August Arp papers
name: label: Creator
content: Arp, August, 1894-1968
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1982 by Raizel Wiesenberg Arp, August Arp's widow.
creator: label: Creator
content: Arp, August, 1894-1968
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 94 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.arpaugu
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Certificates of baptism and death; correspondence, 1927-1967, with friends, family, and other artists, and letters of condolence to his family on his death; several unpublished poems; art works, consisting of 12 pencil & charcoal sketches, including preliminary drawings for Christmas cards, 8 original silkcreened Christmas cards and designs, 3 hand-colored linecut Christmas cards, and 1 book jacket design in pastels and charcoal (24.6 x 22 cm. or smaller.); photographs of Arp and 21 slides of his paintings; a brief biographical sketch, 1981, by his widow, Raizel Wiesenberg Arp; and miscellany.