Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood, a renaissance man / by his grandson Erskine Wood, c1978

Collection Information

Size: 167 Pages, (on 1 microfilm reel), ill., 24 cm.

Summary: Copy 439 of limited edition of 500. The book is inscribed "To my good friend Alex Parks, January 5, 1979 Erskine Wood."

Biographical/Historical Note

Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a lawyer, painter, and good friend of J. Alden Weir. He painted with Childe Hassam. A Ryder painting "Jonah and the Whale," once owned by Wood is now in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art.

Provenance

Microfilmed 1987 in association with the National Museum of American Art, which had borrowed the book from Mr. Alex Parks of Portland, Oregon, a senior partner in the law firm Wood started, and in which Erskine Wood practices.

Language Note

English .

Location of Originals

• Original returned to National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution after microfilming.