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Collection Information
Size: 226 items
Summary: The Charles Henry Hart autograph collection dates from 1731-1917 and consists of 226 letters, portrait prints, and other documents signed by American artists.
Charles Henry Hart autograph collection, 1731-1918
Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
Art historian, Author
Biographical/Historical Note
Charles Henry Hart (1847-1918) was a historian, lawyer, writer, and director, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1882-1904. Widely, he published on the subject of 18th and 19th century portraiture in the United States.
Provenance
The Charles Henry Hart autograph collection was donated to the Archives of American Art in 1954 as an anonymous gift. It is assumed that Hart assembled the letters. Original collation was two letterbooks entitled "The History of Art in America as Tolk in a Remarkable Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents of Celebrated American Artists of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century."
Related Materials
Funding
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
A Finding Aid to the Charles Henry Hart Autograph Collection, 1731-1918, in the Archives of American Art
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Author
Finding aid prepared by Jayna M. Josefson
Biographical/Historical note
Charles Henry Hart (1847-1918) was a historian, lawyer, writer, and director, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1882-1904. Widely, he published on the subject of 18th and 19th century portraiture in the United States.
Arrangement note
The collection is arranged as 1 series.
Series 1: Charles Henry Hart autograph collection, 1731-1917 (226 items; Box 1-5)
Scope and Contents note
The Charles Henry Hart autograph collection dates from 1731-1917 and consists of 226 letters, portrait prints, and other documents signed by American artists.
Originally titled by Hart as "The History of Art in America as Told in a Remarkable Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents of Celebrated American Artists of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century," the collection includes letters and other items signed by Thomas Anshutz, John J. Audubon, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, John Singleton Copley, Kenyon Cox, Thomas Eakins, Jervis McEntee, Samuel F.B. Morse, Charles Willson Peale, Raphaelle Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale, Titian Peale, James Daivd Smillie, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Abbott Handerson Thayer, John Vanderlyn, Elihu Vedder, John Quincy Adams Ward, Benjamin West, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and many others.
Provenance
The Charles Henry Hart autograph collection was donated to the Archives of American Art in 1954 as an anonymous gift. It is assumed that Hart assembled the letters. Original collation was two letterbooks entitled "The History of Art in America as Tolk in a Remarkable Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents of Celebrated American Artists of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century."
Related Archival Materials note
The Archives of American Art also holds the personal papers of Charles Henry Hart, dating from 1774-1930, bulk 1888-1918.
Processing Information note
The original letterbooks were microfilmed onto reel D5. In 2014, Jayna Josefson prepared a finding aid for the collection with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Additional Forms Available
The collection is available on microfilm reel D5, available at Archives of American Art offices and for interlibrary loan.
Restrictions on Access
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
How to Cite This Collection
Charles Henry Hart autograph collection, 1731-1918. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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- Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
- Church, Frederic Edwin
- Audubon, John James
- Peale, Raphaelle
- Peale, Rubens
- Vedder, Elihu
- Whistler, James McNeill
- Vanderlyn, John
- Anshutz, Thomas Pollock
- Peale, Rembrandt
- Smillie, James David
- Eakins, Thomas
- Chase, William Merritt
- Sully, Thomas
- Peale, Titian Ramsay
- Ward, John Quincy Adams
- Thayer, Abbott Handerson
- West, Benjamin
- Cox, Kenyon
- McEntee, Jervis
- Copley, John Singleton
- Peale, Charles Willson
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
- Stuart, Gilbert
- Artists
- Autographs
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