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Archives related to: Bartlett, Frederic Clay, 1873-1953
| title | Artist file: Bartlett, Frederic Clay , 1873-1953 | repository | National Portrait Gallery Library |
| description | Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs. |
| extent | 1+ folders (check with repository) |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Folder(s) do not circulate. Folder(s) available for use only at the holding library |
| record source | http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/artandartistfiles/ |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:59 |
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| title | Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries records, 1858-1969, bulk 1919-1968 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries records measure 21.8 linear feet and are dated 1858-1969 (bulk 1919-1968). The records consist mainly of business correspondence with collectors, artists, museums and arts organizations, colleagues, and others. A small amount of Frank K. M. Rehn's personal correspondence and a few stray personal papers of individual artists are interfiled. Also included are financial records, scrapbooks, printed matter, miscellaneous records, and photographs documenting most of the history of a highly regarded New York art gallery devoted to American painting. Series 1: Correspondence contains correspondence with artists, museums and arts organizations, collectors, colleagues, and others documents the workings of Rehn Galleries from its earliest days through 1968. A small amount of Frank K. M. Rehn's personal correspondence and a few scattered personal papers of individual artists are interfiled with the business correspondence. Series 2: Financial Records includes banking, insurance, and investment records, tax returns and related documentation, miscellaneous financial records and paid bills. Among the insurance records are detailed monthly schedules listing paintings with titles, artists, and insurance values. Miscellaneous financial records include inventories of gallery stock, notes regarding business expenses and income, and receipt books recording incoming paintings. Also included are a small number of items concerning the personal business of Frank Rehn and John Clancy. Five volumes of Scrapbooks (Series 3) contain clippings and a small number of exhibition catalogs documenting the activities of Rehn Galleries and many of its associated artists. Additional Printed Matter in Series 4 includes material relating to Rehn Galleries and its artists, as well as publications produced by Rehn Galleries. General, art-related printed matter consists of articles, auction catalogs, advertisements, and publications of various museums, arts organizations, and schools. There is also material about artists not affiliated with Rehn Galleries. Additional printed items concern miscellaneous subjects that are not art-related. Series 5: Miscellaneous Records, includes artwork, lists and notes, and writings. Photographs in Series 6 are of people including artists represented by Rehn as well as several not affiliated with the gallery. Noticeably absent are likenesses of Frank Rehn and John Clancy. Photographs of works of art are by Rehn Galleries' artists and others. Reginald Marsh's photographs consist of family and personal photographs that were either given to Rehn Galleries or perhaps loaned for research use, and include views of Marsh from early childhood through later life, photographs of family and friends, and a small family album. Also included are photographs are of Marsh's childhood drawings. Series 6: Photographs, 1871-1966, undated (Boxes 22, 24, and OV 25; 1.0 linear feet; Reel 5872) Photographs of people include both artists represented by Rehn Galleries and several not affiliated with the gallery. A 1945 group portrait of gallery artists includes Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, John Carroll, John Clancy, Edward Hopper, Morris Kantor, Peppino Mangravite, Reginald Marsh, Henry Mattson, George Picken, Henry Varnum Poor, Frank K. M. Rehn, Eugene Speicher, Bradley Walker Tomlin, and Franklin C. Watkins. Another group portrait is of the 27th Carnegie International Jury of Award and American Committee of Selection. Noticeably absent are likenesses of Frank K. M. Rehn and John C. Clancy. Photographs of works of art are by Rehn Galleries' artists and others. Reginald Marsh's photographs consist of family and personal photographs that were either given to Rehn Galleries or perhaps borrowed for research at the time of his memorial exhibition. Views of Marsh from early childhood through old age consist of studio portraits, informal photographs, and publicity shots of Marsh at work; also included are photographs of family and friends, and a small family album, with few individuals identified. Other photographs are of Marsh's childhood drawings executed between ages 4 and 8, and buildings, including two identified as mother's church and father's church. Miscellaneous subjects are a dog and exhibitions. Exhibition installation views