AMERICAN INDIAN OBSERVED

GEORGE CATLIN
The Archives has several discreet collections: George Catlin papers; Catlin family papers; George Catlin manuscripts and drawings; George Catlin letter; and a small collection on microfilm only of George Catlin papers from the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art. All are on microfilm. Consult SIRIS for additional collections relating to Catlin.

CREATOR: Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
TITLE: George Catlin papers, 1821-1890.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:2.0 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 2 reels)
reels 2136-2137
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Portrait painter, miniature painter, ethnographer, best known for his paintings of the American Indian. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
SUMMARY: Papers of painter George Catlin primarily concerning Catlin's study and painting of American Indians.
Included are correspondence with Thomas Sully, Henry Clay, William Henry Seward, John Adams Dix, James Hall, Benjamin Silliman, Ralph Randolph Gurley, Prosper Merimee, and Baron Friederich von Humbolt, letters granting Catlin audience with Queen Victoria, and the King of France (Louis Philippe I?); notebooks and manuscripts about Indians and Catlin's travels in Europe; account books, financial material, receipts; notebooks of Theodore P. and Clara B. Catlin; exhibition catalogs; printed material; clippings; two photogravures of Catlin (copyprint of one, 1868 is also microfilmed on reel 1817 fr. 284-285, Photos Artists II); and miscellany.
RESTRICTIONS: Patrons must use microfilm copy.
PROVENANCE: Deposited at the Archives of American Art 1981 by Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution.
ADDITIONAL FORMS:35mm microfilm reels 2136-2137 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.

CREATOR: Catlin family (Hamilton, N. Y.)
TITLE: Catlin family papers, [ca. 1807]-1973 (bulk [ca. 1807]-1900)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:1.0 linear ft. (on 3 microfilm reels)
reels 2707, 3023 and 3024
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Family of artists. Putnam Catlin and Polly Sutton Catlin had 14 children, one of whom was George Catlin, noted for his paintings of American West and Indian portraits.
SUMMARY: Family memorabilia, printed material, genealogical information, correspondence, writings, and notebooks.
REELS 3023-3024: Five notebooks kept by Horace P. Hartshorn, nephew of George Catlin, containing family histories, and genealogical information on Catlin and Raymond families; a handwritten copy of a letter to Edward Payne from Putnam Catlin, July 20, 1810; family letters; ten deeds for property conveyed to Asa Hartshorn, Horace P. Hartshorn, and Thomas C. Hartshorn, 1832-1899; a warrant for bounty land assigned to Horace P. Hartshorn, 1857; photographs, including studio cards, tintypes, cartes-de-visite, a daguerrotype of Mary Catlin Hartshorn (unfilmed), and a portrait album containing 24 photographs of Catlin family members; and newspaper clippings of obituaries and wedding announcements.
REEL 2707: A notebook of Horace P. Hartshorn containing family obituaries, clippings on George Catlin and his works of art, and transcriptions of funeral sermons for various family members, 1848; an album, 1832, of brothers, John and George Catlin, containing engravings, unpublished writings by family members and friends, and eulogies of John and Julius Catlin; the last will and testatment of Putnam Catlin, 1841; and miscellaneous materials, including a writing desk.
RESTRICTIONS: Patrons must use microfilm copy.
PROVENANCE: Donated by David Morse, 1984. Morse purchased the papers from Thomas Lenz. Material on reel 2707 had been previously lent by Lenz for microfilming in 1982.
FINDING AIDS: Inventory and family genealogy available at all Archives of American Art offices.
ADDITIONAL FORMS:35mm microfilm reels 2707, 3023 and 3024 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.

