Finding Aid to the Ernest and Mary Peixotto papers, 1838-1956, bulk 1890-1940
Finding Aid written by Lara Michels
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University of California, Berkeley
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Finding Aid to the Ernest and Mary Peixotto papers, 1838-1956, bulk 1890-1940
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-H 98
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Lara Michels
- Date Completed:
-
September 2012
© 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
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.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
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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
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ernest and Mary Peixotto papers, BANC MSS C-H 98, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Alternate Forms Available
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).
Separated Material
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)
Indexing Terms
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
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
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.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Lara Michels.
Biographical Information
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.
Series 1:
Ernest Peixotto.
circa 1876-1953
Physical Description:
Carton 1-5; carton 6, folder 1-23; oversize folder 1-5; oversize box 1
Subseries 1.1
Correspondence.
1895-1941
Physical Description:
Carton 1, folder 1-42
Carton 1, Folder 1-41
General correspondence,
1895-1941,
undated
Carton 1, Folder 42
Letters to Mary Peixotto,
circa 1918
Subseries 1.2
Subject Files.
Physical Description:
Carton 1, folder 43-56; carton 2; carton 3, folder 1-11; oversize folder 4-5
Carton 1, Folder 43-45
American Camouflage,
1916-1918,
undated
Carton 1, Folder 47
Memoranda and other communications,
1918-1919
Carton 1, Folder 48
Ration cards, room tickets, admission tickets,
1918-1919
Carton 1, Folder 49
Identification papers, passes,
1914-1918
Carton 1, Folder 51
Role of the War Artist,
1918-1919
Carton 1, Folder 52
Postcards and stationary,
1918-1919
Carton 1, Folder 53
Assorted papers,
1918-1919
Oversize Folder 5
World War I maps,
circa 1917-1918
Carton 1, Folder 54-56
American Expeditionary Force Art Training Center (Bellevue),
1919
Carton 2, Folder 1
McDowell Club,
circa 1913-1934
Carton 2, Folder 2-10
Appui aux Artistes,
1915-19
Carton 2, Folder 11
Beaux Arts Institute of Design,
circa 1919-1932
Carton 2, Folder 12
Beaux Arts Ball,
circa 1920-1940
Carton 2, Folder 14-24
Correspondence,
1917-1939,
undated
Carton 2, Folder 26
Reports, communications, brochures,
circa 1922-1926
Carton 2, Folder 27
Accounts,
circa 1923-1939
Carton 2, Folder 28
Augusta Savage controversy,
1922-1923
Carton 2, Folder 29
Alumni Bulletin,
1938-1939
Carton 2, Folder 30
Clippings,
circa 1920-1940
Carton 2, Folder 31-38
Municipal Art Commission of the City of New York,
1935-1939
Carton 3, Folder 1
Mural for Oyster Bay Post Office, New York,
1929-1938
Carton 3, Folder 2
Mural in Seaman's Bank for Savings, New York,
circa 1928
Carton 3, Folder 3
Mural: Alexander Hamilton Panel at the Bank of New York,
circa 1928
Carton 3, Folder 4-5
National Society of Mural Painters,
circa 1925-1938
Carton 3, Folder 6
Renaissance des Cites,
1921,
undated
Carton 3, Folder 7
Student Art League of New York City,
1936-1938
Oversize Folder 4
World's Fair (oversize),
1936-1939
Subseries 1.3
Contracts, Sales, and Exhibitions.
circa 1893-1941
Physical Description:
Carton 3, folder 12-21
Carton 3, Folder 12-13
Contracts and agreements,
1927
Carton 3, Folder 14
Book contracts,
1906-1932
Carton 3, Folder 15-18
Picture sales and exhibitions,
circa 1907-1941
Carton 3, Folder 19-21
Exhibition catalogs and invitations,
circa 1893-1929
Subseries 1.4
Notebook, Drawings, and Illustrations.
