Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel collection of western American art 1728-1966

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Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel collection of western American art 1728-1966

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stenzel

The collection, which consists of approximately 1300 works of art, reflects the Stenzels' interest in visual imagery of the American Northwest of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and includes numerous or significant works by James Madison Alden, E. A. Burbank, James Montgomery Flagg, Joseph Kehoe, Hans Kleiber, William Forsyth McIlwraith, James Henry Moser, E. S. Paxson, Lute Pease, Cleveland Rockwell, James Everett Stuart, James Gilchrist Swan, Peter Peterson Toft, Daniel Winter, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, plus approximately 490 additional works by over 200 artists, as well as many by unidentified artists. The works are executed in a variety of media: oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, pencil drawings, pen-and-ink drawings, engravings, etchings, and lithographs. The collection also includes small groups of associated papers belonging to James Gilchrist Swan, Jervis McEntee, E. S. Paxson, and Lute Pease. There is artwork, correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs, and miscellaneous documents by and about James Gilchrist Swan (1818-1900), an early Pacific Northwest settler, ethnographer and artist. The artwork includes 11 works by Johnny Kit Elswa, Swan's Haida Indian interpreter. Many of Swan's art, correspondence and writings reflect his study of Haida and Makah Indians and the history of the Pacific Northwest. McEntee (1828-1891), a landscape painter and member of the Hudson River School, is represented not by artwork but by correspondence and printed material. His correspondence is with fellow artists George Henry Boughton, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Eastman Johnson, and Worthington Whittredge. E. S. Paxson, a Montana artist of frontiersmen and Native Americans, is represented by artwork, printed material, photographs and portraits, and other papers. Lute Pease (1869-1963), who worked as a reporter in Seattle and Portland, editor of the Pacific Monthly, and as editorial page cartoonist, is represented by artwork, printed material, photographs, and correspondence.

Total Boxes: 65 (incl. 9 oversize boxes); Other Storage Formats: 2 rolls, 37 broadsides, 47 art storage items; Linear Feet: 88.49

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Elswa, Johnny Kit.

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Toft, Peter Peterson.

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Stenzel, Franz.

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Franz Robert Stenzel (1906-1998), a Portland, Oregon physician and an authority on early art of the Pacific Northwest. He wrote two books: Cleveland Rockwell, Scientist and Artist (Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, 1972) and James Madison Alden, Yankee Artist of the Pacific Coast (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1975). Kathryn Mathison Stenzel and Franz Stenzel were married in 1951. From the description of Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel collection of western American art, 17...

McIlwraith, William Forsyth.

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Stenzel, Franz.

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Franz Robert Stenzel (1906-1998), a Portland, Oregon physician and an authority on early art of the Pacific Northwest. He wrote two books: Cleveland Rockwell, Scientist and Artist (Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, 1972) and James Madison Alden, Yankee Artist of the Pacific Coast (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1975). Kathryn Mathison Stenzel and Franz Stenzel were married in 1951. From the description of Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel collection of western American art, 17...

Winter, Daniel.

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Elswa, Johnny Kit.

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Kleiber, Hans, b. 1897.

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Moser, James Henry, 1854-1913

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Illustrator and landscape painter; Washington, D.C. Born in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. Studied with J.H. Witt and C.H. Davis. Illustrated first published volume of UNCLE REMUS. Taught at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Assistant Director of Knoxville, Tenn. Expo, 1910. From the description of James Henry Moser papers, 1868-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82270000 ...

Whittredge, Worthington, 1820-1910

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Painter, engraver; New York, N.Y. From the description of Worthington Whittredge letter to John Ferguson Weir, 1871. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84920069 From the description of Worthington Whittredge papers, circa 1940s-1965 (bulk 1849-1908). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227190558 Painter. From the description of Worthington Whittredge sale records, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82098546 Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910) was a pain...

Winter, Daniel

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Toft, Peter Peterson.

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Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905

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Born in England, George Henry Boughton grew up in New York State but returned to England and made his reputation there. Boughton was elected to the Royal Academy of Art and known for his genre scenes of peasant life in Italy and for his illustrations to histories and romances of early New England. Boughton illustrated Washington Irving's History of New York (1886) and Hawthorne's The scarlet letter (1908) for the Grolier Club. From the description of Letter : London, to Minnie E. Noy...

Kehoe, Joseph, 1890-1959.

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Alden, James Madison, 1834-1922

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Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944

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Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and author. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1874, he became an aide to General O.O. Howard in 1877, serving with him in thePacific Northwest during the Bannock and Paiute and Nez PerceĢ Indian wars. He later attended Columbia University, obtained his law degrees, and established a practice of maritime and corporation law in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his successful law practice, Wood painted, wrote, ...

