Boston Art Commission records
name: label: Creator
content: Boston Art Commission
label: Creator
content: Boston Public Library
label: Names
content: Adams, Herbert, 1858-1945
label: Names
content: Allen, Thomas, 1849-1924
label: Names
content: Bartlett, Paul, 1881-1965
label: Names
content: Bellows, Robert Peabody, 1877-1957
label: Names
content: Collins, Patrick Andrew, 1844-1905
label: Names
content: Coolidge, J. Templeman (John Templeman), 1888-1945
label: Names
content: Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958
label: Names
content: Edgell, George Harold, b. 1887
label: Names
content: French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931
label: Names
content: Kitson, Henry Hudson, 1863?-1947
label: Names
content: Longfellow, Alexander W., 1854-1934
label: Names
content: Maginnis, Charles Donagh, 1867-1955
label: Names
content: Parker, J. Harleston, 1873-1930
label: Names
content: Quincy, Josiah, 1802-1882
label: Names
content: Shurcliff, Arthur A. (Arthur Asahel), 1870-1957
label: Names
content: Walker, C. Howard (Charles Howard), 1857-1936
label: Names
content: Warren, Samuel Dennis, 1852-1910
topic: label: Topic
content: Monuments -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: statues -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Busts -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Fountains -- Massachusetts -- Boston
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by the City of Boston, Boston Art Commission, 1984.
creator: label: Creator
content: Boston Art Commission
label: Creator
content: Boston Public Library
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Boston Art Commission was founded in 1890.
function: label: Function
content: Art commissions -- Massachusetts
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1890-1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bostart
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3134 through 3144 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Lists of Monument, General, and Correspondence files are available in all Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Commission charter, "Act to Create an Art Commission for the City of Boston," 1890; handwritten minutes of staff meetings, 1890-1959; annual reports and related correspondence, 1899-1953; minutes of a joint meeting of the Boston Art Commission, the Park and Recreation Commission, and the City Planning Board, 1914; 3 files maintained by the Boston Art Commission: monument files, 1890-1957, regarding the signing, erecting, and restoring of monuments, including estimates, proposals, contracts, sketches, printed materials, and photographs; operating and general files, 1890-1957, on statues, tablets, busts, paintings, monuments, and memorials in Boston public schools, Faneuil Hall and others locales; correspondence files, 1895-1953, for Boston Public Art Under the Curatorship of the Boston Public Library; 3 clippings, 1934-1947; and 2 brochures, "Some Statues of Boston," 1946, and "Other Statues of Boston," 1947, by Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondents included among the monument, general, correspondence files include members of the Boston Art Commission, mayors of Boston, sculptors, and architects. Among the correspondents are Herbert Adams, Thomas Allen, Paul Bartlett, Robert Bellows, Patrick Collins (mayor), John Templeman Coolidge, James M. Curley (mayor), George Harold Edgell, Daniel Chester French, Henry Hudson Kitson, Alexander W. Longfellow, Charles D. Maginnis, J. Harleston Parker, Josiah Quincy (mayor), Arthur Shurtleff, C. Howard Walker, Samuel D. Warren, and others.