Writing and Research Project Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Schipper, Merle, 1922-2001
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content: Merle Schipper Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-9)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930s-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schimerl, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged as 6 subseries.

3.1: General Writing and Research Projects, 1949-circa 1998

3.2: William Spratling, 1946-1997

3.3: Jean Helion, circa 1930s-1997

3.4: Americans in Paris in the 1950s, circa 1950s-1997

3.5: Exhibitions, circa 1981-circa 1995

3.6: Interviews with Artists, 1968-1999
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content: Files document the extensive research, writing, and exhibitions undertaken by Schipper throughout her career.  

There are drafts, essays, manuscripts, notes, and research documentation of California art and artists, craftsman William Spratling, Jean Helion, Alexander Calder, the Latin American Art Research and Exhibition Program at MOCA, Pasadena Art Museum project, a Frank Perls book project at UCLA, and numerous other research projects and interests. There are additional exhibition files and interviews with artists as well.    

The files on Jean Helion are extensive as Helion was the subject of Schipper's dissertation.  These files include an interview transcript with Willem de Kooning about Helion and correspondence with artists about Helion, including Charles Biederman, Alexander Calder, Philip Guston, Carl Holty, Jack Tworkov, and others.  

Exhibition files are found for Life and Works of William Spratling (1995),  Americans in Paris in the 1950s (1979), Visions of Inner Space (1988), and Marmo: The New Italian Stone Age (1989).  Some of the files include interviews with artists. 

Additional artists interviewed by Schipper include Billy Al Bengston, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Laddie John Dill, Kenneth Noland, Eric Orr, and others.  Files include transcripts and notes.