Writings & Notes by Soyer
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
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content: Raphael Soyer papers
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content: Raphael Soyer papers / Series 3: Writings & Notes
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.soyeraph, Subseries 3.1
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Most of Soyer's writings have been scanned, except for repetitive drafts and incomplete repetitive manuscripts and galley proofs of his published books. Early drafts of published books have been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Among the writings and notes by Soyer are his writings about artists, primarily draft essays for articles and introductions of exhibition catalogs. Artists written about include Benny Andrews, Jacques Lipchitz, Alice Neel, and others. Additional writings by Soyer include drafts of book reviews, and drafts of articles, essays, and lectures about his life, his artwork, and the social realism art movement.

Also found are drafts, notes, typescripts, journals, and galley proofs for Soyer's four published books A Painter's Pilgrimage (1962), Homage to Thomas Eakins (1966), Self-Revealment: a Memoir (1969), and Diary of an Artist (1977). Also among the writings by Soyer are 13 of his engagement calendars and other miscellaneous notes.