Christmas Cards
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Beach, Chester, 1881-1956
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content: Chester Beach papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.7 Linear Feet (Boxes 3-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1909-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beacches, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Materials are arranged alphabetically by name of sender. A few of Beach's original designs for Christmas cards are filed with artwork (Series 7).
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of cards sent and received by Chester Beach. The earliest cards sent by Chester Beach featured his dog, whose image was soon replaced by those of the Beach children. A complete set of cards produced and sent by Beach are included in the album; those sent after his death reproduce the work of Mrs. Beach.

Christmas cards received by the Beach family are mostly artist-designed cards, many containing original artwork; in some instances, the sender is not the artist. Cards are from Ernest Blumenschein, Edward W. Greacen, Hazel Brill Jackson, Paul Jennewein, Bonnie Leibig, F. Luis Mora, Robert Nisbet, Ezra Winter, and other artists. One of Walker Hancock's cards features a photograph of his studio. A card from Anna Hyatt Huntington's card reproduces a painting of Beach's Sylvan at Brookgreen Gardens. Beach patron Mary Jester Allen's card includes a note mentioning the Frontier Art Colony she was establishing near Cody, Wyoming.