Anne Eisner Putnam papers
name: label: Creator
content: Putnam, Anne Eisner
label: Names
content: Putnam, Patrick Tracy Lowell, 1903 or 4-1953
place: label: Place
content: Africa, Central -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: William J. Eisner, the father of Anne Eisner, donated her papers to the Archives of American Art in 1970.
creator: label: Creator
content: Putnam, Anne Eisner
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anne Eisner Putnam papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The scattered papers of painter Anne Eisner Putnam consist of 40 items and date from 1936 to 1968. Found is an application for Who's Who of American Women,  and two letters concerning her book and artwork. Printed material includes clippings (1936-1965) about exhibitions of her artwork in New York, her experiences in Africa, press releases, and her obituary. Photographs are of Putnam's paintings; of Putnam at "Camp Putnam" in the Ituri Rainforest in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) with members of one of the Congo Pygmy tribes; a snapshot of Putnam; and a portrait of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anne Eisner Putnam (1911-1967) was an abstract painter, a landscape painter, a watercolorist, a printer, and a writer. Additionally, she and her husband were collectors of African art. 

Putnam attended the Art Students League and was the secretary for the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. She married anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam and together they moved to Africa. From 1945 to 1953, Putnam lived in a Pygmy village in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the Ituri Rainforest, and devoted her painting and writing talents to portraying the life of the Congo Pygmies and African flora and fauna. Her collection of African art was exhibited in 1967 at the Museum of Natural History, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 40 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.putnanne
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reels N70-10 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The scattered papers of painter Anne Eisner Putnam consist of 40 items and date from 1936 to 1968. Found is an application for Who's Who of American Women,  and two letters concerning her book and artwork. Printed material includes clippings (1936-1965) about exhibitions of her artwork in New York, her experiences in Africa, press releases, and her obituary. Photographs are of Eisners' paintings; of Putnam at "Camp Putnam" in the Ituri Rainforest in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) with members of one of the Congo Pygmy tribes; a snapshot of Putnam; and a portrait of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming on reel N70-10 including correspondence, clippings, photographs and sketchbooks primarily relating to her life in the Belgian Congo among Pygmies with her husband, anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam. Loaned materials were returned to the donor and are not described in the collection container inventory.