Archives of American Art
Honoré Sharrer papers
Sharrer, Honoré, 1920-2009
AAA.sharhono
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9.45 Linear feet
1.12 Gigabytes
circa 1920-2007
The papers of realist painter, Honoré Sharrer, measure 9.45 linear feet and 1.12 GB and date from circa 1920-2007. The collection documents Sharrer's career through biographical material, personal and professional correspondence, writings and notes, research and source files, printed and digital material, artwork, sketchbooks, and photographs of Sharrer, her family, friends, colleagues, and artwork.
Collection is in English.
Scope and Contents
The papers of realist painter, Honoré Sharrer, measure 9.45 linear feet and 1.12 GB and date from circa 1920-2007. The collection documents Sharrer's career through biographical material, personal and professional correspondence, writings and notes, research and source files, printed and digital material, artwork, sketchbooks, and photographs of Sharrer, her family, friends, colleagues, and artwork.
Biographical material includes biographical notes and resumés, awards, paintbrushes used by Sharrer, and sales records, as well as comprehensive documentation, compiled 2004-2007 by her husband, Perez Zagorin, and her son, Adam Zagorin, of Sharrer's artwork in their possession. Included are digital images of Sharrer's artwork.
Correspondence is with family members including Sharrer's mother, Madeleine Sharrer, and her second husband, Reginald Poland; husband Perez Zagorin; son Adam Zagorin; and daughter-in-law, Mary Carpenter Also found is correspondence with artists including Peter Blume, Lester Burbank Bridaham, Gitta Caiserman-Roth, Kathy Calderwood, Mary Crutchfield, Betty Goodwin, Lincoln Kirstein, Mayumi Oda, and George Tooker. Other professional correspondents include galleries, museums, and other art institutions such as American Academy of Arts and Letters, Terry Dintenfass, Forum Gallery, Handmacher-Vogel, Inc., M. Knoedler & Co., Dorothy Miller relating to the 1946 Fourteen Americans exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Women's Caucus for Art.
Writings and notes comprise drafts of several essays on art by Sharrer, preliminary notes for Tribute to the American Working People, and a mock-up for an unpublished book, "One White Christmas," written by Sharrer's grandmother, Honoré Sachs, and illustrated by Sharrer.
Research and source files consist of source material used throughout the course of Sharrer's career, including printed and photographic material used in the creation of Tribute to the American Working People, and later work dating up to, and including, the last decade of her life.
Printed material comprises announcements and catalogs for exhibitions and events featuring Sharrer, including a catalog for Fourteen Americans, as well as clippings about her and others, such as the Life Magazine cover story "Nineteen Young Americans."
Artwork and sketchbooks include studies for paintings and illustrations, and other preliminary sketches, as well as 14 sketchbooks of pencil and ink sketches dating from circa 1960s t0 2003.
Photographic material consists of photos of Sharrer, her family, friends, colleagues, exhibition installations, and houses. Also found are photos, negatives, and transparencies of Sharrer's artwork, as well as photos of artwork by Madeleine Sharrer and Lester Burbank Bridaham.
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Stephanie Ashley in 2015. Born-digital materials were processed by Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner in 2019 with funding provided by Smithsonian Collection Care and Preservation Fund. The 2018 addition was processed by Ryan Evans in 2019.
Preferred Citation
Honoré Sharrer papers, circa 1920-2007. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Honoré Sharrer papers were donated in 2006 and 2007 by Perez Zagorin, Sharrer's husband. A small addition was donated by Adam Zagorin, Sharrer's son, in 2018.
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Biographical / Historical
Realist painter Honoré Sharrer (1920-2009) lived and worked in New York, Massachusetts, London, Montreal and Charlottesville, Virginia. She was best known for her five-panel painting, Tribute to the American Working People, completed in 1951 and first shown at M. Knoedler & Co. in New York to wide critical acclaim.
