Sculptors Guild records, 1936-1979

This series contains correspondence between members of the Sculptors Guild and documents the Guild's interactions with museums, galleries, patrons and honorary sponsors. The series provides a good overview of program developments and documents issues such as funding and the decision to seek increased donations from foundations in the mid-1960s with the formation of Friends of the Sculptors Guild. Notable correspondents include Juliana Force, Leon Kroll, Hugo Robus, William Talbot, and William Zorach.

The series is arranged as 2 subseries:

• 1.1: Chronological Correspondence, 1937-1976
• 1.2: Correspondence by Subject, 1938-1961

The Guild's business records document the founding and early history of the Guild and it's continued operation through the minutes of the organization's various committees, membership records, publicity files, and financial and legal records.

This series is arranged as 4 subseries:

• 2.1: Minutes and Membership, 1936-1974
• 2.2: Committee Files, 1938-1956
• 2.3: Publicity Files, 1939-1960
• 2.4: Financial and Legal Records, 1938-1972

Artist files contain biographical accounts, photographs, and printed material concerning individual members of the Sculptors Guild. Many of the files contain at least one photograph of the artist including files for: Saul Baizerman, Richmond Barthé, Simone Brangier Boas, Richard Davis, Eugenie Gershoy, Minna Harkavy, Nathaniel Kaz, Henry Kreis, Paul Manship, Ward Montague, Hugo Robus, Charles Rudy, Concetta Scaravaglione, David Smith, Mary Tarleton, Heinz Warneke, and Adolf Wolff. The file for Enrico Glicenstein contains a photograph of Glicenstein and his son, painter Emanuel Romano.

Files are arranged alphabetically by name of artist.

This series documents Guild exhibitions through correspondence, notes, printed matter and photographs. Additional material related to exhibitions can be found in 2.2.2: Exhibition Committee Files.

Exhibition announcements and catalogs are followed by files arranged alphabetically by name of exhibition and chronologically thereafter.

This series consists of scrapbooks containing clippings and miscellaneous printed material concerning the activities and exhibitions of the Sculptors Guild. Miscellaneous clippings, 1942-1960, notes, a price list and a booklet have been removed from the collection. Twenty-nine pages from Scrapbook 1 and Scrapbook 2 were not microfilmed.

Printed material includes clippings, press releases, calendars of events, prospectuses for art exhibitions, brochures, and exhibition announcements and catalogs for other exhibitions (not Sculptors Guild). Announcements and catalogs for Sculptors Guild exhibitions can be found in Series 4: Exhibition Files.

This series consists of one folder of photographs of Guild officers and other individuals. Pictured are: Sarah Churchill, Evan Frankel, and Oronzio Maldarelli; Jessie Earnshaw, William Lescaze and William Pahlman; August Hecksher, Mrs. Raikes, and William Talbot; and Lloyd Goodrich and August Heckscher.

Additional photographs can be found in 2.2.2: Exhibition Committee Files, Series 3: Artist Files and Series 4: Exhibition Files.