Thomas Seir Cummings correspondence and printed material [microfilm]
name: label: Creator
content: Cummings, Thomas Seir, 1804-1894
label: Names
content: National Academy of Design (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902
label: Names
content: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889
label: Names
content: Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886
label: Names
content: Durand, John, 1822-1908
label: Names
content: Edmonds, Francis William, 1806-1863
label: Names
content: Elliott, Charles Loring, 1812-1868
label: Names
content: Gignoux, Régis François, 1816-1882
label: Names
content: Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906
label: Names
content: Inman, Henry, 1801-1846
label: Names
content: Inman, Jane
label: Names
content: Lang, Louis, 1814-1893
label: Names
content: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
label: Names
content: Perry, E. W. (Enoch Wood), 1831-1915
label: Names
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
topic: label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters
label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters
label: Occupation
content: Miniature painters
label: Occupation
content: Genre painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1958 by the Century Association.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cummings, Thomas Seir, 1804-1894
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-1894) was a miniature and portrait painter from New York, N.Y. One of the founders of the National Academy of Design.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1826-1893
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cummthom
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 reel NC1 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Century Association, New York, N.Y.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, including a letterbook which contains some drafts of Cummings' own communications, and letters received; broadsides; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Among the correspondents are many 19th century New York painters and National Academy of Design members, including Gorham D. Abbott, William Aspinwall, Anthony Barclay, Albert Bierstadt, Victoria Bellamy, Robert Bunch, Charles Butler, J. G.Chapman, Vincent Colyer, Mortimer De Motte, Asher B. and John Durand, F. W. Edmonds, Charles L. Elliott, Isaac Ferris, Hamilton Fish, Robert Fraser, William Gibbons, Régis Gignoux, R. K. Haight, Walter Harding, Daniel Huntington, Charles Ingham, Henry Inman and his widow Jane Inman (re proceeds from an Inman memorial exhibition organized by Cummings), William Kemble, Louis Lang, James Lenox, Edward Lester, Charles Leupp, John Lewis, Benson Lossing, James J. Mapes, James McMurtrie, John Morgan, George P. Morris, S. F. B. Morse, E.W. Perry, William H. Seward, D. Seymour, James Shegogue, John R. Smith, William Stillman, Russell Sturgis, Thomas Sully, Henry Tappan, Thomas Thorpe, T. B. Wakeman, Prosper Wetmore, and James Whitehorne.