Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993, bulk 1910-1960

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A Finding Aid to the Holger Cahill Papers, 1910-1993, bulk 1910-1960, in the Archives of American Art, by Jean Fitzgerald

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Table of Contents:

• Biographical Information
• Overview of the Collection
• How to Use the Collection
• Detailed Description and Container Inventory
• Appendices

Biographical Information

Holger Cahill was born Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarson in Iceland in a small valley near the Arctic Circle, on January 13, 1887. His parents, Bjorn Jonson and Vigdis Bjarnadottir, immigrated to the United States from Iceland sometime later in the 1880s. In 1904, his father deserted the family, forcing Sveinn to be separated from his mother and sister to work on a farm in North Dakota. He ran away and wandered from job to job until settling in an orphanage in western Canada, where he attended school and became a voracious reader.

As a young man, he worked at many different jobs and attended night school. While working on a freighter, he visited Hong Kong, beginning his life-long interest in the Orient. Returning to New York City, he eventually became a newspaper reporter, continued his studies at New York University, and changed his name to Edgar Holger Cahill. In 1919 he married Katherine Gridley of Detroit. Their daughter, Jane Ann, was born in 1922, but the couple divorced in 1927.

Cahill met John Sloan circa 1920, and they shared a residence. Cahill also wrote publicity (until 1928) for the Society of Independent Artists, through which he made many friends in the arts. From 1922 to 1931, he worked under John Cotton Dana at the Newark Museum, where he received his basic experience in museum work, organizing the first large exhibitions of folk art.

From 1932 to 1935, he was the director of exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art. In 1935, Cahill was appointed director of the Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project (FAP), until its end in June 1943. In 1938, Cahill organized a countrywide exhibition "American Art Today" for the New York World's Fair. He also married MoMa curator Dorothy Canning Miller in that year.

Profane Earth, Cahill's first novel, was published in 1927, followed by monographs on Pop Hart and Max Weber, miscellaneous short stories, and a biography of Frederick Townsend Ward, entitled A Yankee Adventurer: The Story of Ward and the Taiping Rebellion. Following the end of the Federal Art Project, Cahill wrote two novels, Look South to the Polar Star (1947) and The Shadow of My Hand (1956).

Holger Cahill died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in July 1960.

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Overview of the Collection

Scope and Contents

The papers of Holger Cahill (1887-1960) date from 1910 to 1993, bulk 1910-1960, and measure 16.0 linear feet. The collection offers researchers fairly comprehensive documentation of Cahill's directorship of the FAP in addition to series documenting his work as a writer and art critic. FAP records include national and state administrative reports, records of community art centers, photographic documentation of state activities, artist files, divisional records about teaching, crafts, murals, and poster work, files concerning the Index of American Design, scrapbooks, and printed material.

Arrangement and Series Description

The collection is arranged into nine series:

• Series 1: Biographical Material and Personal Papers, 1931-1988 (Box 1; 19 folders)
• Series 2: Correspondence Files, 1922-1979, 1993 (Boxes 1-2; 1.5 linear ft.)
• Series 3: Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, 1934-1970 (Boxes 2-14, 18, MMs009; 10.75 linear ft.)
• Series 4: Writings, Lectures and Speeches, 1916-1960 (Boxes 14-15, 18; 1.0 linear ft.)
• Series 5: Minutes of Meetings and Panel Discussions, Non-FAP, 1939-1947 (Box 15; 5 folders)
• Series 6: Notes and Research Material, 1935-1970 (Boxes 15-16; 0.25 linear ft.)
• Series 7: Artwork, undated (Boxes 16, 18; 2 folders)
• Series 8: Printed Material, 1910-1985 (Boxes 16-17; 1.8 linear ft.)
• Series 9: Photographs, circa 1917-1960 (Box 17; 6 folders)

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Provenance

The Holger Cahill papers were donated to the Archives of American Art through a series of gifts by Cahill's widow, Dorothy C. Miller, between 1964 and 1995.

How the Collection was Processed

The collection was donated in several installments and typically microfilmed in the order in which it was received at some point after receipt. The entire collection was processed by Jean Fitzgerald in 1998. The microfilm was digitized in 2005 with funding provided by Jane Blumenfeld.

How to Use the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The microfilm of this collection has been digitized and is available online via the Archives of American Art website.

Ownership & Literary Rights

The Holger Cahill papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Available Formats

The microfilm of this collection has been digitized and is available online via the Archives of American Art website.

How to Cite this Collection

Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993, bulk 1910-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Detailed Description and Container Inventory

Series 1: Biographical Material and Personal Papers, 1931-1988 (Box 1; 19 folders)

Biographical material includes nine typed career summaries/resumes for Cahill, dated circa 1935-1941. The resumes provide basically the same information with only minor variations in wording, with some handwritten notations and typed inserts to update the descriptions of Cahill's career through the early 1940s.

Also found here is a transcript of an interview, "Reminiscences of Holger Cahill," conducted by Joan Pring; a 1961 letter from Cahill's sister; a document entitled "Notes on the life of Holger Cahill" by Cahill's wife, Dorothy C. Miller, which provide details of Cahill's childhood and his work; and a 1988 letter from Dorothy Miller enclosing a copy of Cahill's birth certificate dated 1887. The series also includes a copy of Time from September 5, 1938, picturing Cahill on the cover and an article about his work with the WPA.

The series also includes financial records consisting primarily of receipts and balance sheets for artwork purchased and sold, many of them issued by the American Folk Art Gallery in which Cahill held a partnership with Edith Halpert and Berthe Kroll Goldsmith.

Series 2: Correspondence Files, 1922-1979, 1993 (Boxes 1-2; 1.5 linear ft.)

This series consists of personal and work-related correspondence (primarily incoming correspondence) between Cahill and various friends and colleagues. While a large portion of the series documents Cahill's position as Director of the FAP, it also extends beyond those years and illuminates other aspects of Cahill's career including his interest in folk and Asian art, and his work as an art critic.

There is significant correspondence with the artist Stanton MacDonald Wright between 1936 and 1950, and with the artist Irene Pereira between 1950 and 1953. The series also documents research which Cahill conducted in the late 1940s on the development of the Index of American Design for his introduction to a book on the Index by the National Gallery of Art, published by the Macmillan Company. Correspondence from 1949 provides another angle on the historical details of the FAP through lengthy correspondence documenting Cahill's criticism of William Francis McDonald's book Federal Relief Administration and the Arts (Ohio State University Press, 1969).

