Notes and Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: White, Robert, 1921-2002
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content: Robert W. White papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 6-7; 0.6 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1915, circa 1946-2002
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whiterobe, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Notes and writings include Robert White's diaries, artist's statements, notebooks, essays, and lectures. Included are writings by others, mostly reviews of White's work and some writings by Clare White.

Eleven pocket diaries record White's activities at home, his travels in Europe and Mexico, exhibition openings, and social engagements with family, colleagues, and friends. Notebooks contain: White's drafts of letters, artist's statements, proposals, poems, essays, talks, notes on artwork sold and expenses, a list of the artwork completed for the years 1939-1946, and loose addresses. Two items of interest are Robert White's letter to William Styron discussing the writer's novel, Sophie's Choice and his memorial to his friend and colleague, Fairfield Porter. Found within the notebooks and diaries are sketches by the artist.

Notes and writings can be also found in Series 4: Personal Business Records. 

Files are arranged in chronological order.