Alexander Francis Harmer papers and Alexander Francis Harmer Trust records

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Alexander Francis Harmer papers and Alexander Francis Harmer Trust records

1882-1985

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Alexander Franis Harmer papers include: letters, 1882-1920, to Harmer from artists Frank Stephens, Thomas Eakins (illustrated; providing instructions on how to make a camera), and Thomas Anshutz (writing about the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), also curator Hector Alliot, Captain John G. Bourke, Editor of "The Land of Sunshine," Charles F. Lumis, attorney Joseph D. Redding, George Wharton James, J.L. Wallace, and others; photographs, negatives, slides, and reproductions of works of art by Harmer, a photograph of Harmer, and photographs possibly of his studio; published biographies of Harmer and other printed material; Library of Congress copyright registrations for paintings, 1906; and periodicals, with illustrations by Harmer, including seven issues of "The Land of Sunshine," "The Magazine of California and the West," 1895-1899, the "Overland Monthly," March 1896, and "The Californian, Illustrated Magazine" September and October 1893.

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Anshutz, Thomas Pollock, 1851-1912

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Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851-1912) was a painter, photographer, and art instructor from Philadelphia, Penn. From the description of Thomas Anshutz papers, circa 1870-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220236215 ...

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-...

Harmer, Alexander Francis, 1856-1925

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Painter; Santa Barbara, Calif. Harmer is known for his paintings and illustrations of frontier life in Southern Calif. From the description of Alexander Francis Harmer papers and Alexander Francis Harmer Trust records, 1882-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80468469 ...