Jay and Mary Crovatt Hambidge papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924
label: Creator
content: Hambidge, Mary, 1885-1973
topic: label: Occupation
content: Mathematicians
label: Occupation
content: Weavers -- Georgia
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Proportion (Art)
label: Topic
content: Symmetry
label: Topic
content: Weaving
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1983 by the Hambidge Center via executive director Mary Nikas and through a resolution from the Board of Trustees. A portion of the material lent was not microfilmed due to its fragile physical condition.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924
label: Creator
content: Hambidge, Mary, 1885-1973
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jay Hambidge: mathematician, illustrator; Mary Hambidge: weaver, administrator
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot (ca. 7,000 items (on 6 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1841-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hambjay
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Subject and correspondence files are arranged alphabetically.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm rolls 3176-3181 Available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: A finding aid listing microfilmed material and material which was lent but not filmed is available at all Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers mainly relating to Hambidge's theory of Dynamic Symmetry, and to Mary Crovatt Hambidge and her efforts to found and support a weaving workshop based on her husband's work.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are: biographical documents; Crovatt family letters, 1841-1973, and photographs, ca. 1900-1920; clippings; correspondence, including letters from Jay to Mary, 1914-1923, and one or more letters from George Bellows, Lacey D. Caskey, Robert Henri, William Sargeant Kendall, the League of American Artists, Denman W. Ross, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, and other scholars and artists; condolence letters, 1924; letters to Mary regarding Jay's theories, her weaving, Greek studies, and the Hambidge Center; subject and correspondence files, including files on George Biddle, Van Wyck Brooks, Harmon Caldwell, George Christy, Hall Clovis, Frank Coleman, Stanton Forbes, Emily Hamblem, Edith Hamilton, Vassos Kanellos, Eva Sikelianos, Ted Shawn, Violet Winterfield, and others; writings by Jay; typescripts of reviews of DYNAMIC SYMMETRY; typescripts of articles mentioning Dynamic Symmetry; sketches; and miscellany.