Edwin Lord Weeks papers
name: label: Creator
content: Weeks, Edwin Lord
place: label: Place
content: Cairo (Egypt) -- Description and Travel
label: Place
content: Morocco -- Pictorial works
label: Place
content: Africa, North -- Pictorial works
topic: label: Occupation
content: Watercolorists
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- France -- Paris
label: Topic
content: Heraldry
label: Topic
content: Exoticism in art
label: Topic
content: Cedar of Lebanon -- Description and Travel
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Mervin Bronson 1991 "in memory of Burton W.F. Trafton, Jr." Bronson received the material from his friend Trafton, a distant descendant of Weeks. Many of the artworks and photographs are labelled "Elizabeth Goodwin," who was presumably Weeks' niece.
creator: label: Creator
content: Weeks, Edwin Lord
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, illustrator, author, photographer, explorer; Paris, France. Born in Boston, Mass. and raised in Newtonville, Mass., Weeks studied in the American public school system and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with Gerome and Bonnat. He married his cousin Frances Rollins Hale and was a close friend of illustrator Frank T. Merrill. Weeks travelled extensively in Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus and Morocco, maintaining a studio in Paris and frequenting South Berwick, Maine where his sister Mrs. W.A.H. (Minnie) Goodwin and her family lived. His specialty was North African orientalist genre painting.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1885-1976]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.weekedwi
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Paintings in watercolor (18), oil (54), and drawings in graphite (5), pen and ink (3), and pastel (1), capture the exoticism of Weeks' travel in the Near East and North Africa, his interest in medieval armour and love of the New England seashore. Also included are a family crest; animal studies; a 3 p. typescript titled "Cairo Notes"; a 3 p. account of travel to the Cedars of Lebanon via Beirut and Akora; photographs of Weeks in costume and at home in Paris, his work, and the family grocery store in Boston; travel photographs; an exhibition catalog; and clippings.