Art -- Pennsylvania
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Carolyn Wyeth 1909-1994 Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMA-CW
Abstract
The collection documents the life, artistic career, and personal experiences of Carolyn Wyeth (1909-1994), an artist and member of the renowned Wyeth family. The materials span a range of formats, including newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogues, personal correspondence, photographs, and artwork, providing rich insight into both her public achievements and private life. Central to the collection are articles and records of Carolyn’s exhibitions, her teaching career, and her contributions...
Dates:
1911 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1980
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
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