ma100 Ercole Cartotto Portrait Drawings of Selected Amherst College Alumni, Faculty and Administration, ca. 1930 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Peter Nelson. Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Amherst, MA

Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Sarang Gopalakrishnan. 2003-06-24 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 ma100 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Ercole Cartotto Portrait Drawings of Selected Amherst College Alumni, Faculty and Administration, ca. 1930 Finding Aid Processed: 2003 Jan By: Sarang Gopalakrishnan '06, Student Encoding Assistant Finding Aid: 2003 Feb Prepared by: Sarang Gopalakrishnan '06, Student Encoding Assistant Edited by: Peter A. Nelson, Assistant Archivist Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Cartotto, Ercole Portrait Drawings of Selected Amherst College Alumni, Faculty and Administration ca. 1930 2 archives boxes (1 linear ft.) Amherst College Archives and Special Collections 19 framed portraits of Amherst College alumni, faculty and staff, by the Italian-born portraitist. English. Biographical Note

Ercole Cartotto (1889-1946), Italian-born portraitist, is noted chiefly for his portraits of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. Cartotto studied art at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

19 framed portraits of Amherst College alumni, faculty and administrators. The works were commissioned by President Stanley King (11th President, 1932-1946) for display in the Babbott Room of the Octagon, where the faculty held their meetings for many years. Sometime in the 1970s the works were featured in an exhibition entitled "Personages from the Past of Amherst College," in the Mead Art Museum.

Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

There is no restriction on access to this collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Cartotto Portraits [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

Search Terms Amherst College--Pictorial works. Drawings--Amherst College. Portraits--Amherst College. Additional Information 1 1 Frederick Allis 1893 1 2 Charles A. Andrews 1893 1 3 William P. Bigelow 1889 1 4 Calvin Coolidge 1895 1 5 Howard W. Doughty 1 6 Clarence Eastman 1 7 Thomas C. Esty 1893 1 8 Herbert P. Gallinger 1893 1 9 Otto C. Glaser 2 1 Edward Hitchcock 1849 2 2 Stanley King 1903 2 3 Frederick B. Loomis 1896 2 4 Otto Manthey-Zorn 2 5 Dwight W. Morrow 1895 2 6 William J. Newlin 1899 2 7 Henry de Forest Smith 2 8 Harlan Fiske Stone 1894 2 9 Frederick L. Thompson 1892 2 10 F.J.E. Woodbridge 1889