Columbianum records
name: label: Creator
content: Columbianum
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 18th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming, 1955, by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the American Philosophical Society.
creator: label: Creator
content: Columbianum
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art school and society; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- Pennsylvania
label: Function
content: Art Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (partial microfilm reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1794-1795
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.columbia
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels P37, P45 & P63 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel P37: Original in the American Philosophical Society, Franklin Papers.
label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels P45 & P63: Originals in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Material relating to The Columbianum, including the constitution, by-laws and an exhibition catalog.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL P63, fr. 131-132: An agreement to establish a school of fine arts in the United States, 1794 Dec. 29, signed by the artists so agreeing, and resulting in the Columbianum in Philadelphia.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL P45, fr. 405-426: 1 v., containing the constitution and by-laws of the Columbianum, or the American Academy of Fine Arts, with signatures of members. The end of the volume was later used as a letterbook for the Philadelphia Museum Company, 1821, by Rubens Peale.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL P37, fr. 496: Exhibition catalog of the Columbianum, 1795.