Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900
| title | Artist: Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900 |
| 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 | 02/14/2025 10:07:40 |
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| title | Frederic Edwin Church 1826-1900 : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation [graphic]. |
| repository | The Frick Collection and Frick Art Research Library |
| description | Assembled file includes b&w photographs, reproductions from books and auction catalogs, and in some cases, negatives. Items may include full views, details, before-and-after restoration views, etc. Documentation may include artist name, title of work, medium, dimensions, provenance, exhibition history, related works, previous attributions, and bibliography. Location Frick Photoarchive Stacks Call Number 100 Church |
| extent | 5 boxes |
| formats | Photographs |
| access | Photocopies of items and accompanying documentation are available upon request, subject to fees and other current guidelines for reproduction. Photographic prints from the Library's negatives may be ordered subject to copyright requirements. |
| record source | https://library.frick.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/1qqhid8/alma991002676869707141 |
| finding aid | N/A |
| acquisition information | The Library continues to add to the file. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Artist file. Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. |
| repository | The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives |
| description | Found In Schweitzer Gallery files The file may include any of the following materials: announcements, clippings, photographs, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, resumés, other ephemeral material. Cite as Brooklyn Museum of Art Library Collections. Schweitzer Gallery files. Location Brooklyn Artist Files Call Number AF Schweitzer C |
| extent | 1 folder. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991013253219707141 |
| acquisition information | Gift; M.R. Schweitzer; 1990. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Artist file. Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. |
| repository | The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives |
| description | Found In Clark S. Marlor artist files The file may include any of the following materials: announcements, clippings, photographs, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, resumés, other ephemeral material. Cite as Brooklyn Museum of Art Library Collections. Clark S. Marlor artist files. Location Brooklyn Artist Files Call Number AF Marlor C |
| extent | 1 folder. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991000032529707141 |
| acquisition information | Gift; Dr. Clark S. Marlor; 1992-ongoing. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Artist file. Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. |
| repository | The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives |
| description | Found In BMA artist files The file may include any of the following materials: announcements, clippings, photographs, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, resumés, other ephemeral material. Cite as Brooklyn Museum of Art Library Collections. BMA artist files. Location Brooklyn Artist Files Call Number AF BMA C |
| extent | 1 folder. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991000290229707141 |
| acquisition information | Files compiled by BMA library staff from 1917 to the present. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Erastus Dow Palmer letter, 1868 March 10. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | A letter to Palmer from Frederic Edwin Church, written from Jaffa, Palestine. Bio / His Notes: Sculptor; Albany, N.Y. Was self-taught. Was an expert joiner, patternmaker, and cameo cutter as well. Reproduction: Letter is a typescript. Location of Original: Original owned by Joseph Gavit. |
| extent | 1 item (on partial microfilm reel) |
| formats | Microfilm Typescript |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/erastus-dow-palmer-letter-5649 |
