Correspondence, photographs, and an incomplete catalog raisonné related to the work of artist Charles Demuth, which Richard W. C. Weyand collected and compiled from 1940 to 1955, as well as auction catalogs related to Weyand's estate, 1957-1976. Correspondence in the collection documents artwork created by Demuth and owned by different persons and institutions, while circa 125 photographs document work created by Demuth, circa 1906-1934.
Description:
Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was an American watercolor artist who turned to oils late in his career and developed a modern art movement known as Precisionism., Gift of Ann Grether Hill, 1988., and Richard W. C. Weyand (1905-1956), born Richard Conklin Weyand, was the son of Edwin Stanton Weyand (1863-1913) and Wilhelmina Thompson Weyand (1873-1943). He had two sisters, Dorothy Adams Weyand Grether (1897-1982) and Louise Victoria Weyand White (1899-1924), as well as two brothers, Edwin Stanton Weyand (1903-1973) and William Rodgers Weyand (1908-1970). Weyand served in the United States Navy during World War II, 1942-1945. Weyand and Robert Evans Locher (1888-1956), a close friend of artist Charles Demuth, operated an antique store and lived in the former home of Demuth in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1943-1956.
Subject (Name):
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Catalogs, and Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster, LGBTQ resource, and Precisionism--Pennsylvania--Lancaster
April Actions for Peace, Jobs, & Justice (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Published / Created:
1985 Apr 20
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 36
Collection Title:
Printed ephemera of African American political activism and arts
Container / Volume:
Bsd | Folder 165
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Verso blank.
Subject (Geographic):
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists--Ephemera, African American politicians--Ephemera, African Americans--Civil rights--Ephemera, African Americans--Ephemera , African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Ephemera, Black power--Ephemera, Political activists--United States--Ephemera, and Pressure groups--United States--Ephemera
Conference in Solidarity with the Liberation Struggles of the Peoples of Southern Africa (New York
Published / Created:
1981 Oct 10
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 36
Collection Title:
Printed ephemera of African American political activism and arts
Container / Volume:
Bsd | Folder 167
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists--Ephemera, African American politicians--Ephemera, African Americans--Civil rights--Ephemera, African Americans--Ephemera , Black power--Ephemera, Civil rights movements--United States--Ephemera, Political activists--United States--Ephemera, and Pressure groups--United States--Ephemera
Printed ephemera of African American political activism and arts
Container / Volume:
Bsd | Folder 166
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Communist Party of the United States of America--Ephemera
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists--Ephemera, African American politicians--Ephemera, African Americans--Civil rights--Ephemera, African Americans--Ephemera , Black power--Ephemera, Civil rights movements--United States--Ephemera, Political activists--United States--Ephemera, and Pressure groups--United States--Ephemera