consist of an unidentified exhibition, circa 1923, probably Rehn Galleries, probably at 5 West 50th Street, and two views of the "Rehn Group," possibly at the Carnegie Institute, 1920. Bio / His Notes: Frank K. M. Rehn (1886-1956), son of the marine painter Frank Knox Morton Rehn, after several years' experience as an employee of the Milch Galleries and as exhibition manager for the Salmagundi Club, opened his own art gallery in 1918. In its earliest years, the gallery operated as the Galleries of Frank K. M. Rehn. From the mid 1920s through the mid 1940s, the name used was Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries. As early as 1946, the gallery was referred to simply as Rehn Galleries. The gallery closed in 1981. Throughout its existence, Rehn Galleries specialized in representing American painters. During the first five years Rehn's operation was a private gallery at 6 West 50th Street, New York City. Among the artists he first represented were older, established men such as J. Alden Weir, George Inness, Alexander Wyant, Theodore Robinson, Thomas Dewing, and John H. Twachtman. Occasionally, Rehn handled works by such luminaries of the period as Robert Henri, George Luks, and John Singer Sargent. Among the living artists affiliated with the gallery in its first years were Daniel Garber, Walter Griffin, Dodge MacKnight, and Robert Spencer. Rehn's most popular artist during this time was Childe Hassam, who sued for recovery of a painting that, although acquired by Rehn through a reputable dealer, had been stolen from Hassam's studio many years earlier. Despite the newspaper publicity surrounding Hassam's lawsuit, the business was a successful venture almost immediately. Very early, a number of important collectors including Duncan Phillips, John Gellatly, John T. Spaulding, Albert McVitty, E. W. Root, and C. Vanderbilt Barton displayed confidence in Rehn's judgment and integrity, which enhanced his gallery's reputation and stature among both collectors and artists. In 1923, the gallery moved to 693 Fifth Avenue and began operating as Rehn Galleries, a commercial gallery in the same building that housed in a building that housed Kennedy and Company and the Bourgeois Galleries. At this time, Rehn hired an assistant, John C. Clancy (1897-1981), who had formerly been with Henry Reinhardt and Son and M. Knoedler. The Rehn Galleries soon enjoyed a regular following among museum curators and collectors visiting from out of town. The gallery's roster of artists grew along with its reputation. Rehn focused almost exclusively on American painters, occasionally showing drawings and prints by artists who were primarily painters; notable exceptions were sculptor Mahonri Young and Henry Varnum Poor who, in addition to being a painter, was known for his work in ceramics. Among the painters eventually represented were: Peggy Bacon, George Bellows, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, John F. Carlson, John Carroll, Howard Cook, Jon Corbino, Virginia Cuthbert, Andrew Dasberg, Sidney Gross, Edward Hopper, Alexander James, Irving Kaufmann, Yeffe Kimball, Leon Kroll, Peppino Mangravite, Reginald and Felicia Meyer Marsh, Henry Mattson, Henry Lee McFee, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Charles Rosen, Robert Riggs, Alexander Russo, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, Eugene Speicher, Henry Strater, Richard Derby Tucker, Franklin C. Watkins, and Denny Winters. In 1930, Rehn Galleries moved one block south to the Air France Building at 683 Fifth Avenue, remaining there for thirty years. John C. Clancy, Rehn's long-time assistant, became Gallery Director in 1953 after a stroke prevented Rehn from continuing to run his business in an active capacity. Eventually, Rehn's widow sold Clancy the gallery, which he continued to operate under varying names, including Rehn Gallery, Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, Frank Rehn Gallery, and Rehn Galleries. From 1960 until 1966, The Rehn Galleries were at 36 East 61st Street from 1960 until 1966, when the gallery moved to a space formerly occupied by Kootz Gallery at 855 Madison Avenue, where it remained in business for another fifteen years. Additional forms: 35mm microfilm reels 5849-5872 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Loc. of Assoc. Material: Additional Rehn Gallery records also located at: Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, N.Y. Co-Creator: Bartlett, Frederic Clay, 1873-1953 Bellows, George, 1882-1925 Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980 Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967 Chappell, Warren, 1904- Clancy, John, d. 1981 Coleman, Glenn O., 1887-1932 Cook, Howard Norton, 1901-1980 Cuthbert, Virginia, 1908-2001 Dasburg, Andrew, 1887- Gellatly, John, 1853-1931 Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930 Henri, Robert, 1865-1929 Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967 Hopper, Jo N. (Josephine Nivison), ca. 1883-1968 James, Alexander, 1890-1946 Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974 Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933 Mangravite, Peppino, 1896- Marsh, Felicia Meyer, 1912 or 3-1978 Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954 McFee, Henry Lee, 1886-1953 Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932 Orton, J. Robert Pepper, Charles Hovey, 1864-1950 Phillips, Duncan, 1886-1966 Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970 Russo, Alexander Spalding, John T. Sparhawk-Jones, Elizabeth, 1885-1968 Speicher, Eugene E. (Eugene Edward), 1883-1962 Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967 Strater, Henry, 1896- Tucker, Allen, 1866-1939 Tucker, Richard Derby, 1903- Winters, Denny, 1907-1985 Young, Mahonri Mackintosh, 1877-1957 |
