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Series 8: Gifts and Funding, 1860-2009
4.1 Linear feet
Boxes 33-37

Gifts and funding files include financial documents, ledgers, legal material, and correspondence concerning the bequests, endowments, donations, and other gifts that financed the operations of the National Academy of Design.
Academy gifts and funding files (subseries 8.1) document estate bequests, donations, and gifts. Estate bequests detail property, trusts, and establishment of awards, medals, or prizes to distinguished artists in the benefactor's name. Donations and gifts can include contributions of money, books, or artwork for the Academy to employ or sell. Notable funds were provided by Arthur M. Huntington, who left the Academy a generous endowment and a 5th avenue property, while also establishing the Fellowship Fund to solicit money from former and prominent members.
School gifts and funding files (subseries 8.2) contain much of the same material found in the Academy subseries, with the distinction that these funds were specifically allocated to support students and school operations. Notable among these are the Pulitzer Prize Scholarship Fund and the John Chancellor Paris Prize fund, both of which were awarded to exceptional art students to help finance their studies abroad. Additional information on scholarship and prize applicants and recipients are arranged in the school series, under student affairs (subseries 12.4).
The series is arranged as two subseries.
  • 8.1: Academy, 1860-2009
  • 8.2: School, 1864-2008

8.1

Academy, 1860-2009
Description Container
Abbey Trust Fund
Copyright of works by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1933-1938
33
9
Distribution of Principal, 1951, 1971
33
10
General Accounting, 1933-1987
33
11-12
General Legal, 1923-1951
33
13-14
Ocean County Property, 1938-1957
33
15
Reapplication of Trust Agreement, 1969, 1988
33
16
Benjamin Altman Prize Fund, 1940-1957, 1915
33
17
Albert H. Baldwin Fund, 1900-1951
33
18
Helen Foster Barnett Prize Fund, 1919-1921
33
19
James Carroll Beckwith Endowment, 1899-1962
33
20
Paul and Margaret Bertelsen Prize Fund, 1985-1990
33
21
Walter Biggs Fund, 1969
33
22
Florence Brevoort-Eickemeyer Prize Fund, 1950-1975, 2009
33
23
Emma B. Brunner Fund, 1938-1954
33
24
Building Fund, 1898
33
25
Howard R. Butler Fund, 1926-1929
33
26
B-C, General, 1934-1956
33
27
Ina T. Campbell Fund, 1953
33
28
Thomas B. Clarke Fund, 1893-1962
33
29
Cannon Prize Fund, 1895-1897
34
1
Emil and Dines Carlsen Award Fund, 1974-1975
34
2
Carnegie Prize Fund, 1911, 1956
34
3
Danforth Memorial Fund, 1971-1975
34
4
Durand Bequest, 1919-1938, 1991
34
5
Elliot Medal Fund, 1954-1963, 1932
34
6
Harriot Erving Fund, 1904-1951, 1991
34
7
Alex Ettl Award Fund, 1988-1990
34
8
Fellowship Fund
Committee Minutes, 1863
34
9
General, 1860s-1900s
34
10-14
General, 1924-1934, 2001
34
15
Ledgers, 1863, ca. 1865
34
16-17
William H. Fogg Fund, 1888-1892
34
18
Rebecca Freifeld Prize Fund, 1945-1950
34
19
Daniel Chester French Medal Fund, 1960-1967
34
20
Frank Geruasi Estate, 1988-1989
34
21
Lydia Gardner Orme Estate, 1963-1976
34
22
Samuel Goulding Fund, 1912, 1942
34
23
G-H, General, 1927-1928, 1987
34
24
Eva Hall-Fromkes Fund, 1962-1963, 1925, 1991
34
25
Harper Brothers Fund, 1885-1905, 1991
34
26
Henry Herring Estate, 1949-1950, 1991
34
27
George Hitchcock Fund, 1955-1972
34
28
Archer M. Huntington Fund
1083 Fifth Avenue Bequest, 1940-1941, 1965
34
29
General, 1940-1963
34
30
Helen Granville-Barker Beneficiary, 1942-1951
35
1
Publicity Fund, 1949-1975
35
2
Trust Revision, 1974-1978
35
3-4
Will Construction Suit, 1960-1968
35
5
Joseph S. Isidor Medal Fund, 1907-1922, 1952-1962
35
6
Kramer Purchase Fund, 1924-1926
35
7
K-L, General, 1950-1966
35
8
Orville Lance Prize Fund, 1939-1957, 2004
35
9
Frank A. Levy Bequest, 1988
35
10
Emma Fordyce MacRae Memorial Fund, 1974
35
11
Richard Lawrence Makin Fund, 1937-1938
35
12
Maynard Prize Fund, 1920-1935
35
13
McCarthy Memorial Prize Fund, 1928-1932
35
14
Samuel F. B. Morse Medal Fund, 1951-1962, 2000
35
15
Murphy Memorial Prize Fund, 1920-1932
35
16
M, General, circa 1930, 1991-1994
35
17
Raymond P. R. Nelson Prize Fund, 1958-1964
35
18
Adolph and Clara Obrig Fund, 1939-1949, 1991
35
19
Edwin Palmer Prize Fund, 1924-1929, 1991
35
20
Walter L. Palmer Memorial Fund, 1932-1951
35
21
William Paton Prize Fund, 1919-1948, 1965
35
22
Robert and Rochelle Phillip Prize Fund, 1981-1991
35
23
President's Medal Fund, 1929-1976
35
24
Thomas Proctor Prize Fund, 1904-1932
35
25
P, General, 1947-1958, 1991
35
26
R-S, General, 1943
35
27
Saltus Medal Fund, 1922-1959
35
28
Julia A. Shaw Memorial Fund, 1901-1935
35
29
Ellin P. Speyer Prize Fund, 1921-1940
35
30
Suydam Fund, 1865
35
31
Donald Teague Trust, 1971
35
32
Sidney B. Viet Bequest, 1940-1941, 1991
35
33
S. J. Wallace Truman Prize Fund, 1934-1940
35
34
Watrous Medal Fund, 1920-1962
35
35
Rachael and Gertrude Weed Prize Fund, 1934-1934
35
36
Henry A. Wolfe Bequest, 1916-1926
35
37
W, General, 1926, 1935
35
38
Unfunded Bequests, 1922-1945
35
39
Reference Documents, 1941-2008
35
40

