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The Cornish Colony at Rauner

 

The Cornish Art Colony grew up around Augustus Saint-Gaudens beginning in the mid-1880s, centered in Cornish, New Hampshire. Some of the major collections connected with the Cornish Art Colony at Rauner are the Augustus Saint-Gaudens papers (ML-4), the MacKaye Family papers (ML-5), and the Maxfield Parrish papers (ML-62).

 

MANUSCRIPTS

Augustus Saint-Gaudens papers (ML-4) 

1869 to 1950

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), sculptor. Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, pencil sketches, financial and legal documents, photographs, newspaper clippings and printed matter related to Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Cornish Colony and members of his extended family.

 

MacKaye Family papers (ML-5)

1751 to 1998

The MacKaye Family Papers contain correspondence, manuscript drafts, photographs, financial records, sketchbooks, notebooks, diaries, programs, broadsides, posters, newspaper clippings, and ephemeral items. They chronicle four generations of the family. The bulk of the collections focus is on dramatist Steele MacKaye, his son and fellow dramatist and poet, Percy MacKaye, as well as the noted conservationist Benton MacKaye.

 

Maxfield Parrish papers (ML-62)

1866 to 1985

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), painter and illustrator. The collection consists of personal and professional papers and correspondence, posters, prints, sketches and proofs as well as glass plate negatives documenting the life and work of Maxfield Parrish and his family.

 

Blow-Me-Down Farm records (MS-602)

Undated

Blowmedown Record 1884. Photocopy of the transcription of the record, a log kept by Charles C. Beaman and his family of events at Blow-Me-Down Farm, 1884-1917, activities in Cornish and the Cornish Colony, and visitors to the farm.

 

Cornish Colony Museum Collection (MS-1404)

1983 to 2006

Cornish Colony Museum (1998-2010). The collection contains letters, records, clippings, programs and ephemera related to the museum in Cornish, New Hampshire. The museum showed art produced by residents of the Cornish Art Colony.

 

Drawings for C.C. Beaman's renovations (MS-784)

1890

Daniel Appleton. The collection contains drawings by Appleton, a Boston architect for renovations to Mercer Cottage, one of C. C. Beaman's home in Cornish, New Hampshire.

 

Fairchild-Fuller family papers (MS-152)

The collection contains correspondence with various members of the Fuller and Fairchild families, and with members of the Cornish Colony of artists and writers, as well as photographs, manuscripts, articles, diaries, sketches, poems and sheet music.

 

Frances S. Eastman collection on Frances Duncan Manning (MS-603)

Circa 1947-1976

The collection consists of letters, photographs, audiotapes and clippings relating to Francis Duncan Manning's life in the Cornish Colony and work with women's suffrage. The items were collected by her granddaughter Frances Eastman.

 

Louise Howland King Cox photo album (MS-678)

1900 to 1910

Louise Howland King Cox (1865-1945), painter. The collection contains a photo album with photographs taken by Louise Cox of family members, Cornish home, and other Cornish Colony residents.

 

Saint Gaudens Memorial papers (MS-1209)

1919 - 1984 

The records of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial consist of correspondence, financial records, trustee records, flyers, programs and audio cassette tapes with interviews conducted primarily by Joan Platt and James Farley. The records chronicle the day-to-day operation of the Memorial since its inception in 1919.

 

Sculpture photographs (MS-782)

1915 to 1935

Sculpture Photographs. The collection contains contemporary photographs of the work of American sculptor Herbert Adams, a sometime member of the Cornish Colony of artists.

 

Stephen Parrish papers (MS-620)

1867 to 1983

Stephen Parrish (1846-1938), artist. The collection consists of records, etchings, articles, correspondence, a manuscript and correspondence chronicling his life as an artist.

 

PRINTED MATERIALS

  • New Hampshire’s Cornish Colony. Meyers, Fern K.; Atkinson, James B., 1934-. (Ref C68 M49 2005)
  • The creation of a lifestyle: an oral history of the Cornish Art Colony. Sullivan, Meghan E. (D.C. History F44.C8 S85 1999)
  • Footprints of the past: images of Cornish, New Hampshire & the Cornish Colony. Colby, Virginia Reed, 1921-1995.; Atkinson, James B., 1934-. (Ref F44.C8 1996)
  • A place of beauty: the artists and gardens of the Cornish Colony. Gilbert-Smith, Alma.; Tankard, Judith B. (Ref SB466.U65 N524 2000)
  • Augustus Saint Gaudens, American sculptor of the Gilded Age. Duffy, Henry J.; Dryfhout, John, 1940-. (Ref NB237.S2 A4 2003)
  • The work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Dryfhout, John, 1940-. (Ref NB237.S2 A4 1982)
  • The papers of the MacKaye family in the Dartmouth College Library. (Ref Z6616.M34 D377 1981)