[American Artists]

Group of five items by American artists including: Childe Hassam. Autograph letter signed, 1 page (5 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.;145 x 118 mm), on personalized stationery with Hassam's New York address, "130 West 57th Street," [no place, no date], to Miss Woodruff, letting her know she can view his works at a Fifth Avenue gallery or his studio: matted, glazed, and framed with an image of one of Hassam's paintings. —  Winslow Homer. Autograph letter signed, 1 page (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 200 x 125 mm), Scarborro, Maine, 18 September 1903 to his cousin, Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs, inviting her to visit "and see a painting that I send away this afternoon."; with autograph envelope. — John Singer Sargent. Autograph letter signed ("John S. Sargent"), 2 pages (6 1/2 x 5 in.; 166 x 128 mm), on stationery of The Copley Plaza Boston, [Saturday but no date], to Mrs. Livermore regarding lunch at the Copley Plaza.  — Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Autograph letter signed ("Augustus St Gaudens"), 2 pages (7 7/8 x 5 in.; 200 x 126 mm), [New York], 21 October 1891, to Alexander S. Graham, explaining the  meaning  of "Nirvana." — James McNeill Whistler. Whistler v. Ruskin: Art & Art Critics. London: Chatto & Windus, [1879], inscribed and signed on the title-page with the artists's characteristic butterfly signature "To Fredk Locker. With compliments."

A fine group of letters by prominent nineteenth-century American artists.