CREATOR: Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
TITLE: George Catlin papers, 1840-1860. NOTE: THIS COLLECTION IS NOT OWNED BY THE ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:ca. 500 items (on partial microfilm reel)
reel 3277 (frames 494-1305)
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Portrait painter, miniature painter, ethnographer; Pennsylvania Best known for his paintings of the American Indian. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
SUMMARY: Letters from Catlin to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1840-1860, and 2 letters from Phillipps to Catlin; writings by Catlin; material on Catlin's Indian Gallery, including clippings, catalogs, handbills, invitations, Indian drawings, and printed material; a watercolor sketchbook; a list of paintings; Indian portrait sketches; and miscellany.
RESTRICTIONS: Patrons must use microfilm copy.
PROVENANCE: Microfilmed 1984 along with other selected art related papers from the Gilcrease Institute.
ADDITIONAL FORMS:35mm microfilm reel 3277 (frames 494-1305) available at Archives of American Art offices, the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and through interlibrary loan.
LOCATION OF ORIGINALS:Originals in: Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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CREATOR: Deming, Edwin Willard, 1860-1942.
TITLE: Edwin Willard Deming papers, <undated> and 1923-1925.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:0.2 linear ft.
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Painter, illustrator, sculptor; specialized in depicting American Indians. Since childhood, Deming had a close association with various tribes of American Indians.
SUMMARY: Typescript (photocopy), "The Life of Edwin Willard Deming," possibly by his daughter Alden Deming, undated; a priced list of Deming's works of art; copyprints made from glass slides, including 23 of works of art, and 22 of American Indians and related scenes; a catalog from the Brooklyn Museum exhibition on Deming, "Paintings, Decorations, and Bronzes of American Indians and Animals," 1922; and the publication by Therese O. Deming, "Edwin Willard Deming: His Work," c1925.
RESTRICTIONS: Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility.
PROVENANCE: Donated 1991 by Josephine W. Deming, the widow of Deming's son, Hall.

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CREATOR: Kihn, W. Langdon
TITLE: W. Langdon Kihn papers, 1904-1990 (bulk 1904-1959).
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:8.8 linear ft. (on 13 microfilm reels)
Addition 0.4 linear ft. (unfilmed)
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Painter and illustrator; Hadlyme, Conn. Full name Wilfred Langdon Kihn (sometimes cited as William Langdon Kihn). Born 1898. Died 1957. Specialized in pictorial representations of the lives, history and customs of American Indians. Married to Helen Butler.
SUMMARY: REELS 3701-3713: Biographical material; correspondence; memoirs; travel diary; writings by Kihn and others; legal and financial records; art work; sketchbooks; photographs; exhibition catalogs and announcements; and miscellany.
Among the biographical materials are resumes, awards, and membership cards. Correspondence (1904-1959) is with family, friends and colleagues, galleries, museums, art and natural history associations, advertising, printing and publishing companies, steamship and railway companies, historical societies, writers and others. Writings consist of a notebook of memoirs (contains pages 9-37); a travel diary (ca. 1924-1925) describing Kihn's trip from New York to Prince Rupert, British Columbia; typescripts and handwritten drafts of writings by Kihn (undated and 1925-1954) on amateur painters and Indians of the Greater Southwest, the Plains, the Northwest Pacific Coast and North America; typescripts of poems, lectures and writings by Agnes Akin Atkinson, C. Marius Barbeau, Leon Scott Becker, Peyton Boswell, Constance Lindsay Skinner, John Stevens, and others (undated and 1944-1947); and proofs, dummies and plates (undated and 1937) for publications written and illustrated by Kihn.
Also, address books and calling cards; insurance policies, contracts and other legal records; business and financial records; price lists and lists of works by Kihn; drawings, some annotated, of Indians and other subjects; sketches and studies for book illustrations; works by Elizabeth Davey Lochrie and others; sketchbooks (undated and 1940); Christmas cards designed by Kihn (1920-1954); reproductions for books and other publications; a scrapbook (1913-1923) containing newspaper clippings; exhibition announcements, catalogs and invitations; printed materials including news releases, magazine and newspapers clippings; photographs of Kihn and his works; and miscellany.
UNMICROFILMED: Pages 1-9 of Kihn's notebook of memoirs; and a transcript of the complete memoirs by his daughter, Phyllis Kihn.
RESTRICTIONS: Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. storage facility.
PROVENANCE: Donated 1959 by Helen Kihn, widow of W. Langdon Kihn. Pages 1-8 of Kihn's memoirs and the transcript of the complete memoirs was donated in 1994 by Phyllis Kihn, daughter of W. Langdon Kihn. Additions are expected.
FINDING AIDS: A complete list of correspondents is available in all AAA offices.
ADDITIONAL FORMS:35mm microfilm reels 3701-3713 available in Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.

