Collection Information

Size: ca. 1000 items (on 8 microfilm reels)

Summary: Correspondence, photographs, sketches, a scrapbook and printed material. Much of the collection is material sent to family members in the United States from Johnson in France. A family genealogy was compiled by Robert Bayard Severy, Johnson's great-nephew.

Reels 573-577: Family papers, 1839-1918 and 1976, including: correspondence; 11 sketchbooks of Johnson; records of books read by Johnson; and miscellany, including a genealogy of the Bayard family prepared by Robert Severy, 1976.

Reel 1079-1080: One letter from Johnson to William Bellamy, 1891, and a scrapbook collected by Johnson containing sketches by Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, etchings by A.W. Warren, pressed flowers, and photographs, including several tintypes, ca. 1868-1874 of Johnson, friends, and relatives.

Reel 3471: A photograph of a self-portrait of Johnson and an exhibition catalog, 1898.

Biographical/Historical Note

Painter; Paris, France. Born in the United States, Johnson lived in Europe for most of her life, and died in Paris, 1906. Her sister was Anna M. Johnson Bellamy.

Provenance

Materials lent and donated 1976 & 1982 by Robert Bayard Severy, Johnson's great-nephew.

Alternative Forms Available

Microfilm reels 573-577, 1079-1080, and 3471 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.

Restrictions on Access

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

How to Cite This Collection

Katharine Livingston Bayard Johnson papers, 1830-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.