Philip C. Beam papers
name: label: Creator
content: Beam, Philip C.
label: Names
content: Bowdoin College -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Bowdoin College, Museum of Art
label: Names
content: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1998 by Philip C. Beam.
creator: label: Creator
content: Beam, Philip C.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian, educator; Brunswick, Maine. Born 1910. Shortly after arriving at Bowdoin College in 1936, Beam befriended Homer's nephew Charles, his family, and acquaintances and neighbors of the artist, and was given complete access to surviving family papers and memorabilia (given to Bowdoin College in the 1960s and now comprising the Winslow Homer Collection). Beam attended Harvard College (AB 1933, MA 1943, and PhD 1944) and was certified at the Courtauld Institute (1936). His PhD dissertation was "Winslow Homer, 1936-1910, A Biography."
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-circa 1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beamphil
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Mounted photographs of Winslow Homer, his family, his studio at Prout's Neck, Me., and his work; photographic negatives; correspondence files regarding research, exhibitions and publications on Homer, including Philip C. Beam "Personal Recollections of the Museum of Art and the Department of Art at Bowdoin College" (1991); 3 videotapes: "Winslow Homer in Maine" c. WCBB-TV, Lewiston, ME; "Winslow Homer: The Nature of the Artist" c. NGA; "Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks 1861-1878" c. Menil Foundation.