Charles Lang Freer Papers

Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970

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Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, journalist, author, and lecturer, was born in New York City. In 1910 she married Eugene Meyer, a financier who purchased The Washington Post in 1933. The Meyers lived in Mount Kisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., where Agnes Meyer was active in government service and social reform. ...

Yue, Seaouke

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Gookin, Frederick William

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Chicago banker, calligrapher and designer. Frederick W. Gookin (1853-1936) was born in Ludlow, Vermont, to Frederick Young Gookin and Elisabeth Patrick Gookin. He had one sister, Mary H. Gookin (1855-1915). The family later relocated to Joliet, Illinois, and then to Chicago in 1872. Frederick W. Gookin went to work as a banker, supporting his parents and sister, while at the same time cultivating an interest in calligraphy, design, and Japanese art. While he remained a b...

Fenollosa, Ernest, 1853-1908

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Fenollosa was a poet and student of Oriental art. He taught at the Imperial University of Tokyo (1878-1886) and was manager of the Tokyo Fine Arts Academy and the Imperial Museum. From 1890 to 1897 he was curator of Oriental art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. From the description of Ernest Francisco Fenollosa papers, 1881-1952 (inclusive), 1881-1909 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612366391 From the guide to the Ernest Francisco Fenollosa papers, 1881-1...

Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966

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Epithet: American photographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x00002a Photographer; New York, N.Y. From the description of [Alfred Stieglitz] / [graphic] Alvin Langdon Coburn. [ca. 1907] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205528 ...

Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921

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Painter; Dublin, New Hampshire. From the description of Abbott Handerson Thayer papers, 1861-1936 [microform]. 1962. (Defense Special Weapons Agency). WorldCat record id: 79732064 American painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dublin, N.H., to Mr. Clark, [no year] Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571900 Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer was born in Boston and raised in rural New Hampshire, where he became an avid outdoorsman a...

Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944

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Art critic, painter and writer; Andover, New Hampshire and Banning, California. Author of several books on American art. From the description of Sadakichi Hartmann manuscript, 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122370555 ...

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Freer Gallery of Art

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The Freer Gallery of Art was conceived by its founder, Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), as a museum and a research institution. A Detroit industrialist, Freer collected more than 9,420 art objects and manuscripts before his death.The museum opened to the public in 1923. ...

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973

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Edward Jean Steichen, born Eduard Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973), was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator. His were the photographs that most frequently appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its publication from 1903 to 1917. Steichen laid claim to his photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911, being the first modern fashion photographs ever published. Steichen used his talents in the military in ...

Matsuki, Bunkio, 1867-1940

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McCormick, Frederick, 1870-

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Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943

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Laurence Binyon was an English writer. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. From the description of Laurence Binyon fonds. [1941]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660202804 Binyon was born Aug. 10, 1869 in Lancaster, England; British Museum official for 40 years, as well as art historian, critic, translator, playwright, and poet; author of numerous works on art, including Painting in the Fa...

Philip, Rosalind Birnie, 1873-1958

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Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933

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Painter, architect, landscape designer; New York, N.Y. and Cornish, N.H.; b. 1861; d. 1933. From the description of Charles A. Platt letter collection, [ca. 1887]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79370050 Also known originally as Seven Springs Farm. From the description of House for Eugene Meyer, Esq., Mt. Kisco, N.Y. [graphic] : Project 525. [Part 1] / Charles A. Platt, Architect. 1915-1921. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 83173...

Gallatin, A. E. (Albert Eugene), 1881-1952

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American art museum founder, critic, and painter. From the description of Letter to Robert O. Shad, 1943. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122443834 Archeologist, collector of ancient and eastern art, and contemporary sculptor Carl Paul Jennewein; New York, N.Y. From the description of Albert Gallatin papers, 1950-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122394268 Art collector; New York, N.Y. ...

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer, founder of the Photo-Secession Group, gallery owner, and editor and publisher of photography magazines, most notably, Camera Work. Frank Hermann was an American painter, who spent most of his career in Germany, where he associated with several avant-garde art groups. Childhood friends, Stieglitz and Herrmann were schoolmates, spent time together when Stieglitz was in Europe, and visited each other in the United States when Herrmann returned in 1919....

Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938

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Painters; New York, N.Y. Thomas studied with Boulanger and Lefebvre. Maria his wife studied with John La Farge in New York City and Couture in Paris. From the description of Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Dewing family papers, 1839-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220173772 Thomas (1851-1938) and Maria Dewing (1855-1927) were painters from New York, N.Y. Thomas studied with Boulanger and Lefebvre. Maria his wife studied with Jo...

Whistler, Beatrice, 1857-1896

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Bacher, Otto H. (Otto Henry), 1856-1909

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Painter, etcher, and illustrator Otto Bacher (1856-1909) was an early American impressionist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he perfected his etching technique while studying at the Royal Academy in Munich in the late 1870s. Bacher was a founding member of the Society of Illustrators at its inception in 1901. From the description of Otto H. Bacher etchings 1879-1888 (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 759427374 Impressionist painter and etcher; Chicago, Illinois. ...

Kelekian, Dikran G., 1868-1951

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Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931

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William Keeney Bixby was born in Adrian, Michigan, in 1857. His career in the railroad industry began with a job as baggageman and concluded with his position as president and chairman of the board of the American Car and Foundry Co. He retired from that company in 1905 at the age of 48. After retirement he pursued his interests in traveling and in collecting first editions, original manuscripts, and works of art. He continued to be active in the community as board member and officer of a number...

Bosch-Reitz, Sigisbert Chrétien 1860-1938

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Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959

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Newspaperman. From the description of Papers of Eugene Meyer, 1819-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83145968 Financier, newspaper executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Meyer : oral history, 1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733277 ...

Tryon, Dwight William, 1849-1925

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American landscape painter Dwight William Tryon was born in Hartford, CT on August 13, 1849. When Tryon was about 2 years old, his father Anson Tryon was killed in a hunting accident and he was raised at his maternal grandparents' home. At the age of fourteen, Tryon began work as a machinist at Colt's Firearms Factory in Hartford to support his mother and himself. He enrolled in evening classes at Hannum's Business School and developed calligraphic skills which supplemented his inco...

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903

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American painter, etcher and author. From the description of Autograph letters, signed with his name : Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, and 28 Wimple Street, to [James Key] Caird and J.E. Millais, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588842 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Miss Cobden, [May 1881/1884]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587769 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to Waldo Story, the sculptor, pos...

Campbell, Colin, Lady, 1857-1911

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

M. Knoedler & Co

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Founded in 1848 as the New York branch of the French firm Goupil & Cie before the creation of most museums in the United States, the Knoedler Gallery was able to play a central role as a conduit for the masterworks that established American collections. The firm's archive traces the development of the once provincial American art market into one of the world's leading art centers and the formation of the private art collections that would ultimately establish many of the nation's leading art mus...

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

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Art administrator and geologist; Washington, D.C. Served as the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 until his death in 1927. Dellenbaugh was a painter whose works include many landscapes done in connection with expeditions in the U.S. and abroad. From the description of Charles D. Walcott letter from Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1913 April 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118391 ...

Caffin, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1854-1918

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American author and art critic; b. in England; moved to Chicago in 1892 and to New York, 1897, where he became art critic of Harper's Weekly, New York Sun, and other publications. From the description of Charles Caffin review of Marsden Hartley, 1917 Jan. 29. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 308679374 Charles Henry Caffin (1854-1918) was an art critic from New York, N.Y. Charles Caffin was an early supporter of the Photo-Secess...

Yamanaka & Company

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Warring, Joseph Stephens, 1863?-1944

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Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934

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Ethnologist. Laufer was an Assistant in Ethnology in the Dept. of Anthropology, American Museum of Anthropology. He made several important collecting trips. From the description of Papers, 1898-1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511772 ...

Moore, Charles, 1855-1942

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Charles Henry Moore (b. 1859) was the son of William James Moore, who had emigrated from Copiah County, Mississippi, to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1844. Moore was raised in Anderson County. From the description of Moore, Charles H., Reminiscences, 1932-1933 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 755804035 Moore was chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts (1915-1937), served as overseer at Harvard University, and was author of works about George Washington. ...

