Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Schmidt, Katherine, 1898-1978
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content: Katherine Schmidt papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1; 3 folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1951, 1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schmkath, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Three folders of correspondence primarily document Katherine Schmidt's advocacy for federal and state government support of the arts. Included are letters from An American Group, Inc. and J. Frederick Dewhurst from the Twentieth Century Fund concerning a national survey of the cultural and economic status of the arts in the United States, and from Holger Cahill concerning a 1941 arts conference in Washington, D.C. Also found is correspondence regarding Schmidt and husband Irvine Shubert's participation in the creation of a post-war arts commission for New York state. There are letters from Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery and from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Correspondence from 1961 includes congratulations on her new exhibition of artwork. Items are arranged choronologically.