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Archives of American Art
Lucia Fairchild Fuller papers
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.fullluci
- Creators:
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Fuller, Lucia Fairchild, 1872-1924
- Dates:
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[undated] and 1890-1976
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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232 Items(on 2 partial microfilm reels)
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Letters received; sketchbook; diaries; miniatures; photographs; clippings; and a manuscript draft.
Scope and Contents
REEL 3504: Letters from John W. Ames, W.C. Brownell of Charles Scribner's Sons, Katherine & Molly Childers, Frederick S. Church, John W. Cunliffe, Dr. Charles L. Dana, Jefferson B. Fletcher, Andrew Green, Gertrude Hall, Grace Hall, Leland Hall, Norman Hapgood, Theo Hawley, Laura Hills, Muriel "Pilla" Howells, Jeannette Meyers Hoyt, Ernest Lawson, Philip Littell, Mrs. J.W. McCarty, Gavin and Marie Mathison, Maxfield "Fred" Parrish, Elsie Pattel, Samuel H. Ranck, Edward Robinson, George Rublee, George Santayana, Edward Fred "Simmy" Simmons, Elizabeth Kendall Underwood, Janet Van Hise, Mary Viele, John F. Weir, Madeline Y. Wynne, and Cecilia Mary Young. Six of the 12 letters from F.S. Church are illustrated with drawings. Letters concern her health, her love affair with Simmons, her art, and financial concerns.
Scope and Contents
REEL 3825: Biographical material (1967, 1976); diaries (1890-1891, 1903); correspondence, including letters to her husband, Henry B. Fuller (1892-1922) and from John Singer Sargent and H. Siddons Mowbray (1890-1892); a sketchbook; miniatures; photographs (including a portfolio of photographs of miniature paintings); clippings (1910-1924); and a draft of THE MINIATURE AS AN HEIRLOOM by Lucia Fairchild Fuller.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Miniature painter; Cornish, N.H. Studied under Henry Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in NYC. Married Henry B. Fuller in 1893. In 1899, she was one of the founders of the American Society of Miniature Painters. Was stricken with multiple sclerosis. Summered at the art colony in Cornish, N.H.
Administration
Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reels 3504 and 3825 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals returned to the lender, Lucia T. Miller, after microfilming. Subsequently donated to Dartmouth College Library, Hanover NH.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Lent by Lucia Taylor Miller, Fuller's granddaughter.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Keywords
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Miniature painters -- New Hampshire | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Painters -- New Hampshire | Occupation | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Painting, American | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Women artists | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Women painters | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Fuller, Henry Brown, 1867-1934 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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