Miscellaneous Volume 9
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Britton, James, 1878-1936
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content: James Britton papers
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content: James Britton papers / Series 4: Diaries / 4.1: Diaries
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929 December-1931 March
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 45
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: (talks with Father Andrew Kelly; lists of sales from the Women's Club Art Committee exhibitiion wiht a description of the event; talks of his portrait of Inukai; complaints of those considered "Rich Hartford"; visits Morgan Museum exhibitions including French, Italian, and Mexican paintings; draft of "The Battle of American Art" (53); sees an exhibition of Higgins etchings; a draft of a letter to Phillip Hardy; list of ideas for "Modern Life" series; two lists of paintings: for patrons in Hartford and of subjects residing in Hartford or the vicinity; a list of old paintings received from storage; comment on New York Tribune announcing the publication of the Copley book; a list of paintings to exhibit at Women's Club in November; pressures Morgan Museum for more paintings to cover all American Art movements and time periods; list of visitors to visit the Women's Club exhibition; a list of portraits for Britton to see or write about; comments on business during the depression)