2021-2023
HAV-01-403-Z-K-202; Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Bound, Box 9
GUSN-369257
Four volumes containing the transcribed letters and postcards of artist Mildred G. Burrage between 1909 and 1914. The letters were transcribed by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., then the Maine State Historian, in preparation for the Portland Museum of Art's 2012 exhibition "From Portland to Paris." Each volume includes a foreword written by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., along with a key of frequent nicknames found in the letters. Photographs of Burrage, examples of her art, and ephemera related to her time in Paris are also featured in the volumes.
letters (correspondence)
artists (visual artists)
travel
women (female humans)
postcards
Impressionist
transcripts
books
volumes (documents by form)
4 volumes
MS029
Miscellaneous manuscript collection
2023
MS029.002.041
Gift of Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., 2023
Paris (Ville de Paris department, Île-de-France, France)
Italy
Maine (United States)
Shettleworth, Earle G.
Burrage, Mildred (Author)
books
volumes (documents by form)
Burrage, Mildred G. (Mildred Giddings), 1890-1983
Shettleworth, Earle G.
Portland Museum of Art
Correspondence
Travel
Women artists
Impressionism (Art)
Item
HAV-01-403-Z-K-202; Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Bound, Box 9
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