Box 8

The papers include art historian Lauretta Dimmick's research material for the book, American sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, volume I: a catalogue of works by artists born before 1865 includes biographical and bibiliographic information on each artist along with correspondence, notes, theses, a dissertation, catalogs, copies of portions of published works, and photographs. The collection contains a variety of biographical and bibliographic information on each of the American sculptors represented, as well as information pertaining to each artist's works. A number of major sculptors of the nineteenth century are represented in the collection, including Frederic Remington, Augustus Saint Gaudens, Harriet Hosmer, William Rimmer, and William Morris Hunt.