Wish You Were Here: Artists on Vacation
June 28 to September 21, 2007
Exhibited in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in Washington, D.C.
This exhibition documents how vacationing artists escaped from their everyday lives.
“Many artists view vacations as a time to get out of the city, to recharge in a new environment with sympathetic souls,” said Liza Kirwin, curator of manuscripts for the Archives of American Art. Getting away, however, does not mean leaving the canvas or sketchbook behind. Artists are always working, Kirwin added, and vacations are habitually regarded as an opportunity to paint, draw and study.
The exhibition includes letters, travel journals, sketchbooks, snapshots, passports and postcards from vacationing artists. Artists include Cecilia Beaux, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Jackson Pollock, John Sloan, Mary Cassatt, and many others.
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Wish You Were Here: Artists on Vacation
Jackson Pollock's passport, 1955 July 21
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Joseph Lindon Smith's passport, 1916
Creator: Joseph Lindon Smith
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Joseph Lindon Smith, 1900
Creator: Joseph Lindon Smith
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Fairfield Porter's passport, 1931
Creator: Fairfield Porter
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Edna Andrade: Drawing a Fine Line, Works from the Seventies , 1999 Nov. 19-Dec. 30
Creator: Locks Gallery (Philadelphia, PA)
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Edna Andrade notebook sheet, ca. 1923
Creator: Edna Andrade
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Doges Palace in Venice, Italy, ca. 1936-1937
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Doges Palace in Venice, Italy, ca. 1936-1937
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Doges Palace in Venice, Italy, ca. 1936-1937
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'The 3' Edna Andrade and friends in Venice, Italy., ca. 1936-1937
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Edna Andrade aboard a steamship., ca. 1936-1937
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Edna Andrade dressed for a family wedding., ca. 1922
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Edna Andrade on the beach., July 1960
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Edna Andrade with her painting Nudes on a Beach., ca. 1949
Creator: Reuben Goldberg
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Sanford Robinson Gifford to Molly Gifford., Feb. 21, 1869
Creator: Sanford Robinson Gifford
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Sanford Robinson Gifford to Molly Gifford., July 8, 1869
Creator: Sanford Robinson Gifford
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Paul B. Travis to Mildred Travis, 1927 Dec. 9
Creator: Paul B. Travis
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Eliot Candee Clark to Arthur Freeland Clark, May 10, 1905
Creator: Eliot Candee Clark
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Eliot Clark in Venice, June 1905
Creator: Lee F. Randolph
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Eliot Clark seated on the ground, ca. 1905 June
Painter Eliot Clark (1883-1980) resting during his walking tour of Europe, ca. 1905 June. Eliot Candee Clark papers. The ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, collects, preserves, and makes available papers and other primary records documenting the visual arts in the United States. www.aaa.si.edu
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Eliot Clark in a cape at La alhambra, Granada, Spain., ca. 1905
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Eliot Clark and an unidentified companion at La alhambra, Granada, Spain., ca. 1905
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Eliot Clark's tour of Europe, ca. 1905
Creator: Eliot Candee Clark
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Accounts for Eliot Clark's tour of Europe, ca. 1905
Creator: Eliot Candee Clark
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. Aug. 11, 1937
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb postcard to Paul Bodin, 1937 Oct. 27
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., June 2, 1938
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. June 26, 1938
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. July 7, 1941
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. July 23, 1942
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. July 19, 1944
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. July 18, 1945
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb postcard to Paul Bodin, 1946 May 27
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. May 24, 1947
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. July 13, 1960
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Esther G. Rolick in the swimming pool aboard the SS Saturnia, 1948 Sept.