circa 1876-1940,
undated
Physical Description:
Carton 3, folder 22-27; carton 4, folder 1-10; oversize box 1; oversize folder 1
Carton 3, Folder 25
Italian Notes: Florence Villas,
undated
Carton 3, Folder 26
Italian Notes: Italian Riviera,
undated
Carton 3, Folder 27
Rhodes, Thera, etc.,
1935, undated
Carton 4, Folder 1
Spanish Notes of Interiors for Decorations,
undated
Carton 4, Folder 2
Chinon, Switzerland,
undated
Carton 4, Folder 3
France and Switzerland,
circa 1893
Carton 4, Folder 4
Nassau, Bahamas,
circa 1897
Oversize Box 1, Folder 1
Illustration plates, Paris Exposition,
1900
Oversize Box 1, Folder 2
A Revolutionary War Calendar,
1900
Oversize Box 1, Folder 3
Scrapbook of Peixotto's Overland Monthly illustrations,
circa 1890-1899
Oversize Folder 1
Sanguin Sketches,
undated
Carton 4, Folder 9
Designs and sketches,
undated
Carton 4, Folder 10
Book of hand-colored plates,
1876
Carton 4, Folder 11
Miscellaneous artwork,
undated
Oversize Folder 1
Miscellaneous artwork,
undated
Subseries 1.5
Diaries.
1893-1940,
undated
Physical Description:
Carton 4, folder 12-24; carton 5, folder 1-14
Carton 5, Folder 1-13
Diaries,
1912-1933,
undated
Carton 5, Folder 14
Record of letters and addresses,
1940
Subseries 1.6
Writings.
circa 1895-1930
Physical Description:
Carton 5, folder 15-31; carton 6, folder 1-3
Carton 5, Folder 15-17
Published articles,
circa 1899-1921
Carton 5, Folder 18
The Revolutionary Pictures,
1898
Carton 5, Folder 19
Caretti and Marionetti (World War 1 writings),
circa 1918
Carton 5, Folder 20
Effects of War upon a Small French Town (World War 1 writings),
circa 1918
Carton 5, Folder 21
Giotti di Bondone (World War 1 writings),
circa 1918
Carton 5, Folder 22
Subiaco (World War 1 writings),
circa 1918
Carton 5, Folder 23
In Piper-Land (World War 1 writings),
circa 1918
Carton 5, Folder 24
St. Francis (World War 1 writings),
circa 1918
Carton 5, Folder 25
Saturday, September 28 (World War 1 writings),
circa 1918
Carton 5, Folder 26
The Soldier's and Sailor's Bulletin,
circa 1922
Carton 5, Folder 27
Lenchen's Caprice,
undated
Carton 5, Folder 28-31
The Lark (No. 1-24),
1895-1897
Carton 6, Folder 1
The Lark (No. 13-24; bound),
1896-1897
Carton 6, Folder 2
The Lark (assorted),
circa 1895-1897
Carton 6, Folder 3
Talks and lecture notes,
undated
Subseries 1.7
Personalia, Ephemera, and Miscellany.
circa 1896-1953
Physical Description:
Carton 6, folder 4-23; oversize folder 1-3; oversize box 1
Carton 6, Folder 4
Awards and certificates,
1926-1937
Oversize Folder 3
Awards and certificates,
circa 1920-1937
Tube 1
Certificate from the New York City Art Commission [restricted due to condition; use reproduction in Oversize folder 3]
circa 1935
Carton 6, Folder 5
Resolution by the Hispanic Society on the death of Ernest Peixotto,
1941
Carton 6, Folder 7
Travel documents and passports,
circa 1890-1940
Carton 6, Folder 8
Travel ephemera: United States,
1915, undated
Oversize Folder 1
Travel ephemera: United States,
1915, undated
Carton 6, Folder 9-10
Travel ephemera: South America,
1912, 1938-1939, undated
Oversize Folder 1
Travel ephemera: South America,
1912, 1938-1939, undated
Carton 6, Folder 11
Ephemera collected and calling cards of people met on Peruvian trip,
1912
Carton 6, Folder 12
Assorted programs,
1913-1953
Carton 6, Folder 13
Fragments from Le Petit Journal des Refusees(ed. Gelett Burgess),
1896
Box 2
Guest book,
circa 1900-1930
Carton 6, Folder 14
Assorted news clippings,
circa 1910-1940
Oversize Folder 2
Assorted news clippings,
circa 1910-1940
Carton 6, Folder 15
Miscellany,
circa 1900-1940
Oversize Folder 1
Miscellany,
circa 1900-1940
Oversize Folder 1
Articles on Peixotto,
undated
Carton 6, Folder 16-23
Clippings scrapbook pages,
1906-1928
Oversize Box 1, Folder 5
French Legion of Honor Medal,
1921
Series 2
Mary Peixotto.
