06426cpcaa2201009 a 4500 mm 78012674 DLC 20260227111621.0 cr ||||||||||| 790419|||||||||||| eng mm 78012674 ms 62004595 DLC dacs DLC DLC L lcmd Biddle, George, 1885-1973. George Biddle papers, 1863-1973 (bulk 1916-1973). 3,500 items. 31 containers plus 1 oversize. 12 linear feet. Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1901-1963; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1863-1967; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1904-1969; Series 4: Writings, 1929-1963; Series 5: Subject File, 1899-1958; Series 6: Sketches and Sketchbooks, 1930-1959; Series 7: Scrapbooks, 1916-1965; Series 8: Addition, 1908-1973; and Series 9: Oversize, 1958. Open to research. Correspondence; diaries (1901-1973); drafts and printed copies of speeches, articles, and a memoir; sketchbooks (1909-1911, 1930-1959); scrapbooks (1913-1925, 1930-1949) of clippings, announcements of exhibits, and reviews of Biddle's books; and other papers relating chiefly to his role in American art, his work for the federal support of art, and the Federal Art Project (1933). Includes material about his murals for the Mexican supreme court building and his activities as chairman of the art advisory commission to the U.S. War Dept., and as artist-correspondent in the North African and Italian theaters of operation during World War II and at the Nuremberg war crime trials. Also includes correspondence and other papers of Biddle's third wife, sculptor Hélène Sardeau. Correspondents include Conrad Aiken, Thomas Hart Benton, Bernard Berenson, Francis Biddle, Van Wyck Brooks, William C. Bullitt, Mary Cassatt, Katherine Garrison Chapin (Mrs. Francis Biddle), John Cheever, Adolf Dehn, William Hunt Diederich, William O. Douglas, George Grosz, Aldous Huxley, William James, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Walter Lippmann, Norman Mailer, Thomas Mann, Lewis Mumford, Isamu Noguchi, José Clemente Orozco, Henry Varnum Poor, Ezra Pound, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Saint-John Perse, George Santayana, Ben Shahn, John Steinbeck, Allen Tate, Harry S. Truman, John Hall Wheelock, Edmund Wilson, Owen Wister, Grant Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Wyeth, and Marguerite and William Zorach. Artist and public official. Died 1973. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145 Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 Correspondence. Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975 Correspondence. Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 Correspondence. Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968 Correspondence. Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 Correspondence. Bullitt, William C. (William Christian), 1891-1967 Correspondence. Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 Correspondence. Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977 Correspondence. Cheever, John Correspondence. Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968 Correspondence. Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953 Correspondence. Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980 Correspondence. Grosz, George, 1893-1959 Correspondence. Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 Correspondence. James, William, 1842-1910 Correspondence. Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953 Correspondence. Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 Correspondence. Mailer, Norman Correspondence. Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 Correspondence. Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 Correspondence. Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988 Correspondence. Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949 Correspondence. Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970 Correspondence. Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 Correspondence. Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Correspondence. Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975 Correspondence. Santayana, George, 1863-1952 Correspondence. Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 Correspondence. Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 Correspondence. Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 Correspondence. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 Correspondence. Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978 Correspondence. Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 Correspondence. Wister, Owen, 1860-1938 Correspondence. Wood, Grant, 1891-1942 Correspondence. Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Correspondence. Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 Correspondence. Zorach, Marguerite, 1887-1968 Correspondence. Zorach, William, 1887-1966 Correspondence. Federal Art Project. United States. War Department. Art, American. Courthouses Mexico. Federal aid to the arts United States. Mural painting and decoration, American Mexico. War crime trials Germany Nuremberg. World War, 1939-1945 Art and the war. World War, 1939-1945 Journalists. World War, 1939-1945 Africa, North. World War, 1939-1945 Italy. Artists. itoamc Public officials. itoamc Sardeau, Hélène, 1899-1969. Hélène Sardeau papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145.3 39745 39745