Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Stewart, Jack, 1926-2005
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content: Jack Stewart papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.1 Linear Feet (Boxes 2-5)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1947-2003
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.stewjack, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The dissertation manscript and various drafts are followed by related files, arranged alphabetically. Miscellaneous writings are arranged in rough chronological order. Additional writings are found in a few sketchbooks (Series 8).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: All writings are by Jack Stewart.  There are drafts, related correspondence, notes and photocredits, as well as the completed manuscript of his dissertation, "Subway Graffiti: An Aesthetic Study of Graffiti on the Subway System of New York City, 1970-1978" (New York University, 1989). Miscellaneous writings and notes, published and unpublished, include shorter pieces, articles, student papers, and teaching notes. Of particular interest are notes/instructions for a performance piece titled "Endless Subway," "Memories of Steffan Thomas" and "My Recollections of Charles Egan." Also found are minutes of Cooper Union adjunct faculty meetings, and reports written when Stewart was Provost of the Rhode Island School of Design. Art and architectuure notebooks were compiled while Stewart was a student at Yale.