Professional Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Duckworth, Ruth, 1919-2009
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ruth Duckworth papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 2, 6)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970-2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.duckruth, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The series contains files pertaining to Duckworth's career and Thea Burger's role as Duckworth's agent. A speech typescript Burger wrote for Duckworth's memorial service and sympathy letters to Burger after Duckworth's death illustrate their close friendship. 

Business papers consist of inventories, sales records, price lists, and correspondence with Exhibit A Gallery, Jacques Baruch Gallery, and Thea Burger. Other correspondence is between Duckworth, Burger, Tanya Harrod, and others regarding travel to England, appearances on a radio program, and Duckworth's other professional activities. Also included is a paper on creativity by Duckworth, her speech given at the Ceramics Millennium Conference in Amsterdam, and a speech delivered to young people. Typescripts by Henry W. Rothschild, Dorothy Johnson, and Harold Haydon are about Duckworth as an artist. Also included in the series are a couple of Duckworth's portfolios containing photographs of artwork and printed materials, a file containing born-digital records and other material for an article Kerameiki Techni Magazine, and biographical writings about Duckworth. Some of the records in the series may relate to Series 1.