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Barker, Virgil, 1890-

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Barker, Virgil, 1930

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains Goodrich's general correspondence related to his studies of Thomas Eakins. The bulk of the material is correspondence with other scholars of Eakins, including Maria Chamberlin-Hellman, Gordon Hendricks, William Innis Homer, Elizabeth Johns, Margaret McHenry, and Elizabeth Milroy. Files with these individuals document the exchange of ideas and information regarding Eakins and his work, as well as the part Goodrich played in the production of publications and exhibitions...
Dates: 1930

Barker, Virgil. "Imagination in Thomas Eakins." Parnassus 11, no. 7 (1939), November 1939

 File — Box: 18, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Periodical writings about Thomas Eakins's life and work are the major elements of this subseries. In addition to Alan Burroughs's 1924 catalog for the Arts magazine, which Goodrich often referenced in his research of Eakins, there are several writings each by noted Eakins scholars, Gordon Hendricks and William Inness Homer. Another contributing writer to this subseries is a student of Eakins, Charles Bregler, who later compiled a major collection of his teacher's works....
Dates: November 1939