Correspondence, Palmer, Erastus - Widener, P.A.B
name: label: Creator
content: Speicher, Eugene Edward, 1883-1962
label: Creator
content: Palmer, Erastus Dow, 1817-1904
label: Creator
content: Reid, Robert, 1862-1929
label: Creator
content: Robus, Hugo, 1885-1964
label: Creator
content: Rossiter, Thomas Prichard, 1818-1871
label: Creator
content: Weber, Max, 1881-1961
label: Creator
content: Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
label: Creator
content: Widener, P. A. B. (Peter Arrell Brown), 1834-1915
label: Names
content: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
label: Names
content: United States. National Park Service
label: Names
content: Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886
label: Names
content: Kensett, John Frederick, 1816-1872
label: Collection Creator
content: Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
creator: label: Creator
content: Speicher, Eugene Edward, 1883-1962
label: Creator
content: Palmer, Erastus Dow, 1817-1904
label: Creator
content: Reid, Robert, 1862-1929
label: Creator
content: Robus, Hugo, 1885-1964
label: Creator
content: Rossiter, Thomas Prichard, 1818-1871
label: Creator
content: Weber, Max, 1881-1961
label: Creator
content: Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
label: Creator
content: Widener, P. A. B. (Peter Arrell Brown), 1834-1915
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content: The Brumbaugh Collection of Artist Letters
bioghist: label: Erastus D. Palmer
content: Erastus D. Palmer was an American sculptor. He sculpted portrait busts and religious bas-reliefs in a style that combined neoclassical idealism and realism. His most famous sculpture is "The White Captive," which depicts a young girl who has been captured by Native Americans.
label: Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
content: Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes was an American architect born into the wealthy Phelps Stokes family. He designed St-Paul's Chapel at Columbia University and some residential buildings in New York. Phelps Stokes also published The Iconography of Manhattan Island, a six volume work about New York City. He commissioned John Singer Sargent to paint a portrait with himself and his wife, Edith née Minturn.
label: Robert Reid
content: Robert Reid was an American artist who studied in New England and Paris. He began by painting French peasants, but became known for his murals and stained glass designs. Some of his work can be found in the Congressional Library in Washington, D.C.
label: Hugo Robus
content: Hugo Robus was an American painter and sculpture from Ohio. He studied in the United States and Paris, and then taught at the Modern Art School in New York. He worked in a very lyrical cubist style, usually with people as his subject.
label: Thomas Prichard Rossiter
content: Thomas Prichard Rossiter was an American painter born in New Haven, Connecticut. He traveled throughout Europe, painting portraits along the way, and he kept a studio in Paris. He painted mostly portraits, but also completed a series of paintings depicting the life of Christ.
label: John Frederick Kensett
content: John Frederick Kensett was an American artist and engraver who worked in New Haven, Connecticut, and New York City.
label: Henry Rox
content: Henry Rox was a German artist who studied in Berlin and Paris before settling in the United States in 1938, where he taught at many universities, including Mount Holyoke College. He is known for fruit and vegetable photo-sculptures.
label: Eugene Speicher
content: Eugene Speicher was an American realist painter from Buffalo, New York. He attended the Art Students League, and then studied in Europe for a few years. He was considered a leading portrait artist in America at the time, favoring female subjects. Speicher won numerous awards for his work, and was appointed Director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1945.
label: Max Weber
content: Max Weber was a Russian-born Jewish-American cubist. He studied with Matisse, Rousseau, and Picasso in Paris. Weber helped introduce cubism to America.
label: John Greenleaf Whittier
content: John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet. Whittier was an ardent abolitionist who was extremely influenced by the doctrines of humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility found in Quakerism. He was a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and worked as a lobbyist. He is remembered today for his patriotic poetry, and his poems that were later turned into hymns.
label: Paul Hayne
content: Paul Hayne was an American poet who Whittier references in his letter to the publishers Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Hayne had just died, and his son, W.H. Hayne, wanted to edit his later poems for publication.
label: P.A.B. Widener
content: Widener (1834-1915) was an American businessman from Pennsylvania. During the Civil War, he supplied meat to the Union Army. By investing in trolley cars and public transit services, Widener became quite successful and wealthy. He was an avid art collector whose collection included works by Rembrandt, Edouard Manet, and Auguste Renoir. He is considered one of the top 100 wealthiest Americans of all time.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1818 May 7-1947 May 21
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Correspondence
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 19th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters written and recieved by prominent figures in 19th and 20th century American art. Included in the folder are letters by Robert Reid, Hugo Robus, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Eugene Speicher, John Greenleaf Whittier and Peter A.B. Widener.