Anna Richards Brewster Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Brewster, Anna Richards, 1870-1952
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content: Anna Richards Brewster papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brewanna, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Artwork consists of pencil drawings by Anna Richards Brewster and an unsigned original print. Subjects include portraits of children, holiday cards, and illustrations for stories. Two sketchbooks contain pencil sketches of people, nautical scenes, boarder decorations, and animals. Some works may be by Anna Matlock Richards.

Biographical materials include awards, the marriage certificate of William Brewster and Anna Richards, an affidavit for a passport, and material on the will and estate of William Brewster. Also found are unlabeled photographs of a young woman, possibly Anna Richards Brewster, and a man.

Correspondence is with Brewster's parents Anna Matlock Richards and William Trost Richards, her husband William and brother-in-law Edwin, and other family members. Other letters are from institutions and colleagues regarding her career and that of her father. Also found are letters from President Dwight Eisenhower to William Brewster. In his letters, William Trost Richards discusses his lodgings in Germany, Anna's paintings, the publication of A New Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Brewster and written by her mother Anna Matlock Richards, and other matters.

A photo album includes family photos of Herbert Richards Brewster as a small child, likely taken in New York City.

Writings and notes contain lists of places and individuals to receive Brewster's books of published sketches, lists of works of art, price lists, and critiques of exhibitions of works by Brewster and her father. Works by Anna Richards Brewster include a work entitled "Arab Hunting Song." Also found are two notebooks with thoughts and poems by Anna Matlock Richards.

Printed materials include clippings and reproductions of works of art.

A scrapbook entitled Liber Pokeri was created for Brewster by her brother Herbert and her husband, and contains a drawing and clippings about poker.