Sharrer was born in 1920 in West Point, New York, where her father was an Army officer, and grew up in the United States, the Philippines, Paris, and La Jolla, California. She studied at the Yale University School of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute, and worked as a welder in shipyards in California and New Jersey during World War II. She moved to New York in the 1940s and lived subsequently in Amherst, Massachusetts, London, and Montreal.
Sharrer's Workers and Paintings (1943) was included in the landmark Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Fourteen Americans, in 1946, and her painting, Man at Fountain, was featured in the 1950 Life Magazine cover story, "Nineteen Young American Artists." Tribute to the American Working People, which depicted a factory worker surrounded by smaller scenes of ordinary life, was considered her masterwork, but in the years that followed it's unveiling at M. Knoedler & Co., Sharrer was noticeably absent from the art scene; between 1951 and 1969 she did not have a single solo exhibition. While many of her contemporaries immersed themselves in Abstract Expressionism, Sharrer continued to paint, in meticulous detail, the daily experiences of ordinary working people, and her later work often dealt with female perspectives and was imbued with humor and elements of magical realism.
In 2007 the Smithsonian American Art Museum held an exhibition titled Anatomy of a Painting: Honoré Sharrer's 'Tribute to the American Working People,' which was devoted exclusively to her most famous work, now in the Smithsonian's permanent collection, and the source material she used when painting it. Sharrer's works can also be found in the Metroplitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Sharrer settled in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the early 1990s. She was married to her second husband, historian Perez Zagorin, for 61 years, before her death in 2009. Her mother, Madeleine Sharrer, was also a painter who married Reginald Poland, Director of the Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, following the death of Sharrer's father, Robert Allen Sharrer.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as 8 series.
Missing Title
- Series 1: Biographical Material, 1941-2007 (0.44 linear feet; Boxes 1, 10, 1.12 GB; ER01-ER10)
- Series 2: Correspondence, 1938-2006 (1.84 linear feet; Boxes 1-3, 10)
- Series 3: Writings and Notes, circa 1940s-circa 1990s (5 folders; Boxes 3, 10)
- Series 4: Research and Source Files, circa 1920s-2005 (3.43 linear feet; Boxes 3-6, 10-11)
- Series 5: Printed Material, circa 1930s-2005 (0.85 linear feet; Boxes 6-7, 11, OV 13, OV 17)
- Series 6: Artwork, 1941-circa 1990s (0.8 linear feet; Boxes 7, 11-12, OV 13
- Series 7: Sketchbooks, 1960s-2003 (0.55 linear feet; Boxes 7, 12)
- Series 8: Photographic Material, circa 1930s-circa 2000 (1.83 linear feet; Boxes 8-9, 12, OVs 13-16)
Related Materials
Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Perez Zagorin, 2007, January 17-18, and the Madeleine Sharrer papers, 1954-1988.
Sketchbooks
Photographs
Painting -- Equipment and supplies
Realism
Painters -- Virginia
Painters -- New York (State)
Women artists
Women painters
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-
Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
Blume, Peter, 1906-1992
Zagorin, Perez
Poland, Reginald
Bridaham, Lester Burbank
Caiserman-Roth, Ghitta, 1923-
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Carpenter, Mary
Calderwood, Kathy, 1945-
Tooker, George, 1920-2011
Crutchfield, Mary
Zagorin, Adam
Goodwin, Betty
Sachs, Honoré
Terry Dintenfass, Inc.
Sharrer, Madeleine
Handmacher-Vogel, Inc.
Forum Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Oda, Mayumi, 1941-
Women's Caucus for Art
Biographical Material
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
0.44 Linear feet
Boxes 1, 10
1.12 Gigabytes
ER01-ER10
1941-2007
1
Scope and Contents
Series consists of biographical notes and resumés, 3 awards, documentation relating to the historic status of Sharrer's Scottsville home, records of sales of Sharrer's paintings, and lists of her paintings and their owners with dimension details.
