Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gilder, Dorothea
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content: Dorothea Gilder papers regarding Cecilia Beaux
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 1-2, 0.5 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1897-1920
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gilddoro, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The majority of letters in this series are from Cecilia Beaux to Gilder (about 235) and recount daily activities, travels, social life, work, including details of work in the studio, attitudes, and aspects of Beaux and Gilder's close relationship. Beaux frequently mentions fellow artists and prominent people she meets in her letters, including her experiences painting Admiral Beatty (1919) and Georges Clemenceau (1919-1920). Letters from Beaux were sent from Boston, Philadelphia, Gloucester, New York, Washington (the White House, 1902 and 1904), Paris, and London.

Eleven letters from Gilder to Beaux are found for 1902, and two are found for 1914. Letters to Gilder from her mother Helena De Kay Gilder are found from 1904 and 1908 (one from each year). Letters enclosed with the correspondence are found from Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown (1902), Julia Leavitt Richards (1903), and M.B. Ford of the New Gallery (New York, 1909).

A group photograph of Beaux, Gilder, and others in costume is found enclosed with a letter from 1906, and a clipping with a negative review of Beaux's painting After The Meeting, for which Gilder was Beaux's sitter, is found with a letter of 1914.

Letters are arranged chronologically. Most of the letters appear to be complete, but scattered fragments of letters are found.