Guild of Boston Artists records
name: label: Creator
content: Guild of Boston Artists
topic: label: Topic
content: Art patronage -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Art -- Massachusetts -- Boston
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The grandmother of the donor, Lilla Grew Levitt, was Lilla Cabot Perry, Boston painter, founding member of the Guild, and keeper of the membership records for the Guild.
creator: label: Creator
content: Guild of Boston Artists
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Cooperative gallery established in 1914 by leading painters and instructors including Frank Benson, Edmund Tarbell, and Lilla Cabot Perry, as well as young painters.
function: label: Function
content: Guilds -- Massachusetts -- Boston
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 387 Items (Reel 794, loan: 387 microfilm frames)
label: Extent
content: 276 Items (Reel 1373, loan: 276 microfilm frames)
label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Reel 4045, gift)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1914-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.guilof
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 794, 1373, 4045 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 794 & 1373: Originals in the Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, Massachusetts.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records of the Guild of Boston Artists consist of a membership card file and related correspondence reflecting the earliest period of the Guild's existence; scrapbooks, documenting Guild activities until 1955; exhibition schedules and records of the period 1966-1978.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 794: Six scrapbooks, 1914-1955, pertaining to the activities of the Guild and its member artists, containing clippings, photographs, and catalogs of exhibitions held at the galleries of the Guild and in other galleries and museums.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 1373: Exhibition schedules and records, 1966-1978, including exhibition catalogs and announcements, press releases, clippings, a schedule of exhibitions 1971-1978, a 1978 Guild membership list, and 9 letters to Phyllis C. Maloney, Curator of the Guild, from the artists Dwight Shepler, Alphonse J. Shelton, and S. Edmund Oppenheim, concerning exhibitions of their work at the Guild.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 4045: 400 index cards listing members' names, addresses and membership status, created between 1914 and 1918, and 3 letters, undated, 1914 and 1918.