Marion Walton papers
name: label: Creator
content: Walton, Marion, b. 1899
label: Names
content: Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958
label: Names
content: Carmer, Carl Lamson, 1893-
label: Names
content: Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965
label: Names
content: Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981
label: Names
content: Forrestal, James, 1892-1949
label: Names
content: Gage-Colby, Ruth
label: Names
content: Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966 -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Jameson, Storm, 1891-1986
label: Names
content: Kadar, Bela
label: Names
content: Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
label: Names
content: Marsh, Fred Dana, 1872-1961
label: Names
content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
label: Names
content: Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
label: Names
content: Ruggles, Carl, 1876-1971
label: Names
content: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
label: Names
content: Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014
label: Names
content: Shaw, Charles Green, 1892-1974
label: Names
content: Stamos, Theodoros, 1922-1997
label: Names
content: Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
label: Names
content: Walton, Blanche Wetherill
label: Names
content: Williams, Shirley, 1930-
topic: label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Marion Walton papers were donated in 1976 by Marion Walton.
creator: label: Creator
content: Walton, Marion, b. 1899
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content: Marion Walton papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: This small collection of the papers of sculptor Marion Walton measures 0.8 linear feet and dates from 1915-1976. Fifteen folders of letters written to Marion and her mother Blanche Wetherill Walton include many from artists and photographers, writers, musicians and composers, and political figures. Also found are printed materials, photographs, and a file concerning a reception for author Jonathan Daniels.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Marion Walton was born in 1905 in New Rochelle, New York, the daughter of Ernest Forster Walton and music patron Blanche Wetherill Walton. During the 1920s, she studied at the Art Students League and, from approximately 1922 to 1924, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris under sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. One of her classmates was Alberto Giacometti.

In 1933, Walton had a solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery and later participated in numerous group exhibitions primarily in New York City and in Paris, France. Her work is represented in private collections in the United States and abroad, and in the museum of the University of Nebraska.

Walton taught students in her studio in New York City and at Sarah Lawrence College. She was also a member of Artists Equity and a charter member of the Sculptors Guild.

Walton was married to James Putnam, assistant to the President of the publishing house, MacMillan Company.

Marion Walton died in 1996.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1915-1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.waltmari
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into 4 series. All series are arranged chronologically.

Series 1: Letters, 1922-1976 (Box 1; 15 folders)

Series 2: File Concerning a Reception for Jonathan Daniels, 1946 (Box 1; 14 folders)

Series 3: Printed Material, 1924-1976 (Boxes 1-2; 17 folders)

Series 4: Photographs, 1915-1972 (Box 2; 18 folders)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The papers were processed in December 2006 by Jean Fitzgerald.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: The collection measures 0.8 linear feet, dates from 1915-1976, and documents the career of sculptor Marion Walton. Found within the papers are letters, printed material, photographs, and a file concerning a reception for author Jonathan Daniels.

Letters include those received by Walton and her mother, music patron Blanche Wetherill Walton, from many notable correspondents, including artist Charles Green Shaw, historian and suffragist Mary Beard, and novelist Vera Brittain. There are scattered letters from artists Béla Kádár, Rockwell Kent, Fred Dana Marsh, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, Theo Stamos, and Abbott Handerson Thayer, composers Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles, musician Pete Seeger, lecturer Ruth Gage-Colby, photographer Roy E. Stryker, political figures James Forrestal, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Shirley Williams, and writers Carl Carmer and Margaret Storm Jameson.

Printed material primarily consists of clippings and exhibition catalogs, and photographs are of Walton, her family, colleagues, and artwork. Of special interest is an early photograph of Alberto Giacometti with Rodin's model Carmen, and a photograph of Pablo Picasso autographed on the reverse.