| extent | 21.8 linear ft. |
| formats | Business Papers Correspondence Personal Papers Financial Records Scrapbooks |
| access | The papers have been scanned in their entirety and are available online via AAA's website. Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/frank-km-rehn-galleries-records-9193/more |
| record source | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/frank-km-rehn-galleries-records-9193 |
| finding aid | Available on the repository's, Archives of American Art's, web site. |
| acquisition information | The Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries records were loaned by John Clancy for microfilming in 1959; in 1966, this same material was donated to the Archives. Mr. Clancy made subsequent gifts of additional gallery records in 1978 and 1981. In 1985, the Whitney Museum of American Art donated to the Archives correspondence with Edward Hopper that John Clancy had loaned the museum many years earlier. A death mask of George Luks received with the collection is on extended loan to the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Separated and Related Materials John Clancy interview by Paul Cummings, July 10, 1970. Oral History Program, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Samuel Adler Papers, 1902-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Contains a recording (1 cassette; untranscribed) of Beverly Chesler interviewing John Clancy about the history of Rehn Galleries, 1973; Samuel Adler is present and participates briefly in the interview. In addition, the Archives of American Art has among its collections personal papers and oral history interviews of artists and collectors associated with the Rehn Galleries. Researchers are advised to conduct a name search in the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS). |
| updated | 12/15/2014 12:07:07 |
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| title | Autographs collected and letters received, A-N by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, 1705, 1785, 1848, 1861-1922 (bulk 1861-1922). | repository | University of Virginia |
| description | The letters consist primarily of social notes to Mrs. Ward from authors, some artists, and musicians. Some concern her work for the committees on literature for children, and children's day at the Chicago World's Fair. Susan B. Anthony, Hamlin Garland, George F. Root, and Jane Addams are mentioned. Letters, works in progress, philanthropies, and family news are common topics. Also, a manuscript of "The Tower of Flame" by Richard Watson Gilder is included, as are autographs and letters collected by Mrs. Coonley Ward. Citation Note: Lydia Avery Coonley Ward Autographs Collected and Letters Received, 1705-1922, Accession #5672-a, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va. |
| extent | 294 items. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://virgobeta.lib.virginia.edu |
| finding aid | Guide available. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Poetry: a magazine of verse : records, 1912-1961. | repository | University of Chicago, Library |
| description | Contains the administrative records of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse from its founding in 1912 to 1961, and documents not only the history of the magazine, but also the development of English-language verse in the first half of the twentieth century. The administrative files include correspondence, poetry manuscripts, articles, and reviews sent to and compiled by each editor of the magazine. Also included are a smaller number of business and editorial files, containing financial and fund raising records, literary prizes, author biographies, clippings and other items documenting the operation of the magazine. Poets represented include Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, William Rose Benet, Amy Bonner, Witter Bynner, Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, James Joyce, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, Yvor Winters, William Butler Yeats, Louis Zukofsky, and many more. Notes: Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1912 by Harriet Monroe. Taking Walt Whitman's line, "To have great poets there must be great audiences too" as a motto, Monroe sought to cultivate a wide readership for new writing and ideas. Organization: Organized into three series: I. Administrative Files, 1912-1936; II. Administrative Files, 1936-1953; and III. Administrative Files, 1954-1961. Citation When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Records, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library SEE Box: 44 Folder: 21 Bartlett, Fredric 4pp |
| extent | 100 linear ft. (174 boxes). |
| formats | Administrative Records Correspondence Manuscript Clippings Financial Records |
| access | No restrictions. |
| record source | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.POETRY&q=Frederic Clay Bartlett |
| finding aid | Finding aid: http://proxy.uchicago.edu/login?url=http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.poetry |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Harriet Monroe Papers, 1873-1944 (inclusive). | repository | University of Chicago, Library |
| description | Contains correspondence; manuscripts of poems, plays, and autobiography, A Poet's Life; lectures, essays, and short stories; diaries; legal documents; memorabilia, Christmas cards; photographs; and clippings. Papers relate to Monroe's interests as poet, editor, playwright, art critic, traveler, and conservationist. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Daniel French, Herbert Adams, Carter Harrison, Maude Elliott, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Eugene Field, E.C. Stedman, Louis Sullivan, Rebecca West, William Allen White, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Charles Zueblin, and William Vaugh Moody. Also includes letters from Monroe's sister Lucy Calhoun and her brother-in-law William J. Calhoun while he served as United States Minister to China in Peking (1912). Also includes correspondence with the editors of Macmillan & Co. and poets regarding selection and permission to publish for the anthology The New Poetry which Monroe edited with Alice Corbin Henderson. Notes: Poet and founding editor of Poetry: a Magazine of Verse. Citation When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Monroe, Harriet. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library SEE Subseries 1: General Correspondence. Box: 1, Folder: 2, Bartlett, Frederic C. |
| extent | 11 linear feet (21 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript Ephemera Photographs Clippings |
| access | No restrictions. |
| record link | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.MONROE&q=Papers,%201873-1944 |
| record source | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/search.php?searchq=Papers%2C+1873-1944 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library. Finding aid: http://proxy.uchicago.edu/login?url=http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.monroe |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Miscellanea - Frederic Clay Bartlett. | repository | The Ryerson & Burnham Archives |
| description | LOCATION Pamphlets CALL # P-02273 |
| extent | 5 items. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://ryerson.artic.edu/ |
| updated | 10/15/2018 15:24:40 |
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| title | Archival Biographical Files, circa 1890-2010 | repository | University of Chicago, Library |
| description | The Archival Biographical File was established in order to organize and make accessible information on faculty members, officers, trustees, staff members, and other individuals related to the University. The materials have been received from many sources, although the largest portion has come from the Office of University News and Information and its predecessors. No attempt is made by the Archives to systematically collect biographical information on all members of the University community, but appropriate items are filed here as they are received. The file includes biographical data sheets, curriculum vitae, obituaries, press releases, articles, and news clippings.Some folders also contain small amounts of letters and other original manuscripts.With a few exceptions, the file does not contain information on students or alumni, unless they have some other affiliation with the University. Book-length biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs are listed in a separate inventory, "Archival Biographical Monographs." New materials are regularly received and added to the file.This listing will be updated periodically to reflect any changes. The Archives has many other resources for obtaining information on faculty and staff members of the University, including official publications, records of departments and offices, and papers of individuals. |
| extent | 1300 files |
| formats | Subject Files Ephemera |
| access | Please consult a member of the Archival staff for further assistance. |
| record link | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/pdf/ICU.SPCL.ARCHBIO.pdf |
| record source | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/ |
| finding aid | Online and in repostory. |
| acquisition information | The materials have been received from many sources, although the largest portion has come from the Office of University News and Information and its predecessors. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:14 |
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