There is a large amount of correspondence from July 1960 comprising sympathy letters to Dorothy C. Miller following Cahill's death. Correspondence from 1977 encloses a catalog of an exhibition organized by New York WPA Artists, Inc., at the Parsons School of Design in November 1977. The exhibition, New York City WPA Art, was dedicated to the memory of Holger Cahill.

A list of most of the correspondents (with the exception of those microfilmed on reel 1105) can be found in the Alphabetical Index to Correspondents in Series 2

Series 3: Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, 1934-1970 (Boxes 2-14, 18, MMs009; 10.75 linear ft.)

This series documents Cahill's directorship of the WPA FAP from 1935 to 1943 and provides fairly comprehensive coverage of the development, operation, problems and accomplishments of FAP projects at the national and state level. Records include correspondence and memoranda, national and state reports, financial records, meeting minutes, exhibition files, printed material, scrapbooks and photographs and date from 1934 to 1970 with the bulk of the material dating from 1935 to 1943.

The series is arranged into fourteen subseries:

• 3.1: General Subjects, circa 1934-1943, 1953
• 3.2: Artist Files, 1935-1943
• 3.3: Administration of the National WPA/FAP, 1935-1942
• 3.4: Administration of the State WPA/FAP, 1935-1943
• 3.5: Meeting Minutes and Transcripts, 1936-1941
• 3.6: Allocations, 1935-1943, 1970
• 3.7: Community Art Centers, 1934-1946
• 3.8: FAP Divisions, 1935-1940
• 3.9: Index of American Design, 1936-1947
• 3.10: Exhibitions, 1935-1942
• 3.11: Other New Deal Art Projects, 1935-1942
• 3.12: Publicity and Printed Material, 1934-1944, 1961
• 3.13: Scrapbooks, 1936-1939
• 3.14: Photographs, circa 1935-1948

3.1: General Subjects, circa 1934-1943, 1953

This subseries contains general records of the FAP including correspondence and memoranda, information on administrators, advisory committee records, employment statistics, manuals and reports.

Records relating to administrators include biographical sketches and/or photographs of the following FAP administrators: Donald Bear, Thaddeus Clapp, D. S. Defenbacher, Audrey McMahon, Eric Mose, Concetta Scaravaglione, Alexander Stavenitz, and George Thorp. The records include photos of McMahon, Mose, Scaravaglione, Stavenitz, and Thorp.

Advisory committe records include lists of committee members for the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, and the Federal Art Project; correspondence related to the selection of members for the Fine and Applied Arts Committee of the FAP; and information (such as names, addresses and occupations) concerning members of FAP advisory committees organized by state.

General files include reports on various aspects of the FAP and general program operations and accomplishments, program descriptions and summaries, procedural documents and administrative forms. These are followed by lists of FAP projects, a notebook documenting FAP activities in the southern states and a report on the FAP's activities to 1939.

Also found here are records relating to support and criticism of the FAP, the war effort and "negro art" including memoranda, reports, a typescript of a speech by Thomas C. Parker, press releases and printed material.

3.2: Artist Files, 1935-1943

This subseries contains records relating to FAP artists. Correspondence is primarily between Cahill and various artists and includes letters of recommendation written by Cahill. General records include a typescript of an interview with Edith Halpert of Downtown Galleries, a document containing case studies on the "Adjustments of Individuals" during FAP work in Michigan; and printed material. A notebook entitled "Artists Whose Loan Assignments Have Been Completed," records "loans" of artists to various states and cities in order to work on FAP projects.

All individual artist files contain a biographical sketch of the artist, unless otherwise noted. Some files also contain photographs of the artist, as indicated.

3.3: Administration of the National WPA/FAP, 1935-1942

This subseries includes detailed financial records, memoranda, organizational charts and plans, and reports documenting the administration of the FAP at the national level.

A file relating to the 1939 changeover includes a typescript by George Biddle, Memorandum on a Post-War Reorganization of the Section of Fine Arts and Other Federal Art Projects, and a reprint of Art Under Five Years of Federal Patronage, also by Biddle.

Reports consist pimarily of progress reports provided by Cahill and Thomas C. Parker in addition to several general reports written by Cahill, scattered field trip reports, and miscellanous documents providing general accounts of the activities of the FAP.

General memoranda and program descriptons contain questionnaire results, descriptions of FAP programs, typescripts containing general program descriptions (possibly given as speeches or issued as press releases), and related news clippings.

Summaries of WPA art programs includes five copies of a document, "The WPA Art Program - A Summary," with hand-written notations updating the information in the Summary through 1942.

3.4: Administration of the State WPA/FAP, 1935-1943

This subseries contains records documenting the adminstration of the FAP at the state level. It includes general correspondence and memoranda regarding state activities as well as reports of state program operations and accomplishments, field trip reports, and newsletters and bulletins from state art centers organized alphabetically by state.

This subseries contains a second set of state studies which, in addition to administrative reports, includes reports representing research and writing conducted as part of the FAP work done at the state level. The second group of reports is also arranged alphabetically by state, and then chronologically, and includes social studies conducted by members of the Federal Writers Program.

3.5: Meeting Minutes and Transcripts, 1936-1941

This subseries contains minutes and transcripts of WPA/FAP meetings and conferences, arranged chronologically.

3.6: Allocations, 1935-1943, 1970

This subseries documents financial allotments for the FAP program on a national and state level. It contains chronologically arranged correspondence and memoranda showing total allocations and containing lists breaking down allotments by state, as well as general correspondence related to allocations.

Allocation control cards were produced by the FAP's graphic arts division as a record of prints received in, and distributed by, the FAP's office in Washington D.C. for allocation and exhibition purposes. They give a number indicating the exhibition in which each print was included and a number indicating the total number of prints received (see General Correspondence, 1970, in this subseries). The cards are organized alphabetically by state.

Also found here are tables of financial allotment statistics, printed material related to allocations of art work and a notebook entitled Congressional and D.C. Allocations.

3.7: Community Art Centers, 1934-1946

This subseries includes reports on various community art centers and news clippings about the art center in Curry County, Oregon.

3.8: FAP Divisions, 1935-1940

This subseries documents the activities of FAP divisions through typescripts, an interview transcript, memoranda, printed material and copies of poster designs.