Nomura, Yozo

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Campbell, Colin, Lord, 1853-1895

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Fifth son, Eighth Duke of Argyll. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Argyll Lodge, Kensington, to Dr. Baldwin, 1885 Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858736 ...

Canfield, Richard Albert

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Rhoades, Katharine N., 1885-1965

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Katharine Rhoades photographs and letter, [undated] and 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220183867 ...

Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922

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Dow was born in 1857 in Ipswich, MA; received a classical education under private instruction; studied art in Boston and in Paris, as a student of Boulanger and Lefebvre; his pictures were exhibited in Paris in 1886-87, where he won an honorable mention in 1889; won medal at the Buffalo Exposition; became curator of Japanese art at the Eastern Museum of Fine Arts, instructor of art at the Pratt Institute (1895-1904), instructor of composition at the Art Students' League in NY (1897-1903), direct...

Bing, Siegfried, 1838-1905

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Gellatly, John, 1853-1931

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Art collector; New York (N.Y.). From the description of John Gellatly letters received from artists, 1887-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565648 ...

Wong, K. T.

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Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932

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Julius Garibaldi Melchers was an artist. From the description of Julius Garibaldi Melchers papers, 1878-1928. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 51538563 Painter, mural painter and portrait painter. Lived at "Belmont", his home in Falmouth, Virginia, near Fredericksburg. Born in Detroit, Michigan. Studied at Royal Art Academy, Dusseldorf, Germany; and Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Academie Julian, Paris. Won Grand Prize at 1889 Paris Exposition...

Churchill, Alfred Vance, 1864-1949

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Alfred Vance Churchill was born on August 14, 1864 in Oberlin, Ohio. He was the son of Charles Henry Churchill, a professor at Oberlin College and his second wife, Henrietta Vance Churchill. Alfred was the second child of Henrietta Vance Churchill, and was the sixth of Charles Henry Churchill's nine children. After studies at Oberlin, Alfred studied art in Berlin, Leipzig, and Paris from 1887-1890. He married Marie Marschall in 1890. Their son Louis Nelson Churchill was born in 1897. In 1892 Chu...

Reid, Alexander, 1802-1860

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Epithet: of Logie British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001033.0x00016b Epithet: alias Rhead; MD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001033.0x00016a ...

Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916

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Painter, art instructor; New York, N.Y. From the description of William Merritt Chase letter, 1911 Nov. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122599930 William Merrit Chase (1849-1916) was a painter and instructor from New York, N.Y. and Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. From the description of William Merrit Chase photographs, [ca. 1895]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744425314 Painter and instructor; New York, N.Y. and Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. ...

Way, Thomas R. (Thomas Robert), 1861-1913

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Epithet: of county Northamptonshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x000292 ...

Hecker, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1846-1927

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Businessman of Detroit, Mich. From the description of Frank J. Hecker papers, 1861-1927. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 308488580 Art collector, painter, watercolorist, ceramist, sculptor; Detroit, MI. Author of RECOLLECTIONS OF MY SERVICE AND EXPERIENCES IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898-1899 and ACTIVITIES OF A LIFETIME, 1923. From the description of Frank J. Hecker inventory, [undated]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122370455 ...

Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924

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Frederick Stuart Church (1842-1924), American artist. During the Civil War, he served with Co. A of Chicago Mercantile Independent Battery of Light Artillery. From the description of Letter from Frederick Stuart Church to Nannie Havens, 1863, June 4, Vicksburg, Miss. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 79370924 Painter. From the description of Frederick Stuart Church letters and sketch, [ca. 1885-1898]. (Unknown). Wo...

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907

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Sculptor. From the description of Papers of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, circa 1848-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071553 Sculptor and artist. From the description of Augustus Saint-Gaudens papers, 1891-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981198 Sculptor, New York. From the description of Letter, 1893 April 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553768 American sculptor. From the description of Saint-Gaudens National...

Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919

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Epithet: American collector British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000301.0x000033 Manufacturer and art collector. From the description of Charles Lang Freer letter, 1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450299 Art collector; Detroit, Michigan. Collected Asian, American, and European art, including a large collection of works by James McNeill Whistler. Founded the Freer G...