Holger Cahill was born Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarson in Iceland in a small valley near the Arctic Circle, on January 13, 1887. His parents, Bjorn Jonson and Vigdis Bjarnadottir, immigrated to the United States from Iceland sometime later in the 1880s. In 1904, his father deserted the family, forcing Sveinn to be separated from his mother and sister to work on a farm in North Dakota. He ran away and wandered from job to job until settling in an orphanage in western Canada, where he attended school and became a voracious reader.
As a young man, he worked at many different jobs and attended night school. While working on a freighter, he visited Hong Kong, beginning his life-long interest in the Orient. Returning to New York City, he eventually became a newspaper reporter, continued his studies at New York University, and changed his name to Edgar Holger Cahill. In 1919 he married Katherine Gridley of Detroit. Their daughter, Jane Ann, was born in 1922, but the couple divorced in 1927.
Cahill met John Sloan circa 1920, and they shared a residence. Cahill also wrote publicity (until 1928) for the Society of Independent Artists, through which he made many friends in the arts. From 1922 to 1931, he worked under John Cotton Dana at the Newark Museum, where he received his basic experience in museum work, organizing the first large exhibitions of folk art.
From 1932 to 1935, he was the director of exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art. In 1935, Cahill was appointed director of the Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project (FAP), until its end in June 1943. In 1938, Cahill organized a countrywide exhibition "American Art Today" for the New York World's Fair. He also married MoMa curator Dorothy Canning Miller in that year.
Holger Cahill died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in July 1960.
The papers of Holger Cahill (1887-1960) date from 1910 to 1993, bulk 1910-1960, and measure 15.8 linear feet. The collection offers researchers fairly comprehensive documentation of Cahill's directorship of the FAP in addition to series documenting his work as a writer and art critic. FAP records include national and state administrative reports, records of community art centers, photographic documentation of state activities, artist files, divisional records about teaching, crafts, murals, and poster work, files concerning the Index of American Design, scrapbooks, and printed material.
The collection is arranged into nine series:
The Holger Cahill papers were donated to the Archives of American Art through a series of gifts by Cahill's widow, Dorothy C. Miller, between 1964 and 1995.
The microfilm of this collection has been digitized and is available online via the Archives of American Art website.
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Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993, bulk 1910-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The collection was donated in several installments and typically microfilmed in the order in which it was received at some point after receipt. The entire collection was processed by Jean Fitzgerald in 1998. The microfilm was digitized in 2005 with funding provided by Jane Blumenfeld.
Biographical material includes nine typed career summaries/resumes for Cahill, dated circa 1935-1941. The resumes provide basically the same information with only minor variations in wording, with some handwritten notations and typed inserts to update the descriptions of Cahill's career through the early 1940s.
Also found here is a transcript of an interview, "Reminiscences of Holger Cahill," conducted by Joan Pring; a 1961 letter from Cahill's sister; a document entitled "Notes on the life of Holger Cahill" by Cahill's wife, Dorothy C. Miller, which provide details of Cahill's childhood and his work; and a 1988 letter from Dorothy Miller enclosing a copy of Cahill's birth certificate dated 1887. The series also includes a copy of
The series also includes financial records consisting primarily of receipts and balance sheets for artwork purchased and sold, many of them issued by the American Folk Art Gallery in which Cahill held a partnership with Edith Halpert and Berthe Kroll Goldsmith.
Biographical Material
Biographical Material
Financial Records
Financial Records
Financial Records
Financial Records
Interview Transcript
Interview Transcript, Index
This series consists of personal and work-related correspondence (primarily incoming correspondence) between Cahill and various friends and colleagues. While a large portion of the series documents Cahill's position as Director of the FAP, it also extends beyond those years and illuminates other aspects of Cahill's career including his interest in folk and Asian art, and his work as an art critic.
