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Collection: William R. Leigh Manuscript Collection

Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Newspaper article from "The Dallas Morning News", "West's Art Needs Size, Dean of Painters Says" with photo of William R. Leigh and wife, Ethel American 4127.760.5-.6
News release for Grand Central Art Galleries "OUR FABULOUS WEST" (1906 - 1953), "A Retrospective Exhibition of the Paintings by W. R. Leigh" American 4027.8520.39
Letter from Richard to Leigh describing trip to Alaska with Charlie Workman American 3837.2697
"An American Artist's Tribute to Ireland" American 5327.538.1-.2 ink on paper
Draft of "The Club-Foot Mind" William Robinson Leigh American 4017.386 ink on paper
Newspaper clipping from Rolling Fork, Miss. Pilot with photo of Leigh's "The Master Hand" American 4117.763.3
"As I go walking down the street" William Robinson Leigh American 4027.3521.1-.5
Booklet authored by Yale students satirizing Shakespeare's authenticity American 5327.536.13b ink on paper
Catalogue for the American Watercolor Society's 95th Annual Exhibition American 5127.1035
Page from "Long Island Forum" with article on Leigh's work "Americana, History and Horseflesh…New York Show of W.R. Leigh's Paintings" American 5027.4387
Handwritten diary of Leigh's trip to Wyoming written inside a McCutchon Drawing Tablet American 4027.8530a
"Let Us Not Despond" William Robinson Leigh American 4017.393b-.2 ink on paper
"Hist!" William Robinson Leigh American 4017.404-.2 ink on paper
Letter from A.N. Blazer to G.F. Valtee regarding internal combustion engine American 3837.8336 ink on paper
Lower part of article from "The New York Times Book Review", "An Artist's Memories of Africa" with drawing of William R. Leigh's Lion Guarding Kill" from his book American 4127.760.17-.18
Photograph of William R. Leigh's painting "Writing the Epitaph" American 4027.8520.8
Letter to "Friend Engles" from Pawnee Bill American 3827.8432
Essay about the "Marsi" race William Robinson Leigh American 4017.8437.3-11 pencil on paper
"A Flash of Genius" from Munsey Magazine American 4017.2473 ink on paper
Two newspaper advertisements for Leigh’s book Frontiers of Enchantment from “New York Herald Tribune” American 4127.760.34