Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Sharrer, Honoré, 1920-2009
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content: Honoré Sharrer papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.84 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-3, 10)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-2006
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sharhono, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name, with general files arranged by letter at the end of the series.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Circa 2 linear feet of Sharrer's correspondence, primarily incoming with scattered outgoing letters, is with family members, friends, and colleagues including other artists, galleries, and museums.  

Correspondence with family members includes 16 folders of letters and postcards, primarily from Madeleine Sharrer and Reginald Poland to Honoré Sharrer and Perez Zagorin, with scattered letters and illustrated letters from Sharrer to Madeleine.; 3 illustrated letters from Honoré Sharrer to her grandmother, Honoré Sachs; correspondence, including one illustrated letter, from Honoré Sharrer to Perez Zagorin; and Sharrer's correspondence with her brother, Peter Sharrer, nephew, Robert Sharrer, her son, Adam Zagorin, and her daughter-in-law, Mary Carpenter.

Artists represented here include Peter Blume, Lester Burbank Bridaham, Gitta Caiserman-Roth, Kathy Calderwood, Mary Crutchfield, Betty Goodwin, Lincoln Kirstein, Mayumi Oda, and George Tooker. Correspondence with galleries includes documentation of M. Knoedler & Company's sale of Tribute to the American Working People to Handmacher-Vogel, Inc. in 1951; correspondence with Terry Dintenfass who invited Sharrer to join her gallery in 1975; and correspondence with Forum Gallery, which represented Sharrer beginning in 1978. There are 2 letters from Dorothy Miller relating to the 1946 Fourteen Americans exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and the museum's interest in Sharrer's study drawings for her painting, Workers and Paintings; correspondence with the American Academy of Arts and Letters regarding loan agreements, award nominations, and award ceremonies; and documentation of the Women's Caucus for Art's honoree nominations of Sharrer. 

Also found are letters from fine arts appraiser and artist Lester Burbank Bridaham in which Bridaham warns Sharrer of  the poor storage conditions of her mother's artwork, and other artwork in her possesion. Bridaham advocates for considering the Archives of American Art as a repository for Sharrer's and her mother's personal papers.