Richard Rathbun letters
name: label: Creator
content: Rathbun, Richard, 1852-1918
label: Names
content: Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938
label: Names
content: Johnson, Eastman, 1824-1906
label: Names
content: Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transfered from the vertical file of the Library of the National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, 1981.
creator: label: Creator
content: Rathbun, Richard, 1852-1918
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art administrator; Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1906-1910
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rathrich
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2227 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artists files created by Rathbun while he was Assistant Secretary for the Smithsonian Institution including a letter from Thomas Wilmer Dewing about his painting "Summer," exhibited at the National Gallery; correspondence with the sculptor Lorado Taft; and correspondence between Elizabeth Johnson, wife of the painter Eastman Johnson, and the Smithsonian regarding the disposition of paintings from her husband's estate.