Charles Coleman Sellers papers
name: label: Creator
content: Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-
label: Names
content: Detroit Institute of Arts
label: Names
content: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Peale family
label: Names
content: Benbridge, Henry, 1743-1812
label: Names
content: Claypoole, James, ca. 1743-1800
label: Names
content: Conarroe, George W., 1803-1882 or 4
label: Names
content: Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815
label: Names
content: Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824
label: Names
content: Eichholtz, Jacob, 1776-1842
label: Names
content: Field, Erastus Salisbury, 1805-1900
label: Names
content: Guy, Francis, 1760-1820
label: Names
content: Harrison, Birge, 1854-1929
label: Names
content: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
label: Names
content: McMurtrie, James, fl. 1843-1864
label: Names
content: Munkácsy, Mihály, 1844-1900
label: Names
content: Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788
label: Names
content: Roesen, Severin, ca. 1815-ca. 1872
label: Names
content: Rudy, Charles, 1904-
label: Names
content: Rush, William, 1756-1833
label: Names
content: Smibert, John, 1688-1751
label: Names
content: Vanderlyn, John, 1775-1852
label: Names
content: Wollaston, John, fl. 1736-1767
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Pennsylvania -- Carlisle
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- United States
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1987 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. The papers were donated to the American Philosophical Society by Sellers' estate.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian; Carlisle, Penn. Died 1980. Author of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN PORTRAITURE (1962) and MR PEALE'S MUSEUM: CHARLES WILSON PEALE AND THE FIRST POPULAR MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE AND ART (1980) and other works.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.2 Linear feet ((on 2 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1940]-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sellchar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3902-3903 available at Archives of American Art offices, the Free Library of Philadelphia, through interlibrary loan, and at the American Philosophical Society.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the American Philosophical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artists files containing photographs and correspondence on artists Henry Benbridge, James Claypoole, George Washington Conarroe, John Singleton Copley, Joseph Delaplaine, Jacob Eichholtz, Erastus Salisbury Field, Francis Guy, Lowell Birge Harrison, Robert Charles Leslie, James McMurtrie, Mihaly Munkacsy, Robert Edge Pine, Severin Roesen, Charles Rudy, William Rush, John Smibert, John Vanderlyn, and John Wollaston. Also included are correspondence files pertaining to artistic subjects with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peale family descendents (about Peale family artists), and others.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Charles Sellers papers also located at Dickinson College.