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Series 4: Writings, Lectures and Speeches, 1916-1960 (Boxes 14-15, 18; 1.0 linear ft.)

This series contains typescripts of writings, lectures and speeches by Cahill and others. A large portion of the material relates to the WPA FAP, but there are also book and exhibition reviews and other works of art criticism by Cahill. For additional copies of writings by Cahill see Series 8: Printed Material.

The series is arranged into five subseries:

• 4.1: Lectures and Speeches by Cahill, 1930-1945
• 4.2: Lectures and Speeches by Others, 1916-1940
• 4.3: Writings by Cahill, 1928-1960
• 4.4: Writings by Others, 1932-1957
• 4.5: Typescripts for Art For The Millions, 1936-1940

4.1: Lectures and Speeches by Cahill, 1930-1945

This subseries contains typescripts of lectures and speeches by Cahill, many with hand-written notes and copies of drafts. Parts of some typescripts are missing. Material is arranged chronologically with undated material placed first.

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5290	1020-1022	[Ernest Peixotto], undated (lecture notes)
5290	1023-1025	WPA Lecture, Chicago, undated (lecture notes)
5290	1026-1066	[American Folk Art], Phillips Memorial Gallery, undated
5290	1067-1085	[History of Support of American Art], undated
5290	1086-1094	[Government Support of Art], Radio Talk, undated
5290	1095-1110	Independents, Society of Independent Artists, undated
5290	1111-1124	[Development of Visual Training Aids], U.S. Navy Training Aids Development Center, undated
5290	1125-1144	[Crafts as Art], New Hampshire Talk, undated
5290	1145-1154	American Folk Art, Radio Talk, [November 1930]
5290	1155-1168	American Folk Sculpture, Newark Museum, 1931
5290	1169-1197	New Horizons, Chicago, [1936]
5290	1198-1209	[Women's Role in Art], Women's Democratic Club, May 24, 1936

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
1105	0319-0329	Speech for Southern Women's National Democratic Organization, New York, December 1936

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5290	1210-1250	[Old and New Paths in American Design], Newark Museum, November 6, 1936
5290	1252-1271	Art for the Few or the Many?, American Association of University Women, November 15, 1936

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
1105	0330-0332	Untitled, FAP, 1937

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5290	1272-1286	[Index of American Design], St. Louis, Missouri, January 31, 1937
5290	1287-1332	[WPA-FAP], Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 28, 1937
5290	1333-1355	[Aims and Achievements of the WPA-FAP], American Artists Congress, December 18, 1937
5290	1356-1362	Child Art, April [1938]
5290	1363-1371	Goodyear Dinner speech, 1939
5290	1372-1378	New Jersey Art at the World's Fair, Newark Museum Radio Talk, February 11, 1939
5290	1379-1381	Dedication of Murals for WNYC Radio Studios, August 2, 1939 (lecture notes)

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
1105	0293-0302	Untitled, FAP, circa 1940 (1 of 2)
1105	0305-0318	Untitled, FAP, circa 1940 (2 of 2)
1105	0303-0304	Project Control Talk, circa 1940

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5290	1382-1402	What Is Tradition?, Artists' Congress, 1940
5290	1403-1441	North Carolina Speech, April 1, 1940

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
1105	0333-0346	Untitled, FAP, 1941

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5290	1442-1489	[Contemporary American Art and Its Antecedents], Cosmopolitan Club, [1941]
5290	1490-1493	[Support for Artists vs. Museums], American Federation of Arts, [1941]
5290	1494-1541	[American Art History], American Institute of Decorators, 1941
5290	1542-1545	Art in the National Defense, Radio Talk, January 27, 1941
5290	1546-1549	The Face of America, Cosmopolitan Club, February 10, 1941

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5291	0005-0041	The Face of America, Cosmopolitan Club, cont., February 10, 1941
5291	0042-0078	[Role of Art in the Community], People's Art Center Association, May 5, 1941
5291	0079-0081	Art in Wartime, December 3, 1941
5291	0082-0098	[Use of Art in War], Dartmouth College, January 15, 1942
5291	0099-0106	[American Attraction to Art of the Far East], 1944
5291	0107-0130	[U. S. Government Art Projects, 1945]

4.2: Lectures and Speeches by Others, 1916-1940

This subseries contains typescripts of lectures and speeches by others, often with notes and copies of drafts. The majority of the material relates to the WPA FAP. Records are arranged chronologically with undated material placed first.

