Bierstadt, Albert
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McGuigan, Mary K.
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content: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection
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content: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection / Series 1: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. Artists' Letters Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1888
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: New York, 5 November 1888, to Hemy Whitney Cleveland (1836-1907, clergyman and author), Louisville, Kentucky. Bierstadt declines Cleveland 's request to exhibit pictures in Louisville. He cites the primary reason as the recent default of payment by some gentlemen of Louisville for pictures loaned to the Southern Exposition. This, in turn, had caused the collapse of the Art Union (the New York entity that organized the loan exhibition to the Southern Exposition), headed by Enoch Wood Perry (1831-1915). This catastrophe had severe pecuniary consequences for many lending artists, including Bierstadt, who reveals he lost "a thousand dollars out of pocket on the matter."