West Elliot Blain research material on Swedish artists
name: label: Creator
content: Blain, West Elliot
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Art, Swedish
label: Topic
content: Swedish American art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred 1979 by the National Collection of Fine Arts to the Archives of American Art.
creator: label: Creator
content: Blain, West Elliot
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 99 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1755-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.blaiwest
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: Wills are photocopies.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Research material about Swedish artists Gustavus Hesselius (1682-1755) and Adolph Ulric Wertmuller (1751-1811), including Blain's correspondence and notes, photocopies of their wills, and photographs of their work; and clippings and brochures, some relating to Emanuel Swedenborg and Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.