Richard Fitzgerald papers
name: label: Creator
content: Fitzgerald, Richard
label: Names
content: Becker, Maurice, 1889-1975
label: Names
content: Chamberlain, Kenneth Russell, 1892-
label: Names
content: Sloan, Helen Farr, 1911-2005
label: Names
content: Sloan, John, 1871-1951
topic: label: Occupation
content: Cartoonists
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- California
label: Topic
content: Politics in art
label: Topic
content: Caricatures and cartoons
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1976 by Richard Fitzgerald.
creator: label: Creator
content: Fitzgerald, Richard
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian and writer; San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet ((72 items))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fitzrich
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Research material used for Fitzgerald's Ph.D. dissertation at University of California, RADICAL ILLUSTRATORS OF THE MASSES AND LIBERATOR and for his book, ART AND POLITICS: CARTOONISTS OF THE MASSES AND LIBERATOR.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Eleven letters and cards from Helen Farr Sloan, widow of John Sloan; unpublished notes from John Sloan's conversations, interviews, and lectures at the Delaware Art Center, Wilmington; eight letters from Kenneth Russell Chamberlain; four interviews with Chamberlain; 28 letters and cards from Maurice Becker; a telephone interview with Becker; four Becker exhibition catalogues; and fifteen letters to Fitzgerald about artists Robert Minor, Art Young, and Maurice Becker written by their friends Gil Wilson, Lawrence Gellert, Joseph North, William Gropper, Daniel Aaron, and Harold Anton.