Art teaching typescripts include the following: Jacksonville Negro Art Gallery, Florida, Children's Art Gallery, Washington, D.C., Art and the Problem Child, Child Art Teaching, Saturday Morning Classes at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Information Concerning District of Columbia Children's Drawings in Big Stone Gap Exhibition, The Artist Teaches, The Functions of Art Teaching in Education, The Works Program, and Child Art.

Records relating to murals include a biographical sketch of the architect William Lescaze; a typescript entitled Statistical Note on Murals; and a booklet entitled Historical Murals in the Los Angeles County Hall of Records Board of Supervisors' Hearing Room. Records relating to posters include a typescript entitled List of Visual Aid and Other Training Material Produced for Military Establishments by Missouri Graphics Phase Units, 28 copies of poster designs, and a photograph of men in a poster composition room.

3.9: Index of American Design, 1936-1947

The purpose of the Index of American Design was to compile a pictorial record of objects in the decorative, applied and folk arts, particularly objects of American origin. This subseries includes correspondence, memoranda, manuals, reports, typescripts, press releases, state reports primarily concerning Illinois projects, exhibition loan records, printed material and photographs of exhibitions and artwork, documenting that endeavor.

Articles and reports include documents and manuals describing the form and function of the Index, and outlining related procedures to be followed. They also include typescripts about the Index including Recording American Design, [The Shaker Portfolio], The Derivation and History of Weathervanes, A Short History of the Weathervane, The Eagle in American Design, American Traditions for Young People, and Notes on American Carvers and Carving. Also found here are press releases, notes, a list of collectors, memoranda, Art Circular No. 3 and a reprint entitled American Popular Art as Recorded in the Index of American Design by Erwin O. Christensen.

Photographs include a bound portfolio of photographs of index plates representing artist renderings of Illinois objects, and a series of photographs depicting the process of making an index plate.

3.10: Exhibitions, 1935-1942

This subseries consists of reports on exhibitions, shipping receipts for artwork, news clippings, exhibition catalogs, and records relating to the FAP Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair.

Records of the New York World'd Fair exhibition include correspondence, typescripts, memoranda, a budget plan, a list of sculptors employed by the FAP in New York City, prospectuses for artists, a calendar of events, press releases, printed material and photographs.

3.11: Other New Deal Art Projects, 1935-1942

This subseries contains records related to two other New Deal art projects: the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Art Project and the Treasury Department Art Project (TDAP). Included here are one bulletin relating to the former and four letters and a series of bulletins relating to the latter.

3.12: Publicity and Printed Material, 1934-1944, 1961

This subseries contains printed material relating to the WPA/FAP as well as material used for publicity including transcripts of lectures and essays (some with hand-written notations), news clippings, press releases, and publications. For additional material of this type see Series 4: Writings, Lectures and Speeches and Series 8: Printed Material. Additional press releases can be found in 3.13: Scrapbooks.

3.13: Scrapbooks, 1936-1939

This subseries contains three scrapbooks: Scrapbook I contains primarily press releases from the WPA Works Program as well as state progress reports, exhibition catalogs, and miscellaneous printed material. It includes photos of sculptor Jose Ruiz de Rivera and a New York Cityscape by Berenice Abbott. Scrapbook II contains news clippings and printed material concerning FAP conferences and the Index of American Design. Scrapbook III contains news clippings, exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous printed material. It also conains six photos of art centers and exhibitions, six photos of art classes and seven photos of artwork.

3.14: Photographs, circa 1935-1948

This series begins with photographs of WPA artists, regional directors, and art administrators. The individuals pictured include: Lucienne Bloch, Karl Knaths, Donald J. Bear, Max Spivak, Increase Robinson, F. C. Harrington, Russell C. Parr, George G. Thorp, Eve Alsman Fuller, R. Bruce Inverarity, Eleanor Roosevelt with R. Bruce Inverarity, Florence Kerr, Robert Armstrong Andrews, Richard C. Morrison, Jacob Baker, Holger Cahill and Jacob Baker, Joseph Danysh, C. Adolph Glassgold, Thomas C. Parker, Elizabeth Olds, Milton Horn, Juan Sanchez, Patricino Barela, Sam Brown, Harry Hopkins and Holger Cahill, Stanton MacDonald Wright at the dedication of the Father Garces monument, John Palo-Kangas, Seminole Indians at the opening of the Miami Federal Galleries, Ellen Woodward with Thomas C. Parker, and Holger Cahill with Duncan Phillips and Harry L. Hopkins.

Also found here are three photograph "albums." Photograph Album I contains photos of artwork, installations, and Shaker furniture and buildings. Photograph Album II contains photos of artists, art classes, and artwork in addition to printed material. Photograph Album III contains photos of posters and murals, group activities and classes relating to the WPA and defense.

This series also contains thirteen photographs of "Changing New York" by Berenice Abbott. The remainder of the series consists of FAP photos of art classes, gallery installations, state art centers and staff and artwork, arranged by state.

For additional FAP photographs see 3.1 (for photographs of FAP administrators), 3.2. (for photographs of Artists), 3.8 (for photographs related to the Index of American Design), 3.10 (for photographs from the 1939-1940 World's Fair) and 3.13 (for photographs from FAP scrapbooks).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Series 5: Minutes of Meetings and Panel Discussions, Non-FAP, 1939-1947 (Box 15; 5 folders)

This series documents the proceedings of meetings of the American Handicraft Council, the Arts and Letters Secretariat, the Artists' International Association, and a Conference on the Support of the Visual Arts. There is also a typescript of an American Federation of Arts annual convention panel with notes on Cahill's presentation as part of that panel. Material is arranged in chronological order.

Series 6: Notes and Research Material, 1935-1970 (Boxes 15-16; 0.25 linear ft.)

This series contains research material on folk art and folk artists in addition to material that appears to be related to Cahill's criticism of William Francis McDonald's book Federal Relief Administration and the Arts (Ohio State University Press, 1969) sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.

Notes found here are primarily for The Artists' America, an unpublished book by Cahill, and include typescripts of essay fragments and artist biographies, and lists of artists and works of art showing locations and owners. There are also notes relating to the review of the book The Birth of the American Tradition in Art, by Oskar Hagen, handwritten notes relating to Erwin Panofsky and miscellaneous notes.

