Catharine Willson photographs and clippings
name: label: Creator
content: Willson, Catharine
label: Names
content: Eagle's Nest Art Colony
label: Names
content: Browne, Charles Francis, 1859-1920
label: Names
content: Clarkson, Ralph, 1861-1942
label: Names
content: Dickerson, J. Spencer
label: Names
content: Fiske, Horace Spencer, 1859-1940
label: Names
content: Grover, Oliver Dennett, 1861-1927
label: Names
content: Heckman, Wallace, 1851-1927
label: Names
content: Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936
label: Names
content: Thomas, Vernon, Mrs., b. 1894
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Middle West
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Archives of American art retained copy prints of some of the photographs lent by Catharine Willson.
creator: label: Creator
content: Willson, Catharine
function: label: Function
content: Artist colonies -- Illinois
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 48 Items ((on a partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1895-1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.willcath
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3990 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 3990 (frames 1-210): Originals returned to the lender, Catharine Willson, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A scrapbook, clippings (1911-1964), a photograph album, and photographs (1895-1918) illustrate life at the Eagle's Nest art colony.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Twenty-seven photographs and a photograph album document family events and Willson's summers with her uncle, painter Ralph Clarkson, at Eagle's Nest art colony in Oregon, Illinois (1895-1963). Subjects include costume pageants, artists' cabins, Rock River scenes, Taft's statue "Black Hawk", Willson with Clarkson, and artists Charles Francis Browne, J. Spencer Dickerson, Horace Spencer Fiske, Oliver Dennett Grover, and Loredo Taft. The album also contains 10 Christmas cards (1943-1963) and 12 clippings, including an obituary for Wallace Heckman (1927) and 4 articles about Mrs. Vernon Thomas (1928). A second scrapbook contains 49 picture postcards, primarily of Colorado scenes, and a clipping about Eagle's Nest (1911).