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Archives of American Art
William Pardee Campbell papers
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.campwill
- Creators:
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Campbell, William Pardee, 1914-1976
- Dates:
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1949-1976
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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10 Linear feet1 Linear footAddition
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Index card files, ca. 8 feet, on bibliographies, American artists and collectors, European artists, and addresses; research files for an uncompleted Ph.D. thesis on American artist, John Gadsby Chapman, who lived 1808-1889, containing correspondence, notes, writings, and about 100 photographs and photostats of Chapman's letters and work; notes for an article on Gilbert Stuart's portraits of George Washington; clippings, a biographical sketch on Campbell, and miscellany.
Scope and Contents
ADDITION: Files on artists, arranged alphabetically, containing notes, correspondence and printed material.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Museum curator at the National Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C. The subject of his extensive research, John Gadsby Chapman, was a landscape, history and portrait painter, also a wood engraver and illustrator.
Administration
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated 1979 by Campbell's widow, Priscilla Campbell, and in 1979 and 1990 as a transfer from the National Gallery of Art.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Art, American | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Portrait painters | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Engravers | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Etchers | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Illustrators | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Landscape painters | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Art historians -- Washington (D.C.) | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
History painters | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Museum curators -- Washington (D.C.) | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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