There is significant correspondence with the artist Stanton MacDonald Wright between 1936 and 1950, and with the artist Irene Pereira between 1950 and 1953. The series also documents research which Cahill conducted in the late 1940s on the development of the Index of American Design for his introduction to a book on the Index by the National Gallery of Art, published by the Macmillan Company. Correspondence from 1949 provides another angle on the historical details of the FAP through lengthy correspondence documenting Cahill's criticism of William Francis McDonald's book
There is a large amount of correspondence from July 1960 comprising sympathy letters to Dorothy C. Miller following Cahill's death. Correspondence from 1977 encloses a catalog of an exhibition organized by New York WPA Artists, Inc., at the Parsons School of Design in November 1977. The exhibition,
See Appendix for a list of correspondents (with the exception of those microfilmed on reel 1105) in Series 2.
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Correspondence March-April 1943
Correspondence May-December 1943
Correspondence January-May 1944
Correspondence June-December 1944
Correspondence 1945
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This series documents Cahill's directorship of the WPA FAP from 1935 to 1943 and provides fairly comprehensive coverage of the development, operation, problems and accomplishments of FAP projects at the national and state level. Records include correspondence and memoranda, national and state reports, financial records, meeting minutes, exhibition files, printed material, scrapbooks and photographs and date from 1934 to 1970 with the bulk of the material dating from 1935 to 1943.
The series is arranged into fourteen subseries:
This subseries contains general records of the FAP including correspondence and memoranda, information on administrators, advisory committee records, employment statistics, manuals and reports.
Records relating to administrators include biographical sketches and/or photographs of the following FAP administrators: Donald Bear, Thaddeus Clapp, D. S. Defenbacher, Audrey McMahon, Eric Mose, Concetta Scaravaglione, Alexander Stavenitz, and George Thorp. The records include photos of McMahon, Mose, Scaravaglione, Stavenitz, and Thorp.
Advisory committe records include lists of committee members for the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, and the Federal Art Project; correspondence related to the selection of members for the Fine and Applied Arts Committee of the FAP; and information (such as names, addresses and occupations) concerning members of FAP advisory committees organized by state.
General files include reports on various aspects of the FAP and general program operations and accomplishments, program descriptions and summaries, procedural documents and administrative forms. These are followed by lists of FAP projects, a notebook documenting FAP activities in the southern states and a report on the FAP's activities to 1939.
Also found here are records relating to support and criticism of the FAP, the war effort and "negro art" including memoranda, reports, a typescript of a speech by Thomas C. Parker, press releases and printed material.
Administrators, Lists of
Administrators, Photographs and Biographical Sketches
Advisory Committees
Advisory Committees Correspondence
Advisory Committees, Alabama
Advisory Committees, California
Advisory Committees, Colorado
Advisory Committees, Connecticut
Advisory Committees, Delaware
Advisory Committees, District of Columbia
Advisory Committees, Florida
Advisory Committees, Illinois
Advisory Committees, Iowa
Advisory Committees, Louisiana
Advisory Committees, Maine
Advisory Committees, Maryland
Advisory Committees, Massachusetts
Advisory Committees, Michigan
Advisory Committees, Minnesota
Advisory Committees, Missouri
Advisory Committees, Montana
Advisory Committees, New Hampshire
Advisory Committees, New Jersey
Advisory Committees, New York
Advisory Committees, North Carolina
Advisory Committees, Ohio
Advisory Committees, Oklahoma
Advisory Committees, Oregon
Advisory Committees, Pennsylvania
Advisory Committees, Rhode Island
Correspondence and Memoranda
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Correspondence and Memoranda
Correspondence and Memoranda
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Correspondence and Memoranda
Correspondence and Memoranda
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Correspondence and Memoranda
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Correspondence and Memoranda
Correspondence and Memoranda
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Correspondence and Memoranda
Correspondence and Memoranda
Draft Operating Manual of Museum Services and Education Aids
Employment Figures
Employment Figures
Employment Figures
Employment Figures
Employment Figures
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General Files
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Lists of Projects
Miscellaneous Records
Notebook, FAP Region 3, Southern
Report, National WPA/FAP: Summary and Recommendations for Continuation
WPA/FAP and Negro Art
WPA/FAP, Criticism of
WPA/FPA, Support of
WPA/FPA, Support of
WPA/FPA and War Effort
This subseries contains records relating to FAP artists. Correspondence is primarily between Cahill and various artists and includes letters of recommendation written by Cahill. General records include a typescript of an interview with Edith Halpert of Downtown Galleries, a document containing case studies on the "Adjustments of Individuals" during FAP work in Michigan; and printed material. A notebook entitled "Artists Whose Loan Assignments Have Been Completed," records "loans" of artists to various states and cities in order to work on FAP projects.
