Charles Erskine Scott Wood papers relating to Albert Pinkham Ryder
name: label: Creator
content: Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944
label: Names
content: Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1991 by Katherine Caldwell, Wood's stepdaughter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Wood was a painter, lawyer, and collector. He owned work by his friend Albert Pinkham Ryder.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1899-1918
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.woodcesp
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An unfinished letter to Wood from Albert Pinkham Ryder, Oct. 2, 1899, in which Ryder comments on his painting, and updates Wood of his progress. In it he writes "an ounce of poetry added to a picture is worth many pounds of paint." Enclosed with the letter is a note to Wood "This is a letter I think he wrote you and forgot to mail years ago," presumably written by Louise Fitzpatrick. Also included is a clipping from THE SUN regarding a Ryder memorial exhibition, March 17, 1918, annotated "compliments of W.J. McGurie."