Dorothy Hay Jensen papers
name: label: Creator
content: Jensen, Dorothy Hay, 1910-
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Me.)
label: Names
content: Index of American Design
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Maine
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Maine
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1992 by Dorothy Hay Jensen.
creator: label: Creator
content: Jensen, Dorothy Hay, 1910-
setName: label: See more items in
content: Dorothy Hay Jensen papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of arts administrator Dorothy Hay Jensen measure 0.2 linear feet and date from circa 1933 to 1991. Relating to Jensen's work as supervisor of the WPA art projects in Maine and her work on the Index of American Design is a sketch, correspondence, a notebook and notes, photographs, and printed material.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Maine arts administrator and printmaker Dorothy Hay Jensen (1910-1999) was a supervisor for the Federal Art Project in Maine from 1936 to 1941. Her work focused on The Index of American Design, a research division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, which produced classifications and approximately 20,000 reproductions, in photographs and original drawings, of a wide variety of American art, including paintings, sculpture, handicrafts and folk art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jensdoro
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2023 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of arts administrator Dorothy Hay Jensen measure 0.2 linear feet and date from circa 1933 to 1991. Relating to Jensen's work as supervisor of the WPA art projects in Maine and her work on the Index of American Design is a sketch, correspondence, a notebook and notes, photographs, and printed material.