Frederick A. Sweet research material on Mary Cassatt and James A. McNeill Whistler
name: label: Creator
content: Sweet, Frederick A. (Frederick Arnold), 1903-1984
label: Names
content: Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926
label: Names
content: Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Impressionism (Art)
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1975 by Frederick Sweet.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sweet, Frederick A. (Frederick Arnold), 1903-1984
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frederick A. Sweet (b. 1903) was an art historian and museum administrator; Chicago, Illinois. Sweet curated the exhibition and wrote the catalog Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, held at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954; James McNeill Whistler : paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, etchings, lithographs held at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1968; and wrote the Cassatt biography, Miss Mary Cassatt, impressionist from Pennsylvania (1966).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet ((on 5 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1872-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sweefred
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 2054-2056 and 2082-2083 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Research material compiled by Art Institute of Chicago curator and art historian Frederick A. Sweet in preparation for exhibitions and a biography of Mary Cassatt. Included are research notes and manuscripts; Cassatt family biography and tree; Sweet's correspondence and copies and transcripts of letters written by Cassatt; drafts of "Miss Mary Cassatt--Impressionist from Pennsylvania" (Chapters I-XII) and other drafts; exhibition catalogs; clippings and copies of clippings; announcements; and photographic prints of Cassatt, her family, and home (location of originals unknown) and of works of art by Cassatt and Whistler.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Microfilm of additional Mary Cassatt letters (originals), compiled by Frederick A. Sweet in the course of his research, some in his temporary custody, is available at the Archives of American Art (reel C1); originals of some of those letters were subsequently donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and to the Archives of American Art.