August Florian Jaccaci

Archives of American Art, WWW site, August 15, 2015: ::b August Jaccaci papers, 1889-1935 (August Florian Jaccaci; art historian; born in Fontainebleau, France in 1856; worked briefly as an artist in the Midwest, creating murals on commission, including a mural in the Capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota; moved to New York City and worked as art editor for Century magazine; also wrote several articles and executed illustrations for the magazine; became art editor of McClure’s magazine at its founding in 1896; left McClure’s in 1902 and in 1903 began working on a major multi-volume book entitled Noteworthy Paintings in Private American Collections; died in Neuf-De-Grasse, France in 1930) ::u http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/august-jaccaci-papers-6877/more.

Mary Cassatt's biographer, editor of Scribner's and McClure's magazines and with LaFarge of Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections.

***Jaccaci is an anglicized version of Iacacci. Both are used interchangeably-- all records can be found under "Jaccaci" AB 2/25/19