Biographical material consists of a calling card; a place card; membership cards for the American Legion, the Citizens' League for America, and The Allies; and an autobiographical essay concerning the influence of Léon Bonnat, Coffin's art instructor in Paris.
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Correspondence consists of scattered letters exchanged with colleagues that do not relate to other series. There are one or two letters each from Frank W. Benson, Edwin Howland Blashfield, Royal Cortissoz, Walter Gay, and Whitney Warren, and an invitation to the launch of the U. S. Battleship Arizona .
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Description Container Select Correspondence, circa 1915-1924 Select: Correspondence, circa 1915-1924 Correspondence, 1915 Select: Correspondence, 1915Scope and ContentsIncludes U.S.S. Battleship Arizona invitation. Correspondence, 1916 Select: Correspondence, 1916 Correspondence, 1917 January-June Select: Correspondence, 1917 January-JuneScope and ContentsIncludes correspondence from Frank W. Benson and Royal Cortissoz. Correspondence, 1917 July-December Select: Correspondence, 1917 July-DecemberScope and ContentsIncludes correspondence from Edwin Howland Blashfield and Whitney Warren. Correspondence, 1918 Select: Correspondence, 1918 Correspondence, 1919 Select: Correspondence, 1919 Correspondence, 1920-1924 Select: Correspondence, 1920-1924Scope and ContentsIncludes correspondence from Walter Gay.
This series documents Coffin's involvement as director of the Fine Arts Division of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and includes letters, drafts of reports, scrapbooks of clippings, and an album of photographs.
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Description Container Select Letters, 1900 Select: Letters, 1900 Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Select: Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Select: Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Select: Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Select: Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Select: Drafts of Reports, 1900-1901 Final Copy of Part 2 of Rough Draft, 1900-1901 Select: Final Copy of Part 2 of Rough Draft, 1900-1901 Final Copy of Part 3 of Rough Draft, 1900-1901 Select: Final Copy of Part 3 of Rough Draft, 1900-1901 Pan-American Clippings Scrapbook 1, 1900-1901 Select: Pan-American Clippings Scrapbook 1, 1900-1901Scope and ContentsOversized material housed in Box 2, Folder 2 Pan-American Clippings Scrapbook 2, 1900-1901 Select: Pan-American Clippings Scrapbook 2, 1900-1901Scope and ContentsOversized material housed in Box 2, Folder 2 Photograph Album, 1901 Select: Photograph Album, 1901 Oversized Pan-American Scrapbook 1 scanned with Box 1, Folder 19, 1900-1901 Select: Oversized Pan-American Scrapbook 1 scanned with Box 1, Folder 19, 1900-1901 Oversized Pan-American Scrapbook 2 scanned with Box 1, Folder 20, 1900-1901 Select: Oversized Pan-American Scrapbook 2 scanned with Box 1, Folder 20, 1900-1901
This series documents Coffin's involvement as president of the American Artists' Committee of One Hundred that established a relief fund for families of French soldier-artists and includes letters, a ledger of donations, a financial report, address lists of donors, catalogs for fund-raising exhibitions, brochures listing the American Artists' Committee of One Hundred, and a photograph of a relief sculpture Fraternité des Artistes by Antonin Mercié, used as a logo for the organization.
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Description Container Select Letters, 1915 Select: Letters, 1915 Letters, 1916 Select: Letters, 1916 Letters, 1917-1923 Select: Letters, 1917-1923 Ledger of Donations to the Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldier-Artists, 1914-1916 Select: Ledger of Donations to the Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldier-Artists, 1914-1916 Documents Inserted in Ledger of Donations to the Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldier-Artists, 1914-1916 Select: Documents Inserted in Ledger of Donations to the Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldier-Artists, 1914-1916 Financial Report for the Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldier-Artists, 1917 Select: Financial Report for the Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldier-Artists, 1917 Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Select: Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Select: Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Select: Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Select: Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Select: Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Select: Address Lists, circa 1914-1923 Exhibition Catalogs, 1915-1916 Select: Exhibition Catalogs, 1915-1916 Brochures and a Photograph of Art Work, circa 1921-1923 Select: Brochures and a Photograph of Art Work, circa 1921-1923
This series includes original and photocopied materials documenting Coffin's involvement in the organization of an exhibition of art work by American Artists at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. It includes correspondence including a letter signed by Louis Bouché, Bernard Gussow, Alfred H. Maurer, Joseph Stella, and William Zorach protesting the exclusion of their work, minutes of meetings, miscellaneous writings concerning the exhibition, and miscellaneous printed material.
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Description Container Select Correspondence, 1919 January-February Select: Correspondence, 1919 January-February Correspondence, 1919 March Select: Correspondence, 1919 March Correspondence, 1919 April-August Select: Correspondence, 1919 April-August Correspondence, 1919 September Select: Correspondence, 1919 September Correspondence, 1919 October Select: Correspondence, 1919 October Correspondence, 1919 November-December Select: Correspondence, 1919 November-DecemberScope and ContentsIncludes letter of protest signed by artists. Correspondence, 1920 Select: Correspondence, 1920 Minutes of Meetings, 1919 Select: Minutes of Meetings, 1919 Minutes of Meetings, 1920 Select: Minutes of Meetings, 1920 Miscellaneous Writings, 1919 Select: Miscellaneous Writings, 1919 Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1919 Select: Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1919
Scrapbooks contain clippings of articles written by Coffin when he was employed as an art critic. Scrapbook 1 contains clippings written for The New York Evening Post . Scrapbook 2 contains clippings written for The New York Evening Post , Harper's Weekly , and The New York Sun . Scrapbook 3 contains clippings written for The New York Sun and The New York Evening Post .
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Printed material consists of miscellaneous clippings, programs, and souvenir tickets from various art-related events.
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Description Container Select Clippings, 1912-1916 Select: Clippings, 1912-1916 Clippings, 1917 Select: Clippings, 1917 Clippings, 1918-1919 Select: Clippings, 1918-1919 Clippings, 1920-1923 Select: Clippings, 1920-1923 Miscellaneous Programs, 1916-1919 Select: Miscellaneous Programs, 1916-1919 Miscellaneous Souvenir Tickets, 1917-1924 Select: Miscellaneous Souvenir Tickets, 1917-1924
Photographs consist of an album of photographs of Coffin and various family members, a photograph of Coffin posing with a group of his colleagues, and photographs of family friends.
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Description Container Select Photograph of Coffin with Colleagues, circa 1910-1920 Select: Photograph of Coffin with Colleagues, circa 1910-1920 Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Select: Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Select: Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Select: Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Select: Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Select: Family Photograph Album, 1905-1911 Photographs of Family Friends, A-F, circa 1918-1923 Select: Photographs of Family Friends, A-F, circa 1918-1923 Photographs of Family Friends, G-K, circa 1918-1923 Select: Photographs of Family Friends, G-K, circa 1918-1923 Photographs of Family Friends, L-M, circa 1918-1923 Select: Photographs of Family Friends, L-M, circa 1918-1923 Photographs of Family Friends, O-Z, circa 1918-1923 Select: Photographs of Family Friends, O-Z, circa 1918-1923
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