American Academy of Arts and Letters, est. 1904

American Academy of Arts and Letters records, 1864-1942

800 items (on 5 microfilm reels).
Reel(s): NAA 1 through NAA 5

A collection of artists' papers containing correspondence, notes, biographical material, exhibition catalogs, and other published material. Includes:
volume of notes, drawings, and calculations made by George Bellows for a study of Jay Hambidge's theory of Dynamic Symmetry; correspondence and published and unpublished biographical and critical material on George de Forest Brush, Childe Hassam, Francis D. Millet, Joseph Pennell, Elihu Vedder, and J. Q. A. Ward. The Hassam papers are particularly voluminous, with letters from John Taylor Arms, E. H. Blashfield, William Merritt Chase, Royal Cortissoz, J. Alden Weir, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. All groups contain official Academy correspondence from its secretary Robert Underwood Johnson.

Location of Originals: Originals in American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y.

This is a collection of miscellaneous papers representing a gathering over the years of unsolicited documentary resources on American art given or addressed to the Academy.

Subjects:

• Art
• Brush, George de Forest
• Exhibition catalogs
• Hassam, Childe
• Learned institutions and societies
• Millet, Francis Davis
• Pennell, Joseph
• Vedder, Elihu
• Ward, John Quincy Adams

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Also in the Archives:

• A memorial exhibition of the works of Edwin Austin Abbey R.A., N.A., at the American academy of arts and letters...New York city, 1928