Ruth Van Sickle Ford papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ford, Ruth Van Sickle, 1897-1989
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content: Ruth Van Sickle Ford papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.7 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920-1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fordruth, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical materials consist of awards and resumes. Letters are from friends and art organizations including Aurora University, Art Instruction Associates, Rockport Art Association, and Mrs. V. Walworth. Also found is a xerox copy of a letter from Henry Fonda. Twenty-six letters (1982) are from young students at the Allen School in Aurora, Illinois, thanking Ford for her visit. 

Writings include four notebooks containing information and photographs concerning specific works of art by Ford. Also found is a bound book of class outlines from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts from 1940 to 1941. 

Printed materials include clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, reproductions of works of art, and school publications. Two clippings scrapbooks and one mixed-media scrapbook focus on Ford's painting and teaching careers. Photographs depict Ford, her family and friends, homes and architecture, and works of art.