Samuel Gray Ward art works
name: label: Creator
content: Ward, Samuel Gray
topic: label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Washington (D.C.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Elinor Mansfield via Giovonni Castano Gallery in  November 1957.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ward, Samuel Gray
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content: Samuel Gray Ward art works
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Samuel Gray Ward art works date from circa 1850 and comprise eleven watercolors and wash drawings by Ward and three photographic portraits of Ward, his mother, and his father, Thomas Wren Ward. Each portrait has watercolor added to the surface.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Author Samuel Gray Ward (1817-1907) was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum and its first treasurer, and the grandfather of art patron Elizabeth Ward Perkins. Ward was a minor member of the American Transcendentalism movement and an intimate of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his circle. Ward translated Goethe's Essays On Art (1845) and ultimately gave up a career in writing for business just before he married.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1850
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wardsamu
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of the collection the art works are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was microfilmed on reel 268 after receipt. The collection  was processed and a finding aid prepared by Stephanie Ashley in 2023 and was digitized in 2023 with funding provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection was digitized in 2023 and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Samuel Gray Ward art works date from circa 1850 and comprise eleven watercolors and wash drawings by Ward and three photographic portraits of Ward, his mother, and his father, Thomas Wren Ward. Each portrait has watercolor added to the surface.