Item Information
Title: Chester Beach scrapbook
Date: 1903-1919
Physical Details: Scrapbook : 1 v. ; 34 x 25 cm.
Description: Scrapbook is primarily comprised of newspaper clippings and other printed material.
Also contains letters, among them notification of acceptance from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, work accepted for Salon d'Automne; American Academy in Rome announcement of Beach's eligibility to compete in the Prix de Rome preliminary competition, and a letter from Daniel Chester French regretting Beach's decision to withdraw from consideration; membership in The Architectural League of New York and National Sculpture Society; appointment to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee and U.S. Treasury Department Committee for 4th Liberty Loan; and from Jessica B. Piexotto, concerning a medal commemorating Children's Year.
There are samples of book plates and a place card etched for Mr. and Mrs. George Davison, and an unfinished poem by FitzRoy Carrington to Chester Beach and Eleanor Hollis Murdock.
Photographs include a view of the Mark Hopkins Art Institute's night school class attended by Beach, circa 1900-1902, and a portrait of Chester Beach painted by G. Laurance Nelson. Also found are exhibitors' cards, certificates announcing Beach's election as an Associate member of the National Academy of Design; and the award of a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Creator: Beach, Chester, 1881-1956
Forms part of: Chester Beach papers, 1846-1999, bulk 1895-1999
Rights Statement: U.S. public domain
Citation Information: Chester Beach. Chester Beach scrapbook, 1903-1919. Chester Beach papers, 1846-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Digital ID: 16614