Bartlett, Paul Wayland 1865-1925 creator mixed material monographic eng 15,000 55 1 22.8 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. Open to research. 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. 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 marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier 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 Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923 McPherson, Bessie. mm 78011940 Open to research. DLC 790410 20260227111621.0 mm 78011940