Archives of American Art
Werner Drewes papers
Drewes, Werner, 1899-1985
AAA.drewwern
Archival Resource Key
15.76 Linear feet
1838-2015
bulk 1890-1990
The papers of painter, printmaker, designer, and teacher, Werner Drewes, measure 15.76 linear feet and date from 1838-2015, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1890s-1990s. The papers document Drewes' life and career through biographical and family material; correspondence with family members, artists, galleries, and art institutions and organizations; scattered teaching notes and writings including a diary; catalogs and inventories of artwork; three scrapbooks; printed material; 38 sketchbooks, loose sketches, and prints; and photographs of Drewes, his family, friends and colleagues, exhibitions, travels, and works of art. Also found are scattered papers of Drewes' second wife, Maria Drewes.
Collection is in English and German.
Scope and Contents
The papers of painter, printmaker, designer, and teacher, Werner Drewes, measure 15.76 linear feet and date from 1838-2015, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1890s-1990s. The papers document Drewes' life and career through biographical and family material; correspondence with family members, artists, galleries, and art institutions and organizations; scattered teaching notes and writings including a diary; catalogs and inventories of artwork; three scrapbooks; printed material; 38 sketchbooks, loose sketches, and prints; and photographs of Drewes, his family, friends and colleagues, exhibitions, travels, and works of art. Also found are scattered papers of Drewes' second wife, Maria Drewes.
Biographical material documents Drewes' family history through family trees and biographical notes made by family members, and also includes 3 of Drewes' passports, some student and military records, resumés, and a partial interview transcript.
Correspondence is with family members; artists including Ed Boccia, Thomas Eldred, T. Lux Feininger, Clark Fitzgerald, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Helion, Gerhard Marcks, Arthur Osver, Karl Schrag, and Albert Urban; and galleries and art organizations and institutions such as Richard York Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution, and others. Correspondence also relates to the Drewes estate, as well as to loans, exhibitions and sales of artwork.
Notes and writings include a diary kept by Drewes between 1918-1920 in Europe, a "love letter" in verse form written by Drewes to his first wife, Margaret, some teaching notes and notes on design, and 2 essays about Drewes written by others.
Catalogs and inventory records provide comprehensive documentation of the artwork Drewes created over the course of his career. Entries include titles, assigned numbers, subjects, dimensions, media used, and sketches or photos of artwork.
Three scrapbooks provide scattered documentation of Drewes' life and career, and include clippings from the 1920s and 1930s, and a scrapbook created by Maria Drewes for her husband's memorial service.
Printed material includes event announcements and exhibition catalogs, as well as news clippings tracing Drewes' career from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Artwork consists of greeting cards made by Drewes, as well as 38 sketchbooks and numerous loose sketches in pencil, ink, watercolor, and crayon.
Photographic material includes vintage family photographs, prints, negatives, slide tranparencies, and 8 glass plate negatives, of Drewes, his family and friends, events including exhibitions and travels, and artwork.
Found in Maria Drewes' papers are correspondence, 17 diaries primarily documenting travels with Werner Drewes, two scrapbooks with designs for jewelry, and photos of family, friends and jewelry.
Biographical / Historical
Painter, printmaker and designer Werner Drewes (1899-1985) was born in Canig, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1930. A student of the Bauhaus, and a prolific artist and teacher, Drewes worked with many kinds of media and produced numerous woodcuts, etchings, oils, watercolors, drawings and collages over the course of his life.
Drewes served for two years on Germany's Western Front during World War 1, before studying at the Bauhaus, Weimar, from 1921-1922. He then traveled throughout Europe, Asia and North and South America with his wife Margaret before returning to Germany in 1927 and enrolling at the Bauhaus, Dessau. During his time there Drewes forged his artistic ideas from the radical influences of renowned architects and artists including Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Oscar Schlemmer, and learned the Bauhaus teaching approach that would serve him throughout his career. In 1930 Drewes, Margaret, and their 2 young sons emigrated to the United States and settled in New York City where Drewes attended the Art Students League. From 1935-1936 he taught drawing and printmaking at the Brooklyn Museum School as an employee of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (WPA FAP). In 1936 he became a founding member of American Abstract Artists and the following year joined the American Artists' Congress and became an American citizen. From 1937-1940 he taught painting and printmaking at Columbia University.
