National Academy of Design letterbook
name: label: Creator
content: National Academy of Design (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)
label: Names
content: National Academy of Design (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Kurtz, Charles M. (Charles McMeen), 1855-1909
label: Names
content: Watrous, Harry W. (Harry Willson), 1857-1940
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1982 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which had received it from Watrous. Watrous participated in the Corcoran's Biennials and donated two paintings.
creator: label: Creator
content: National Academy of Design (U.S.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art society; New York, N.Y. Harry Watrous was elected president of the National Academy of Design in 1894. He served as Chairman, Executive Committee on Art for the State of New York for the International Exposition of 1904 (Louisiana Purchase Exposition). Charles M. Kurtz was editor of NAD's Academy Notes, and was Asst. Chief, Dept. of Fine Arts, for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume ((74 items))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1891-1916
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.natiacal
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Microfilmed in original collation order; not alphabetical or chronological.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2679 (frames 1110-1203) available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original in: The Corcoran Gallery of Art Archives.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Alphabetical index to artists/correspondents' names available in Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A scrapbook/letterbook containing 74 letters from artists, written mostly to Academy president Harry Watrous, with several to Charles M. Kurtz regarding paintings and sculpture lent for exhibitions, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (the St. Louis World's Fair), and other matters.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondents include: Edwin Austin Abbey, John White Alexander, Otto Bacher, Edward Bell, Albert Bierstadt, Ralph Blakelock, Edwin Blashfield, Gutzon Borglum, Frederick A. Bridgman, John George Brown, Howard Russell Butler, William A. Coffin, Timothy Cole, Colin C. Cooper, Kenyon Cox, Charles Curran , Frederick Dielman, Paul Dougherty, Lucia Fairchild Fuller, Charles Gibson, Alex Harrison, Robert Henri, Daniel Huntington, John Johansen, Francis C. Jones, Wm. Kline, John La Farge, W. L. Lathrop, Jonas Lie, Will Low, Frank Millet, Thomas Moran, H. Siddons Mowbray, John Francis Murphy, James Craig Nicoll, R. A. Niehaus, Charles Niehaus, Maxfield Parrish, Joseph Pennell, Alexander Phimister Proctor, Alexander Robinson, William S. Robinson, William Allen Rogers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Victor Salvatore, W. Elmer Schofield, Susan Watkins Serpell, Walter Shirlaw, George Smillie, James D. Smillie, Harry Snell, Edward Steichen, George Story, Henry O. Tanner, R. Van Boskerck, Elihu Vedder, Robert Vonnoh, Hubert Vos, William Whittemore, Irving Ramsey Wiles, Henry Wolf, Thomas W. Wood, and Theodore Wores.