All individual artist files contain a biographical sketch of the artist, unless otherwise noted. Some files also contain photographs of the artist, as indicated.
Artist Files, Correspondence
Artist Files, General Records
Artist Files, Lists of Artists and Works
Artist Files, Notebook "Artists Whose Loan Assignments Have Been Completed,"
Abbott, Berenice
Barela, Patrocino
Bennett, Gwendolyn
Bird, Elzy J.
Brown, Samuel J.
Bufano, Beniamino
Bufano, Beniamino
Cervantez, Pedro
Curtis, Phillip C.
Evergood, Philip
Gershoy, Eugenie
Gettens, Rutherford J.
Gorky, Arshile
Gregory, Waylande
Guglielmi, Louis
Hiler, Hilaire
Hord, Donal
Hunter, R. Vernon
Jacobi, Eli
Knaths, Karl
Kopman, Benjamin
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton
Murray, Hester Miller
Newell, James Michael
Olds, Elizabeth
Palo-Kangas, John
Park, Paul
Quirt, Walter
Rourke, Constance
Segal, George
Seltzer, Leo
Siporin, Mitchell
Sommer, William
Speck, Walter E.
Sutton, Harry H.
Trentham Eugene
Velonis, Anthony
Viviano, Emmanuel
Ward, Lynd
Weisenborn, Rudolph
White, Francis Robert
Wolff, Robert Jay
This subseries includes detailed financial records, memoranda, organizational charts and plans, and reports documenting the administration of the FAP at the national level.
A file relating to the 1939 changeover includes a typescript by George Biddle,
Reports consist pimarily of progress reports provided by Cahill and Thomas C. Parker in addition to several general reports written by Cahill, scattered field trip reports, and miscellanous documents providing general accounts of the activities of the FAP.
General memoranda and program descriptons contain questionnaire results, descriptions of FAP programs, typescripts containing general program descriptions (possibly given as speeches or issued as press releases), and related news clippings.
Summaries of WPA art programs includes five copies of a document, "The WPA Art Program - A Summary," with hand-written notations updating the information in the Summary through 1942.
1939 Changeover and After
Financial Records, Vouchers for Per Diem
Financial Records, Vouchers for Per Diem
Financial Reports, Allotments and Encumberances
Financial Reports, Analysis of Expenditures
Financial Reports, Financial Summaries
Financial Reports, State Directors of Finance and Statistics
Financial Reports, Status of Art Project
Memoranda, 25% Non-Relief Exemptions
Memoranda, General, and Program Descriptions
Memoranda, Sponsorship
Organization Charts
Organization Plan
Reports
Reports
Reports
Reports
Summaries of WPA Art Programs
This subseries contains records documenting the adminstration of the FAP at the state level. It includes general correspondence and memoranda regarding state activities as well as reports of state program operations and accomplishments, field trip reports, and newsletters and bulletins from state art centers organized alphabetically by state.
This subseries contains a second set of state studies which, in addition to administrative reports, includes reports representing research and writing conducted as part of the FAP work done at the state level. The second group of reports is also arranged alphabetically by state, and then chronologically, and includes social studies conducted by members of the Federal Writers Program.
