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Wesley M. Burnside research materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1438
Scope and Contents

Research material on the artist Maynard Dixon by Wesley M. Burnside. Materials include correspondence, periodical clippings, original and edited papers, and two signed documents by Dixon.

Dates: 1935-1974
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Robinson Leigh autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 171
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten aubiography. Leigh writes about his life and career as a prominent artist of the American West.

Dates: approximately 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Charles M. Russell papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1651
Scope and Contents

Sale catalogs and circulars, exhibition announcements, prints of Russell's art works, news and magazine articles and clippings, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to Russell's career as an artist. They document how some of his art work was marketed and published.

Dates: 1904-1971
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Nancy Cooper Russell papers

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1167
Scope and Contents Typewritten and signed letter, newspaper clippings, and a catalog. The letters, dated from March 21, 1928 to April 23, 1930, are addressed to T.C. Abbott of Gilt Edge, Montana and discuss the book Mrs. Russell is compiling of her husband's letters. The book was first published in 1930 and was entitled "Good Medicine: the Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell." The newspaper items cover Charles Russell's death. The Dawson's Book Shop catalog contains a listing of the Charles M....
Dates: 1926-1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Juel Buck Schiller biography on Claude Buck

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6256
Abstract

The Juel Buck Schiller biography on Claude Buck includes the account entitled "The Artist, Claude Buck" in which his daughter, Juel, portrays his life through the eyes of a loving daughter. Included are press notes, letters, lists of his exhibits, a detailed biography of his life in terms of poverty, poetry and philosophy as well as his poems which are compiled by Juel.

Dates: 1989
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Dorothy Weir Young papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1291
Abstract This collection consists of the drafts of a biography of the author's father Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) and typescripts of his letters. There is also background material on Julian's father, Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889). Both men were prominent American artists from New York state. The collection is typescripts of various drafts of the biography which was published in 1960 under the title of The life and letters of J. Alden Weir. The...
Dates: 1926-1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926 2
Buck, Claude, 1890-1974 1
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