In the early 1940s Drewes taught at the Master Institute in Riverside Museum, New York City, and worked as a technical supervisor for the Graphic Art Division of the FAP. From 1944-1945 he worked at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 improving his intaglio technique and then teaching design, printmaking and photography at Brooklyn College. In 1946 he taught design at the Institute of Design in Chicago before being appointed Professor of Design at the School of Fine Arts of Washington University in Saint Louis, where he continued to teach until his retirement in 1965.
Following Margaret's death in 1959, Drewes married jewelry designer and fellow professor of Washington University, Mary (Maria) Louise Lischer in 1960. On Drewes' retirement he and Maria moved to Pennsylvania where he continued to paint, focusing primarily on still lifes and landscapes. He moved to Washington in 1972 and published his American Indians portfolio, before finally setting in Reston, Virginia, where the Rose Catalog of his prints was published and where he lived as a working and exhibiting artist until his death in 1985.
In October 1984 a comprehensive retrospective, Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking, was held at the then named Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art. Drewes' work can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Arrangement
Missing Title
- Series 1: Biographical Material, 1838-1980s (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 1, 16)
- Series 2: Correspondence, 1878-2004 (1.2 linear feet; Boxes 1-2, 16)
- Series 3: Notes and Writings, 1922-2002 (0.5 linear feet; Box 2)
- Series 4: Catalogs and Inventory Records, circa 1919-circa 1980s (2.3 linear feet; Boxes 2-6)
- Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1920s-1985 (3 folders; Box 5)
- Series 6: Printed Material, 1897-2015 (1 linear feet; Boxes 5-6)
- Series 7: Artwork and Sketchbooks, circa 1890s-2002 (3.67 linear feet; Boxes 6-9, 16-17)
- Series 8: Photographic Material, circa 1890s-2000 (5.53 linear feet; Boxes 9-14, 17, MGP 2)
- Series 9: Mary (Maria) Louise Lischer Drewes Papers, 1930s-1980s (1 linear foot; Box 15)
Many of the records were assigned color-coded alpha-numeric labels prior to donation. In series where these labeling systems predominate, material has been arranged according to those systems and all previously assigned labels are indicated in the Container Listing. Many folder titles are taken from the original labels. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and closed to researchers.
The collection is arranged as 9 series.
Conditions Governing Access
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and not served to researchers.
Terms of Use
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Processing Information
The collection, including 0.8 linear feet of material previously loaned for microfilming on reels 1497-1498, was processed to a minimal level and a finding aid prepared by Stephanie Ashley in 2014, with funding provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. The Archives of American Art has implemented minimal processing tactics when possible in order to increase information about and access to more of our collections.
Minimal processing included arrangement to the series, subseries, and folder levels. Generally, items within folders were simply verified with folder titles, but not arranged further. Folders within boxes may not be numbered. The collection was rehoused in archival containers and folders, but not all staples and paper clips were removed. Glass plate negatives were re-housed in 2015 with a grant provided by the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Werner Drewes papers were donated in 2005 by Werner Drewes' sons Wolfram U. Drewes, Harald D. Drewes, and Bernard W. Drewes. 4 additional items were donated by Karen Seibert, Drewes granddaughter, in 2015. Some material had been previously loaned for microfilming in 1979, and was subsequently included in the 2005 gift.
Preferred Citation
Werner Drewes papers, 1838-2015, bulk 1890-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Existence and Location of Copies
Portions of the collection are availalbe on 35mm microfilm reels 1497-1498 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
Educators -- Virginia
Transcripts
Painters -- Virginia -- Reston
Art -- Study and teaching
Designers -- Virginia
Prints
Photographs
Sketchbooks
Scrapbooks
Diaries
Printmakers -- Virginia -- Reston
Interviews
Greeting cards
Smithsonian Institution
Boccia, Edward, 1921-2012
Drewes, Maria
Eldred, Thomas
Feininger, T. Lux
Fitz-Gerald, Clark B. (Clark Battle), 1917-2004
Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987
Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
Marcks, Gerhard
Osver, Arthur, 1912-2006
Schrag, Karl
Urban, Albert
Richard York Gallery
Biographical Material
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
0.4 Linear feet
Boxes 1, 16
1838-1980s
Arrangement
Some of the material in this series was labeled with green and yellow stickers as the "G" and "Y" series. Material is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Scope and Contents
Included here are Drewes' 1923, 1926 and 1932 passports, his student record from the Bahaus School of Design signed by Mies van der Rohe and Wassily Kandinsky, some military papers, resumes and biographical notes, and an incomplete transcript of an interview with Drewes.
