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The following links to external websites are presented for convenience only & are not an exhaustive list of related Millet websites. By clicking on these links you will be leaving the FD Millet website. We have, when possible, attempted to link directly to FD Millet items shown in the affiliated organizations collections or as reference to their sources. From time to time the organizations may change their links. If for some reason our link does not go directly to Francis Davis Millet material, please adjust your URL request to the organizations base link and conduct a search on their site for the Millet material of interest. A search suggestion would be to search by last name only, Millet, or use the full name Francis Davis Millet, since they often produce different results. Also note there are several different artists that have the surname Millet.

Museums or Institutions with Millet Artwork

Brigham Young University Museum of Art - Provo, Utah

Brigham Young University, in Provo Utah, has a fine art museum that holds a good collection of Broadway Colony members work. They also hold a beautiful color painting of Thesmophoria that was produced by Frank as the design for a life-size mural for the Bank of Pittsburgh. That mural is now,
unfortunately, destroyed when the bank was torn down. They also hold an Augustus St. Gaudens plaque of Millet.
https://moa.byu.edu/civilization-at-the-byu-museum-of-art/thesmophoria

Broadway Museum – Broadway, England

Broadway is in the far southeast of Worcestershire, close to the Gloucestershire border, midway between Evesham and Moreton-in-Marsh. It is sometimes referred to as the “Jewel of the Cotswolds”.
In the 1880’s Frank and Lily Millet purchased a home in Broadway and from that base a “colony” of luminaries gathered around them. The Broadway Museum, on High St. in Broadway has multiple Millet items on display and from time to time hosts exhibitions about various members of the Millet’s Colony of friends.
https://www.broadwaymuseum.org.uk/product/the-broadway-artist-colony-exhibition

Brooklyn Museum of Art – Brooklyn, New York

The museum holds a Greek revival oil painting by Millet, An Autumn Idyll, 1892.
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/414

Carnegie Museum of Art – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

During his lifetime Millet worked closely with Andrew Carnegie and the museum, and the museum owned many Millet paintings. Unfortunately, over the decades most have been sold. However, they do still hold a nice oil portrait and one of the only known bronze plaques that Millet every produced, both images ae of Anna Pearson Hall a young daughter of a prominent Pittsburgh family.
https://collection.carnegieart.org/objects/bc51d3fb-60a5-489f-b971-b38677e015aa : Anna Pearson Hall, oil, 1903
https://collection.carnegieart.org/objects/f285e641-72a0-47a4-adbb-43b261d92e84 : Bronze Plaque of Anna Pearson Hall
https://carnegieart.org/?s=Francis+Davis+Millet : Photographs of Millet artwork institute in the 1890’s

The Costume Institute @ the Metropolitan Museum of Art

There are 26 costumes, in the Costume Institute collection, from the Millet collection of over 2,000 costumes Millet held during his lifetime. Most of the original Millet collection of costumes are lost. The Costume Institute’s collection of more than 33000 costumes and accessories represents five continents and seven centuries of fashionable dress.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?department=8&q=Millet

Detroit Institute of Art - Detroit Michigan

In 1883 the Detroit Institute of Art opened its doors for the first time, and following their first exhibition, by popular demand, the very first painting they ever purchased was Millet’s Reading the Story of Oenone. Such was the interest in Greek revival painting and Millet being at the center of the movement, was a major artist producing Greek revival work.
https://dia.org/collection/reading-story-oenone-65958 : Reading the Story of Oenone, ca. 1883

Gallery of NSW - New South Wales, Sidney, Australia

Shall I? was painted by FD Millet circa 1900
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/6063

High Museum of Art - Atlanta, Georgia

The High Museum of Art features a collection of more than 20,000 works of art.
https://high.org/collection/the-expansionist-the-traveled-man/ : The Expansionist painted by Millet in 1899

Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York

The Met presents over 5000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The museum holds several FD Millet items, including the painting Cosey Corner and an Augustus St. Gaudens bronze plaque of Frank:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11583

