Charles Henry Sawyer papers
name: label: Creator
content: Sawyer, Charles Henry, 1906-2005
label: Names
content: Addison Gallery of American Art
label: Names
content: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
label: Names
content: American Craft Council
label: Names
content: Association of Art Museum Directors
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
label: Names
content: Fogg Art Museum
label: Names
content: Independent Schools Art Instructors Association
label: Names
content: Museum Publishers Association
label: Names
content: Upper Peninsula Crafts Council (Mich.)
label: Names
content: Worcester Art Museum
label: Names
content: Hayes, Bartlett H., 1904-1988
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art museum directors -- United States
label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Occupation
content: Museum directors
label: Occupation
content: Gallery directors
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- United States
label: Topic
content: Art in universities and colleges
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels 644-646 lent for microfilming 1973 by Sawyer. Unmicrofilmed material donated by Sawyer 1977 and 1985. The 1985 donation included material previously filmed on reel 644, fr. 509-1071.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sawyer, Charles Henry, 1906-2005
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Museum director; Ann Arbor, Michigan. Director, Addison Gallery of American Art, the Worcester Art Museum, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art; Professor of Art History at Yale University and member of many committees.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums, University and college -- United States
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.8 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 3 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sawychar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 644-646 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 644-646: Originals returned to Charles Sawyer after microfilming, except reel 644, fr. 509-1071.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, addresses by Sawyer and others, and printed material relating primarily to Sawyer's involvement in the areas of design and crafts, and committees which studied methods of teaching art and the arts in colleges and universities.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 644-646: Files on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference, 1946; the American Humanities Seminar, 1958; the Association of Art Museum Directors, 1941-1973; Design as a Function of Management conference, 1951; Ford Foundation Studies and Grants to the Arts, 1948-1963; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, 1934-1956; the M.I.T. Study Committee for the Visual Arts, 1952-1954; the Museum Publishers Association, 1969-1970; the Salzburg seminar "The Visual Arts in American Life," 1955-1956; the Addison Gallery, 1940-1950; the Worcester Art Museum, 1940-1948; Columbia University Bicentennial; New York State Colleges and Universities; and the American Federation of Arts.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included in the American Humanities seminar file are lists of participants (including Sawyer), correspondence, 8 p. of quotes from participants, texts of addresses, printed articles taken from papers, clippings, and correspondence of Maxwell Goldberg, chairman, requesting suggestions for participants in the 1959 seminar. The Addison Gallery file contains correspondence between Sawyer and Bartlett Hayes, director of the Gallery; a report of the activities of the Gallery during 1946-1947, 2 typescripts concerning its display of Edward Hopper's painting "Manhattan Bridge Loop," Feb. 1940, reports and minutes of the Visiting Committee, 1950-1951, and financial statements.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Files concerning Federal Art Projects in New England, 1933-1937; the Museum of Modern Art, 1940-1941; Andover Committee concerning the Phillips Academy, 1950-1956; "The Arts in Universities," 1955; Visual Art Programs of the Independent Schools Art Instructors' Association, 1946; the Addison Gallery, 1964-1970; the American Craftsmen Council, 1959-1963; the first through fourth Upper Peninsula Crafts and Native Industries exhibits, 1960-1963; and the Conference on Museum Training Programs, 1972.