Series 7: Artwork, undated (Boxes 16, 18; 2 folders)

Artwork in this series consists of four undated drawings of animals by Walt Speck, an undated pen and ink drawing by an unidentified artist of an artist sketching in front of a house, and an undated drawing and a lithograph by unidentified artists.

Series 8: Printed Material, 1910-1985 (Boxes 16-17; 1.8 linear ft.)

This series consists of news clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, press releases, prospectuses, calendars of events, programs, brochures, booklets, books, government publications and reproductions of artwork. Much of the material dated between 1935 and 1943 relates to the WPA FAP. News clippings contain copies of approximately thirty articles, including book reviews, written by Cahill for a variety of publications between 1921 and 1960. Some of the material contains hand-written notes.

Series 9: Photographs, circa 1917-1960 (Box 17; 6 folders)

This series contains photographs of Cahill and family and colleagues including his mother and sister, Harry Hopkins, Edward Rowan, Eleanor Roosevelt and attendees of an FAP meeting including Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Also found here are photographs of miscellanous artwork. For WPA FAP photographs see 3.14: Photographs.

Alphabetical Index to Correspondents in Series 2

• Abbott, Berenice: 1944 (letter to the Editor)
• Abbott, John: [1946]
• Abell, Walter (Canadian Art): 1943-1944 (2 letters)
• Adams, Charles C.: 1940
• Alcopley, Mr.: [1952] (including typescript "Pictures of Alcopley" by Saburo Hasegawa); 1953-1960 (4 letters)
• Alsberg, Henry G. (Director, Federal Writers' Projects): 1936 (4 letters)
• American Council of Learned Societies: 1949
• American Federation of Arts: 1949-1952 (3 letters)
• American Folk Art Gallery: 1941
• American Heritage: 1954
• American Swedish Historical Foundation: 1949
• Andrews, Robert Armstrong and Eleanor: [1960], undated
• Art in America: 1953
• Artists For Victory: [1942]
• Artists League of America: 1945
• Artists Union of Massachusetts: 1936 (telegram to President Roosevelt)
• Arts Council of Japanese Americans for Democracy: 1944
• Ashton, Dore: [1960]
• Bach, Richard F. (Metropolitan Museum): 1924 and 1950
• Bailey, Herbert: 1972 (letter from Naomi Bliven)
• Baker, Donald: [1936]
• Baker, Jacob (WPA): 1935-1960, undated (10 letters)
• Barach, Frederica (Writers' War Board): 1944
• Barker, Virgil and Ida: 1945-1960 (4 letters)
• Barnard College: 1951 (2 letters)
• Barr, Alfred H., Jr. (Museum of Modern Art): 1935-1960 (16 letters)
• Barr, Tony: 1960
• Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc.: 1950
• Baur, John (Brooklyn Museum): 1946-1960 (6 letters)
• Baylinson, Ada: 1950
• Bear, Donald J. (Denver Art Museum): 1939
• Beckmann, Mrs. Max: 1960
• Bennington College: 1950
• Benson, Emanuel M. (FAP): 1936-1940 (7 letters)
• Berlandina, Jane: 1960
• Bessinger, Frederic (artist): 1933
• Biddle, George: 1936-1940
• Biesel, Fred and Frances: 1941-1955 (13 letters)
• Bird, Elzy: [1949]
• Bittermann, Eleanor: 1951
• Black, Mary: [1960]
• Bliven, Naomi: 1972 (letter to Herbert Bailey)
• Block, Edgar S.: 1950
• Block, Lou: 1949
• Bluemner, Oscar: 1934-1937 (3 letters)
• Blue Ribbon Books: 1935
• Blume, Peter: 1944 and 1950
• Blumenfeld, Willow (Cahill's granddaughter): [1960]
• Blumenschein, Ernest L.: 1936
• Blumenthal, Joseph: [1960]
• Bolotowsky, Ilya: 1960
• Borgenicht, Grace (art dealer): [1960]
• Boston Marine Museum: 1949
• Boston: Museum of Fine Arts: 1950
• Boulton, Margaret: 1936
• Bragozzi, Tony and Olive (curator of David Rockefeller's collection): 1960
• Breck, George and Ruth: [1960]
• Brennan, Francis: 1960
• Brook, Alex: 1959 (2 letters)
• Brook, Gina (wife of artist Alexander Brook): 1960
• Brooks, James and Charlotte: [1960]
• Brown, Clara D. (antiques dealer): [1935]
• Brown, Yaeger: 1943 (2 letters)
• Bruce, Edward: 1937
• Bucks County Historical Society: 1950
• Bufano, Beniamino: [1940-1942], undated (3 letters)
• Bulau, Alwin E.: 1952
• Burnham, Ralph Warren (antiques dealer): 1933
• Byron, Evelyn S.: 1942 (memo from Wilda Sawyer)
• Bywaters, Jerry: 1960
• Calder, Alexander: 1956 (photocopy) and 1960
• Calkins, K: 1936 (2 letters to Constance Rourke)
• Campbell, Robert B.: 1960
• Carolina Art Association: 1935-1950 (5 letters)
• Carroll, Bob: 1960
• Carroll, Eleanor: 1936
• Castelli, Leo: 1960
• Catlin, Tod: 1960
• Cavanna, Elise: 1960
• Chamberlain, Betty: 1960
• Chanin, Abraham and Maralt (Museum of Modern Art): [1960]
• Chapin, Lucy Stock: 1932-1933 (2 letters)
• Chapman, Suzanne: 1946-1949 (2 letters)
• Charm (Barbara Lee Johnson): 1929
• Chermayeff, Serge (Institute of Design): 1948
• Chichester, Jim Hinchman (college friend of Elizabeth Holt): 1960
• Church, Elizabeth D. (antiques dealer): 1935 (including 10 photographs of folk art)
