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Helen E. and Homer E. Britzman collection of Charles Russell, 1902-1938
Collection
Identifier: TU-2009-039
Scope and Contents
Also known as the Britzman Collection, the Homer and Helen Britzman Collection and the Russell Research Collection. The collection is extensive. It includes 160 pencil, pen and ink drawings and sketches, an unfinished watercolor, several clay/wax models, small sketchbooks and drawings, three illustrated letters from CMR to friends, CMR's Last Will and Testament written in his own hand, a collection of CMR's paints, brushes and palettes, some of his clothing including ties, boots and hats, a...
Dates:
1902 - 1938
John Trumbull Collection, 1820-1831
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-204
Scope and Contents
This slender volume, similar to a scrapbook, contains two letters written and signed by Trumbull: one to Richard Rush regarding the death of artist Benjamin West, and the other to Sir Thomas Lawrence congratulating him on succeeding West as president of the Royal Academy. Another item in the book is a chart indicating the colors used in Trumbull’s painting “Our Savior Receiving Little Children.” This is followed by seven proofs, in various states, of an engraving of the painting...
Dates:
1820 - 1831