Augustus Saint-Gaudens letters
name: label: Creator
content: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
label: Names
content: Flannagan, John Bernard, 1895?-1942
label: Names
content: Levy, Florence N. (Florence Nightingale), 1870-1947
label: Names
content: Saint-Gaudens, Augusta Homer, d. 1926
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art patrons -- New York (State)
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Vermont -- Windsor
label: Topic
content: Art patronage
label: Topic
content: Art -- Commissioning
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 3621 lent for microfilming by S. Lane Faison, Director of the Williams College Museum of Art. Levy letters on reel D10 purchased with funds given by Charles Hamilton 1956. Other letters on reel D10 donated by Charles E. Feinberg, an active donor and friend of AAA.
creator: label: Creator
content: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sculptor; Windsor, Vt. Mrs. Frederick Thompson, the recipient of these letters, employed Saint-Gaudens to make a portrait medallion of her husband. The work is now in St. Anthony Hall, a fraternity house at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. Saint-Gaudens died a year after completing this.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1905-1906
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sainaugu
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels D10 and 3621 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Reel 3621: Items are photocopies.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 3621: Originals are in the possession of the Williams College Museum of Art.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence and letters from Saint-Gaudens.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3621: aFive letters and a receipt from Mr. and Mrs. Saint-Gaudens in Windsor, Vt. to Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson in Canandaigua, N.Y, discussing employing Saint-Gaudens's student, John Flanagan, to obtain for Mrs. Thompson a copy of the "Discobolus" in the Louvre and the bust Saint-Gaudens is making of Mr. Thompson. The receipt is for the final payment for the bust. One letter is from Mrs. Saint Gaudens explaining that they will be unable to visit the Thompsons since Mr. Saint-Gaudens is unable to travel.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL D10: Three letters from Saint-Gaudens to Mr. Keep, June 6, 1891, asking him to visit the studio; to Florence Levy, June 29, 1901 and April 30, 1906, concerning photographs she requested of a portrait of Saint-Gaudens's son by John Singer Sargent; and to an unidentified individual, November 20, 1891.