7. Manuscript Collections

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These three scrapbooks document the Museum of Living Art founded by the collector and art historian Albert Eugene Gallatin. The scrapbooks contain newspaper and magazine clippings, press releases and announcements of exhibitions, acquisitions and new publications. The later addition of material from Gallatin's grand-nephew, William Nichols, contains documents and photographs to do with Gallatin's collecting and his relationship with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Art historian Anne Gregory Terhune created these records in her research of Irish-American artist Thomas Hovenden.

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This collection consists of four scrapbooks that reflect some of Arthur Edwin Bye's varied interests and professional practices as well as two samples of his writings on art.

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These papers document Calvin Hathaway's museum work and time spent in the Army, where he was in the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Division.

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This collection consists primarily of the materials Carl Zigrosser began to compile in 1942 about American artists, which he called the Archives of American Art.

Abstract Through his writings and the exhibitions he curated, Christian Brinton (1870-1942) promoted modern and contemporary art, particularly from areas outside of the traditional western European school, and has been credited with introducing Nordic, Slavic and Teutonic modernism to America. This collection consists of material compiled by Brinton pertaining to multiple contemporary artists, with the most material on the Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga, the Russian sculptor Prince Paul Troubetzkoy,...

Abstract Philadelphia-area artist, teacher and collector Earl Horter (1881-1940) was one of the city's most influential practitioners and promoters of modern art. This collection consists primarily of photographs, clippings, and exhibition catalogues and checklists pertaining to Horter during his lifetime, as well as some correspondence, writings and ephemera. Several items, particularly newsclippings of posthumous retrospective exhibitions are also included as well as a death mask and hand of the...

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This collection contains a small selection of writings and research by Edwin AtLee Barber.

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This collection holds Elinor Noteboom's research and writing on screen printing.

Abstract The Frances Lichten Research Collection covers a broad range of styles and subjects within the broad category of "decorative arts." Lichten's work as a Research Associate at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was concentrated on Pennsylvania German folk art, the foundation of which was Ms. Lichten's work on the WPA Index of American Design project in the 1930s. This series contains many photographs and drawings, as well as magazine and newspaper clippings. Frances Lichten published numerous...