Lynda Roscoe Hartigan research material on Perkins Harnly
name: label: Creator
content: Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe
label: Names
content: Index of American Design
label: Names
content: National Museum of American Art (U.S.) -- Exhibitions
label: Names
content: Harnly, Perkins, 1901-1986
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum curators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Watercolorists -- United States
label: Topic
content: Interior decoration
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collected by Lynda Hartigan for the exhibition PERKINS HARNLY: FROM THE INDEX OF AMERICAN DESIGN, which she co-curated with Virginia Mecklenberg, at the National Museum of American Art (1981-1982). Hartigan initially became interested in Harnly because he had exhibited in a three-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery with Joseph Cornell in the early 1930s. After some searching, she found Harnly living in a hotel in Culver City, California, and began a detailed correspondence with him.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lynda Hartigan is an art historian and museum curator; Washington, D.C. Perkins Harnly is best known for his imaginative watercolor renderings of Victorian interiors for the Index of American Design. Harnly grew up in Nebraska. From childhood he was fascinated by the decorative and popular arts, especially by late Victorian design and domestic architecture. Through travel and self-education, he broadened his knowledge of design and developed his skill as a watercolorist. The Index of American Design commissioned him to compose watercolor renderings of American interiors decorated and furnished in the Victorian style. After the dissolution of the Federal Project in 1943, he worked as a sketch artist for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Hollywood.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 200 Items ((on 2 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hartlynd
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 4066-4067 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: In his correspondence with Hartigan (1979-1984), Harnly discusses Cornell, the Levy Gallery, the Index of American Design, his own career, and other artists such as Howard Taft Lorenz. Hartigan's correspondence concerning the exhibition includes letters from Harnly's friend Henry Warshaw. Hartigan's research materials on Harnly include her typed interview questions with Harnly's written responses, newspaper and magazine articles, exhibition catalogs and announcements, copies of the Index of American Design data sheets for Harnly's watercolors, an exhibition history and chronology, Harnly's undated autobiographical notes, two photographs of Harnly, and photographs of works of art by Harnly not included in the NMAA exhibition.