Material relating to the Honoré Sharrer Donation Collection/Project, consists of a 2007 list of Sharrer's artwork and a binder containing a hardcopy list of paintings, drawings and prints. Images of Sharrer's paintings, most of the drawings and all of the prints are also included in digital format. The artwork cataloged in the binder was in the possession of Perez Zagorin, and Adam Zagorin as of 2007, with the intention that it be lent to public art institutions on a long-term basis. Included in digital format are lists of Sharrer's sketches, and a presentation of Sharrer's drawings for paintings.
Also found are two paintbrushes (sized 00 and 000) used by Sharrer in the 1990s, which are similar to the ones she used to paint Tribute to the American Working People; and a section of the wallpaper taken from the Sharrer home in Vinalhaven, Maine, where the family spent many summers.
Biographical material relating to family members includes a resumé for Madeleine Sharrer, and Perez Zagorin's certificate of service for the United States Department of Commerce.
Awards
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1981-1987
1
1
Biographical Notes and Resumés
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1970s-2001
1
2-3
Guggenheim Fellowship Application Form
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circa 1947
1
4
Honoré Sharrer Donation Collection
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2004-2007
Includes born-digital records, see ER01-ER03.
1
5
Sketches, Digital Photographs
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0.307 Gigabytes
40 computer files
2006
ER01
Oil and Casein, Digital Photographs
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0.057 Gigabytes
57 computer files
2006-2007
ER02
Drawings for Paintings, Digital Presentation and Document
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0.113 Gigabytes
Two computer files
2007
ER03
Honoré Sharrer Donation Project
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2007
Includes born-digital records, see ER04-ER10.
1
6
Project Inventory, Paintings, Digital Photographs and Document
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0.075 Gigabytes
63 computer files
2007
ER04
Project Inventory, Sketches for Paintings, Digital Photographs and Document
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0.102 Gigabytes
198 computer files
2007
ER05
Project Inventory, Drawings, Digital Photographs
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0.421 Gigabytes
556 computer files
2007
ER06
Project Inventory, Sketchbooks, Digital Photographs and Document
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0.016 Gigabytes
37 computer files
2007
ER07
Project Inventory, Etchings and Sketches for Etchings, Digital Photographs and Document
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0.014 Gigabytes
24 computer files
2007
ER08
Project Inventory, Silkscreens, Digital Photographs and Document
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0.005 Gigabytes
12 computer files
2007
ER09
Project Inventory, Lithographs, Digital Photographs and Document
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0.013 Gigabytes
14 computer files
2007
ER10
Lists of Paintings and Owners
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circa 1969-circa 1999
1
7
Paintbrushes
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circa 1980s
1
8
Sales Records
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1988-1992
1
9
Scottsville Home Preservation
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1970s-1990s
1
10
Sharrer, Madeleine, Resumé
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1970s
1
11
Wallpaper from Vinalhaven, Maine
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circa 1940s
1
12
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 1
Zagorin, Perez
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1941-circa 1980s
1
13
OV Wallpaper from Vinalhaven, Maine from Box 1, Folder 12
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10
1
Correspondence
Series 2
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1.84 Linear feet
Boxes 1-3, 10
1938-2006
Scope and Contents
Circa 2 linear feet of Sharrer's correspondence, primarily incoming with scattered outgoing letters, is with family members, friends, and colleagues including other artists, galleries, and museums.
Correspondence with family members includes 16 folders of letters and postcards, primarily from Madeleine Sharrer and Reginald Poland to Honoré Sharrer and Perez Zagorin, with scattered letters and illustrated letters from Sharrer to Madeleine.; 3 illustrated letters from Honoré Sharrer to her grandmother, Honoré Sachs; correspondence, including one illustrated letter, from Honoré Sharrer to Perez Zagorin; and Sharrer's correspondence with her brother, Peter Sharrer, nephew, Robert Sharrer, her son, Adam Zagorin, and her daughter-in-law, Mary Carpenter.
