Wilder, Arthur B., 1857-1947
Landscape painter
Size: 1.3 linear ft.
Summary: Biographical sketches; membership cards; correspondence, chiefly with family members; an account book; lists of work; writings; art work, including sketches, watercolors, etchings, lithographs, charcoal sketches and 10 sketchbooks, and oils on canvas; photographs of Wilder, Henry C. White and others, and of Wilder's and White's work and studios; exhibition catalogs, and other printed material.
Landscape painter; Woodstock, Vt. Studied at the Art Students League and the Art Guild in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Thomas Eakins was his instructor.
Donated 1993 by Lyle C. Pearsons, Wilder's grandson. Additional papers are expected.
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Arthur B. Wilder papers, [ca. 1866]-1944. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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