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The Butler Ebanner The Butler eBanner Newsletter of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Winter 2019 Art Exhibitions February 8–April 27 Concordia Hall Gallery Anne Dale Robertson Family Letters Paintings by Charles Henry James: Back to the Garden Available to Researchers Artist and musician Charles Henry James, who has split his time nne Lewis Dale Robertson, a prolific between Little Rock and his native letter writer, became the keeper of New York for nearly thirty years, takes her family’s history. The history she a humorous, free-wheeling approach A to socio/political engagement, preserved is contained in the Anne Dale Rob- filtered through the lens of pop ertson family collection, MSS.18.43, now culture tropes, op art, surrealism, held by the Butler Center. The family story, and psychedelia. which takes place mostly in central Tennessee February 8–May 25 and eastern Arkansas, is told through more Loft Gallery Made in America: Vintage Film Posters than 650 letters and a small number of related from the Ron Robinson Collection documents. It stretches over five generations, The Butler Center holds an extensive two continents, three countries, and two wars. collection of Arkansas-related and other movie posters. The late Ron Anne Lewis Dale was born on May 14, Robinson of Little Rock, an avid 1821, the third of five children of Edward collector who was the president of Washington Dale and Anne Moore Dale. Four Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods Excerpt from a letter from Fannie Waddel, wife (CJRW) and also served as a U.S. Air additional children were born to Edward and Force officer in Vietnam, generously his second wife, Fanny Baird. The family, all of a professor at Arkansas College in Bates- donated these film posters, which are prolific letter writers, became spread out over ville, who was among the friends who corre- mostly related to Arkansas history, sponded with Anne Robertson. U.S. politics, and American popular central Tennessee and into Alabama, Louisi- culture. ana, and Mississippi. March 8–June 29 Anne was living with her sister Elvira Pil- A tanner by trade, James was looking for op- West Gallery low, the wife of Jerome B. Pillow, near Co- portunity to establish a business. Part to Whole: The Making of Art, the lumbia, Tennessee, when she married Scot- In 1855, Anne and James moved their family Artist, and the Artists’ Group with artists Mia Hall, Robyn Horn, Dolores tish immigrant James Robertson on October to Arkansas. Throughout the years, they lived Justus, Barbara Satterfield, Sandra 9, 1845. James had arrived in Louisiana in at various locations in Lee and Phillips Coun- Sell, and Elizabeth Weber November 1840 and traveled on to Nashville, ties. Their sons James and Edward established There can be a great divide between the viewer who stands before a work Tennessee, carrying letters of recommenda- businesses in Marianna and Helena. Jerome on exhibition and the artist who tion provided by his brother John’s employer. Cont. on page 2 creates that work. This exhibition tells the story of how work is made, why work is made, who the artist is, and how ongoing conversations among Barnett Family Collection Available to Researchers like-minded artists often lead to he Barnett Family Collection, County in about 1890 and worked at the gen- wholes greater than the sum of their MSS.07.52, first became available to eral store owned by their uncle R. D. Williams. parts. researchers in 2009. Donated to the They eventually formed a partnership that last- April 12–July 27 T Underground Gallery Butler Center by the Barnett family of Bates- ed through four generations in Independence EMBRAID—Three Northwest Arkansas ville, Arkansas, this collection presents a pic- County and northeastern Arkansas. In addition Strands ture of the development of a typical Arkansas to the various businesses operated by the fam- This mixed-media collaboration of three Northwest Arkansas artists— mercantile system, including timber produc- ily partnership, family members served on the Brandon Bullette, Octavio Logo, and tion, farming and farm management, whole- boards of community improvement efforts, Tina Oppenheimer—offers emotive sale and retail businesses, and banking. such as the Curia Drainage District, and were experiments in color, texture, and pattern to create artworks that give Additional material has now been added to active in First Methodist Church of Batesville. viewers a way to embark on an the collection, nearly doubling its size. This Both the original collection and the addendum intuitive journey to explore the human addendum, dating from 1817 to 1989, con- contain records of this community service. condition. sists of business and family documents, pho- For nearly 100 years, a Barnett Brothers en- Exhibitions open in the Galleries at Library Square during each month’s Second tographs, and memorabilia. terprise remained at the same downtown Bates- Friday Art Night (2FAN), 5–8 p.m. in the CALS Roberts Library. Brothers Ira N. II, Charles A., and James ville location, until the Barnett Department More events on page 8 F. Barnett moved to Batesville from Sharp Cont. on page 2 Cont. from Robertson Family Letters, p. 1 Mexican War and the Civil War; life on writing to L. A. Godey about his views attended Arkansas College at Batesville farms (plantations) in Tennessee and Ar- on the conflict breaking out between the and went on to the seminary in Austin, kansas, both before and after the Civil North and the South. Texas. War; revivals and other religious activi- Anne Dale Robertson died on February The oldest items in this collection con- ties; nearby battles and the effect in the 17, 1888, at the home of her son Edward sist of correspondence and documents community of the loss at Fort Donelson; in Marianna, Arkansas. Her letters were dating to nine years before James Robert- and the presence of what the letter writ- preserved by the family and came into son arrived in the United States in 1840. ers considered the enemy army. the hands of her great-granddaughter, The newest documents are dated to 1888 From the letters, we learn that Anne was Catherine Robertson Barnett, the wife of and consist mostly of correspondence be- well educated. She applied for a teaching Ira N. Barnett III of Batesville. (See page tween Anne Robertson and her siblings, certificate so that she could teach oth- 1–2.) They were donated to the Butler children, friends, nieces and nephews, ers in addition to her own children. She Center by the Barnett family. Research- and grandchildren. sponsored a ladies’ reading club through ers can access the letters in the Roberts Topics discussed in the letters include Godey’s Lady’s Book subscriptions. She Library Research Room, and the finding service in the U.S. Army during the was outspoken about political matters, aid is available online here. n Cont. from Barnett Family Collection, p. 1 and includes correspondence and mem- Store closed in 1988. The new portion orabilia from an around-the-world trip of the collection contains documents and they undertook in 1958 as part of a mis- photographs related to improvements sion project in Pakistan. It also includes made to the store building in 1905, in the couple’s own correspondence and the 1930s, and in the 1970s. The Barnett letters exchanged with their children and Brothers building is now home to the In- grandchildren. dependence County Library. Additional items of interest in the ad- There is a strong focus in the added ma- dendum include warranty deeds and terial on the life of Ira N. Barnett III and other documents for land transactions, his wife, Catherine Robertson Barnett. the proposed plan for dissolution of the This begins with documents from the Barnett Brothers partnerships, family and time of their marriage in January 1925 mong the older items A is an 1826 land patent by Abner West in Lawrence Catherine Robertson Barnett, ca. 1930s. County and a plat map with A prolific letter writer, she preserved the original survey notes by correspondence of her great-grandmoth- er, Anne Dale Robertson. Catherine’s Charles Pelham, dated 1817. correspondence is included in the adden- dum to the Barnett Family Collection. business correspondence, and obituaries terested in community and business and memorials for Ira N. Barnett II in history in Arkansas, and especially in 1935. Among the older items is an 1826 Batesville, Independence County, and land patent by Abner West in Lawrence northeastern Arkansas. The added mate- County and a plat map with original rial donated by the Barnett family also survey notes by Charles Pelham, dated included a substantial collection of let- 1817. Among the newer items is a poster ters belonging to Anne Dale Robertson, from March 1986 showing the ground- great-grandmother of Catherine Rob- breaking for the Catherine Robertson ertson Barnett. These letters have been Barnett Home for developmentally dis- processed as a separate collection and are abled adults, including a photograph of available to researchers as the Anne Dale Governor Bill Clinton and Catherine Robertson family collection, MSS.18.43. Barnett. (See page 1–2.) Researchers can access A young Catherine Robertson, holding With the addition of this material, the these materials in the Research Room of school books, ca. 1920; she married Ira Barnett Family Collection provides an the Roberts Library, and the finding aid is N. Barnett III in 1925. even richer resource for researchers in- available online here. n Page 2 The Butler eBanner A Word from the Center The Butler eBanner is the quarterly electronic David Stricklin, Director of the Butler Center newsletter of the s you can see, the Butler Center new 2009 building was indeed put next Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, is now in the Central Arkan- to them, just about everybody agreed a department of the Central Asas Library System’s Bobby L.
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