Manuscripts

Oil paintings

Description: Includes oil paintings, mainly of geese, and 1 watercolor.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1920 - approximately 1930
Call number: mssWickes
Creator: Wickes, Ethel May (1872-1940)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Liliane D. Wells, January 1979.; Gift of D. McElwain, November 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Large panel paintings of flowers

Manuscripts

A collection of 135 items which contains correspondence, business and biographical papers and numerous drawings and paintings from 1917 to 1978. The correspondence is both addressed to, and written by, Wickes and makes up almost half of the total collection. The business and other papers include a great deal of biographical information about Wickes, including lists of her paintings and exhibitions, photographs, a copy of her will and several notes and documents written about her life. The artwork contained in the collection includes twenty-nine pieces by Wickes, which includes pastel drawings and both oil and watercolor paintings, fifteen watercolors by her friend, and fellow artist, Liliane D. Wells, and a drawing by John Hoffman (1920-1937). Correspondents include Bertha Ast, Willis Linn Jepson, Clarence E. Wells and Liliane D. Wells.

mssWickes

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