| acquisition information | This typescript was prepared by the donor, David Huntington, in March 1957 from the original letter owned by Palmer's grandson, Joseph Gavit. Huntington writes, "I have had to do a minimum of editing. Church seldom used periods. He generally punctuated with dashes, or if the sentence ended at the margin he might not even write a dash. Where there would be a period, a double space has been left. If a word has been crossed out the typist has indicated dashes over the word." |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Ramon Paez letters from Frederic Edwin Church, 1862-1900. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Two letters, September 2 and September 4, 1862, discuss an unnamed artist's sketch for an engraving which Paez has sent to Church for correction. Two letters, September 11 and October 12, 1866, discuss Church's progress on a Paez commission to paint Cotopaxi volcano. In the fifth letter, December 3, 1877, Church asks Paez to do a sketch for him and encloses a check. Bio / His Notes: Geographer, writer, porcelain painter; New York, N.Y. Paez was apparently involved in some artistry himself. In one of Church's letters to Paez, he asks if he may buy one of Paez's works. Additional forms: 35mm microfilm reel 3470 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. |
| extent | 5 items (on partial microfilm reel) |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ramon-paez-letters-frederic-edwin-church-5647 |
| acquisition information | Donated 1967 by Mrs. Hugh Mullan. Relationship to Paez not clear. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | William T. Evans letters, 1842-1969. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Printed material and letters to Evans from collectors, dealers, and artists. Letters discuss business matters including the Munich International Art Exposition 1883, the American Watercolor Society, the Salmagundi Club, the Lotos Club, and Evans loaning work from his private collection for exhibitions, requests from artists wanting Evans to comment on and handle their work, thank you notes and invitations to openings and dinners. Significant correspondents include George Inness, Childe Hassam, Thomas W. Dewing, Worthington Whittredge, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Frederic Edwin Church, Joseph Pennell, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Rembrandt Peale, Hobart Nichols, John George Brown, William A. Coffin and Eastman Johnson. |
| extent | ca. 900 items (on 3 micofilm reels) reels 4054-4055 and 2804 (fr.14-19) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/william-t-evans-letters-8283 |
| acquisition information | Letters on reels 4054-4055 were lent to the Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture, National Collection of Fine Arts in 1970 by Robert Price who acquired them along with paintings from Evans' estate and elsewhere. They were photocopied and the copies were given to the NCFA-PG Librarian, who transferred them to the Archives of American Art in 1979. In 1988 the copies were microfilmed by the Archives and discarded. The original letter on reel 2804 was transfered from NMAA, 1981. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Read family papers, 1848-1935. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence between Read family members, Thomas Buchanan Read, Mary Pratt Read, Mary Alice Read, and Harriet Denison Butler Read, and notable military, literary, political, and artistic figures, particluarly of the 19th century. Correspondents include Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, William Whiteman Fosdick, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, Ludwig Knaus, Hiram Powers, Thomas Addison Richards, Randolph Rogers, John Sartain, William Wetmore Story, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Philip Sheridan, James Garfield, and William Tecumseh Sherman, among others. Bio / His Notes: Thomas Buchanan Read was a poet, a portrait and history painter, and sometime sculptor, and worked in the U.S. and abroad. |
| extent | 229 items (on partial microfilm reel) reel 1478 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/read-family-papers-8401 |
| acquisition information | Lent for microfilming 1979 by Denison L. Burton. Location of Original: Originals returned to the lender, Denison Burton, after microfilming. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera, 1808-1910. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters, 1808-1910, written by American artists and collected by Duveen. Also included are miscellaneous items such as Bible records, quotations, pictorial reproductions and a few letters written by European artists. Included are 28 letters from Albert Bierstadt, the majority of the letters are to Col. Woodworth; 10 from Frederic E. Church; 14 from Frederick S. Church; 25 by Constant Mayer; 11 by Albert Rosenthal; and a few each by Edwin H. Blashfield, James Champney, Timothy Cole, William Gibson, Eliza Greatorex, D. Ridgway Knight, Charles R. Leslie, Emanuel Leutze, Jervis McEntee, Francis Millet, Henry Mosler, William Page, E. D. Palmer, William Partridge, Hiram