Marjorie Kreilick papers, 1946-2018

This series includes Marjorie Kreilick's award certificates, diplomas, curriculum vitae, passports, information regarding her year abroad as an American Academy in Rome Fellow, and materials related to a trip she took to Scotland. There are also sound recordings of an interview with Marjorie Kreilick and a lecture by Linda Nochlin. There is a limited amount of biographical material about other people, such as a folder on memorial services for George Mosse and an introduction written by Kreilick for a memoir by her late husband Allan McNab.

These folders are arranged in alphabetical order.

The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for duplicates. The two sound cassettes have not been digitized.

This series consists of a mixture of personal and professional correspondence. The are letters from friends and colleagues; places where Marjorie Kreilick taught, such as the University of Wisconsin, Madison; organizations she belonged to, such as the National Society of Mural Painters; and art institutions where she had exhibitions, such as the Minnesota Museum of Art. There are a few letters from Kreilick's late husband Allan McNab.

The materials in this series are arranged in alphabetical order.

The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for duplicates and letters of recommendations for students.

This series mostly consists of projects and commissions for large-scale public murals by Marjorie Kreilick, along with a few private commissions for smaller mosaics and sculptures. The folders often include correspondence, project proposals, timelines, cost estimates, and a few scattered photographs, blueprints, and floor plans. Noteworthy projects include the mosaics for the Milwaukee State Office Building, Mayo Clinic, Beth Aaron Synagogue, and Telfair Academy.

The materials in this series are arranged in alphabetical order. Documents related to miscellaneous or unidentified projects are in a folder at the end of the series.

The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for duplicates.

The bulk of this series consists of research and recipes for materials that Marjorie Kreilick used in her mosaics. There are eight notebooks that contain addresses of professional contacts, price lists of mosaics, shipping quotes, recipes for materials used in mosaics, supply costs, project costs; lists of mosaics, art collectors, architects, materials; and travel itineraries and expenses for trips abroad for commissions. Some of the recipes for materials include samples of mosaic pieces that are labeled and pasted onto board. There are a few scattered financial records, organization membership documents, teaching files from the University of Wisconsin, and other professional files.

The materials in this series are arranged in alphabetical order.

The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for blank pages in the notebooks.

Printed materials include a disbound scrapbook on 20th century art, clippings, magazines, bulletins, and posters. Some of the clippings are about Marjorie Kreilick, whereas clippings on other subjects were compiled by Marjorie Kreilick based on her interests. Some of the materials appear to be related to her travels in Rome.

The clippings about Marjorie Kreilick are at the beginning of the series. The rest of the materials are arranged in alphabetical order.

The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for duplicates. In some cases magazines and other publications have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages digitized.

The bulk of this series consists of preliminary paintings and drawings for mosaics, as well as mosaic diagrams or section maps. Notable works include, the preliminary paintings for the Milwaukee State Office Building mosaics, some of which have samples of the mosaic pieces pasted onto the board alongside the images of the murals they were used in. There are also some watercolor sketches, abstract paint sketches, and drawings as well. Most of the material is undated, so they have been given a wide date range.

The material in this series has been loosely grouped by type, then placed in alphabetical order.

This series has been digitized in its entirety.

This series includes photographs of Marjorie Kreilick, friends, colleagues, travel, artwork, mosaics, and a few photographs of exhibition installations. The photographic materials are in various formats such as slides, negatives, contact sheets, and prints. There is a large batch of board-mounted photographs of Marjorie Kreilick's artwork which may be from a Marble Mosaics retrospective exhibition featuring her mosaics over the years, but it's not clear that they are all for the same event or a part of a larger cataloguing attempt, since some of them were scattered throughout the collection.

The photographs were loosely grouped by subject, then arranged in alphabetical order.

The bulk of the material in this series has been digitized, except for duplicates and blank versos of photographs.