Dr. Carol Soltis research files on Thomas Sully

Dr. Carol Soltis is a project associate curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, author of The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations, and coauthor of Thomas Sully: Painted Performance. In this donation are Dr. Soltis' research files on the various w...

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Contributors: Soltis, Carol. Dr. (Donor (dnr))
Collection:Dr. Carol Soltis Research Files On Thomas Sully
Collection Number:4590
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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520 |a Dr. Carol Soltis is a project associate curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, author of The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations, and coauthor of Thomas Sully: Painted Performance. In this donation are Dr. Soltis' research files on the various works of London-born artist Thomas Sully (1783-1872), who flourished in Philadelphia. The collection contains files on Sully' individual subject paintings, such as Little Red Riding Hood, Rosebud, and Mother and Child; his portraits of Anne Biddle Hopkinson, Rebecca Gratz, Andrew Jackson, Francis T. S. Darley, members of the Sully family including himself, and many others; and materials on the exhibition, "Thomas Sully: Painted Performance." Also in the collection is a binder of photographs of painting by Sully in private hands, public collections, and sold at auction; records of exhibitions of his works and Sully material in other repositories, such as Winterthur; a binder of photocopies of contemporary evaluations of Sully; a typescript of Sully "Hints for Pictures" (original in Beinecke Library of Yale University); and a typescript/copy of Sully's "Journal of Activities, May 1792-1793, 1799-1846, including a trip to England" (original in New York Public Library). 
600 1 7 |a Sully, Thomas  |d 1783-1872.  |2 NACO Authority File 
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650 7 |a Artists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.  |2 Local sources 
656 7 |a Artists-Research materials.  |2 Local sources 
700 1 |a Soltis, Carol.  |c Dr.  |e Donor (dnr) 
852 |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania  |b Dr. Carol Soltis Research Files On Thomas Sully  |l 4590