Pierce, Charles Franklin, 1844-1920
Painter
Size: 250 items (on 2 microfilm reels)
Summary: Biographical information; personal documents; correspondence; a travel and sketching diary; a diary kept by his wife, Katherine; a record book detailing the disposition of his art works; sketches and sketchbooks; etchings; exhibition catalogs; clippings; photographs of Pierce, his family, reproduction of his works, and reference photographs used for painting.
Landscape painter; Boston, Mass.
The lender, Elizabeth W. Plimpton, is the niece of Charles F. Pierce.
Microfilm reels 1405 and 1406 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Charles Franklin Pierce papers, 1870-1972. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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