Transcribe the Charles Henry Hart autograph collection to unlock the history of art in America – as described within this remarkable collection of autograph letters and documents of celebrated American artists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Transcribe the Charles Henry Hart autograph collection to unlock the History of art in America – as described within this remarkable collection of autograph letters and documents of celebrated American artists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Charles Henry Hart (1847-1918)—historian, lawyer, and director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts—gathered letters sent between artists to trace the history of art. In the process, he gathered a window into social, political and economic life in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and start of the twentieth centuries. This collection is a group of 167 letters from artists and sculptors and is held by the Archives of American Art. The letters have been described in seven separate catalog records; six grouped under the name of the person to whom the letters are addressed and one under the title Miscellaneous Artists Letters.
Help others discover the relationships and lives of many artists by transcribing this collection. Learn more and view related materials at the Archives of American Art.
