Isabel Lydia Whitney Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whitney, Isabel Lydia, 1884-1962
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content: Isabel Lydia Whitney papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitisab, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Two notebooks contain lists of paintings, watercolors, landscapes, decorations, frescoes, drawings, and oils. The lists give titles, dimensions, and provenance of completed art works. Also found is a list of works exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists from 1917 to 1941. Exhibition announcements and catalogs are from solo and group shows. 

One mixed-media scrapbook contains clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and scattered letters regarding Whitney's career. A photo album contains photographs of Whitney from infancy to young adulthood, her family and friends, and her murals.

Examples of Whitney's designs include two samples of floral fabric designs and a sample of wallpaper designed for Katzenbach & Warren, Inc.. Additional works of art include watercolor studies for murals and a pen and ink drawing of the trademark for Whitney Work Stop Motion Silk.

Eighteen photographs are of Ms. Whitney, her family, and works of art. Scattered letters are from Dawn Langley Simmons to Robert Coggins regarding Ms. Whitney's paintings.