Goodyear Archival Collection Series 4: Scrapbooks 1891-1928.

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Goodyear Archival Collection Series 4: Scrapbooks 1891-1928.

The scrapbooks found in this series contain documentation collected by Goodyear to chronicle his professional life and architectural research. Through clippings, reviews, correspondence, promotional pamphlets and announcements, invitations, and photographs, the scrapbooks furnish an account of the major events in Goodyear's life. The correspondence, in particular, reveals his close professional relationships with other prominent architects and theorists. Many of the letters express praise and support for Goodyear's architectural theories. There is also correspondence with Museum staff regarding Goodyear's professional work and objects he acquired during his tenure.

3.2 l.f.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8214931

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Goodyear, W.H. (William Henry), 1846-1923

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William Henry Goodyear (1846-1923) was an art and architectural historian and the Brooklyn Museum of Art's first Curator of Fine Arts from 1899-1923, an appointment he accepted soon after serving as curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1881-1888). In addition to his responsibilities of developing and maintaining the fine arts collection at the Museum, Goodyear published extensively on art history and pursued research in architectural history. He developed a theory, based on direc...

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences.

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Brooklyn Museum of Art

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