Esther Baldwin Williams and Esther Williams papers
The papers of Boston area painters Esther Baldwin Williams and daughter Esther Williams measure 2.1 linear feet and date from 1887 to 1984. The scattered papers of both women include biographical information, personal business records, correspondence, writings and notes, two diaries, four sketchbooks, printed materials, photographs, and one photograph album.
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Ilse Getz papers
The papers of collage artist Ilse Getz measure 3.4 linear feet and date from 1928 through 1999, with the bulk of the papers dating from circa 1947-circa 1990. Her personal life is reflected through biographical material including a genealogy of the Bechhold family; marriage and death certificates; and writings that include journals, artist statement, poems and notes. The collection contains letters from friends, artists, collectors, and museum and art gallery representatives; exhibition files; and printed material relating to Getz's exhibitions. Also found are photographs, slides and transparencies of artwork.
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Robert C. Graham collection of artists' letters
bulk 1804-1877
The Robert C. Graham collection of artists' letters measure 0.2 linear feet and dates from 1783 to 1935, with the bulk of the letters dating from 1804 to 1877. Graham, an art dealer and collector, compiled the unrelated letters of several late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century painters such as Thomas Biddle, Thomas Doughty, G. P. A. Healy, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Emanuel Leutze, Samuel F. B. Morse, Rembrandt Peale, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Sully, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and others.
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Oral history interview with George C. Seybolt
Brown, Robert F.
An Interview with George C. Seybolt conducted 1985 April 2-16, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
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Henri Vever Papers
The papers of Parisian jeweler and art collector Henri Vever (1854-1942) include six diaries; a ledger of his art acquisitions; original oil paintings by Vever; and photographs. The materials document Vever's circle of friends, patrons, and other art collectors in turn-of-the-century Paris.
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Website Records
This accession consists of the Anacostia Community Museum website and the "Community Documentation Initiative" blog. The website, crawled on October 16, 2019, includes information about the museum and its collections, exhibitions, research, educational activities, and public programs. It also includes two online exhibitions. This accession does not contain detailed information about individual …
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Website Records
This accession consists of the "Cooper Hewitt Labs" blog as it existed on November 28, 2018. The blog, launched in December 2011, provides a behind the scenes look at the work of the Digital and Emerging Media Department. Materials are in electronic format.
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Romaine Brooks papers
The papers of painter Romaine Brooks measure 3 linear feet and date from 1910 to 1973. Found are biographical sketches, correspondence, seven journals, writings and notes, printed materials, a scrapbook, and photographs. Most of the materials focus on Brooks' later life while living in Paris and Nice, France and Fiesole, Italy and make little reference to her paintings and portraits.
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Sylvia Fein papers
The papers of painter and author Sylvia Fein measure 5.9 linear feet and date from 1936 to 2011. The papers primarily document her friendships with other artists from the Wisconsin-based Magic Realist group, including Dudley Huppler, John Wilde, Marshall Glasier, and Karl Priebe, as well as her career as a painter and her work on the books Heidi's Horse and First Drawings: Genesis of Visual Thinking. Documentation consists of scattered biographical material, extensive correspondence, project files, writings by Huppler and others, printed material, photographs, artwork by Wilde and Glasier, and scrapbooks.
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Website Records
This accession consists of two websites and a Tumblr blog maintained by the Smithsonian Gardens. The primary Smithsonian Gardens website, crawled February 3, 2015, includes information about the gardens; educational resources and opportunities; and the Smithsonian Garden's collections, including those of the Archives of American Gardens. The "Community of Gardens" website, crawled …
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