Powers, Henry Ranger, Peter Rothermel, Ross Turner, Edwin Weeks, Anne Whitney, Worthington Whittredge and others. Co-Creator: Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902 Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 Bosworth, Welles, 1869-1966 Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905 Bridgman, Frederick Arthur, 1847-1928 Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893 Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903 Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889 Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900 Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924 Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931 Crane, Bruce, 1857-1937 Cropsey, Jasper Francis, 1823-1900 Ezekiel, Moses Jacob, 1844-1917 Fairman, James, 1826-1904 Fay, Gaston Fenn, Harry, 1838-1911 Fosdick, J. William, 1858-1937 Fournier, Alexis Jean, 1865-1948 French, Edwin Davis, 1851-1906 Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896 Gould, Thomas Ridgeway, 1818-1881 Greatorex, Eliza Pratt, 1820-1897 Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852 Gregory, Frank M., b. 1848 Grosvenor, Thelma Cudlipp, b. 1892 Hartley, Jonathan Scott, 1845-1912 Hays, William Jacob, 1830-1875 Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894 Hennessy, William J., 1839-1917 Herrick, Henry Walker, 1824-1906 Herter, Albert, 1871- Hill, John Henry, 1839-1922 Hillern, Bertha von Huntley, Samantha Littlefield, b. 1865 Kappes, Alfred, 1850-1894 Kaufmann, Theodor, 1814-1900 Keith, Dora Wheeler, 1856-1940 Kitchell, Joseph Gray, b. 1862 La Farge, John, 1835-1910. Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889 Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 Leutze, Emanuel, 1816-1868 Lie, Jonas, 1880-1940 Linen, George, 1802-1888 Lippincott, William H. (William Henry), 1849-1920 Lock, Frederick William Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869 Longpre, Paul de, 1855-1911 Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932 Lumley, Arthur, ca. 1837-1912 Lupton, Thomas Goff, 1791-1873 MacDonald, James Wilson Alexander, 1824-1908 MacMonnies, Mary Fairchild, 1858-1946 Matthews, William, 1822-1896 Mayer, Constant, 1829-1911 Mayer, Frank Blackwell, 1827-1899 McArthur, John, 1823-1890 McCord, George Herbert, 1848-1909 McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891 McKenzie, R. Tait (Robert Tait), 1867-1938 Middleton, Stanley Grant, b. 1852 Mignot, L. R. (Louis Remy), 1831-1870 Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912 Moran, Edward, 1829-1901 Moran, Peter, 1841-1914 Morgan, Matthew Somerville, 1839-1890 Mosler, Henry, 1841-1920 Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928 Muller, Karl, 1818-1893 Mulvany, John, 1839-1906 O'Connor, Andrew, 1847-1924 Oertel, Johannes Adam Simon, 1823-1909 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937 Page, Fred B. Page, William, 1811-1885 Palmer, Erastus Dow, 1817-1904 Palmer, John E. Palmer, Walter Launt, 1854-1932 Paris, Walter, 1842-1906 Parrish, Randall Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930 Pease, Joseph Ives, 1809-1883 Peixotto, Ernest, b. 1869 Persico, Luigi, 1791-1860 Pfeiffer, Emily, 1827-1890 Pike, William Powell, W. H. (William Henry), 1823-1879 Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873 Raffaëlli, Jean François, 1850-1924 Ranger, Henry Ward, 1858-1916 Reid, Robert, 1862-1929 Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926 Richards, T. Addison (Thomas Addison), 1820-1900 Ripley, Robert Le Roy, 1893-1949 Robbins, Horace Wolcott, 1842-1904 Robinson, Anna Robinson, Theodore, 1852-1896 Rogers, John, 1829-1904 Rogers, Randolph, 1825-1892 Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931 Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939 Rossiter, Thomas Prichard, 1818-1871 Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895 Ruckstuhl, F. W. (Fred Wellington), 1853-1942 Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 Sanderson, Charles Wesley, 1838-1905 Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896 Satterlee, Walter, 1844-1908 Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904 Scott, Emily Maria Spaford, 1832-1915 Selinger, Jean Paul, 1850-1909 Shattuck, Aaron Draper, 1832-1928 Smillie, George H. (George Henry), 1840-1921 Snell, Henry Bayley, 1858-1943 Sonntag, William Louis, 1822-1900 Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946 Stetson, Charles Walter, 1858-1911 Stewart, Julius L., 1855-1919 Stone, Horatio, 1808-1875 Story, George Henry, 1835-1923 Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895 Stout, James Varick, 1809-1860 Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905 