William Innes Homer papers
name: label: Creator
content: Homer, William Innes
label: Creator
content: University of Delaware. Dept. of Art History
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content: Delaware Art Museum
label: Names
content: Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
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content: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
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content: Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
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content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
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content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
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content: Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891
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content: Smith, David, 1906-1965
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content: Walters, Carl, 1883-1955
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Delaware
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content: Educators -- Delaware
label: Topic
content: Art, American
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content: Art, American -- Exhibitions
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States -- Exhibitions
label: Topic
content: Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1980-2004 by William Homer. Photocopies of letters from Barker to Homer were discarded after microfilming.
creator: label: Creator
content: Homer, William Innes
label: Creator
content: University of Delaware. Dept. of Art History
label: Creator
content: Delaware Art Museum
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian, educator; Newark, Del.; b. 1929. William Innes Homer is an art historian whose areas of expertise include European and American painting from 1865 to 1925 and American art after World War II. He has taught at Princeton University and Cornell University, but is most closely associated with the University of Delaware, where he is Professor Emeritus. He taught there from 1966 until his retirement in 1999.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.homewill
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2814 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Letters on reel 2814: photocopies.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Letters on reel 2814: Discarded after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, writings, notes, forms, printed material, exhibition records, research material and photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2814: frames 561-576: Photocopies of letters from George Barker to Homer, 1961-1965, regarding Thomas Eakins.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence with dealers, patrons and museum curators concerning an exhibition of the sculpture of Carl Walters, 1956-1958, including some notes and a few photographs of Walter's sculpture; letters, mainly from artists; and a photocopy of Shinn's "Everett Shinn Treatment, #1 and #2, 1945-1978. Among the correspondents are: Ansel Adams, Peggy Bacon, Saul Baizerman, Maurice Becker, Thomas H. Benton, Charles Burchfield, Faber Birren, Mrs. Homer Boss, Imogen Cunningham, Nell Daniel, Andrew Dasburg, Randall Davey, Stuart Davis, Theodore Lux Feininger, Lyonel Feininger, Laura Gilpin, Edith Halpert, Jay Hambidge, Emil Holzhauer, Lotte Jacobi, Mrs. William Sargent Kendall, Leon Kroll, Julien Levy, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Lewis Mumford, Georgia O'Keeffe, John H. Rhoades, Margery Ryerson, David Smith, Carl Sprinchorn, Edward Steichen, Mrs. Allen Tucker, and Carl Zigrosser. Also included are writings, notes, and printed material concerning the "Index of Dissertations and Theses in American Art" section of the Arts in America: A Bibliography (1979), edited by Bernard Karpel, covering years ca. 1930-1975.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Records of the 1975 exhibition "Avant-garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-1925," organized by the Department of Art History and Division of Museum Studies, University of Delaware, in cooperation with the Delaware Art Museum. Included are correspondence regarding research, loans to the exhibition, and publicity; a grant proposal; photographs of artists, works of art, and installations of the exhibition; and an outline for the catalog.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Homer's research material on Georges Seurat, ca. 1956-1980, including correspondence; essays, notes and draft writings; photocopies and microfilms of rare printed material; responses to questionnaires regarding ownership of paintings; bibliographies; biographical material on scientists and others who influenced Seurat; photographs and color transparencies of works by Seurat and his colleagues; and miscellany. Also included are correspondence and research notes on other Neo-Impressionists.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: William Inned Homer papers are located at Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Michael S. Engl Family Foundation Library and Archive.