Clare Ferriter papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ferriter, Clare, 1913-1994
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content: Clare Ferriter papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ferrclar, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical materials include a resume and a biographical sketch by Mary Ann Taghe. Scattered correspondence concerns exhibitions and includes a sales receipt. Photographs are of works of art. Printed materials include clippings, rotogravure newspaper pages with illustrations by Ferriter, and exhibition announcements and catalogs. A 1939 Society of Independent Artists exhibition catalog includes a work by Ferriter and is annotated with the artist's thoughts and impressions of other works in the show. A dismantled scrapbook concerns Ferriter's exhibition career and her commissions. Found are letters, photographs, and printed materials. Subject files include material regarding Ferriter's work with organizations, exhibitions in which she is included and judged, and commissions. Of note is a file regarding a memorial publication for Robert F. Kennedy which includes hand-drawn illustrations by Ferriter. Also found is a cassette tape with Ferriter's remarks at the unveiling of a portrait of V. E. McKelvey. Ferriter's writing are on art, including her 1935 thesis on tempera painting.