Robert Crannell Minor papers
name: label: Creator
content: Minor, Robert Crannell, 1839-1904
topic: label: Occupation
content: Etchers -- Connecticut -- Watertown
label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- Connecticut -- Watertown
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Connecticut -- Watertown
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent by Minor's grandaughter, Isabel T. Davis, and great-grandaughter, Gladys T. Pritchard, 1983.
creator: label: Creator
content: Minor, Robert Crannell, 1839-1904
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Landscape painter, etcher and painter; Watertown, Connecticut. Born in New York City. Studied under A. C. Howland for two years, under Diaz at Barbizon, Van Luppen in Antwep, Boulanger in Paris. Won a prize in the 1900 Paris exposition. Member of the American Barbizon School.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 53 Items ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896-1904
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.minorobe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm roll 2769 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lender after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letter, 1879, from Minor in which he gives a brief sketch of his career as an artist; 2 pencil sketches of trees; 2 scrapbooks containing clippings, exhibition catalogs, photographs of paintings, a biographical sketch, and letters received, 4 photographs of Minor and 31 of his paintings; and clippings.