Personal Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hobson, Katherine Thayer, 1889-1982
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content: Katherine Thayer Hobson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet (Box 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hobskath, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Materials are arranged by document type.  Correspondence is in chronological order.
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content: Personal papers consist of professional correspondence related to gallery openings, artist representation, and potential commissions for architectural firms; personal correspondence with friends and family; and letters to government officials regarding concern over radical Communist activities.  Correspondents of note responding to gallery invitations and letters of inquiry regarding commissions include: Malvina Hoffman, Leon Kroll, Colette Roberts, Eero Saarinen, Lawrence Grant White, and William Zorach .  There are also two letters from the University of Gottengen and two postcards of the bust "Charlotte Muller" describing Hobson's work on those projects.

Writings include notes and essays on art topics, as well as additional writings and miscellaneous materials related to Hobson's anticommunist correspondence and work for the National Sculpture Society.  Printed materials include art related bulletins, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and periodicals.  Sketches are figure studies and potential sculptural projects, including concept drafts for the doors of St. Peter's in Rome.  Photographic materials are of Hobson and her friends, models that she employed, and documentation of her artwork.  The series also includes two certificates awarded to Hobson.