Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970
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content: Henry Varnum Poor papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 2-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1944-1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.poorhenr, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Materials are arranged by document type. 

Additional scattered writings and notes are found in biographical materials (Series 1) and within Poor's sketchbooks (Series 5).
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Writings by Henry Varnum Poor include manuscripts of his two published books, An Artist Sees Alaska and A Book of Pottery: From Mud to Immortality.  There are four notebooks containing information about pottery, tile procedures, and glazes, etc., film scripts, two journals, notes, including those from his studies in London and Paris, lists, speeches, and drafts of articles including "Painting is Being Talked to Death," published in the first issue of Reality: A Journal of Artists' Opinions, April 1953.  

Among the writings by others are poems, notes, and reminiscences, including those by M. R. ("Muktuk") Marston, Waldo Peirce, Bessie Brueuer Poor, Josephine Poor, and unidentified individuals. The unsigned "Outline for a Proposed Artists Corps," circa 1942, is most likely written by Olin Dows or George Biddle.