Lee Woodward Zeigler papers
name: label: Creator
content: Zeigler, Lee Woodward, 1868-1952
label: Names
content: Enoch Pratt Free Library
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content: Federal Art Project (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
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content: Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942
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content: Force, Juliana, 1876-1948
label: Names
content: Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961
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content: Leiber, Fritz, 1882-1949
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content: Murray, Oscar H., 1882-1957
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content: Osgood, Charles Grosvenor, 1871-1964
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content: Wheeler, Joseph Lewis, 1884-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architects
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- Maryland -- Baltimore
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- Maryland -- Baltimore
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration, American
label: Topic
content: Church decoration and ornament -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1979 and 1994 by Audrey Z. Archer-Shee; Zeigler's daughter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Zeigler, Lee Woodward, 1868-1952
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Illustrator, muralist; Baltimore, Md. Studied at the Maryland Institute of Art and was founding member of the Charcoal Club of Baltimore. He began his career as an illustrator and later specialized in mural painting.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1911-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.zeiglee
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material, correspondence files, writings, photographs, and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material includes Zeigler's Works Progress Administration identification card, 1936, obituaries, 1952, a biographical sketch, pages from an engagement book, 1914-1917, and an address book.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, 1920-1941, relates to Zeigler's freelance painting, mural designs for Tiffany Studios, mural commissions for churches and other public and private commissions, including the Chapel of the Transfiguration Glendale, Oh. (1927-1928), St. Michael's Church, N.Y.C. (1929); Calvary Church, Cincinnati, Oh. (1936-1937), the "Faerie Queene" murals in the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md. (1933-1941); WPA-FAP projects in New York State (1933-1937), including murals for Washington Hall, West Point Military Academy, the Stony Point Battlefield Museum, Stony Point-on-the Hudson, and the Newburgh Free Academy, Newburgh. Among the correspondents are architects responsible for the designs of the buildings, such as Ralph Adams Cram and O.H. Murray, individuals associated with the execution of the projects, including Charles Osgood and Joseph L. Wheeler; and WPA adminstrators Edward Bruce and Juliana Force.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed material includes clippings, ca. 1910-1948, regarding Zeigler's works of art and his involvement in the war effort and local politics; exhibition catalogs and programs, ca. 1925, 1940-1968; and reproductions of Zeigler's illustrations for bookplates, Christmas cards, magazines, including Gunter's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, and Life, ca.1890-1900, and for limited edition books by such authors as Jane Austen, Honore' de Balzac, Amelia E. Barr, Theophile Gautier, Charles Kingsley, and William Stearns Davis, ca.1890-1915.
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content: Photographs consist of three portraits of Zeigler, ca. 1930-1940, and photographs of works by him, ca.1900, 1915, 1993, and by others ca. 1900-1913. Also included are portrait of actor Fritz Leiber, ca. 1900, a snapshot of Percy and Ella Grainger, 1929.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are copyrights for Zeigler's art work, 1911, 1944, 1945, 1979; an unpublished typescript of a short story by Zeigler, "Story of the Son of Roland"; a sketch of a suit of armor created by Zeigler, ca. 1945; a project file regarding a statue of "Ushabti," created by Zeigler, 1923-1924; and a guestbook from an exhibition at the Vanderbilt Galleries, 1941.