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5291	0133-0140	Pigmentation or Chemistry of Artists' Colors by K. R. Leipold, undated
5291	0141-0147	History of Painting by Henry H. McLellan, Jr., undated
5291	0148-0157	[Launching of California Supervisors] by Thomas C. Parker, undated
5291	0158-0174	An Edinburgh Address on Design and Industry by Frank Pick, October 1916
5291	0175-0186	Museum Service to the Art Industries by Richard F. Bach, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927
5291	0187-0198	Exhibition of American Folk Art at the Albright Art Gallery, Radio Talk by Nora Christensen, June 20, 1932
5291	0199-0204	Public Works of Art Project by Edward Bruce, Advisory Committee to the Treasury on Fine Arts, January 17, 1934
5291	0205-0207	The New Day in Negro Art by Harry H. Sutton, Jr., Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, January 17, 1937
5291	0208-0212	The Negro in the Field of Painting and Sculpture by Harry H. Sutton, Jr., January 28, 1937
5291	0213-0217	Mellon's Art by Maury Maverick, U. S. House of Representatives, March 1, 1937
5291	0218-0227	Community Art Centers by Thomas C. Parker, May 4, 1937
5291	0228-0257	[Federal Art Project] by Thomas C. Parker, May 22, 1937
5291	0258-0260	Opportunities for the Negro in American Art by Harry H. Sutton, Jr., Davis Street School, Jacksonville, November 2, 1937
5291	0261-0265	The Highlights in Negro Art by Harry H. Sutton, Jr., Davis Street School, Jacksonville, February 9, 1938
5291	0266-0269	The Opportunities of the Negro in Art by Harry H. Sutton, Jr., Davis Street School, Jacksonville, February 14, 1938
5291	0270-0291	Federal Sponsored Community Art Centers by Thomas C. Parker, American Library Association, June 14, 1938
5291	0292-0306	What Is the American Way? by Harry L. Hopkins, July 16, 1938
5291	0307-0320	[Negro Art] by Thomas C. Parker, Tuskegee Institute, July 29, 1938
5291	0321-0327	Extension Remarks on Addresses in Honor of American Artists Who Have Decorated Federal Buildings by Elbert D. Thomas, U. S. Senate, April 25, 1940
5291	0328-0336	Speech Before the Second National Conference on Handicrafts, Penland, North Carolina by Whitney Atchley, September 3, 1940

4.3: Writings by Cahill, 1928-1960

This subseries contains typescripts of writings by Cahill, including book and exhibition reviews. A substantial portion of the material found here was written during Cahill's directorship of the FAP. Material is arranged chronologically with undated material placed first.

