Correspondence, Andrews, Ambrose - Harding, Chester
name: label: Creator
content: Beal, Gifford, 1879-1956
label: Creator
content: Andrews, Ambrose, 1805-1859
label: Creator
content: Bates, Edward, 1793-1869
label: Creator
content: Bohrod, Aaron
label: Creator
content: Cloar, Carroll
label: Creator
content: Colman, Samuel, 1832-1920
label: Creator
content: Bacon, Josephine Daskam, 1876-1961
label: Creator
content: Rogers, Daniel Denison, 1751-1825
label: Creator
content: Elliot, William Parker
label: Creator
content: Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941
label: Creator
content: Harding, Chester, 1792-1866
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Beach, Ella
label: Names
content: Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
label: Names
content: Town, Ithiel, 1784-1844
label: Names
content: Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960
label: Collection Creator
content: Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-
place: label: Place
content: New York (N.Y.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Real property
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content: Drawing
creator: label: Creator
content: Beal, Gifford, 1879-1956
label: Creator
content: Andrews, Ambrose, 1805-1859
label: Creator
content: Bates, Edward, 1793-1869
label: Creator
content: Bohrod, Aaron
label: Creator
content: Cloar, Carroll
label: Creator
content: Colman, Samuel, 1832-1920
label: Creator
content: Bacon, Josephine Daskam, 1876-1961
label: Creator
content: Rogers, Daniel Denison, 1751-1825
label: Creator
content: Elliot, William Parker
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content: Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941
label: Creator
content: Harding, Chester, 1792-1866
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content: The Brumbaugh Collection of Artist Letters
bioghist: label: Ambrose Andrews
content: Ambrose Andrews was a portrait, miniature, and landscape portrait who worked throughout New England and the United States. He was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1801 and studied at the National Academy of Design. He exhibited paintings at many different institutions, including his portraits of Henry Clay and Sam Houston. Andrews's work is now in the New York Historical Society.
label: Edward Bates
content: Edward Bates was a representative for Missouri in the mid-1800s. He served in the War of 1812 as a sergeant in a volunteer brigade, studied and practiced law, attended the state constitutional convention, was district attorney from 1821 to 1826, and was a member of the state senate. He declined to serve as Secretary of War for President Fillmore, but was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Lincoln, and served from March 5, 1861 to September 1864. Bates died on March 25, 1869.
label: Admiral Charles Henry Davis
content: Admiral Charles Henry Davis was born on January 16, 1807, and served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation between 1862 and 1865. He then served as Superintendent of the Naval Observatory. He had three ships named after him.
label: Forbes Watson
content: Forbes Watson was an art critic, lecturer, and administrator in New York City in the early 20th century. He served as art critic for the New York Evening Post. In 1933 he was appointed Technical Director of the first New Deal art program, the Public Works of Art Project, which provided work for artists in the decoration of non-federal buildings. He later worked at the Treasury Department of Painting and Sculpture, which administered funding for decorating federal buildings. Watson finally served in the Treasury Department's War Finance Division, where he organized exhibitions and posters by combat artists to promote the sale of war bonds. Forbes Watson's papers are held in the Archives of American Art.
label: Gifford Beal
content: Gifford Beal was an American artist who worked with many organizations for the advancements of the arts, finding inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including holiday scenes, every-day life, and landscapes. Beal loved spontaneity and was influenced by French Impressionists. He was commissioned by the government to paint two murals: one on the post office in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and one in the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C. Beal's papers are held in the Archives of American Art.
label: Aaron Bohrod
content: Aaron Bohrod was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 21, 1907, where he studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago. He worked for a while in the advertising art department at the Fair Department Store in Chicago, but eventually moved to New York City, where he joined the Art Students League. He died on April 3, 1992. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist for the United States Army Corps of Engineer and Life magazine in Europe.
label: Carroll Cloar
content: Carroll Cloar was an American realist and surrealist who lived from 1913 to 1993. He grew up in Arkansas, but later moved to Tennessee, travelled Europe, and joined the Art Students League in New York City. During World War II, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, and although he did complete some artwork during this period, none of it survives. Cloar then settled in Memphis. One of his paintings was chosen to commemorate President Clinton's inauguration in 1993. Cloar died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 10, 1993, after a long battle with cancer.
label: Samuel Colman
content: Samuel Colman was an American painter who belonged to the Hudson River School, and is most well-remembered for his landscapes. He was born in Portland, Maine, in 1832, and began exhibiting at the young age of 18. At 27 he was elected an associate of the National Academy, and later studied abroad in Paris and Spain. He was made a full Academician upon his return to the United States, and both founded and served as the first president of the American Water-color Society. He continued to both study in Europe and exhibit artwork, moving from New York to Rhode Island. Colman is represented in the metropolitan Museum, Chicago Art Institute, and many other collections. He died in New York City in 1920.
label: Josephine Daskam Bacon
content: Josephine Daskam Bacon was an American writer known for writing about women's issues and using female protagonists. She wrote a series of juvenile mysteries and helped pioneer the Girl Scouts movement, writing a guidebook for the organization.
label: Daniel Danielson Rogers
content: Daniel Denison Rogers is perhaps most widely remembered for the painting that John Singleton Copley completed of his wife, Abigail Bromfield.
label: Ithiel Town
content: Ithiel Town was an American architect and civil engineer who lived from October 3, 1784 to June 13, 1844. He worked in the Federal and revivalist Greek and Gothic styles, and was widely copied. He was born in Connecticut, and built both Center Church and Trinity Church in New Haven. Town patented a wooden lattice truss bridge, which made him quite wealthy. He formed a professional architecture firm with Alexander Jackson Davis. One of Town's most amazing feats was the construction of the Potomac Aqueduct in Washington, D.C., which allowed fully loaded canal boats to cross the Potomac River.
label: William Parker Elliot
content: William Parker Elliot designed the old U.S. Patent Office, a very important Greek Revival building, with Ithiel Town.
label: George de Forest Brush
content: George de Forest Brush was an American painter who grew up in Connecticut and is typified by his paintings and drawings of Native Americans. Even after moving from Wyoming, where he met the Native Americans, back to the East, Brush still occasionally enjoyed living in a teepee. Brush's artistic style later developed into Renaissance-inspired portraits. He was friends with Abbott H. Thayer, and along with Brush's wife, Mary, and son, Gerome, they all contributed to early camouflage designs. Brush died in New Hampshire in 1941.
label: Chester Harding
content: Chester Harding was an American portrait painter born in Massachusetts in 1792. He worked in many different professions, finally becoming a self-taught itinerant portrait painter. Harding settled in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, in a building that now houses the Boston Bar Association (the Chester Harding House, a Historic National Landmark). He studied at the Philadelphia School of Design, later setting up a studio in London, where he befriended and painted for royalty and nobility. Harding finally returned to Boston, where he died in 1866.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1779 August 5-1981 July 27
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lithographs
label: Type
content: Correspondence
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lithographs -- 1950-2000
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 Ambrose Andrews, Edward Bates, Gifford Beal, Aaron Bohrod, Carroll Clear, Samuel Colman, Josephine Daskam, Daniel Denison Rogers, William Elliot, George de Forest Brush, and Chester Harding. The letters' subjects cover a wide range of topics, including the buying and selling of art, invitations to dinner, and general correspondence.