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Archives related to: Hatch, John Davis
| title | John Davis Hatch papers, 1790-1995. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Primarily research files on American artists compiled by Hatch in the course of his work as a collector, scholar, and as a museum official from the 1930s to 1950. Files on art organizations or projects Hatch was involved in are also found. Much of the research material relates to his work on American drawings, the American artist John Vanderlyn, and of the German-born expressionist painter Oscar Bluemner. The files include mostly correspondence and photographs. Also found in the papers are diaries, writings, radio scripts, bills of sale, clippings, exhibition catalogs, printed material, and drawings and sketches. Co-Creator: Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938 Godefroy, Maximilian, 1765-1840? Vanderlyn, John, 1775-1852 Brown, Henry Kirke, 1814-1886 Cropsey, Jasper Francis, 1823-1900 Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 Davies, Arthur B. (Arthur Bowen), 1862-1928 Godefroy, Maximilian, 1765-1840? Guy, Seymour J., 1824-1910 Henry, Edward Lamson, 1841-1919 Inman, Henry, 1801-1846 REEL 2814: Twenty drawings and sketches by American artists Henry Kirke Brown, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Seymour J. Guy, Edward Lamson Henry, Henry Inman and others. Notable letters included in the correspondence are illustrated letters from Oscar Bluemner and autograph letters from John Trumbull (1790), Maximillian Godefroy (1816-1819), Rembrandt Peale (1830), Grandma Moses, Kenneth Callahan, Roi Partidge, Walter and Louise Arensberg, and Alfred Stieglitz. Among the art work can be found 2 lithographs by Arthur B. Davies, sketchbooks by Bluemner; a sketchbook by Lloyd McNeill and one by Kenneth Callahan. Among the Vanderlyn materials are the wills of Nicholas Vanderlyn, Jr. (1813) and John Vanderlyn (1838); six letters (1834-1886) including correspondence from Vanderlyn, Charles Henry Hart and Jervis McEntee; a handwritten description of "Calumny Painted by Apelles" (1849); a price list for engravings; a pamphlet (1822) and a broadside (1842) about Vanderlyn's paintings and other printed material; 15 receipts (1807-1811), from Vanderlyn's stay in Paris, for art supplies, wood, rent, laundry, and other items; 2 receipts, 1833; and an article by Hatch, "John Vanderlyn and the Prints of Niagara Falls." |
| extent | 28.6 linear ft. Reel 2814: 20 drawings. reel 2814 |
| formats | Research Files Diaries Financial Records Exhibition Catalogs Clippings |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Box inventory of a small portion of the papers available at all AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Donated 1960-1996 by Hatch and the John Hatch estate. Hatch acquired most of the Vanderlyn materials in the 1940s, from a photographer in Kingston, New York, who had gotten them from Vanderlyn's niece. John Vanderlyn's will was given to Hatch by Robert Graham, of James Graham and Sons in New York City. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:50 |
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| title | John Davis Hatch interview, 1964 June 8. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of John Davis Hatch conducted by H. Wade White. Hatch speaks of his work as the New England area director of the Federal Art Project; the early organization of the Public Works of Art Project in New England; some of the artists and administrators involved, including Olin Dows, Jack Levine, Hyman Bloom, Edward Bruce and Oscar Bluemner, and Karl Knaths. |
| extent | 1 sound tape reel ; 7 in. (52 p. transcript) |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript Online Transcript |
| access | Online Transcript |
| record link | http://siris-archives.si.edu |
| finding aid | A list of interviews conducted for the New Deal and the Arts project is available at all Archives of American Art offices. |
| acquisition information | Conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:50 |
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| title | Oral history interview with John Davis Hatch, 1979 Aug. 30-1980 Nov. 7. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of John Davis Hatch conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art. Hatch recalls his childhood in California and training as a landscape architect, including an apprenticeship with Lockwood de Forest. He discusses his appointment as director of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Seattle at age 21 and his efforts there to develop an Asian focus for the museum and cultivate artists of the region, including Mark Tobey, Dudley Pratt, Kenneth Callahan, Emily Carr, Jose de Creeft, Frederick Varley, and Avard Fairbanks. He describes his interest in studying museums across the country and abroad and the roles played in the museum scene by the American Federation of Arts and the Museum Directors Association. Hatch recalls his work as assistant director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and as director of government art projects in New England in the 1930s, when he worked with Edward Bruce, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Woodbury, John Wharf, and Laura Coombs