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[Postcard of a Woman and Child]

Description: Postcard depicting an unidentified woman, next to a wide bucket, seated with a child standing in front of her lap. Another woman, at left, offers an object to the child, while another individual stands at right holding a vessel. A crowd of people stand behind the bucket.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Witte Museum

[Postcard of Two Adults Among Children #2]

Description: Postcard depicting two adults standing amid a large gathering of children outside a large building. The children wear hats and plain garbs, and the two adults, one woman (left) and one man (right) are also dressed in dark colors. The man wears a uniform resembling that of an early 20th-century soldier.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Witte Museum

[Envelope Sent From Romania]

Description: Unfolded envelope with a purple paper interior lining addressed to "Mr. Jim McCan / Artist / Victoria, Texas. United States of America." There are two Romanian stamps in the upper-right corner with a postmark and a purple text stamp.
Date: October 30, 1920
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Witte Museum

["Golden Lavender" Painting]

Description: Photograph of a painting titled "Golden Lavender" by James Ferdinand McCan, depicting a head of cattle with clipped horns standing placidly within a grove. The painting, registered under the number 124,672, is owned by a N. R. Powell in Goliad, as indicated by the caption printed on the photograph's mat.
Date: 1898
Creator: Potash & McCan, James Joseph Ferdinand
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Witte Museum

[Postcard of a Gathering]

Description: Postcard depicting a group of people seated around a wide metal bucket. A woman, seated in a dress, holds out a narrow spoon over the bucket (left), while another, clasping a bucket in her left hand and a child's hand in her right hand, stands and looks outward (right). Several people are seated behind the bucket.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Witte Museum

[Postcard of Two Adults Among Children #1]

Description: Postcard depicting a large gathering of children outside a large building, with two adults standing amid the crowd. The children wear hats and plain garbs, and the two adults, one woman (left) and one man (right) are also dressed in dark colors. The man wears a uniform resembling that of an early 20th-century soldier.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from James E. Leonard to James Ferdinand McCan - August 1921]

Description: Letter from James E. Leonard, a cartoonist imprisoned at the Ferguson State Farm, to James Ferdinand McCan, discussing his usage of new art supplies sent by McCan, and his first commissions at prison, for which he has received $5.00 thus far. He expresses gratitude towards McCan for the supplies, and expresses optimism that he will be "on easy street when that great day comes around."
Date: August 1921
Creator: Leonard, James E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: 30.958200 -95.704690
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from Dollie E. Spidle to James Ferdinand McCan - October 8, 1923]

Description: Letter from Dollie E. Spidle to James Ferdinand McCan, discussing Spidle's displeasure at hearing McCan's comments to Mrs. Proctor regarding her. Spidle states she "was never as hurt in all [her] life", and claims she "didn't know anything about the trip to Dallas before [McCan] wrote." She rejects leaving Kerrvile and rejects a proposition that she get married. She thanks McCan for a tube of blue paint, informs him of Mrs. Cleveland Wheelers' passing, and tells him about a trip she had with Ma… more
Date: October 8, 1923
Creator: Spidle, Dollie E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Witte Museum

[Certificate of Prison Conduct: J. E. Leonard]

Description: Form with handwritten entries documenting information about J. E. Leonard (prisoner #39628) at Ferguson State Farm including basic demographic and conviction information, a list of misconduct and punishments, and information about the remaining length of his sentence.
Date: June 1, 1921
Creator: Texas. State Penitentiary at Huntsville.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from James E. Leonard to James Ferdinand McCan - June 30, 1921]

Description: Letter from James E. Leonard, a cartoonist imprisoned at the Ferguson State Farm, to James Ferdinand McCan, expressing gratitude for McCan's support and asking for "heavy lot pressed paper, a paper that can stand considerable erasing.. a good heavy drawing board... a box of academy colors [and] brushes." Leonard considers the income he can receive from portraits and sketches ("$2 or $3 for portrait sketches... something that will take about 1 day or 1½ days to make...") and expresses his determ… more
Date: June 30, 1921
Creator: Leonard, James E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: 30.958200 -95.704690
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from Dollie E. Spidle to James Ferdinand McCan - July 29, 1924]

Description: Letter from Dollie E. Spidle to James Ferdinand McCan discussing her sketching trip to Junction and the environment around her camp site. She explains troubles with her painting classes, including one "Miss. Smith", perhaps a pupil, requiring transfer to a sanatorium. She asks McCan for thoughts on attending painting classes in San Antonio by an individual who holds landscape, still life, and portrait classes. She expresses the hope that McCan may return to health and be able to paint again.
Date: July 29, 1924
Creator: Spidle, Dollie E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Witte Museum

[Correspondence Between Stuart Lewis and James Ferdinand McCan]

Description: Correspondence between Stuart H. Lewis and James Ferdinand McCan regarding the commission of a portrait of Lewis's wife's mother. Lewis writes of his wife's strong dissatisfaction with the delivered portrait, implies it is not a likeness, and flatly states he does not think McCan can fix the portrait. In the following fragment, McCan asks to have the portrait returned, so that it may be destroyed; two additional letters by McCan assert that Lewis's claim that the portrait cannot be fixed is "bo… more
Date: 1924-03-11/1924-03-15
Creator: Lewis, Stuart H. & McCan, James Joseph Ferdinand
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Witte Museum

[Three Men Standing]

Description: Postcard of three men standing on a wooden pier or bridge. They wear coats and hats, looking forward. Behind them are a set of bleachers and a large wooden lattice covered with ivies.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Witte Museum

[Gathering of Men with Paintings]

Description: Photograph of a gathering of men around a long wooden table inside a room with paintings lined on opposite sides of the room. The men face forward, towards the photographer, with papers scattered on their desk and empty wooden seats set before them. Large and small landscape paintings, some in frames, are hung on the right side of the room; a smaller group of landscapes are placed along the left side of the room. A large American flag hangs over a black board along the back wall.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from J. L. de Brueys to James Ferdinand McCan - November 17, 1919]

Description: Letter by John Lawrence de Brueys praising James Ferdinand McCan's painting, "A Golden Monarch of the Golden West" (mistitled as "The Golden Eagle"). De Brueys describes the painting in extravagant terms, arguing it was "guided... by Divine Providence", that it is an "ultra-masterpiece.. beyond the mere transcription of words", and that "every man, woman and child in Houston should view it", as well as "President Wilson, his cabinet... [and] every foreign diplomat[.]"
Date: November 17, 1919
Creator: de Brueys, John Lawrence
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Witte Museum
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