Bannister, Edward Mitchell, 1828-1901
Painter
This site provides access to the papers of Edward Mitchell Bannister in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2022, and total 166 images.
Size: 0.6 Linear feet
Summary: The Edward Mitchell Bannister scrapbook measures 0.6 linear feet and dates from 1866-1901. The scrapbook contains approximately 102 pencil, charcoal, and watercolor drawings by Bannister, newspaper clippings and writings about Bannister and his exhibitions, a poem, and an exhibition catalog.
Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) was a Canadian-born African American landscape and portrait painter in Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. He was among Providence's leading painters during the 1870s and 1880s and was one of the few African American painters of the nineteenth century to win significant recognition.
The scrapbook was donated to the Archives of America Art in 1984 by Alan and Melvin S. Frank. The scrapbook was previously on loan to the National Museum of American Art.
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This site provides access to the papers of Edward Mitchell Bannister in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2022, and total 166 images.
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