Artists represented here include Peter Blume, Lester Burbank Bridaham, Gitta Caiserman-Roth, Kathy Calderwood, Mary Crutchfield, Betty Goodwin, Lincoln Kirstein, Mayumi Oda, and George Tooker. Correspondence with galleries includes documentation of M. Knoedler & Company's sale of Tribute to the American Working People to Handmacher-Vogel, Inc. in 1951; correspondence with Terry Dintenfass who invited Sharrer to join her gallery in 1975; and correspondence with Forum Gallery, which represented Sharrer beginning in 1978. There are 2 letters from Dorothy Miller relating to the 1946 Fourteen Americans exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and the museum's interest in Sharrer's study drawings for her painting, Workers and Paintings; correspondence with the American Academy of Arts and Letters regarding loan agreements, award nominations, and award ceremonies; and documentation of the Women's Caucus for Art's honoree nominations of Sharrer.
Also found are letters from fine arts appraiser and artist Lester Burbank Bridaham in which Bridaham warns Sharrer of the poor storage conditions of her mother's artwork, and other artwork in her possesion. Bridaham advocates for considering the Archives of American Art as a repository for Sharrer's and her mother's personal papers.
Arrangement
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name, with general files arranged by letter at the end of the series.
Amendola, Robert
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circa 1946-circa 1947
1
14
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1970s-2000
1
15-16
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1999-2000
1
17
American Federation of Arts
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1950s
1
18
Bishop's School
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1938-1991
1
19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 2
Bridaham, Lester Birdwell
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1980-1989
1
20
Blume, Peter
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1951-1987
1
21
Caiserman-Roth, Ghitta
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1980s
1
22
Calderwood, Kathy
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1971-2006
1
23
Carpenter, Mary
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1970s-2000
1
24-25
Creative Artists Public Service Program
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1970s
1
26
Crutchfield, Mary
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1956-1990s
1
27
DC Moore Gallery
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1997
1
28
Danforth Museum
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1979-1982
1
29
Dawson Gallery
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1981-2001
1
30
District 1199 Cultural Center, Inc.
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1979-1981
1
31
Fasanella, Ralph
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1968-1997
1
32
Forum Gallery
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1977-2000
1
33-35
Gallery Information
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1970s
1
36
Goodwin, Betty
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1964-1988
1
37
Grant, Mary
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circa 1980s
1
38
Handmacher-Vogel, Inc.
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1950s
1
39
Kirstein, Lincoln
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1945-1961
1
40
Longenbach, James
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1992-2002
1
41
M. Knoedler & Co.
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1951-1967
1
42
Manhattan, Inc.
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1984-1986
1
43
Marchese, Dodie
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1987-1990
1
44
Meltzoff, Stanley
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1975-1994
1
45
Menguy, Emilie and René
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1970s-1990s
1
46
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1982-2000
1
47
Museum of Modern Art
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1945-1946
1999
1
48
N. W. Ayer & Son Inc.
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1956
1
49
National Academy of Design
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1984-1986
1
50
Newhouse, Laurie
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1987-1988
1
51
Oda, Mayumi
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1970s-1980s
1
52
Read, Nicholas and Dallas
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1986-2001
2
1
Reed, Joseph Verner and Mrs. Reed
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circa 1981-circa 1989
2
2
Royce, Stephen
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1939-1972
2
3-4
Sachs, Honoré
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circa 1946-circa 1960s
2
5
From Sharrer, Madeleine
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circa 1950s-circa 1980s
2
6-7
From Sharrer, Madeleine
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1927-1974
2
8-15
To Sharrer, Madeleine
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1947-circa 1983
2
16
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 2
Sharrer, Madeleine and Reginald Poland, Postcards
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circa 1940s-1980s
2
17-18
Sharrer, Madeleine and Reginald Poland, Postcards
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1940s-1980s
2
19-22
Sharrer, Peter
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1950s-1990s
2
23-25
Sharrer, Robert
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1980s-2000
2
26
Sickles, Sue and Bob
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1980s-2002
2
27
Smith, Bobbie
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1998
2
28
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1984-2001
2
29
Stevens, May
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1974
2
30
Terry Dintenfass, Inc.
