Sterling Strauser collection of Louis Eilshemius and Justin McCarthy materials
odd: label: Other Title
content: Sterling Strauser collection of Louis Eilshemius writings and pamphlet (microfilm title)
label: Other Title
content: Sterling Strauser collection of Justin McCarthy materials (microfilm title)
name: label: Creator
content: Strauser, Sterling, 1907-
label: Names
content: Bethlehem Steel Company
label: Names
content: Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941
label: Names
content: McCarthy, Justin, 1891-1977
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art students -- France -- Paris
label: Occupation
content: Art students -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Folk artists -- Pennsylvania
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Self-taught artists -- Pennsylvania -- Weatherly
label: Topic
content: Folk art
label: Topic
content: Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1990 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Strauser purchased the Eilshemius materials from New York artist Esther Pressoir, who received the materials from Eilshemius. Strauser received the McCarthy materials directly from Justin McCarthy.
creator: label: Creator
content: Strauser, Sterling, 1907-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Folk art collector and dealer, painter; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Discovered and helped popularize many folk or self-taught artists, including Justin McCarthy.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear feet ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1882-1934
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.strastec
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 4398 & 4408 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Sterling Strauser, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Eilshemius's journal and essays, and McCarthy's sketchbooks and a scrapbook, collected by Sterling Strauser.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 4398: Eilshemius's 125-page journal (1882-1884) discusses classes, student life, and sketching at Cornell University and an 1884 stay in New York City, including his studies at the Art Students League. Sixteen two- to five-page manuscripts (n.d. and 1934), titled "Experiences of Louis Eilshemius" and numbered from 2 to 18, discuss his studies at the Art Students League in New York City and the Academie Julian in Paris, technical matters, and other memories. A 1932 pamphlet by Eilshemius concerns "Some New Discoveries in Science and Art."
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 4408: Eight manila folders, each with 2 pages of poems concerning food and eating glued inside, were designed for lunch wagons and diners. One of the three sketchbooks contains drawings of Bethlehem Steel workers, some identified by name and shift number. A notebook (1920-1921) includes crayon and ink, watercolor, and pencil sketches; cartoons; and clippings of women. Seven pages of cartoons are attached to a manila folder. A scrapbook, labeled "made in Ritterville State Hospital, 1920," is filled with clippings of actresses, models, society women, and women athletes, some of whom are identified. Several clippings have been colored over with colored pencil.