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CREATOR: Metcalf, Willard Leroy, 1858-1925.
TITLE: Willard Leroy Metcalf sketchbooks, 1879-1882.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:0.2 linear ft. (4 v. on 1 microfilm reel) - reel D105
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Landscape painter,illustrator; New York City. One of a group known as The Ten American Painters. Worked in Southwest U.S. painting Zuni Indians 1881-1883; associated with artists' colonies in Old Lyme, Conn., and Cornish, N.H.
SUMMARY: Four sketchbooks representing Metcalf's early sketches.
RESTRICTIONS: Patrons must use microfilm copy.
PROVENANCE: Donated 1963 by IBM, who acquired the sketchbooks along with a painting they purchased for their company collection.
ADDITIONAL FORMS:35mm microfilm reel D105 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.

CREATOR: Metcalf, Willard Leroy, 1858-1925.
TITLE: Willard Leroy Metcalf papers, 1876-1925. Note: This collection was lent to AAA for microfilming and is only available on microfilm.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:150 items (on partial microfilm reel -reel N70-13
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Landscape painter,illustrator; New York City. One of The Ten American Painters. Worked in Southwest U.S. painting Zuni Indians 1881-1883; associated with artists' colonies in Old Lyme, Conn., and Cornish, N.H.
SUMMARY: 23 letters between Metcalf and Charles L. Freer, l917-1919, discussing prospective purchases of Metcalf's work for the Freer Collection, and 2 personal letters to Florence Griswold, 1905-06. Also included are a diary for 1876, recording the progress of some of his paintings, detailing sketching trips around Boston and Vermont, and noting daily expenses; sketchbooks, 1885, 1905, 1913-14; photographs of his murals and paintings; snapshots of his friends and himself; and a scrapbook of clippings, 1905-1925.
RESTRICTIONS: Patrons must use microfilm copy.
PROVENANCE: Lent for microfilming by Addison Metcalf, 1969.
ADDITIONAL FORMS:35mm microfilm reel N70-13 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
LOCATION OF ORIGINALS:Originals returned to the lender, Addison Metcalf, after microfilming.

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CREATOR: Rush, Olive, 1873-1966.
TITLE: Olive Rush papers, 1886-1966.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:6.2 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 8 reels)
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Painter, illustrator, muralist; Sante Fe, New Mexico. Studied at the Art Students League with Twatchman and Mowbray and the Howard Pyle School. Muralist for the La Fonda Hotel and Public Library, Sante Fe; WPA murals: United States Post Office, Florence, Colorado and Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Illustrator for Collier's, & Scribners. Specialities: women, children, American Indians, frescos.
SUMMARY: Correspondence, photographs, sketches, printed material, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, prints and biographical material.
REEL SW 4: Scrapbooks; photographs of Olive Rush and her work; clippings and exhibition material; prints; and cards.
REEL 847:ca. 200 photographs, including snapshots taken at Howard Pyle's house, studio and school, 1900-1908, murals by Rush in Sante Fe and Colorado, and other works; and clippings and a press release about her murals.
REELS 1627-1632: Ca. 1000 letters including some from Edward Bruce, Edward B. Rowan, J.L. Nusbaum and others regarding Rush's murals; diaries; biographical material; sketches, sketchbooks, woodcuts and lithographs; notes and lectures; record of disposition of paintings and price lists of paintings; clippings and catalogs.
UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence, photographs, sketches and clippings about murals executed for the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, and the post offices at Florence, Colorado and Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
RESTRICTIONS: Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. storage facility.
PROVENANCE: Material on reel SW 4 lent for microfilming by the Olive Rush Memorial Studio, 1970. Diaries and some sketches on reels 1627-1632 donated by an anonymous donor, 1970. Material on reels 847, 1627-1632 and unmicrofilmed material donated by Olive Rush, 1964 and 1970.
ADDITIONAL FORMS:35mm microfilm reels SW 4, 847, 1627-1632 available for use at Archives of American offices and through interlibrary loan.
LOCATION OF ORIGINALS:Reel SW 4: Originals in the Olive Rush Memorial Studio, Sante Fe, New Mexico.

