Marian Field collection, 1936-1982 (bulk 1936-1941).

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Marian Field collection, 1936-1982 (bulk 1936-1941).

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The Marian Field Collection consists of four series. The first series, which constitutes the bulk of the collection, consists of 193 pen and ink drawings of twigs of Oregon woody plants in the spring and summer. They were drawn as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project between 1936 and 1941 for Frank Sipe, a botanist at the University of Oregon who had hoped to publish a book using the drawings. Series two consists of other artworks made by Field, and include a painting of the mushroom, Lactarius rufus; a composite of 15 hand-colored photographs of the twig drawings, ca. 1941; and pen and ink drawings of Arctostaphylos genus twigs. Series three contains correspondence pertaining to Sipe's book project, 1936-1938, and a biographical sketch of Field done by her daughter in 1982. Series four consists of text panels from a University of Oregon exhibit of Field's drawings from about 1982.

2.75 cubic ft.

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Sipe, Frank Perry.

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Field, Marian.

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Marian Rorapaugh was born in the Dakota territory on November 7, 1885. After attending the Cincinnati Art Institute, she married William B. Field. Marian Field was the head of the University of North Dakota Art Department from 1905 to 1909, and attended the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts in 1909. After the Fields moved to Eugene, Oregon, in 1910, she set up a china painting business. She attended the University of Oregon, earning a B.A. in Fine Arts in 1930, and did graduate work from 1931 to 1...