Notes and Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Spohn, Clay Edgar, 1898-1977
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content: Clay Spohn papers
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content: Clay Spohn papers / Series 2: Clay Spohn Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (boxes 7-18, 10.8 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1924-1985, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.spohclay, Subseries 2.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Notes and writings are unfilmed unless noted otherwise.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries contains miscellaneous notes and writings and includes 188 notebooks, address lists, a card file of book titles, Spohn's "Subject Location," "Index and Date," and "School of Visual Arts" files, and two typescripts by other writers. The miscellaneous notes and writings, and the notebooks, are concerned with various topics, often intermingled, such as teaching notes; lists of names, books, and groceries needed; financial records for art supplies; Spohn's thoughts on philosophy and art; dietary advice; annotated studies and calculations concerning the "trisection of an arbitrary angle"; notes for his unpublished literary work "The Book," (sometimes entitled "The Actual Book" or "The Truth Book"); and brief and incomplete drafts written either for writing class assignments or for "The Book." 

Files on the School of Visual Arts contains class schedules, grade sheets, and 37 notebooks of class assignments, records of student grades, notes for lectures, lists of books for teaching, writings about teaching, and notes on art supplies for class.