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1965-1978
2
31
Tew, Timothy
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1953-1994
2
32
Tooker, George
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1980-1995
2
33
University of Rochester/Memorial Art Gallery
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1981-1999
2
34
Whitney Museum of American Art
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1954-1973
2
35
Women's Caucus for Art
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1986-1988
2
36-38
Zagorin, Adam
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circa 1950s-1990s
2
39
Zagorin, Edmund
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circa 1990s
2
40
Zagorin, Perez
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2
41-42
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 2
A, General
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1938-1980
2
43
B, General
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1950s-2000
2
44
C, General
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1969-2000
2
45
D, General
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1970s-2000
2
46
E-F, General
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1955-2003
2
47
G-H, General
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1955-1999
2
48
J-K, General
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circa 1980s-circa 1990s
2
49
L, General
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1957-1994
3
1
M, General
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1960s-1993
3
2
N-P, General
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1947-1997
3
3
R, General
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1969-2004
3
4
S, General
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1965-2002
3
5
T, V, General
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1956-2002
3
6
W, General
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1980s-1990s
3
7
First Names Only/Unidentified
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1950s-2000s
3
8-9
OV Bishop's School from Box 2, Folder 18
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10
2
OV To Sharrer, Madeleine from Box 2, Folder 16
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10
2
OV Zagorin, Perez from Box 2, Folders 41-42
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10
2
Writings and Notes
Series 3
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5 Folders
Boxes 3, 10
circa 1940s-circa 1990s
Scope and Contents
Writings include drafts of several essays on art by Sharrer, including a 1951 essay she provided to Vogue about Tribute to the American Working People. Notes include preliminary notes for Tribute to the American Working People from the late 1940s, as well as addresses, and notes on framing. Also found is a mock-up of an unpublished children's book, "One White Christmas," written by Honoré Sachs and illustrated by Sharrer.
Fragments of Drafts/Typescripts
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circa 1950s
3
10
Mock-Up of "One White Christmas"
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circa 1940s
3
11
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 3
Notes
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circa 1940s-circa 1990s
3
12-13
OV Mock-Up of "One White Christmas" from Box 3, Folder 11
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10
3
Research and Source Files
Series 4
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3.43 Linear feet
Boxes 3-6, 10-11
circa 1920-2005
Scope and Contents
Research and source files used by the artist as source material for her work, consist of printed material, primarily news clippings; photographic material including original and copy prints, negatives, and contact sheets; and scattered sketches by Sharrer. Source material includes photos of factories, workers, children, and other individuals involved in everyday tasks used by Sharrer in some of her most important works, including Tribute to the American Working People.
Source photographs also include photos grouped by name of model. These include photos of Perez Zagorin who modeled many subjects for Sharrer.
Arrangement
Series is arranged alphabetically by subject. Subject headings are taken from Sharrer's files wherever possible, but as many groups of material were not organized by subject, assumptions were made by the archivist during processing as to which categories best fit the material.
