Audrey McMahon papers
name: label: Creator
content: McMahon, Audrey, 1900?-1981
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (N.J.)
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (N.Y.)
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
label: Names
content: O'Connor, Francis V.
label: Names
content: Somervell, Brehon Burke, 1892-1955
topic: label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Audrey McMahon papers were donated to the Archives in 1997 by Geraldine Rhoads, executor of McMahon's estate. The collection includes photocopies of papers most likely held by the National Archives.
creator: label: Creator
content: McMahon, Audrey, 1900?-1981
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content: Audrey McMahon papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The scattered papers of Audrey McMahon measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1935 through 1980. Found are correspondence, writings, notes and research files, and printed material assembled mainly during the late 1960s while assisting Francis V. O'Connor complete Federal Support for the Visual Arts: The New Deal and Now (1969) and The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs (1970) and, to a lesser degree, miscellaneous files relating to McMahon's activities as Regional Director of the WPA Federal Art Project for New York and New Jersey . Included are photocopies of original correspondence (1935-41) between McMahon and Holger Cahill and Brehon Somervell, held by the National Archives.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Audrey McMahon served under Holger Cahill as Regional Director for the WPA Federal Art Project for New York and New Jersey from 1935 to 1939. She died at age 87 in 1981.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mcmaaudr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as one series:

Series 1: Audrey McMahon's Papers, 1935-1980 (Box 1; 0.4 linear feet)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The papers were processed to a preliminary level in 2003 by a volunteer in the AAA New York Regional Office.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: The scattered papers of Audrey McMahon measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1935 through 1980. Found are correspondence, writings, notes and research files, and printed material assembled mainly during the late 1960s while assisting Francis V. O'Connor complete Federal Support for the Visual Arts: The New Deal and Now (1969) and The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs (1970) and, to a lesser degree, miscellaneous files relating to McMahon's activities as Regional Director of the WPA Federal Art Project for New York and New Jersey . Included are photocopies of original correspondence (1935-41) between McMahon and Holger Cahill and Brehon Somervell, held by the National Archives.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Material
content: The bulk of Audrey McMahon's papers reside in the National Archives, together with the records of the WPA Federal Artist Project files. The Archives of American Art holds a 1964 interview with McMahon done by Harlan Phillips as part of the Archives New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.