Inventory to the Contemporary Women Artists Files, 1971-[ongoing]

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Inventory to the Contemporary Women Artists Files, 1971-[ongoing]

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/foster/cwaff.html

The Contemporary Women Artists Files contain various materials on over 1500 women artists active in the United States.

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Rutgers University Libraries, Margery Somers Foster Center

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Mabel Smith Douglass Library

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The Mabel Smith Douglass Library and Douglass College at Rutgers have been at the nexus of contemporary women's art since the beginning of the 1970s. This came as the result of the founding of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at the Douglass Library in 1971. Many individuals involved with the Series received unsolicited mailings from artists and art venues that over time accumulated in the library. The Contemporary Women Artists Files (CWAF) was established to organize and make...