Beatrice Whitney Van Ness papers
name: label: Creator
content: Van Ness, Beatrice Whitney, 1888-1981
label: Creator
content: Progressive Education Association (U.S.)
label: Names
content: D'Amico, Victor, 1904-1987
label: Names
content: Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931
label: Names
content: Rebay, Hilla, 1890-1967
label: Names
content: Tarbell, Edmund Charles, 1862-1938
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- United States
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women art teachers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1983 by Van Ness's daughters Mary Crocker and Silvia Martin.
creator: label: Creator
content: Van Ness, Beatrice Whitney, 1888-1981
label: Creator
content: Progressive Education Association (U.S.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, educator; Chesnut Hill, Mass. Founder and head of the Art Department at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill (1921-1949). She studied child and adolescent behavior as applied to art education practice. Through articles, essays and presentations she advocated a more vital and integral role for art education in overall curriculum strategy.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1883-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.vanness
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, writings and notes, art works, printed material and photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Brief resumes, a genealogy of Van Ness' family and a citation from Beaver Country Day School for "Meritorious Service"; correspondence from family members, colleagues and friends includes 5 letters from Victor D'Amico and the Progressive Education Association regarding her participation in upcoming events; extensive notes and writings by Van Ness and others regarding art education theory and practice and a brief history of Beaver Country Day School written by Van Ness in 1981; teaching files, undated and 1932-1944, containing course outlines, exams and class assignments for courses taught at BCDS;
label: Scope and Contents
content: a notebook describing the dimensions, locations and types of various picture frames; a card file describing paintings by Van Ness; figure drawings, still lifes, contour drawings and charcoal studies done when she was a student; studies of people done in preparation for paintings, portrait sketches and 2 sketches of Van Ness done by her students; photographs of Van Ness, her family, models (for paintings), colleagues and teachers (includes a photo of Philip Hale and Edmund Tarbell, ca. 1905-1980), numerous photos of paintings by Van Ness, ca. 1910-1980, and photos of drawings by her students.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed materials include 2 articles by Van Ness on art education published in ART EDUCATION TODAY (1939) and HIGH SCHOOL JOURNAL (1940); exhibition catalogs, announcements, clippings and an essay by Hilla Rebay entitled "The Beauty of Non-Objectivity."