Hobson Pittman papers
name: label: Creator
content: Pittman, Hobson Lafayette, 1899 or 1900-1972
label: Names
content: Woodstock School of Painting
label: Names
content: Albright, Ivan, 1897-1983
label: Names
content: Annenberg, Walter H., 1908-
label: Names
content: Canaday, John, 1907-1985
label: Names
content: Gummo, Blanchard, 1906-1986
label: Names
content: Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967
label: Names
content: Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987
label: Names
content: Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954
label: Names
content: Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
label: Names
content: Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
label: Names
content: Sothern, Ann, 1909-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 4154 lent for microfilming 1988 by Bryn Mawr College as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Papers on reels 4468-4472 were lent by the Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council, 1990, who received it from Pittman's niece, Alyce Weeks Gordon.The sketches were donated in 1997 from the North Carolina Museum of Art, which had received it from the Hobson Pittman estate.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pittman, Hobson Lafayette, 1899 or 1900-1972
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, art instructor; Philadelphia, Pa. Born in Epworth, North Carolina, Pittman moved permanently to Pennsylvania in 1918.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Microfilm reels
label: Extent
content: 1,538 Sketches (Addition)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pitthobs
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
label: Type
content: Sketches
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 4468-4472 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4154 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan, at the Free Library of Philadelphia and at Bryn Mawr College.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Letters from Pittman to Margaret Sanger are photocopies.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 4468-4472: Originals in the Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council, Tarboro, N.C.
label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 4154: Originals in Hobson Pittman House Collection, Bryn Mawr College.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Microfilm reels 4468-4472: Inventory of contents available at Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material, correspondence, legal and financial material, notes and writings, art work, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, printed material, subject files and photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 4154: Five scrapbooks containing clippings, exhibition brochures, photographs of Pittman and of his works (1934-1969); and two sketchbooks containing European views of landscape and architecture (1927-1956).
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 4468-4472: Biographical material; correspondence, 1920-1900, with family, colleagues, students, and patrons, including Ivan Albright, Walter H. Annenberg, John Canaday, Blanchard Gummo, Edward Hopper, Edward G. Robinson, Ann Southern, and others; Pittman's will and estate papers; receipts, 1921-1980; 2 address books; school notebooks; writings by and about Pittman, including his "Drift of Consciousness" manuscript; 4 scrapbooks of drawings, 70 unbound drawings, and 2 prints; a menu decorated with sketches of acrobats and annotated "to H. Pittman from R. Marsh" and "E. Hopper"; files containing letters, printed material, and photographs on topics including Clare Boothe Luce (1946-1972), Margaret Sanger (1947-1974), greeting cards designed by Pittman (1960-1965), Pittman residences (1945-1974), Woodstock artists (1972-1975) and Guggenheim fellowships (1938-1956-contains a travel journal about Italy); a scrapbook of clippings (1938-1971) and clippings (1931-1985); exhibition announcements and catalogs (1930-1989), and other printed material; and photographs of Pittman, his family, friends, art classes (1945-1971), and works of art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Preliminary works of art by Pittman consisting of 1,538 sketches in watercolor, ink and graphite.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Letters from Pittman to his cousin Lucy Cherry Crisp located in Collection no. 154, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.