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Honoré Sharrer papers, circa 1920-2007

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Series 2: Correspondence , 1938-2006
1.84 Linear feet
Boxes 1-3, 10

Circa 2 linear feet of Sharrer's correspondence, primarily incoming with scattered outgoing letters, is with family members, friends, and colleagues including other artists, galleries, and museums.
Correspondence with family members includes 16 folders of letters and postcards, primarily from Madeleine Sharrer and Reginald Poland to Honoré Sharrer and Perez Zagorin, with scattered letters and illustrated letters from Sharrer to Madeleine.; 3 illustrated letters from Honoré Sharrer to her grandmother, Honoré Sachs; correspondence, including one illustrated letter, from Honoré Sharrer to Perez Zagorin; and Sharrer's correspondence with her brother, Peter Sharrer, nephew, Robert Sharrer, her son, Adam Zagorin, and her daughter-in-law, Mary Carpenter.
Artists represented here include Peter Blume, Lester Burbank Bridaham, Gitta Caiserman-Roth, Kathy Calderwood, Mary Crutchfield, Betty Goodwin, Lincoln Kirstein, Mayumi Oda, and George Tooker. Correspondence with galleries includes documentation of M. Knoedler & Company's sale of Tribute to the American Working People to Handmacher-Vogel, Inc. in 1951; correspondence with Terry Dintenfass who invited Sharrer to join her gallery in 1975; and correspondence with Forum Gallery, which represented Sharrer beginning in 1978. There are 2 letters from Dorothy Miller relating to the 1946 Fourteen Americans exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and the museum's interest in Sharrer's study drawings for her painting, Workers and Paintings; correspondence with the American Academy of Arts and Letters regarding loan agreements, award nominations, and award ceremonies; and documentation of the Women's Caucus for Art's honoree nominations of Sharrer.
Also found are letters from fine arts appraiser and artist Lester Burbank Bridaham in which Bridaham warns Sharrer of the poor storage conditions of her mother's artwork, and other artwork in her possesion. Bridaham advocates for considering the Archives of American Art as a repository for Sharrer's and her mother's personal papers.
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name, with general files arranged by letter at the end of the series.
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Amendola, Robert, circa 1946-circa 1947
1
14
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1970s-2000
1
15-16
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1999-2000
1
17
American Federation of Arts, 1950s
1
18
Bishop's School, 1938-1991
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 2
1
19
Bridaham, Lester Birdwell, 1980-1989
1
20
Blume, Peter, 1951-1987
1
21
Caiserman-Roth, Ghitta, 1980s
1
22
Calderwood, Kathy, 1971-2006
1
23
Carpenter, Mary, 1970s-2000
1
24-25
Creative Artists Public Service Program, 1970s
1
26
Crutchfield, Mary, 1956-1990s
1
27
DC Moore Gallery, 1997
1
28
Danforth Museum, 1979-1982
1
29
Dawson Gallery, 1981-2001
1
30
District 1199 Cultural Center, Inc., 1979-1981
1
31
Fasanella, Ralph, 1968-1997
1
32
Forum Gallery, 1977-2000
1
33-35
Gallery Information, 1970s
1
36
Goodwin, Betty, 1964-1988
1
37
Grant, Mary, circa 1980s
1
38
Handmacher-Vogel, Inc., 1950s
1
39
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1945-1961
1
40
Longenbach, James, 1992-2002
1
41
M. Knoedler & Co., 1951-1967
1
42
Manhattan, Inc., 1984-1986
1
43
Marchese, Dodie, 1987-1990
1
44
Meltzoff, Stanley, 1975-1994
1
45
Menguy, Emilie and René, 1970s-1990s
1
46
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982-2000
1
47
Museum of Modern Art, 1945-1946, 1999
1
48
N. W. Ayer & Son Inc., 1956
1
49
National Academy of Design, 1984-1986
1
50
Newhouse, Laurie, 1987-1988
1
51
Oda, Mayumi, 1970s-1980s
1
52
Read, Nicholas and Dallas, 1986-2001
2
1
Reed, Joseph Verner and Mrs. Reed, circa 1981-circa 1989
2
2
Royce, Stephen, 1939-1972
2
3-4
Sachs, Honoré, circa 1946-circa 1960s
2
5
From Sharrer, Madeleine, circa 1950s-circa 1980s
2
6-7
From Sharrer, Madeleine, 1927-1974
2
8-15
To Sharrer, Madeleine, 1947-circa 1983
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 2
2
16
Sharrer, Madeleine and Reginald Poland, Postcards, circa 1940s-1980s
2
17-18
Sharrer, Madeleine and Reginald Poland, Postcards, 1940s-1980s
2
19-22
Sharrer, Peter, 1950s-1990s
2
23-25
Sharrer, Robert, 1980s-2000
2
26
Sickles, Sue and Bob, 1980s-2002
2
27
Smith, Bobbie, 1998
2
28
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1984-2001
2
29
Stevens, May, 1974
2
30
Terry Dintenfass, Inc., 1965-1978
2
31
Tew, Timothy, 1953-1994
2
32
Tooker, George, 1980-1995
2
33
University of Rochester/Memorial Art Gallery, 1981-1999
2
34
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1954-1973
2
35
Women's Caucus for Art, 1986-1988
2
36-38
Zagorin, Adam, circa 1950s-1990s
2
39
Zagorin, Edmund, circa 1990s
2
40
Zagorin, Perez
Oversized material housed in Box 10, Folder 2
2
41-42
A, General, 1938-1980
2
43
B, General, 1950s-2000
2
44
C, General, 1969-2000
2
45
D, General, 1970s-2000
2
46
E-F, General, 1955-2003
2
47
G-H, General, 1955-1999
2
48
J-K, General, circa 1980s-circa 1990s
2
49
L, General, 1957-1994
3
1
M, General, 1960s-1993
3
2
N-P, General, 1947-1997
3
3
R, General, 1969-2004
3
4
S, General, 1965-2002
3
5
T, V, General, 1956-2002
3
6
W, General, 1980s-1990s
3
7
First Names Only/Unidentified, 1950s-2000s
3
8-9
OV Bishop's School from Box 2, Folder 18
10
2
OV To Sharrer, Madeleine from Box 2, Folder 16
10
2
OV Zagorin, Perez from Box 2, Folders 41-42
10
2

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