Helen Appleton Read letters and lectures
name: label: Creator
content: Read, Helen Appleton, 1897-1974
label: Names
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
label: Names
content: Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Provenance unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Read, Helen Appleton, 1897-1974
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Read was the art critic for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and gallery director of Portraits, Inc., Portrait Center of America, New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 50 Items (partially microfilmed on 1 reel)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1935]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.readhela
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 76: Letters to Roy Moyer of the American Federation of Arts, Edward Bruce to Henry Varnum Poor, and an open letter to artists from Bruce; biographical data on Read; a transcript of a lecture given by Read on the background of the early American landscape school; and lectures and reports based on Read's survey of art in federal buildings which was sponsored by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: A letter to Miss Beatrice Winzer of the Newark Museum inquiring as to whether she would like Read to present a lecture on WPA murals.