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5291	0340-0395	American Resources in the Arts, undated
5291	0396-0400	The Government in Art, undated
5291	0401-0404	Request for Opinions of FAP Program, undated
5291	0405-0409	Index of American Design: What It Is, undated
5291	0410-0429	[Index of American Design], undated
5291	0430-0436	The Stations of the Cross of San Gabriel Mission, undated
5291	0437-0450	[Americans' Interest in Art], undated
5291	0451-0463	[Orientation Toward Living American Art], undated
5291	0464-0470	Art in Democracy, undated
5291	0471-0477	Russia and the United States, undated
5291	0478-0485	The Icelandic Discovery of America, undated
5291	0486-0491	History of American Art Proposal, undated
5291	0492-0496	Concepts of Folk Art, undated
5291	0497-0505	American Folk Art, undated
5291	0506-0682	Folk Art, undated
5291	0683-0697	Puritan Imagination, undated
5291	0698-0702	[Development of Modern American Art], undated
5291	0703-0719	Description of American Art in a Portfolio, undated
5291	0720-0725	Industrial Design and Education, undated
5291	0726-0734	The New Literacy, undated
5291	0735-0736	Prefatory Note, undated
5291	0737-0741	Community Art Centers in the Western States, undated
5291	0742-0744	From Furniture to Politics, undated
5291	0745-0749	Exhibit of Steigel Glass at the National Museum, undated
5291	1107-1113	Review of Library of Congress Exhibition, [Creative Art of the American Negro], undated
5291	1114-1123	Exhibition Review, Ancient Arts of the Andes, undated
5291	1124-1128	Article Review, on Photography for Art in America by Kirstein, undated
5291	1129-1133	Book Review, Divided We Fought: A Pictorial History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by David Donald, undated
5291	1134-1146	Book Review, The Meeting of the East and West by F.S.C. Northrop, undated
5291	1147-1157	Book Review, The Son of the Gamblin' Man by Mari Sandoz, undated
5291	1158-1164	Book Review, [The Place of the Picture as Historical Document] by Mr. Taft, undated
5291	0750-0765	Industrial Art, 1928
5291	0766-0795	[William Zorach, 1932]
5291	0796-0813	Art of the Common Man, [1933]
5291	0814-0820	Art For Whom? A Survey of Present-Day Conditions in the Arts, [1935]
5291	0821-0823	[Federal Art Project, 1936]
5291	0824-0838	The Federal Art Project, [1937]
5291	0839-0841	The Art Program, [1937]
5291	0842-0852	[WPA Arts Program, 1937]
5291	0853-0858	Federal Art Project, 1939
5291	0859-0880	Honors Won by WPA Artists, 1936-1941
5291	0881-0885	[Views on Modern Art in Time of War, 1942]
5291	0886-0888	Note on the Employment of Artists in War Time, [1942]
5291	0889-0893	[Publication of the Index of American Design, 1942]
5291	0894-0896	[Work of the WPA, 1944]
5291	0897-0916	[Art As an Ingredient of National Unity], 1944
5291	0917-0944	President Roosevelt and the U.S. Government Art Projects, [1945]
5291	0945-0964	After Forty Years, American Federation of Arts, [1949]
5291	0965-0993	Folk Art and the American Style (for House Beautiful), 1950
5291	0994-1009	Homage to Morgan Russell, [1953]
5291	1010-1056	Paris Catalog, 1955
5291	1057-1105	Article for Marg Magazine on American Art in This Century, 1956
5291	1165-1168	Book Review, George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist by John Francis McDermott, 1959
5291	1169-1171	Book Review, But Not for Love by Maynatalie Tabak, 1960
5291	1172-1223	Miscellaneous Fragments of Typescripts, 1938-circa 1942

4.4: Writings by Others, 1932-1957

This subseries contains typsecripts of writings by others, many of which were produced as part of the WPA FAP. Material is arranged chronologically with undated material placed first.

