Lawrence Park (art historian)

Lawrence Park (born December 16, 1873 in Worcester, Massachusetts , † September 28, 1924 in Groton, Massachusetts ) was an American architect and art historian .

Lawrence Park was the son of the neurologist John Gray Park (1838-1905). He studied from 1892 to 1896 without a degree at Harvard College and then attended the School of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for a year . He then began to work as a draftsman in the architecture firm Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge in Boston and lived in Groton. From 1901 to 1910 he ran an architecture firm with Robert R. Kendall under the name Park & ​​Kendall in Boston, after which he hardly worked as an architect.

After initial genealogical studies, he became interested in early American art ("Colonial Art"), especially portrait painting, from around 1914, and became an expert in this field. This led him to become the non-resident curator of colonial art at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1919 . In particular, he was concerned with the work of the portrait painter Gilbert Stuart , whose catalog of works he compiled, which is still valid today, but which only appeared after his death.

Publications (selection)

• William Park, of Groton, Mass., And descendants . In: Genealogy of the Parke families of Massachusetts, including Richard Parke, of Cambridge, William Park, of Groton, and others . Washington, DC 1909, pp. 194-207 ( digitized ).
• Joseph Badger (1708-1765), and a descriptive list of some of his works . In: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 51, 1917, pp. 158-201 ( digitized version ), also separately Boston 1918.
• Joseph Blackburn - Portrait Painter. In: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 32, 1922, pp. 270-329 ( digitized version ), also separately Joseph Blackburn, a colonial portrait painter. With a descriptive list of his works . American Antiquarian Society, Worcester 1923.
• Hubard, William James . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 604 .
• Gilbert Stuart. An illustrated descriptive list of his work . 4 volumes, Rudge, New York 1926 ( digitized volume 1 , volume 2 , volume 3 , volume 4 ).

literature

• WL: Lawrence Park. In: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 34, 1924, pp. 153-154 ( digitized ).
• William Sawitzky: Lawrence Park . In: Lawrence Park: Gilbert Stuart. An illustrated descriptive list of his work . Rudge, New York 1926, Volume 1, pp. 5-8 ( digitized version , with picture).

Web links

• Part of the estate concerning Gilbert Stuart in the Frick Collection
• From the estate of the American Antiquarian Society , Manuscript Collections
• Legacy part in the Winterthur Library