Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Smith, George Walter Vincent, 1832-1923
| title | George Walter Vincent Smith Letters, 1882-1922. | repository | George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum |
| description | Letters received by Smith, relating to the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, its acquisitions, and the resulting social relationships. Subjects include various acquisitions; Donatello, Sandro Botticelli, Tiepolo, and other Italian artists; Leland Stanford; Artists' Aid Society; Montpelier Art Gallery; and Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours. Correspondents include Henry Hammond Ahl, A.T. Bricher, J.B. Bristol, Frank Edwin Elwell, Susan E.P.B. Forbes, Mary E. Guthrie, Winslow Homer, Jervis McEntee, Larkin G. Mead, Jacques Reich, Raffaele Mainella, Franny Mainella, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, A. Wordsworth Thompson, Robert Strong Woodward, and Thomas Waterman Wood. Biographical and Historical Note Industrialist and art collector, of Springfield, Mass.; interested in Oriental, Near Eastern, and European decorative arts as well as American and Italian paintings and sculpture. |
| extent | 5 boxes. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| acquisition information | Forms part of the George Walter Vincent Smith letters and manuscripts collection. Copies of originals located in George Walter Vincent Smith curatorial file. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:47 |
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| title | Avery Family Collection, 1891-1966 (bulk 1939-1940). | repository | The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives |
| description | Material created and collected by Emma P. Avery Welcher in the process of research, primarily during 1939-40, on her grandfather, Samuel P. Avery. Includes correspondence with institutions and individuals, notes, and a photograph of Mrs. Samuel P. Avery with George Walter Vincent Smith. Also includes several letters from Avery to author Erastus Dow Palmer. Biographical and Historical Note Samuel P. Avery (1822-1904), was an art dealer and collector in Hartford, Connecticut. His son, Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (1847-1920), was an important donor to the Brooklyn Museum. Location: Brooklyn Special Collections Call Number: SCR N200 Av45 C69 |
| extent | .25 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Notes Photographs |
| access | Permission of Librarian/Archivist required. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991013110959707141 |
| acquisition information | Gifts of Mrs. H.L. Kleinfield (April 23, 1996), and Amy Ogden Welcher (1990). |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:50 |
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| title | Letters, [19--] | repository | George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum |
| description | Miscellaneous correspondence, including letter (1922 Mar. 20) written by Robert Strong Woodward addressed to J.J. Miller regarding the price of a painting and letter (1900 Apr. 17) written by Horace P. Wright to American painter Thomas Waterman Wood concerning monies paid for a portrait of Wm. H. Wright by the Smiths. |
| extent | 1 box |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| acquisition information | Forms part of the George Walter Vincent Smith letters and manuscripts collection. Copies of originals located in George Walter Vincent Smith curatorial file. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Cordelia Sargent Pond Letter, 1925 Jan. 26. | repository | George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum |
| description | Letter from Pond (written under her earlier name of Miss Sargent) to Lawrence K. Lunt, of Stockbridge, Mass., regarding a potential contribution by George Walter Vincent and Belle Townsley Smith to, presumably, the Woodward Fund. Includes names of potential contributors and passes on regrets that the Smiths cannot donate funds. Biographical and Historical Note Assistant curator and later director of George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Mass., and secretary of Springfield Art League; b. Cordelia Sargent. |
| extent | 1 item. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| acquisition information | Forms part of the George Walter Vincent Smith letters and manuscripts collection. Photocopies of originals located in George Walter Vincent Smith curatorial file. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Photographs of artists in their Paris studios, 1880-1890 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | 47 photographs of 43 artists in their Paris studios. Artists include: Louise Abbema, Albert Aublet, Riene Bellcourt, Jean Beraud, Paul Albert Besnard, Maurice Bompard, Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Georges Jules Victor Clairin, Louis Joseph Rapheal Collin, Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, Fernand Cormon, Gustave Courtois, Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan, Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, Ernest Ange Duez, Carolus Duran, Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere, T. R. Fleury, J. Frappa, Walter Gay, Jean Leon Gerome, Henri Gervex, George Peter Alexander Healy, Antoine Auguste Ernest Hebert, Jean Jacques Henner, Charles Jacques, Jean Paul Laurens, Jules Lefebvre, Albert Maignan, Luc Olivier Merson, Aime Nicolas Morot, Mihaly Munkacsy, Alphonse Wane de Neuville, Georges Rochegrosse, Alfred Philippe Roll, John Singer Sargent, Alfred Stevens, and George Adolphus Storey. The studios show mainly a strong Moorish influence |
| extent | 47 photographs |
| formats | Photographs Digital Collection |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/photographs-artists-their-paris-studios-10228 |
| record source | http://collections.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated by the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1971, which had received them from a Mrs. Kirkham?, a painter who probably purchased them while studying in Paris. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:17 |
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