Selections from Alexander Johnston Cassatt's letterbook index

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Selections from Alexander Johnston Cassatt's letterbook index

[ca. 1894-1903]

11 pages selected from 3 volumes of indices, containing entries with descriptive notations of letters about exhibits of Mary Cassatt paintings; and also about paintings by Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent and James MacNeill Whistler.

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Archives of American Art

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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...

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916

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Realist painter Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was encouraged by his parents to develop his talent in art, and in 1862 he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Also during this period Eakins developed an interest in anatomy, revealed later in the realistically detailed Gross Clinic, painted in 1875. In 1866 he moved to Paris, where he studied painting with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for three years, and briefly with sculptor Augustin-...

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926

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Mary Cassatt (b. Mary Stevenson Cassatt, May 22, 1844, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania-d. June 14, 1926, Paris, France) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker....

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...

Cassatt, Alexander J. (Alexander Johnston), 1839-1906.

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Brother of painter Mary Cassatt. From the description of Selections from Alexander Johnston Cassatt's letterbook index, [ca. 1894-1903]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515751 Civil engineer Alexander Johnston Cassatt served as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1899-1906). He was the brother of artist Mary Cassatt. From the guide to the Alexander Johnston Cassatt letterbook index, 1894-1896; 1898-1903, 1894-1903, (American Philosophical Society) ...