MS 4108 Mary Wright Gill California Basin paintings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: MS 4108
name: label: Creator
content: Gill, Mary W.
place: label: Place
content: North America
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The paintings were found in the John P. Harrington papers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gill, Mary W.
culture: label: Culture
content: Mission
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: 9 Paintings (visual works) (20 x 14.75 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 4108
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4108
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Paintings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Paintings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of nine (9) paintings by Mary Wright Gill.  The paintings were probably created to illustrate a Bureau of American Ethnology publication, but no published versions of the paintings have been identified.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds additional drawings and illustrations by Mary Wright Gill in  MS 4949, MS 4950, MS 7531 and Photo Lot 133.