Charles Coleman Sellers

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Sellers worked as a writer and researcher from 1927 and, together with his wife, owned and operated Tracey's Book Store in Hebron, Connecticut, from 1932 to 1938. He also acted in amateur theatrical productions and authored three plays that were produced in the 1930s and 1940s. He served as the bibliographic librarian at Wesleyan University from 1937 to 1949. He simultaneously served as a research associate for the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia from 1947 to 1951.

In 1949 he became curator of the Dickinsoniana Collection at Dickinson College and became head librarian of the college in 1956 after May Morris retired. He also became the librarian in charge of the Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr. Research Library of American Painting at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, organizing this newly established collection and editing and publishing Belknap's research notes between 1956 and 1959. With the opening of the May Morris Room in the new Boyd Lee Spahr Library, Sellers once again became historian and curator of the Dickinsoniana Collection in 1968. He held this appointment until his retirement in 1979, when Dickinson College awarded him an honorary doctorate of letters. He also received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Temple University.

Sellers co-conceived a 1983 exhibition of Peale's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He became editor of the American Colonial Painting magazine in 1959 and became an elected member of the American Philosophical Society in 1979. He was a member of the American Association of University Professors (Dickinson College chapter president, 1961–62) and the College Art Association. His papers are held at the American Philosophical Society and the Smithsonian Institution.

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