James Fitzgerald papers, 1905-1992

Biographical materials include copies of Fitzgerald's birth certificate, honorary discharge papers from the Marines, a social security card, and 2 passports from 1964 and 1971.

Materials are arranged by document type.

Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters to collectors and friends, including Anne and Edgar Hubert and Grace Sullivan. Notable are fifty-one letters from Rockwell Kent primarily discussing Fitzgerald's and Kent's interests and property in Monhegan, Maine. Letters from Monhegan Associates, Inc., a group devoted to preservation of Monhegan Island, contains by-laws, minutes of meetings, and newsletters.

With the exception of correspondence with Rockwell Kent and Monhegan Associates Inc., letters are arranged chronologically.

Personal business records include bank statements, cancelled checks, income tax and insurance records, receipts, some for gilding work and art supplies, and estate records.

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Writings include Fitzgerald's notebook, his notes on gilding and various topics, an essay about the ship, "The Elizabeth Howard," an essay by an unidentified author about Fitzgerald's and Rockwell Kent's friendship, and essays on Fitzgerald. Also in the series are index cards containing notes for a catalog of the 1984 exhibition, "James Fitzgerald," by Calvin Hennig . There are also interviews and accompanying transcripts that relate friends' recollections of Fitzgerald. Recordings are on 4 sound cassettes.

The series is arranged as 2 subseries.

Artwork consists of 14 drawings and 21 sketchbooks dating from 1921-1969. Sketchbooks include renderings of Monhegan seascapes, and travel sketches from Mt. Katahdin, London, and Ireland.

Materials are arranged by document type; sketchbooks are in numerical order.

Printed material includes clippings and a clippings scrapbook that includes four letters and a sampling of exhibition catalogs. There are also exhibition announcements and catalogs, reproductions of art work, programs, art supply catalogs, picture postcards, a brochure and geological survey maps of Mt. Katahdin, yearbook ARTGUM excerpts , and miscellaneous printed material. A videocassette, "James Fitzgerald: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Anne and Edgar Hubert," is narrated by Anne Hubert and produced by Eric Shambroom.

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Photographs are of Fitzgerald; his parents and siblings; his wife Pegs; friends, including actor Richard Boone, Dan Burne Jones, E. F. Ricketts, and John Steinbeck; his studios, including the Kent-Fitzgerald cottage; travel sights; the hotel in which Fitzgerald died; and objects owned and designed by Fitzgerald. Photographs and slides of artwork include portraits of servicemen drawn in 1947.

Materials are arranged by subject matter and document type.