Artist Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Donaldson, Jeff (1932-2004)
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content: Jeff Donaldson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet (Boxes 3-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-2003
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.donajeff, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Artist files are arranged alphabetically by artist name. Within folders, records are arranged by type rather than chronologically.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artist files were compiled by Donaldson for his dissertation research, course lectures, FESTAC, and other projects. Files may include handwritten notes, resumes, photographs of the artists and their artwork, press clippings, and exhibition publications; many also include "preliminary information sheets" compiled for his dissertation, and information collected for his study of contemporary visual artists during the 1980s. Only a few files include correspondence with the artist. Of note are a few letters from artist Romare Bearden and two letters from Jacob Lawrence. The Barry (Edmund) Gaither file includes the volume 1, number 1 issue of ABA: A Journal of Affairs of Black Artists, as well as correspondence regarding establishing the journal. The file on Archibald J. Motley, Jr., includes a handwritten manuscript entitled "How I Solve My Painting Problems," describing his artistic process and his detailed thoughts on depictions of African Americans in art. The file also includes a letter signed by seven artists protesting the method of selection for muralists for an exposition in Chicago at the Coliseum, and a 1928 photograph of Motley, Jr.