Spencer Baird Nichols and Nichols family papers
name: label: Creator
content: Nichols, Spencer Baird, 1875-1950
label: Names
content: Nichols, Henry Hobart, b. 1836
label: Names
content: Nichols, Hobart, 1869-1962
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- Connecticut
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- Connecticut
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators -- Connecticut
label: Topic
content: Painting -- Connecticut
label: Topic
content: Painting -- New York (State)
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1989 by Hobart Nichols, son of Spencer Baird Nichols and by Helen Jacobs, daughter of Spencer Baird Nichols, 1989, 1990, and 1994.
creator: label: Creator
content: Nichols, Spencer Baird, 1875-1950
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Spencer Baird Nichols was a portrait painter, landscape painter, muralist, book illustrator, and educator; Connecticut. He taught illustration at the Art Students League. In 1934, he became director of art at Marot Junior College, Thompson, Connecticut. Nichols' works include a portrait of Andrew Stephenson painted for the House of Representatives and murals executed in Connecticut.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1870-1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nichspen
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, photographs, clippings, and business records relating to the art careers of Spencer Baird Nichols, his brother Hobart Nichols, and their father Henry Hobart Nichols, in the New York and Connecticut area.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, 1923-1974, concern Spencer's exhibitions and family matters, business-related correspondence and letters between Nichols daughter, Helen Jacobs, and the Theodore Lyman Wright Art Center, Beloit College, the Smithsonian and collector James Blinder, pertaining to Nichols' work. Photographs include one of the Jay-Oakley-Nichols family (1870); two tintypes of Hobart, ca. 1880, and one of Spencer, 1899; photos of Spencer's artwork and a few of Hobart's; and Spencer's house and studio. Business records consist of inventories and receipts from Spencer's exhibits in New York.