American Academy of Arts and Letters records
name: label: Creator
content: American Academy of Arts and Letters
label: Names
content: Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953
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content: Bellows, George, 1882-1925
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content: Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936
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content: Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941
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content: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
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content: Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948
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content: Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924
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content: Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935
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content: Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937
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content: Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912
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content: Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
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content: Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923
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content: Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
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content: Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919
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content: Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944
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content: Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent to the Archives of American Art for microfilming in 1965. This is a collection of miscellaneous papers representing a gathering over the years of unsolicited documentary resources on American art given or addressed to the Academy.
creator: label: Creator
content: American Academy of Arts and Letters
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content: American Academy of Arts and Letters records
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honor society in New York comprised of artists, writers, architects, and composers. The Academy was created in 1904 by members of the National Institute of Arts and modeled on the Académie française. The Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and letters merged on December 30, 1976.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- New York (State)
label: Function
content: Learned institutions and societies -- United States
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Microfilm reels (800 items on 5 microfilm reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1864-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ameracaa2
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 NAA 1 through NAA 5 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The microfilmed American Academy of Arts and Letters records consist of artists' papers containing correspondence, notes, biographical material, exhibition catalogs, and other published material. Included is a volume of notes, drawings, and calculations made by George Bellows for a study of Jay Hambidge's theory of Dynamic Symmetry, as well as correspondence and biographical and critical material on George de Forest Brush, Childe Hassam, Francis D. Millet, Joseph Pennell, Elihu Vedder, and J. Q. A. Ward. The Hassam papers include letters from John Taylor arms, E. H. Blashfield, William Merritt Chase, Royal Cortissoz, J. Alden Weir, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. All groups contain official Academy correspondence from its secretary Robert Underwood Johnson.