Hills, among others. He describes an attempt to form the American Artists Depository, a precursor to the Archives of American Art, and his activities collecting American drawings, organizing travelling exhibitions, and promoting American art history as a discipline. Hatch speaks of his tenure as director of the Albany Institute of History and Art and his efforts to advance an appreciation of local Dutch history and the work of Thomas Cole. He remembers encounters with Henry Francis Du Pont and Charles Franklin Montgomery. Hatch describes the start of his teaching career in Oregon and his involvement with local artists C.S. Price, Carl Morris, and Ludvik Durchanek. He talks about a stint as director of the Norfolk (Va.) Museum of Arts and Sciences and his work as a consultant to museums, especially as it pertained to the development of arts programs at black colleges in the South. Hatch concludes with a discussion of museums near his home in Lenox, including the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and the Berkshire Museum. |
| extent | 6 sound tape reels ; 5 in. (307 p. transcript) |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://siris-archives.si.edu |
| acquisition information | Part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:50 |
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| title | Collection, 1801-ca.1950. | repository | The Winterthur Library |
| description | Consists of letters, sketches, research notes, and miscellaneous documents both by and about American artists. The items serve to trace the development of American painting. Most of the letters were written by artists and discuss either their work or the work of others. Identified sketches were drawn by Thomas Nast, Anna Lea Merritt, and Edward Simmons. There is also an engraving of John Sartain by M.A. Root. Among the research notes are typescripts, handwritten notes, and correspondence regarding William S. Mount; and a typescript of an article about Charles Sawyer entitled "Naturalism in America." Miscellaneous items include a receipt to John Trumbull, an inventory of the estate of Philadelphia painter Samuel Jonson (or Johnson, died 1755), and notes in Dutch regarding Sara Bayard. Language Note: The materials are in English, except for two letters which are in French. Biography or history John Davis Hatch was an art historian, collector, and art consultant, originally from Lenox, Ma. He served as the director of several institutions during his career, including the Norfolk Museum. Location The Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur, DE 19735. Call Number Col. 331 |
| extent | 1 box, 1 folder, and 2 volumes |
| formats | Correspondence Sketches Research Files Ephemera |
| access | Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply. |
| record link | http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML%5FFinding%5FAids/COL0331.htm |
| record source | http://library.winterthur.org:8000/cgi-bin/webgw |
| finding aid | Finding aid further describing items in the collection available at this repository. Finding aid includes indexes to names in the collection, names in the Edward Green Malbone account book and register, and a list of the artists who contributed letters, notes, or autographs to Alfred Stebbins' copy of Tuckerman's Book of the Artists. Notes For more detailed descriptions of additional items in the collection use the search key fin rid 94-A72. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Louise du Pont Crowninshield. Edward Greene Malbone account book gift of John Davis Hatch. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:50 |
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| title | Edward H. La Farge papers, 1928-1974. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Papers mostly regarding La Farge's teaching career at Rhode Island School of Design. UNMICROFILMED: Resumes and applications, 1937-1962; correspondence, undated and 1928-1971, with letters from Gordon Bailey Washburn, John Davis Hatch, and others; 3 photographs, undated and 1958, of La Farge and others; ca. 200 slides and photographs, undated and 1969-1971, of his students' work; 2 small sketchbooks, undated, containing watercolor drawings, pencil drawings and pastel drawings; other artwork, including collage, ink and pencil drawings, and two woodblock prints, one signed "Phelps" and the other signed "Cardenas"; and five profusely illustrated notebooks and illustrated loose notes dating from his years as an art student. Also included are writings on art and on his family; teaching files, primarily containing lecture notes, undated; a film strip of student's work; a file on La Farge's activities with the Junior Recreation Center, including equipment lists, budgets, etc., 1943-1945; and printed materials, mostly regarding the RISD (newsletters, exhibition catalogs and reports by the school president, etc.). REEL 2707: An unpublished photographic essay by John McWilliams on La Farge and his freshman three-dimensional design class at the RISD in the early 1970's. Also included is a letter from David B. Manzella, to La Farge, 1974; and a newspaper clipping about La Farge, 1965. Bio / His Notes: Art instructor. La Farge was an art instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design from ca. 1944-1974. |
