Wilson Henry Irvine papers
name: label: Creator
content: Irvine, Wilson Henry, 1869-1936
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Connecticut -- Old Lyme
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The donor, Lois Irvine Simpson, is Wilson Henry Irvine's daughter. The relationship to of the lender of the diary, Mrs. Jan Irvine, to Irvine is unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Irvine, Wilson Henry, 1869-1936
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Landscape painter; Old Lyme, Conn. Born in Illinois and trained at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the 1930's, he painted THE MACHINE AND ITS PRODUCT, a painting that represents the period's fear of increased machinization as the potential cause of increased unemployment. Irvine also developed a watercolor technique, called aquaprint, that was based on Japanese techniques for marblizing paper.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Gift)
label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Loan: 1 v. (on one microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.irviwils
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3564 and 1233 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Diary (reel 3564): Original returned to the lender, Mrs. Jan Irvine, Old Lyme, Conn.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 3564: Diary, February through November 1923, chronicling Irvine's and his wife Lydia's journey across the Atlantic Ocean to England; their daily routine while living in a small English harbor town including painting expeditions and encounters with town folk; and his and Lydia's trip to France and Italy with notes on galleries and exhibitions they visited.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 1233: Correspondence, biographical information; two photographs of work; one photograph of Irvine painting outdoors; copies of work by Irvine; exhibition catalogs and announcements; newspaper and magazine articles.