Lilly, Josiah Kirby, 1893-1966
Collector
Size: 68 items (on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: Correspondence with Frank Vining Smith concerning Smith's painting; photographs; Smith's autobiographical sketch; and obituary; and a list of Smith paintings owned by Lilly at the time of his death in 1966.[microfilm title-Frank Vining Smith papers]
Art collector; Indiana, Ind. and Quisset, Mass. Collected and commissioned paintings from Frank V. Smith for his estate in Quisset.
Lent for microfilming 1973 by Josiah Kirby Lilly, III, Lilly's son.
Microfilm reel 663 available for use 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.
Josiah K. Lilly papers relating to Frank V. Smith, 1946-1962. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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