Taylor, Henry Fitch, 1853-1925 Thompson, Charles A. Thompson, Launt, 1833-1894 Thulstrup, Thure de, 1848-1930 Tilton, John Rollin, 1828-1888 Turcas, Jules, 1854-1917 Turner, Charles Yardley, 1850-1918 Turner, Ross, 1847-1915 Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930 Van Boskerck, Robert Ward, 1855-1932 Van Elten, Kruseman, 1829-1904 Van Laer, Alexander T., 1857-1920 Volk, Douglas, 1856-1935 Volkmar, Charles, 1841-1914 Vos, Hubert, 1855-1935 Walcutt, William, 1819-1882 Walden, Lionel, 1861-1933 Walker, James, 1819-1889 Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887 Waterman, Marcus A., 1834-1914 Waugh, Ida, d. 1919 Weeks, Edwin Lord Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906 Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889 White, George Harlow, 1817-1887 Whitman, Sarah Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915 Whittemore, William J., 1860-1955 Whittredge, Worthington, 1820-1910 Wiggins, Carleton, 1848-1932 Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948 Williams, George Alfred, 1875- Wilmarth, Lemuel Everett, 1835-1918 Winterburn, George T. Worth, Thomas, 1834-1917 Wurst, Alexander, 1837-1876 Yewell, George Henry, 1830-1923 Zilcken, Ph., 1857-1930 Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935 |
| extent | 1.0 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.duvealbe.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/albert-duveen-collection-artists-letters-and-ephemera-7075 |
| acquisition information | Purchased from Albert Duveen in 1956. Duveen purchased most of the letters from dealers in Americana and estate sales. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Jervis McEntee papers, 1796, 1848-1905. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The papers of Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee contain letters from close friends and family members to McEntee and include many from his mentor Frederic Edwin Church, and fellow artists Samuel Putnam Avery, George Henry Boughton, Sanford Gifford, Richard Henry, Eastman Johnson, Elizabeth B. Stoddard, John Ferguson Weir, Worthington Whittredge, and others. Papers relating to the McEntee family include obituaries, a family genealogy, and letters from and regarding family members. There are also papers relating to the Vaux family (McEntee's brother-in-law's family) and American architect and landscape artist Calvert Vaux, who designed a studio for McEntee. Of special significance are five volumes of diaries dating from 1872 through 1891 which provide a detailed depiction of the American art world in the 1870s and 1880s. SEE repository's website for full description [ http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/digitalcollections/collectionsonline/mcenjerv/index.html] |
| extent | 1.2 linear ft. |
| formats | Microfilm Electronic Resource Correspondence Diaries Sketches |
| access | The bulk of the collection has been digitized and is available on the Archives of American Art's website. Use of materials not digitized requires an appointment. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.mcenjerv.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/jervis-mcentee-papers-7251 |
| finding aid | Collection available on-line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/digitalcollections/collectionsonline/mcenjerv/index.html |
| acquisition information | The diary on reel D9 was lent for microfilming 1964 by the Adirondack Museum. Many of the letters were donated in 1959 by Charles E. Feinberg, an active donor and friend of AAA. The 5 v. diary was donated 1964 by Mrs. Helen S. McEntee. Additional papers were donated by William Gaffken, director of the insurance company which acquired the McEntee family insurance firm, in 1990 and 1997. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Frederic Edwin Church letters to Charles F. Olney, 1891-1896. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | A copy of a typescript of two letters from Church to Olney, dated March 27, 1891 and November 30, 1896. Bio / His Notes: Art patron; Cleveland, Ohio. Olney was one of the first benefactors of Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum. |
| extent | 1 item (on partial microfilm reel) roll 3161 |
| formats | Microfilm |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/frederic-edwin-church-letters-to-charles-f-olney-6972 |
