A.W. Elson & Co. photogravure of George de Forest Brush's "Indian and the Lily"
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 89-26
name: label: Printer
content: A.W. Elson & Co.
label: Artist
content: Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941
creator: label: Printer
content: A.W. Elson & Co.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: A.W. Elson & Co. was a Boston-based firm that made photogravure plates and carbon prints around 1900.

George de Forest Brush was an American painter most known for his romanticized images of NAtive American life and his Renaissance-style portraits. He painted "The Indian and the Lily" in 1887.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Print (photogravure)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated to the National Museum of American Art by Mrs. Charles Dipple in memory of Louis F. Bohne. Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives in 1989.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.89-26
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photogravures
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photogravures
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Image of George de Forest Brush's painting, "The Indian and the Lily," depicting Native American man with a white bird hanging on his back reaching toward a pond lily.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Smithsonian Institution Libraries holds trade catalogs from A.W. Elson & Co.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Archives of American Art holds the George de Forest Brush and Brush family papers, circa 1909-1993.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery hold Brush's paintings and drawings.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian American Art Museum Archives and Special Collections holds photographs of Brush and his paintings.