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Gifford Pinchot recommends Alexander Proctor as the sculptor for a statue of Buffalo Bill. Pinchot thinks Proctor “knows and understands the West, and the spirit of the West.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-03-10
The artist and sculptor Gutzon Borglum tells photographer and filmmaker Edward S. Curtis that he has seen his silent film In the Land of the Head Hunters for the third time. Borglum expresses his gratitude to Curtis for lifting the field of educational entertainment to that of the fine arts. Borglum also discusses the importance of the film medium in capturing “the attention of humanity.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-15
Baron Daniel von Olegar inquires whether Theodore Roosevelt is interested in purchasing a collection of paintings by old masters. Olegar offers to visit New York and bring some of the paintings for Roosevelt to inspect in person
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-26
Mary W. Martin asks Theodore Roosevelt if he can do her a favor, as he used to, and recommend her for a position teaching art at the local Indian School. She has studied art for some time, and feels she would do a good job.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-22
During his time in the Mojave Desert, Clarence E. Stoner made a bottle with stories from Theodore Roosevelt’s journey in Africa. He has enclosed the bottle for Roosevelt hoping it would “find a place” in Roosevelt’s “collections.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-23
Marie Eugenie Snook expresses her high esteem for Theodore Roosevelt, and hopes that he will accept the gift of a piece of artwork. She greatly admires Roosevelt, and recalls meeting him at a reception.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-26
John B. Morrey, art dealer, confirms the shipment of President Roosevelt’s portrait to the American Ambassador to Mexico, David E. Thompson. He has enclosed the receipt from Adams Express Company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-05
Frederic Remington presents President Roosevelt with Paleolithic Man, a bronze sculpture which he describes as representing the “original inhabitant of Oyster Bay.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-06
Annie Nathan Meyer invites President Roosevelt to Fulton Chain for a weekend of hunting. Meyer is interested in the Russo-Japanese war situation and has come to admire Japanese art.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-09
Five new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences have been chosen. A conference of the twenty new members will be held to elect the ten remaining group members and to complete the organization of the academy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-24
This postcard shows Buckingham Palace’s Picture Gallery. This large, open room has walls which are filled with paintings of every size.
1911
Rotary Photographic Series; Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942
Postcard showing the dining area of an inn with tables around a fireplace and pictures hanging on the walls, including a portrait. Charles C. Myers identifies it as Ye Cheshire Cheese Restaurant in London, England, where writers Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens often visited. The portrait is of Johnson. Myers notes that he ate Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant in 1910.
1910
Arthur Hamilton Lee and his wife, Ruth Moore Lee, are happy that President Roosevelt appreciates their gift of the painting “Seats of the Mighty.” After being president for seven years, Lee believes a year-long African safari is the best curative. He outlines “a plan… for you to visit England without annoyance,” inviting Roosevelt to stay at either his London house or the one in the Highlands. Roosevelt’s reaction to the Olympic controversies delights Lee, who feels international games cause more friction than good feelings. Lee discusses British naval preparation and questions the German policies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-06
Victor Geza Fischer, the owner of a Washington, D.C., art gallery asks President Roosevelt to keep the purchasing price he paid for a certain painting confidential, as others were charged $2,500 for works by the same artist.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-19
At center two large hands labeled “Militarism” and “Jingoism” are squeezing men labeled “Labor” and “Capital” over an inverted spike-topped helmet stuck in the ground and overflowing with their blood. There is a skull and crossbones emblem on the front of the helmet. Surrounding vignettes depict, on the left, science, art (sculpture), and woodworking, and on the right, agriculture, art (painting), and blacksmithing.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-01
The illustration shows an impressionist’s view of the chaos of city life around the Woolworth Building. Caption: No greater contrast could be imagined than the Woolworth Tower as Fornaro sees it and the same structure as [John] Marin sees it. The first is an impressionist, the second a futurist. The mind of Fornaro is precise, mathematical, formal; the mind of Marin is anarchic, dithyrambic, color-struck. Fornaro conveys to us a sense of titanic power working in a milieu of sinister beauty. Marin gives us a sense of luminous humor, a mock danse macabre of triumphant life. Benjamin De Casseres.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-04-25
The illustration shows a shadowy outline of the Woolworth Building. Caption: No greater contrast could be imagined than the Woolworth Tower as Fornaro sees it and the same structure as [John] Marin sees it. The first is an impressionist, the second a futurist. The mind of Fornaro is precise, mathematical, formal; the mind of Marin is anarchic, dithyrambic, color-struck. Fornaro conveys to us a sense of titanic power working in a milieu of sinister beauty. Marin gives us a sense of luminous humor, a mock danse macabre of triumphant life. Benjamin De Casseres.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-04-25
Vignettes depict artists, “laymen,” paintings and sculpture, and in the quiet of an empty gallery, a couple embracing on a bench.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1915-01-16
Patrons of the Musée du Louvre steal paintings and other art objects and walk past museum guards. Caption: A recent inventory of the pictures in the Louvre showed that three hundred and twenty-three canvases were missing. Among the artists included were such masters as Boucher, Carot, Coypel, David, Millet, Vernet, Constable, Reynolds, Lawrence, and Leonardo da Vinci.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-10-18
President William H. Taft, as a thief, steals a portrait painting of Robert M. La Follette as Mona Lisa from a gallery of paintings that also includes portraits of William Jennings Bryan and George W. Wickersham.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-09-27