Papers, 1904-1957 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Papers, 1904-1957, mainly documenting her artistic career. They include a looseleaf notebook listing her paintings, their description, history and disposition, with a list of paintings sold, and a list of pictures painted in the summer of 1931 in Cuernavaca, Mexico; a small address book; photographs of her paintings, her family, and her summer home at Cragsmoor (N.Y.); a notebook containing a diary of trips to England, France and Spain in 1904, 1905 and 1922; a diary for 1926; some copies of a printed newsletter, the Cragsmoor journal; letters, mostly dealing with her work, written by and to dealers, museums, and purchasers, but including a copy of a letter written by Turner's mother in 1864; scrapbooks containing clippings, letters, menus, Christmas cards, catalogs of exhibitions of Turner's paintings, and other memorabilia. Her diary for 1904 includes descriptions of visits to the studios of Sargent, Lavery, and Edwin Austin Abbey. The material documents the honors and awards she received, and also includes miscellaneous personal items: a passport issued in 1922, an affidavit by a cousin documenting her date of birth, her registration book documenting her studies at Columbia Teachers' College, receipts, invitation cards, and caricatures drawn for her in ink and watercolor by Charles Curran. There is also some genealogical material, including a bookplate of her great-grandfather, John Pintard, and letters acknowledging gifts from her to the New-York Historical Society