Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942
Curator, Collector, Art critic
Size: 4 v. (on 2 microfilm reels)
Summary: Scrapbooks contain correspondence, clippings, sketches, photographs, and exhibition catalogs. The letters are generally requests for Brinton to lecture, organize an exhibition, or write an article.
Art critic, curator and collector; West Chester, Pennsylvania and New York, N.Y. Born 1870. Died 1942.
Collected in 1990 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Microfilmed by the Free Library of Pennsylvania.
Microfilm reels 4401-4402 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Christian Brinton scrapbooks, 1899-1925. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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