George Biddle papers, 1863-1973 (bulk 1916-1973).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 3,500 items; 31 containers plus 1 oversize; 12 linear feetSubject(s): - 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
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.
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