WORK DOCUMENTS,, circa 1940-2008
Dates
- circa 1940-2008
Scope and Contents
Summary: Contains items relating to the creation and compilation of Miriam Schapiro's curriculum vita and biographies that were used for promotion by galleries and museums. Schapiro collected documents about her artwork, her published writings, her exhibitions, her lectures, and her residencies. Document types include articles, essays, reviews, newspaper clippings, exhibition announcements, small catalogs, various women's liberation publications, brochures and mailers, press releases, mockups of artwork, images (photographs and images taken from publications), elementary school teaching materials, greeting cards of her work, transparencies used in education, as well as treatment and condition reports. Digital files are composed of PDFs.
Additional Work Document material can be found in SCRAPBOOKS, and the Appendix.
Language of Materials
English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish
Physical Description
(13 cubic feet and 461 KB, 9.5 record center cartons, 3 newspaper boxes, 1 map drawer with 22 folders, and 9 digital files.)
Arrangement
Arrangement: Following original order the series is arranged chronologically by year. The 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s are grouped into decades and/or five year groups due to the small amount of material. Within each year/grouping the items are separated by type. Within each type, items are organized chronologically. Documents from the 1930s were removed seeing as they pertained to her education, and placed in BIOGRAPHICAL. Artist Inventories were originally housed in small binders. They were removed from the binders, but the names of the folders align themselves to the original order. Photographs were kept with the description for clarity. Oversized materials were physically separated into appropriate storage and are listed at the end of the series for clarity. Digital files are also listed at the end of the series for clarity.
General
Appraisal and Discard Information: For this series, Schapiro kept a large quantity of duplicate materials. Rare and significant materials were all kept, while other duplicates were weeded out to leave 3-5 copies of each item. Materials in this series arrived with a strong musty odor. Items that were photocopies (newspaper articles) were re-photocopied and the originals were discarded. Other items went through a deodorizing process and were ultimately placed in micro-chamber folders.
Part of the New Brunswick Special Collections Repository