Increase Robinson photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Robinson, Increase, 1890-1981
label: Names
content: Lemos, Julia Wyszynski, 1842-1928
label: Names
content: Reichmann, Josephine Lemos, 1864-1938
label: Names
content: Wyszynski, Eustace, 1810-1891
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Photographs
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The donor, Ruth R. Hooper, is the niece and Esther Robinson is the daughter of Increase Robinson.
creator: label: Creator
content: Robinson, Increase, 1890-1981
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, teacher, lecturer, gallery owner, and State Director of the Federal Art Project in Illinois between 1933 and 1938. Born Josephine Dorothea Richmann Robinson. Took the name of Increase Robinson after the death of her first husband, Philip Increase Robinson. She was a descendant of several generations of Chicago artists including Baron Eustace Wyszynski (her great-grandfather), Julia Wyszynski Lemos (her grandmother), and Josephine Lemos Reichmann (her mother). Peter van Beuren (1776-1844) was Robinson's great-great-grandfather. His daughter, Johanna, married Baron Wyszynski.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1909-1920
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.robiincr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4283 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the possession of Esther Robinson 330 Elsie Street, San Francisco, California 94110.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Nine photographs (1919-1920), primarily of Robinson and Lemos family members, and a page from the 1909 Hyde Park High School Annual.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are: copy photographs of a miniature painted by Baron Eustace Wyszynski of his father-in-law, Peter van Beuren; Wyszynski and his daughter, Julia Wyszynski Lemos; Robinson, her husband, Philip Increase Robinson, her brother, Ernest Robert Reichmann, and her sister-in-law, Ruth Hough Reichmann; Robinson cleaning paint brushes; and photographs of Robinson's mother, Josephine Lemos Reichmann, alone (1920) and with Ruth Hough Reichmann dressed for the Artist's Ball (1919), as well as a page of the Hyde Park High School Annual of 1909 with Robinson's picture.