Collection Information
Size: 0.2 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of arts administrator Dorothy Hay Jensen measure 0.2 linear feet and date from circa 1933 to 1991. Relating to Jensen's work as supervisor of the WPA art projects in Maine and her work on the Index of American Design is a sketch, correspondence, a notebook and notes, photographs, and printed material.
Biographical/Historical Note
Maine arts administrator and printmaker Dorothy Hay Jensen (1910-1999) was a supervisor for the Federal Art Project in Maine from 1936 to 1941. Her work focused on The Index of American Design, a research division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, which produced classifications and approximately 20,000 reproductions, in photographs and original drawings, of a wide variety of American art, including paintings, sculpture, handicrafts and folk art.
Provenance
Donated 1992 by Dorothy Hay Jensen.
Language Note
English .
Funding Note
Processing of this collection received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
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