Also found is information relating to Drewes' family history, including family trees, a coat of arms, family letters and notebooks, and a book of handwritten poetry belonging to Drewes' mother. Much of this material is in German.
Address Book (G28)
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circa 1960s
1
1
Awards and Certificates
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circa 1950s
1
2
Bauhaus Student Record, Passports and Military Documents
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1899-1959
1
3
Calendar
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1921
1
4
Family History
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1838-1930s
1984
1
5
Scope and Contents
OV material housed in Box 16, Folder 1
Family History (G2, G6)
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circa 1920s
1
6
Family History Notes (G11)
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1972
1
7
Interview Transcript (incomplete) of Interview of Drewes by Martina Roudabush Norelli for the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art (Y42)
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1984
1
8
Miscellaneous
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circa 1917, 1972
1
9
Poetry Book of Martha Schaefer (Drewes) (G10)
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1880s-1890s
1
10
Resumés (Y39)
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circa 1960s-circa 1970s
1
11
Resumés and Biographical Notes
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circa 1950s-circa 1980s
1
12
Who's Who Entries
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circa 1960s
1
13
Oversized Family History from Box 1, Folder 5
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16
1
Correspondence
Series 2
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1.2 Linear feet
Boxes 1-2, 16
1878-2004
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Scope and Contents
Found in this series are letters from Maria Drewes and other family members, and artists and art dealers including Josef Albers, Edward Boccia, Alexander Calder, Howard Dearstyne, Bourgoyne Diller, Katherine S. Dreier, Perle Fine, Adolph Gottlieb, Herbert Grainick, Jean Helion, Carl Holty, Wassily Kandinsky, Gerhard Marcks, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hans Moller, Abraham Rattner, Richard York Gallery, Kurt Roesch, Karl Schrag, Albert Urban, and others. Some individual correspondents have named files, while others are included in the "General" files.
General correspondence and general business correspondence include correspondence with art galleries, and art institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution, and relate primarily to loans, sales, and exhibitions of artwork.
Correspondence relating to the Drewes' estate includes an appraisal report by Karen Holtzman for Drewes' artwork and correspondence between family members, including Harald and Wolfram Drewes, and inventories of artwork.
One folder relates to a 1974 exhibition in Turkey and Greece, and includes photographs and publicity material from the exhibition. A folder of correspondence labeled with a "Y" series of yellow stickers includes letters from T. Lux Feininger, Clark Fitzgerald, Karl Schrag, and Swedish artists Jan and Pia Thunholm.
Greeting cards consist of hand made cards sent to Drewes by artists including Gerhard Marcks, Karl Schrag and others.
Berlin Visit
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1949
1
14
Boccia, Ed
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1969-1980
1
15
Condolence Letters on Death of Margaret Drewes
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1959
1
16
Drewes Estate
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1987-1993
1
17
Drewes Estate, Holtzmann Appraisal Report
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1992
1
18-20
Drewes, Mary (Maria) Louise, from Werner Drewes (Y5)
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circa 1960-1983
1
21
Drewes, Mary (Maria) Louise
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1980s
1
22
Eldred, Edna and Thomas (Y43)
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circa 1970s
1
23
Exhibition, Werner Drewes-Baski Sanati (1974)
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1974
1
24
Family Letters (G14, G15)
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1878-1959
1
25
General, A-B
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circa 1930s-circa 1980s
1
26
General C
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1966-1980s
1934
1
27
General, D-F
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circa 1930s-circa 1980s
1
28
General, G-I
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circa 1940s-circa 1980s
1
29
General, J-L
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1930s-1980s
1
30
General, M-N
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1930s-1980s
1
31
General, O-R
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1930s-1980s
1
32
General, S-U
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1930s-1980s
1
33
General, V-Z
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1960s-1980s
1
34
General, First Names Only and Illegible
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circa 1970s-circa 1980s
1
35
General Business Correspondence
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1930-1945
1
36
General Business Correspondence
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1946-2004
2
1-2
Greeting Cards
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circa 1920s-circa 1980s
2
3-9
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 2
Helion, Jean
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1937-1963
2
10
Kandinsky, Wassily
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1930s-1972
2
11
Marcks, Gerhard and Maria
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1963-1975
2
12
Osver, Arthur
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1950-1984
2
13-16
Prizes and Requisitions
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1940-1979
2
17
Purchases
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1956-1972
2
18
Richard York Gallery
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1987-1997
2
19
Schrag, Karl
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1940s-1980s
2
20
Smithsonian Institution
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1969-1985
2
21-23
Urban, Albert
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1946-1950
2
24
Y Labeled Correspondence (Y15-Y36)
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1970s-1980s
2
25
Oversized Greeting Cards from Box 2, Folder 4
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16
2
Notes and Writings
Series 3
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0.5 Linear feet
Box 2
1922-2002
Arrangement
Some of the material in this series is labeled with "G" and "Y" stickers as the green and yellow series.