• Citizens Committee for Support of WPA: 1937
• Claflin, Agnes: 1960
• Clark, Stephen C.: 1939
• Cleveland Institute of Art: 1950 (letter from Alfred Barr)
• Coffey, Katherine: 1960
• Coggeshall, Calvert and Suzanne: 1956-1960 (2 letters)
• Cole, Mrs. Charley Tidd (Friends of the FAP): 1940 (letter from Martha Davidson)
• Colie, Annetta (Elizabeth Holt's sister): 1960
• Colin, Georgia and Ralph: 1960
• Collier, Nina (Index of American Design): 1936 (6 letters)
• Collins, Lloyd and Lib: 1960
• Colman, Anne (FAP, Michigan): 1937 (2 letters)
• Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated: 1935-1960 (13 letters)
• Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center: 1939-1960 (3 letters)
• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.: 1939 (contract for Cahill to broadcast "What's Art to Me" program)
• Columbia University: [1939]
• Conklin, Franklin (Newark Museum): 1944
• Connolly, Elizabeth (FAP, Southern California): 1940
• Cooper, Charlotte Gowing (FAP, Ohio): 1937-1937 (4 letters)
• Cooper, Samuel C.: 1941 (including certificate of dissolution for the American Folk Art Gallery); 1951 (3 letters)
• Corcoran Gallery of Art: 1950 (3 letters)
• Cornelius, Charles: 1936 (2 memoranda from others)
• Cosmopolitan Fire Insurance: 1931
• Coussirat, Elizabeth (Index of American Design): 1936 (6 letters)
• Crampton, Rollin: 1960
• Craven, Thomas: 1944 (2 letters)
• Crawford, Phyllis: 1945-1960 (4 letters)
• Crofut, Edward F. (WPA and Museum of Modern Art): 1936-1938 (3 letters)
• Cronin, Agnes S.: 1939-1944 (2 letters)
• Crosby, Hildegard (FAP, Illinois): 1937-1949 (8 letters)
• Culler, Julia Abbott: 1935
• Cummin, Hazel (Index of American Design): 1937 (5 letters)
• Curran, Mary (FAP, Pennsylvania): 1937 (2 letters)
• Daly, Matthew A. (WPA): 1936 (2 letters)
• Dana, John Cotton (Newark Museum): 1924-1925 (4 letters)
• Daugherty, D. H. (American Council of Learned Societies): 1949 (11 letters)
• Davidson, Jo: 1944 (letter to the Editor)
• Davidson, Martha (Friends of the FAP): 1939-1940 (3 letters)
• Davies, Terry: 1960 (2 letters)
• Davis, Charles (artist): mentioned in invitation dated [1938]
• Davis, D. and Phyllis: 1960
• Davis, George Earl: 1952
• Davis, Lew and Mathilde: 1960
• Davis, Stuart: 1936-1960 (5 letters)
• Dehner, Dorothy: [1960]
• Delson, Sidney: 1958-1959 (2 letters)
• de Nagy, Tibor: 1960
• Dentsch, Hilda: [1941-1960] (2 letters)
• DeVoto, Bernard: 1949 (4 letters)
• De Young Memorial Museum: 1939
• d'Harnoncourt, Rene: 1944-1960 (5 letters)
• Dickinson, Edwin: 1960
• Dienes, Sari (artist): 1960
• Don, Michael: 1939-1940 (2 letters)
• Donati, Enric: 1960
• Douglas, Eric: 1949
• Downtown Gallery: 1935
• Dows, Olin (Treasury Relief Art Project): 1935-1960 (5 letters)
• Dunbar, Anna: 1960
• Duntley, Seibert Q.: 1941
• du Pont, H. F.: 1950 (2 letters)
• Durieux, Caroline: 1943
• Durham, Mr.: 1936
• Dutt, Alska: 1956
• du Von, Jay: 1941
• East Liverpool, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce: 1939
• Eaton, Allen: 1938 and 1945
• Edwards, Paul (WPA, Washington, D.C.): 1941
• Eglington, Laurie (Index of American Design): 1936 (2 letters)
• Eilshemius, Louis M.: 1931-1939 (2 letters)
• Emery, Humphrey J. (American Handicraft Council): 1939
• Emil, Allan and Kate (art collectors): 1960
• Emmerich, Andre: 1960
• Engineer Replacement Center, Fort Belvoir: 1941 (2 letters)
• Essex Institute: 1950
• Evans, Ernestine: 1947 (2 letters)
• Evergood, Philip: 1944 (letter to the Editor)
• Fairweather, Sally: [1960]
• Feininger, Julia: 1960, undated
• Feitelson, Lorser and Helen: 1943-1960 (3 letters)
• Ferber, Herbert and Lisi: 1960 (2 letters)
• Ferren, John: 1949 (2 letters)
• Field, George H. (Federal Works Agency): 1943 (2 letters)
• Flanagan, Hallie: 1949 (3 letters)
• Fleming, Philip B.: [1943]
• Fogel, Barbara: 1960
• Follmer, Frank J.: 1942
• Force, Juliana: 1946
• '47 Magazine: 1946
• Frankenberg, Lloyd: 1937 and 1960
• French, Helen: [1960]
• Frick Art Reference Library: 1946
• Fried: Rose Fried Gallery: 1953
• Friends of the FAP: 1939 (13 letters)
• Fuller, Buckminster: 1942-1949 (including a brochure about the Dymaxion House)
• Fultz, Harry T.: 1942 (memo from Fred Biesel)
• Gaskin, William: 1940-1961 (12 letters)
• Gates, Marguerite (Public Library of Newark, N.J.): 1929-1935 (3 letters)
• Gavert, Olive Lyford (Alfred Barr's secretary): 1960
• General Services Administration: 1950
• Gershoy, Toni: [1960]
• Gibbs, Peggy (widow of artist Howard Gibbs): [1960]
• Giedion, Siegfried: mentioned in letter dated Oct 07, 1951
• Glarner, Fritz: 1949 and 1960
• Glassgold, Cook Adolph: 1936-1940 (43 letters)
• Goldberg, Albert L. (Illinois Music Project): 1940
• Goldberg, Mike: [1960]
• Goldwater, Louise and Robert: 1960
• Goodall, Donald B.: 1960
• Goodchild, Donald: 1939
• Goodrich, Lloyd (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1948-1960 (7 letters)