Morris Museum of Art – Augusta, Georgia

The Morris has preserved the history and culture of the South for more than twenty-five years and has an extensive collection of artists working in the South since the founding of the country until today. The Major Butt portrait by Millet was acquired from the family, who has been a major part of the Augusta community for generations.
https://www.instagram.com/morrismuseumoart/p/C72Mi3FPbbD/?img_index=3 : Instagram link to Butt portrait
https://www.themorris.org/collection/ : Collections page of the museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Boston, Massachusetts

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has a very long history with Millet. He was one of the founders of the Museum School of Art and placed his close friend, Otto Grundmann as the first director of the school. The MFA holds several important Millet works. The following links are two of those items. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/34418 : The Granddaughter painted in 1885
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31551/seacoast?ctx=462bd16f-df36-4968-a151-8a362a42a2ff&idx=1 : Seacoast, c1880

Tate Britain Museum - London England

The Tate, has two museums, the Tate Modern is the more well-known situated on the Themes River in a renovated power plant. The oldest museum of the pair of the museums is the Tate Britain located in the Millbank part of London since 1897. It holds, a major Millet oil painting, Between Two Fires, circa 1892.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millet-between-two-fires-n01611

Library, Archive & Special Interest Websites

Includes Archives, Libraries & Private Organizations that have Millet Items

American Academy of Arts and Letters - New York City, New York

AAA&L is an, elected membership limited, honor society of the leading 300 artists, architects, composers, and writers who foster and sustain interest in the American arts. They have an archive of records about their members from the 1800’s until today. For inquiries related to our collections and archive, please write archives@artsandletters.org.
https://www.artsandletters.org/collections : Collections highlights

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution – Washington, DC

AAA/Smithsonian holds a large collection of Millet artwork, letters and other documents that have been donated from many sources. The Archives of American Art is the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources of American History.
https://www.aaa.si.edu : Base link to AAA
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/francis-davis-millet-and-millet-family-papers-9048 : Millet Family Papers https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/francis-millet-rogers-research-material-regarding-francis-davis-millet-11116 : Rogers research about Millet

Getty Museum & Library at Getty Center – Los Angeles, California

The Getty can be a valuable resource for broadly searching multiple Millet sources through their powerful Library search engine. They also have some Millet items in their Art & their Archival Collections. Following link is a good index page through which you can access their various holdings and guide to reference sources.
https://www.getty.edu/search/?query=Francis+Davis+Millet&page=1 : Index page for all resources

Harvard University – Harvard, Buildings, Library & Museums – Boston, Massachusetts

Millet received his BA and Masters from Harvard in the 19th century. Along with Millet items in the Harvard Museum and Library, Millet was commissioned with Tiffany to design two stained glass windows for the Annenberg Memorial Hall. The Harvard library also, has a number of historical documents about his time at Harvard and his life following Harvard in their, Hollis for Archival Discovery site.
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/304665 : Bust of Millet by Albin Ploasek, 1912
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections : Artwork and resources about FDM
https://websites.harvard.edu/memhall/collections/stained-glass/ : Annenberg Hall windows
https://library.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/static/onlineexhibits/widener/library/5_3.html : Letter
https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=Francis+Davis+Millet&field%5B%5D=&commit=Search++&limit=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D= : Hollis for Archival Discovery holdings

National Academy of Design – New York City, New York

Formerly known as The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, the museum was founded in New York City in 1825 “to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition.” Membership in the Academy is limited to 450 artists and architects based on recognized excellence and extraordinary contributions to art. The National Academy of Design holds a significant collection of American art. With nearly 8,000 works of art it was largely assembled through donations. Unfortunately, as of a 2019 the 200-year old National Academy of Design decided to permanently close its museum operations and has no plans of reopening its doors in the future for public viewing, however, researchers can access the collection by request. Most of the collection is currently housed in Wilmington, Delaware.
https://nationalacademy.emuseum.com/search/%22francis%20davis%20millet%22 : Two paintings by Millet, a self portrait & Queen of the Feast along with a Gaudens plaque of FDM are in the collection.

