#artistpapers

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The Thomas Seir Cummings papers are now fully digitized and available to view online! Visit to our website to view the finding aid: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/thomas-seir-cummings-papers-17573 

 Image: Page from manuscript "Cummings, Cards of Design (Drawing Cards)", circa 1840

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The *fully digitized* Emmet Family papers document the lives and careers of two generations of the Emmet family, particularly sisters Lydia Field Emmet, Jane Erin Emmet de Glehn, and Rosina Emmet Sherwood; their mother, Julia Colt Pierson Emmet; and their cousin Ellen Gertrude "Bay" Emmet - all noted painters and illustrators, whose artistic talents flourished during the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries.

Image Citation: Watercolour Sketch of Flowers, 1850-1900 from Emmet Family papers

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The *fully digitized* papers of New York painter and sculptor Richard Artschwager include extensive correspondence, recorded talks and a lecture, exhibition files, printed material, and photographs. Image Citation: Assorted Richard Artschwager exhibition announcements, circa 1965-circa 2005

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The Anna Walinska papers have been fully digitized: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/anna-walinska-papers-6942

Anna Walinska (1906-1997) was a New York artist, teacher and gallery director who traveled widely and is most well known for her paintings related to the subject of the Holocaust.

Her papers include biographical material, correspondence, writings, travel diaries, printed material, scrapbooks, artwork, sketchbooks, and photographs.

Photo credit: Anna Walinska in studio with her painting "The Naked and The Dead", 1979

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The F. Luis Mora papers have been fully digitized: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/f-luis-mora-papers-5508

F. Luis Mora (1874-1940) was a muralist, oil and watercolor portrait painter, and etcher based in New York. He is best known for his illustrations in magazines. The collection includes biographical information, correspondence, 242 small monthly pocket diaries by Mora, and printed and photographic materials. Photo: Class at the Boston Art School, 1891

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The Max Bohm papers have been fully digitized and are available to view online: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/max-bohm-papers-8893 Max Bohm (1868-1923) was a painter in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His papers include biographical material, correspondence, business records, diaries, writings, artwork, films, and photographs.

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The papers of New York painters and teachers Josef Presser and Agnes Hart have been fully digitized and available to view online: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/josef-presser-and-agnes-hart-papers-8949 The collection documents their personal and professional lives as partners, artists, and educators and consists of biographical material, business and personal correspondence, teaching files, printed material, and scattered photographs. The collection also includes writings, personal business records, and artwork by Presser. Photo Credit 1: Photo by Paul Schutzer. Photo of Agnes Hart Presser, Bernice Schutzer and Josef Presser, 1964 June

Photo Credit 2: Photographer unknown. Josef Presser with school children in Chartres, France

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The papers of Reginald A. Gammon have been fully digitized and are available to view online! Reginald A. Gammon (1921-2005) was a painter and art educator, working in New York City, Michigan, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gammon was a founding member of Spiral, an African American artist's collective and member of the New Mexico Afro-American Artist Guild. Gammon also taught in the New York public schools and at Western Michigan University. View the collection online now at our website: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/reginald-gammon-papers-13635 Image citation: Reginald Gammon, circa 1960 / Mary Ellen Andrews, photographer. Reginald Gammon papers, 1927-2007, bulk 1960-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Image information for cat illustrations: Illustrations by Gammon for the children’s book The Cat Who Was Different, also featured in last year’s exhibition Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art.