Brucia Witthoft research material on James Smillie and the Smillie family
name: label: Creator
content: Witthoft, Brucia, 1934-
label: Names
content: Smillie, George Frederick Cumming, 1854-1924
label: Names
content: Smillie, James David, 1833-1909
label: Names
content: Smillie, James, 1807-1885
label: Names
content: Smillie, Nellie Sheldon Jacobs, 1854-1926
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- New York (State)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2000 by Brucia Witthoft.
creator: label: Creator
content: Witthoft, Brucia, 1934-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Witthoft: art historian; Lexington, Mass. and the author of The fine-arts etchings of James David Smillie, 1833-1909 : A Catalogue Raissone (1992). The Smillie family included notable painters and engravers, including James Smillie (1807-1885), his sons James D. Smillie (1833-1909) and George F. Smillie (1854-1924), and wife, Helen (Nellie) Jacobs Smilllie (1854-1926) .
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1830-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wittbruc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are geneological charts, a typescript of "A Pilgrimage by James Smilie 1807- 1855"; files containing research citations and photographs of works of art; logbooks of works of art by James Smillie; photocopies of newspaper clippings; and files on artists active in the Adirondack region, including a typescript of Brucia Witthoft's unpublished biographical index.