Davis, Paul Preston, 1931-2021
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Charles Stuart 1831-1898 Series, bulk: 1860 - 1880, 1865 - 1998
Series
Identifier: BMA.PPD.ACS
Abstract
This series primarily features correspondence and business papers of the Wilmington ship portraitist and marine painter, Alexander Charles Stuart 1831-1898. The collection additionally contains catalogs featuring Stuart and his work, as well as research materials on Stuart gathered by the donor, Paul Preston Davis, from various sources including Wilmington researcher Julie Colflesh.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1860 - 1880; 1865 - 1998
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
Howard Pyle 1853-1911 Series, bulk: circa 1880 - 2000, circa 1820 - 2010
Series
Identifier: BMA.PPD.HP
Abstract
The Howard Pyle series consists of research materials accumulated by Paul Preston Davis for the writing and publication of his book Howard Pyle: His Life – His Work (2004), a compilation of all known Howard Pyle artwork and illustrations published. It is an expansive re-evaluation, correction, and update of Willard S. Morse and Gertrude Brincklé’s record of Pyle’s work, Howard Pyle: A Record of His Illustrations and Writings (1921).
The series also includes extensive...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1880 - 2000; circa 1820 - 2010
John Sloan 1871-1951 Series , bulk: 1950 - 2000, 1892 - 2012
Series
Identifier: BMA.PPD.JS
Abstract
Contents include materials related or pertaining to American artist John Sloan as arranged by the collector Paul Preston Davis, who volunteered alongside Sloan’s second wife, Helen Farr Sloan, at the Delaware Art Museum, circa 1990. The John Sloan series was part of several donations made by Davis and includes exhibition catalogues, books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and ephemera that reproduce, advertise, or include works either by or in relation to John Sloan and Helen Farr...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950 - 2000; 1892 - 2012
Paul Preston Davis 1931-2021 Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMA-PPD
Abstract
The Paul Preston Davis Collection contains secondary and tertiary research materials that cover four artistic subjects local to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware regions: Alexander Charles Stuart, Henry Louis Stephens, Howard Pyle, and John Sloan.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1880 - 2000; 1820 - 2021
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- Archival Object 4
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- Artists 4
- Artists as authors 3
- Art -- Pennsylvania 2
- Artists' bookplates 2
- Artists' writings 2
- Exhibition catalogs 2
- Harper's weekly 2
- Illustrators 2
- Illustrators -- Books and reading 2
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Newspapers 2
- St. Nicholas magazine (New York, N.Y.) 2
- Advertisements 1
- Advertising--Cigarettes 1
- Art teachers 1
- Artists -- Biography 1
- Artists -- United States 1
- Artists' preparatory studies 1
- Artists’ preparatory studies 1
- Ashcan school of art 1
- Biography 1
- Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. And Del.) 1
- Chester, Pennsylvania 1
- Commemorative coins 1
- Commemorative postage stamps 1
- Delaware Art Museum—Posters 1
- Eight (Group of American artists)--Exhibitions 1
- Illustrators -- Children's literature 1
- Illustrators -- Periodicals 1
- Illustrators -- United States -- Periodicals 1
- Lock Haven, Pa. 1
- Periodicals 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Prints—Technique 1
- Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911-- Forgeries 1
- Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911--Research 1
- Sloan, John, 1871-1951—Exhibitions 1
- The Philadelphia Press 1
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States--History--Naval 1
- War in art 1
- Wilmington (Del.) 1 + ∧ less
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