Thomas Montague Beggs letters
name: label: Creator
content: Beggs, Thomas M.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum directors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred 1981 by the NMAA-NPG Library to the Archives of American Art.
creator: label: Creator
content: Beggs, Thomas M.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Thomas Montague Beggs; b. 1899; Art administrator, consultant, and painter; Washington, D.C.; d. 1990. Director of the National Collection of Fine Arts from 1948 to 1964.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 40 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beggthom
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2227 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artist files accumulated by Beggs, while Director of the National Collection of Fine Arts, containing correspondence with George Barker, Otto Walter Beck, Samuel Bookatz, Alfred Jonniaux, and Andrew Wyeth.