• Goodyear, A. Conger: 1935-1960 (5 letters)
• Gordon, Jack (Whitney Museum of American Art): [1960]
• Gorsline, Douglas W.: 1950 (2 letters)
• Gowing, Lawrence: 1960
• Graham, Ralph (FAP, Illinois): 1941-1942 (3 letters)
• Graves, Morris: 1946
• Green, Wilder: 1960
• Greenberg, Clement: 1960
• Greenwell, Darrell J. (Ogden Standard Examiner): 1949
• Griffis, Toni (Mrs. Hughes Griffis): 1960
• Griffith, E. J. (FAP, Oregon): 1938 and 1960
• Grossman, Mrs. I. Donald: [1960]
• Guerrero, Jose and Roxane: [1960]
• Guggenheim, Olga: 1960
• Gwathmey, Robert: 1944 (letter to the Editor)
• Hale, Bob (Metropolitan Museum of Art): 1960
• Hall, Edward T. (Universal School of Handicrafts): 1939
• Halpert, Edith: 1930-1960, undated (20 letters)
• Hardin, Shirley: [1960]
• Hare, Michael M.: 1948
• Harper's Magazine: 1943-1944 (2 letters)
• Harrison, Preston: 1934
• Hart, "Pop": 1930-1932 (2 letters)
• Hartigan, Grace: 1960
• Hasegawa, Saburo: 1952 (letter to Franz Kline, including typescript "Pictures of Alcopley")
• Hatch, John Davis: 1960
• Hatcher, Harry and Doris: 1960 (3 letters)
• Haupers, Clement (FAP, Minnesota): 1937-1949 (5 letters)
• Haydon, Hal: 1955
• Henley, Helen B. (Wadsworth Atheneum): 1937 (2 letters)
• Herbert, David: 1960
• Hess, Thomas: 1960
• Hinckley, Robert H. (American Broadcasting Co.): 1960
• Hirsch, Joseph: 1960
• Hofmann, Hans and Maria: 1960 (2 letters)
• Holt, Elizabeth (art historian): 1960
• Holzhauer, Mildred: 1937-1940 (4 letters)
• Hope, Henry R. (Indiana Univ.): 1948-1949 (2 letters)
• Hopkins, Harry L.: 1936-1943 (13 letters)
• Horr, Axel (artist): mentioned in invitation dated [1938]
• House Beautiful: 1950
• Houston: Museum of Fine Arts of Houston: 1955
• Hunter, Howard O.: 1941
• Hunter, Virginia and Russell Vernon Hunter: 1951-1960, undated (4 letters)
• Huxley, Julia S.: 1942
• Illinois Art Project: 1941-1942 (6 letters)
• Index of American Design: 1936 (form letter)
• Interior: Department of the Interior: 1950 (3 letters)
• Inverarity, Robert Bruce (FAP State Dir., Washington): 1937-1950 (5 letters)
• Isaacs, Betty and Julius: 1960
• Jackson, Martha: [1960]
• Jerry, Sylvester (FAP, Michigan): 1939 (3 letters)
• Johns, Jasper: 1960
• Johnson, Anna: 1952
• Johnson, Buffie: 1960
• Johnson, Irene Edith: 1960
• Johnson, Philip C.: 1960
• Jones, Anne (Mrs. E. Powis Jones): 1960
• Kallen, Horace (publisher): 1960
• Karpel, Ray and Bernard (Museum of Modern Art): [1960]
• Kavanaugh, George R. (Berea College): 1936
• Kaye, Harold: 1958
• Kayser, Dr.: 1954
• Keck, Caroline and Sheldon (art conservators): 1960
• Kellogg, Elizabeth R.: 1949 (2 letters)
• Kent, Rockwell: 1944
• Kerr, Florence (Work Projects Administration): 1940-1942 (4 letters)
• Keyes, Homer Eaton (Antiques Magazine): 1936
• Kiesler, Frederick J.: 1960
• Kiplinger, Walter M.: 1941 (4 letters)
• Kipper, Katrina (antiques dealer): 1935 (3 letters)
• Kirby, Mr. O. A.: 1941
• Kleinholz, Frank: 1944 (letter to the Editor)
• Kline, Franz: 1952 (letter from Saburo Hasegawa, including typescript "Pictures of Alcopley") and 1960
• Knight, Frederic (Artists' Coordination Committee): Nov 1936 (5 letters)
• Knight, Harry: 1960
• Knittle, Rhea Mansfield: 1936-1937 (2 letters)
• Kokoschka, Oskar: 1944
• Kootz, Jane and Sam: 1960
• Kroll, Eleanor: 1937 (2 letters)
• Kuniyoshi, Yasuo: 1944 (2 letters)
• Labaudt, Lucien: 1943 (4 letters)
• Lane, Harry: [1960]
• Laning, Clair: 1960
• Leech, Nancy T.: 1949
• Leeds, Harold Eliot (architect): 1960
• Legg, Alicia (Museum of Modern Art curator): 1960
• Leggett, Eugene S. (National Emergency Council): 1936 (letter from Harry Hopkins)
• Leicester, Louise B. (American Handicraft Council): [1940]
• Lekakis, Michael: 1960
• Lemmon, Warren W.: mentioned in letter dated Mar 08, 1940
• Levine, Jack: 1960
• Levy, Julian: 1944 and [1960]
• Lewis and Clark High School: 1939
• Lewis, Elizabeth Ray: 1943
• Life Magazine: 1944 (4 letters)
• Lipman, Jean and Howard: [1960]
• Lipscomb, Isabel (Work Projects Admin.): 1941 (3 letters)
• Lipton, Seymour: [1960]
• Litchfield, Elizabeth (Museum of Modern Art): 1941 - [1960] (3 letters)
• Lowenthal, Edith and Milton: 1960
• Lundy, Margaret: 1938
• Lunsford, Bascom Lamar: 1936
• Lyles, Mary E.: 1935
• Mabry, Tom and Ethel: 1960 (2 letters)
• Macdonald-Wright, Stanton: 1936-1955, undated (60 letters)
• Macdowell Colony: 1960
• MacLeish, Archibald: [1943] (letter from Philip B. Fleming)
• Macmillan Company: 1946-1959 (24 letters)
• Magazine of Art: 1948-1951 (10 letters)
• Mapes, Col. Milton C. (Civilian Camouflage): 1941
• March, Frank A. (Project Control Division): 1941
• Marcus, Marcia: 1960
• Marg Magazine: 1956 (6 letters)
• Marx, Ione F.: 1942
• Maryland Historical Society: 1950 (2 letters)
• Matisse, Patricia (Pierre Matisse Gallery Corp.): [1960]
• Mattis, Astria: 1960
