Laura Glenn Douglas papers, 1899-1979.

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Laura Glenn Douglas papers, 1899-1979.

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Scrapbook, correspondence, diary, manuscripts of lectures, sketchbooks, contracts, financial records, awards, newspaper clippings, programs, notices, and exhibition catalogs, relating to Douglas's career as a teacher and artist, and her fellowships and activities at two artists' colonies in the northeastern U.S.: MacDowell Colony (formerly Edward MacDowell Association), an artists' colony in Peterborough, N.H., and Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) Includes notes for two lectures (1940 and no date), "Art as a Career," and "How to Build a Picture Plastically"; and correspondence (1935-1942) with Edward B. Rowan, relating to her work as artist with U.S. Treasury Dept. Other correspondents represented include Padraic Colum, Prince Stefano Carracciollo, Lamar Dodd, Hans Hofmann, Edmond D. Kinzinger, Rudolph E. Lee, Fernand Léger, André Lhote, Helen G. McCormack, Daniel Catton Rich, Alfred Stieglitz, and Robert N.S. Whitelaw. Other places represented include South Carolina, New York, Europe, and Washington, D.C. Volumes consist of diary, 1900 and undated (2 volumes); sketchbooks; scrapbook (1930-1965), consisting of newspaper clippings re Douglas' career as an artist and notices exhibitions of her paintings; and published volumes: Ninth Annual Convention of the American Legion, Paris, France (1927); a diary from Galleries LaFayette for 1934, illustrated with block prints; and edition of The Scribe, a 1947 yearbook from the Holton Arms School and Junior College (Washington, D.C.), where Douglas served as Director of Art.

357 items and 9 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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