Gordon Franklin Peers papers Peers (Gordon Franklin) papers 1853-1988 bulk 1927-1988

Archives of American Art

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From its founding to 1954 the Archives was headquartered at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1960 the Archives moved its headquarters to New York but a branch office remained in Detroit. In 1963 an office was opened in Rome to collect the records of American artists' work in Italy. In 1970 the Archives became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution and moved to Washington, D.C. Directors have included Edgar Preston Richardson, 1954-1964; William E. Woolfenden, 1964-1983; Richard N. Murray, 1983...

Peers, Gordon Franklin, 1909-1988

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Gordon Franklin Peers was born March 17, 1909 to Sanford and May (Hallett) Peers in Easton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Classical High in Providence (RI) in 1929, and then attended Rhode Island School of Design 1929-1933, receiving a diploma in 1933. He was a student at the John R. Frazier Summer School of Painting 1930-1935, and attended the Beaux Arts Academy and the Arts Students League in New York, 1933-1934. He exhibited his paintings at the 1939 New York World...

Frazier, John Robinson, 1889-1966

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Art school director, painter, and lithographer; Providence, R.I. President of Rhode Island School of Design, 1955-1962. From the description of John Robinson Frazier papers, 1920-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82680739 A member of the Class of 1909 (Painting) and 1912 (Normal Art), John R. Frazier served RISD from 1923 until his death in 1966. Frazier joined RISD as Head of the Painting Department and became Chair of t...

Farnum, Royal B. (Royal Bailey), 1884-

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Leif, Florence, 1913-1968

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Burnham, Dwight

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