South Dakota and Wounded Knee (S.D.) --History --Indian occupation, 1973
Subject (Name):
American Indian Movement
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America --Civil rights --20th century, Indians of North America --Government relations --20th century, Indians of North America --Politics and government --20th century, Indians of North America --Religion --20th century, Indians of North America --Rites and ceremonies --20th century, and Indians of North America --Social life and customs --20th century
The collection includes photographs of many of Edmond Quinn's sculptures, including portrait busts and statues of Cass Gilbert, Edwin Markham, Clayton Hamilton, Edwin Booth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry Clay, Brander Matthews, James Whistler, James Stephens, Padraic Colum, and Victor Herbert. The collection also includes one photograph of Quinn in his studio with Vicente Blasco Ibáñez; a pencil sketch of James Stephens; letters from Edwina Booth Grossman, Charles De Kay, Winthrop Ames, and others; a draft biography for Who's Who; and clippings documenting the reception of Quinn's work
Description:
American sculptor and painter Edmond Thomas Quinn was born December 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, to John and Rosina McLaughlin Quinn. He studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and under Jean-Antoine Injalbert in Paris. Major works include the statue of Edwin Booth as Hamlet in Gramercy Park, New York City, and the World War Memorial in New Rochelle, New York. He married Emily Bradley, of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1917 (she later married Shepherd Stephens). Quinn died in New York City in September, 1929, an apparent suicide by drowning. and In English.
In ink on inside front cover: Elizabeth Lewis Niven / (Mrs. Thornton M. Niven Sr.)., In ink on verso: Elizabeth (Wilson) Lewis / Niven / Florence 1912., and Photographer's imprint on recto.