circa 1838-1956
Physical Description:
Carton 6, folder 24-50; carton 7; oversize box 1; volume 1
Subseries 2.1
Correspondence.
1897-1956
Physical Description:
Carton 6, folder 24-50; carton 7, folder 1-22
Carton 6, Folder 24-41
Letters to Ernest Peixotto,
1918-1939
Carton 6, Folder 42
Letters to mother and brother,
1900
Carton 6, Folder 43
Letter and postcard to sister, Mrs. William Bull Pringle,
1930
Carton 6, Folder 44-50
General correspondence,
1897-1918
Carton 7, Folder 1-12
General correspondence,
1918-1956,
undated
Carton 7, Folder 13-19
Condolence letters (upon death of Ernest Peixotto),
1940-1941
Carton 7, Folder 20
Condolence telegrams,
1940-1941
Carton 7, Folder 21-22
Condolence calling cards,
1940-1941
Subseries 2.2
Hutchinson Family Papers and Genealogy.
circa 1838-1956
Physical Description:
Carton 7, folder 23-33
Carton 7, Folder 23
Letter from Isabel Hutchinson Pringle, from Yosemite, to her parents,
1902
Carton 7, Folder 24
Letters from T.R. Hutchinson to his wife Annie and daughter Isabel,
1988,
1901,
1903
Carton 7, Folder 25
Letter fragment from Prentis Hutchinson, Murphy's Camp, Calif., to his mother,
1891
Carton 7, Folder 26
Letter from William Denman to Anthony Campbell and deed of Anthony Cambell (of Natchez, Mississippi),
1839
Carton 7, Folder 27
Letter from Mary Campbell (Pine Ridge, Mississippi) to John G. Fleming,
1838
Carton 7, Folder 29
Letters regarding genealogy
1901
Carton 7, Folder 30-31
Genealogy and family history papers,
circa 1900-1956
Carton 7, Folder 32
Property documents (Adams County, Mississipi),
circa 1838
Carton 7, Folder 33
Notes made by Isabel Pringle Clark,
undated
Subseries 2.3
Personalia and other papers.
circa 1897-1956
Physical Description:
Carton 7, folder 34-44; oversize box 1; volume 1
Carton 7, Folder 34
Scrapbook pages,
circa 1897
Oversize Box 1, Folder 4
Clippings scrapbook of musical and theatrical performances,
circa 1895-1905
Carton 7, Folder 35
References and recommendations,
circa 1918
Carton 7, Folder 37
Newsclippings regarding Ernest Peixotto's death,
1940-1941
Carton 7, Folder 38
Materials regarding Ernest Peixotto's death and burial,
1940-1941
Volume 1
Ernest Peixotto Memorial Committee scrapbook,
1940-1941
Carton 7, Folder 39
Letter regarding Mary Peixotto's death (to Eustace and Catherine),
circa 1956
Carton 7, Folder 40
Invitations,
circa 1924, undated
Carton 7, Folder 42
Hutchinson and Company legal records,
1933
Subseries 2.4
Notes and Drawings.
circa 1898-1941
Physical Description:
Carton 7, folder 45-47; box 1
Carton 7, Folder 45
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
1898
Carton 7, Folder 46
Unidentified notebook,
1908
Box 1, Folder 1
Unidentified sketchbook,
circa 1930-1949
Box 1, Folder 2
Unidentified sketchbook,
circa 1941
Box 1, Folder 3
Unidentified sketchbook,
undated