Correspondence
Field Trip Reports
Lists of State and Regional Directors
Memoranda to State and Regional Directors
Memoranda to State and Regional Directors
Memoranda to State and Regional Directors
Memoranda to State and Regional Directors
Memoranda to State and Regional Directors, Requisitioned Material
Midwest Mural Competition
California
California
Florida
Illinois
Illinois
Iowa
Iowa
Kansas
Kansas
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Missouri
Missouri
New York City
New York State
North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Virginia
Wyoming
Arizona, "The Phoenix Art Center" by Morsell
California, "Young California Artists"] by Morsell for "Parnassus"
California, "The Hand-Writing on the Walls" by Homer W. Evans
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California,
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California, Federal Art Project, Los Angeles Museum
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California, Report from the Northern California Project
California, Transcript of Interview
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California,
California, Untitled
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California,
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California,
District of Columbia,
District of Columbia,
District of Columbia,
Florida, Autobiographical Sketch by Eve Alsman Fuller
Florida, Financial Report of Federal Art Galleries of Florida
Florida, Jacksonville WPA Art Center Brochure
Florida, Report on the History of the FAP in Florida
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Illinois, Applied Arts Report
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Illinois, Condensed Statistical Report Covering Mural Project in Illinois
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Iowa, Information and Reports on the Two Hemisphere Band Chariot
Louisiana, Report by Gideon T. Stanton
Louisiana, Report by Gideon T. Stanton
Louisiana, Statement by Dr. Robert E. Plunkett
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Louisiana,
Louisiana, Report of Federal Art Project of Louisiana as of
Michigan, Untitled Report
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Michigan, Exhibition Press Releases, Index of American Design
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Missouri, Press Release
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Nebraska,
New Jersey, Program Operation Report
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New Mexico,
New York,
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North Carolina,
North Carolina,
North Carolina,
Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Oklahoma,
Oklahoma, Report by Nan Sheets
Oregon, Report on Salem Federal Art Center
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Oregon,
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Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Memoranda on Community Art Centers
Washington State,
Wisconsin,
Wisconsin, Miscellaneous Publicity and Notes from
Wisconsin, Notes on and Statements by Wisconsin Artists
Wisconsin,
Wyoming,
This subseries contains minutes and transcripts of WPA/FAP meetings and conferences, arranged chronologically.
Planning Program of Work and Travel Conference
Regional and State Directors Conference
Fogg Museum Meeting
Federal Art Directors Conference, Washington, D.C.
Annual Meeting of the American Handicraft Council
Community Service Projects Meeting
Community Service Projects Meeting
Art Supervisors Conference, Washington, D.C.
Conference on the Arts Program of the WPA, Transcript, Part 1
Conference on the Arts Program of the WPA, Transcript, Part 2
Conference on the Arts Program of the WPA, Transcript, Part 3
This subseries documents financial allotments for the FAP program on a national and state level. It contains chronologically arranged correspondence and memoranda showing total allocations and containing lists breaking down allotments by state, as well as general correspondence related to allocations.
Allocation control cards were produced by the FAP's graphic arts division as a record of prints received in, and distributed by, the FAP's office in Washington D.C. for allocation and exhibition purposes. They give a number indicating the exhibition in which each print was included and a number indicating the total number of prints received (see General Correspondence, 1970, in this subseries). The cards are organized alphabetically by state.
