Collection Information
Size: 1 Item partial microfilm reel
Summary: 6 letters from Jacques Lipchitz to Ingersoll, and 17 letters from Ingersoll to Lipchitz regarding Lipchitz's "Prometheus" sculpture and a portrait bust of Ingersoll.
Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis), 1891-
Collector, Lawyer
Size: 1 Item partial microfilm reel
Summary: 6 letters from Jacques Lipchitz to Ingersoll, and 17 letters from Ingersoll to Lipchitz regarding Lipchitz's "Prometheus" sculpture and a portrait bust of Ingersoll.
Ingersoll was a lawyer and President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Lipchitz a sculptor.
Lent for microfilming 1991 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. These letters were selected from Ingersoll's records. Additional Lipchitz-Ingersoll correspondence regarding "Prometheus" was microfilmed from the Philadelphia Archives of American Art collection, reel 4547.
35mm microfilm reel 4547 available for use at Archives of American Art offices, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Authorization to publish, quote or reproduce must be obtained from Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives.
R. Sturgis Ingersoll selected correspondence with Jacques Lipchitz, 1959-1962. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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