Charles Sheeler letter collection
name: label: Creator
content: Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
label: Names
content: Boignon, Helen W.
label: Names
content: Craven, George M., 1929-
label: Names
content: Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
label: Occupation
content: Poets
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Irvington-on-Hudson
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming, 1958.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, lithographer, photographer; Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sheechls
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel NY59-5 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lenders, Boignon, Craven, and Williams, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters assembled from various sources written by Charles Sheeler. Included are four letters and a postcard to Dr. Helen W. Boignon, a collector and owner of a Sheeler painting; four, 1957-58, to George M. Craven, a graduate student in art history; and ten, 1939-1957 and undated, to the poet William Carlos Williams, a friend of Sheeler.
label: Scope and Contents
content: In the letters to Boignon, Sheeler thanks her for praising his work, and briefly describes projects he's working on, such as the commission for General Motors with the architect Eero Saarinen. He writes Craven in response to a research paper on photography in the 1930s (also included) which Craven had sent earlier, and regarding his exhibitions. In the more lengthy letters to Williams, he discusses poetry, his work, and activities, mentioning in one his stay in Maine at John Marin's house where Herbert Seligmann was a neighbor.