Biographical material includes biographical accounts and a certificate of marriage between Wortman and his first wife, Aimée Kempe in 1913.
Correspondence, which comprises the bulk of this collection, consists of letters, some illustrated, to Wortman and his second wife Hilda. Letters are from his mother, his brother Elbert, newspaper publishers, and colleagues including Peggy Bacon, Roy Baker, George G. Barnard, Gifford Beal, Ruth Benedict, Isabel Bishop, Charlton Bolles, Arthur Brown, E. Button, Stuart Campbell, Edward C. Caswell, Thomas Cole, Nathaniel Collier, Worth Colwell, Fred Cooper, Raymond M. Crosby, Benjamin Dale, Bob Davis, John Dawson, Ed De Cossey, Steven Dohanos, Max and Eliena Eastman, Pat Enright, W. D. Faulkner, Robert Fawcett, Max Fleischer, Juliana Force, Lora B. Fox, Fred Freeman, James Freeman, Alfred Frueh, Murray Harris, Jim Herbert, R. John Holmgren, Ellison Hoover, Will B. Johnstone, H. J. Kauffer, J. Graham Kaye, Clarence B. Kelland,Walter Klett, Gene Lockhart, Arthur Mann, Frank J. Marshall, Jim McKenna,Helen Miller, Gladys Mock, Feg Murray, Frank Netter, William Oberhardt, Lloyd Parsons, Audrey Parsons, Garrett and Florence Price, Raymond Prohaska, George Raab, Samuel Raab, Jack Ratcliff, Norman Rothschild, Harry Salpeter, Albert Sterner, Jack Van Ryder, Leroy Ward, Mahonri Young, Carl Zigrosser, William Zorach, and Thomas Benton's wife Rita.
Description Container Select Letters, undated Select: Letters, undated Letters, A-L, undated Select: Letters, A-L, undated Letters, M-Z, undated Select: Letters, M-Z, undated Letters, 1911-1917, 1921-1925 Select: Letters, 1911-1917, 1921-1925 Letters, 1926-1929 Select: Letters, 1926-1929 Letters, 1930-1934 Select: Letters, 1930-1934 Letters, 1935-1936 Select: Letters, 1935-1936 Letters, 1937-1938 Select: Letters, 1937-1938 Letters, 1939-1940 Select: Letters, 1939-1940 Letters, 1941-1952 Select: Letters, 1941-1952 Letters, 1953-1954 Select: Letters, 1953-1954 Letters, 1955-1980 Select: Letters, 1955-1980
Personal Business records consists of legal contracts with newspapers and publishers, client lists, a lease, check stubs, an expense book, and receipts.
Description Container Select Contracts, 1925-1938 Select: Contracts, 1925-1938 Client List, 1935-1954 Select: Client List, 1935-1954 Miscellaneous Business Records, 1924-1952 Select: Miscellaneous Business Records, 1924-1952 Check Stubs, 1921-1922 Select: Check Stubs, 1921-1922 Notebook of Expenses, 1923 Select: Notebook of Expenses, 1923 Miscellaneous Financial Material, 1923-1952 Select: Miscellaneous Financial Material, 1923-1952
Writings includes membership lists for the Dexter Fellows Tent Circus Saints, the Sinners Club of America and, the Artists and Writers Golf Association, word puzzles and mathematical formulas, and the scripts for "I Know What I Like" by Arthur William Brown and Phil Broughton and "Taxi,-Lady?" by William and Vivian Place. Also found is a notebook from 1927, and a diary of Aimée Kempe Wortman.
