Sculptors Guild records, 1936-1979

This subseries documents membership in the Guild through biographical accounts of members, membership lists and the minutes of meetings relating to fund-raising and the membership recruiting activities of the organization.

Also found here are minutes of the Guild's various committees. One set of minutes for October 1938-May 1941 has been left in it's original collation although it is duplicated elsewhere in the subseries. Minutes include those for the executive board meetings, general membership and membership admission meetings, and meetings of the ways and means committee, exhibition committee, cultural committee, grounds and publicity commitee, and nominating committee.

The founding and early history of the Guild is documented in a statement of aims and purposes, correspondence relating to incorporation, and a 1940 typescript of the history of the Sculptors Guild. Reorganization correspondence deals with changes to membership requirements and reorganizations within the Guild.

This subseries documents the activities of the Cultural Committee and the Exhibition Committee. Minutes for these two committees have been left with the Guild's other minutes in 2.1: Minutes and Membership, in order to retain their context as business records of the Guild as a whole.

Cultural committee files document the activities of the book comittee in addition to correspondence inlcluding letters from José DeCreeft, Chaim Gross, Paul Manship, and Maurice Sterne.

Exhibition committee files contain correspondence including a letter from David Smith, copyright records, notes, a guest book, photographs, and printed material concerning exhibitions with which the Sculptors Guild was involved. Outdoor exhibition photographs include four photographs of Helen Keller visiting an exhibition accompanied by William Zorach, and photographs of singer Dusolina Giannini, actress Aline MacMahon, and artists Mark Friedman, Hugo Robus, Concetta Scaravaglione, and Louis Slobodkin.

Miscellaneous exhibition files contain correspondence, notes, printed material, photographs and several unidentified sketches. Additionional records documenting Sculptors Guild exhibitions can be found in Series 4: Exhibition Files.

This subseries contains publicity-related correspondence, notices to members and press releases. Press releases and notes include a transcript of a radio interview with Ann V. Horton and Thomas Cheney from January 1941. There is also a folder of records documenting a tour of member studios from 1966.

This series includes correspondence of the treasurer and financial reports in addition to general financial records of the Sculptors Guild including documentation of sculpture loans and sales, contracts, a ledger of expenditures, price lists and banking records.