Correspondence and Collected Letters
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Woodward, Sidney C., 1890-1963
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content: Sidney C. Woodward papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.2 Linear Feet (Box 1-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1823-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.woodsidn, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Found here is Sidney C. Woodward's personal and professional correspondence and collected letters pertaining to Woodward's relationships with various artists, galleries, and arts organizations.

Included are many letters sent by Sidney's twin brother, Stanley, while he was serving as a Corporal in Field Artillery during World War I and later as an Air Corps captain during World War II. Correspondence with Stanley primarily concerned his painting career, including some post card representations of his work.

Artists that Woodward corresponded with and collected letters include Ernest L. Blumenschein, Harrison Cady, Robert Henri, C. Lewis Hind, Rockwell Kent, John La Farge, Hermann Dudley Murphy, Violet Oakley, Water Pach, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, and Chauncey Foster Ryder, among many others. Notable 19th century letters are written by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, John White Alexander, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Francis Davis Millet, Thomas Moran, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, William Trost Richards, John Singer Sargent, and Thomas Sully.

Also found here is correspondence with arts organizations, schools, and news organizations. This includes the Christian Science Publishing Society, the Erskine School, Frost & Reed, Knoedler & Co., and Robert C. Vose Galleries.

Some photographs of artists are also included in folders of correspondence, including a portrait of Johannes Adam S. Oertel.

See the Printed Material series for additional correspondence pasted into two books, Color and Method in Painting and The Etched Work of Franics Seymour Haden, which also include photographs and added annotations.

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by person or organization name. Names with two or more letters are filed in their own folders, and the remainder of correspondence is filed in miscellaneous alphabetical files. Selected correspondents whose names do not appear in headings are indicated in a note following the folder heading.