Ward, Samuel Gray, 1817-1907
This site provides access to the papers of Samuel Gray Ward in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2024, and total 27 images.
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Size: 0.3 Linear feet
Summary: The Samuel Gray Ward art works date from circa 1850 and comprise eleven watercolors and wash drawings by Ward and three photographic portraits of Ward, his mother, and his father, Thomas Wren Ward. Each portrait has watercolor added to the surface.
Author Samuel Gray Ward (1817-1907) was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum and its first treasurer, and the grandfather of art patron Elizabeth Ward Perkins. Ward was a minor member of the American Transcendentalism movement and an intimate of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his circle. Ward translated Goethe's Essays On Art (1845) and ultimately gave up a career in writing for business just before he married.
The collection was donated by Elinor Mansfield via Giovonni Castano Gallery in November 1957.
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This site provides access to the papers of Samuel Gray Ward in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2024, and total 27 images.
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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