Artists' writings
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Franz de Merlier 1878-1974 Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMA-FDM
Abstract
The Franz de Merlier Collection was given to the Museum by the artist’s son, Edouard de Merlier in 1972. The collection includes a significant number of scrapbook pages with newspaper clippings and photographs of de Merlier’s murals and paintings compiled by his son Edouard; slides, photographs, and catalogs; a cassette tape of an oral interview from 1962; and two binders of autobiographical, handwritten notes by Franz de Merlier, arranged by his son Edouard in 1972. The collection largely...
Dates:
1898 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1952
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
N.C. Wyeth 1882-1945 Correspondence Collection of Betsy James Wyeth 1921-2020
Collection
Identifier: BMA-NCWC
Abstract
The N.C. Wyeth Correspondence Collection of Betsy James Wyeth details the life of this American artist and illustrator, through letters and photographs collected and curated by his daughter-in-law, Betsy James Wyeth (referred to as “BJW” in this finding aid). The collection contains manuscript correspondence (personal and business), both to and from N.C. Wyeth (referred to as “NCW”), with a majority of the personal letters written to his mother, Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth (1858-1925)....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1882 - 1945; 1867 - 2021
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