New Bedford Free Public Library – New Bedford, Massachusetts

The library owns a large Millet colonial revival genre painting, Black Sheep. It also has several letters of correspondence about the mural the library had commissioned for their dome which was never completed because of Millet’s death. To access the collection, it is advised to contact the library art room collections manager directly.
https://www.newbedford-ma.gov/library/special-collections : Collections Art Room
https://newbedfordlibrary.pastperfectonline.com/WebObject?search_criteria=Francis+Davis+Millet&onlyimages=false : Painting

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium

The library of the Academy holds files of artwork produced by the student’s during the 19th century. Millet’s silver medal drawing, Naukydes Discobolus, discus thrower, is one. Access can be arranged through the librarian by email, via their contact page.
https://www.ap-arts.be/en/ka-contact-academie-en : Contact page for all departments of the Academy
Antwerp City Archives: Antwerp City Archives, houses the Academy’s 19th century records. Access to the years of Millet attendance, 1872- 1873 is best done with the assistance of a City Archivist, through email.
https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be/zoekresultaten?bevat=Francis&bevat=Davis&bevat=Millet&page=1&pageSize=25

Salmagundi Club – New York City, New York

Founded in 1871, Salmagundi Club is a private members only club focused around the fine arts. It purpose since its founding by artists and patrons, is to support one another and to encourage the advancement of art of all kinds. As a small part of their fine art collection, the hold a large group of palettes, from many of the 19th century’s foremost painters, Millet among them.
https://salmagundi.org/?s=Francis+Davis+Millet&post_type=product : Millet’s paint palette

Smithsonian American Art Museum – Washington, DC

https://americanart.si.edu/artist/francis-davis-millet-3339 : Bronze plaque of FDM, as well as other artwork created by Millet

Tufts University Archives - Medford, Massachusetts

The archives hold some substantial scrapbooks and histories of the creation of the Boston Museum School of Fine Art. Millet was instrumental in the creation of the art school and the scrapbooks hold photos of several of his Greek costumes. The archives also hold letters and records of Millet’s sister Lucia Millet (Edlund). Lucia, lived with the Millet’s for years and was an important helper to Lily, with the children.
https://archives.tufts.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=Boston+Museum+of+art+school+of+fine+art&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=Search : Museum School scrapbooks
https://archives.tufts.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=Millet&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=Search : Lucia Millet (Edlund) papers

Union League Club - New York City, New York

Founded in 1863 as a social club in New York by citizens to help preserve the Union. The club has had many prominent civic, state, and national leaders as members, including 15 Presidents, as well as leading officers of major corporations. They have an extensive art collection, often enlarged by donations from the members or purchased through their art exhibitions. Among their collection is At the Inn, painted by Millet in 1884.
https://www.unionleagueclub.org/files/Titanic.pdf : At the Inn, purchased 1886

General Historical Information Websites

Includes websites that deal with a more generalized set of topics, but which also includes Millet material
as one of their topics of interest.

Encyclopedia Titanica

This website is for people who are interested in the history of the sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912. The general link is useful for specific searches. The other two links are only examples of the type of discussion threads that may provide background on topics of interest related to Millet.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org : General Site for the discussion of the sinking of the Titanic, and people such as Francis Davis Millet who was on board and died during the sinking of the ship.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/frank-d-millet-his-life-and-work.20274/page-7 : Comments on Sailing the Bay of Naples and other material at East Bridgewater Library

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/francis-millet-and-the-cleveland-trust.20273 : Comments on Millet murals at the Cleveland Bank and Trust building

Wikipedia

Listing for Francis Davis Millet , an American classical painter, sculptor, and writer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Davis_Millet

Commission of Fine Arts – Washington, DC

Commission of Fine Arts was founded by President Taft when he made Daniel Burnham, Chair and Francis Davis Millet, Vice-chair. Their first commission was to plan the Washington Mall, as well as the design and placement of the Lincoln Memorial that we know today.
https://www.cfa.gov/about-cfa/who-we-are/francis-d-millet : Brief bio