Also found here are tables of financial allotment statistics, printed material related to allocations of art work and a notebook entitled
Allocation Control Cards, California
Allocation Control Cards, California
Allocation Control Cards, Colorado
Allocation Control Cards, Connecticut
Allocation Control Cards, Florida
Allocation Control Cards, Illinois
Allocation Control Cards, Kansas
Allocation Control Cards, Louisiana
Allocation Control Cards, Massachusetts
Allocation Control Cards, Michigan
Allocation Control Cards, Minnesota
Allocation Control Cards, New Hampshire
Allocation Control Cards, New Mexico
Allocation Control Cards, New York
Allocation Control Cards, New York
Allocation Control Cards, Ohio
Allocation Control Cards, Oregon
Allocation Control Cards, Pennsylvania
Allocation Control Cards, Rhode Island
Allocation Control Cards, Utah
Allocation Control Cards, Washington
Allocation Control Cards, Wisconsin
Allocation Statistics
Allocations to States
Allocations to States
Allocations to States
Allocations to States
Allocations to States
Allocations to States
Commercial Standards for Artists' Oil Paints
Commercial Standards for Artists' Oil Paints
General Correspondence
General Correspondence
Notebook, Congressional and D.C. Allocations
Printed Material
This subseries includes reports on various community art centers and news clippings about the art center in Curry County, Oregon.
News Clippings, Curry County Art Center
Reports
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Reports
Reports
Reports
Reports
Reports
Reports
This subseries documents the activities of FAP divisions through typescripts, an interview transcript, memoranda, printed material and copies of poster designs.
Art teaching typescripts include the following:
Records relating to murals include a biographical sketch of the architect William Lescaze; a typescript entitled
Art Teaching
Crafts
Design Laboratory
Graphic Art
Murals
Posters
The purpose of the Index of American Design was to compile a pictorial record of objects in the decorative, applied and folk arts, particularly objects of American origin. This subseries includes correspondence, memoranda, manuals, reports, typescripts, press releases, state reports primarily concerning Illinois projects, exhibition loan records, printed material and photographs of exhibitions and artwork, documenting that endeavor.
Articles and reports include documents and manuals describing the form and function of the Index, and outlining related procedures to be followed. They also include typescripts about the Index including
Photographs include a bound portfolio of photographs of index plates representing artist renderings of Illinois objects, and a series of photographs depicting the process of making an index plate.
Articles and Reports
Articles and Reports
Articles and Reports
Articles and Reports
Articles and Reports
Correspondence and Memoranda
Correspondence and Memoranda
Correspondence and Memoranda
Correspondence and Memoranda
Correspondence and Memoranda
Lists of Artwork/Receipts for Exhibition Loans
Notes
Notes
State Reports
State Reports, Illinois
State Reports, Illinois
Portfolio of Index Plates from Illinois
Printed Material, Booklet
Photographs, Exhibitions
Photographs, "Making an Index Plate,"
Photographs, Objects
Photographs, Objects
Photographs, Objects
Photographs, Shaker Buildings and People
This subseries consists of reports on exhibitions, shipping receipts for artwork, news clippings, exhibition catalogs, and records relating to the FAP
Records of the New York World'd Fair exhibition include correspondence, typescripts, memoranda, a budget plan, a list of sculptors employed by the FAP in New York City, prospectuses for artists, a calendar of events, press releases, printed material and photographs.
Catalogs
Childrens' Art Exhibitions
New York World's Fair Exhibition (1939-1940)
New York World's Fair Exhibition (1939-1940)
New York World's Fair Exhibition (1939-1940)
New York World's Fair Exhibition (1939-1940)
New York World's Fair Exhibition (1939-1940)
Exhibition Reports
News Clippings
This subseries contains records related to two other New Deal art projects: the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Art Project and the Treasury Department Art Project (TDAP). Included here are one bulletin relating to the former and four letters and a series of bulletins relating to the latter.