Scope and Contents
Series includes a biographical essay, a German diary, with translation, documenting Drewes' time in Europe from 1918-1920, a 1922 "love letter" to Drewes' first wife Margaret written in a bound notebook in verse form with a translation from the German, and notes on Drewes' trips to Europe from the 1960s-1980s.
General notes on design and diagrams of class problems appear to have been written by Drewes' during his tenure at Washington University.
Writings by others include two essays on Drewes.
By Drewes
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2
Biographical Essay (G24)
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circa 1960s
2
26
Diagrams of Class Problems
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1957
2
27
Diary of Werner Drewes, English Translation
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2002
2
28
Diary of Werner Drewes, 1918-1920, Translation of Manuscript to Modern German (G21-G23)
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1986
2
29-30
"Farewell Love Letter to Margaret when she left for the Azores in 1922" (Y1A)
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1922
2
31
"Farewell Love Letter to Margaret when she left for the Azores in 1922," Translation (Y1B)
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1986
2
32
General Notes on Design
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circa 1950s-circa 1960s
2
33
Miscellaneous Notes, Poems
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circa 1950s-circa 1980s
2
34
Notes on Drewes' Trips to Europe (G27)
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circa 1984
2
35
By Others
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2
Essay by Franz Geierhaas, English Translation (G25), "The Graphic Work of Werner Drewes"
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1980
2
36
Essay on Drewes by Riedl (Y-40)
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1979
2
37
Catalogs and Inventory Records
Series 4
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2.3 Linear feet
Boxes 2-6
circa 1919-circa 1980s
Arrangement
The bulk of the catalogs and index cards are labeled with blue stickers as the "B" series; two folders contain "T" series index cards. All material is arranged in alpha-numerical order according to these labels.
Scope and Contents
Series contains inventory records of artwork maintained by Drewes throughout his career from the early 1900s-1980s. Catalogs document artwork by genre and may record any or all of the following: the date of execution, title and assigned number, a sketch of the artwork with descriptive notes such as subject and dimensions, and sales information where applicable. In some cases photos of artwork are affixed beside the sketch. A series of copies of some of the catalogs, compiled from the originals in the 1980s, is also included here.
Index cards, which document artwork arranged by number, contain similar information but are accompanied in many cases by photographs, and negatives, of artwork rather than sketches.
