Correspondence to and from Brumbaugh, Thomas
name: label: Creator
content: Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-
label: Creator
content: Gibbs, Wolcott, 1902-1958
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content: Faulkner, Barry, 1881-1966
label: Creator
content: Hardin, Louis
label: Creator
content: Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003
label: Creator
content: Rosin, Harry
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content: Soyer, Isaac, 1902-1981
label: Names
content: Barnes Foundation
label: Names
content: Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852
label: Names
content: Rox, Henry
label: Names
content: Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
label: Names
content: White, Nelson C.
label: Collection Creator
content: Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Busts
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content: Runes
creator: label: Creator
content: Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-
label: Creator
content: Gibbs, Wolcott, 1902-1958
label: Creator
content: Faulkner, Barry, 1881-1966
label: Creator
content: Hardin, Louis
label: Creator
content: Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003
label: Creator
content: Rosin, Harry
label: Creator
content: Soyer, Isaac, 1902-1981
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content: The Brumbaugh Collection of Artist Letters
bioghist: label: Thomas Brumbaugh
content: Beginning in his youth Thomas Brumbaugh collected autographed correspondence. Mr. Brumbaugh's collecting instincts resulted in a unique collaborative collection providing a glimpse into the lives of a variety of 19th and 20th century American artists, such as Abbott Thayer. Brumbaugh was a professor of fine arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and author of many articles on American art and artists.
label: Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
content: Oliver Wolcott Gibbs was an American playwright and writer who lived in New York City. He wrote for The New Yorker and worked as a humorist and theatre critic. Gibbs was a direct descendent of President Martin Van Buren.
label: Barry Faulkner
content: Barry Faulkner was an American artist who studied with Abbott H. Thayer, George de Forest Brush, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Along with sculptor Sherry Edmundson Fry, Faulkner organized artists to train as camouflage specialists. Faulkner was born in New Hampshire, traveled to Europe as he studied art, and then returned to New York, where he began work as a mural artist. He completed "The Constitution" and "The Declaration" in 1936 for the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives.
label: Isaac Soyer
content: Isaac Soyer was a social realist painter from New York City who used working-class and unemployed people as the subjects in his paintings. He also painted portraits for friends, and used his friends and family as models for his work.
label: Louis Hardin
content: Louis Hardin, commonly known as "Moondog," was a blind American composer and poet who lived on the streets of New York for a large portion of his life. He wore clothes inspired by the Norse god Thor, giving him the epithet, "The Viking of 6th Avenue." Moondog was influenced by ambient noises in his environment, and Native American music.
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: Ibram Lassaw
content: Ibram Lassaw was an American sculptor in the 20th century. Born in Egypt to Russian parents, Lassaw grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was influenced by Alexander Calder and Wassily Kandinsky. Lassaw created open-space sculptural abstractions with metal, and helped abstract art grow in the United States.
label: Harry Rosin
content: Harry Rosin was an American sculptor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After working around the area following his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he traveled to Tahiti, where he married his wife. He is known for his iron sculptures.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1941 September 5-1969 October 17
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 3
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 this folder are letters between the collector, Thomas Brumbaugh, and various artists, including American playwright and writer Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, mural artist Barry Faulkner, and Louis Hardin.