| acquisition information | Donated by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Reproduction: Letters and original typescript in possession of: Allen Memorial Art Museum. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Weir family papers, 1809-circa 1961, bulk 1830-1920 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence, photographs, genealogical material, writings, a diary, sketchbooks, and art works, primarily of John Ferguson Weir and his father, Robert W. Weir, but also including Mary French Weir, Edith Weir Perry, Julian Alden Weir, and Irene Weir. [Additional Julian Alden Weir papers are also in a separate collection]). Bio / His Notes: Family of artists, New York, N.Y. Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889) was a Hudson River School painter and Professor at West Point. His two sons John Ferguson (1841-1926) and Julian Alden (1852-1919) were painters. Mary French Weir (1846-1927) was married to John. They had a daughter Edith (1875-1955). John was Director of the Yale School of Fine Arts from 1869-1913. Reproduction: Reels 529-531: Copies of letters to Julian Alden Weir at the Yale University Library. Location of Original: Reels 529-531, 533, 565, 936 & 949: Originals returned to Rev. DeWolf Perry after microfilming. |
| extent | 9 microfilm reels |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Photographs Writings Diaries |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. Reel 533: Authorization to publish, reproduce, or quote must be obtained from: Mrs. Richard E. Baker, 125 Ash St., Hopkinton, Mass. 01748. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.weirweir.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/weir-family-papers-13415 |
| finding aid | Reel 529-530: Partial inventory, including some typescripts, available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Photographs were given to the Archives of American Art in 2019 by Mary and John McGuigan, Jr. Letters to John Ferguson Weir were donated by Harold O. Love in 1961. Material on reels 529-531, 533, 565, 936 and 949 was lent for microfilming 1973-1975 by Rev. DeWolf Perry, grandson of John F. Weir. He also donated two photographs in 1975. The donor and date of acquisition of the manuscript draft of Julian Alden Weir's biography are unknown. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Alfred Williams Anthony papers, [ca. 1880-1930]. |
| repository | American Art Archives |
| description | Letters, autographs, biographical data, and miscellany collected by Anthony about 19th century artists. Artists include: Edwin A. Abbey, Ernest Albert, Elizabeth A. Allen, Daniel C. Beard, Frank Beard, Samuel G. W. Benjamin, Albert Bierstadt,Nathaniel Blaisdell, Edwin H. Blashfield, Evangeline Blashfield, Charles W. Bolton, Victor D. Brenner, Sydney & Mrs. Burleigh, William M. Chase, Frederic E. Church, Harry Cochrane, William A. Coffin, Timothy Cole, Thomas Cole, Royal Cortissoz, Palmer Cox, Christopher Cranch, Felix O. C. Darley, Frederick Dellenbaugh, Frederick Dielman, Andrew J. Downing, Charles L. Eastlake, George W. Edwards, Daniel C. French, Edmund H. Garrett, Sanford R. Gifford, V. Gribayedoff, Henry W. Herbert, Elbert Hubbard, Daniel Huntington, Laurence Hutton, Ernest L. Ipshen, Norman W. Isham, F. Lynn Jenkins, John La Farge, Edward C. Leavitt, William J. Linton, Benson J. Lossing, Will H. Low, Jervis McEntee, George Merrill, John H. Mills, Thomas Moran, Samuel F.B. Morse, A. R. Mullen, Thomas Nast, National Arts Club, Wilbur F. Noyes,Frederick B. Opper, Mrs. Archie M. Palmer, Erastus D. Palmer, William F. Paris, Carl R. Parker, Hiram Powers, Howard Pyle, Thomas B. Read, Albert Rosenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Sartain, Walter Smedley, George F. C. Smillie, Francis H. Smith, Bayard Taylor, Col. Henry S. Taylor, John Trumbull, Henry T. Tuckerman, Union League Club, N.Y., D. B. Updike, Vasili Vereschagen, Charles Vezin, Douglas Volk, D. Everett Waid, John Q. A. Ward, Clara E. Waters, Robert W. Weir, J. Thomson Willing, Ellsworth Woodward, Mabel Woodward, William Woodward, and F. Hammond Wright. Bio / His Notes: Clergyman, educator; Lewiston, Maine. Additional forms: 35mm microfilm reel N4 (frames 601-1163) & N25 (frames 1131-1132) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. |
| extent | 2 partial microfilm reels. reel N4 (frames 601-1163) & N25 (frames 1131-1132) |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Ephemera |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Microfilmed 1956 by the Archives of American Art with other art-related papers in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library. Included in the microfilming project were selected papers of the Art Division and the Prints Division. Location of Original: Originals in the New York Public Library, Manuscript Division. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Martin Johnson Heade papers, 1853-1904. |
