Creelman, Alice Buell |
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Dealer/Gallery Collector Artist |
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dates
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1858-1952 |
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city
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Marietta, OH; Paris, France; |
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sex
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F |
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historical notes
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Alice Leffingwell Buell Creelman was an art dealer and collector. She was married to the journalist James Creelman (1859 – 1915, m. Paris, 1891).
Creelman sold several paintings to Henry Clay Frick including the following:
- Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 1477/1490 – 1576, Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap, 1516 (purchased in 1915)
- Hans Holbein, the Younger, 1497/1498 – 1543, Thomas Cromwell, 1532– 1533 (purchased in 1915)
- James McNeill Whistler, 1834 – 1903, Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland (purchased in 1917).
- Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1599 – 1641, Sir John Suckling (purchased in 1918)
Creelman was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York.
Creelman had four children: Edward Dunwoodie Creelman, 1892-1893; James Ashmore Creelman, 1894–1941 (playwright); Constance Alice Creelman, 1898–1982 (husband Harold Wood Huntley 1882–1955); Helen “Eileen” Buell Creelman Davenport, 1902–1975 (motion picture critic, husband Frederick Morgan Davenport Jr., 1900–1976).
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decades
of activity | 1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
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Archives/Repository |
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Ohio State University Libraries
Rare Books & Manuscripts |
James Creelman Papers |
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The Frick Collection and Frick Art Research Library
10 East 71st Street |
Frick Art Reference Library Central Correspondence — Dealers, 1920–present |
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The Frick Collection and Frick Art Research Library
10 East 71st Street |
Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series I: Art Files, 1881-1925, undated. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968 (bulk 1892-1953). |
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Detroit Institute of Arts
Research Library & Archives |
The Charles Moore Papers, 1905-1917 |
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Ingalls Library and Archives |
Records of the Director's Office: Frederic Allen Whiting, 1913-1930 |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries records, 1858-1969, bulk 1919-1968 |
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The Winterthur Library
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum |
Antique Dealers papers, 1911-1957 |
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The G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library
Albright-Knox Art Gallery |
Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton Records, 1908-1930 |
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