Anna Richards Brewster papers
name: label: Creator
content: Brewster, Anna Richards, 1870-1952
label: Names
content: Brewster, W. T. (William Tenney), 1869-1961
label: Names
content: Richards, Anna M. (Anna Matlock)
label: Names
content: Richards, William Trost, 1833-1905
topic: label: Occupation
content: Illustrators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women authors
label: Topic
content: Marine painting, American
label: Topic
content: Illustration of books
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Susan Brewster McClatchy, Brewster's grandniece, in 1985 and in 1986 by Susan Brewster McClatchy's aunt, Martha Santiago.
creator: label: Creator
content: Brewster, Anna Richards, 1870-1952
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anna Richards Brewster papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of illustrator Anna Richards Brewster measure 0.8 linear feet and date from 1887 to 1961. The papers include material on Brewster's career, and that of her parents William Trost Richards and Anna Matlock Richards. Found are artworks including sketchbooks, biographical material, correspondence, a photo album, printed material, writings, and a scrapbook.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anna Richards Brewster (1870-1952) was a painter, author, and illustrator active in New York and Pennsylvania.  

Brewster studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston, the Art Students League, and Académie Julian. Brewster often collaborated as an illustrator with her mother, poet and author Anna Matlock Richards. Brewster's father, William Trost Richards, was a well-known marine painter. Her brother Theodore William Richards was a professor of chemistry at Harvard and a Nobel Prize winner, and another brother, Herbert Maule Richards, was a professor of botany at Barnard College, Columbia University. Brewster lived nine years in London. She married professor William Tenney Brewster.

Anna Richards Brewster died in Scarsdale, New York in 1952.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brewanna
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was arranged upon receipt and partially microfilmed on reel 3796. The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2022 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Portions of the collection are available on 35mm microfilm reel D3796 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.

Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reel 3796 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of illustrator Anna Richards Brewster measure 0.8 linear feet and date from 1887 to 1961. The papers include material on Brewster's career, and that of her parents William Trost Richards and Anna Matlock Richards. Found are artworks including sketchbooks, biographical material, correspondence, a photo album, printed material, writings, and a scrapbook.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds the William Trost Richards papers, 1848-1920.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: Material lent for microfilming on reel 3796, frames 5-75, was returned to Susan Brewster McClatchy after microfilming and is not described in the collection container inventory.