OEM Art Bulletin No.1
TDAP Correspondence
TDAP Bulletin No. 1
TDAP Bulletin No. 2
TDAP Bulletin No. 3
TDAP Bulletin No. 4
TDAP Bulletin No. 5
TDAP Bulletin No. 6
TDAP Bulletin No. 7
TDAP Bulletin No. 8
TDAP Bulletin No. 9
TDAP Bulletin No. 10
TDAP Bulletin No. 11
TDAP Bulletin No. 12
TDAP Bulletin No. 13
TDAP Bulletin No. 14
TDAP Bulletin No. 15
TDAP Bulletin No. 16
TDAP Bulletin No. 17
TDAP Bulletin No. 18
TDAP Bulletin No. 19
TDAP Bulletin No. 20
TDAP Bulletin No. 21
TDAP Bulletin No. 22
TDAP Bulletin No. 23
TDAP Bulletin No. 24
TDAP Bulletin No. 8 (duplicate)
TDAP Bulletin No. 10 (duplicate)
This subseries contains printed material relating to the WPA/FAP as well as material used for publicity including transcripts of lectures and essays (some with hand-written notations), news clippings, press releases, and publications. For additional material of this type see Series 4: Writings, Lectures and Speeches and Series 8: Printed Material. Additional press releases can be found in 3.13: Scrapbooks.
Brochure,
Government Acts and Resolutions
Government Acts and Resolutions
Lectures and Essays
Lectures and Essays
Lectures and Essays
Lectures and Essays
Lectures and Essays
Lectures and Essays
Lectures and Essays
List of Magazine Articles on FAP
Press Releases
Press Releases
Press Releases
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
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News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
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News Clippings
News Clippings
Publications
Publications
Publications
Publications
Publications
Publications
Sunday Night Art Forum Announcements
WPA
WPA Technical Series
WPA Technical Series
This subseries contains three scrapbooks: Scrapbook I contains primarily press releases from the WPA Works Program as well as state progress reports, exhibition catalogs, and miscellaneous printed material. It includes photos of sculptor Jose Ruiz de Rivera and a New York Cityscape by Berenice Abbott. Scrapbook II contains news clippings and printed material concerning FAP conferences and the Index of American Design. Scrapbook III contains news clippings, exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous printed material. It also conains six photos of art centers and exhibitions, six photos of art classes and seven photos of artwork.
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This series begins with photographs of WPA artists, regional directors, and art administrators. The individuals pictured include: Lucienne Bloch, Karl Knaths, Donald J. Bear, Max Spivak, Increase Robinson, F. C. Harrington, Russell C. Parr, George G. Thorp, Eve Alsman Fuller, R. Bruce Inverarity, Eleanor Roosevelt with R. Bruce Inverarity, Florence Kerr, Robert Armstrong Andrews, Richard C. Morrison, Jacob Baker, Holger Cahill and Jacob Baker, Joseph Danysh, C. Adolph Glassgold, Thomas C. Parker, Elizabeth Olds, Milton Horn, Juan Sanchez, Patricino Barela, Sam Brown, Harry Hopkins and Holger Cahill, Stanton MacDonald Wright at the dedication of the Father Garces monument, John Palo-Kangas, Seminole Indians at the opening of the Miami Federal Galleries, Ellen Woodward with Thomas C. Parker, and Holger Cahill with Duncan Phillips and Harry L. Hopkins.
Also found here are three photograph "albums." Photograph Album I contains photos of artwork, installations, and Shaker furniture and buildings. Photograph Album II contains photos of artists, art classes, and artwork in addition to printed material. Photograph Album III contains photos of posters and murals, group activities and classes relating to the WPA and defense.
This series also contains thirteen photographs of "Changing New York" by Berenice Abbott. The remainder of the series consists of FAP photos of art classes, gallery installations, state art centers and staff and artwork, arranged by state.
For additional FAP photographs see 3.1 (for photographs of FAP administrators), 3.2. (for photographs of Artists), 3.8 (for photographs related to the Index of American Design), 3.10 (for photographs from the 1939-1940 World's Fair) and 3.13 (for photographs from FAP scrapbooks).
Adminstrator Photos
Artist, Regional Director, and Art Administrator Photos
Berenice Abbott Photos
Photograph Album I
Photograph Album I, cont.