Animals
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1960s-1990s
3
14-19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 4
Art, Methods and Supplies
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circa 1950s-1990s
3
20-21
Asia
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circa 1960s
3
22
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 5
Babies
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1960s
3
23
Bakery Ladies
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circa 1960s
3
24
Ballet Girls
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1985
3
25
Beach
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1980s
3
26-27
Boats
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1960s
3
28
Buildings, Streets
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1940s-circa 1980s
3
29
Butchers Shops
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1950s
3
30
Car Crashes
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1960s-1970s
3
31
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 5
Car Sales
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1960s-1970s
3
32
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 5
Children
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1950s-circa 2005
3
33-38
Coal Miners
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1960s
3
39
Computers
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circa 1960s
3
40
Debra as Model
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1980s
3
41-42
Debra as Model
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1980s
4
1-2
Designs
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circa 1970s
4
3
Divorce
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circa 1960s
4
4
Ellen as Model
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circa 1980s
4
5
Factories
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circa 1920s-circa 1960s
4
6-11
Farm Scene Woman
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1980s
4
12
Farms
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circa 1950s-circa 1980s
4
13-14
Fire
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1960s-1990s
4
15
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 5
Food
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circa 1960s
4
16
Gaillac Fountain
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circa 1980s
4
17
Golf
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1960s-1990s
4
18
Guiac, Summer
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1991
4
19
Guns
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1970s
4
20
Hair Curlers
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circa 1950s
4
21
Health
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1980s
4
22
Hills and Mountains
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1980s
4
23
Houses and Furniture
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1970s-2000
4
24
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 5
Joan as Model
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2000
4
25
Meat
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circa 1970s-2002
4
26
Men and Men Smoking
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circa 1950s-1990s
4
27-28
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 6
Menguy, Emilie
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circa 1970s
4
29
Miscellaneous
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1940s-2004
4
30-36
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 6
Miscellaneous
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1940s-2004
5
1-4
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 6
Models, Various
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circa 1960s-1980s
5
5-7
Mother Goose
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circa 1950s
5
8
Musical Instruments
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
5
9
Nude in A Dream of Monticello
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circa 1990s
5
10
Nudes
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1960s-1980s
5
11-12
People in Tribute to the American Working People
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1940s-1950s
5
13-16
Perez Zagorin as Model
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1980s-2000s
5
17-30
Pick-Up Truck
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1990s-circa 2000
6
1
Plump Lady
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circa 1960s
6
2
Race
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circa 1960s-1990s
6
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 6
Religious Men
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1950s-1990s
6
4
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 6
Reproductions of Artwork
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circa 1960s-1990s
6
5
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 7
Rivers and Streams
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circa 1980s
6
6
Rose Callahan and Child
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circa 1950s
6
7-8
Saint Jerome
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circa 1940s
6
9
Sports
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1960s-1990s
6
10
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 7
Store Fronts for Motorcycle Picture
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circa 1940s
6
11
Teenagers
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circa 1950s-circa 1960s
6
12-13
Trees
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circa 1990s
6
14-15
Van Gogh
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circa 1970s
6
16
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 7
Violence
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circa 1950s-2004
6
17
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 7
Waitress
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circa 1980s
6
18
Walking
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1960s-1980s
6
19
War
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1960s-2004
6
20
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folder 1
Water
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1960s-1980s
6
21
Women
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1960s-2001
6
22-25
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folder 2
Unsorted Negatives
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circa 1940s-circa 1950s
6
26
Oversized Animals from Box 3, Folders 14-19
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10
4
Oversized Asia from Box 3, Folder 22
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10
5
Oversized Car Crashes from Box 3, Folder 31
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10
5
Oversized Car Sales from Box 3, Folder 32
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10
5
Oversized Fire from Box 4, Folder 15
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10
5
Oversized Houses and Furniture from Box 4, Folder 24
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10
5
Oversized Men and Men Smoking from Box 4, Folders 27-28
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10
6
Oversized Miscellaneous from Box 4, Folders 30-36 and Box 5, Folders 1-4
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10
6
Oversized Race from Box 6, Folder 3
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10
6
Oversized Religious Men from Box 6, Folder 4
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10
6
Oversized Reproductions of Artwork from Box 6, Folder 5
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10
7
Oversized Sports from Box 6, Folder 10
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10
7
Oversized Van Gogh from Box 6, Folder 16
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10
7
Oversized Violence from Box 6, Folder 17
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10
7
Oversized War from Box 6, Folder 20
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11
1
Oversized Women from Box 6, Folder 22-25
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11
2
Printed Material
Series 5
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0.85 Linear feet
Boxes 6-7, 11, OV 13, OV 17
circa 1930s-2005
Scope and Contents
Series includes 9 folders of announcements and exhibition catalogs for events featuring Sharrer, including the catalog for the Museum of Modern Art's Fourteen Americans (1946), inscribed by Sharrer, and the original announcement for the 1951 Knoedler exhibition of Tribute to the American Working People. Also found are blank postcards, clippings about Sharrer spanning her career, including published illustrations by her, and articles about her, including the 1950 Life Magazine cover story, "Nineteen Young American Artists." Additional clippings include probable source material, included in the 2018 addition.
