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BANC MSS C-H 98
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Collection Title: Ernest and Mary Peixotto papers
Date (inclusive): 1838-1956,
Date (bulk): bulk 1890-1940
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-H 98
Creators :
Peixotto, Ernest C., 1869-1940
Peixotto, Mary Hutchinson, 1869-1956
Extent:
Number of containers: 7 cartons, 5 oversize folders, 2 boxes, 1 volume, 1 oversize box, and 1 tube
Linear feet: 12
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Papers of artist and writer Ernest Peixotto and his wife Mary Hutchinson Peixotto. Includes correspondence; subject files;
diaries, sketchbooks, and notebooks; personalia; ephemera; and some scrapbooks.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English and French
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition,
the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor
restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected
by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of without permission of the copyright owner.
Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
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[Identification of item], Ernest and Mary Peixotto papers, BANC MSS C-H 98, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
The following items from the collection have been microfilmed: Ernest Peixotto's subject files on war artists and some World
War I correspondence (BANC FILM 2743; Carton 1, folder 16 and 46-53); Mary Peixotto's letters to Ernest Peixotto, 1918-1919
(BANC FILM 2736; Carton 6, folder 24-36).
Photographs and other pictorical materials transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1980.029-B;
BANC PIC 1988.048; BANC PIC 1990.026-C; BANC PIC 1990.074-PIC)
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Peixotto, Ernest C., 1869-1940--Archives
Peixotto, Mary Hutchinson, 1869-1956--Archives
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Art Training Center (Bellevue, France)
National Society of Mural Painters, New York
Ecole des beaux-arts de Fontainebleau
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design
MacDowell Club
Student Art League of New York
Art Commission of the City of New York
New York World's Fair (1939-1940)
World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war
Mural painting and decoration, American--New York (State) ?z New York
Painting--United States
Painting--France--Paris
Art--Study and teaching
Painters--United States
Scrapbooks
Sketches
Guestbooks
Ephemera
Blueprints
Peixotto, Ernest C., 1869-1940
Peixotto, Mary Hutchinson, 1869-1956
MacDowell, Marian, 1857-1956, correspondent
Armfield, Maxwell, 1881-1972, correspondent
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968, correspondent
Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931, correspondent
Guerin, Jules Vallee, 1866-1946, correspondent
LaFarge, Christopher, 1897-1956, correspondent
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, correspondent
Labatut, Jean-Pierre, correspondent
Leon, Paul, correspondent
Neuhaus, Eugen, 1879-1963, correspondent
Fredenthal, David, 1914-1958, correspondent
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902, correspondent
Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966, correspondent
Peixotto, M. Percy, correspondent
Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985, correspondent
De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997, correspondent
Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951, correspondent
Sterling, George, 1869-1926, correspondent
The Ernest and Mary Peixotto papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Eustace M. Peixotto, Ernest D. Peixotto, and Mrs.
Hervey P. Clark between 1958 and 1990.
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processed by Lara Michels.
Ernest Peixotto is best known as a muralist and illustrator, though he also achieved notable success as a writer. Born to
Sephardic Jewish parents in San Francisco in 1869, Peixotto studied at the California School of Design and, from 1888 until
1894, at the Atelier Julian in France. Upon returning the the United States in 1894, Peixotto settled again in San Francisco
where he founded The Lark, an art magazine in print from 1895 through 1897. Peixotto married painter Mary Glascock Hutchinson
in New Orleans in 1897. Hutchinson, born in San Francisco in 1869, had also been a student at the California School of Design.
The couple moved to New York after their marriage and Ernest joined the staff of Scribner's Magazine, where he worked as an
illustrator. Together, they relocated to France in 1899, taking up residence just outside of Paris in a villa in Fontainebleau
that would serve as the couple's primary home until Ernest's death in 1940.
During World War I, General John Pershing appointed Ernest Peixotto an official war artist attached to the American Expeditionary
Force. Peixotto is remembered for having created a striking visual record of the destruction and dislocation of modern warfare.
At the war's end, Peixotto became, for a brief period, director of the American Expeditionary Force Art Training Center at
Bellevue, France, which merged into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1923. After leaving his post as director, Peixotto continued
to serve the school as chair of its American Committee. From 1919 through 1926, Peixotto was also director of the mural department
of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. In 1921, he was made a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor, for his work during
the war and for promoting good relations between France and the United States.
Between 1926 and 1940, Peixotto focused on his own work while still serving a number of art organizations and committees.
He was the president of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1929 to 1935, president of School Art League of New York
from 1936 to 1940, and a member of the Municipal Art Commission of the City of New York from 1935 to 1940. He also served
as director of murals for the New York World's Fair in 1939.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence; subject files; diaries, sketchbooks, and notebooks; personalia; ephemera; and some scrapbooks. Correspondence
consists of letters between Ernest and Mary Peixotto during and after World War I as well as general incoming correspondence.
Ernest Peixotto's correspondents include friends, other artists and writers (such as Frank Norris, Maxfield Parrish, George
Sterling, and Gelett Burgess), publishers, patrons, and art organizations and committees. Mary Peixotto's general correspondence
documents, among other things, her activities with French war relief organizations during World War I. Among Ernest Peixotto's
subject files are materials on the following: American Camouflage; War Artists; the American Expeditionary Force Art Training
Center at Bellevue, France; Appui aux Artistes; the Beaux Arts Institute of Design; the Fontainebleau schools; the Municipal
Art Commission of the City of New York; the National Society of Mural Painters; the Student Art League of New York; and the
World's Fair. Scrapbooks include clippings documenting Ernest Peixotto's career. Notable among Mary Peixotto's other papers
are some early letters and documents from the Hutchinson and Glascock families as well as files on her family's genealogy.