James Milford Zornes Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Zornes, James Milford, 1908-2008
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content: James Milford Zornes papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-1954
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.zornjame, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Two mixed-media scrapbooks contain biographical materials, correspondence, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and scattered photographs of Zornes and works of art. The scrapbooks focus on Zornes's career as a painter and the exhibition of his paintings throughout California and the United States including the California Water Color Society, Denver Art Museum, Pomona College, Seattle Art Museum, and others.

Additional material concerns Zornes's work with various Depression-era art projects, including the Treasury Department Public Works of Art Project and murals at the Claremont, California post office. Found is correspondence regarding the purchase of Zornes's watercolors for the PWAP, purchase orders, and printed material. Also found is a photo of the post office mural, and rules for executing the murals distributed to artists.