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Dorothea Gilder papers regarding Cecilia Beaux, 1897-1920

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Series 1: Correspondence , 1897-1920
(Boxes 1-2, 0.5 linear feet)

The majority of letters in this series are from Cecilia Beaux to Gilder (about 235) and recount daily activities, travels, social life, work, including details of work in the studio, attitudes, and aspects of Beaux and Gilder's close relationship. Beaux frequently mentions fellow artists and prominent people she meets in her letters, including her experiences painting Admiral Beatty (1919) and Georges Clemenceau (1919-1920). Letters from Beaux were sent from Boston, Philadelphia, Gloucester, New York, Washington (the White House, 1902 and 1904), Paris, and London.
Eleven letters from Gilder to Beaux are found for 1902, and two are found for 1914. Letters to Gilder from her mother Helena De Kay Gilder are found from 1904 and 1908 (one from each year). Letters enclosed with the correspondence are found from Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown (1902), Julia Leavitt Richards (1903), and M.B. Ford of the New Gallery (New York, 1909).
A group photograph of Beaux, Gilder, and others in costume is found enclosed with a letter from 1906, and a clipping with a negative review of Beaux's painting After The Meeting, for which Gilder was Beaux's sitter, is found with a letter of 1914.
Letters are arranged chronologically. Most of the letters appear to be complete, but scattered fragments of letters are found.
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Correspondence, 1897-1899
1
1
Correspondence, 1900 February-April
1
2
Correspondence, 1900 May-July
1
3
Correspondence, 1900 October
1
4
Correspondence, 1901 January-February
1
5
Correspondence, 1901 May-December
1
6
Correspondence, 1902 April-June
Box 1, folders 7-11 contains letter from Dorothea Gilder to Cecilia Beaux, as well as a letter from Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown
1
7
Correspondence, 1902 February-April
1
8
Correspondence, 1902 June-August
1
9
Correspondence, 1902 August-September
1
10
Correspondence, 1902 October-December
1
11
Correspondence, 1903 January-April
1
12
Correspondence, 1903 May-June
1
13
Correspondence, 1903 July-December
1
14
Correspondence, 1904 January-February
1
15
Correspondence, 1904 March-April
1
16
Correspondence, 1904 May-June
1
17
Correspondence, 1904 July-December
1
18
Correspondence, 1905 March-August
1
19
Correspondence, 1905 September-November
1
20
Correspondence, 1906 January-February
1
21
Correspondence, 1906 May-November
Includes photograph depicting Beaux and Gilder in costume with others
1
22
Correspondence, 1907
1
23
Correspondence, 1908
2
1
Correspondence, 1909
2
2
Correspondence, 1910 April-June
2
3
Correspondence, 1910 July-October
2
4
Correspondence, 1911
2
5
Correspondence, 1912
2
6
Correspondence, 1913-1914
2
7
Correspondence, 1916-1917
2
8
Correspondence, 1919-1920
2
9

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