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Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection, 1866-1968

Catalog Data

Creator:
Philadelphia Museum of Art  Search this
Subject:
Eakins, Thomas  Search this
Force, Juliana  Search this
Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis)  Search this
Roberts, George B., Mrs  Search this
Sartain, William  Search this
Abbe, Robert  Search this
Arms, John Taylor  Search this
Bartlett, Paul  Search this
Beal, Gifford  Search this
Beaux, Cecilia  Search this
Burchfield, Charles Ephraim  Search this
Cadmus, Paul  Search this
Chagall, Marc  Search this
Cortissoz, Royal  Search this
Cox, Kenyon  Search this
Curran, Charles C. (Charles Courtney)  Search this
De Creeft, José  Search this
Dehn, Adolf  Search this
Dewing, Thomas Wilmer  Search this
Eakins, Susan Macdowell  Search this
Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel)  Search this
Evergood, Philip  Search this
Graham, John  Search this
Haskell, Ernest  Search this
Hassam, Childe  Search this
Lipchitz, Jacques  Search this
Marsh, Reginald  Search this
McCarter, Henry  Search this
Mechlin, Leila  Search this
Miller, Kenneth Hayes  Search this
Mullikin, Mary Augusta  Search this
Pennell, Joseph  Search this
Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest)  Search this
Sloan, John  Search this
Valentin, Curt  Search this
Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean)  Search this
Zigrosser, Carl  Search this
Milch Galleries  Search this
Place:
China -- description and travel
Place of publication, production, or execution:
Other
Physical Description:
4 Microfilm reels
Access Note / Rights:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
Correspondence, printed material, writings, and other personal papers collected by Carl Zigrosser and Leila Mechlin and later added to by others, all relating to American art.
REELS P10-P11 and P14: Letters to Leila Mechlin, Henry Schnakenberg and Hudson Walker. Correspondents include Robert Abbe, John Taylor Arms, Cecelia Beaux, Paul Bartlett, Gifford Beal, Paul Cadmus, Charles Curran, Royal Cortissoz, Kenyon Cox, Philip Evergood, John David Graham, Reginald Marsh, Joseph Pennell, John Sloan and many others. Some letters include printed material and photographs. Mechlin material includes writings, photographs and letters from Mary Augusta Mullikin describing her life and travels in China, 1933. Also included are letters from Adolph Dehn and Jose de Creeft to Juliana Force; from Ernest Haskell and Kenneth Hayes Miller to Carl Zigrosser; miscellaneous letters from Marc Chagall, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Louis Eilshemius and Childe Hassam; an autobiography of William Sartain; and material on Thomas Eakins, including letters, a list of expenses, 1867, and motion study material,including writings, sketches and photographs taken with a camera invented by Eakins.
REEL 4547: Charles Burchfield letters; Susan and Thomas Eakins material; Jacques Lipchitz correspondence; Henry McCarter letters; and Carl Zigrosser correspondence. The Burchfield letters consist of 41 items, 1929-1947, from Burchfield regarding exhibitions, sales, and his paintings. The Eakins material includes letters from Susan Eakins to the Milch Galleries, 1933-1935, regarding the sale of Thomas Eakins' work, receipts from the Milch Galleries, Thomas' expense book, ca. 1866, for daily living in Paris and Switzerland and an autographed account of expenses while at school in Paris, April 12, 1867, a photograph of Susan Eakins by Carl van Vechten, a photograph of Eakins, and 71 engraved portraits from the collection of Thomas Eakins.
The Lipchitz correspondence is with R. Sturgis Ingersoll regarding Lipchitz's commission for the sculpture "Prometheus." Also included are 8 letters from Curt Valentin to Ingersoll regarding Lipchitz. The McCarter material includes 66 letters, 1933-1942, some containing sketches, from McCarter to Mrs. George B. Roberts regarding paintings, frames, exhibitions, and offering painting advice. The Zigrosser correspondence is regarding the purchase of prints from the regional projects of the WPA for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and later included in the exhibition "Between Two Wars" at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Included are invoices and inventories of the prints from the various offices.
Citation:
Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection, 1866-1968. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reels P10, P11, P14, and 4547 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Originals in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Use Note:
Authorization to publish, quote or reproduce requires written permission from Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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.
Loan:
Loan
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Material on reels P10-P11 and P14 lent for microfilming, 1954, by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Additional material on reel 4547 was microfilmed in 1991 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. The idea for the archives originated with Carl Zigrosser, who donated material, solicited it from others (mainly Henry Schnakenberg, Leila Mechlin and Hudson Walker), or pulled it from the files of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Museum continues to add to the collection. It is not connected to the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Artists' writings  Search this
Motion study -- Photographs  Search this
Theme:
Art organizations  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)10619
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214161
AAA_collcode_philmuss
Theme:
Art organizations
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214161