C. B. Owen letters
name: label: Creator
content: Owen, C. B. (Clara Belle), 1854-1955
place: label: Place
content: France -- description and travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 1998 by Maudelle Hoy Woodruff, Owen's niece-in-law.
creator: label: Creator
content: Owen, C. B. (Clara Belle), 1854-1955
setName: label: See more items in
content: C. B. Owen letters
abstract: label: Summary
content: The letters of painter C. B. Owen measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1880 to 1881. Owen's journal contains twenty-six letters to her family describing a trip to Europe. Owen writes of her time in London and Paris with her art teacher, Susan Healy St. John, her husband, and son James, the illustrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter C. B. Owen (1854-1955) was active in New York City and Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. She was born in McHenry, Illinois, and spent two years studying in Europe. Her works include portraits of Lillian Russell and Nevada Senator John Percival Jones. She also painted landscapes of New England, Florida, Nevada, and California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880-1881
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.owenc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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 2023 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The letters of painter C. B. Owen measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1880 to 1881. Owen's journal contains twenty-six letters to her family describing a trip to Europe. She describes her time in London and Paris with her art teacher, Susan Healy St. John, her husband, and son James, the illustrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books.