Jeanne Reynal Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Reynal, Jeanne, 1903-
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content: Jeanne Reynal papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-circa 1970s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.reynjean, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical materials include a biographical sketch and a chronology of Reynal's life and career. 

Largely, letters to Reynal concern her professional career and are about Reynal's mural for the Nebraska Capital Mural Commission, sales by the Dord Fitz Gallery, disposition of Frans Blom films, research on Arshile Gorky, exhibits of her work, history and technique of mosaics, and the Tougaloo College art committee. Correspondents include Dore Ashton, Gertrude Duby, Lucy Ferguson, the Museum of Modern Art, Alice Rewald, and Rachel (Wally) Wolodarsky. Also found are letters from Reynal to Agnes Magruder, the wife of Arshile Gorky. In her letters, Reynal describes her artwork, the work of Arshile, travel plans, personal updates, including Gorky's pregnancy loss. 

A draft of an article, likely by Reynal, is on Sir William Blake Richmond, the designer of the mosaics at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. A "report" describes her exhibitions, sales, and projects from 1964 to 1969. 

A file concerning The Mosaics of Jeanne Reynal by Dore Ashton, Lawrence Campbell, Parker Tyler, Elaine de Kooning, Bernard Pfreim, and Jeanne Reynal contains a copy of the book as well as reviews and correspondence. A letter from an 18th Century prima donna was a gift from Joseph Cornell.

Scattered printed materials include clippings and exhibition announcements. Also found are are photographs of works of art.