Denys Wortman papers
name: label: Creator
content: Wortman, Denys, 1887-1958
topic: label: Occupation
content: Cartoonists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Caricatures and cartoons
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Denys Wortman papers were donated by Hilda Wortman, Wortman's widow in 1979-1983. Denys Wortman Jr., Wortman's son, donated the Craven interview tape in 1981.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wortman, Denys, 1887-1958
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content: Denys Wortman papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of cartoonist Denys Wortman measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1887 to 1980. The collection includes biographical material, correspondence, personal business records, writings, interviews, artwork, printed material, and photographs.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Denys Wortman (1887-1958) was an American cartoonist in New York, New York. Born in Saugerties, New York, Wortman studied engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology and at Rutgers College. From 1906-1909, he attended the Chase School of Art in New York City with Kenneth Hayes Miller and classmates George Bellows, Edward Hopper, and Rockwell Kent. Beginning as a landscape painter from the "Gloucester School," Wortman's career changed when his drawings of life as a sailor in World War I were published in the New York Tribune. From 1924-1954, his daily cartoons "Metropolitan Movies" and "Mopey Dick and the Duke" mirrored New York life in the New York World-Tribune.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wortdeny
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 8 series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1913-1958

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1911-1980

Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1921-1954

Series 4: Writings, undated, 1918-1927

Series 5: Interviews, undated, circa 1952

Series 6: Artwork, undated, 1919

Series 7: Printed Material, circa 1903-1978

Series 8: Photographs, circa 1887-1956
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed shortly after donation. A finding aid for the collection was written in 2018 by Caroline Donadio.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of cartoonist Denys Wortman measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1887 to 1980. The collection includes biographical material, correspondence, personal business records, writings, interviews, artwork, printed material, and photographs.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: Thirty-five letters to Wortman from friends and colleagues (1910-1957) were microfilmed on reel 3014 and returned to Hilda R. Wortman after microfilming. Letters are from Gifford Beal, James Cagney, Stuart Davis, Guy Pène du Bois, Juliet and Pier Hamilton, Edward and Jo Hopper, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Herbert Satterlee, John Sloan, Austin Strong, Frank Sullivan, William Sulzer, Gluyas Williams, and Mahonri Young. Microfilm reel 3014 is available at Archives of American Art offices and for interlibrary loan, but is not further described in the container listing of this finding aid.