Johnson, Eastman, 1824-1906

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American painter and printmaker Jonathan Eastman Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine in 1824. After apprenticing with a Boston lithographer, he moved to Washington D.C. in 1845 and became a portraitist of prominent Americans, including Daniel Webster and Dolly Madison. Beginning in 1849, Johnson spent two years at the Royal Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany, studying with Emanuel Leutze, and three years at The Hague. After returning to America in 1855, he settled in New York and focused on painting A...

Burbank, E. A. (Elbridge Ayer), 1858-1949

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Artist. Born in Illinois, trained at Old Academy of Design, Chicago (1874) and in Munich, Germany (1886-1892). Nephew of Edward E. Ayer of Chicago, owner of fine private library on Native Americans that was later acquired by Newberry Library. Ayer influenced Burbank to paint Native Americans and West. Herb Hamlin, owner of a Pony Express Museum and editor of "Pony Express Courier," commissioned works from Burbank (1930-1940s) and later acquired many earlier sketches and oils. Burbank wrote "Burb...

Paxson, E. S., 1852-1919

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Edgar Samuel Paxson was born to a Quaker family in East Hamburg, New York, in 1852. His father, William Hamilton Paxson, had a carriage-building business. After attending the Friends' Institute school, Edgar entered his father's business, painting carriages and signs. In 1874 he married Laura Johnson, and the following year he set out for the West. Paxson worked for a stagecoach company, as a guide, and at other frontier jobs. In 1878 he brought his family to Deer Lodge, Montana, wh...

Stenzel, Franz

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Dr. Franz Stenzel, a Portland, Oregon physician and one of the foremost authorities on early art of the Pacific Northwest, was born March 8, 1906 in Aberdeen, Washington. Two years later his family moved to Portland, where he would spend most of his life. He graduated from Bates College in 1933, and attended Harvard Medical School, studying internal medicine and specializing in cardiology. After working for nine years in Boston, he returned to Portland in 1946, where he entered priv...

Stuart, James Everett.

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Landscape painter; San Francisco, Calif. From the description of James E. Stuart papers, 1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291393 Landscape painter. Came to California in 1860. From the description of James Everett Stuart Collection, 1882-1921. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 58856309 Biography J. E. Stuart was a well-known painter of landscapes, he was born in Dover, Maine, 1852...

Rockwell, Cleveland, 1837-1907

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Cleveland Rockwell was born in 1837 in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of a lawyer who was involved with the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad. After the death of Rockwell's mother the family moved to Cleveland. He attended secondary school in Troy, New York, and later became a student at New York University. In 1856 he was appointed to the U.S. Coast Survey and carried out a survey of the islands in New York harbor. He later surveyed areas in South Carolina and the Georgia coast. During ...

McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891

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Jervis McEntee became a landscape artist, having studied under F.E. Church. McEntee also developed a lasting friendship with Edwin Booth. From the description of A journal of facts, folly & fun 1845 Oct 9-1846 Sep 29. (Tulsa City-County Library). WorldCat record id: 226993171 Jervis McEntee (1828-1891) was a landscape painter from New York, N.Y. Born in Rondout, N.Y. From the description of Jervis McEntee papers, 1796, 1848-1905. (Unk...

Swan, James G., 1818-1900

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James Swan was a lawyer who specialized in admiralty law. He immigrated to Washington Territory from Boston, Mass. in 1852 and developed an interest in Northwest Coast Indian culture that is reflected in many aspects of the records. Throughout his life at Neah Bay and Port Townsend he served as Notary Public and Judge, Pilot Commissioner, Hawaiian Consul, Collector of Customs, and Collector for the Smithsonian Institute and the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. From the descript...

Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960

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James Montgomery Flagg (b. June 18, 1877, Pelham Manor, N.Y.-d. May 27, 1960, New York City), American artist and illustrator, worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning. He is best remembered for political posters, such as the Uncle Sam recruitment poster. From the description of Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10568600 American artist and illustrator. From the description of Sketch ...

Stenzel, Kathryn M. (Kathryn Mathison)

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McIlwraith, William Forsyth.

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Pease, Lute, 1869-1963

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Lucius "Lute" Curtis Pease (1869-1963) was a reporter, prospector, magazine editor, and editorial cartoonist. From the description of Journal about northwestern Alaska, 1901-1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702197363 Lute Pease (1869-1963) was a reporter, prospector, editor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who participated in the Klondike gold rush, ran a hotel in Nome, Alaska, built The Pacific monthly into a prominent magazine, and drew political cartoo...

Gifford, Sanford Robinson, 1823-1880

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Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) was a painter from N.Y. Born Greenfield, N.Y. Studied at the National Academy of Design, New York. Elected National Academician, 1854. Studied in Paris and Rome, 1855-57; traveled in Italy, Greece, Syria, Egypt, Great Britain, the Rocky Mountains and Alaska. A Hudson River school artist. From the description of Sanford Robinson Gifford papers, 1840s-1900, circa 1960s-1970s, bulk 1855-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 75...