Artwork contains doodles, sketches and drawings, etchings, and two sketchbooks in ink, pencil, watercolor, and other media by Guermonprez and others. Artwork depicts of natural landscapes, figure drawings, and patterns. A portrait of Guermonprez by Lucienne Bloch, a comic strip featuring Guermonprez, and a sketch by Ruth Asawa are also included.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Collection Citation:
Trude Guermonprez papers, circa 1900-1987, bulk 1932-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Biographical material includes an address book, an American Institute of Architects craftsmanship award, an American Crafts Council Fellow of the Collegium of Craftsmen certificate, two diaries documenting Guermonprez's travels to Europe and New Mexico, and a handwritten wedding announcement for Guermonprez's marriage to John Elsesser in 1951.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Collection Citation:
Trude Guermonprez papers, circa 1900-1987, bulk 1932-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Correspondence is with Guermonprez's parents Heinrich and Johanna while they were teaching at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and her sister Lisa after they received their first contact from Guermonprez in two years. Other correspondence is with Paul Guermonprez before he died, John Elsesser, and her close friend Gerhard Marcks. Many of the letters exchanged after Trude Guermonprez's death in 1976 are between Ruth Kath, a professor of German researching Marcks, and Elsesser. Kath writes to Elsesser requesting Marcks' letters to Guermonprez for research. Marcks' original letters along with a couple of translated letters by Kath are included in the files. Marcks' files also include photographs of Marcks, his family, and artwork, as well as printed material relating to Marcks.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Collection Citation:
Trude Guermonprez papers, circa 1900-1987, bulk 1932-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
