Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Bruce Porter pictorial miscellany.
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
Bruce Porter pictorial miscellanyCreator/Contributor:
Porter, Bruce, 1865-1953, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942Creator/Contributor:
Maurer, Oscar, 1870-1965Creator/Contributor:
Moulin, Gabriel, 1872-1945Abstract:
Includes sketches of California missions, portraits, and other subjects; personal and family photographs; photographs of Porter's
and others' art works, of homes and of flower stands at Temple Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.) Among the photographs of artworks
(PIC folder 4) are 3 photographs of Porter's murals at the W.B. Bourn mansion on Webster Street in San Francisco, and numerous
photographs of stained glass windows, and of sketches for them, made by Porter for several California churches. Slides (PIC
folder 6), probably made in the 1970s or later, document 57 works in various media by Porter. Also present are some original
paintings and prints, including 2 still life paintings on glass of flowers.
Date:
approximately 1880-1939 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caArtists -- California
Spanish mission buildings -- California -- Pictorial works
Artistes -- Californie
Missions espagnoles (Édifices) -- Californie -- Ouvrages illustrés
Artists
Spanish mission buildings
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.)
Porter, Bruce -- 1865-1953 -- Portraits
Porter, Annie Williamson -- Portraits
Bynner, Witter -- 1881-1968 -- Portraits
Bynner, Witter -- 1881-1968
Porter, Bruce -- 1865-1953
Note:
Photographers include Arnold Genthe (1 portrait), Oscar Maurer and Gabriel Moulin.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES, TRANSPARENCIES, and PAINTINGS ON GLASS: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate
curator.
Transferred from the Bruce Porter papers (BANC MSS 78/171 c). Additions (2002), transferred from the Bruce Porter papers,
additions (BANC MSS 2003/125 c).
Gift; Of Catherine P. Short, daughter of Bruce Porter; 1978.
Additions: purchase; 2002.
Bruce Porter photographs cataloged separately as: BANC PIC 1972.020.
Partial list of contents available in library.
Type:
graphicPictorial works.
Portraits.
Sketches.
Sketchbooks.
Portraits.
Slides-Color.
Transparencies.
Physical Description:
drawing
1 box (approximately 40 photographic prints and approximately 60 slides), 1 album (9 sketches), 3 oversize folders (approximately
60 sketches), 2 paintings on glass and 13 overhead transparencies : black and white and color ; various sizes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES, TRANSPARENCIES, and PAINTINGS ON GLASS: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate
curator.