| extent | ca. 600 items (partially microfilmed on 1 reel) reel 2707 |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Works of Art Writings Ephemera |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Material on reel 2707 lent for microfilming 1982 by Anne W. La Farge, wife of Edward H. La Farge; unmicrofilmed material donated 1982 by La Farge. Location of Original: Reel 2707: Originals returned to Mrs. Edward H. La Farge after microfilming. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Untermyer Family Slide Collection, ca. 1940 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | 119 glass lantern slides of Greystone, the Samuel Untermyer estate in Yonkers, NY. The photographer was Samuel Untermyer, II, the grandson of Samuel Untermyer. Bio / His Notes: Samuel Untermyer was born in 1858 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was the son of two German immigrants. Samuel Untermyer was a New York lawyer who began practicing law at 18 and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1879. Untermyer established himself as a corporation attorney and became known for corporate mergers and arranging financing for industries and real estate developments. His most famous merger was with Utah Copper Co. and the Nevada Consolidated Companies which created Bethlehem Steel. Untermyer purchased Greystone in 1899 at an auction of the estate of Samuel J. Tilden. The first owner of Greystone was John Waring, a hat manufacturer, from Yonkers, New York. The house was named Greystone for the grey granite that was quarried nearby and used to construct the house. John Davis Hatch designed the residence. Samuel J. Tilden, a lawyer and former governor of New York (1874-1876) and unsuccessful Presidential candidate against Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) bought Greystone for a summer residence in 1879. Tilden constructed a large greenhouse complex including a Lord and Burnham greenhouse. Tilden died in 1886 leaving the bulk of his estate to what was later to become the New York Public Library. His two nephews contested the will, and it took ten years to resolve the estate. Untermyer owned Greystone from 1899-1940. Untermyer hired the architect Joseph H. Freelander to remodel the mansion. The estate was 150 acres and was famous for its Beaux-Arts gardens designed by William Welles Bosworth. Bosworth's gardens included the Greek Garden; a long staircase, known as the Vista, with a Hudson River view; a rock garden with an overlook called the Eagle's Nest; and an Italian-style vegetable garden constructed as five large terraces. At Untermyer's death in 1940, the estate was divided and sixteen acres donated to the city of Yonkers as "Samuel Untermyer Park and Gardens." |
| extent | 119 glass lantern slides 4"X6". |
| formats | Slides |
| access | Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. For information or study purposes only. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Gift of Frank Untermyer, grandson of Samuel Untermyer. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | John Davis Hatch collection on panoramas, circa 1814-1977. | repository | National Gallery of Art, Library |
| description | Handwritten research notes including lists of panoramas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Smith College Museum and other museums and libraries and lists of collection contents. Letters exchanged with museum, library and university administrators seeking information on various panoramic views in paintings, Exhibition advertisements and auction notice. Print of view of the city of Geneva and Description of the panorama of the palace and gardens of Versailles painted by Mr. Vanderlyn, 1822 (8 p.)(2 copies in other folder) Typescripts, photocopied periodical and journal articles including The painting of panoramas, by W. Telbin, Leon D. Pomarede’s Original panorama of the Missippi River by Joseph Earl Arrington, and some items relating to panoramas in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Descriptions of views and panoramas of diverse areas arranged chronologically: 1814-1819, including Corfu, North coast of Spitzbergen, Battle of Vittoria; 1821-1829, including Bern, cosmorama panoramic exhibitions, Genoa, procession on the coronation of George IV, Malta, Sydney, Pompeii, Rome; 1837-1845, including Athens, Jerusalem, Lima, Thebes, Voyage to Europe and Waterloo and Bonaparte; 1842-1849, including Calcutta, New York, Niagara, Nile; 1851-1870, including Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s progress, Repulse of Longstreet’s assault, bycloramas of Battle of Gettysburg and Atlanta. Note: Most of articles in English with exception of one in French. Arrangement: Arranged in 4 envelopes and 6 file folders. Envelope 1: Research notes. Envelope 2: Letters. Envelope 3: Exhibition notices. Envelope 4: Print. Folder 1: Journal articles. Folder 2-6: Descriptions of views and panoramas. |
| extent | circa 130 items (1 box) ; 27 x 13 x 39 cm. |
| formats | Research Files Correspondence Clippings Ephemera Writings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://library.nga.gov/ |
| acquisition information | Gift of John Davis Hatch, 1988. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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