Biographical Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Beal, Gifford, 1879-1956
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content: Gifford Beal sketches, sketchbooks, and papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Boxes 1 and 5, OV 10)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-1909, 1942, 1953
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bealgiff, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains personal artifacts and documents of Gifford and Maud Beal, including certificates, memorabilia, and a journal. 

 Membership Certificates include a 1953 American Watercolor Society membership and a National Academy of Design membership from 1914, re-issued in 1942. Maud Beal's travel diary was kept during their 1908 honeymoon to Norway and the British Isles, a December, 1908 trip to Washington, DC, and a 1909 sketching trip to Cold Spring, NY. The journal is illustrated with picture postcards and contains scattered references to Beal's sketching excursions.