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  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Charles Lanman papers
    Date (inclusive): 1840-1987
    Number: 930071
    Creator/Collector: Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895
    Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
    Repository:
    The Getty Research Institute
    Special Collections
    1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
    Los Angeles 90049-1688
    Business Number: (310) 440-7390
    Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
    reference@getty.edu
    URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
    (310) 440-7390
    Abstract: Artist and author Charles Lanman's output was informed by and representative his nature travels east of the Rocky Mountains, and wrote about the major personalities of his field and time. The collection includes twenty- three unpublished manuscripts about these subjects, as well as a family history; official documents relating to the administration of Lanman's estate and art collections; personal and professional correspondence; photographs; newspaper clippings; and ephemera relating to an exhibition about Lanman. It also contains reproductions of Lanman's artwork, transcripts, notes, biographical and literary lists, and correspondence generated by E. Maurice Bloch, a scholar and collector specializing in American art who undertook research on Charles Lanman in the second half of the twentieth century.
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    Language: Collection material is in English.

    Biographical / Historical

    Charles Lanman was born in 1819 and spent his childhood exploring the wilds of Michigan. From 1835 to 1845, Lanman studied and worked in New York, where he was associated with the Hudson River School. In 1848, Lanman moved to Washington, DC, where he married Adeline Dogge in 1849. During his time there, he served as librarian of the War Department, the Department of the Interior, the House of Representatives, and the Washington City Library; and as private secretary to Daniel Webster. He was a prolific landscape and character painter, and also wrote extensively about many major New York artists and political figures of the early to mid-nineteenth century with whom he was associated, including George Caitlin, John James Audubon, and Daniel Huntington. One of the first non-native travelers to use a birch bark canoe, Lanman recorded his adventures on the rivers east of the Rocky Mountains in more than 1000 oil studies, 700 pencil sketches, 33 books and numerous newspaper articles. He died in Washington, DC in 1895.

    Biographical / Historical

    E. Maurice Bloch, American art historian, professor, curator and collector, was born in New York City on October 26, 1916. Bloch enrolled at New York University, first as an undergraduate in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, then as a graduate student in the Institute of Fine Arts, for which he wrote a dissertation on George Caleb Bingham (not completed until 1967). He taught at the University of Missouri (1944-1945), New York University (1945-1946), and the University of Minnesota (1946-1947). He was curator of prints at Cooper Union Museum (1952- ca. 1957). His tenure at the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 1956 and lasted until his retirement in 1982, and he was the founding director of UCLA's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Additionally, he was actively involved with the Western Division of the Archives of American Art, and helped negotiate a cooperative arrangement between the AAA, the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery, and the Huntington Library. His scholarly interests were in American art. Bloch died December 1989 in Los Angeles.

    Administrative Information

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    Open for use by qualified researchers.

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    Preferred Citation

    Charles Lanman Papers, 1840-1987, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 930071.
    http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa930071

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acquired in 1993.

    Processing Information

    This collection was processed by Lori Dedeyan, under the supervision of Andra Darlington, in 2014. It was initially rehoused by the Registrar's Office.
    The finding aid was reviewed by members of the Anti-Racist Description Working Group in 2021 and no revisions were made.

    Related Materials

    E. Maurice Bloch Papers, 1925-1989 (Collection 910003).
    Charles Lanman Papers, 1840-1892 (Collection 827). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    These materials are the product of the activities of two people: Charles Lanman, the nineteenth century artist, writer and collector, and Maurice Bloch, a scholar undertaking research about Lanman in the second part of the twentieth century. Materials generated by and concerning Charles Lanman primarily include manuscripts and correspondence, notes, bills of sale, and official documents regarding his estate. Also included are a photographic print of Lanman and his wife, Adeline, and an 1845 edition of Lanman's book, Letters from a Landscape Painter. Materials by Bloch include transcripts of letters and writings by Lanman; correspondence with various individuals, universities, libraries, and historical societies; notes and lists; and reproductions of artwork.

    Arrangement

    This collection has been arranged in the following series: Series I: Charles Lanman materials, 1840-1985; Series II. Maurice Bloch materials, 1967-1987.

    Indexing Terms

    Subjects - Names

    Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895

    Subjects - Topics

    Artists -- United States

    Contributors

    Bloch, E. Maurice
    Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895