Correspondence with Charles Sawyer
odd: label: Other Title
content: Addison Gallery of American Art (microfilm title)
name: label: Creator
content: Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957
label: Names
content: Addison Gallery of American Art
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
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content: United States. Work Projects Administration
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content: United States. Works Progress Administration
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content: Worcester Art Museum
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content: Sawyer, Charles Henry, 1906-2005
topic: label: Topic
content: Art and state
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content: Federal aid to the arts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1964 by the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass.
creator: label: Creator
content: Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gallery at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items ((on 1 partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.taylfrah
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2786 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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content: Correspondence between Francis Henry Taylor, director of the Worcester Art Museum, and Charles Sawyer, curator of the Addison Gallery of American Art regarding the WPA Federal Art Projects in New England. Included are: a letter from Sawyer to Taylor, Sept. 11, 1935, regarding "the Government art projects. ... I am anxious to keep these projects from getting into the wrong hands, but I am not, on the other hand, anxious to get involved in the political complications of the 'New Deal.' In another exchange, Taylor thanks Sawyer for sending him a copy of his letter, July 8, 1937, to Richard Morrison, Ass't to Holger Cahill, in which Sawyer compares the FAP to the PWAP, comments on the organization of the FAP,
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content: and recommends that an "advisory committee, regionally organized, within each state, might be definitely useful to you...if they were...informed of what the Federal Art Project was trying to do." In a letter of Aug. 30, 1937, Sawyer encloses a copy of a letter he received from Morrison regarding FAP funding. Also included are a carbon of a letter from Taylor to Sawyer, Sept. 14, 1937, regarding his opinion that the Advisory committee not get involved in WPA funding; and a letter from Sawyer to Taylor, Oct. 28, 1937, enclosing Sawyer's letter to Morrison (never sent) regarding a controversy over a loan of murals in a WPA exhibition. [Microfilm title: Addison Gallery of American Art papers].