Photograph Album II
Photograph Album III
Alabama Photographs
Alabama Photographs
Arizona Photographs
Arizona Photographs
California Photographs
California Photographs
(includes photos of Benianino Bufano, Donal Hord and John Palo-Kangas)
Colorado Photographs
Colorado Photographs
Connecticut Photographs
District of Columbia Photographs
District of Columbia Photographs
Florida Photographs
Florida Photographs
Idaho, Photographs
Illinois Photographs
Illinois, Photographs
(includes photographs of Edward Millman and Mitchell Siporin)
Indiana Photographs
Iowa Photographs
Iowa Photographs
Iowa Photographs
Kansas Photographs
Louisiana Photographs
Maine Photographs
Maryland Photographs
Massachusetts Photographs
Massachusetts Photographs
Michigan Photographs
Michigan Photographs
(includes photos of Samuel Cashwan and Walt Speck)
Minnesota Photographs
Minnesota Photographs
(includes photo of Gov. Harold E. Stassen)
Mississippi Photographs
Mississippi Photographs
Missouri Photographs
Montana Photographs
New Mexico Photographs
New Mexico Photographs
(includes photo of Patrocino Barela)
New York Photographs
New York Photographs
(includes photos of Arshile Gorky, Edward Laning, Eric Mose and James Michael Newell)
New York Photographs
North Carolina Photographs
North Carolina Photographs
(includes photo of Ambassador Josephus Daniels and Robert Vose)
Ohio Photographs
Ohio Photographs
Oklahoma Photographs
Oklahoma Photographs
Oregon Photographs
Oregon Photographs
(includes photo of Louis Bunce)
Pennsylvania Photographs
Pennsylvania Photographs
Rhode Island Photographs
Rhode Island Photographs
South Carolina Photographs
Tennessee Photographs
Utah Photographs
Utah Photographs
Virginia Photographs
Virginia Photographs
Washington Photographs
(includes photo of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1938)
Washington Photographs
Washington Photographs? (state not identified)
West Virginia Photographs
Wisconsin Photographs
Wisconsin Photographs
Wyoming Photographs
Wyoming Photographs
Unidentified Locations Photographs
Miscellaneous Center Projects and Artwork Photographs
(includes photo of Reuben Nakian)
This series contains typescripts of writings, lectures and speeches by Cahill and others. A large portion of the material relates to the WPA FAP, but there are also book and exhibition reviews and other works of art criticism by Cahill. For additional copies of writings by Cahill see Series 8: Printed Material.
The series is arranged into five subseries:
This subseries contains typescripts of lectures and speeches by Cahill, many with hand-written notes and copies of drafts. Parts of some typescripts are missing. Material is arranged chronologically with undated material placed first.
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WPA Lecture, Chicago
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Speech for Southern Women's National Democratic Organization, New York
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Untitled, FAP
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Goodyear Dinner speech
Dedication of Murals for WNYC Radio Studios
Untitled, FAP
Untitled, FAP
Project Control Talk
North Carolina Speech
Untitled, FAP
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This subseries contains typescripts of lectures and speeches by others, often with notes and copies of drafts. The majority of the material relates to the WPA FAP. Records are arranged chronologically with undated material placed first.
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This subseries contains typescripts of writings by Cahill, including book and exhibition reviews. A substantial portion of the material found here was written during Cahill's directorship of the FAP. Material is arranged chronologically with undated material placed first.
Request for Opinions of FAP Program
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Description of American Art in a Portfolio
Review of Library of Congress Exhibition, [
Exhibition Review,
Article Review, on Photography for
Book Review,
Book Review,
Book Review,
Book Review, [
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Paris Catalog
Article for
Book Review,
Book Review,
Miscellaneous Fragments of Typescripts
This subseries contains typsecripts of writings by others, many of which were produced as part of the WPA FAP. Material is arranged chronologically with undated material placed first.
