Aimée Lamb papers
name: label: Creator
content: Lamb, Aimée, 1893-1989
label: Names
content: Lamb, Horace
label: Names
content: Thaxter, Celia Laighton, 1835-1894
topic: label: Occupation
content: Stained glass artists -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Still-life painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Edward Stone, the husband of Lamb's cousin, Cassandra and executor of the Aimée Lamb estate donated the papers to the Archives of American Art in 1993.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lamb, Aimée, 1893-1989
setName: label: See more items in
content: Aimée Lamb papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of still life and portrait painter Aimée Lamb measure 1.1 linear feet and date from 1888 to 1991. Found are scattered biographial material, correspondence, price lists, photographs of Lamb and of works of art, printed material, a dismantled scrapbook, sketches and twelve sketchbooks.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Aimée Lamb (1893-1989) was a floral still-life and portrait painter in Boston, Massachusetts. Lamb studied at the School of Fine Arts in Boston under Philip Hale and William James. She exhibited her works throughout Massachusetts and the Northeast.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1888-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lambaime
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2024 with received support from the Judith Godwin Arts Foundation
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Letters from Celia Thaxter to Horace Lamb are photocopies. The originals letters are in the Houghton Library Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of still life and portrait painter Aimée Lamb measure 1.1 linear feet and date from 1888 to 1991. Found are scattered biographial material, correspondence, price lists, photographs of Lamb and of works of art, printed material, a dismantled scrapbook, sketches and twelve sketchbooks.