Gertrude Fiske papers
name: label: Creator
content: Fiske, Gertrude, 1878-1961
label: Names
content: Boston Society of Etchers
label: Names
content: Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951
label: Names
content: Gaugengigl, I. M. (Ignaz Marcel), 1855-1932
label: Names
content: Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962
label: Names
content: Leith-Ross, Harry, b. 1886
label: Names
content: Little, Philip, 1857-1942
label: Names
content: Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Etching, American -- 20th century -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Painting, American -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Harold B. (Bus) Willis, the owner of the collection, is the nephew of Gertrude Fiske.
creator: label: Creator
content: Fiske, Gertrude, 1878-1961
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter. Fiske studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under such luminaries as Tarbell, Benson and Hale, and later with Charles Woodbury in Ogunquit, Maine. A woman of means and socially well-connected, Miss Fiske was a co-founder of the Guild of Boston Artists (1914), the Boston Society of Etchers (1917), and the Ogunquit Art Association (1928).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot ((on 2 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1915-1986
label: Date
content: bulk 1915-1933 dates
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fiskgert
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4280 and 4281 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Harold B. Willis, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, photographs and printed materials documenting the career of Gertrude Fiske and the Boston Society of Etchers, of which Fiske was a founding member.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters from friends, colleagues, and museums include a small number of letters from Frank Benson, Harry Leith-Ross, Charles Hopkinson, and H. Dudley Murphy. A notebook on the Boston Society of Etchers contains a list of members, minutes of the founding meeting (1917), notes on expenses, lists of works exhibited (includes a sketch of works on exhibition), announcements, catalogs, and letters from members including Philip Little, Ignaz Gaugengigl and others. Other materials consist of biographical notes, two sketches, one possibly of Fiske, a sales receipt, a scrapbook of clippings and catalogs, and photographs of Fiske and friends, works, and exhibitions.