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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Henry C. Pitz 1895-1976 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BMA-HCP
Abstract

The Henry C. Pitz Collection includes manuscripts, research, and reference materials pertaining to two publications written by Henry Pitz on Howard Pyle: The Brandywine Tradition (1969) and Howard Pyle: Writer, Illustrator, Founder of the Brandywine School (1975).

Dates: 1969 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1975

Henry Louis Stephens 1824-1882 Series, bulk: circa 1850-1880, bulk: circa 2000-2010, 1850 - 2021

 Series
Identifier: BMA.PPD.HLS
Abstract The Henry Louis Stephens series includes materials compiled by collector and historian Paul Preston Davis relating to Stephens’s work as an illustrator, cartoonist, and author. A particular focus of this series is Stephens’s personal scrapbook, dated 1880, that contains print proofs featuring anthropomorphic animals. This series contains advertising prints, trade cards, print proofs, four original drawings, and Davis’s research materials and notes on Stephens’s published cartoons and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1850-1880; Majority of material found within circa 2000-2010; 1850 - 2021

The Maxfield Parrish Museum Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BMA-MPMC
Abstract The Maxfield Parrish Museum Collection includes archival materials donated by the closed Maxfield Parrish Museum through its director and former art dealer, Alma Gilbert. The collection includes materials that relate to the home life and activities of Maxfield Parrish’s immediate family, such as photographs of the family and home, postcards, and children’s drawings. Materials pertaining to Parrish’s professional life include glass plate negatives and other photographs used as models for...
Dates: 1881 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1920

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Art -- Pennsylvania 2
Artists 2
Artists -- United States 2
Artists as authors 2
Illustrators -- Books and reading 2