Don Becker collection
name: label: Creator
content: Becker, Don
label: Names
content: Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 1865-1925
label: Names
content: Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936
label: Names
content: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
label: Names
content: Granger-Dow, Fanny
label: Names
content: Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940
label: Names
content: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
label: Names
content: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
label: Names
content: Swan, Paul, 1899-1972
label: Names
content: Volk, Douglas , 1856-1935
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Artists' studios -- Photographs
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was originally assembled by Fanny Granger-Dow, the mother of donor Don Becker. She was a student of William Merritt Chase and the family knew many artists of the period.
creator: label: Creator
content: Becker, Don
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (ca. 20 items)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1899-1949
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beckdon
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Primarily photographs; also clippings and writings concerning artists, mostly around the turn-of-the century. The items were gathered by Don Becker's mother, Fanny Granger-Dow, a student of William Merritt Chase and close friend to Edwin Blashfield and other artists of the period. In addition to Chase and Blashfield, other artists represented include Paul Wayland Bartlett, William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, Auguste Rodin, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Paul Swan.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs are of Paul Wayland Bartlett in his studio (signed by Bartlett, 1908); a work of art by Edwin Howland Blashfield; a painting by Douglas Volk annotated to Blashfield "compliments of Samuel Shaw" and signed by 18 artists, including Daniel Chester French and John LaFarge, 1899; William Merritt Chase instructing a class at his New York art school and one of students in Chase's portrait class; works by F. Luis Mora; works by Auguste Rodin (one is annotated "A mon ami Monsieur Brownelle" and signed by Rodin); the Farragut Monument (signed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens); and three of Paul Swan in his studio.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also found are a 1949 recital announcement; two clippings about Chase (1916); an obituary and a nine-page manuscript about Mora by Fanny Granger-Dow entitled "Character Sketches of Some of Our Younger Artists"; three magazine clippings with cartoons about artists; and a 1904 exhibition catalog for the Fifth Annual Exhibition of the American Society of Miniature Painters.