8.2

School, 1864-2008
Description Container
Abbey School Fund, 1968-1969, 1992
35
41
American Watercolor Society Scholarship, 1943-1975
35
42
Auerbach-Levy Prize Fund, 1969-1970
35
43
A, General, 1955-1990
35
44
Albert H. Baldwin Fund, 1951, 2008
35
45
Gladys B. Blum Memorial Scholarship Fund, 1992-1997
35
46
Lucrezia Bori Foundation Fund, 1969-1970
35
47
Emily Buch Scholarship Fund, 1963-1966
36
1
B-C, General, 1960-1996
36
2
Carnegie Corporation Gift Fund, 1926-1957
36
3
Mary Hinman Carter, 1929-1933
36
4
D-F, General, 1930-1960, 1997-1998
36
5
Ralph Fabri Scholarship Fund, 1974-1977
36
6
Mabel C. Grimes Scholarship Fund, 1975
36
7
G-H, General, 1985-1991, 1956
36
8
Hallgarten Prize and Scholarship Fund, 1883-1935
36
9
Havemeyer Traveling Scholarship Fund, 1890-1898
36
10
George Inness Scholarship Fund, 1902-1912
36
11
Joseph S. Isidor School Fund, 1921-1951, 1992
36
12
Colonel Michel Jacobs Scholarship, 1946-1963
36
13
Henry Jacobsen Fund, 1950-1955
36
14
Kit Kat Club Funds, 1957-1966
36
15
Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship, 1936-1937
36
16
K-L, General, 1962-1974, 1905
36
17
Robert Lehman Endowment Fund, 1992-1997
36
18
Alice Melrose Scholarship, 1977-1978
36
19
Edward Mooney Traveling Scholarship Fund, 1900-1987
36
20
M-N, General, 1963, 1984
36
21
National Sculpture Society Scholarship, 1958-1964
36
22
Ivan G. Olinsky Memorial Scholarship, 1962-1963
36
23
O-P, General, 1950s, 1921
36
24
Paris Prize Fund, 1917-1936
36
25-27
Arthur and Melville Phillips Scholarship, 1971-1975
36
28
Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship, 1904-1969
36
29-30
R-S, General, 1961-1963, 1990
36
31
School Art League of New York Scholarship Fund, 1950-1956
36
32
School Sustaining Fund, 1972-1978
37
1
Helen Smith Prize Fund, 1959-1960
37
2
James A. Suydam Medal Fund, 1956-1960
37
3
Tiffany Foundation Residency Fund, 1919-1975
37
4
T, General, 1964-1987
37
5
Dr. Ralph Weiler Fund, 1956-1975
37
6
Pauline Wick Trust, 1971-1976
37
7
W-Y, General, 1963-1966
37
8
Youth's Friends Association, Inc., Scholarship Fund, 1955-1967
37
9
Reference Documents, 1980-1990s
37
10

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