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Vera Klement papers, 1950-circa 2016

Contents and Arrangement

Due to its small size the collection is arranged as one series.

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Series 1: Vera Klement Papers, 1950-circa 2016
3.3 Linear feet
Boxes 1-4

Scattered correspondence is between Klement and various artists, critics, and institutions, including: Altedena Gallery, Dore Ashton, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jim McGarrell, Gerald Nordland, The Print Club, Franz Schulze, Clara Diament Sujo, Terra Museum of American Art, and the University of Chicago. Also found are 7 folders of greeting and holiday cards.
Writings by Klement include Blunt Edge: A Memoir in born-digital form, artists statements, notes about art and teaching, poetry, and a eulogy for Harold Rosenberg. Notebooks consist of guest comment notebooks from a 1999 exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center and a notebook compiled while at the MacDowell Colony.
Oral histories consist of a transcript conducted by John Himmelfarb (1985) and a born-digital audio recording by Linda Kramer and Sandra Binion. A born-digital video by Wonjung Bae is entitled Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (2010). A project file contains Klement's Born of Silence, a compilation of poetry by eight poets.
Personal business records contain material relating to the donation and sale of Klement's works to various institutions and museums. Printed material includes exhibition materials and clippings related to Klement's work and career.
Works of art include fourteen sketchbooks, loose drawing, and etchings. Also found is a bound volume, Disorder and Early Sorrow: a Meditation on War and Death in Homage to Picasso's Guernica 1937 (2010), a book of collages, drawings, and diptychs.
Photographs depict Klement, and Klement with her artwork and in her studio, 1964-1980. Also found is a 1957 group photograph of the MacDowell Colony.
Records are arranged by type of material.
Description Container Select
Correspondence, General, 1950-2013
1
1-6
Correspondence, Greeting and Holiday Cards, 1950s-2000s
1
7-13
Blunt Edge: A Memoir, by Vera Klement, Digital Photographs and Documents, 2016
0.101 Gigabytes
53 computer files
ER01
Writings, Artist Statements, 1987
1
15
Writings, on Art, circa 1950-circa 1980
1
16
Vera Klement, The Recent Paintings, by Gerald Nordland, circa 2000
1
17
Interview, by John Himmelfarb with Vera Klement, 1985
1
18
Interview, Vera Klement in Conversation, by Linda Kramer and Sandra Binion (2010 September 3), Digital Audio Recording, 2010
0.752 Gigabytes
One computer file
ER02
Vera Klement: Blunt Edge, a film by Wonjung Bae (2010), Digital Video Recording, 2010
0.508 Gigabytes
One computer file
ER03
Notebook, Compiled, 1952-1982
1
21
Notebook, Notes on New Works, 1958 April
1
22
Notebook, MacDowell Colony, 1958 August
1
23
Guest Books, Chicago Cultural Center Exhibition, 1999 May-June
1
24
Project File, Born of Silence, 1995
1
25-26
Personal Business Records, 1960, 1980-2015
1
27
Printed Material, American Sublime, by Vera Klement, 2011
1
28
Printed Material, Clippings, 1950-2000s
2
1-3
Printed Material, Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs, 1950-2000s
2
4-16
Photographs, of Vera Klement and of Art, 1957-1980
2
17
Disorder and Early Sorrow: a Meditation on War and Death in Homage to Picasso's Guernica 1937, by Vera Klement, 2010
4
1
Sketches, Pen and Ink, circa 1950-circa 1990
2
18
Sketches, Pencil, circa 1950-circa 1990
2
19
Sketches, Painted Sketches and Prints, circa 1950-circa 1990
2
20
Sketchbook, Pthalcoyanine [sic], 1968-1969
2
21
Sketchbook, 1970-1972
3
1
Sketchbook, 1977 June
3
2
Sketchbook, 1980
3
3
Sketchbook, 1982
3
4
Sketchbook, 1983 November
3
5
Sketchbook, 1986 October
3
6
Sketchbook, 1989 May
3
7
Sketchbook, 1991
3
8
Sketchbook, 1994 December
3
9
Sketchbook, 1997 September
3
10
Sketchbook, 2000-2001
3
11
Sketchbook, 2001
3
12
Sketchbook, 2003
3
13

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