Frank Vincent DuMond papers
name: label: Creator
content: DuMond, Frank Vincent, 1865-1951
label: Names
content: Cohen, Lewis, 1857-1915
label: Names
content: DuMond, Helen Savier, 1872-
label: Photographer
content: Gee, Richard V.
label: Names
content: Hale, Robert Beverly, 1901-1985
label: Names
content: Klonis, Stewart, 1901-1989
label: Names
content: Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954
label: Names
content: Metcalf, Willard Leroy, 1858-1925
label: Names
content: Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-1952
label: Names
content: Vonnoh, Bessie Potter, 1872-1955 -- Photographs
label: Names
content: West, S. Jessie (Sarah Jessie)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators
label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters
label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Materials were loaned or given 1970-1984 by DuMond's daughter, Elisabeth DuMond Perry. Additional material was donated in 2005 by Robert Hubbard, who received them from his father-in-law Harry Condon, the caretaker for the Frank Dumond.
creator: label: Creator
content: DuMond, Frank Vincent, 1865-1951
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frank Vincent DuMond (1865-1951) was a portrait and landscape painter from New York, N.Y. DuMond was born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1865. He studied at the Art Students League from 1884 to 1888 under William Sartain and Carroll Beckwith, and at the Academie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1891 under Jules Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant and Boulanger. Upon returning to New York, DuMond became an illustrator for Harper's Weekly and Century magazines from 1885-1892. He was an instructor at the Art Students League from 1892-1951.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1866-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dumofran
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels N70-75, N70-76, 53, 54, 3176 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Portions: Originals returned to lender, Elisabeth DuMond Perry, after microfilming.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Finding aid available at Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material (1878-1945), letters (1883-1928), business records (1898-1909), art works (1885-1887), scrapbooks (1885-1982), printed material (1884-1978), and photographs (1866-1974) document the career of painter and instructor Frank Vincent DuMond.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical materials include a biographical account and a history of the DuMond family, 2 resumes and a graduation certificate. Correspondents include DuMond, his wife Helen Savier, his parents, various family members and friends and colleagues. Three letters, one from Reginald Marsh, discuss the murals created for the Hotel des Artistes. A 1917 letter from Frederic Clay Bartlett requests a letter of recommendation to the Century Club. Several letters (1887) from painter S. Jessie West discuss her thoughts and work.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Among the printed materials are clippings and obituaries, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and reproductions of DuMond's artworks. Art works include 9 sketches, 44 drawings and two sketchbooks, as well as a sketchbook kept by Helen Savier [Dumond], while she was a student at the Art Students League in 1893. Photographs show DuMond and his wife, family, friends, art classes, his works and the site of DuMond's murals at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. Colleagues pictured include Lewis Cohen, Robert Beverly Hale, Stewart Klonis, Willard Leroy Metcalf, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Twenty-two of the artists in a group photograph autographed the mat.