Catalog B1: Oils
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1930s-1980s
2
38
Catalogs B2, B3: Oils
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1930s-1980s
2
39
Catalog B4: Oils
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1930s-1980s
3
1
Catalog B5A: Oils
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1930s-1980s
3
2
Catalog B5B: Oils
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1930s-1980s
3
3
Catalogs B6, B7: Watercolors
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1930s-1970s
3
4
Catalogs B8, B9: Prints
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circa 1919-1980s
3
5
Catalog B10: Prints
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circa 1919-1980s
3
6
Catalog B12: Prints
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circa 1919-1980s
3
7
Catalog B13: Collages
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1940s-1980s
3
8
Catalog B14
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circa 1920s-circa 1940s
3
9
Catalog B15: Prints
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circa 1919-1980s
3
10
Catalog, Not Numbered: Prints
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circa 1919-1980s
3
11
Catalog Notes for Wolfram Drewes
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circa 1940s-circa 1980s
3
12
Catalog Copies, B1, R2-R4, Y2-Y3
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circa 1990s
3
13-14
Catalog Copies B2, B3
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circa 1990s
3
15
Catalog Copies B4
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circa 1990s
3
16-17
Catalog Copies B5A, B5B
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circa 1990s
3
18-19
Catalog Copies B6, B7
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circa 1990s
3
20
Index Cards
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4
Cards for 1923-1944, B16
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circa 1990s
4
1
Portrait Studies, 1924-1944, B16
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circa 1970s
4
2
Paintings, 1932-1944, B17
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circa 1970s
4
3
Paintings, 1932-1944, #191-337, B17
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
4
Artwork, 1924-1950, #1-124, B18
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
5
Artwork, 1924-1950, #125-241, B18
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
6
Artwork, 1924-1950, #241-322, B18
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
7
Artwork, 1924-1950, #322-400, B18
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
8
Artwork, 1924-1950, #401-476, B18
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
9
Artwork, 1924-1950, #477-526, B18
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
10
Artwork, 1924-1950, #526-599, B18
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
11
Artwork, 1951-1971, #600-655, B19
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
12
Artwork, 1951-1971, #656-749, B19
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
13
Artwork, 1951-1971, #750-800, B19
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
14
Artwork, 1951-1971, #801-877, B19
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
15
Artwork, 1951-1971, #878-933, B19
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
16
Artwork, 1951-1971, #934-1016, B19
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
17
Artwork, 1951-1971, #1017-1105, B19
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
18
Artwork, 1951-1971, #1106-1199, B19
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
19
Artwork, 1971-1985, #1200-1239, B20
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
20
Artwork, 1971-19851, #1240-1298, B20
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
21
Artwork, 1971-1985, #1299-1363, B20
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
22
Artwork, 1971-1985, #1364-1428, B20
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
23
Artwork, 1971-1985, #1429-1486, B20
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
24
Artwork, 1971-1985, #1488-1535, B20
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
25
Artwork, 1971-1985, #1536-1570, B20
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
4
26
Artwork #T1-T109
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
5
1
Artwork #T110-T159
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
5
2
Price Lists and Miscellaneous Records
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1939, 1980s
5
3
Scrapbooks
Series 5
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3 Folders
Box 5
1920s-1985
Scope and Contents
Three scrapbooks include fragments of a clippings scrapbook about Drewes from the 1920s-1930s, a scrapbook compilied for Drewes' memorial service, and a scrapbook of photos of artwork and clippings compiled by Rosamund Frost.
Fragments
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1920s-1930s
5
4
Memorial Service for Werner Drewes (G3)
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1985
5
5
"Werner Drewes" by Rosamund Frost (G5)
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circa 1950
5
6
Printed Material
Series 6
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1 Linear foot
Boxes 5-6
1897-2015
Scope and Contents
Announcements and catalogs are for Drewes' one-man shows as well as exhibitions and events in which Drewes participated.
Other announcements and catalogs include catalogs listing sales information for Drewes' artwork and announcements and catalogs for other artists.
Clippings are generally about Drewes and his exhibitions. Also found are 3 children's books published in Germany, one of which was a gift to Drewes as a child.
Book, Die Geschichten von Jan und Jon und von ihrem Lotsen-Fisch by Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp (G2)
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1947
5
7
Book, Ganz dicht am Main by Marianne Mielenhausen (G3)
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1944
5
8
Book, Wie die Tiere Soldated werden wollten by Bootticher and Fedor Finzer
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circa 1897
5
9
Clippings
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circa 1920s-circa 1980s
5
10-11
Clippings
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1920s-1980s
5
12-24
Drewes Announcements and Catalogs
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circa 1920s-circa 1980s
5
25-26
Drewes Announcements and Catalogs
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1930s-1960s
5
27-34
Drewes Announcements and Catalogs
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circa 1970s-2015
6
1-12
Other Announcements and Catalogs
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circa 1920s-ca. 1980s
6
13-16
Publications
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1930s-1980s
6
17-19
Artwork and Sketchbooks
Series 7
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3.67 Linear feet
Boxes 6-9, 16-17
circa 1890s-2002
Arrangement
The bulk of the material is labeled with "R" stickers as the red series and is arranged in numerical sequence.
Scope and Contents
The bulk of Drewes' sketchbooks and groups of loose sketches, are dated and titled by subject or genre, and contain primarily pencil and ink sketches, with some crayon and watercolor sketches. Many are labeled with red stickers as the "R" series.
Also found are 10 folders of Drewes' prints made for holiday greeting cards. An additional folder contains cards made for Maria Drewes.
Two folders contain artwork by others, including family members.
