Jean Leon Gerome Ferris papers
name: label: Creator
content: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930
label: Names
content: Ferris, Stephen James, 1835-1915
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the National Museum of American History in 1982.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930) was a painter of Philadelphia, Pa. Ferris studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Paris at the Académie Julian and with Jean Léon Gérôme. He signed some works as G. Ferris. In 1900, he began a series of paintings on American history.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.4 Linear Feet (ca. 1000 items (on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca.1850-] 1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ferrjean
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 2669-2670 & 3002 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2669: Biographical information; notes; correspondence; other correspondence and legal documents regarding the acquisition by the Smithsonian Institution of Ferris's collection of historical paintings and other art objects; lists of paintings and painting labels; sketches; and printed source material for his paintings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2670: Source material for paintings, including printed and photographic reproductions and circa 130 cartes-de-visites primarily of Civil War figures, among them Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Willam Seward and many others; a series of reproductions of paintings comprising "A Pageant of Nations"; and a manuscript of "Liber Patriae Nostrae," containing pen and ink drawings and text, and reproductions of his paintings, 1926.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3002: A photograph of Ferris, ca. 1920, at work at his easel; source material for his paintings; and reproductions of his paintings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROfILMED: Two oil paintings by Stephen James Ferris of J. L.G. Ferris and his wife.