Edwin Coupland Shaw papers
name: label: Creator
content: Shaw, Edwin Coupland, 1863-1941
label: Names
content: Akron Art Institute
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content: Carrig-Rohane Shop (Boston, Mass.)
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content: E. & A. Milch, Inc.
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content: Ferargil Galleries
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content: Gorham Company. Dept. of Sculpture (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Grand Central Art Galleries
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content: Hatfield & Clark (Firm: Chicago, Ill.)
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content: Howard Young Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
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content: J.W. Young (Gallery)
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content: M. Knoedler & Co.
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content: Macbeth Gallery
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content: Montross Gallery
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content: R.C. & N.M. Vose (Firm)
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content: Robert C. Vose Galleries
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content: Thomas Whipple Dunbar Art Galleries (Milwaukee, Wis.)
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content: Thurber Art Galleries (Chicago, Ill.)
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content: Barrie, Erwin S., 1886-1983
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content: Batts, J. E.
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content: Beckwith, J. Carroll (James Carroll), 1852-1917
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content: Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951
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content: Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919
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content: Carlsen, Emil, 1853-1932
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content: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
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content: Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931
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content: Daingerfield, Elliott, 1859-1932
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content: Dallin, Cyrus E. (Cyrus Edwin), 1861-1944
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content: Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933
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content: Davis, Warren, 1865-1928
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content: Derujinsky, Gleb W., 1888-1975
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content: Dewey, Charles M., 1849-1937
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content: Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938
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content: Dougherty, Paul, 1877-1947
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content: Dunbar, Thomas Whipple
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content: Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919
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content: Eaton, Charles Warren, 1857-1937
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content: Frieseke, Frederick C. (Frederick Carl), 1874-1939
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content: Fuller, George, 1822-1884
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content: Genth, Lillian Mathilde, 1876-1953
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content: Gerrity, Thomas F., 1873-1935
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content: Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935
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content: Hatfield, D. H.
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content: Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930
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content: Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879
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content: Inness, George, 1825-1894
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content: Johansen, John C. (John Christen), 1876-1964
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content: Konti, Isidore, 1862-1938
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content: La Farge, John, 1835-1910
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content: Lathrop, William Langson, 1859-1938
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content: MacMonnies, Frederick William, 1863-1937
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content: MacNeil, Hermon Atkins, 1866-1947
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content: Metcalf, Willard Leroy, 1858-1925
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content: Milch, Albert, 1881-1951
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content: Minns, Hervey W.
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content: Montross, N. E. (Newman E), 1849-1932
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content: Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945
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content: Murphy, John Francis, 1853-1921
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content: Price, F. Newlin (Frederic Newlin)
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content: Proctor, Alexander Phimister, 1862-1950
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content: Purdy, W. Frank, 1865-1943
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content: Ranger, Henry Ward, 1858-1916
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content: Ritschel, William, 1864-1949
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content: Russell, T. H. (Thomas H)
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content: Russman, Felix, 1888-1962
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content: Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917
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content: Sellstedt, Lars Gustaf, 1819-1911
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content: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940
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content: Shonnard, Eugenie Frederica, 1886-1978
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content: Torrey, Elliot, 1867-1949
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content: Tryon, Dwight William, 1849-1925
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content: Turner, Helen Maria, 1858-1958
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content: Twachtman, John Henry, 1853-1902
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content: Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923
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content: Vonnoh, Bessie Potter, 1872-1955
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content: Vonnoh, Robert William, 1858-1933
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content: Walker, Horatio, 1858-1938
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content: Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919
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content: Williams, Frederick Ballard, 1871-1956
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content: Wolf, Henry, 1852-1916
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content: Young, J. W.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Akron
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1976 and 1992 by the Akron Art Museum. Shaw bequethed his art collection and papers to the Museum, then named the Akron Art Institute.
creator: label: Creator
content: Shaw, Edwin Coupland, 1863-1941
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art collector; Akron, Ohio. Shaw, a BF Goodrich executive and avid collector of post-Civil War American art, was one of the founders of the Akron Art Institute, now the Akron Art Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1864-1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shawedwi
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1124-1125 and 4597 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Akron Art Museum.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Microfilm reels 1124-1125: Finding aid describing materials in the scrapbooks for each artist is available at Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence with dealers, artists, museums, publishers, photography studios, and others regarding art purchases, loans, and Shaw's collection; and 16 v. of scrapbooks containing photographs, letters, and biographical information on artists. Much of the correspondence with artists relates to Shaw's requests for the information which was then used in the scrapbooks. Also included is one volume compiled in 1947 outlining the contents of the scrapbooks.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1124-1125: 16 vol. of scrapbooks, 1864-1930, relating to artists represented in Shaw's collection, containing letters, many from artists, photographs of artists and their work, biographical data, clippings and articles, and comments on their work; and 1 v., "Notes: Edwin C. Shaw Collection of Paintings," compiled in 1947, and annotated "Used at Women's Art League Meeting at Miss Shaw's in 1947 by Mrs. [Jane S.] Barnhardt, who compiled it, and then given to the Art Institute Library," containing an outline of the contents of the 16 v. of scrapbooks.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Artists represented in the scrapbooks include J. Carroll Beckwith, Frank W. Benson, Ralph Blakelock, Emil Carlsen, William Merritt Chase, Timothy Cole, Elliott Daingerfield, Cyrus B. Dallin, Charles Davis, Warren Davis, Gleb Derujinsky, Charles M. Dewey, Thomas W. Dewing, Paul Dougherty, Frank Duveneck, Charles Eaton, Frederick Frieseke, George Fuller, Lillian Genth, Childe Hassam, Charles Hawthorne, William Morris Hunt, George Inness, John Johansen, Isidore Konti, John La Farge, William Lathrop, Frederick MacMonnies, Hermon A. MacNeil, Willard Metcalf, Herman Dudley Murphy, J. Francis Murphy, A. Phimister Proctor, Henry Ward Ranger, William Ritschel, Felix Russmann, Albert P. Ryder, Eugenie F. Shonnard, Lars Gustaf Sellstedt, Elliot Torrey, Dwight Tryon, Helen M. Turner, John Twachtman, Elihu Vedder, Bessie P. Vonnoh, Robert Vonnoh, Horatio Walker, J. Alden Weir, Frederick Ballard Williams, Henry Wolf and "The Ten."
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 4597: Correspondence, ca. 1916-1941, concerning art acquisitions with dealers Erwin S. Barrie of Grand Central Art Galleries; Thomas Whipple Dunbar; Frederic Newlin Price and T.H. Russell of Ferargil Galleries; W. Frank Purdy of the Gorham Co. Dept. of Sculpture and later the School of American Sculpture; D.H. Hatfield of Hatfield & Clark; Thomas Gerrity of M. Knoedler & Co.; Robert Macbeth, Robert McIntyre and Henry Miller of the Macbeth Gallery; Albert Milch of E.& A. Milch, Inc.; Newman Montross of Montross Gallery; J.E. Batts of the Thurber Art Galleries; Robert C. Vose of R.C. & N.M. Vose and Vose Galleries, and their frame shop, Carrig-Rohane; Howard Young of Howard Young Galleries; and J.W. Young; correspondence with artists and/or their families requesting the artist's portrait, biographical information and background, including letters from Elliot Daingerfield, Charles Dewey, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, John C. Johansen, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Hervey W. Minns, Hermann Dudley Murphy, A.P. Proctor, Eugenie Shonnard, Elliot Torrey, Dwight W. Tryon, Helen M. Turner, and Horatio Walker, and the families of J. Carroll Beckwith, George Inness, Lars Gustaf Sellstedt, John Henry Twachtman and J. Alden Weir; correspondence with the Dayton Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art regarding works lent for exhibition; with publisher Frederic Fairchild Sherman; with photography studios; and other miscellaneous correspondence.