Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Blackshear, Kathleen, 1897-1988
label: Collection Creator
content: Spears, Ethel, 1903-1974
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content: Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.blackath, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series includes scattered biographical materials for Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears. Of note are personal business records kept by Spears of her time with the Works Progress Administration. Also found is a sketchbook from 1920 kept by Blackshear during a trip to Europe. Teaching files consist of copies of Blackshear's given exams at the Art Institute of Chicago, memoranda, and a file of "blunders" which contain quotes from student papers she found humorous. Two photographs depict Blackshear and Spears and slides are of works of art by Blackshear.