R. Sturgis Ingersoll papers relating to Henry McCarter
name: label: Creator
content: Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis), b. 1891
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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content: Barnes, Albert C. (Albert Coombs), 1872-1951
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content: Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942
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content: Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968
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content: Borie, Adolphe, 1877-1934
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content: Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948
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content: Crane, Alexander
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content: Cullen, Charles
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content: Davis, Bernard
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content: Garber, Daniel, 1880-
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content: Hall, William Weeks, 1894-1958
label: Names
content: Herman, Leorna Owsky
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content: Ingersoll, Anna Warren, 1887-1980
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content: Kendall, William Sergeant, 1869-1938
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content: McCarter, Henry, 1866-1942
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content: Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)
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content: Rattner, Abraham
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content: Roosevelt, Nicholas Guy, 1883?-1965
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content: Walsh, Lorna Gill
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content: Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1994 by Mr. Perry Benson, Ingersoll's grandson.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis), b. 1891
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ingersoll was a lawyer, art collector, and President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; McCarter a Philadelphia painter.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear feet ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896-1944
label: Date
content: bulk 1930-1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ingershm
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4949 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Material compiled by R. Sturgis Ingersoll preparatory to his biography of Henry McCarter (never completed), primarily Ingersoll's correspondence with McCarter's friends and associates, and McCarter's correspondence collected by Ingersoll.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are Ingersoll's correspondence requesting information and documents relating to McCarter; correspondence and clippings regarding the Henry McCarter Memorial Exhibition held at the J.B. Neumann Gallery, New York, N.Y. and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1943; and documents regarding McCarter's estate, 1943, 1944. Among the correspondents are Francis and Katherine Biddle, Mrs. Adolphe Borie (Edith), Alexander Crane, Royal Cortissoz, Charles Cullen, Bernard Davis, Daniel Garber, William Weeks Hall, Mrs. William Sergeant Kendall (Christine Herter), Joanna McCarter (McCarter's neice), Abraham Rattner, Lorna Gill Walsh, Franklin C. Watkins, and others.
label: Scope and Contents
content: McCarter's correspondence is with Albert C. Barnes, Cecilia Beaux, Francis and Katherine Biddle, Adolphe and Edith Borie, Bernard Davis, Lenora Owsley Herman, Anna Warren Ingersoll, R. Sturgis Ingersoll, William Sergeant Kendall, Nicholas Roosevelt, and others. Also included are a manuscript fragment by McCarter about individual expression and the "stifling' traditions of academic training, undated; Hannah Rile Weiman's handwritten notes of a lecture by McCarter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1920 or 28; sketches by McCarter; 12 photographs of McCarter and others, ca. 1930; and clippings.