Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Andrade, Edna, 1917-2008
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content: Edna Andrade papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.andredna, Series 2
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters between Edna and her family include correspondents C. Preston Andrade, Mary Wright, Ruth Porter Wright, and Thomas Wright. Letters from Andrade to her parents when she was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy include discussions of her teachers Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, and Albert Laessle, among others, and their critiques of her work. Additionally, she discusses her 1936 and 1938 trips abroad on Cresson Scholarships, and war work in Washington, D.C. Letters from C. Preston Andrade (Andy) discuss her exhibitions, sales, and her paintings, as well as document his work as an architect with the Ford Foundation in India.

General correspondence is with friends and colleagues including Nell Blaine, Daisy Myers, Peggy James, Jay Robinson, and Allen Thrasher. Also found are Andrade's letters to famous figures including President Eisenhower and Walter Winchell. 

Professional correspondence relates to commissions, exhibitions, competitions, awards and loans to the East Hampton Gallery in New York City and to many Philadelphia art institutions, and the exhibition Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts. Some letters may also include sales records. Notable correspondents include the Marion Locks Gallery, New Hope Summer School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Arts Alliance, Philadelphia Museum School of Art, and the Philadelphia Watercolor Club.