Joseph E. Widener letter
A letter to Mrs. Graham Shaw, May 21, 1923, permitting her to chaperone 12 people on a visit to his art collection. He agrees with Mrs. Shaw that "the appreciation of art in Philadelphia is much needed...."
Reuben Haines and Haines family selected papers
Letters, legal documents, and account book pages.
Joseph Sill selected diaries
Ca. 850 pages of selected art related excerpts from Sill's diaries. The diaries date from 1832 to 1854 and document his own painting activities, his association with the Artists and Amateurs Association, Artists' Fund Society, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He gives his reactions to the work of other artists as …
Rebecca Beal papers
Research material on Jacob Eichholtz; and letters.
Oral history interview with Warren Rohrer
Pacini, Marina
An interview of Warren Rohrer conducted 1989 March 9-June 1, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Rohrer speaks of his early life as a Mennonite and his schooling on a farm in Lancaster, Pa.; his art studies at Eastern Mennonite College, James Madison College, Pennsylvania State University …
Oral history interview with Walter Clemmons
Lindsey, Jack
An interview of Walter Clemmons conducted 1990 July 26, by Jack Lindsey for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
Oral history interview with Jimmy C. Lueders
Veloric, Cynthia
An interview of Jimmy C. Lueders conducted 1990 Nov. 14, by Cynthia Veloric, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Lueders speaks about his childhood in Florida, his art studies in high school and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, instructor Franklin Watkins and fellow student Ben Kamihira; teaching …
Hugh Henry Breckenridge papers
Valley House Gallery
Notes, writings, sketches, printed material, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and exhibition materials. REEL 1779: 2 logbooks of paintings with photographs, prices, and exhibition records; a photograph of students at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; three scrapbooks of photographs of his paintings and portraits; photocopies of clippings and of a brochure of the …
Oral history interview with Richard Reinhardt
Pacini, Marina
An interview of Richard Reinhardt conducted 1991 Aug. 22, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
Oral history interview with Mansfield Bascom and Ruth Esherick Bascom about Wharton Esherick
Polsky, Richard
Bascom, Ruth Esherick
An interview of Ruth and Mansfield Bascom concerning artist Wharton Esherick, conducted 1990 July 13, by Richard Polsky, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.