Lucia Fairchild Fuller papers
name: label: Creator
content: Fuller, Lucia Fairchild, 1872-1924
label: Names
content: Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924
label: Names
content: Fuller, Henry Brown, 1867-1934
label: Names
content: Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928
label: Names
content: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
topic: label: Occupation
content: Miniature painters -- New Hampshire
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Hampshire
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent by Lucia Taylor Miller, Fuller's granddaughter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Fuller, Lucia Fairchild, 1872-1924
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Miniature painter; Cornish, N.H. Studied under Henry Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in NYC. Married Henry B. Fuller in 1893. In 1899, she was one of the founders of the American Society of Miniature Painters. Was stricken with multiple sclerosis. Summered at the art colony in Cornish, N.H.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 232 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [undated] and 1890-1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fullluci
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3504 and 3825 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Lucia T. Miller, after microfilming. Subsequently donated to Dartmouth College Library, Hanover NH.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters received; sketchbook; diaries; miniatures; photographs; clippings; and a manuscript draft.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3504: Letters from John W. Ames, W.C. Brownell of Charles Scribner's Sons, Katherine & Molly Childers, Frederick S. Church, John W. Cunliffe, Dr. Charles L. Dana, Jefferson B. Fletcher, Andrew Green, Gertrude Hall, Grace Hall, Leland Hall, Norman Hapgood, Theo Hawley, Laura Hills, Muriel "Pilla" Howells, Jeannette Meyers Hoyt, Ernest Lawson, Philip Littell, Mrs. J.W. McCarty, Gavin and Marie Mathison, Maxfield "Fred" Parrish, Elsie Pattel, Samuel H. Ranck, Edward Robinson, George Rublee, George Santayana, Edward Fred "Simmy" Simmons, Elizabeth Kendall Underwood, Janet Van Hise, Mary Viele, John F. Weir, Madeline Y. Wynne, and Cecilia Mary Young. Six of the 12 letters from F.S. Church are illustrated with drawings. Letters concern her health, her love affair with Simmons, her art, and financial concerns.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3825: Biographical material (1967, 1976); diaries (1890-1891, 1903); correspondence, including letters to her husband, Henry B. Fuller (1892-1922) and from John Singer Sargent and H. Siddons Mowbray (1890-1892); a sketchbook; miniatures; photographs (including a portfolio of photographs of miniature paintings); clippings (1910-1924); and a draft of THE MINIATURE AS AN HEIRLOOM by Lucia Fairchild Fuller.