Walter Pach letter to Grenville Winthrop
name: label: Creator
content: Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
label: Names
content: David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825
label: Names
content: Meier-Graefe, Julius, 1867-1935
label: Names
content: Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943
label: Names
content: Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943 -- Art collections
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1993 by Paul B. Franklin, who found the letter glued into a book he purchased which was once owned by Grenville Winthrop.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Pach: Artist, critic, historian, writer, art consultant, curator; New York, N.Y. Instrumental in organizing the Armory Show, 1913. Winthrop: patron; New York, N.Y. His collection, left to Harvard University, included early American portraits, drawings by English and French artists, and Chinese sculpture.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933 Apr. 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pachwall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Pach writes to Winthrop asking permission to see Winthrop's collection because it contains "certain things of particular interest for my study and my painting ... Meier-Graefe [Julius Meier-Graefe] told me of seeing a David [Jacques Louis David] at your house ... and Childe Hassam, when lunching with us, spoke with enthusiasm of what he had seen when visiting you. David is of especial interest to us."
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Papers of Walter Pach, 1885-1956, are also located at the Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives.