Austin Purves estate papers relating to Maxfield Parrish
name: label: Creator
content: Purves, Austin, 1900-
label: Names
content: Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1964 by the Vose Galleries who most likely acquired this collection through an estate sale. The original collection was forty items which was reduced when the heirs of Besty Purves auctioned off some of the paintings.
creator: label: Creator
content: Purves, Austin, 1900-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art collector; Philadelphia, Pa. Purves collected paintings by Maxfield Parrish during 1908-1914. The paintings were executed between 1906-1913. Parrish and Purves were close friends.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 31 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1953
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.purvaust
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel D169 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lender after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A list and photographs of 30 paintings by the artist Maxfield Parrish collected by Purves, created by the trustees of the Betsy Purves (Mrs. Austin Purves) estate.