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Formal title:: Richard Brown Baker Family Papers
Extent:: 8 linear feet
Date range:: 1866-2002 (bulk 1900-1990)
Abstract:: Richard Brown Baker was born in Providence, R.I. on November 5, 1912 to Harvey Almy Baker and Marion North Brown. His grandfather was Henry Martin Brown, President of the Industrial Trust Co. of Rhode Island (later Fleet National Bank). He became a prodigious collector owning over 1,600 works of art before he died. He focused on the artists that were new and on the edge deciding in the 1950s to focus on young and unestablished artists. Richard Baker was one of the first to buy works by artists such as Jackson Pollock and Roy Lichtenstein.
Repository:: Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:: MSS 1117
Inventory:

Item	Box 2 Folder 5	See also Series 3 Writings: A Novice Collector and the New Art of the 1950s: selected from the journals and other writings of Richard Brown Baker covering the years 1954-1959	1954 Jan-1954 Jun
Item	Box 5b Folder 36	Art collecting Some undated	1962
Item	Box 9 Folder 1-6	A Novice Collector and the New Art of the 1950s: selected from the journals and other writings of Richard Brown Baker covering the years 1954-1959 c.1987	1987

Formal title:: Providence Lithograph Company Records
Extent:: 5 linear feet
Date range:: 1880-1975
Abstract:: This collection includes correspondence, contracts, agreements, and reference files on individual artists. The bulk of the materials relate to the company’s efforts to secure rights to artwork and to printing orders generated by religious groups. Of note is a folder of correspondence with watercolor artist Newell C. Wyeth (1882-1945) regarding worked commissioned from him.
Repository:: Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:: MSS 1028
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Box 4 Folder 5

Fine arts artist file (lists paintings by artist and by number), undated

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