Artist Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Spark, Victor D. (Victor David), 1898-1991
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content: Victor D. Spark papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Linear Feet (Box 2-6, 22)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1905-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sparvict, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Artist's files are arranged primarily by name of artist, although a few files are arranged by art topic or school.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.  Multiple photographic images of the same work of art were scanned because they depict different angles, views before and after cleaning, or have varying annotations. Transparencies and duplicates of photographs were not scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The bulk of the artist files consists of black and white photographs of artwork with a few color photographs and transparencies.  This series also includes short artist biographies, curriculum vitae, articles, clippings, and limited correspondence with prospective buyers about the price of paintings.  Many of the photographs have handwritten annotations on the verso regarding the artwork such as the stock number, dimensions, date, title and sometimes price.  Victor Spark mostly sold American paintings by artists such as James G. Clonney, Jon Singleton Copley, Jeremiah P. Hardy, Martin Johnson Heade, Rembrandt Peale, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, Thomas Sully, and many others.  There is also a letter written in 1924 by Ruth Moran along with a photograph of a painting signed on the verso by her father, the artist Thomas Moran.