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CREATOR: True, Allen Tupper, 1881-1955.
TITLE: Allen Tupper True and True family papers, 1841-1987.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 7.8 linear ft. (on 8 microfilm reels) -reels 4891-4898
BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: Mural painter, illustrator; Denver, Colo. Born 1881. Died 1955. Studied at the University of Denver, the Corcoran School of Art, 1901-1902, and with Howard Pyle, 1902-1908. From approximately 1913-1915, True worked with Frank Brangwyn, assisting him in the execution of murals at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. True specialized in Western themes, and his most notable murals decorate the state capitol buildings of Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming. From 1934-1945, True acted as consultant for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, in charge of and designing all decoration and color schemes for the Boulder Dam power plant, Grand Coulee Dam, and the Shasta Dam, among others.
SUMMARY: Biographical material, subject files, correspondence, business records, notes, writings, art work, project files, photographs, a scrapbook, printed material, and artifacts document True's career as an illustrator and mural painter, as well as the interaction between True and members of his family.
Biographical materials include family genealogies, school papers, 1895-1899, passports, and copies of True's will.
Files on True family members include True's mother Margaret Tupper True, 1873-1926, containing teaching certificates, legal documents, 1908-1926, 2 diaries, 1881-1926, documenting the infancies of True and his youngest sister, Katherine, and a journal written by True's grandmother Ellen Smith Tupper; on True's father, Harry A. True, containing legal documents, writings, and printed material; and on True's uncles and aunts Ira G. True, James P. True, Mary Josephine True, and Eliza Tupper Wilkes, and True's brother James B. True containing various receipts, certificates and other documents. Related files are on the True family business, the American Smelting & Refining Co., and organizations to which True and True family members belonged, including the Cactus Club and the Central City Opera House Association.
Correspondence, 1841-1955, is between various family members, discussing his father's work in land development, and describing True's studies at the Corcoran School, Howard Pyle's class, his work with Frank Brangwyn, and his travels and projects; and with business associates, colleagues, and friends, 1902-1956, among them Gutzon Borglum, Frank Brangwyn, Grace Naismith, Howard Pyle, and N. C. Wyeth.
Business records consist of stocks and deed for Colorado real estate, 1903-1942; receipts, 1904-1946; insurance policies, 1933-1949; and a studio lease and inventory, 1951.
Notes and writings include an address book; 7 notebooks, 1902-1920, containing school notes and notes on travel to England, work with Frank Brangwyn, and a record of murals and notes on techniques; lists of art works; and essays and poems by True, 1896-1926.
Photographs, 1880-1950, are of True, his studios, exhibitions, his works of art, and works by others, family members, residences and places of business. Others are of Howard Pyle's studio and students, ca. 1902, including George Harding, Gordon M. McCouch, Thornton Oakley, True, and N.C. Wyeth; Frank Brangwyn with William Merritt Chase, 1914, and Brangwyn's studio; 5 of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915; 2 photograph albums of True, his family and friends, including N.C. Wyeth in his studio, a fox hunt at Chadd's Ford, and various Western scenes; and travel photographs of Europe, England, and the Mexican border, including 2 photographs of Pancho Villa and his men.
Reference photographs, undated and 1909, show Native Americans engaged in various ceremonies and activities, Pueblo architecture, frontier towns, settlers, cattlemen, miners, lumbermen, prospectors, rodeos, stage coaches, wagon trains, and Western landscapes.
Art work (cataloged separately - see below) includes a sketchbook, cartoons and drawings, 2 paintings on cardboard, designs based on Native American pottery and artifacts, art work for Christmas cards, and art work by others.
Project files, 1912-1987, contain letters, legal documents, printed material, and photographs concerning mural decoration of the state capitol buildings of Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming, and consultation work for the Bureau of Reclamation on Boulder Dam, and Grand Coulee Dam, among others.
Printed material includes a scrapbook, 1934, containing clippings of a newspaper serial of Charles Dickens' "The Life of Our Lord"; clippings, 1879-1981; exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1908-1980; reproductions of art works; programs; brochures; and booklets.
Artifacts include 5 Civil War bullets, a pocket knife, 2 pocket compasses, and a metal badge from the Columbian Exposition.
RESTRICTIONS: Patrons must use microfilm copy.
PROVENANCE: Donated 1988 by Jane True Mueller, and Frank True, True's daughter and son.
FINDING AIDS: Finding aid available at all AAA offices.
ADDITIONAL FORMS:35mm microfilm reels 4891-4898 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
GENERAL NOTE: Works of art cataloged separately.

