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Series III: George Washington Portraits - Not from Life, 1922-1942

 Series

Scope and Contents note

John Hill Morgan's research on Washington portraits that were not painted from life, concerning primarily those works copied after portraits by Gilbert Stuart. Contains correspondence, photographs, Morgan's handwritten and typed notes, pages from auction sales catalogues, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings. Correspondents include Theodore Sizer, Stephen Decatur, William B. Goodwin, Walter Jennings, and P. Jackson Higgs. Materials are both loose and glued onto lined paper. Some miscellaneous materials are filed at the front of Folder 10 (originally the front of Binder 2).

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by artist name.

Repository Details

Part of the Frick Collection Archives Repository

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