Cecile Tyl research material on Beatrice Cuming, 1913-1991

Collection Information

Size: 0.2 Linear feet

Summary: Connecticut curator Cecile Tyl's research material on Connecticut painter Beatrice Cuming measures 0.2 linear feet and dates from 1913 to 1991. The papers were compiled and used in preparation for an exhibit at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut, co-curated by Tyl. Found are correspondence regarding the exhibition, copyprints of photographs of Cuming and her works of art, xeroxed research material on Cuming, and printed material. Also found is a dismantled scrapbook, likely made by Cuming, which concerns her childhood and professional artworks. Included is an award, a letter, newsclippings, and personal photographs.

Biographical/Historical Note

Beatrice (Bob) Cuming (1903-1974) was an illustrator and painter in Brooklyn, New York and New London, Connecticut. Cuming was known for her work with the Works Progress Administration and painted submarines during World War II. Read More

Provenance

Donated 1990-1991 by Cecile Tyl, who researched Cuming for an art appreciation course at the University of Connecticut which subsequently led her to co-curate a Cuming retrospective at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Tyl obtained the scrapbook, photographs and slides from Al Dugas, a tenant at the house in Uncasville where Cuming lived at the time of her death. Dugas informed Tyl that the bulk of Cuming's estate went to the Joslin Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts. Al Dugas kept photographs and other material they discarded.

Language Note

English .

Funding Note

Processing of this collection received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.