Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives

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  • Subject = Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence
  • Subject = Art commissions
  • Date = 4/21/1911

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This collection contains primary resources about Carnegie's bequests along with supporting explanatory text, that teachers will be able to use as part of their curriculum.
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(Samuel H. Church to Anders L. Zorn, April 21, 1911)
(Samuel H. Church to Anders L. Zorn, April 21, 1911)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Zorn, Anders, 1860-1920, --Correspondence, Carnegie Institute. Board of Trustees, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Portraits, Philanthropists--United States--Portraits, Painters--Sweden, Portraits, Art commissions, New York (N.Y.)
A typescript letter from Secretary, presumably from Samuel H. Church, to Mr. Anders L. Zorn explaining that the Trustees (presumably Carnegie Institute, Board of Trustees) want him to paint the large $7,000 portrait of Andrew Carnegie. Church asks Zorn to telegraph him as soon as he is ready to return to New York.