Ives, Percy L. (Percival L.), 1864-1928
Art teacher, Painter
This site provides access to the papers of Percy L. (Percival L.) Ives in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2019, and total 253 images.
Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
Size: 1.4 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of Detroit portrait painter Percy Ives (1864-1928), measure 1.4 linear feet and date from circa 1890-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1890-circa 1930. Two hundred and fifty-eight glass plate negatives of sitters, models, and artwork by Ives form the bulk of the collection. Additional papers include two 1923 letters, a folder of notes, news clippings, sketches, and photographs.
Portrait painter and dean of the Detroit Museum of Art School, Percy Ives (1864-1928), was the son of artist Lewis Thomas Ives; father and son were considered to be among the most notable Detroit artists of the latter part of the nineteenth century.
The Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library gave the Archives of American Art Percy Ives' sketches and glass plate negatives in 1956-1957 and lent material for microfilming in 1973. James B. Parker, whose father, Dr. Albert Russell Parker, purchased Ives's desk with the items intact, donated additional material in 1994.
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This site provides access to the papers of Percy L. (Percival L.) Ives in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2019, and total 253 images.
Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
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