Papers relating to the sale of George Whitney's art collection

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Papers relating to the sale of George Whitney's art collection

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Collection contains an album, "The Whitney collection", with 42 carbon prints of paintings in Whitney's collection as well as news clippings relating to the sale of the collection (some items are loose), and a folder with additional clippings on the sale (1885), an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer on William Trost Richards (1973), and a catalogue, "The works of Mr. Wm. T. Richards in the collection of American and foreign paintings to be sold on the account of the late Mr. George Whitney of Philadelphia, on exhibition at the Galleries of the American Art Association." These materials are microfilmed on reel 2029.

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Richards, William Trost, 1833-1905

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William Trost Richards (1833-1905) was a marine and landscape painter in Newport, R.I. and Germantown, Pa. From the description of William Trost Richards exhibition list and photograph, 1914. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710020348 Marine artist. From the description of Letters : Germantown, Pa., Newport, R.I., to Samuel Sartain, 1865 Sept. 5, 1898 May 29, 1904 Dec. 5, and 1905 Feb. 18. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28489765 From the descript...

Whitney, George, d. 1885.

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George Whitney (d. 1885) was a collector; Philadelphia, Pa., and Richards a marine and landscape painter, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania (b. 1833, d. 1905). From the description of Papers relating to the sale of George Whitney's art collection. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 688852842 ...