Helen Boyd Keen papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Keen, Helen Boyd, b. 1899
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content: Helen Boyd Keen papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2, OV3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936-1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.keenhele, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Helen Boyd Keen's artworks include sketches of children, animals, and foliage, and one sketchbook dated 1947. The sketchbook contains sketches, notes on Keen's Art Students League calligraphy class, and writings by Eduard Corvin, Isak Dinesen, and D.T. Suzuki. Biographical material consists of a resume and excerpts of criticisms of Keen's artwork. Correspondents include the Annie Wright School, John Edgar Bailes, John Ford, Ruth Jenkins, and Dodie Snapp. Photographs depict Keen's artwork and the Pacific Northwest and may be annotated. Keen's writings include two notebooks kept during her lessons under Tobey (1936-1945). A scrapbook consists of news clippings and a photograph of Keen in London.

Subject files represent the bulk of the collection, and concern Keen's friends, colleagues, and teachers, and may include correspondence, printed material, photographs, and writings. Subjects include Mario Bambagini, Phyllis Cummins, Frederick Dockstader, Jonathan Gibson, Colin Graham, Mildred Johnstone, Mary Kennedy, Sally Lewis, Dr. E.A. Lowe, Barbara Morgan, Ben Nicholson, Nancy Wilson Ross, Walter Starcke, Lynne Thompson, and Vaclav Vytlacil. Of note are forty-one letters from Tobey to Keen.