's career as an educator and museum director, selected from the Comfort Family papers at Syracuse University.
Citation:
Comfort family papers relating to George Fisk Comfort, circa 1857-1955. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reels 4274-4276 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Originals in George Arents Research Library for Special Collections, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
Loan:
Loan
Biography Note:
George Fisk Comfort was a museum director, educator, and one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y. Comfort established the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (now known as the Everson Museum of Art) and the College of Fine Arts, Syracuse University. He served as dean of the College (1873-1893) and as director of the Syracuse Museum from its founding in 1869 until his death in 1910.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Comfort's son, the architect Ralph Manning Comfort, assembled and donated the family's papers to the George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University. The Archives of American Art microfilmed selected material from the papers pertaining to George Fisk Comfort. The lender kept letters exchanged among family members with the papers of the writer, not the recipient. Therefore, letters from relatives to Comfort are to be found in the author's papers rather than Comfort's and were not microfilmed.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Theme:
Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this
Research and writing about art  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)9664
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211872
AAA_collcode_comfgeor
Theme:
Sketches & Sketchbooks
Research and writing about art
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211872