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Box 3

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

Walter and Matilda Gay, 1927

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Content Note

Walter Gay to Matilda Gay, August 14, 1927

Dates: 1927
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series II: Correspondence, 1886-1938

Ellen Blake Blood and Ebenezer Gay (parents), 1886-1899

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Content Note

Ebenezer Gay to Walter Gay, March 18, 1899

Walter and Matilda Gay to Ebenezer Gay congratulating him on his 81st birthday, March 27, 1899 (telegram)

Ellen Blake Blood Gay to Walter Gay regarding his father's death, May 19, 1899

Includes envelope, "Walter - Eben's hair before cutting. Monday a.m. April 12th, 1886"

Dates: 1886-1899
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series II: Correspondence, 1886-1938

Sophie Gay Griscom (niece), 1936-1940

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Scope and Content Note Sophie Gay Griscom to Walter and Matilda Gay, August 25, 1936 Sophie Gay Griscom to Matilda Gay, September 13, 1937 Sophie Gay Griscom to Matilda Gay, September 19, 1937 Sophie Gay Griscom to Matilda Gay, October 27, 1937 Sophie Gay Griscom to Matilda Gay, May 23, 1938 Sophie Gay Griscom to Matilda Gay, June 3, 1938 Sophie Gay Griscom to [Mrs. Piper], undated (circa September 1940), regarding news of Matilda in German...
Dates: 1936-1940
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series II: Correspondence, 1886-1938

Unidentified correspondents, 1886, 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Scope and Content Note

[?] to [?], 1886

[?] to James [?], February 8, 1905

Dates: 1886, 1905
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series II: Correspondence, 1886-1938

Postcards and Christmas card, undated, circa 1935

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
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4 postcards

Christmas card from Matilda Gay to Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, circa 1935

Dates: undated, circa 1935
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series II: Correspondence, 1886-1938

Photographs of Walter Gay, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Scope and Content Note Quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Gay as a young man by Notman Photo Co., Boston. Studio portrait by Notman Photo Co., Boston. [glossy reproduction mounted on foamcore] Gay as a young man, seated in front of fireplace in a large room. [stored in oversize] Half-length studio portrait of Walter Gay as a young man, seated, holding a bowler hat and walking stick. Framed photograph appears in Gay's 1909 painting, La Cheminée....
Dates: undated
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series III: Photographs, undated

Photographs of Matilda Gay, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Scope and Content Note Studio portrait of Matilda Gay by N.E. Lusher, Hamilton, Bermuda, circa 1880. [glossy reproduction mounted on foamcore] Negative of a studio portrait with envelope inscribed by Sophia Gay Griscom. [negative removed to cold storage for conservation] ...
Dates: undated
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series III: Photographs, undated

Album of photographs of Walter Gay paintings, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
Scope and Content Note

Mounted photographs of early paintings by Walter Gay.

[stored separately, original closed to researchers due to conservation concerns]

Link to digital images

Dates: undated
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series III: Photographs, undated

Typescript transcriptions, circa 1937-1938

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
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Transcripts of letters of condolence sent to Matilda Gay on the death of Walter Gay, accounts of the funeral services, obituaries and tributes, and articles on the donation of Gay's art collection to the Louvre.

Dates: circa 1937-1938
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series IV: Death of Walter Gay, circa 1937-1938

"Quelques mots prononcés par le Président de la Sauvegarde à la salle de l’Orangerie le 3 Février 1938.", 1938

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Scope and Content Note

Re: the Louvre's acceptance of Walter Gay's collection of Old Master drawings, paintings, and bronzes. Typescript with manuscript signatures and statements by members of the committee.

[stored in oversize]

Dates: 1938
Found in: Frick Collection Archives / Walter and Matilda Gay Collection / Series IV: Death of Walter Gay, circa 1937-1938