Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 print view role Collector dates 1869-1946 city Indianapolis state IN other cities Princeton, NJ; Kennebunkport, NE; sex M historical notes Indianapolis novelist and playwright, Tarkington was an early member of the Dramatic Club, and an art collector. During his later years he spent about half the year at his home in Kennebunkport, Me. Tarkington was a collector of antique furniture and of paintings, particularly of English portraits of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was a trustee of the John Herron Art Museum in Indianapolis. He carried on an extensive correspondence with the Silberman brothers in New York, and used them as the basis for his stories about Rumbin Galleries. decades of activity 1930-1940 1940-1950 updated 10/31/2024 13:33:18 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Indiana Historical Society William Henry Smith Memorial Library Booth Tarkington Collection, ca. 1850-1979. see details... University of Virginia Library Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Papers of Booth Tarkington, 1892-1945 see details... see also: E. and A. Silberman Galleries (New York, N.Y.) «  back