Folder for "Etchings from South America" (G 8)
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circa 1940s
6
20
Greeting Card Prints
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1940s-1980s
6
21-30
Sketchbook
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1912-1913
6
31
Sketchbook R1: Maine
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1968 September
6
32
Sketchbook R2: Untitled
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1947
6
33
Sketchbook R3B: Europe
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1952
7
1
Sketchbook R4: Trip to Europe
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1920
7
2
Sketchbook R5: France and Greece
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1971
7
3
Sketchbook R5A: Untitled (Mounted Sketches)
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1933-1953
7
4
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 3
Sketchbook R6: Untitled
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1975
7
5
Sketchbook R6: Germany
Archival Resource Key
1939
7
6
Sketchbook R7: England
Archival Resource Key
1978
7
7
Sketchbook R7B: New England
Archival Resource Key
1968 September
7
8
Sketchbook R8A: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s
7
9
Sketchbook R8B: Life Drawings
Archival Resource Key
1940
7
10
Sketchbooks R9 (2 books): Untitled and Life Drawings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940
7
11
Sketchbooks R10 (2 books): Untitled and Life Drawings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s
7
12
Sketchbook R11: Life Drawings
Archival Resource Key
1940
7
13
Sketchbook R12: Figures
Archival Resource Key
1962
7
14
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 3
Sketchbook R16: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1973
7
15
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 3
Sketchbook R17B: Yucatan and Figure
Archival Resource Key
1962
7
16
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 4
Sketchbook R18D: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1960s
7
17
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 4
Sketchbook R19A: Luxemburg
Archival Resource Key
7
18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 5
Sketchbook R20 C: New England
Archival Resource Key
1961
7
19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 5
Sketchbook R22 C: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1976
7
20
Sketchbook R23C: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
7
21
Sketchbook R24: Title Illegible
Archival Resource Key
1975
7
22
Sketchbook R25B: France, Italy
Archival Resource Key
1958
7
23
Sketchbook R26C: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
circa 1956
7
24
Sketchbook R27C: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1956
7
25
Sketchbook R31A: Europe, Yucatan
Archival Resource Key
1963
7
26
Sketchbook R35B: Europe
Archival Resource Key
1970
7
27
Sketchbook R36B: France
Archival Resource Key
1971
7
28
Sketchbook R37B: Greece, Europe
Archival Resource Key
1974
7
29
Sketchbook R38B: Holiday in Norway, Rhine River Trip etc.
Archival Resource Key
1977
7
30
Sketchbook R39B: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1976-1978
7
31
Sketchbook R40B: Gandria
Archival Resource Key
1980 July 24
7
32
Sketchbook R41B: Switzerland
Archival Resource Key
1981
7
33
Sketchbook R42C: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1985
8
1
Loose Sketches R43: Abstract
Archival Resource Key
1941-1951
8
2
Loose Sketches R45: Nature
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1980s
8
3-6
Loose Sketches R46: Black and White, Nature
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1980s
8
7-11
Loose Sketches R47: Abstracts
Archival Resource Key
1981-1983
8
12-15
Loose Sketches R49: NFS Abstracts
Archival Resource Key
1935-1946
8
16-17
Loose Sketches R50: Abstracts
Archival Resource Key
1970s
8
18-22
Loose Sketches R51: Pages from Old Sketchbooks
Archival Resource Key
1937-1939
8
23-27
Collage R55
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-circa 1980s
8
28
Handmade Booklet R56
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
8
29
Sketchbook R62: "From My Little Sketchbook, Remembrances of 1970: to Maria"
Archival Resource Key
1970
8
30
Loose Sketches R65
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-1970s
8
31
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 16, Folder 6
Cards Made for Mary (Maria) Louise Drewes R67
Archival Resource Key
1960-1980s
8
32
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 17, Folder 1
Loose Sketches R72
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1940s
8
33
Loose Sketches R73: Nature, Farm and St. Louis
Archival Resource Key
1934-1960
9
1-2
Loose Sketches R75: Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-1970s
9
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 17, Folder 2
Loose Sketches Not Numbered: Abstracts
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1950s
9
4-5
Loose Sketches Not Numbered: Abstracts
