George Constant papers, 1912-2007, bulk 1932-1978

Biographical material includes artist statements written and read by Constant, two interview sound cassette recordings discussing his philosophies on art and his work, inventories of artwork owned by individuals, museums, and the George Constant Foundation, a notebook inventory of all Constant's oil paintings by rough date, personal property deeds for land owned in Shinnecock Hills and New York City, New York, and New London, Connecticut, and other personal legal documents. This series also includes a certificate of award from the Audubon Artists, Constant's curriculum vitae, three pages from a personal notebook that include a pen and ink sketch, and two passes to WPA buildings.

Correspondence is predominantly in the form of business and personal letters, postcards, and holiday cards received from family and friends. The Condolences and Family subseries include correspondence from Constant's daughter, Georgette Preston, and extended family members and friends. The General subseries include both personal and business related correspondence. Frequent personal correspondents include Milton and Sally Avery, Lewis Balamuth, Margaret Brunning, David Burliuk, Nathaniel Burwash, Rhys Caparn, Julia Shaw Patterson Carnell, Phillip Cavanaugh, Morris Davidson, Charles Eaton, Vilko Gecan, Marchal Landgren, Roy Neuberger, Walter Pach, Nell Perret, Constantine Pougialis, Wallace Putnam and Consuelo Kanaga, Hi Simons, and Helen Slosberg. Business related correspondents include Audubon Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Institute, Dayton Art Institute, Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Ferargil Galleries, Guild Hall, Heckscher Museum, Lyman Allyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Spanish Refugee Appeal, and the Whitney Museum. The Holiday Cards subseries includes numerous handmade, silkscreened, and printed holiday cards to Constant and his family, with frequent senders including Sally and Milton Avery, Phillip and March Cavanaugh, Morris and Anne Davidson, Dett and Carroll French, Nell and George Perret, and Wallace Putnam and Consuelo Kanaga. The WPA subseries includes business correspondence related to Constant's work with the Project.

The Correspondence series is arranged into 5 subseries:

Printed material includes seven books and nine booklets on American and Greek art, including a limited print edition of George Constant by George Constant, clippings and articles reviewing Constant's work, exhibition announcements, over 150 catalogs of Constant's shows, a videocassette from the 1998 single man show, Exploration of the Universe, three periodical articles profiling his work, and dance and theater related programs that Constant consulted on, a majority of which were choreographed by Alwin Nikolais.

Photographs include black and white prints of Constant and his family and friends in St. Louis, Missouri, Dayton, Ohio, and in and around his studio in Shinnecock Hills, New York. The collection also includes three photo stills from his 1965 exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum and a comprehensive set of black and white prints, a handful of color prints, and several color slide sheets of Constant's dry point etchings, oil paintings, watercolors, and other artwork dating from the 1920s to 1978.