| repository | American Art Archives |
| description | The bulk of the collection consists of letters from Johnson's friend and fellow artist, Frederic Edwin Church between 1866-1899. Within the papers is an annotated sketchbook, circa 1853-1877, and a detailed handwritten notebook about hummingbirds dating from circa 1881. Also found are a few letters and notes from others, deeds, and an 1865 exhibition catalog. Bio / His Notes: Landscape, portrait, and still life painter. Worked on the East coast and in the Mid-West. Visited Central and South America. Also naturalist and poet. Best known for painting tropical birds and flowers. |
| extent | 48 items (0.3 linear ft.) |
| formats | Correspondence Sketchbooks Notebooks Legal Papers Exhibition Catalogs |
| access | Collection has been digitized and is available via the Archives of American Art's website. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/headmart/ |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | The collection was fully digitized in 2007 as part of the Terra Foundation for American Art Digitization Grant. |
| acquisition information | Donated 1955 by Robert McIntyre, who collected the material for his book on Heade. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | Martin Johnson Heade letter to Frederic Edwin Church, 1868. |
| repository | American Art Archives |
| description | Writing from New York, April 27, 1868 (continued May 6 and June 16), Heade mentions Church's picture owned by Mr. De Forest, his own painting of a storm in the current exhibition at National Academy of Design, and that his work is selling well in Chicago. He writes how his salt marsh painting came to have a sun very similar to Church's style; that Charles Gould was "black-balled" at the Union League but Heade is now a member because he wants to use their gallery space; his work on a "Spring picture," but the weather is not cooperating; Cincinnati is planning its first big exhibition in ten years; the art scene in Chicago is thriving; Robbins needs a studio and has designs on Heade's; and that he saw Tuckerman. Also included is a typescript of the letter. |
| extent | 1 item (6 p.) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated by William Sandrik and Dr. Martin Stampien, Jr., 1992. Sandrik purchased the letter at a philatelic show in Washington, D.C., 1992. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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| title | James Lawrence Claghorn papers, 1849-1882. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters (1849-1856), business records (1849-1856), a visitors' register (1873-1885), and a scrapbook (ca. 1866-1885) concern the acquisition of paintings and prints for Claghorn's collection. REEL 3580: 137 letters (1849-1882) to Claghorn regard his art collection and dealing activities and include letters from Goupil & Cie., J. Crumby, who served as a purchasing agent, Frederic Edwin Church, John Frederick Kensett, Hiram Powers, Thomas Buchanan Read, Peter F. Rothermel, and Thomas Worthington Whittredge. REEL 3581: Letters and receipts addressed to Claghorn document the purchase and sale of American and European paintings and prints (1849-1856). There are also inventories of shipments. Letters frequently include titles and prices. REEL 4131: Visitors Register, March 18, 1873-Jan. 1885, containing names and addresses of those who viewed the Claghorn Collection; many artists, local art students and instructors, and foreign visitors are listed. Scrapbook, most likely compiled by Claghorn with posthumous entries added by family, contains mainly newspaper clippings concerning Claghorn, his collections, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, art activities in Philadelphia, and artists (particularly printmakers); also includes photograph of Seymour Haden, catalogs of the Claghorn Collection, admission tickets, reprints of lengthy articles about Claghorn and his collections, and a few letters to J. Raymond Claghorn [son of James L.] regarding the disposition of the collection and its sale to Thomas Harrison Garrett. REEL 4152: 88 letters (1848-1864) from various agents in New York and Europe regard purchases of paintings, prints and sculpture by artists, including Asher B. Durand and Worthington Whittredge. Four letters regard paintings to be exhibited at the Great Sanitary Fair. Nine letters (1855-1864) from Thomas Buchanan Read regard his activities in England. Read's letters from Cincinnati discuss his poetry and commissions for his paintings. Bio / His Notes: Collector and art patron; Philadelphia, Pa. Claghorn was an officer of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. Best known for his print collection, he began by collecting paintings by American artists, ca. 1840. In 1877, he sold his painting collection in order to devote his efforts to his print collection. His private gallery in Philadelphia was open to visitors, and selections from the Claghorn Collection were exhibited in other cities. After his death, his print collection was purchased by Thomas Harrison Garrett, and thereafter was known as the Garrett Collection. After being on long-term loan to the Library of Congress between 1904 and 1930, the collection is now owned by the Baltimore Museum of Art. |
