Artwork by Henry Varnum Poor consists of loose drawings , sketches, designs, watercolors, and prints, as well as 45 sketchbooks. Many are studies for paintings, murals, and pottery. Included is work done in France, 1918-1919, and produced in Alaska while a war correspondent in 1943. Also found are commissioned illustrations and illustrations drawn for his monograph A Book of Pottery: From Mud to Immortality. Other artists represented are Anne Poor and Ernest Watson.
Arrangement:
Additional drawings and prints are found in architectural projects (Series 6).
The series is arranged as 2 subseries.
Missing Title
5.1: By Henry Varnum Poor, circa 1890s-circa 1961
5.2: By Other Artists, circa 1938-circa 1949
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Collection Citation:
Henry Varnum Poor papers, 1873-2001, bulk 1904-1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
