Project Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Fein, Sylvia
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content: Sylvia Fein papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 3-4, 8, 11)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970-2012
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.feinsylv, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The series is arranged as 3 subseries:

Subseries 3.1:  -- Heidi's Horse --  and  -- First Drawings -- , 1970-2011

Subseries 3.2: Pleasant Hill Public Services, 1970-2008

Subseries 3.3: Rosie the Riveter National Historic Park, 2002-2010

Subseries 3.4: "Wondrous Life: Paintings and Drawings by Sylvia Fein," 2006-2008
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Found here are files maintained by Sylvia Fein for various projects. Files for her two book projects, Heidi's Horse (1976) and First Drawings: Genesis of Visual Thinking (1993), include extensive correspondence, permission requests, photographs of the writing and publication process, film proposals, and press clippings. Materials regarding both books are filed together. Also found are project files for Fein's participation in Pleasant Hill, California, public services. Included are records of her work on the Architectural Review Commission and her 1980 run for city council. Project files for the opening of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Fron National Historical Park include photographs, correspondence, a biographical statement, and press materials.

This series also includes project files documenting Fein's retrospective "Wondrous Life: Paintings and Drawings by Sylvia Fein," at the Bakersfield Art Museum in 2007. Included are correspondence, exhibition photographs, planning documents, and the exhibition catalogs and announcements.