Henry Martyn Hoyt papers. 1910-1929Hoyt, Henry Martyn, 1887-1920engThe collection consists sketchbooks, correspondence, documents, drawings, paintings, and photographs documenting the life and career of the American painter, etcher, and poet Henry Martyn Hoyt. Prominent in the collection are sixteen bound commercial sketchbooks containing graphite sketches and drawings by Hoyt, dating from approximately 1910 to 1920. Most of the images are not identified or dated, but include portraits of his wife Alice Gordon Parker Hoyt at work and at leisure; infants portrayed are likely their children Constance (born 1913) and Henry (born 1914). The remainder of the images are buildings and views taken in Rome, Italy, Spain, and other European venues; street scenes (likely New York and Boston); unidentified architectural details; views of Nahant, Massachusetts; maritime subjects including boats, ships, and piers; and vignettes of people and animals. Hoyt wrote notes, names, and addresses in several of the sketchbooks. One volume (Box 1, folder 3) contains silverpoint drawings, and one volume (Box 1, folder 1) contains a manuscript list of Hoyt's etchings. Correspondence consists of letters written by Hoyt to his mother Anne McMichael Hoyt (1912-1917) and mother-in-law Eleanor Kinzie Gordon Parker (1918), a folder of Hoyt's World War I military records, photographs of Hoyt and family members, and samples of his poetry in autograph manuscript, typescript, and in print, including a copy of his book of poems, Dry Points (1921), inscribed by Juliette Gordon Low. Also present are twenty-two examples of Hoyt's work in graphite, pastel, watercolor, and oil, and a folder of printed material related to his exhibitions such as his posthumous show at Folsom Galleries, New York, January 11-24, 1921Henry Martyn Hoyt, an American painter, etcher, and poet, was born in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, on May 8, 1887, the son of Henry Martyn Hoyt (1856-1910, Yale 1878) and Anne McMichael Hoyt. His father, a lawyer, held positions in the offices of the United States Attorney General and Department of State; his grandfather Henry Martyn Hoyt (1830-1892) was governor of Pennsylvania. Hoyt attended the Friends School in Washington before enrolling at Yale University at age 16 and graduating in 1907. Following college he traveled in Europe and studied architecture at Harvard University (1908), afterward taking classes with William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1909) and with Edmund C. Tarbell at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1910). In April 1912 Hoyt married Alice Gordon Parker (1885-1951), a painter who had also studied at the Museum School and the daughter of Eleanor Kinzie Gordon Parker and Richard Wayne Parker. Hoyt entered military service in May 1917 as a photographer in the Aviation Section of the Army Reserves and was honorably discharged in May 1919. His marriage had failed, and Hoyt was living in his studio at 37 West 10th Street in New York when he committed suicide on August 25, 1920; his body was found by his friend and Yale classmate William Rose Benét. The following year Alice Hoyt married Boston architect Harold Robert Shurtleff; in 1923 Benét married Hoyt's sister, poet Elinor Wylie.In English.Boxes 1 and 2 contain sketchbooks. Box 3 contains correspondence, documents, photographs, small artwork, and poetry. Box 4 contains four oversize watercolor paintings, one pencil drawing, and Hoyt's portfolio.