Lincoln Kirstein and Richard Sherman Nutt research material on William Rimmer
name: label: Creator
content: Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-
label: Creator
content: Nutt, Richard Sherman, 1914-
label: Names
content: Cresson, Margaret French, 1889-1973
label: Names
content: Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948
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content: Rimmer, Caroline Hunt, 1851-1918
label: Names
content: Rimmer, William, 1816-1879
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, American -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Anatomy, Artistic
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content: Drawing -- 19th century -- United States
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content: Drawing -- Study and teaching -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1985 by Richard Nutt. The materials were mainly compiled by Lincoln Kirstein, who had hoped to write a book on Rimmer. In 1946 he wrote the catalog essay to the exhibit "William Rimmer, 1816-1979" at the Whitney, and in 1955 turned the materials over to Nutt for a catalog raisonne (never published). Both Kirstein and Nutt believe Mrs. Rimmer discarded her husband's papers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-
label: Creator
content: Nutt, Richard Sherman, 1914-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lincoln Kirstein: writer, art historian; Richard S. Nutt: art historian. Dr. William Rimmer: noted 19th century painter, sculptor, and anatomy instructor.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1849-1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kirslinc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Research material on William Rimmer compiled by Lincoln Kirstein, 1944-1955, and added to from 1958 on by Richard Sherman Nutt. Included are correspondence, notes and writings, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed materials.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are Rimmer family documents and genealogy; Kirstein's (1944-1955) and Nutt's (1958-1971) correspondence regarding Rimmer, mainly responses to Kirstein's requests for information from libraries, museums, relatives, and owners of Rimmer's work; subject files containing correspondence, photographs, writings, notes and printed material on people, places and topics relating to Rimmer, among them the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Whitney Museum, Margaret French Cresson, Henry W. Kent, Cooper Union, Marion MacLean, and others;
label: Scope and Contents
content: writings and notes by Kirstein on Rimmer, including a typescript of his catalog essay for the 1946 exhibition at the Whitney and notes on other artists; a typescript of a poem by Rimmer "The Love Chant"; Rimmer's annotated diagram of a wheel in motion, 1860; a book by Rimmer's daughter, ANIMAL DRAWING: A SERIES OF THIRTEEN PLATES WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS BY CAROLINE HUNT RIMMER (Houghton, Mifflin, 1895), and ART ANATOMY (Houghton, Mifflin, 1884, c1887?) by William Rimmer, containing eighty one plates from the original drawings; a scrapbook compiled by Kirstein containing reproductions of catalogs, clippings, printed material, and photographs; photographs of Rimmer's family, including 2 on glass and a tintype; cartes de visites of French royalty; and printed material, 1864-1945, including material kept by Rimmer, articles and booklets about him, 2 clippings, 1898 and 1900 on Rimmer's daughter Caroline, a booklet "Rapport sur une Mission dans l'Amerique du Nord by M. Armand Dumaresq" reporting
label: Scope and Contents
content: on American drawing instruction and including a section on Rimmer and his work at the Cooper Institute and inscribed by Rimmer to his daughter Caroline, 1972; and other printed material compiled by Kirstein.