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
9
6-7
Loose Sketches Not Numbered: Nature
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1970s
9
8-10
Loose Sketches Not Numbered: Nature
Archival Resource Key
1940s-1980s
9
11-12
Loose Sketches Not Numbered: Old, Mounted
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-circa 1950s
9
13-15
Loose Sketches Not Numbered: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
1940s-1980s
9
16
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 17, Folder 3
Loose Sketches Not Numbered: Untitled
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-circa 1980s
9
17-18
Artwork by Others
Archival Resource Key
circa 1915-2002
9
19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 17, Folder 4
Artwork by Others, Family Members
Archival Resource Key
circa 1890s
9
20
Oversized Sketchbook R5A: Untitled (Mounted Sketches) from Box 7, Folder 4
Archival Resource Key
16
3
Oversized Sketchbook R12: Figures from Box 7, Folder 14
Archival Resource Key
16
3
Oversized Sketchbook R16: Untitled from Box 7, Folder 15
Archival Resource Key
16
3
Oversized Sketchbook R17B: Yucatan and Figure from Box 7, Folder 16
Archival Resource Key
16
4
Oversized Sketchbook R18D: Untitled from Box 7, Folder 17
Archival Resource Key
16
4
Oversized Sketchbook R19A: Luxemburg from Box 7, Folder 18
Archival Resource Key
16
5
Oversized Sketchbook R20 C: New England from Box 7, Folder 19
Archival Resource Key
16
5
Oversized Loose Sketches R65 from Box 8, Folder 31
Archival Resource Key
16
6
Oversized Cards Made for Mary (Maria) Louise Drewes R67 from Box 8, Folder 32
Archival Resource Key
17
1
Oversized Loose Sketches R75: Miscellaneous from Box 9, Folder 3
Archival Resource Key
17
2
Oversized Loose Sketches Not Numbered: Untitled from Box 9, folder 16
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Oversized Artwork by Others from Box 9, Folder 19
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Photographic Material
Series 8
Archival Resource Key
5.53 Linear feet
Boxes 9-14, 17, MGP 2
circa 1890s-2000
Arrangement
One series of photographis was labeled with black labels and numbered as the "BK" series. This material is arranged in alpha-numerical sequence at the end of the series under the folder grouping "Works of Art in Labeled Series." Other "BK" photographs are arranged alphabetially by folder title with assigned numbers indicated in parentheses.
Scope and Contents
Series includes photographs of Drewes, including studio, portrait, family, exhibition and travel photographs. Also found are many photographs, negatives, and transparencies, as well as 8 glass negatives of works of art by Drewes. Many photographs of works of art have corresponding negatives affixed to the back of the photos.
Existence and Location of Copies
Glass plate negatives have been digitized.
Bauhaus Buildings
Archival Resource Key
1928
9
21
Colleagues/Friends
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-circa 1970s
9
22
Exhibitions
Archival Resource Key
1940s-1990s
9
23-31
Exhibitions, "Harald's AAA Gallery Show and Some of Wolf's Colored Windows"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
9
32
Exhibitions, "Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking" (1985) (BK22)
Archival Resource Key
1985
9
33
Family/Friends
Archival Resource Key
circa 1890s-1980s
9
34-35
In Studio and Teaching
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-1980s
9
36
Interiors of Drewes Home
Archival Resource Key
9
37
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s-2000
9
38
Point Pleasant and Wolfram Drewes House
Archival Resource Key
1972
10
1-2
Portraits of Drewes and Maria Drewes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s-1980s
10
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in box 17, Folder 6
Portraits of Drewes (BK7)
Archival Resource Key
1980
10
4
School Photograph
Archival Resource Key
1914
10
5
Travel (inc. Manhattan G18)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s-1977
10
6
Travel: California and Colorado; Europe (Seconds); Guatemala
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
10
7
Travel: Majorca, Spain; Mexico
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
10
8
Travel: Peru; Yucatan
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
10
9
Travel: Peru Documentation
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
11
1
Travel: Photo Album-U.S.A. Trip, Buildings (BK6)
Archival Resource Key
1926
11
2
Works of Art
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-circa 1990s
11
3-32
Works of Art, Negatives
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-circa 1990s
11
33-35
Works of Art, Numbered 1-1500s
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
12
1-7
Works of Art, Album
Archival Resource Key
circa 1920s-circa 1930s
12
8
Works of Art, Album
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
12
9
Works of Art, Collection of C. & S. L. Osgood
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
12
10
Works of Art Given To C. U.