Description Container Select Membership Lists, undated Select: Membership Lists, undated Miscellaneous Notes, undated Select: Miscellaneous Notes, undated Diary By Aimee Kempe Wortman, 1918 Select: Diary By Aimee Kempe Wortman, 1918 "Writings Hobbies For Everybody:'Drawing and Cartooning'" by Ruth Lampland with Chapter by Wortman, circa 1935 Select: "Writings Hobbies For Everybody:'Drawing and Cartooning'" by Ruth Lampland with Chapter by Wortman, circa 1935 "I Know What I Like" Writing Script by Arthur William Brown and Phil Broughton, undated Select: "I Know What I Like" Writing Script by Arthur William Brown and Phil Broughton, undated "Taxi,-Lady?" Writing Script by William and Vivian Place, undated Select: "Taxi,-Lady?" Writing Script by William and Vivian Place, undated Notebook, 1927 Select: Notebook, 1927 Miscellaneous Writings, undated Select: Miscellaneous Writings, undated
The interviews consist of a transcript of Wortman, Charles I. Stewart, and Johanna Harris discussing "Art under a Democracy," and an untranscribed interview of Wortman conducted by Thomas Craven, circa 1952.
Artwork includes 25 drawings, a print by Wortman, and drawings by Francis Hackett and William Zorach.
Description Container Select By Denys Wortman, undated, 1919 Select: By Denys Wortman, undated, 1919 By Denys Wortman, undated Select: By Denys Wortman, undated By Francil Hackett, undated Select: By Francil Hackett, undated by William Zorach, undated Select: by William Zorach, undated
Printed material includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, programs, and material concerning The Players and the Society of Illustrators.
Description Container Select Clippings, undated Select: Clippings, undated Clippings, 1903-1939 Select: Clippings, 1903-1939 Clippings, 1940-1978 Select: Clippings, 1940-1978 Clippings and Reproductions of Artwork, 1920-1943, undated Select: Clippings and Reproductions of Artwork, 1920-1943, undated Exhibition Catalogs, 1935-1953 Select: Exhibition Catalogs, 1935-1953 Reproductions of Artwork, 1918, undated Select: Reproductions of Artwork, 1918, undated Programs, 1938-1951 Select: Programs, 1938-1951 Society of Illustrators, 1901-1939 Select: Society of Illustrators, 1901-1939 The Players, 1938 Select: The Players, 1938 Proof Sheet for Booklet Metropolitan Movies, undated Select: Proof Sheet for Booklet Metropolitan Movies, undated Miscellaneous, 1939-1954 Select: Miscellaneous, 1939-1954 Posters and Reprints of Illustrations, circa 1927-1939 Select: Posters and Reprints of Illustrations, circa 1927-1939
Photographs are of Wortman, his family, and colleagues, including Harry Beckhoff, Alexander Brook, Clarence Brown, Glenn O. Coleman, Fred Cooper, Thomas Craven, Rudy Dirks, Steven Dohanos, Max and Eliena Eastman, Duncan Ferguson, Stefan Hirsch, Will B. Johnstone, Frank Kidder, Richard Lahey, Robert Laurent, Joseph Lilly, Esther Merrill, Wallace Morgan, Willard Mullin, Garrett and Florence Price, Otto Soglow, Marguerite Zorach, and Thomas Hart Benton, sports cartoonist Feg Murray (3) with film celebrities Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, and Jean Harlow, works of art, stage productions by members of the Society of American Illustrators and a gathering at the Grand Central Galleries of modern artists including Peggy Bacon, Dorothy Varian, Max Weber, and William Zorach.
Description Container Select School, 1908-1909, undated Select: School, 1908-1909, undated Wortman and Family, 1887-1940 Select: Wortman and Family, 1887-1940 Wortman and Friends, 1912-1956 Select: Wortman and Friends, 1912-1956 Modern Artists, undated Select: Modern Artists, undated Works of Art, undated Select: Works of Art, undated Cartoonist Feg Murray with Celebrities, undated Select: Cartoonist Feg Murray with Celebrities, undated Miscellaneous Photographs, undated Select: Miscellaneous Photographs, undated Oversize Photographs, 1933, undated Select: Oversize Photographs, 1933, undated
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