| extent | 1.4 linear ft. (on 4 partial microfilm reels) reels 3580, 3581, 4131, and 4152 |
| formats | Microfilm Scrapbooks Business Papers Correspondence Inventories |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/james-lawrence-claghorn-papers-9986 |
| acquisition information | Materials on reel 3581 were borrowed for filming from Philadelphia Maritime Museum. Materials on reel 3580 were borrowed for filming from John W. Claghorn on July 16, 1985, and were later donated to the Archives of American Art by his descendant Frederic S. Claghorn along with additional letters appearing on reel 4152. Material on reel 4131 was donated by Mabel Claghorn Bulkeley, granddaughter of James L. Claghorn. Location of Original: Reel 3581: Originals in Philadelphia Maritime Museum. |
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| title | Charles Henry Hart papers, 1774-1930, bulk 1888-1918 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters from artists received by Hart largely in his capacity as director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and as an authority on portraiture. Letters regard paintings, engravings, requests for information, and acceptances of positions as a member of the jury of selection and committees at the Academy. Correspondents include: Thomas P. Anshutz, Thomas Ball, Edwin H. Blashfield, Francis B. Carpenter, William M. Chase, Howard C. Christy, Frederic E. Church, William A. Coffin, Kenyon Cox, Charles C. Curran, Thomas W. Dewing, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Eakins, John M. Falconer, Stephen J. Ferris, Jared B. Flagg, Charles Grafly, Clifford P. Grayson, Thomas A. Harrison, Thomas Hovenden, Daniel Huntington, Hugh B. Jones, George C. Lambdin, Charles Linford, Will H. Low, Frederick W. MacMonnies, George W. Maynard, William Page, Joseph Pennell, Roland H. Perry, William T. Richards, Peter F. Rothermel, Walter Shirlaw, William T. Smedley, James D. Smillie, Grancis H. Smith, George H. Story, Julian Story, Edmund Tarbell, Abbott H. Thayer, Frank H. Tomkins, Bernahrd Uhle, Edward Valentine, and Olin L. Warner. The James D. Smillie letter was refilmed in its entirety on reel 1079. |
| extent | 43 items (on 1 microfilm reel) |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.hartchah.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/charles-henry-hart-papers-9656 |
| finding aid | Microfilm inventory available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | The letters were presumably included by Hart in the 2 v. collection titled "The History of Art in America as Told in a Remarkable Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents of Celebrated American Artists of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century." Other letters in the volumes are written to various people, and have been described in separate catalog records, each grouped under the name of the person to whom the letters are addressed, including Thomas Benedict Clarke, Asher Brown Durand, John Durand, Charles Lanman, William J. Stillman, John Trumbull and one under the title Miscellaneous Artists Letters. Researchers should also consult the Charles Henry Hart papers, reels 928-935 and 2813 for additional letters to Hart from artists. |
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| title | [Frederic E. Church and Theodore Winthrop] [graphic] |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Church seated, Winthrop standing, photographer unknown. Bio / His Notes: Church was an American artist, who was close friends with Winthrop. |
| extent | 1 photographic print : b&w ; 15 x 12 cm. |
| formats | Photographs |
| access | Photograph has been digitized and is available on repository's website. |
| record source | https://www.si.edu/object/frederic-edwin-church-and-theodore-winthrop%3AAAADCD_item_2473 |
| acquisition information | Donated 1958 by Winslow Ames, an art historian. Microfilmed 1973 with Photographs of Artists Collection I and scanned in 2003. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:42 |
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