WASHINGTON D.C.
American Academy in Rome records, 1897-1974. ( 62.5 linear ft.) New York office records: 60.0 linear ft. Rome office records: 2.5 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 5 reels)Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. facility. New York Office records: Authorization to publish must be obtained from: President, American Adademy in Rome, 41 East 65th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021. Art school; Rome, Italy. Organized in 1894 as the American School of Architecture in Rome. In 1897 it was dissolved and its assets turned over to the new American Adademy in Rome, not a traditional school, but a place where architects, painters and sculptors could work in close association. Primarily records of the Academy's New York office (60 ft.), where the president, secretary, treasurer, trustees and special committees functioned, funds raised, fellows chosen, and other functions performed. Also included are records of the Rome office, 1912-1931 (2 ft.), consisting mainly of administrative correspondence of Gorham Stevens, the Director of the School of Fine Art, and Stevens' personal papers (0.5 ft.).
Architecture -- Study and teaching, Classical, Art, Art schools -- Italy -- Rome, Photographs. aat
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and G Sts. NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097253-A
Florence Millner Arnold papers, 1900-1994. ( 3.0 linear ft.) (partially microfilmed on 2 reels)
Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. facility. Serigrapher, painter; Fullerton, Calif. Died 1994. Arnold turned to painting and printmaking after 3 decades of teaching music. Her work is in the Hard-Edge tradition. Biographical documents, correspondence, notes, scattered business records, art work, photographs, video interviews, and printed material. Correspondence, photographs, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and clippings. Several printed items relating to Arnold's exhibitions in Italy are in Italian. 35mm microfilm reels 3979-3980 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Videos and material on reels 3979-80.
Women artists -- California. Art -- Exhibitions--Italy--Rome, Interviews, Video recordings, Preliminary drawings, Sketches, Sketchbooks, Exhibition catalogs, Photographs, Slides, Painters-California, Serigraphers -California, Printmakers -California
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and G Sts. NW, NMAA-PG Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097279-A
Thomas Crawford papers, 1845-1857 1852-1857 (bulk dates). ( 0.2 linear ft) (on 2 microfilm reels)
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Sculptor; Rome, Italy. Correspondence, 1845-1856; and typescripts. include much material about Crawford's activities and about the American colony of artists in Italy in the 1850's.
Gale, Robert L., 1919-, Expatriate artists-Italy, Artists -United States,Sculptors -Italy, Sculptors
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and F Sts. NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097467-A
George Loring Brown sketchbook and engravings and Harriet Pease Brown diary, 1836-1841. (3 items.)
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Landscape, portrait, and miniature painter, lithographer, etcher, and wood engraver; Mass. A book of pencil and watercolor sketches by George Loring Brown; a diary kept by Mrs. Brown while traveling in Italy with her husband in 1840-1841.
Artists -- Italy -- Diaries, Diaries, Art works. local, Sketchbooks, Prints, Printmakers, Wood engravers
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and F Sts., NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097590-A
Henry Kirke Brown papers, 1836-1893. (1.0 linear ft.) (on 2 microfilm reels)
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Sculptor and portrait painter; born in Leyden, Mass. Letters to his family from Rome and Florence allude to his awe of Italy's monuments.
Sculpture, Modern -19th c., Art --Study and teaching, Sculptors, Painters
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and F Sts., NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097591-A
Chauncey Bradley Ives letters, 1838-1883 [and undated]. 7 items (filmed on partial microfilm reel).
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Ives was an American sculptor in Rome. All items are photocopies.
Expatriate artists -- Italy -- Rome, Sculptors.
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and G Sts. NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097626-A
John Cranch papers, 1831-1892. 8 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels)
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Portrait painter; Washington, D.C. and Urbana, Ohio.
A journal; watercolor and pencil sketches; and a photograph. REEL 3569: A handwritten copy, ca. 1892, of a journal kept by John Cranch from 1831 to 1833 while studying in Italy. The journal contains descriptions of Italian art, architecture and scenery, an account of Cranch's physical and emotional state of health and his drawing and painting activities, and annotated pencil sketches. The journal was hand copied by Cranch's wife, Charlotte.
Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848, Greenough, Henry, 1807-1883, Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852, Artists' studios-Ohio-Urbana -Photographs, Art -Study and teaching-Italy, Art works. local Sketches, Watercolor drawings, Photographs, Diaries, Landscape painters, Portrait painters, Sculptors
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and F Sts., NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097687-A
Memoirs of the baths of Diocletian : or memoirs of a southern veteran by Moses Jacob Ezekiel. 656 p. (on partial microfilm reel)
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Sculptor, Rome, Italy. Born in Richmond, Va., of a Sephardic Jewish family, Ezekiel went to Berlin to study at the Royal Art Academy, and he met with great success, winning a prize that allowed him to study in Rome, where he resided permanently. His studio in Rome was in the Diocletian baths. 35mm microfilm reel 969, frames 437-1155 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Photocopy. Another copy of the microfilm is in the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Artists' studios, Sculpture, Sculptors
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and G Sts. NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097780-A
James E. Freeman letters to W. D. Pickman, 1848-1849. 4 items (on partial microfilm reel)
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Painter; New York state and Rome, Italy. Born in
New Brunswick, N.J. Grew up in New York State and studied at the National Academy of Design. Settled permanently in Italy, serving as the U.S. consul at Ancona and residing in Rome. Freeman from Rome, Italy, to Pickman of Salem, Massachusetts, discussing Freeman's work in obtaining Italian paintings for Pickman. In addition, Freeman discusses his own painting and the political situation in Rome. 35mm microfilm reel 3829 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Painting, Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy, Art collectors -- Massachusetts -- Salem. aat, Painters -- Italy -- Rome. aat
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and G Sts. NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1097882-A
Hiram Powers and Powers family papers, 1827-1953.
( 12.2 linear ft.) (partially microfilmed on 27 reels)
Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. facility. Sculptor; Washington, D.C. & Florence, Italy. Powers' international success due to his work "Greek Slave," established him as the leading American sculptor of his day. Correspondence; biographical sketches and data; financial material; writings; autograph and sketch album; sketches; floor plans; patents and contracts for inventions; photographs; clippings; printed material; a photograph album; and miscellaneous material.
UNMICROFILMED: A cap and hankerchief of Powers; a bronze plaque from a work by Powers; a miscellaneous tag; 3 photographs under glass of Powers' sculpture; and 9 positive and 3 negatives of Powers, his sculpture, unidentified individuals, and a sculpture by Preston Powers. 35mm microfilm reels 675, 688, 815-818, 1131-1147, 1413, 3470, 3534 & 3612 available in all Archives offices and through interlibrary loan. Remainder of the papers transferred from NMAA, 1975-1985, who had received them 1970 from Powers' heirs. Inventory to correspondence on reels 815-818 may be found on reel 1413. Inventory to correspondence on reels 1131-1146 may be found on reel 1131. Reels 815-818: Originals in: Cincinnati Historical Society. Reel 3470: Original photographs owned by Christina Seeber.
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873, Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822, Connelly, Pierce Francis, 1841-1932, Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848, Eny, Gibson, Fantacchiotti, Odoardo, 1809-1877, Francis, Alexander, Hart, Joel Tanner, 1810-1877, Jackson, John Adams, 1825-1879, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Mead, Larkin G. (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910, Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Powers, Louisa Greenough, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 , Expatriate artists -- Italy -- Florence, Artists -- United States., Sculpture, Modern -- 19th c., Photographs, Sculptors -- Washington (D.C.), Sculptors -- Italy -- Florence.
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and F Sts., NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1098032-A
Giovanni Carandente letters, 1962-1963. 130 items (on 1 microfilm reel).
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Art director, painter and critic; Italy. Correspondence with sculptors Alexander Calder, Herbert Ferber, Boris Lurie, and David Smith, conveying information about their works included in the Festival of Two Worlds, "Sculpture in the city" exhibition. The festival was held in Spoleto, Italy in 1963.BR>
Art festivals, Art critics-Italy, Art directors-Italy, Painters-Italy, Sculptors
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and F Sts., NW, NMAA-PG Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1098107-A
Thomas Matthew McGlynn papers, 1976-1978. 9 items (on partial microfilm reel).
