Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives

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  • Original Format = Correspondence
  • Subject = Philanthropists--United States--Portraits
  • Date = 5/29/1911

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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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(John W. Beatty to Samuel H. Church, May 29, 1911)
(John W. Beatty to Samuel H. Church, May 29, 1911)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, W. S. Budworth and Son, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Portraits, Philanthropists--United States--Portraits, Zorn, Anders, 1860-1920, Painters--Sweden, Portraits, Art commissions, Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908, Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930, Ranger, Henry Ward, 1858-1916, Beatty, John W. (John Wesley), 1851-1924--Correspondence
A handwritten letter from John W. Beatty to Samuel Harden Church in reference to a letter from Church that he received the day before. In the letter Beatty writes that he has contacted their New York agents, Budworth and Son, to wait until Beatty arrives before sending for and shipping a portrait painted of Andrew Carnegie by Anders Zorn. Beatty states that his examination of the painting was ""extremely hurried"". Mr. Beatty surmises from Church's original message that Carnegie's sittings for the portrait were stopped and that the portrait was unfinished. Mr. Carnegie has stated that the portrait was finished and Zorn sailed the morning after it was completed. Beatty told Carnegie that the painting impresses him and that Zorn was a renowned painter who has painted portraits of Grover Cleveland and current President Taft. Carnegie then told Beatty to ""tell Church it is not as bad as it might have been"". Beatty writes that he may ""take some good artist friend with me"" when he goes to New York to study the portrait. He then writes that he will write Church about it. He concludes the letter by stating that he is currently visiting Ranger (presumably Henry Ward Ranger) and ""enjoying and undisturbed rest"". On H.W. Ranger, Noank, Conn. stationary.