Artwork and Sketchbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Latham, Barbara, 1896-1989
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content: Barbara Latham papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet (Box 2-4, 6-7)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1907-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lathbarb, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Found are six sketchbooks with pencil sketches which are undated. The bulk of this series consists of original Christmas cards designed by Barbara Latham for Barlat, Norcoss, and Vaneil Foster companies. Works are primarily etchings, but also include hand painted cards, original drawings, lithographs, and monoprints. 

Sketches for a mural in Taos, New Mexico are in watercolor. The bulk of Latham's sketches are in pen and ink or pencil, including two self-portraits. 

Also found are Christmas cards, eleven portraits of Latham by Howard Cook executed in charcoal, ink, and pencil, wood engravings and aquatints, and three self-portraits of Cook. Four small oil paintings are by Henry Leith-Ross, given to Latham as a gift.