Biddle, George 1885-1973 creator mixed material monographic eng 3,500 31 1 12 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. Open to research. 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 Public officials Sardeau, Hélène, 1899-1969 mm 78012674 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145.3 Open to research. DLC 790419 20260227111621.0 mm 78012674