Archives of American Art

Wilbur D. Peat correspondence

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.johnherr
Creators:
John Herron Art Institute
Dates:
1929-1936
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.2 Linear feet
(on 1 microfilm reel)
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Correspondence of director Wilbur D. Peat. Many of the letters are from well-known artists of the 1920s and 1930s relating to their contributions to an exhibition of American paintings which Peat was assembling in 1932-1933. [Microfilm title: The Herron Museum of Art]
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Dewey Albinson, A. S. Baylinson, Wenona Day Bell, Thomas H. Benton, George Biddle, Peter Blume, Ernest Blumenschein, C. Curry Bohm, Adolphe Borie, George H. Borst, Robert Brackman, Samuel Brecher, Alexander Brook, Charles E. Burchfield, Varaldo J. Carian, Mrs. E. F. Carpenter, John Carroll, Nicolai Cikovsky, Antonio Cirino, Charles Val Clear, Max B. Cohen, John S. Curry, Randall Davey, Charles H. Davis, Edwin Dickinson, Paul Dougherty, Susan M. Eakins, Henry S. Eddy, Virginia B. Evans, Jerry Farnsworth, Ernest Fiene, John K. Fitzpatrick, John F. Folinsbee, Anton P. Fabrick, Charlotte Gailor, Daniel Garber, Robert F. Gilder, William J. Glackens, John R. Grabach, Charles T. Greener, Charles P. Gruppe,
Scope and Contents
Eugene Higgins, Edward Hopper, Bernard A. Hunger, Henry G. Keller, Fanny M. King, Georgina Klitgaard, Leon Kroll, Max Kuehne, Georges La Chance, Luigi Lucioni, Reginald Marsh, Henry E. Mattson, Henry Lee McFee, Miriam McKinnie, Clarence Millet, Ross E. Moffett, Francis Mora, Frederick Mulhaupt, Jerome Myers, Watson Nayland, Warren Newcombe, Waldo Peirce, Van Dearing Perrine, Robert Philipp, Abraham Phillips (Tromka), Majorie Phillips, Paul A. Plaschke, Edward Redfield, Doel Reed, Charles Rosen, Edward B. Rowan, Olive Rush, Chauncey Ryder, Eugene F. Savage, Henry Schnakenberg, Zoltan Sepeshy, Edward Sewall, Leopold Seyffert, Nan Sheets, Simka Simkhovitch, Clyde J. Singer, Judson Smith,
Scope and Contents
Eugene Speicher, Francis Speight, Maurice Sterne, Alfred Stieglitz (letter written on the back of Peat's letter to Georgia O'Keeffe and written for her), Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Ferdinand E. Warren, Frederick Judd Waugh, Max Weber, Lois Wilcox, Arnold Wiltz, Grant Wood, and Harold Holmes Wrenn.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
The John Herron Art Institute became the Indianapolis Museum of Art ca. 1969-1970. Peat was director 1929-1965.

Administration

Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reel D131 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated 1962 by the John Herron Museum 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. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

More Information

Other Title

Other Title
Herron Museum of Art [microfilm title, reel D131]


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Art, American -- Exhibitions Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Art museums -- Indiana -- Indianapolis Function Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Peat, Wilbur David, 1898-1966 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Albinson, Dewey, 1898-1971 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Baylinson, A. S., 1882-1950 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bell, Wenona Day Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Biddle, George, 1885-1973 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Blume, Peter, 1906-1992 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Blumenschein, Ernest Leonard, 1874-1960 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bohm, C. Curry, 1894- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Borie, Adolphe, 1877-1934 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Borst, George H., 1889- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Brackman, Robert, 1898- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Brecher, Samuel, 1897- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Carian, Varaldo J., 1891- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Carpenter, E. F., Mrs Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Carroll, John, 1892-1959 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cikovsky, Nicolai, 1894- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cirino, Antonio, 1889- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Clear, Charles Val, d. 1967? Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cohen, Max B. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Davey, Randall, 1887-1964 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-1978 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dougherty, Paul, 1877-1947 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Eakins, Susan Macdowell Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Eddy, Henry S. (Henry Stephens), 1878-1944 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Evans, Virginia Bargar Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fabrick, Anton Piers Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Farnsworth, Jerry, 1895-1982 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fiene, Ernest, 1894- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fitzpatrick, Kelly (John Kelly) Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Folinsbee, John Fulton, 1892-1972 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gailor, Charlotte Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Garber, Daniel, 1880- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gilder, Robert F. (Robert Fletcher), 1856-1940 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Glackens, William J., 1870-1938 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Grabach, John R. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Greener, Charles T. (Charles Theodore), 1870-1935 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gruppe, Charles Paul, 1860-1940 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Higgins, Eugene, 1874-1958 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hunger, Bernard A. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Keller, Henry G., 1869-1949 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
King, Fanny Mahon, b. 1865 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Klitgaard, Georgina, 1889-1977 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kuehne, Max, 1880-1968 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
La Chance, Georges, 1888- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Lucioni, Luigi, 1900-1988 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mattson, Henry E. (Henry Elis), 1887-1971 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
McFee, Henry Lee, 1886-1953 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hofmeier, Miriam McKinnie, 1906- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Millet, Clarence, 1897-1959 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Moffett, Ross Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mulhaupt, Frederick J., 1871-1938 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Myers, Jerome, 1867-1940 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Nayland, Watson Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Newcombe, Warren, b. 1894 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Peirce, Waldo, 1884-1970 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Perrine, Van Dearing, 1869-1955 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Philipp, Robert, 1895-1981 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Phillips, Marjorie, 1895-1985 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Plaschke, Paul Albert, 1880-1954 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Redfield, Edward Willis, 1869-1965 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Reed, Doel, b. 1894 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Rosen, Charles, 1878-1950 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Rush, Olive, 1873-1966 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Ryder, Chauncey F., 1868-1949 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Savage, Eugene F., 1883-1978 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest), 1892-1970 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sewall, Edward Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Seyffert, Leopold Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sheets, Nan Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Simkhovitch, Simka, 1893-1949 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Singer, Clyde, 1908- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Smith, Judson, 1880-1962 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Speicher, Eugene Edward, 1883-1962 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Speight, Francis, 1896-1989 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sterne, Maurice, 1878-1957 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Tromka, Abram, 1896-1954 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill, 1883-1979 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Warren, Ferdinand E., b. 1899 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Waugh, Frederick Judd, 1861-1940 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Weber, Max, 1881-1961 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wilcox, Lois, b. 1889 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wiltz, Arnold, 1889-1937 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wood, Grant, 1891-1942 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wrenn, Harold Holmes, 1887-1967 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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