Patrons must use microfilm copy. Sculptor and Dominican priest, Pietrasanta, Italy. Best known for OUR LADY OF FATIMA in Portugal, portraying an apparition of the Virgin Mary as three children of Fatima saw her in 1917. Copies of letters, a press release, photographs of reproductions of his work; a copy of his honorable degree citation; a brochure for the Providence-in-Europe program for sculpture at Pietrasanta, Italy; and McGlynn's 3-page typewritten obituary. 35mm microfilm reel 3134 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Originals with Mrs. Bruce Moore, 2700 Q Street, NW Apt. 340 Washington, D.C. 20007. Thomas McGlynn papers also located at: Providence College, Providence, R.I.
Sculptor -Italy-Peitrasanta.
Location: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and F Sts., N.W.,NMAA-PG Bldg.,Washington, D.C. 20560 USA
Control No.: DCAW1098755-A
TGWU holds a small manuscript collection relating to the Washington, D.C. Italian-American
community. LocationThe Department of Special Collections, The Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW - Room 207, Washington, DC 20052
Series 7/7/12 location M7/I/4
Location:University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives, B134 Memorial Library,
728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706-1494. Contact: J. Frank Cook (voice: 608/262-3290)WISCONSIN
College of Letters and Science, Classics, General Files, GRANT SHOWERMAN (1.66 cubic feet)
Grant Showerman, UW prof. of Classics was a Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome,
1898-00. The collection includes his University work and his writings, as well as "Prof. Showerman's
account of an interview with Benito Mussolini in which Prof. Showerman presented a copy of his book,
*Rome and the Romans.* There are also newspaper clippings concerning Prof. Showerman accepting an award
from the Italian government." Unfortunately, most of the correspondence is incoming without Showerman's replies.
001 003 "A Most Lamentable Comedy" re Experimental College, 1931
002 010 "Intellect and the Undergraduates." corres. & reviews, 1921
002 003 "Memorial Days," (Unpublished, on Italian cities)
003 004 "Yankee Pioneers," Address at Waukesha Centennial, 1934
003 002 A Country Chronicle and A Country Child (loaned 9/17/1973)
003 001 A Country Chronicle and A Country Child, reviews of
001 006 Biographical data re appt. & career; Roman Summer Session
001 006 Biographical Data; Review Ancient Classical Lit.; Misc.
001 007 Corres., Misc. (Leonard, Van Hise, H.L. Russell, H.L. Smith)
001 005 Corres., Letters of Appreciation (H. Garland, G. Bradford)
001 005 Corres., Letters of Appreciation (The Illustrator G. Wright)
001 004 Correspondence, A-Z (original acquisition from Mrs. Noer)
001 002 Essays by G.S., 1895-1927, n.d.
001 010 Essays, unpublished or manuscripts
001 001 Essays, published
001 008 Eternal Rome, reviews and related correspondence
001 003 Experimental College, clippings & related corres., 1931
001 009 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Cavaliere Dell' Umanita (Lectures)
001 001 Horace and His Influence, 1922 (reviews, corres., manuscript)
002 004 Indian Stream Republic & Luther Parker rev. New Hamp. Hist. S.
002 002 Ivy from Horace's Sabine Farm (framed)
002 009 Mussolini Interview on Presentation of Rome and the Romans
002 006 Notes on a Course in Roman Drama
002 005 Notes on a Course in Horace
002 007 Obituaries and Resolutions on Showerman's Death
002 008 Publications, Misc. by or about Showerman
005 001 Roman Summers scrapbook, 1929-1932
004 001 Roman Summers scrapbook, 1926, 1928
003 005 Roman summers scrapbook, 1924, 1925
003 002 Translations by Showerman
003 003 Trilussa: Roman Satirical Poems and Their Translation
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