Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Vonnoh, Bessie Potter, 1872-1955
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bessie Potter Vonnoh papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Linear Feet (Box 3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-circa 1940s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.vonnbess, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized. Notes related to Vonnoh's autobiography were not digitized due to their fragility and the fact that they duplicate information found in the autobiographical manuscript.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Writings and notes are all by Vonnoh, with the bulk of the series consisting of a draft manuscript of Vonnoh's autobiography from early childhood to 1930. The manuscript provides many details on Vonnoh's early life and her development as an artist, her education and travels, her marriage to Robert Vonnoh, her career as a sculptor, and her views on the challenges and rewards of that career. The draft typed text is interspersed with many photographs of Vonnoh and her family and her artwork, printed material such as clippings and catalogs, and notable letters. 

Also found are notes on family history and notes presumably used by Vonnoh when writing her autobiography, a copy of a published article written by Vonnoh on her life and career up to the mid-1920s, and a transcript of a radio talk given by Vonnoh about her childhood and about what she aspires to accomplish and present in her art.