Printed material about others includes catalogs for exhibitions for Madeleine Sharrer and Jack Levine.
Announcements and Exhibition Catalogs, Sharrer
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1940s-2005
6
27-35
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in OV 13
Announcements and Exhibition Catalogs, Others
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1950s-1990s
6
36
Blank Postcards
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circa 1940s-circa 1990s
6
37-39
Clippings About Sharrer
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circa 1930s-circa 2000
6
40
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folders 3-5
Clippings About Sharrer
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1930s-2000
7
1-4
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folders 3-5
Clippings About Others
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
7
5
Clippings About Others
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1930s-1990s
7
6
Clippings (Source Material)
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circa 1965-1995
7
7
Clippings (Source Material)
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circa 1965-1990
17
Miscellaneous
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circa 1970s-2005
7
8
Oversized Clippings About Sharrer from Boxes 6 and 7
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11
3-5
Oversized Announcements and Exhibition Catalogs, Sharrer from Box 6, Folders 27-35
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13
Artwork
Series 6
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0.8 Linear feet
Boxes 7, 11-12, OV 13
1941-circa 1990s
Scope and Contents
Artwork consists of studies for paintings and illustrations, and other preliminary sketches in various media. A folder titled "Commercial Work" includes a tempera and ink drawing, 1946, and a tempera and ink advertisement for the Container Corporation of America, filed with a group of printed material including an exhibition catalog for World at Work, 1930-1955, featuring Sharrer.
Also found are sketches for a project labeled '"Rabbit" book, with George Mendoza'; 5 tracings of side panels for Tribute to the American working People; and sketches for various other projects.
Artwork by others includes a group of illustrated playing cards, a folder of small Indian paintings, and a kite and dog made from folded paper.
By Sharrer
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7
Animation Sketches for Fletcher Smith Studio
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1940s
7
9
Commercial Work
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circa 1950s-1982
7
10
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folder 6
Cut-Outs
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circa 1950s-circa 1990s
7
11
Sketches
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circa 1940s-circa 1990s
7
12-16
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 11, Folder 7-9, Box 12, Folders 1-3 and OV 13
Sketches, Europe
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circa 1980s
7
17-18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12, Folder 4
Sketches and Related Printed Material, San Francisco for "People's World"
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1941-1942
7
19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12, Folder 4
Sketches for Christmas Card
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circa 1980s
7
20
Sketches for "Rabbit" Book with George Mendoza
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circa 1955
7
21
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12, Folder 5-7
Sketches for Saturday Music Night
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1970
7
22
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12, Folder 8
Sketches. Los Angeles
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circa 1980s
7
23
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12, Folder 9
Sketches, Madeleine's Art Class
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circa 1980s
7
24
Tracings for Tribute to the American Working People
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circa 1940s
7
25
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12, Folder 10
By Others
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7
Adam's Playing Cards
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circa 1967
7
26
Indian Paintings
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circa 1950s
7
27
Japanese Kite and Paper Dog
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circa 1950s
7
28
Oversized By Sharrer
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11
Oversized Commercial Work from Box 7, Folder 9
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11
6
Oversized Sketches from Box 7, Folders 11-17
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11
7-9
Oversized Sketches from Box 7, Folders 11-17
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12
1-3
Oversized Sketches, Europe from Box 7, Folder 16-17
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12
4
Oversized Sketches and Related Printed Material, San Francisco for "People's World" from Box 7, Folder 18
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12
4
Oversized Sketches for "Rabbit" Book with George Mendoza from Box 7, Folder 20
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12
5-7
Oversized Sketches for Saturday Music Night from Box 7, Folder 21
Archival Resource Key
12
8
Oversized Sketches. Los Angeles from Box 7, Folder 22
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12
9
Oversized Tracings for Tribute to the American Working People from Box 7, Folder 24
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12
10
Oversized Sketches from Box 7, Folders 11-17
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13
Sketchbooks
Series 7
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0.55 Linear feet
Boxes 7, 12
1960s-2003
Scope and Contents
Series consists of 14 sketchbooks, primarily of pencil and ink sketches. 8 of the sketchbooks are untitled, and the remainder have been assigned titles constructed from inscriptions inside the books.
