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Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection

Title: Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection

Primarily exhibition catalogs for modernist art exhibitions held in New York City during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Also included are catalogs for Boston exhibitions, mainly pre-1900, and a few other locales; exhibition announcements; gallery publications; and other printed material.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 Linear feet

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Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera

Title: Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera

The Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera measures 1.1 linear feet and dates from 1807 to 1946. Unrelated letters written by over 170 mostly 19th and early 20th century American artists are found in this compiled collection of art critic, dealer, and collector Albert Duveen. Additional ephemera includes printed material and photographs of artwork.

ArchivalResource: 1.1 Linear feet

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Macbeth Gallery records

Title: Macbeth Gallery records

The Macbeth Gallery records provide almost complete coverage of the gallery's operations from its inception in 1892 to its closing in 1953. Through extensive correspondence files, financial and inventory records, printed material, scrapbooks, reference and research material, and photographs of artists and works of art, the records document all aspects of the gallery's activities, charting William Macbeth's initial intention to lease his store "for the permanent exhibition and sale of American pictures" through over sixty years of success as a major New York firm devoted to American art. The collection measures 131.6 linear feet and dates from 1838 to 1968 with the bulk of the material dating from 1892 to 1953.

ArchivalResource: 131.6 Linear feet

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Ernest Lawson papers

Title: Ernest Lawson papers

The scattered papers of painter Ernest Lawson measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1907 to 1967. The papers consist of family correspondence with daughter Margaret, and between Margaret and her mother Ella Lawson; a dismantled scrapbook containing exhibition announcements, catalogs, and clippings; and a 1937 photograph of a group of artists at a dinner at the Salmagundi Club honoring Lawson along with a photograph of a work of art by Lawson signed by the numerous artists attending the dinner, including Victor C. Anderson, George Elmer Browne, Gordon Grant, Eugene Higgens, Ivan G. Olinsky, Eugene Speicher, Guy Wiggens, and Keith Shaw Williams, among others.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet

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Robinson, Theodore, 1852-1896. Letters to Claude Monet, 1891-1896.

Title: Letters to Claude Monet, 1891-1896.

The collection, arranged chronologically, contains detailed letters about his travels in Italy and his life in the United States with characterization of the local landscape and news about dealers and mutual friends. In 1891 he writes from Capri and describes his impressions of Rome and the Italian Campagna. Letters of 1892 and 1893 written from New York contain comments on attitudes in New York towards recent painting, the Chicago World's Fair, and the stress he places on color, atmosphere and an understanding of the "whole" in his art; in 1894 he notes the indispensibility of line. He discusses Monet's successes in New York in a letter of 1896.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78991639 View

Robinson, Theodore : Biographical file.

Title: Robinson, Theodore : Biographical file. [1900-9999]

May contain: Resumes, newspaper articles, magazine articles, invitations to exhibition openings, gallery hand-outs, check-lists of exhibitions, advertisements, obituaries, 35 mm. slides of the artist's work.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope : manila ; 13 x 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55680728 View

Murphy, J. Francis (John Francis), 1853-1931. [Souvenir book].

Title: [Souvenir book]. 1872-1880.

Souvenir book with decoupaged wooden boards and leather spine contains autoraphs, inscriptions by various people and sketches by J.L. Murphy, N.P. Harrison, D. Notts , F.W. Freer, L.C. Earle, Marian Chase, Theodore Robinson, Frank Green , Marie Koupat , Nellie Benedict.

ArchivalResource: [55] leaves : ill. (1 col.) ; 7 x 10 cm. in box 26 x 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8274027 View

Austa Densmore Sturdevant papers

Title: Austa Densmore Sturdevant papers

A letter from Sturdevant to her mother, and 2 family letters; copy prints of 3 photographs of Sturdevant and her Paris studio; 3 postcards postmarked July 1892, Tannersville, N.Y., from Sturdevant to her mother with sketches of students sketching (possibly sent while studying at nearby Onteora art colony created in 1887 by Candace Wheeler) ; 4 clippings on Sturdevant and Cragsmoor; and a catalog, "A Century of Women Artists at Cragsmoor."

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Robinson, Theodore, 1852-1896. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122397918 View

Robinson, Theodore, 1852-1896. Theodore Robinson : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York].

Title: Theodore Robinson : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. 1930?-1990

File of color and black and white photographs of work of art, assembled by the staff of The Museum of Modern Art in New York from the museum's establishment until 1990. Items may include full views, details, installations, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 or more folders: ill. (some col.) ; 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/662625664 View

Robinson, Theodore, 1852-1896 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Robinson, Theodore, 1852-1896 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199243541 View

Weir family. Papers, 1765-1952.

Title: Papers, 1765-1952.

The Weir Family Papers include papers of Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889), professor of drawing at West Point; his son, John Ferguson Weir (1841-1926), director of the Yale School of Fine Arts; and of another son, Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), an American Impressionist artist and president of the National Academy of Design (1915-1917). Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, speeches, artwork, clippings and published material relating to these three and fourteen other family members make up the collection. The bulk of the collection relates to J. Alden Weir.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (30 linear inches).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122497293 View

Peter H. Davidson & Co., Inc. Peter H. Davidson & Co., Inc. Weir Records, 1957-1991 (bulk 1980-1989).

Title: Peter H. Davidson & Co., Inc. Weir Records, 1957-1991 (bulk 1980-1989).

Correspondence, photographs, provenance records, inventories, appraisals, financial documents and estate records document Peter Davidson's association with the daughter and grandchildren of artist J. Alden Weir. Davidson handled family art collections, acted as an advisor on Weir Farm preservation efforts, and helped to establish a foundation to promote Weir's work. The bulk of the records (Weir Family, 1957-1991) detail the appraisal, restoration, documentation, exhibition and sale of artworks owned by the Weir family, works primarily by J. Alden Weir, his daughter Dorothy Weir Young, and her husband Mahonri M. Young. Other artists represented in the family collections are Robert W. Weir, John Ferguson Weir, John Henry Twachtman, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Theodore Robinson, and Frank Duveneck. Includes over 400 primarily black and white photographs of works of art, the majority by J. Alden Weir. Correspondence with Brigham Young University (1979-1989) concerns efforts of the Weir family to reacquire works sold to BYU in 1959. Also contains photo inventories of Dorothy Weir Young's work, and research files and photographs for a proposed catalogue raisonné of Mahonri M. Young's works. Weir Farm records (1978-1991) contain correspondence, meeting minutes, maps, reports, and newspaper and magazine articles documenting efforts to designate J. Alden Weir's Branchville, Connecticut home and studio a national park. Includes one folder of correspondence (1978-1988) from Doris and Andrew Sperry, Weir Farm artists-in-residence. Weir Foundation records (1982-1986) consist of one folder of correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/605926713 View

Robinson, Theodore, 1852-1896. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122402586 View

Theodore Robinson papers relating to Hannah Brown Kingsbury

Title: Theodore Robinson papers relating to Hannah Brown Kingsbury

A pencil sketch by Robinson, ca. 1870, of his aunt, Hannah Brown Kingsbury; a note explaining the sketch written by Robinson's relative Ruth Berger Pattengill; and a photograph of Kingsbury.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (on partial microfilm reel)

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