Professional Files
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000
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- Perry Townsend Rathbone papers
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
- Extent
- 2 Linear feet (Box 2-4, OV 6)
- Date
- 1938-1984
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.rathperr, Series 4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Perry Townsend Rathbone papers, 1929-2022. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Files are arranged alphabetically by the museum name or project title, and chronologically within each grouping.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- The donor has retained all intellectual property rights, including copyright, that they may own in the following material: Art is for Everyone: The Life and Times of Perry T. Rathbone by Belinda Rathbone, 2022.
- Scope and Contents
- Professional files concern Rathbone's directorship of the St. Louis City Art Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, business trips abroad, special projects, and his affiliations with various arts commissions and arts organizations. Rathbone took a "European Trip" every year to view artwork and potential acquisitions for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. These travel folders include receipts, lists of contacts and hotels, notebooks and itineraries. Also found are documents concerning the George Caleb Bingham drawings dispute, the historic Dederer-Blodgett house restoration, the New York World's Fair "Masterpieces of Art" exhibition, and work done in association with the Massachusetts Art Commission and the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Program. The files hold a range of documents such as correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, inventories, and notes.
- Collection Restrictions
- This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513298975-1503513299005-5
- Metadata Usage
- CC0