Paul Wayland Bartlett papers, 1875-1959.
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Mixed materialsDescription: 15,000 items; 55 containers plus 1 oversize; 22.8 linear feetSubject(s): - Bartlett, Suzanne Earle Ogden-Jones Emmons, 1861-1954 -- Correspondence
- Beach, Chester, 1881-1956 -- Correspondence
- Bigelow, Poultney, 1855- -- Correspondence
- Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis, 1867-1915 -- Correspondence
- Blackstone, William, 1723-1780 -- Statues
- Carrère, John Merven, 1858-1911 -- Correspondence
- Columbus, Christopher -- Statues
- Dallin, Cyrus E. (Cyrus Edwin), 1861-1944 -- Correspondence
- Fauré-Frémiet, E. (Emmanuel), 1824-1910 -- Correspondence
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 -- Correspondence
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Statues
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 -- Statues
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Statues
- Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875 -- Correspondence
- Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 -- Correspondence
- Warner, Olin Lavi, 1844-1896 -- Correspondence
- Whalen, Grover A. (Grover Aloysius), 1886-1962 -- Correspondence
- Connecticut State Capitol (Hartford, Conn.)
- Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.)
- United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- Art
- Sculptors -- United States
- Sculpture
- Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Hartford
- Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Waterbury
- Sculpture -- France -- Paris
- Sculpture -- Washington (D.C.)
- Artists
- Sculptors
- Papers relating to Paul W. Bartlett and Bessie McPherson were transferred from the Samuel Franklin Emmons papers in the Manuscript Division to these papers in 1981.
Open to research.
Correspondence, speeches, lecture notes, notes, financial and legal records, printed matter, scrapbooks, sketches, blueprints, and other papers relating chiefly to Bartlett's career as a sculptor. Documents his methods of work, manner of selecting materials, contracts, and negotiations. Also documents Bartlett's discussions with other sculptors, architects, artists, and craftsmen concerning the field of art. Includes files pertaining to Bartlett's statues of Michelangelo Buonarroti and Christopher Columbus in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C..; House of Representatives pediment at the United States Capitol building, Washington, D.C.; statues of William Blackstone in Washington, D.C., of Benjamin Franklin, in Waterbury, Conn., and of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis deLafayette, in Paris, France; statues for the Connecticut State Capitol building, Hartford, Conn.; and other works. Correspondents include Chester Beach, Poultney Bigelow, Karl Theodore Francis Bitter, John Merven Carrère, Cyrus E. Dallin, and Grover A. Whalen.
Papers of Bartlett's father, Truman Howe Bartlett, include correspondence, lecture notes, articles, printed matter, and scrapbooks. Correspondents include E. Fauré-Frémiet, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Jean François Millet, Auguste Rodin, and Olin Lavi Warner.
Papers of Bartlett's sister-in-law, Bessie McPherson, include correspondence, notes, notebooks, financial and legal records, and printed matter relating chiefly to personal matters and to Bartlett's sculpture projects. Correspondents include her sister, Suzanne Earle Ogden-Jones Emmons Bartlett.
Sculptor.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
Papers relating to Paul W. Bartlett and Bessie McPherson were transferred from the Samuel Franklin Emmons papers in the Manuscript Division to these papers in 1981.
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