Mary Merkel-Hess papers
name: label: Creator
content: Merkel-Hess, Mary
topic: label: Occupation
content: Fiber artists -- Iowa City -- Iowa
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 2022 by Mary Merkel-Hess.
creator: label: Creator
content: Merkel-Hess, Mary
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mary Merkel-Hess (1949-) is a fiber artist and sculptor in Iowa City, Iowa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1975-2022
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.merkmary
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of fiber artist Mary Merkel-Hess (1949- ) measure 3.1 linear feet and date from circa 1975-2022. Included are slides and digital images of works of art; sketchbooks; drawings and loose sketches; gallery records; letters from museums and other artists; printed talks and writings by Merkel-Hess and others about her work; videocassettes; photographs and negatives of art work taken by Merkel-Hess and photographs of Merkel-Hess and her studio; biographical material and commission files.