La Napoule Art Foundation records relating to Henry Clews
odd: label: Other Title
content: Marie Elsie Whelan Clews papers (microfilm title)
name: label: Creator
content: La Napoule Art Foundation, Henry Clews Memorial
label: Names
content: La Napoule Art Foundation, Henry Clews Memorial
label: Names
content: Clews, Henry, 1876-1937
label: Names
content: Clews, Marie Elsie Whelan, d. 1959
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architects
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Arts -- Endowments
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1970 and 1971 by the La Napoule Art Foundation through Mrs. David Colton. The video was received via Mrs. Barbara Bratone, executive director of the Foundation, 1988.
creator: label: Creator
content: La Napoule Art Foundation, Henry Clews Memorial
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Clews was a sculptor and painter, who bought Chateau de la Napoule, near Cannes, France in 1919. The Chateau housed his sculpture and other exhibits, and was endowed by Mrs. Clews to continue as the Henry Clews Memorial, a cultural arts center, and maintained by the La Napoule Art Foundation, a non-profit organization chartered by the State of New York.
function: label: Function
content: Art centers -- France
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 45 Items ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Addition, videotape)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lanaartf
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2802 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Charter is a photocopy.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers concerning the sculptor Henry Clews and his wife, the architect Marie Clews, and their rebuilding of Chateau de la Napoule.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2802: Papers of Marie Elsie Whelan Clews, including a letter from her to Mr. MacIlravy, June 19, 1948; a handwritten address delivered by her, May 1952; a typescript of an address delivered by Clews before the Colony Club of New York, March 15, 1955; and a clipping. [Microfilmed target reads Marie Clews papers.]
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Postcards; 2 exhibition catalogs, from Clews' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1939, and from Musée Jaquemart-André, 1959; publications, and clippings about Clews and his work, including an essay about Clews' Chateau de la Napoule, and a photocopy of the charter of Le Chateau la Napoule Art Foundation; and ca. 35 photographs of Clews, his chateau, and his art work.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Video of a lecture on Clews (?) delivered by Sigmund Ables at Brookgreen Gardens, S.C., May 1987.