MS 7531 Mary Wright Gill drawings and illustrations
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7531
label: Variant Title
content: Miscellaneous drawings and illustrations
name: label: Creator
content: Gill, Mary W.
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Gill, Mary W.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Mary Wright Gill (1867-1929) was a scientific illustrator who worked as a contract artist for the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and other government agencies.  She worked primarily in pen and ink, graphite, and watercolor. Her illustrations were sometimes composites based on series of photographs. She also used the names Mary Irwin Wright and Mary Irwin Gill, and was briefly married to BAE illustrator and photographer De Lancey Walker Gill.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 82 Drawings
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890-1956
container: label: Container
content: Box 7531
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The collection was acquired by the Columbia Historical Society (now the DC History Center) circa 1915.  The collection was offered to the Smithsonian circa 1967 and placed in the National Museum of American Art/ National Portrait Gallery Library.  In 1993, the NMAA/NPG Library transferred the drawings to the Archives of American Art.  The collection was transferred from the Archives of American Art to the National Anthropological Archvies on June 4, 1993.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7531
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Watercolors
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolors
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of 82 drawings by Mary Wright Gill, including pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, watercolors, printed illustrations, and page proofs. Many of the drawings were made for the Bureau of American Ethnology.  

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds additional drawings and illustrations by Mary Wright Gill in MS 4108, MS 4949, MS 4950, and Photo Lot 133.