Elizabeth Spalding lecture
name: label: Creator
content: Spalding, Elisabeth, 1868?-1954
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: McCarter, Henry, 1866-1942
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1985 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project.
creator: label: Creator
content: Spalding, Elisabeth, 1868?-1954
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y., and Denver, Colo. Spalding met art instructor and painter Henry McCarter when she studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ca. 1915-1918.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.1 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944 Nov. 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.spaleliz
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3658 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan, at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original in: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A 42 page lecture titled "A Portrait (of Henry McCarter)," delivered by Spalding at the Fortnightly Club in Denver. Spalding describes her life as a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' summer school, her studies, and memories of McCarter. Included are excerpts from McCarter's letters, notes taken in McCarter's class which describe his ideas about color and reconstruct his years in Paris from conversations. Also included are comments about the Albert Barnes Collection, and about the art establishment.