TY - GEN AU - Biddle,George AU - Sardeau,Hélène TI - George Biddle papers, KW - Aiken, Conrad, KW - Benton, Thomas Hart, KW - Berenson, Bernard, KW - Biddle, Francis, KW - Brooks, Van Wyck, KW - Bullitt, William C. KW - Cassatt, Mary, KW - Chapin, Katherine Garrison, KW - Cheever, John KW - Dehn, Adolf, KW - Diederich, William Hunt, KW - Douglas, William O. KW - Grosz, George, KW - Huxley, Aldous, KW - James, William, KW - Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, KW - Lippmann, Walter, KW - Mailer, Norman KW - Mann, Thomas, KW - Mumford, Lewis, KW - Noguchi, Isamu, KW - Orozco, José Clemente, KW - Poor, Henry Varnum, KW - Pound, Ezra, KW - Rockefeller, Nelson A. KW - Roosevelt, Eleanor, KW - Roosevelt, Franklin D. KW - Saint-John Perse, KW - Santayana, George, KW - Shahn, Ben, KW - Steinbeck, John, KW - Tate, Allen, KW - Truman, Harry S., KW - Wheelock, John Hall, KW - Wilson, Edmund, KW - Wister, Owen, KW - Wood, Grant, KW - Wright, Frank Lloyd, KW - Wyeth, Andrew, KW - Zorach, Marguerite, KW - Zorach, William, KW - Federal Art Project KW - United States KW - War Department KW - Art, American KW - Courthouses KW - Mexico KW - Federal aid to the arts KW - Mural painting and decoration, American KW - War crime trials KW - Germany KW - Nuremberg KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Art and the war KW - Journalists KW - Africa, North KW - Italy KW - Artists KW - itoamc KW - Public officials N1 - Open to research N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145.3 ER -