Correspondence; notes and writings by Woods and his students; printed material; photographs of Woods and his work; 4 sketches and drawings by his students, undated; 1 certificate from San Francisco Art Institute, undated, various subject files, 1948-1981.
Included are: correspondence with Grace McCann Morley, Jock Reynolds, Richard Hayton, Sean Elwood and others, 1960-1987; notes and writings by Woods and his students; student drawings by Joan Brown and others, and original Christmas cards received; clippings, 1955-1978; files on the San Francisco Art Festival, 1950-1951, San Francisco Art Association, the San Francisco Art Commission, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and other events and topics; gallery announcements, posters and exhibition catalogs;
writings by Woods including commencement addresses, lectures, proposals and one manuscript "New Prospects in Design Education"; proposals for long range development of the visual arts program at the University of California at Santa Cruz (1970-1979); and photographs and slides of Woods and his artwork.
ADDITION: One b&w photograph of Louis Siegriest and his son Lundy; one b&w photograph of Jay DeFeo, ca. 1960; and two exhibition catalogs on the Siegriests, 1980 and 1986; newspaper review of Woods' 1993 exhibit.
Biographical / Historical:
Sculptor and art instructor; San Francisco and Santa Cruz, California.
Provenance:
Material donated 1991 and 1992 by Gurdon Woods.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Occupation:
Art teachers -- California -- Santa Cruz Search this
The collection consists of thirteen (13) drawings made by students at the Pine Ridge Agency Day School around 1904. All but four of the drawings are accompanied by short handwritten essays regarding the scene, most signed by the artist. The drawings were probably produced as class exercises in composition and penmanship. Included are pictures of children's homes, farm animals, the Red Cloud Indian School, and a buffalo hunt.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 99-44
Publication Note:
Two drawings published in:
Maurer Evan M., Louise Lincoln and Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life. Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Distributed by the University of Washington Press 1992.
This collection consists of approximately ninety-eight (98) drawings on seventy (70) leaves. The illustrations were made by students of the Oraibi Day School between 1924 and 1928 under the direction of J. Preston Myers. The collection also contains a photocopy of a published version of the drawings held by the University of Arizona special collections.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
J. Preston Myers (1892-1947) worked for the Office of Indian Affairs as an Educational Field Agent at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota, Potowatomi and Kickapoo Agencies in Kansas, and Hoopla Valley Agency in California. He was principal of the Oraibi Day School in Arizona in the 1920s.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1998-46
Publication Note:
The designs were published in:
Myers, J. Preston. The Oraibi Book of Indian Designs for Arts and Crafts or Decorative Work. [Horton, Kan.], 1930.
Folders 5-16 Young Americans (Art Student Drawings for Bogota, Prints for Bogota, Young American Artists). 70-07. 1969-70. Prepared for First International Youth Salon of Plastic Arts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota, Colombia, but not sent. I...
Container:
Box 183 of 287
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 321, National Museum of American Art, Office of Program Support, Records
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Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Charles W. White papers, 1933-1987. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Funding for the digitization was provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
