Vera Klement Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Klement, Vera, 1929-
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content: Vera Klement papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-4)
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content: 1.36 Gigabytes (ER01-ER03)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950-circa 2016
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.klemvera, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
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content: Records are arranged by type of material.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Scattered correspondence is between Klement and various artists, critics, and institutions, including: Altedena Gallery, Dore Ashton, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jim McGarrell, Gerald Nordland, The Print Club, Franz Schulze, Clara Diament Sujo, Terra Museum of American Art, and the University of Chicago. Also found are 7 folders of greeting and holiday cards. 

Writings by Klement include Blunt Edge: A Memoir in born-digital form, artists statements, notes about art and teaching, poetry, and a eulogy for Harold Rosenberg. Notebooks consist of guest comment notebooks from a 1999 exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center and a notebook compiled while at the MacDowell Colony. 

Oral histories consist of a transcript conducted by John Himmelfarb (1985) and a born-digital audio recording by Linda Kramer and Sandra Binion. A born-digital video by Wonjung Bae is entitled Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (2010). A project file contains Klement's Born of Silence, a compilation of poetry by eight poets. 

Personal business records contain material relating to the donation and sale of Klement's works to various institutions and museums. Printed material includes exhibition materials and clippings related to Klement's work and career.

Works of art include fourteen sketchbooks, loose drawing, and etchings. Also found is a bound volume, Disorder and Early Sorrow: a Meditation on War and Death in Homage to Picasso's Guernica 1937 (2010), a book of collages, drawings, and diptychs. 

Photographs depict Klement, and Klement with her artwork and in her studio, 1964-1980. Also found is a 1957 group photograph of the MacDowell Colony.