Theodore Bolton papers
name: label: Creator
content: Bolton, Theodore, b. 1889
label: Names
content: Brown, Henry Kirke, 1814-1886
label: Names
content: Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886
label: Names
content: Gray, Henry Peters, 1819-1877
label: Names
content: Oakley, Thornton, 1881-1953
label: Names
content: Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
label: Names
content: Tolman, Ruel P. (Ruel Pardee), 1878-1954
topic: label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters
label: Occupation
content: Book illustrators
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Pennsylvania
label: Topic
content: Illustration of books
label: Topic
content: Portrait painting -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: From 1956-1959, Bolton donated 3 feet of material to the Archives and 2 feet to the Library of the National Museum of American Art, which subsequently transferred it to the Archives, 1981. There is some duplication within the two groups of material.
creator: label: Creator
content: Bolton, Theodore, b. 1889
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian, scholar and librarian of the Century Association; New York, N.Y. Died 1973. He specialized in book illustration and portrait miniatures.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.1 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 5 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1917-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bolttheo
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels D9, D10, N140, 439-440 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel N140 (revised typescript): Originals returned to Bolton after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, typescripts of books, publications and clippings relating to Bolton's published and unpublished works on American art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Included are drafts for AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS (N.Y., 1938), EARLY AMERICAN PORTRAIT PAINTERS IN OILS, DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ARTISTS, A WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY...RELATING TO ART IN PENNSYLVANIA...NOTES FOR A REVISION (Philadelphia, 1948), a portion of Sinclair Hamilton's EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS, 1670-1870 (Princeton, 1958), "A Brief History of the French Impressionists," "Annotated Bibliography of Early American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers to 1860," A Brief History of Colonial American Painting" (1942); 75 typewritten pages of a working bibliography of books, magazine articles and catalogs relating to art in Pennsylvania by Harold E. Dickson and Bolton, 1948; catalogs of works of several artists; notes on artists, Greek vases and architecture, the Dutch masters, the Museum of San Marco, painting technique, the French Impressionists, Early American Painting, and English historical painting. Also included are checklists of books illustrated by Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle and Joseph Pennell; articles by R. P. Tolman and related correspondence; sketches and drawings by Bolton; and clippings and book reviews relating to Bolton.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL N140: A revised typescript, 1958, of AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS D9 & D10: A letter from book designer Bruce Rogers, annotated by Bolton, February 14, 1945 regarding Rogers' design of THE FEDERALIST PAPERS; 2 letters from Ruel Pardee Tolman, June 12, 1949 and May 19, 1953, regarding his own painting and miniatures and other paintings he is buying and studying; and 5 letters from illustrator Thornton Oakley, undated and March 10-April 19, 1946.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 439-440: Copy of a photograph - probably from a book, of Winslow Homer (reel 439); and a photograph, ca. 1850, of (L to R.): Henry Kirke Brown, Henry Peters Gray and Asher Brown Durand and Emanuel Leutze, photographer unknown. [A similiar photo filmed on reel NY59-19, fr. 1-2, Mary Bartlett Cowdrey artists' files pictures William Kemble (non-artist) on Brown's right.]