Worden Day papers
name: label: Creator
content: Day, Worden, 1916-1986
label: Names
content: Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts
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content: Montclair Art Museum
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content: State University of Iowa
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content: Barnet, Will, 1911-2012
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content: Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010
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content: Dehner, Dorothy, 1901-1994
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content: Fish, Alice
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content: Foster, Betty
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content: Fuller, Sue (1914-2006)
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content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
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content: Lasansky, Mauricio, 1914-
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content: Minewski, Alex, 1917-1979
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content: Moy, Seong
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content: Peterdi, Gabor
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content: Rupprecht, Edgar A.
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content: Rupprecht, Isabell
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content: Sarton, May, 1912-
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content: Schrag, Karl
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content: Thurn, Ernest
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content: Vytlacil, Vaclav, 1892-1984
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content: Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown
label: Occupation
content: Art museum curators
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content: Art, American
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content: Women artists
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content: Prints -- Technique
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content: Painters -- New Jersey
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content: Printmakers -- New Jersey
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content: Sculptors--New Jersey
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content: Sculpture
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content: Art, Modern
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content: Painting
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content: Pop art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The papers were donated to the Archives of American Art from 1972-1983 by Worden Day. Additional material was donated in 2017 by Constance Duhamel, Day's friend. Additional material was donated in 2020 by the Maier Museum of Art at Randoph College via Constance Duhamel.
creator: label: Creator
content: Day, Worden, 1916-1986
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content: Worden Day papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of sculptor, painter and printmaker Worden Day (1916-1986) measure 3.5 linear feet and date from 1926-1992. The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, writings, printed material, scrapbooks, photographic material, sketchbooks, and audiovisual material.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Worden Day (1916-1986) was a sculptor, painter, printmaker and curator in Montclair, New Jersey. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Day graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1934. She then moved to New York City, and over the next few decades, studied drawing with Maurice Sterne and George Grosz; drawing, painting, and printmaking with William Von Schlegell, Harry Sternberg, Hans Hofmann, Will Barnet, and Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League; and etching with Stanley William Hayter at the New School for Social Research. After earning her M.A. from New York University in 1966, Day taught as an instructor and lecturer in color theory, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, design, collage, American art history, modern art theory, and women artists. Her written reviews and essays were featured in publications such as Art News, Art Voices, and Impressions, and she had solo exhibitions throughout the United States, including at the Smithsonian Institution, Baltimore Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, and Montclair Art Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1926-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dayword
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Interviews
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content: Motion pictures (visual works)
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content: Photographs
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content: Scrapbooks
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content: Sketchbooks
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Video recordings
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content: Woodcuts
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as eight series

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1960-1986 (Box 1, FC6; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1953-1978 (Box 1; 1 folder)

Series 3: Writings, 1955-1985 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1949-1983 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1940-1984 (Boxes 1, 4; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Photographic Material, 1926-1986 (Boxes 2-3; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 7: Sketchbooks, 1960-1986 (Boxes 3, 5; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 8: Unprocessed Addition, circa 1951-1992 (Box 7; 1.0 linear feet)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Hilary Price in 2018.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: One sound recording and one video recording in the collection were digitized for research access and are available at Archives of American Art offices. Researchers may view the original cassette and reel for the archival notations on them, but originals are not available for playback due to fragility.

Portions of this collection are available on 35 mm microfilm reels 981, 1010, and 2016 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Motion pictures (visual works)
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Woodcuts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of sculptor, painter and printmaker Worden Day (1916-1986) measure 3.5 linear feet and date from 1926-1992. The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, writings, printed material, scrapbooks, photographic material, sketchbooks, and audiovisual material. 

Included are biographical material consisting of resumes and an address book. Correspondence is with colleagues, curators, and museum directors including Will Barnet, Carl Zigrosser, May Sarton, Dorothy Dehner, Louise Bourgeois, Sue Fuller, among others. Writings by Day are about sculpture and painting, among them four unpublished manuscripts "Pop Art as an American Cultural Phenomenon," "What is a Print," "The Found Dimension- Aspects in the Development of Modern American Sculpture," and "New Expressions of Woodcut," and reviews for exhibitions written by Day for Art News. Also found in the collection are printed materials; scrapbooks; photographs of Day, her works and photograph albums;  and three sketchbooks. Audiovisual material is arranged with biographical material and includes a taped interview on audio cassette with Day and one reel of motion picture film (also available as digital files), "Printmakers," presented by United States Information Service, 1961, showing American printmakers Mauricio Lasansky, Day, Karl Schrag, Seong Moy and Gabor Petredi at work and students in the School of Graphic Arts at the State University of Iowa, founded by Lasansky. Also arranged with biographical material is a file relating to an exhibition on the work of painter Vaclav Vytlacil organized by Day in 1975 at the Montclair Art Museum containing correspondence; letter fragments from Alex Minewski; writings by Vytlacil regarding his career and work with Hans Hofmann; an audio cassette; photographs of Vytlacil, Hofmann teaching in Munich, Ed and Isabell Rupprecht, Ernest Thurn, Betty Foster, and Alice Fish at the Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Munich; and the exhibition catalog.