Percy Ives Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ives, Percy L. (Percival L.), 1864-1928
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content: Percy Ives papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-4)
label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1870-1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ivesperc, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Glass plate negatives have been digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The series includes one letter to "The Oil and Colour Man" from "The Dweller in the Cave of Winds"; and one IOU from A. W. "Gus" Ives to Percy Ives.

Notes include seven index cards with notes on "nibbles" and sales of paintings; and notes about Ives made in 1936 by James Parker's father. Two diaries contain entries concerning Ives's business and personal notes. Also found are clippings and notes on baseball scores, and enclosures including exhibition announcements, scattered letters, and an Académie Julian letter of introduction. News clippings include four 1940 issues of a newspaper column, "We Old Timers," about Ives and his family.

Artwork consists of fifty-eight pencil sketches which have been mounted on the pages of a photograph album. Additional sketches are of landscapes and portraits. A sample book contains examples of Ives's illustrations used for commercial commissions.
 

Thirty-seven photographs, most of them mounted on paper, include two which appear to be of Ives in his studio. The other photographs are of the interior and exterior of a house, an unidentified woman, farm scenes, and other outdoor scenes. There are also two photographs of paintings by Ives, including a self portrait. Three photograph albums contain personal portraits and snapshots of the Ives family and homes.

Two hundred and fifty-eight glass plate negatives, primarily of unidentified sitters and models, comprise the bulk of the collection.