Commissions
name: label: Collection Creator
content: White, Robert, 1921-2002
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content: Robert W. White papers
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content: Robert W. White papers / Series 3: Project Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whiterobe, Subseries 3.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The subseries documents several commissioned projects, including St. Anthony of Padua  at East Northport, New York; The Verrill Medal for the Peabody Museum; Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Melville for the Long Island Hall of Fame; and General George Pershing Memorial for the American Battles Monuments Commission. Also found are files for White's work for Steuben Glass and the artist's unexecuted design proposal for the John F. Kennedy Memorial at the Massachusetts State Capitol.

Folders contain correspondence, notes, agreements, invoices, printed material, clippings, photographs, and a transparency. 

Files are arranged in chronological order by year of exhibition. Commissions are also referred to in Series 2: Correspondence, Series 4: Personal Business Records, Series 5: Notes and Writings, Series 7: Printed Material, and Series 10: Photographs.