Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980
setName: label: See more items in
content: Alexander Brook papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 3, 5)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1935-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brooalex, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Materials are arranged by item title.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: There are two scrapbooks, a clippings scrapbook titled Unstruggling Artist, and an untitled scrapbook containing clippings and interspersed with correspondence, catalogs, and photographs.

Both scrapbooks were gifted to Alexander Brook.  Unstruggling Artist was designed by G. Alan Chidsey and is comprised of a 1936 article appearing in Esquire magazine.  The untitled scrapbook documents Brook's midcareer up to 1946 and includes additional loose material dating from circa 1946-1976.  These materials include professional certificates, cards, correspondence, lists, notes, clippings, and 14 oversize photographs of Alexander Brook, Gina Knee Brook, and a work of art.