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5291	1227-1229	Artists Union by Unidentified Author, undated
5291	1230-1231	Dr. Samuel Butler by Unidentified Author, undated
5291	1232-1234	To Paint and Stain Glass and Porcelain by Unidentified Author, undated
5291	1235-1244	Memorandum on a Post-War Reorganization of the Section of Fine Arts and Other Federal Projects by George Biddle, undated
5291	1245-1248	Early Cowboy Art by E. J. Bird, undated
5291	1261-1264	American Artists' Congress by Stuart Davis, undated
5291	1265-1271	Jose Delores Lopez [by Meredith Hare], undated
5291	1272-1274	An Architect's Point of View by William Lescaze, undated
5291	1275-1284	Art Comes to the People by Eugene Ludins, undated
5291	1285-1287	The Artists' Union by Stevens Maxey, undated
5291	1288-1289	America As Americans See It by Henry McBride, undated
5291	1290-1298	The Development of American Mural Painting by Geoffrey Norman, undated
5291	1299-1301	Easel Painting by Harley Perkins, undated
5291	1302-1306	Art and Social Therapy by Frances Pollak, undated
5291	1307-1310	A New Attitude on Art by Walter Quirt, undated
5291	1311-1320	Some American Primitives by Elsa Rogo, undated
5291	1321-1323	An Introduction to the Living World of Art by Lincoln Rothschild, undated
5291	1324-1330	The Revival of Mosaic by Arthur W. Sears, undated
5291	1331-1342	The Third Dimension Progresses: The Diorama Project by George T. Senseney, undated (includes photo of Senseney)
5291	1343-1345	The Art of the Poster by George Melville Smith, undated
5291	1346-1348	Description of Sommer's Working Methods by William Sommer, undated
5291	1349-1354	Pottery Methods by Walter Speck, undated
5291	1355-1359	[Widening of the Sculptor's Field] by Emmanuel Viviano, undated
5291	1360-1365	Poems by Max Weber, undated
5291	1391-1394	Editors' Information from [America As America Sees It] by Henry McBride, 1932
5291	1366-1383	Zoar by Nixon of the Society of Separatists of Zoar, 1933
5291	1384-1390	Simonson Article by [John Cotton Dana, 1935]
5291	1395-1404	Ancient and Renaissant Rome by Morgan Russell, 1935
5291	1405-1412	Artists' Coordination Committee by Frederic Knight, [1936]
5291	1413-1416	Index of American Design by Ruth Reeves, 1936
5291	1417-1425	Art and the State v. America by Lewis Mumford, 1936
5291	1426-1430	[Art Classes for Young People] by Samuel Friedman, 1936
5291	1431-1440	[Sunday Night Forums] by Dorothy Paris, [1936]
5291	1441-1443	Derivation and History of Weathervanes by Richard Farmer Smith, [1937]
5291	1444-1475	Tobacconists Figures, Research Notes Compiled by WPA Program, 1937
5291	1249-1257	WPA Art Project Murals by Sheldon Cheney, 1938
5291	1476-1486	A Long Term Program for the National Handicraft Association, Based on Reports Collected During the Summer of 1938 by Humphrey J. Emery, 1938
5291	1487-1492	The WPA Federal Art Project, Its Contribution to the American People by Fanny Bowles Vanderkooi, 1940
5291	1493-1515	Urban Recreational Planning by Caroline C. Williams, [1941]

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5292	0004-0006	Those Who Support the Art Center by H. A. Zurbrick, 1941

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5291	1258-1260	[John Cotton Dana] by M.D.C. Crawford, circa 1944

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5292	0007-0010	[Review of Cahill's Book Look South to the Polar Star] by Unidentified Author, 1947
5292	0011-0078	An American Renaissance and "The Pauper's Oath" by Helen C. Farrell, 1957

4.5: Typescripts For Art For The Millions, 1936-1940

This subseries comprises typescripts by forty-eight of Cahill's colleagues discussing various media and philosphies of the visual arts used for the book Art For The Millions: Essays from the 1930s by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal Art Project, edited by Francis V. O'Connor (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1973). Typescripts are arranged alphabetically by author.

