Hodgson, S. P. (Sylvester Phelps), 1830-1906
Painter
Size: 4 items (on 1 microfilm reel).
Summary: Biographical data sheet, handwritten copy of his obituary, and two sketchbooks which also contain a few watercolor sketches, as well as a draft of an article entitled "Thoughts on the Effects of Light and Shade as influenced by the atmosphere, showing a rule by which you may know how to manage detail in distance," Feb. 1856.
Painter; Boston, Massachusetts.
The lender, H.T. Hodgson acquired the papers through inheritance.
Microfilm reel 104 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
S. P. (Sylvester Phelps) Hodgson sketchbooks, 1856-1878. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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