"March 1968"
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1968
7
29
Europe
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1980s
7
30
"Mexico 1971"
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1971
7
31
"Summer 1977"
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1977
7
32
Summer 1986, Tortola, 2001 and 2003
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1986-2003
7
33
"Tortola, B. I. V."
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2000
7
34
Untitled
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circa 1970s-circa 2000
7
35-38
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12, Folder 11
Untitled
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1960s
7
39
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12, Folder 12
Untitled
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circa 1978
7
40
Untitled
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circa 1990s
7
41
Untitled
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circa 2000
8
1
Oversized Untitled from Box 7, Folders 34-37
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12
11
Oversized Untitled from Box 7, Folder 38
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12
12
Photographic Material
Series 8
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1.83 Linear feet
Boxes 8-9, 12, OVs 13-16
circa 1930s-circa 2000
Scope and Contents
Photographs are of Sharrer, her family, friends, and colleagues, and her artwork. Found are several portraits of Sharrer and contact sheets and prints from a Life Magazine photo shoot, circa 1951; photos from a flip-style album of Sharrer with her mother and family, and her mother's artwork, circa 1971; photos of houses including the family house in Vinalhaven, Maine; and photos of 2 unidentified exhibition installations.
Photographs of Sharrer's artwork include copy prints, negatives and transparencies, as well as a group of negative rolls of artwork and other subjects, many unidentified.
Photos of artwork by others include a folder of copy prints of photos by Lester Burbank Bridaham and two photographs of works of art by him, as well as photos of artwork by Madeleine Sharrer.
Photos of
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8
Exhibition Installations
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1948-circa 1960s
8
2
Houses
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circa 1970s
8
3
Miscellaneous
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circa 1950s-circa 1990s
8
4
Sharrer
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circa 1930s-circa 1980s
8
5
Sharrer
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1951
8
6
Sharrer and Family
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circa 1930s-circa 1980s
8
7
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12 Folder 13
Sharrer and Family
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circa 1950s-circa 1980s
8
8-9
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 12 Folder 13
Sharrer and Family, from Photo Flip File Album
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circa 1971
8
10
Sharrer and Friends/Colleagues
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1950s-1990s
8
11
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in OV 13
Artwork by Sharrer
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circa 1950s-circa 2000
8
12-31
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed iOV 14-15
Artwork by Sharrer, for Forum Gallery Exhibition
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1990
8
32
Artwork by Others
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circa 1960s-circa 1980s
8
33
Artwork by Others, Madeleine Sharrer
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circa 1980s
8
34
Artwork and People, Mixed Negative Rolls
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circa 1950s
8
35
Scope and Contents
Negatives housed in Box 9
Photos by Lester Burbank Bridaham
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1970s
8
36
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in OV 16
Artwork/People, Mixed Negative Rolls
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circa 1950s
9
Oversized Photos of Sharrer and Family from Box 8, Folders 6-8
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12
13
Oversized Photos of Sharrer and Friends/Colleagues from Box 8, Folder 10
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13
Oversized Photos of Artwork by Sharrer from Box 8, Folders 11-30
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14
Oversized Photos of Artwork by Sharrer from Box 8, Folders 11-30
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15
Oversized Photos by Lester Burbank Bridaham from Box 8, Folder 35
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16