Object Details
- Creator
- Cushing, Lily Emmet, 1909-1969
- Subject
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
- Frankfurter, Alfred M.
- Graham, Katharine
- Kefauver, Nancy
- Bernstein, Henri
- Chiang, May-ling Soong
- Kuhn, Walt
- Zhonghua fu nü fan gong kang E lian he hui
- Maynard Walker Gallery
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- United States
- Physical Description
- 4 Linear feet
- Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as 7 series: Series 1: Biographical Material, 1953-1967 (Box 1; 14 folders) Series 2: Letters, 1929-1972 (Box 1-2, OV 7; 1.4 linear feet) Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1934-1969 (Box 2-3, 6; 0.8 linear feet) Series 4: Notes and Writings, 1955-1969 (Box 3; 23 folders) Series 5: Art Work, circa 1940 (Box 3, 6; 3 folders) Series 6: Printed Material, 1930-1968 (Box 3, 6; 30 folders) Series 7: Photographs, 1940-1968 (Box 3-6; 0.8 linear feet)
- Access Note / Rights
- Use of original papers requires an appointment.
- Summary
- The papers of painter Lily Emmet Cushing date from 1929 to 1972 and measure 4.0 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical material; letters from friends including Henri Bernstein, Alfred M. Frankfurter, Katharine Graham, Nancy Kefauver, and Walt Kuhn; personal business records including financial material concerning the Maynard Walker Gallery; notes and writings; art work; printed material; and photographs.
- Citation
- Lily Emmet Cushing papers, 1929-1972. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Related Materials
- An unrecorded number of exhibition catalogs were removed from the collection and given to the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Art Library in 1977.
- Biography Note
- Lily Cushing (1909-1969) of New York City was primarily known as a painter of landscapes and still lifes of flowers.
- Lily Cushing was born on January 13, 1909 in New York City, the third child of Ethel Cochrane and artist Howard Gardiner Cushing. She studied painting in the studio of Alexandre Jacovleff in Paris from 1926-1927, and with Walt Kuhn in New York City in 1929. Cushing's first solo exhibition was at the Arden Gallery in New York in 1930.
- In 1929, Cushing married George Crawford Clark Jr. in Newport, Rhode Island. Following her divorce from Clark, she married William Temple Emmet, Jr. in 1932. They had two daughters, Alexandra and Lily. Cushing's second marriage also ended in divorce. In 1953, she married naval officer Alston M. Boyd in New York.
- Cushing's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in the private collections of Paul Mellon, John Hay Whitney, and Joseph P. Kennedy, among others.
- Lily Cushing died on September 21, 1969, in Fishers Island, New York.
- Language Note
- English .
- Provenance
- The Lily Emmet Cushing papers were donated in 1972 by the artist's daughters Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger and Lily Emmet West.
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA_CollID)9463
- (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211661
- AAA_collcode_cushlily
- Type
- Postcards
- Notebooks
- Photographs
- Typescripts
- Paintings
- Theme
- Women
- Lives of artists
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Landscape painting
- Women artists
- Women painters
- Theme
- Women
- Lives of artists
- Record ID
- AAADCD_coll_211661
