Francis W. Robinson papers
odd: label: Other Title
content: Thomas Mickell Burnham papers (microfilm title reel 2787).
name: label: Creator
content: Robinson, Francis W. (Francis Waring), 1907-1985
label: Names
content: Burnham, Thomas Mickell, 1818-1866
label: Names
content: Jones, Thomas Dow, 1811-1881
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters
label: Occupation
content: Architects
label: Occupation
content: Miniature painters
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Occupation
content: Museum curators -- Michigan -- Detroit
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Michigan -- Detroit
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels 511-514 lent for microfilming by Robinson, 1973. Material on reel 2787, donor and date unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Robinson, Francis W. (Francis Waring), 1907-1985
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Francis W. Robinson (1907-1985) was a museum curator in Detroit, Michigan. Worked at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1939-1972.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 50 Items (ca. 50 items; loan: 6 reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.robifran
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 511-514, 2787, and 3471 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 511-514: Originals returned to Francis W. Robinson after microfilming.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Finding aid listing artists' files available on microfilm reel 511.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Research material, correspondence, notes, and biographical information.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Material collected by Robinson on 150 American artists. Also included are material on Detroit artists prior to 1900, notes on architects, miniaturists, portrait painting and sculpture in America, and art in Detroit.
label: Scope and Contents
content: A description prepared by Robinson in 1947 of Thomas Mickell Burnham's painting "The First State Election of Michigan"; and a letter from Robinson to Mary Ann Fluesmeier, April 28, 1954, containing information on Burnham.
label: Scope and Contents
content: A letter from Robinson to Robert Price, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio. Robinson supplies biographical information on Thomas David Jones from published sources and from memory; he also discusses Jones's bust of Lewis Cass.
label: Scope and Contents
content: A photograph of Clement J. Barnhorn, taken by Foyster, was previously microfilmed under Photos of Artists I and has subsequently been scanned and returned to the Robinson papers.
label: Scope and Contents
content: A letter from Louise Billyard to Robinson, 1959, in which she encloses four handwritten pages written by a friend, Isabel Howland, who describes going to tea with Professor Bernard Berenson at the Villa i Tatti in Florence in 1937. Howland was a student at Cornell University.