MacNeil, Hermon Atkins, 1866-1947
Sculptor
Size: 2.6 linear ft.(on two microfilm reels).
Summary: Resume; art school report cards, 1885; several postcards and greeting cards; 456 photographs of MacNeil, his family, friends, models, studio and sculpture, and of other sculptor's work including his wife, Carol Brooks MacNeil; 9 sketchbooks with notes, and 8 sketches; a sketch by James A. Coughlin; clippings, exhibition catalogs and printed miscellany.
Sculptor, art instructor; Queens, N.Y. Born in Everett, Mass., Feb. 27, 1866. Taught at Cornell University, Art Institute of Chicago, Pratt Institute and American Academy of Rome. Work includes statues, memorials, monuments, friezes. Established the American Indian as a legitimate artistic theme; d. 1947; husband of sculptor Carol Brooks MacNeil
Donated 1982 by Robert A. Sanborn, who received them from Donald Weeks, an English professor at Mills College, who in turn had received them from James A. Couglin, a colleague of MacNeil.
Microfilm reels 2726 and 2727 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Hermon Atkins MacNeil papers, 1885-1947. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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