Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers
odd: label: Other Title
content: Reel D9: Microfilm title: Jerome Mellquist
name: label: Creator
content: Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, 1910-1974
label: Names
content: National Academy of Design (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Mellquist, Jerome
label: Names
content: Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868
label: Names
content: Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New Jersey
label: Occupation
content: Collectors -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- New Jersey
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Women art historians
label: Topic
content: Women authors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels D362-D363, D9 and unfilmed material donated 1956 and 1966 by Mary Bartlett Cowdrey. In 2001, Paul D. Schweitzer, Cowdrey's friend and Director and Chief Curator of the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, N.Y, donated 0.2 ft. of Cowdrey's files relating to her work on the National Academy of Design. All other papers were lent for microfilming 1956-1966 by Cowdrey.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, 1910-1974
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mary Bartlett Cowdrey (1830-1960) was an art historian in Passaic, New Jersey. Bartlett was author of "National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860," 2 v., 1944 a co-author: "William Sidney Mount, 1807-1868, An American Painter," 1944. Cowdrey was also a collector for Archives of American Art in the late 1950s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6.9 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 13 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1830-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cowdmary
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels NY59-5, NY59-11, NY59-18-NY59-19, NY59-29, N60-11, D362-D363, D75-D78, D9 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels NY59-5, NY59-11, NY59-18-NY59-19, NY59-29, NY60-11, & D75-D78: Originals located at the University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers measure 6.9 linear feet and date from 1830-1960. Included is material relating to her involvement with the National Academy of Design
label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, invoices, and clippings relate to the National Academy Design's exhibitions and exhibition records, 1952-1954. Among the correspondents are Eliot Clark, Charles Downing Lay, Vernon Porter, R.W.G. Vail, and Lawrence Grant White; and Cowdrey's collection of ca. 200 photographs and other reproductions of Gilbert Stuart portraits and the publication Essays on American Art and Artists, Eastern Art League, 1896, signed by Cowdrey. Also included are notes, correspondence, photographs, publications, and clippings collected by Cowdrey for a biography of William Sidney Mount, ca. 1830-1957 microfilmed on reels D362-D363, and a letter from Jerome Mellquist, an art historian and specialist on French modern art, regarding his interests and his work , December 14, 1956. The letter has been microfilmed on reel D9.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also in the Archives are papers lent for microfilming on reels N60-11, NY59-5, NY59-11, NY59-18-NY59-19, NY59-29 including files on 19th century American artists compiled by Cowdrey, containing notes, reproductions, clippings, biographical material, and publications; and material microfilmed on reels D75- D78 including alphabetical indexes of artists who exhibited at the National Academy of Design, 1861-1890, including their dates, exhibition dates, their works and prices, and their address at the time of the exhibit, plus notes and correspondence relating to this compilation. This work was intended to be a continuation of Cowdrey's book NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN EXHIBITION RECORD, 1826-1860 (The New York Historical Society, New York, 1943.)

Papers of Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, 1834-1963, are also located at the University of Delaware Library's Special Collections.