Tucker, Steven, Paul Mellon Brick House photographs, 1980s
- Call Number:
- S005
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Tucker, Steven
- Title(s):
- Paul Mellon Brick House photographs
- Date:
- 1980s
- Extent:
- .75 linear feet
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 716
- Conditions Governing Access:
- This collection is restricted. Please contact the Yale Center for British Art Archives for further information.
- Biographical/Historical:
- The Brick House was the location of Paul Mellon's private collection of fine art, racing memorabilia, and rare books until 1999. Much of the collection was donated to the Yale Center for British Art for its founding; the rest was distributed to a number of public institutions upon Mellon's death. The house itself is a neo-colonial property on Mellon's Virginia estate in Upperville, originally designed by William Adams Delano. Mellon moved into the house with his family in 1941, just prior to serving in World War II. In 1961, after a decade of being unoccupied, the Brick House was renovated to house the collection. This included a room designed specifically to house Mellon's second wife Rachel's collection of wax sculptures by Degas, a print room, and racks for paintings.
- Scope and Content:
- This collection consists of 126 8x10 color photographs taken of the Brick House, Paul Mellon's personal gallery on his property in Upperville, Virginia. The photographs detail the collection of work amassed by Mellon and the exterior of the building. These photographs are attributed to Steven Tucker. They were sent to the YCBA in 2001 for use in the exhibition catalogue "The Paul Mellon Bequest: Treasures of a Lifetime."
- Subject Terms:
- ArtCollectors and collecting
- Associated People/Groups:
- Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960Mellon, Paul
- Finding Aid Title:
- Paul Mellon Brick House photographs
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5418.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/resources/5418
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/resources/5418?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1