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Esther G. Rolick at the Captain's Dinner aboard the SS Saturia., Sept. 1948
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Esther G. Rolick at the Coliseum, Rome, Italy. Her first trip to Europe., Dec. 1948
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Felicia Marsh at the beach, ca. 1940
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1925 Oct. 7
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1926 June 28
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi to Lloyd Goodrich, ca. 1926
Creator: Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi to Lloyd Goodrich, ca. 1926
Creator: Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1926 Feb. 20
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1926 Jan. 26
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, ca. 1926
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, ca. 1926
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Betty Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, ca. 1926
Creator: Betty Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1936 July 31
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1926 July 2
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, ca. 1930
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, ca. 1926
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1926 Aug. 1
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1926 July 28
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1926 July 24
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Reginald Marsh to Lloyd Goodrich, 1926 July 28
Creator: Reginald Marsh
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Walt Kuhn photograph album, Nova Scotia, 1912
Creator: Walt Kuhn
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Nova Scotia Summer diary, 1912
Creator: Vera Kuhn
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Hermann Dudley Murphy sketchbook of travels through Venice, Italy, ca. 1892
Creator: Hermann Dudley Murphy
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Hermann Dudley Murphy sketchbook of travels through Venice, Italy, ca. 1937
Creator: Hermann Dudley Murphy
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Travel sketchbook from Paris, France, 1931
Creator: Harrison Cady
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Grace Albee sketchbook of travel in Germany and France, 1931
Creator: Grace Albee
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Henry Bacon camping in Egypt, ca. 1897
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Henry Bacon, seated, in a gondola in Venice., ca. 1890
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Henry Bacon and his wife Louis Lee Bacon., ca. 1897
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Henry Bacon at his easel in Egypt., ca. 1897
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Henry Bacon standing behind a donkey in Egypt., ca. 1897
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Egyptian landscape, 1903 Dec. 3
Creator: Henry Bacon
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Egypt, Athens, and Venice, Mar. - June, 1897
Creator: Henry Bacon
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Jacob Kainen's Passport, Aug. 18, 1985
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Frans Wildenhain's passport, 1957 Apr. 22
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Marcelle Labaudt's Passport, Apr. 28, 1954
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Trip to France, 1954 June 17 - July 17
Creator: Marcelle Labaudt
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Ad Reinhardt birthday card to Selina Trieff, 1955 Feb. 3
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt Valentine to Selina Trieff, 1955 Feb. 18
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, June 2, 1955
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff., Aug. 25, 1955
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, July 8, 1955
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, Feb. 25, 1957
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, May 2, 1957
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, June 3, 1957
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, July 18, 1957
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, Sept. 17, 1957
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt postcard to Selina Trieff, 1957 Oct. 24
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, Jan. 27, 1958
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, Mar. 12, 1958
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, June 27, 1960
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, Nov. 8, 1962
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, Aug. 4, 1967
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, between 1951 and 1967
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff, between 1951 and 1967
Creator: Ad Reinhardt
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Egyptian landscape, 1903 Dec. 31
Creator: Henry Bacon
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Woods, between 1950 and 1991
Creator: James Schuyler
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Esther Rolick on an ocean liner, Sept. 1948
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Esther Rolick on an ocean liner, Sept. 1948
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Esther Rolick on an ocean liner, Sept. 1948
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Esther Rolick on an ocean liner, Sept. 1948
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Paul Bransom to Helen Ireland Hays, Feb. 19, 1942
Creator: Paul Bransom
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Mary Cassatt on a houseboat, 1911
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Aline and Eero Saarinen boating, ca. 1955
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Aline and Eero Saarinen boating, ca. 1955
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Aline and Eero Saarinen, ca. 1955
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John French Sloan letter to Walter Pach, 1922 Aug. 4
Creator: John French Sloan
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John Sloan letter to Walter Pach, 1920 June 9
Creator: John French Sloan
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Joseph Lindon Smith to Parents, ca. May 1891
Creator: Joseph Lindon Smith
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Lewis Cohen and Frank DuMond, 1908
Frank DuMond (1865-1951) and Lewis Cohen (1857-1915), going fishing, 1908. Frank Vincent DuMond papers. The ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, collects, preserves, and makes available papers and other primary records documenting the visual arts in the United States. www.aaa.si.edu
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Louis Rhead, ca. 1890
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Robert Vonnoh and Bessie Potter Vonnoh, ca. 1930
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Louis and Marian Bouché, ca 1950.
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Cecilia Beaux and two women outdoors, ca. 1900
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Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at the beach, ca. 1955
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Jackson Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner and an unidentified child at the beach, 1952 July
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Betty and Harry Bowden on the beach at Carmel, California., ca. 1940
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Fairfield Porter in Maine, ca. 1946
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Fairfield Porter with his dog Bruno, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, ca. 1972
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Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, ca. 1970
Creator: Fairfield Porter
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Adolph Gottlieb to Paul Bodin., ca. 1935
Creator: Adolph Gottlieb
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Travel diary, Aug. 29 through Sept. 27, 1891
Creator: Robert Henri
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Palmer Hayden sketchbook of New York and Paris, 1929
Creator: Palmer C. Hayden
