Allan Marquand letters

Marquand, Allan, 1853-1924

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Salutarian and president of the Princeton Class of 1874, Marquand later founded Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology, sharing with Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard the distinction of being the first to introduce the serious study of art into the curriculum of the American college. His own life-work was an eight-volume catalogue raisonné of the works of the ateliers of members of the Robbia family, 15th- and 16th-century Florentine sculptors and ceramists. From the descriptio...

Kemeys, Edward, 1843-1907

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Edward Kemeys was a sculptor, known primarily for his animal sculpture. He attempted to document the vanishing wildlife species of North American in his work. Among his pieces are the lions at the entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Stanley McCormick referred to her is possibly the youngest son of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). Stanley McCormick was born in 1874 or 1875, was comptroller of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and in 1902 he helped bring about the merger that for...

Robertson, Hugh Cornwall (American potter, 1845-1908)

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Grueby, William H., 1867-1925

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Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936

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Born in New York City in 1848, Edwin Howland Blashfield became an artist who specialized in mural painting and advocated for public art. In 1867 Blashfield traveled to Paris where he studied with the figure painter Léon Bonnât. Blashfield's works were exhibited at the Paris Salon during 1875-1879, 1888-1889, and 1892-1893. On July 5, 1881, Blashfield married in Paris Evangeline Wilbour, and soon after took up permanent residence in New York City. He and his wife collaborated on many illustrate...