Collection Information
Size: 387 Items, Reel 794, loan: 387 microfilm frames; 276 Items, Reel 1373, loan: 276 microfilm frames; 0.2 Linear feet, Reel 4045, gift
Summary: The records of the Guild of Boston Artists consist of a membership card file and related correspondence reflecting the earliest period of the Guild's existence; scrapbooks, documenting Guild activities until 1955; exhibition schedules and records of the period 1966-1978.
Reel 794: Six scrapbooks, 1914-1955, pertaining to the activities of the Guild and its member artists, containing clippings, photographs, and catalogs of exhibitions held at the galleries of the Guild and in other galleries and museums.
Reel 1373: Exhibition schedules and records, 1966-1978, including exhibition catalogs and announcements, press releases, clippings, a schedule of exhibitions 1971-1978, a 1978 Guild membership list, and 9 letters to Phyllis C. Maloney, Curator of the Guild, from the artists Dwight Shepler, Alphonse J. Shelton, and S. Edmund Oppenheim, concerning exhibitions of their work at the Guild.
Reel 4045: 400 index cards listing members' names, addresses and membership status, created between 1914 and 1918, and 3 letters, undated, 1914 and 1918.