Anne Eisner Putnam papers

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Anne Eisner Putnam papers

1936-1968

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The scattered papers of painter Anne Eisner Putnam consist of 40 items and date from 1936 to 1968. Found is an application for Who's Who of American Women, and two letters concerning her book and artwork. Printed material includes clippings (1936-1965) about exhibitions of her artwork in New York, her experiences in Africa, press releases, and her obituary. Photographs are of Putnam's paintings; of Putnam at "Camp Putnam" in the Ituri Rainforest in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) with members of one of the Congo Pygmy tribes; a snapshot of Putnam; and a portrait of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam.

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Putnam, Patrick Tracy Lowell, 1903 or 1904-1953

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Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953) was born into a wealthy and well-connected New England family. Initially an only child, his parents eventually adopted six additional children. During his undergraduate career (Harvard, 1925), Putnam studied anthropology after joining an expedition to Dutch New Guinea under the tutelage of Professor Earnest A. Hooton. Upon graduating, Putnam developed an interest in the Congo Pygmies: from 1928-1930, Putnam carried out ethnological studies in ...

Putnam, Anne Eisner

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Anne Eisner Putnam (1911-1967) was a New York abstract and landscape painter, watercolorist, and collector of African art. She was also one of the founders of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and later a writer, her best known book being her account of her experiences in the former Belgian Congo, Madami: My Eight Years of Adventure with the Congo Pygmies . Together with her husband, Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), she ran a compound known as Camp Putnam in the Congo (now...