• Maverick Maury (Congressman, Texas): 1936 (3 letters)
• Mayor, A. Hyatt (Metropolitan Museum): 1960
• Mazo, Sara (widow of Yasuo Kuniyoshi): 1960
• McAndrew, Betty and John: 1960
• McCormick, M. R.: 1938
• McCrady, John: 1943
• McCray, Porter (Museum of Modern Art): 1960
• McDonald, W. F. (American Council of Learned Societies): 1944-1949 (3 letters)
• McKeague, Robert I. (Community Service Projects Section): 1937-1940 (8 letters)
• McMahon, Audrey (WPA): 1936-1941 (7 letters)
• McPharlin, Paul (Michigan WPA): 1937 (7 letters)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1953
• Miller, Dorothy C. (Museum of Modern Art): 1936-1956 (27 letters)
• Miller, Emma Guffey: 1938
• Minnesota Historical Society: 1952
• Morgan, Anne: 1938-1939 (5 letters)
• Morley, Grace: 1960
• Morris, Lawrence: 1937-1939 (2 letters)
• Morris, Suzy (Mrs. George L. K. Morris): 1960
• Morrison, Richard: 1936-1949 (6 letters)
• Morsell, Miss: 1938
• Motherwell, Robert: 1960
• Museum of Modern Art: 1936-[1960] (4 letters)
• Myers, Bernard: 1948
• Myers, John (art dealer): 1960
• Nakian, Reuben: 1960
• Nash, Susan Higginson: 1934 (2 letters)
• Nathan, Reuben S.: 1949 (3 letters)
• National Gallery of Art: 1943-1993 (27 letters)
• National Institute on Education and the War: 1943
• Navy: Department of the Navy: 1941
• Neuberger, Roy: 1960
• Neumeyer, Alfred (Mills College): 1944
• Nevelson, Louise: 1960
• Newhall, Beaumont: 1941
• New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire: 1939
• Newman, Barnett: 1960
• Newmeyer, S.: [1936]
• New Republic: 1949 (letter from Lloyd Goodrich)
• New York WPA Artists, Inc.: 1977 (including exhibition catalog "Then and Now")
• New Yorker: 1948 and 1952
• New York Herald Tribune: 1948-1952 (3 letters)
• New York Public Library: 1949 (including copies of Index of American Design correspondence dated 1935-1936)
• New York State Historical Association: 1949-1951 (4 letters)
• [New York Times]: 1944
• Neyland, Harry: 1935 (letter to Mrs. Rockefeller with 13 photographs of folk art)
• Norman, Charles: 1960
• Norman, Dorothy (Steiglitz protegee): 1960
• Norman, Geoffrey (Works Projects Administration): 1941 (3 letters)
• North Texas Agricultural College: 1939
• Northrop, F. S. C.: 1947
• Northwest Missouri State Teachers College: 1939
• Norton, Ann: [1960]
• Norwegian Folk Art Museum: 1949 (2 letters)
• Odegaard, Charles E. (American Council of Learned Societies): 1949 (3 letters)
• O'Hara, Frank (poet and art critic): 1960
• Okada, Kimi and Keryo: 1960
• Olmsted, Harold S.: 1954
• Olsen, Catharine M.: 1941, undated (3 letters)
• O'Neill, John P. (Historic American Buildings Survey, Department of the Interior): 1936 (5 letters)
• Organ, Violet: 1949
• Ormsbee, Thomas H. (editor, American Collector): 1936 (letter to Ruth Reeves)
• Osborn, Elodie: 1960
• O'Steen, Alton (Alabama Dept. of Education): 1943
• Pach, Walter: 1939 (photograph of letter to Friends of the FAP)
• Parker, Margaret: [1960]
• Parker, Thomas C. (Federal Art Proj.): 1936-1940 (14 letters)
• Parkinson, Eliza (Museum of Modern Art trustee): 1960
• Parr, Russell C.: 1936
• Parsons, Betty: 1960
• Pedlar, Sylvia: 1960
• Pedro, Luis Martinez: 1947
• Peixotto, Ernest: 1936
• P.E.N. Club, The: 1948
• People's Art Center Association, St. Louis: 1952 (5 letters)
• Pereira, Irene Rice and George Reavey: 1950-1953 (21 letters)
• Perry, Beatrice (Gres Gallery): 1960
• Philadelphia Museum of Art: 1950
• Pickens, Alton: 1955
• Pietan, Norman: 1948 and [1949]
• Pilgrim Society: 1949 (2 letters)
• Pollack, Peter: 1960
• Pollak, Frances M. (WPA): 1936-1949 (7 letters)
• Pollet, Elizabeth (widow of artist Joseph Pollet): [1960]
• Pollock, Jackson: 1952 (photocopy)
• Price, R. Moore: 1945
• Public Use of Arts Committee: 1939
• Purcell, Ralph: 1949 (4 letters)
• Pyle, Edward Frederick: 1939
• Ramsay, John: mentioned in memo dated Mar 31, 1936
• Reeves, Ruth: 1936-1949 (55 letters including field reports)letters)
• Reines, Harriet: 1938
• Reinhart, Ad: 1952-1959 (3 letters)
• Reynal and Hitchcock, Inc.: 1937
• Richardson, E. P. (Detroit Institute of Arts; Archives of American Art): 1951-1960 (7 letters)
• Riefstahl, Elizabeth: 1936
• Ritchie, Andrew C.: 1944 (2 letters)
• Rivers, Larry: 1960
• Robinson, Boardman: 1936 and 1960
• Rockefeller Center, Inc.: 1934 (contract for the First Municipal Art Exhibition)
• Rockefeller Foundation: 1949
• Rockefeller, David: 1960
• Rockefeller, John D., Jr., and Abby A.: 1934-1940 (4 letters)
• Rockefeller, John III, and Blanchette: 1951-1960 (3 letters)
• Rockefeller, Nelson A.: 1934-1960 (6 letters)
• Rockefeller, Peggy: 1960
• Roesen, Severin: mentioned in letter dated Mar 02, 1938
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 1936-1940 (3 letters)
• Rosenbaum, Belle (New York Herald Tribune): 1949-1960 (4 letters)
• Rosenwald, Janet: 1937 and 1960
• Rothko, Mark: 1960
