Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation records
odd: label: Other Title
content: Tiffany Foundation papers.
name: label: Creator
content: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
label: Names
content: Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Art -- Scholarships, fellowships, etc
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels N69-25-N69-26 lent for microfilming 1969 and material on reel 74 donated 1969 all by the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
creator: label: Creator
content: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louis Comfort Tiffany established this foundation for art students in 1918, "as an art institute, the objects and purposes of which are art education directed toward both art appreciation and production..." He deeded to it his art collections, gallery, chapel and country estate in Oyster Bay, New York. The foundation is noted for its scholarships to art students.
function: label: Function
content: Foundations (Organizations)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 83 Items ((on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1918-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.louicomf
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels N69-25, N69-26, & 74 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel N69-25 & N69-26 originals returned to the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Organizational papers of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, including legal documents, meeting records, letters, catalogs, and miscellaneous papers.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS N69/25 & N69/26: Business records, including minutes of the Board of Trustees and other committees, 1918-1968; a small group of letters; resolutions of the foundation; exhibition catalogs of Tiffany Gallery shows and of Louis C. Tiffany exhibitions; and some miscellaneous papers. Persons associated with the foundation include Cass Gilbert, Robert B. Hale, Childe Hassam, Francis C. Jones, George J. Lober, Paul Manship, Henry Allen Moe, Hobart Nichols, Kimon Nicolaides, Ogden M. Pleissner, Robert Vonnoh, and Harry W. Watrous.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 74: A grant of personal property from Louis C. Tiffany to the Foundation; a grant of real property from Tiffany to the Foundation; the constitution and amendments of the Foundation; and a brochure describing the Foundation's scholarship program.