$4,920
Mears, Helen Farnsworth (1872-1916) Large Archive of Original Material Related to the Sculptor. Approximately 230 black-and-white photographs of Mears's sculptures (large and small format, some cabinet cards, some from the artist's life, mostly posthumous); five photographs of Helen Farnsworth Mears; approximately twenty-four domestic photographs including pictures of the Mears family, childhood photos of the artist and her sisters, photos of the artist's studio, and others; ten envelopes containing negatives of Mears's sculptures; three original drawings; small group related to Mears's father, John Hall Mears, including an autograph letter signed, three stock certificates, and a land deed signed by President James Buchanan; autograph letters signed by her mother, Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears [aka Nellie Wildwood and Ianthe, called the first Wisconsin poetess] along with a tattered copy of her Voyage of Pere Marquette ; three letters and two documents signed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, along with a photographic portrait, c. 1904-1906; two letters to Mears from architect Henry Bacon; a group of correspondence related to a dispute with the New York sculpture molders John H. Walthausen, 1904; three signed autograph manuscripts in Mears's hand, including a letter, an inscribed and initialed envelope; and a dedication from the ffep of a book; five documents regarding Mears's early commissions, including the acceptance letter from the State Normal School in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-05-23