• Rourke, Constance: 1935-1938 (57 letters)
• Rowan, Edward B. (Treasury Department, Section of Painting and Sculpture): 1936-1943 (5 letters)
• Rubenstein, Erica B.: 1945 (3 letters)
• Rubenstein, Sarah (Museum of Modern Art): 1960
• Russell, Morgan: 1950-1951 (2 letters)
• St. Petersburg Federal Galleries: 1939
• Sandoz, Mari (writer): 1960
• Sawitzky, William (painting researcher): 1935 (2 letters)
• Sawyer, Wilda A.: 1942
• Saxon, Lyle: 1943
• Schaefer, Bertha: [1960]
• Scharf, Bill: [1960]
• Scheidt, Melvin E. (War Relocation Authority): 1943
• Schmidt, Katherine: 1944 and 1960
• Schnitzer, Robert C.: 1949
• Schwabacher, Ethel: 1960 (2 letters)
• Scott, Cecil: 1960 (2 letters)
• Scott, Phyllis C.: 1936-1937 (2 letters)
• Scull, Ethel and Bob (art collectors): [1960]
• Seckar, Alvena V.: 1946
• Seeger, Charles: 1936
• Selz, Peter and Thalia: 1960
• Shaw, Charles: 1960
• Simms, Agnes (artist): 1960
• Siporin, Mitchell: 1943-1960 (4 letters)
• Sloan, Helen (Mrs. John Sloan): 1951 and 1960
• Sloane, William: 1945
• Smedley, Agnes: 1947 (letter from Ernestine Evans)
• Smith College: 1944-1950 (6 letters)
• Smith, Ferdinand: 1952
• Smith, Geneva: 1942 (memo from Frank J. Follmer)
• Smith, Gordon M. (Index of American Design): 1936-1937 (8 letters)
• Smith, Holly and Sam: [1960]
• Smith, Joseph Lindon: mentioned in letter dated Mar 28, 1950
• Smith, Laura: 1938-1939 (5 letters)
• Smith, Louise: 1960
• Smith, Margery Hoffman (FAP, Oregon): 1938
• Soby, James Thrall: 1948-1960 (5 letters)
• Soderblom, Nathan: 1922 (in Swedish)
• Solomon, Saul (Cahill's doctor): 1960
• Soyer, Moses: 1944 (letter to the Editor)
• Spark, Mrs. Victor: 1960
• Speck, Walter: 1939 (2 letters)
• Spencer, Betty (Niles Spencer's first wife): 1960
• Spencer, Catherine (Mrs. Niles Spencer): 1952-1960 (8 letters)
• Stamos, Theodoros: 1960
• Standards: National Bureau of Standards: 1941
• State: Department of State: 1939 (3 letters)
• Stavenitz, Alexander: 1937
• Steegmuller, Francis: 1960
• Stella, Joseph: 1936 (2 letters)
• Sterner, Albert: 1935
• Stieglitz, Alfred: 1932 and 1934
• Stier, W. (Project Review Section): 1941
• Still, Clyfford: 1953-1956 (4 letters)
• Stix, Hugh: 1960
• Stock, Joseph (artist): mentioned in letters dated 1932 and 1933
• Stout, Rex: 1944
• Strickland, Sidney: 1949 (2 letters)
• Studio Publications, Inc.: 1951
• Sunami, Soichi: 1960
• Swasey, Jeannette: [1935]
• Sweeney, Jim: [1960]
• Tabak, Maynatalie (colleague of Jackson Pollock): [1960]
• Taub, Alex: 1942 (memo from Buckminster Fuller)
• Taylor, Francis Henry: 1939 and 1952
• Taylor, Miss: 1936
• Thomas, Yvonne (artist): 1960
• Thomley, John: 1949
• Thoms, Mr.: 1936 (letter from Matthew Daly)
• Thorgurson, Nina: [1960]
• Tobey, Mark: 1954 and 1960
• Tobey, Judith (Resettlement Administration): 1936
• Townsend, Gertrude: [1937]
• Townsend, Mr.: 1938
• Tranum, Carl K.: 1949 (2 letters)
• Triggs, Clayton E.: 1940 (4 letters)
• Turner, Katherine: [1935]
• Tworkov, Jack and Wally: 1960
• Uht, Charles (photographer of Nelson Rockefeller's collection): 1960
• United American Artists: 1940
• Valentin, Curt: 1954
• Valentine, Chapin: 1932
• Valentiner, W. R. (Detroit Institute of Arts): 1933
• Varian, Dorothy: 1960
• Viviano, Catherine (art dealer): [1960]
• Volkmer, Jean (Museum of Modern Art conservator): [1960]
• von Wiegand, Charmion (artist): 1960
• Walker, Hudson D.: 1960
• Walley, Jano and John: 1949 and 1960
• Ward: 1925 and 1960 (3 letters)
• War Department: 1938-1941 (5 letters)
• Warren, William (FAP, Connecticut): 1937
• Wasey, Jane: 1960
• Washburn College: 1939
• Washburn, Gordon (Albright Art Gallery): 1960
• Washington: The State College of Washington: 1939
• Watrous, Harry W.: 1936
• Watson, Forbes: 1949
• Webb, Aileen (American Handicraft Council): 1938 (4 letters)
• Weber, Max: 1922-1960 (6 letters)
• Weisenborn, Fritzi (Mrs. Rudolph Weisenborn): 1950
• Wendt, Gerald (Time, Inc.): 1944 (2 letters)
• Weston, Edward: 1936
• Wharton, Frances L.: 1935 (2 letters)
• Wheeler, Monroe (Museum of Modern Art): 1960
• White, Francis Robert: 1944
• White, Jim: 1960
• Whitelaw, Robert N. S.: 1960
• Whitney Museum of American Art: 1949 and 1979
• Whyte, James C.: 1942
• Wilfred, Thomas: 1960
• Williams, Aubrey (WPA): 1936
• Williamsburg Restoration, Incorporated: 1935 (4 letters)
• Winchester, Alice (Antiques Magazine): 1950-1951 (6 letters)
• Winser, Beatrice: 1924-1944 (6 letters)
• Winter, Anna K. (antiques dealer): 1935
• Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: 1939
• Woodstock Artists Association: 1960
• Woodward, Ellen S.: 1936-1938 (3 letters)
• Worcester, Wakefield (architect): 1936
• Wright, Russell (industrial designer): [1960]
• Wyn: A. A. Wyn, Inc.: 1951
• Youngerman, Jack: 1960
• Zegri, Armando (Galeria Sudamericana): 1960
• Zimmerman, Fred and Dorothy: [1960]
• Zorach, William: 1936-1960 (3 letters)