Fay Gold Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gold, Fay Helfand
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content: Fay Gold papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.2 Linear Feet (Box 1-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.goldfay, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical materials include awards, biographical sketches, and resumes. Largely professional, correspondence is scattered and includes letters from the Butler Institute of American Art, Philip Evergood, Domenico Facci, Emily Grenauer, Guggenheim Museum, and the New York Public Library. Of note are letters from Gold's former teacher, Howard Giles in which he advises Gold on her career and discusses art theory. Personal business records include an applications for a Guggenheim Fellowship, employment at a camp, and the formation of Fay Gold, Inc.. Printed material includes clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs. Also found are two published works on Yorkshire Terriers, one written by Fay Gold.

In addition to formal portraits and snapshots of Gold, there are photos of Fay Gold which depict her painting, teaching, and dancing in costume. Family photographs are of Gold's parents Solomon and Esther Helfand, her siblings, husband, son, and of Solomon's newsstand in Brooklyn, New York. Other photos are of Howard Giles in the classroom with art students. Also found is a photograph of the participants of Yaddo in 1949: John Malcolm Brnnin, William Buford, Joan Colebrooke, Joseph Frank, Fay Gold, William Parks Grant, Richard Hagopean, Myron O'Higgins, Simions Pierson, Charles Schucker, Luce Turnier, David Wagoner, Boom Weber, and Eugenia Zundel. Also found are photographs of works of art, many of which are annotated. 

Unfinished works of art include collages, drawings, and painted sketches. Watercolor sketches were completed by Gold in the mid-1920s while at Parson's School of Design and were likely illustrations for a children's book. Four painted sketches completed in 1957 are described by Gold as being her early attempts at abstract expressionism. Also found is a sketchbook and two dismantled bound volumes of Gold's designs. 

Writings by Fay Gold include a diary, notes, poetry, and her thesis on design and art theory from 1931. A seven-page manuscript autobiography is by Gold's friend, woodcut artist Helen West Heller.