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Archives of American Art, Smithsonian: Francis Davis Millet & Millet family papers

Muralist, Painter, Author: Always known as Frank, [he] was a prominent artist who was well known for murals that contained ...

Bunner, H.C: The Making of the White City

In advance of the opening of the 1893 Exposition, Scribner's Magazine's October 1892 issue describes what it took to put ...

Burnham & Millet: The Book of the Builders, The Worlds Columbian Exposition

In The Book of the Builders, Burnham and Millet tell the story of the creation of the "Great White City" ...

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison WI: The Tile Club: Camaraderie and American Plein-Air Painting

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison WI: The Tile Club: Camaraderie and American Plein-Air Painting The Tile Club was one of ...

Cortissoz, Royal, American Artists

Royal Cortissoz a noted art critic of the 19th Century, publish his book, American Artists, through Charles Scribner's Sons.  It ...

Davis, Chelsea: Research Outline for, Baby Worship and Thesmophoria, including other sources…. 

Davis, Chelsea: Research Outline for, Baby Worship and Thesmophoria, including other sources....  ARTH 2800 Research Update 2/23/21 The title of ...

Frick Digital Collections

The Frick Digital Collections are a treasure trove of images and contemporary records of artists whose work is in the ...

Getty Library Catalog: Letters to Buffalo & Ticknor not before 1884, “some medals for the government”

The artist writes a friend...expressing regrets that he has no free evenings because he must use them to work on ...

Gore, Jason: Millet’s Paolo – A Provenance

Millet's Paolo - A Provenance, by Jason Gore, a great-great- grandson of Frank Millet Paolo The Greek Photographs accompanying the ...

Hudson County Courthouse Restoration Jersey City, NJ: Murals & Historic Finishes, FD Millet Decorator

Hudson County, New Jersey knew that they had a national treasure in their Francis Davis Millet decorated Courthouse, and that ...

Humphreys, Kathryn: The Mystery of Sadie Waters: Miniatures, Misfortune, and Material Representation

In 1888, Millet painted an evocative portrait of the young Sadie Waters.  The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, she was ...

Hunt, James: Collected photographs, list of Millet’s creative output etc, from the James Hunt estate.

The collected documents include lists, copies and photographs of Millet, family, friends and associates. There is the possibility that these ...

Hunt, James: Millet at Work: A Chronicle of Friendship: Part I. The World’s Fair at Chicago

It is doubtful if the chronicles of friendship contain a truer instance of love between men than that which is ...

Hunt, James: Millet at Work. A Chronicle of Friendship. Part II: After the World’s Fair

"He will not be forgotten we live who knew him and loved for all time, in whatever of beauty there ...

LETTERS – and Misc. Correspondence to Francis Davis Millet from: 

LETTERS - and Misc. Correspondence to Francis Davis Millet from:  A collected PDF of letters from friends, and acquaintances of ...

Millet Memorial Meetings: American Federation of the Arts, May 10,1912 & other Memorials

One of the founders of the American Federation of the Arts in Washington, DC.  Millet had even hosted the very ...

Millet Murals: Mural Painters Society,1916 Brochure of Mural Painters and other mural articles

The Mural Painters Society, founded in 1895,  published a small book in 1916, Brochure of Mural Painters of all Mural's ...

Millet, Francis Davis: Chairman of the Niagara Falls Preservation Commission

Francis Davis Millet was appointed by President Taft to be the Chairman of the Niagara Falls Preservation Commission. In this ...

Millet, Francis Davis: What are we doing in Art? Original Handwritten manuscript,1891

In 1891, Millet was concerned about the direction that contemporary art was moving and he wrote an opinion article entitled ...

Oxford Reference: Francis Davis Millet, Overview

Artist, Writer, Administrator:  Best known for detailed genre scenes, often set in the historical past, he also painted murals and ...

Royal Academy City Archive Records for 1871-1872 & 1872-1873 Academic Years

Following a years remote research into the two academic years FD Millet spent in Antwerp at the Royal Academy of ...

Sullivan, Michael: Commentary about criticism of 19th Century values with a 21st Century Lens

Since the dawn of humanity, people have been using various forms of what can be called art to express their ...

U.S. Commission of Fine Arts: Francis Davis Millet

FD Millet was appointed Vice Chairman, by President Taft and served from 1910-1912, because of his untimely death in 1912 ...

Van Keuren, Frances & Zohn, Kristen: ‘Some Useful Hints for Improving the Elegance and Dignity of her Attire’: Thomas Hope and Henry Moses, Greek Vases and Neoclassical Fashion

Abstract:   Author, artist, designer and collector Thomas Hope (1769–1831) published his influential Costume of the Ancients in 1809 and in ...

Van Keuren, Frances: Ancient Costume Bibliography Named at Beginning and End of Francis Davis Millet’s Unpublished “Costume Notes”

Ancient Costume Bibliography Named at Beginning and End of Francis Davis Millet’s Unpublished “Costume Notes” Archives of American Art – ...

Weinberg, H. Barbara: The Career of Francis Davis Millet

The Career of Francis Davis Millet H. Barbara Weinberg's  1977 article for  the Archives of American Art Journal (by way ...
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