Providence Art Club records
name: label: Creator
content: Providence Art Club
label: Names
content: Burleigh, Sydney Richmond, 1853-1931
label: Names
content: Whitaker, George, 1841-1916
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming1985 by the Providence Art Club.
creator: label: Creator
content: Providence Art Club
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art society; Founded 1880, Providence, Rhode Island.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- Rhode Island
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 33 Volumes ((on 10 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.provartc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3554-3563 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Providence Art Club, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 16 volumes of Board of Managers meetings, 1880-1959; 3 volumes of "house journals" (diaries), containing brief entries and sketches relating to art classes, exhibition openings, social events, and other business matters; and 9 scrapbooks containing clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, photographs, letters and memorabilia.
label: Scope and Contents
content: George Whitaker, a founder of the club and an active member on the Board of Managers, and Sydney Burleigh, an active member and elected officer, both figure prominently in the records, particularly in the minutes of the Board of Managers and in the scrapbooks, many of which contain announcements and catalogs of Whitaker's and Burleigh's exhibitions.