NAME: True, Allen Tupper, 1881-1955.
TITLE: <Works of art>
FORMS PART OF: Allen Tupper True and True family papers, 1841-1987.
RESPONSIBILITY: Allen Tupper True.
PUBLISHED/PRODUCED:1908-1952.
DESCRIPTION: Total: 159 items.
14 illustrated letters : ink or watercolor on paper ; 28 x 21.5 cm. or smaller.
2 sketchbooks : graphite and ink on paper ; 15.8 x 10 x 1.5 cm. or smaller.
15 sketches : graphite, ink and watercolor on paper ; 35.5 x 25.5 cm. or smaller.
14 Christmas cards : graphite, ink, watercolor drawings and reproductions on paper and cardstock ; 26.6 x 18.4 cm. or smaller.
14 hand-colored linecuts : ink with wash on cardstock ; 11 x 8.5 cm on sheet 12.5 x 10 cm. or smaller.
73 cartoons and designs for murals : graphite, ink, watercolor or gouache on paper ; 36.1 x 56.4 cm. or smaller.
2 illustrations : gouache on illustration board ; 39.5 x 26 cm. on sheet 53.3 x 36.5 cm.
25 ethnographic sketches ; graphite and gouache on illustration board ; 38.2 x 28 or smaller.
RESTRICTIONS: Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility.
SUMMARY: Sketches and cartoons by True done in preparation for completed murals, illustrations, and paintings; and illustrated letters, original Christmas cards, self-portraits, caricatures, an illustrated travel journal, and a sketchbook.
The cartoons and designs for mural projects include: a drawing of the architectural framework for murals in the Denver Civic Center; 16 sketches and cartoons for the seven mural panels in the rotunda of the Colorado State Capitol; 54 graphite, ink and brown wash drawings of Pueblo pottery designs for the U.S. National Bank Building murals, and Boulder Dam, among others; and 2 pink and gray gouache cartoons of buffalos for one of ten murals depicting the fauna of Colorado for the Voorhies Memorial Arch, Denver, Co.
The ethnographic sketches are of Plain Indians artifacts in the Museum of New Mexico, ca. 1923, mounted on 25 sheets of illustration board, and include shields, clothing tipis, headdresses, parfleche bags and other objects.
14 linecuts from original ink illustrations by True for John G. Neihardt's poem "The Song of the Indian Wars," are hand-colored with burnt orange wash, and depict Sioux Indians in ceremonies, traveling, and in confrontation with white settlers and military.
2 gouache illustrations depict a man and a woman in 19th century garb with a horse. Each is signed in lower left and dated 1908 with a caption and manuscript page designation on verso.
15 drawings, undated, include four caricature self-portraits and five cartoon sketches lampooning miners and cowboys.
The illustrated letters are from True to his wife and daughter. Included are a valentine, 1915, a watercolor drawing of New York City, 1927, and a self-portrait, 1934. 28 Christmas cards, undated, 1919 and 1921, include 6 originals and 22 reproductions, some hand-colored, in 14 designs. Subjects include self-portraits, True's dog, skiing scenes, Cristo Rey Church in Santa Fe, and traditional holiday scenes.
The travel journal contains drawings of the English countryside, cities, the Salisbury and Christchurch cathedrals, the British Museum and some of its artifacts, and other buildings, ca. 1914. The sketchbook, undated, contains 26 sketches of animals.
Printed magazine illustrations, brochures, announcements and invitations illustrated by True can be found in the printed material series of the collection.
NOTES: Forms part of the Allen Tupper True and True family papers, 1841-1985.
PUBLICATION: Sioux Indian illustrations published in: Song of the Indian Wars / John G. Neihardt. New York: Macmillian Publishing Co., 1925.

George Catlin	Edwin Deming	Charles Humphriss	W. Langdon Kihn
William Metcalf	Olive Rush	Dorothy Newkirk Stewart	Allen Tupper True