Reel	Frames	(digitized from microfilm)
5292	0082-0093	Table of Contents (see also sol Box 18), circa 1937
5292	0094-0097	Abbott, Berenice, Changing New York, circa 1937
5292	0098-0100	Brown, Douglas, Subject Matter in Painting, circa 1937
5292	0101-0103	Brown, Samuel J., About Myself, circa 1937
5292	0104-0107	Cashwan, Samuel, The Sculptor's Point of View, circa 1937
5292	0108-0114	Clements, Grace, Organizing the Subconscious, circa 1937
5292	0115-0119	Curtis, Philip C., The Phoenix Art Center, circa 1937
5292	0120-0125	Davis, Stuart, The Social Education of the Artist, circa 1937
5292	0127-0135	Davis, Stuart, Abstract Painting Today, 1940
5292	0136-0139	Eichenberg, Fritz, Eulogy on the Woodblock, circa 1937
5292	0141-0146	Gellert, Hugo, Artists Coordination Committee, 1936
5292	0147-0153	Glassgold, C. Adolph, Recording American Design, circa 1937
5292	0154-0158	Gorky, Arshile, My Murals for the Newark Airport: An Interpretation, circa 1937
5292	0159-0162	Guglielmi, Louis, After the Locusts, circa 1937
5292	0163-0167	Hayes, Vertis, The Negro Artist Today, circa 1937
5292	0168-0173	Hayes, Vertis, The Position of Art in Present Day Society As I See It, circa 1937
5292	0174-0177	Hiler, Hilaire, An Approach to Mural Decoration, circa 1937
5292	0178-0181	Hunter, R. Vernon, An Interpretation of Patrocino Barela, circa 1937
5292	0182-0185	Kopman, Benjamin, Notes on Art, circa 1937
5292	0186-0188	La More, Chet, The Artists Union of America, circa 1937
5292	0189-0208	Lemmon, Warren W., Native Arts of the Southwest, circa 1937
5292	0209-0210	Levine, Jack, Street Scene, circa 1937 (1 of 2)
5292	0212	Levine, Jack, Street Scene, circa 1937 (2 of 2)
5292	0213-0219	Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, Sculpture in Southern California, circa 1937
5292	0220-0223	McMahon, Audrey, The Federal Art Project and the Artist, circa 1937
5292	0224-0226	Moylan, Lloyd, Mural Opportunities, circa 1937
5292	0227-0229	Murray, Hester Miller, Concerning Subject Matter, circa 1937
5292	0230-0237	Newell, James Michael, The Use of Symbols in Mural Painting, circa 1937
5292	0238-0244	Norman, Geoffrey, The Development of American Mural Painting, circa 1937
5292	0245-0252	Olds, Elizabeth, Prints for Mass Production, circa 1937
5292	0253-0255	Palo-Kangas, John, Thought-Forms in Red Sandstone, circa 1937
5292	0256-0259	Park, Paul, Photography As An Art, circa 1937
5292	0260-0265	Parr, Russell C., Reaching for Art, circa 1937
5292	0266-0269	Quirt, Walter, On Mural Painting, circa 1937
5292	0270-0281	Rackley, Mildred, The United American Artists, circa 1937
5292	0282-0290	Richardson, Antonio, [Social Function of Art - It's Relation to the Public], circa 1937
5292	0291-0296	Rothschild, Lincoln, The Artist and Democracy, circa 1937
5292	0297-0299	Seltzner, Leo, On the Making of the Film "The Technique of Fresco Painting," circa 1937
5292	0300-0308	Smith, David, Modern Sculpture and Society, circa 1937
5292	0310-0313	Smith, E. Herndon, The Organization of Supervisors of the Federal Art Project, circa 1937-1940
5292	0314-0318	Speck, Walter E., Pottery Methods, circa 1937
5292	0320-0336	Stavenitz, Alexander R., The Therapy of Art, 1939
5292	0337-0363	Sutton, Harry H., High Noon in Art, circa 1937
5292	0364-0368	Thorp, George, The Art of Supervising Artists, circa 1937
5292	0369-0372	Trentham, Eugene, Golden Colorado, circa 1937
5292	0373-0377	Ward, Lynd, Printmakers to the American People, circa 1937
5292	0378-0382	Weisenborn, Rudolph, Designing a Diorama for the T.V.A., 1937
5292	0383-0389	White, Francis Robert, Cultural Frontiers, circa 1937
5292	0390-0402	Wolff, Robert Jay, Chicago and the Artists' Union, 1937
5292	0211	Unidentified Author, The Artists as a Social Worker circa 1937

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