"Art for Bonds,"
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960
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content: Forbes Watson papers
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content: Forbes Watson papers / Series 4: U.S. Treasury Department records / 4.4: Exhibition Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.watsforb, Subseries 4.4.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The "Art for Bonds" exhibition promoted the sale of war bonds during World War II. Found are letters of correspondence, litsts of works of art and of patrons, notes, press releases, writings, and printed materials. Typescripts of Watson's letters to his wife describe his activities in Paris while he organized the "Art for Bonds."