Henry Martyn Hoyt papers. 1910-1929

The collection consists sketchbooks, correspondence, documents, drawings, paintings, and photographs documenting the life and career of the American painter, etcher, and poet Henry Martyn Hoyt. Prominent in the collection are sixteen bound commercial sketchbooks containing graphite sketches and drawings by Hoyt, dating from approximately 1910 to 1920. Most of the images are not identified or dated, but include portraits of his wife Alice Gordon Parker Hoyt at work and at leisure; infants portrayed are likely their children Constance (born 1913) and Henry (born 1914). The remainder of the images are buildings and views taken in Rome, Italy, Spain, and other European venues; street scenes (likely New York and Boston); unidentified architectural details; views of Nahant, Massachusetts; maritime subjects including boats, ships, and piers; and vignettes of people and animals. Hoyt wrote notes, names, and addresses in several of the sketchbooks. One volume (Box 1, folder 3) contains silverpoint drawings, and one volume (Box 1, folder 1) contains a manuscript list of Hoyt's etchings. Correspondence consists of letters written by Hoyt to his mother Anne McMichael Hoyt (1912-1917) and mother-in-law Eleanor Kinzie Gordon Parker (1918), a folder of Hoyt's World War I military records, photographs of Hoyt and family members, and samples of his poetry in autograph manuscript, typescript, and in print, including a copy of his book of poems, Dry Points (1921), inscribed by Juliette Gordon Low. Also present are twenty-two examples of Hoyt's work in graphite, pastel, watercolor, and oil, and a folder of printed material related to his exhibitions such as his posthumous show at Folsom Galleries, New York, January 11-24, 1921