By Henry Varnum Poor
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970
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content: Henry Varnum Poor papers
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content: Henry Varnum Poor papers / Series 5: Artwork
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890s-circa 1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.poorhenr, Subseries 5.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: A fair number of drawings and sketches are on sheets of paper with images on both sides; often, they are very different subjects. Since item level description with cross referencing is not provided, researchers conducting exhaustive studies of specific categories or subjects of Poor's works on paper are advised to examine all.

Loose drawings and sketches are arranged by subject.
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content: Some of the unidentified figure studies, portraits, and heads of women are probably Bessie and Anne Poor. Illustrations include those produced for Ethan Frome and The Scarlet Letter, and some that may have been intended for A Book of Pottery. Drawings produced in 1943 while Poor was a war correspondent in Alaska may have served as visual notes or illustrations for An Artist Sees Alaska. Also found are a small number of watercolors and prints. Most prints show the aftermath of World War I in France, and a Christmas card sent by Henry Varnum and Marion Dorn Poor features a print.