Reynold Weidenaar letters
name: label: Creator
content: Weidenaar, Reynold H. (Reynold Henry), 1915-1985
label: Names
content: Jacques, Bertha
topic: label: Topic
content: Etchers -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 2020 by James Straub who purchased the letters from Hefner Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: Weidenaar, Reynold H. (Reynold Henry), 1915-1985
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Reynold Weidenaar (1915-1985) was an etcher in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 47 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1944 and 1962
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.weidreyn
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Thirty eight letters, postcards and notes, 1940-1941, from etcher Bertha Jacques to etcher Reynold Weidenaar. Jacques offers advice to Weidenaar about the etching process. Also included are eight letters and postcards and a note, 1940-1944, from etcher James Swann to Weidenaar, and an open call to artists, including Weidenaar, 1962, from Sid Hammer at the Artists' Letter Fund in New York about the disarmament of weapons. Weidenaar's response is attached.