Mary Cassatt collection
name: label: Creator
content: Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926
label: Names
content: Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942
label: Names
content: Palmer, Potter, Mrs
label: Names
content: Riddle, Theodate Pope, 1867-1946
label: Names
content: Sweet, Frederick A. (Frederick Arnold), 1903-1984
label: Names
content: Tyson, Carroll Sargent, 1878-1956
label: Names
content: Vollard, Ambroise, 1867-1939
label: Names
content: Webb, Electra Havemeyer
label: Names
content: Whittemore, Harris
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- France -- Paris
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- France -- Paris
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming in 1955 by Frederick Sweet, author of the exhibition catalog Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt (1954) and Miss Mary Cassatt, Impressionist From Pennsylvania (1966). The owners of the letters at the time of microfilming are listed on the microfilm and the inventory. Letters and the typescript family history filmed on CI frames 1-869 were subsequently donated by their owner Mrs. John B. Thayer of Rosemont, Pa. to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, and letters from Cassatt to her nephew Robert Kelso Cassatt that were lent by Mr. Alexander Cassatt, Robert's brother in 1955, were subsequently donated to the Archives of American Art in 1986 by Alexander's son, also named Alexander Cassatt (microfilm reel 3684).
creator: label: Creator
content: Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1871-1955
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cassmary
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 reel C1 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel C1 Frames 1-869, Letters from Cassatt's mother, father, brothers; and Cassatt's letters to her family: and Cassatt's will, all lent for microfilming by Mrs. John B. Thayer, Rosemont, Pa. Originals in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel C1 frames 1188-1410, letters from Cassatt to her nephew Robert Kelso Cassatt and his wife Minnie Drexel Fell Cassatt, lent for microfilming by her great-nephew Alexander: Originals in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and are cataloged separately.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Finding aid available at Archives of American Art offices. Microfilm inventory available at all Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters to Cassatt, from Cassatt, and from and to Cassatt's family and others; a typescript of a family history written by Cassatt's father, and other genealogical and biographical material; and pages from Paris Salon exhibition catalogs of 1872-1876 referencing Cassatt. The materials were primarily in the possession of Art Institute of Chicago curator Frederick Sweet at the time of microfilming; Sweet coordinated the microfilm project with the then newly formed Archives of American Art. The microfilm also identifies the owner at the time of microfilming (1955) and some of Sweet's correspondence concerning permission to microfilm from the various owners.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Among the recipients of letters from Cassatt are Cecilia Beaux, Electra Havemeyer Webb, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Theodate Pope, Mary Gardner Smith, Carroll S. Tyson, Ambroise Vollard, Harris Whittemore, her nephew Robert Kelso Cassatt and his wife Minnie Drexel Fell Cassatt; her sister-in-law Jennie (Mrs. J. Gardner Cassatt); and others. [Microfilm label: Frederick A. Sweet papers]