Archival Resource Key
1992
12
11
Works of Art, Slides
Archival Resource Key
1960s-circa 1990s
12
12-23
Works of Art, Slides by B. Kopp
Archival Resource Key
1970s-1980s
12
24-29
Works of Art, Slides by Marianne Gurley
Archival Resource Key
1987
13
1-2
Works of Art, Slides by Marianne Gurley, Extras
Archival Resource Key
1987
13
3-7
Works of Art, Slides of Work Bought by National Park Service
Archival Resource Key
1970s
13
8-9
Works of Art, Slides "Steinberg Hall"
Archival Resource Key
13
10
Works of Art, Watercolors Returned from Snyder Gallery
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
13
11
Works of Art, Wolfram Drewes Private Art Collection
Archival Resource Key
1990s
13
12-13
Works of Art, Transparencies
Archival Resource Key
1970s-1980s
13
14-16
Works of Art in Labeled Series
Archival Resource Key
BK2: Photo Positives of Artwork
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
13
17
BK3: Photo Positives of Artwork
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
13
18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 17, Folder 7
BK5: Photo Scrapbook
Archival Resource Key
1935-1953
13
19-21
BK6: Photo Postivies of Rose Catalogue Artwork
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
13
22-23
BK8: Photos of Woodcuts
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
13
24
BK9: Photos by Marianne Gurley for Book
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
13
25
BK10: Sleeves of Glass Plate Negatives of Artwork
Archival Resource Key
circa 1956
13
26
Scope and Contents
(8 glass plate negatives housed in MGP 2)
BK11: Photos of Early Paintings, Portraits
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
13
27
BK13: Photo Album of Black and White Photos of Artwork
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s
13
28
BK14: Photo Albums of Black and White Photos of Old "Rare" Pictures
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
1
BK15: Black and White Photos with Negatives of Artwork
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
2-3
BK16: Photos of Oils by Drewes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
4
BK19: Black and White Photos of Artwork with Negatives
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
5
BK20: Black and White Photos of Artwork
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
6
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 17, Folder 8
BK23: Transparencies by Marianne Gurley
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
14
7
BK24: Transparencies by Marianne Gurley
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
14
8
BK25: Brigitte Helloth Material
Archival Resource Key
1980
14
9
BK26: Photos of Artwork
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
14
10-11
BK27: Slide Box File of Paintings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
12-13
BK27: Slide Box File of Paintings, Documentation from original box
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
14
Glass Plate Negatives
Archival Resource Key
8 Glass negatives
MGP 2
Glass Plate Negatives
Works of Art by Others
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990s
14
15
Works of Art by Others, Sold at Auction for Estate
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980s
14
16
Portraits of Drewes and Maria Drewes from Box 10, Folder 3
Archival Resource Key
17
6
Oversized BK3: Photo Positives of Artwork from Box 13, Folder 18
Archival Resource Key
17
7
Oversized Works of Art in Labeled Series BK 20: Black and White Photos of Artwork from Box 14, Folder 6
Archival Resource Key
17
8
Mary (Maria) Louise Lischer Drewes Papers
Series 9
Archival Resource Key
1 Linear foot
Box 15
1930s-1980s
Scope and Contents
Papers provide scattered documentation of Maria Drewes' marriage to Werner Drewes and her career as a jewelry professor and desginer. Correspondence relating to her work prior to her marriage to Drewes, includes her 1957 teaching certificate and letters of reference from the City Art Museum of St. Louis, as well as family letters and diaries primarily documenting European travels during the 1960s-1980s. Also found are notes, a scrapbook and photographs of Maria Drewes' jewelry designs.
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1940s-1980s
15
1
Correspondence, Letters to Family
Archival Resource Key
1960s
15
2-3
Death Notices
Archival Resource Key
1987
15
4
Diaries
Archival Resource Key
1960-1986
15
5-9
Insurance Valuation of Jewelry
Archival Resource Key
1959
15
10
Marriage Announcements and Letters
Archival Resource Key
1950s, 1960
15
11
Notes on Jewelry
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1940s
15
12-13
Scrapbook of Jewelry Designs
Archival Resource Key
1960s-1980s
15
14
Scrapbook of Photographs of Jewelry
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
15
15
Photographs
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1980s
15
16
Photograph Album of Maria's Family
Archival Resource Key
circa 1900-circa 1950s
15
17
Photographs of Jewelry
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-circa 1980s
15
18-19