Miscellaneous Volume 12
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Britton, James, 1878-1936
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content: James Britton papers
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content: James Britton papers / Series 4: Diaries / 4.1: Diaries
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1932 May-October
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 48
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: (vivid commentary on the effect of the Depression on the Britton family and the country in general; talks of Guy Pene du Bois; a critique of the American Intelligensia and their lack of focus on American Art(12); talks of Socialism in America at length-20; talks of Edith Stevens and her suicide; describes legal troubles and that a judge ruled his paintings as collateral; comments on suicide during Depression; discusses Father Kelly's art collection and his new O'Keeffe works; a description of the Presidents within "The Presidents Banquet"; discusses the election of Franklin Roosevelt; gives commentary on Irish politics; having difficulty with his wife; a list of paintings with Father Kelly; discusses falling out with Father Kelly because Britton will not convert to Catholicism)