Selected Transcriptions

A&E Club Transcriptions:

• Schedule of Property of the A&E Club in the club rooms 35 Westminster street. Taken April 21, 1896 by Bill Carpenter.

• Minutes of Meetings Feb. 27, 1885 - June 28, 1888

• Lectures

  • #5. “Color,” by G.W. Whitaker, April 9, 1885

  • #6. “Stained Glass,” by G.A. Buffum, April 23, 1885

  • #7. “The Ideographic Side of Art,” by F.M. Purinton, May 7, 1885 and November 27, 1885

  • #9. “Motive and Style of Christian Art in Memorials,” by A.H. Combe, June 14, 1885

  • #12. “The Limitations of Realism in Art,” by E. S. Allen M.D., October 15, 1885

  • #14. “Composition in Painting,” by G.A. Buffum, November 12, 1885

  • #15. “Color,” by E.L. Smyth, December 10, 1885

  • #19. “The Nude in Art,” by C. W. Stetson, February 19, 1886

  • #24. “Caricature and Caricaturists,” by E. Field, March 18, 1886

  • #25. “The Artist and His Critics,” by E.M. Bannister, April 15, 1886

  • #28. “The Picture Maker,” by G.W. Whitaker, May 27, 1886

  • #29. “The Artist and His Critic,” by F.M. Purinton, June 10, 1886

  • #35. “Right Schooling for American Art Student,” by E.W.D. Hamilton, February 10, 1887

  • #38. “The Humility of the Artistic Temperament,” by G.M. Carpenter, March 10, 1887

  • #51. “The Limitations of Art,” by G.A. Buffum, December 29, 1887

  • #102. “The Artists’ Lesson,” by R.P. Brown, February 27, 1890 

  • #141. “The Relation of the Senses to the Painter’s Art,” G.M. Carpenter, March 26, 1891

  • #143. “Criticism,” by C.W. Stetson, April 12, 1891

  • #147. “A Conservation on the Question--What is the Use of Pictures?” by G.M. Carpenter, October 8, 1891

  • #149. “The Need For the Art Museum in the Modern Community,” by J.C. Ely, October 22, 1891

  • #159. “Criticism,” by C.H. Springer, February 11, 1892

  • #179. “Impressionism,” by G.A. Buffum, October 27, 1892

  • #192. “Is Painting a Fine Art?,” by E.S. Jones, February 23, 1893 

  • #208. “Acadia,” by G.W. Whitaker, January 4, 1894

  • #263. “Charles Walter Stetson, Artist,” by G.W. Whitaker, November 21, 1895

  • #339. “Art,” by G.A. Buffum, May 5, 1898

Miscellaneous Transcription and Documents

• Archival Biography of the Bannisters

• Finding Under the Oaks

• Places of Work and Residence

• Notes on Selected Paintings

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding George T. Downing

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding Alfred Niger

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding Newport Gardner

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding the Bannisters

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding Squaw Hollow

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding Chicken Foot Alley

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding Enslavement, Abolition, Fugitive Slave Act, Emancipation Proclamation

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding the Snow Town Riots

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding School Desegregation

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding the Dorr Rebellion

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding the Indigenous Communities of Rhode Island

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding the Home for Aged Colored Women

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding the Providence Shelter for Colored Children

• Newspaper Transcriptions regarding the Ann Eliza Club

Archival Documents

• Hale Woodruff Interview

• Voce Critique of the Centennial

• Museum of Art and RISD Documents (1877 - 1960) including: "The Rhode Island School of Design: A Half-Century Record (1879 – 1928)" by Elsie S. Bronson, A.M.; Excerpts from Rhode Island School of Design yearbooks pertaining to the Museum; "List of articles belonging to the Rhode Island School of Design";  Minutes of the Museum Committee; Presidents' and Directors' correspondence; Exhibition files; Isaac Comstock Bates' scrapbook of letters from artists and dealers; and Scrapbooks.

• United States Centennial Commission records, 1876-1879

• Providence Art Club Records (1880-1963)

• Vose Galleries of Boston records, circa 1876-1996, bulk 1920-1940 

• Milch Gallery records, 1911-1995 

• James D. Gill letters from artists, 1884-1887