Niles Spencer papers
name: label: Creator
content: Spencer, Niles, 1893-1952
label: Names
content: Rhode Island School of Design
label: Names
content: Alamán, Lucas, 1792-1853
label: Names
content: Chidsey, G. Alan
label: Names
content: Madrazo, José de, 1781-1859
label: Names
content: Meyer, Henry, 1783-1847
label: Names
content: Naylor, Charles, 1806-1872
label: Names
content: Smith, H. I.
label: Names
content: Spencer, Henry L.
label: Names
content: Watson, Ernest William, 1884-1969
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Industries in art
label: Topic
content: Precisionism
label: Topic
content: Artists' preparatory studies
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1977 and 1989 by Brett Harrington, nephew of Niles Spencer's wife.
creator: label: Creator
content: Spencer, Niles, 1893-1952
culture: label: Culture
content: Self-portraits
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; New York, N.Y. Associated with the Precisionist school of painting.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 2 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1826-1972
label: Date
content: bulk 1900-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.spennile
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3948 and 4793 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Sketches and drawings by Spencer, and art work by others; printed material on Spencer; printed material and a few photographs used as source material for paintings; photographs of Spencer's work; personal photographs including one of Spencer; and a few letters.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3948: Fourteen drawings and preparatory sketches, undated; and a clipping, 1939.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 4793: Art work by Spencer includes a poster design done while a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, 1912, a self-portrait in pencil and ink, a pen and ink drawing of Abraham Lincoln, and nine pencil and ink drawings after Cezanne, Daumier, Matisse and Picasso; art work by others includes a charcoal sketch of Spencer by H.I. Smith, 2 watercolors by Spencer's father, Henry, 1900, and an engraving by Henry Hoppner Meyer, 1826, of Mexican statesman Lucas Alaman, inscribed by Alaman to Charles Naylor, 1848.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are letters and two vol. of printed material on Spencer, compiled by book designer G. Alan Chidsey and presented to the family upon Spencer's death in 1952. Other printed material includes clippings, 1939-1961; an interview of Spencer conducted by Ernest Watson in American Artists Magazine, 1944; a press release for Spencer's 1954 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art; and four exhibition catalogs, including one for a Cezanne exhibition at Montross Gallery, 1916, containing a pencil sketch by Spencer on the back, and one for a Spencer exhibition at the Washburn Gallery, 1972.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs are of industrial landscapes (4), probably used as source material for paintings, paintings by Spencer (16), and by others (4). A file on Slater Mill, owned by the Spencer family, containing an historical account and a photograph, 1972, is also included.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Clippings regarding art works by others, including two oversize reproductions of works by Cezanne, ca. 1930; and miscellaneous clippings featuring photographs of industrial sites and architecture, c.1920-1930.