Thornton Oakley papers
name: label: Creator
content: Oakley, Thornton, 1881-1953
topic: label: Occupation
content: Illustrators -- Delaware -- Wilmington
label: Topic
content: Illustration of books
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1990 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Only portions of the collection were selected for microfilming. Oakley solicited and purchased some of the letters.
creator: label: Creator
content: Oakley, Thornton, 1881-1953
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.4 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919-1953
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.oaklthop
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4409 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Free Library of Philadelphia.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: A finding aid to the collection prepared by the Brandywine River Museum, with notations indicating filmed portions, available on microfilm reel 4394.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Oakley's research material on illustrator, Howard Pyle. Also includes other artists letters collected by Oakley. Letters from Pyle to Oakley discuss illustrations, sales, exhibitions and social engagements. There are also letters from various members of the Pyle family, including his wife Anne; from Pyle's students and artists discussing Pyle and their own careers, including Arthur Stanley, William Aylward, Anna Whelan Betts, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, George Harding, Henry Peck, Allen True, and Frank Schoonover, efforts to purchase Pyle oils, pen and ink drawings, and illustrated books, and regarding exhibitions relating to Pyle and his students.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are letters documenting Oakley's efforts to purchase Pyle's oils, drawings, and illustrated books; regarding exhibitions relating to Pyle and his students; some letters from Cecilia Beaux; and autograph letters from Edwin Ausin Abbey, Edwin Blashfield, Samuel Clemens, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens.