Macena Barton papers

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Macena Barton papers

1839-1985

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The Macena Barton papers measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1914-1985. Included is biographical material consisting of membership cards, resumes, certificates and other biographical material; photographs and slides of Barton, Barton's family and friends, and works of art; printed material including exhibition announcements and catalogs, five scrapbooks of clippings, and miscellaneous printed material; personal business records; works of art; writings and notes, including the script for Bulliet's first radio speech, dedicated to Barton; correspondence, including letters from Clarence J. Bulliet and Eleanor Jewett and others; a subject file for mural painter Louis Grell containing letters and clippings, and information on the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists and the Chicago Society of Artists; and miscellaneous mate.rial relating to Barton's career as a painter in Chicago, Illinois.

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Grell, Louis, 1887-1960.

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Louis Grell was a painter and muralist who taught at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From the description of Louis Grell collection, 1918-1957. (Art Institute of Chicago). WorldCat record id: 79736946 ...

Barton, Macena, 1901-1986

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Jewett, Eleanor, 1892-1968.

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Art critic; Chicago, Ill. Jewett first obtained a job at the Chicago Tribune in 1917 through the editor, her cousin Colonel Robert McCormick. She started writing fiction, beauty, and fashion columns, and, in 1918, became art editor. She retired in 1956. Her generally conservative criticisms treated many modernist painters and movements unfavorably. She was involved with anti-modernist art groups such as the Palette and Chisel Club and the Sanity in Art Society, on whose ...

Bulliet, C. J. (Clarence Joseph), 1883-1952

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Art critic for the Chicago Evening Post (1924-1932) and the Chicago Daily News (1932-1952). From the description of C.J. Bulliet papers, ca. 1888-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79000702 Dramatic editor of the "Indianapolis Star" (1906-1911), critic on the Louisville "Herald" (1920-1923), the Chicago "Evening Post" (1924-1932), and the Chicago "Daily News" (1932-1952), and business manager for the actor, Robert Bruce Mantell. From the description of C. J.Bul...