Richard Field Maynard papers
name: label: Creator
content: Maynard, Richard Field, 1875-1964
label: Names
content: Tenth Street Studio Building (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Bittinger, Charles, 1879-1970
label: Names
content: Chadwick, Helen
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content: Coburn, Charles Douville
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content: Cole, Alphaeus Philemon, 1876-1988
label: Names
content: Curran, Charles C. (Charles Courtney), 1861-1942
label: Names
content: Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933
label: Names
content: MacKenna, Kenneth, 1899-1962
label: Names
content: Maynard, Margaret Field
label: Names
content: Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940
label: Names
content: Morse, Beryl
label: Names
content: Rush, Olive, 1873-1966
label: Names
content: Vonnoh, Bessie Potter, 1872-1955
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content: Wiles, Gladys Lee
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content: Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948
topic: label: Occupation
content: Inventors
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Sylvia Maynard, daughter of Richard Field Maynard, 1981. An additional 0.2 ft. was received from Maynard via Julie Aronson, who had used the papers in her research on Bessie Potter Vonnoh.
creator: label: Creator
content: Maynard, Richard Field, 1875-1964
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor. Maynard was a resident and Treasurer of the Tenth Street Studio Building, N.Y.C.
function: label: Function
content: Artists' studios -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet
label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Addition)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1895-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.maynrich
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: Six diaries and all letters from Maynard to his parents through 1918 are photocopies.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Six diaries and all letters from Maynard to his parents through 1918: Originals returned to Sylvia Maynard.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material, diaries, correspondence, notes, writings, business records, sketches, scrapbook, clippings, and miscellaneous material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, undated and 1906-1979, is mainly letters from Maynard to his parents; also includes letters from Charles Bittinger, Alphaeus P. Cole, Olive Rush, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, and Irving R. Wiles.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Notes and writings, are by Maynard and by his daughter, Sylvia. Business records, 1902-1937, include leases, receipts, miscellaneous financial records, and material relating to his patents.
label: Scope and Contents
content: There are fifty-six sketches, undated and 1902-1915, including a floorplan of Maynard's studio in 1902; a scrapbook, 1895-1898, containing clippings, letters, and 2 sketches, mainly relating to the HARVARD LAMPOON; clippings, 1898-1976; exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1905-1917, miscellaneous printed material, undated and 1898-1901; biographical material, undated and 1938; 7 diaries kept by Maynard, 1888-1899 and 1960; and one, 1897, by Margaret Field Maynard.
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content: Photographs, undated and 1914-1979, are of Maynard, of a trip to Tucson, 1914, of a play entitled "Puppets of Fate", showing F. Luis Mora, Charles C. Curran, Charles Coburn, Kenneth MacKenna (aka Leo Mielziner), and Mr. Hubbell in costume. Also included are photographs of Beryl Morse, Gladys Lee Wiles, Helen Chadwick, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Alphaeus P. Cole in 1979, and a model demonstrating Maynard's invention: a chair which rolls on tracks perpendicular to the easel to facilitate the artist's movement while painting.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Correspondence between Maynard and his father, Isaac N. Maynard, 1931-1933; letters to Maynard and others from his wife Lorraine, 1933; and a few letters to Richard and Lorraine Maynard from their twelve-year-old daughter, Sylvia, 1933 [All letters from Richard and Lorraine Maynard are carbon copies.] Also included are letters to the Richard and Lorraine Maynard from Bessie Potter Vonnoh, writings by Lorraine Maynard, undated, and photographs of Lorraine and Sylvia Maynard, and of Vonnoh, c. 1923.