Martin Brimmer letters
name: label: Creator
content: Brimmer, Martin, 1829-1896
label: Names
content: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
label: Names
content: Fuller, George, 1822-1884
label: Names
content: Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919
label: Names
content: Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879
label: Names
content: La Farge, John, 1835-1910
label: Names
content: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
label: Names
content: Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
label: Names
content: Whitman, Sarah
label: Names
content: Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1956 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston via Mrs. Haven Parker, an Assistant in the Department of Paintings. The Museum owns several paintings by Whitman.
creator: label: Creator
content: Brimmer, Martin, 1829-1896
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Brimmer was a collector and first president of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sarah Wyman Whitman was a Boston painter and patron of the arts, born in Baltimore in 1842. She died in Boston in 1904.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet ((45 items on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880-1896
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brimmart
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel D32 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Primarily letters written by Brimmer to Sarah Wyman Whitman, written from London, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere, and referring to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and to contemporary artists such as George Fuller, John LaFarge, William Morris Hunt, John Singer Sargent, and James A. McNeill Whistler. In addition, there are letters from Henry Lee Higginson, Owen Wister, and other friends of Brimmer, referring to Brimmer's death; and a letter from Phillips Brooks to Sarah Wyman Whitman.