James Bassler papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bassler, James
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content: James Bassler papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969-2003
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bassjame, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical materials include resumes and writings about Bassler's father and siblings. 

Correspondence concerns exhibitions, lectures, projects, and Bassler's teaching career. Correspondents include Louise Allrich, Norman Cherry, Mildred Constantine, Kris Dey, Dominic Di Mare, Helen Drutt, Lillian Elliott, Betty Freudenheim, Teresa Huang, Eiko Ishioka, Ritzi and Peter Jacobi, Wojciech Jaskolka, Mi Koon Kim, Sherley Koteen, Gerhardt Knodel, Jack Lenor Larsen, Eudorah Moore, Gertrude Parker, Martin Peavy, Laurel J. Reuter, Ed Rossbach, and Paul Smith, among others. Additional correspondence may be found in professional files.

Among Bassler's professional files are items concerning his participation with the United States Department of State Art in Embassies program, his service as an expert witness for a legal case, and his teaching and administrative career at UCLA. One videocassette is a student's senior project and runs about 25 minutes in length. 

Printed materials include clippings, newsletters, and exhibition announcements and catalogs. Five mixed media scrapbooks contain written statements, photographs of works of art, and printed material. Also found are scattered photographs of works of art and a sketch of a working plan for a 14" by 14" hanging.