Cassatt, Alexander J. (Alexander Johnston), 1839-1906
Engineer, Businessperson
Size: 11 items (on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: 11 pages selected from 3 volumes of indices, containing entries with descriptive notations of letters about exhibits of Mary Cassatt paintings; and also about paintings by Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent and James MacNeill Whistler.
Brother of painter Mary Cassatt.
Lent for microfilming by American Philosophical Society as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project.
Microfilm reel 3903 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Selections from Alexander Johnston Cassatt's letterbook index, [ca. 1894-1903]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Through collecting, preserving, and providing access to our collections, the Archives inspires new ways of interpreting the visual arts in America and allows current and future generations to piece together the nation’s rich artistic and cultural heritage.