Description of Sommer's Working Methods by William Sommer
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Poems by Max Weber
Editors' Information from [
Simonson Article by [John Cotton Dana
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WPA Art Project Murals by Sheldon Cheney
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[Review of Cahill's Book
This subseries comprises typescripts by forty-eight of Cahill's colleagues discussing various media and philosphies of the visual arts used for the book
Table of Contents (see also sol Box 18)
Abbott, Berenice,
Brown, Douglas,
Brown, Samuel J.,
Cashwan, Samuel,
Clements, Grace,
Curtis, Philip C.,
Davis, Stuart,
Davis, Stuart,
Eichenberg, Fritz,
Gellert, Hugo,
Glassgold, C. Adolph,
Gorky, Arshile,
Guglielmi, Louis,
Hayes, Vertis,
Hayes, Vertis,
Hiler, Hilaire,
Hunter, R. Vernon,
Kopman, Benjamin,
La More, Chet,
Lemmon, Warren W.,
Levine, Jack,
Levine, Jack,
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton,
McMahon, Audrey,
Moylan, Lloyd,
Murray, Hester Miller,
Newell, James Michael,
Norman, Geoffrey,
Olds, Elizabeth,
Palo-Kangas, John,
Park, Paul,
Parr, Russell C.,
Quirt, Walter,
Rackley, Mildred,
Richardson, Antonio, [
Rothschild, Lincoln,
Seltzner, Leo,
Smith, David,
Smith, E. Herndon,
Speck, Walter E.,
Stavenitz, Alexander R.,
Sutton, Harry H.,
Thorp, George,
Trentham, Eugene,
Ward, Lynd,
Weisenborn, Rudolph,
White, Francis Robert,
Wolff, Robert Jay,
Unidentified Author,
This series documents the proceedings of meetings of the American Handicraft Council, the Arts and Letters Secretariat, the Artists' International Association, and a Conference on the Support of the Visual Arts. There is also a typescript of an American Federation of Arts annual convention panel with notes on Cahill's presentation as part of that panel. Material is arranged in chronological order.
American Handicraft Council By-Laws and Meeting Minutes (April 19, 1939, December 20, 1939)
Typescript of the American Federation of Arts panel, "How Can We Support an American Art?,"
Arts and Letters Secretariat Meeting
Artists' International Association meeting, "International Co-operation Between Artists," Czechoslovakian Institute
Conference on the Support of the Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts
This series contains research material on folk art and folk artists in addition to material that appears to be related to Cahill's criticism of William Francis McDonald's book
Notes found here are primarily for
American Council of Learned Societies
Erwin Panofsky
Folk Art and Folk Art Dealers
Miscellaneous Notes
Miscellaneous Notes
Notes for
Notes for Book Review,
Artwork in this series consists of four undated drawings of animals by Walt Speck, an undated pen and ink drawing by an unidentified artist of an artist sketching in front of a house, and an undated drawing and a lithograph by unidentified artists.
Artwork
This series consists of news clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, press releases, prospectuses, calendars of events, programs, brochures, booklets, books, government publications and reproductions of artwork. Much of the material dated between 1935 and 1943 relates to the WPA FAP. News clippings contain copies of approximately thirty articles, including book reviews, written by Cahill for a variety of publications between 1921 and 1960. Some of the material contains hand-written notes.
Brochures
Booklets
Books,
Books,
Books,
Books,
Books,
Books,
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Government Publications
Government Publications
Government Publications
Government Publications
Miscellaneous Printed Material
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
News Clippings
Picture Postcards (blank)
Press Releases (1 of 2)
Press releases (2 of 2)
Press releases
Press releases
Press releases
Press releases
Programs and Calendars of Events
Programs and Calendars of Events
Prospectuses
Reproductions of Artwork
This series contains photographs of Cahill and family and colleagues including his mother and sister, Harry Hopkins, Edward Rowan, Eleanor Roosevelt and attendees of an FAP meeting including Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Also found here are photographs of miscellanous artwork. For WPA FAP photographs see 3.14: Photographs.
Photographs of Cahill with Family and Colleagues
Photographs of Miscellaneous Artwork