Artist Letters
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-1988
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content: Charles E. Feinberg collection of artists letters
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1800-1930
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.feinchar, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Letters were compiled by Charles Feinberg, with some having been originally compiled and organized by Ben Austin, Esq.. Many of the letters are addressed to gallery owner James D. Gill, whose gallery suffered a fire, regarding the status of paintings and offering condolences. Some letters may include photographs of artists, clippings, drawings, reproductions of works of art, or a typescript of the letter. Also found is a lecture by Dan Huntington on Christian Art at the National Academy of Design.

Artists include Albert Bierstadt, George Gray Barnard, Edwin Blashfield, Henry Bacon, Timothy Cole, John Collier, Kenyon Cox, Frederic Crowninshield, Anton Otto Fischer, Charles Noel Flagg, Robert Henri, Eastman Johnson, John La Farge, Rembrandt Peale, Joseph Pennell, Horace Wolcott Robbins, Augustus St. Gaudens, John Sartain, Thomas William Silloway, John Trumbull, Elihu Vedder, and Lemuel Maynard Wiles, among many others.