Russell Vernon Hunter papers

Summary
Collection ID:
AAA.huntruss
Creators:
Hunter, Russell Vernon, 1900-1955
Dates:
1923-1979
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
420 Items
(on 4 microfilm reels)
Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Biographical data; correspondence; sketches; exhibition materials; photographs; clippings; and press releases.
Scope and Contents
Reels 3028-3030: Biographical data; correspondence with Ernest Blumenschein, Adolf Dehn, Loren Mozley, Georgia O'Keeffe and others; a transcript of an interview with Hunter's widow, Virginia Hunter Ewing, Janaury 7, 1964, regarding Hunter's tenure as State Director for the Federal Art Program of WPA in New Mexico; illustrated typescripts of Hunter's manuscripts; price lists and appraisals of his work; 4 undated sketchbooks of figure studies; annotated drawings of furniture, interior designs and mural studies; a scrapbook, 1925-1960, of newspaper clippings and other printed material; exhibition catalogs; magazine clippings; photos of Hunter, his paintings and murals, and his interior design for the Officer's Club, Army Air Base, Clovis, New Mexico.
Scope and Contents
Reel NDA 1: Press clippings and a memorial bulletin from the Roswell Museum in New Mexico where he was an administrator.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Painter, administrator and designer; Sante Fe, New Mexico. State director of the Federal Art Project of the Work Projects Administration, a federally aided project to provide employment to artists during the Depression.
Administration
Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reel NDA 1(frames 769-839) available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reels 3028-3030 available at AAA's Washington, D.C. and Southern California offices; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Library; and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Originals
Reels 3028-3030: Originals returned to the lender, Virginia Ewing, after microfilming.
Existence and Location of Originals
Reel NDA 1: Originals returned to Mrs. H. Gilbert Finke after microfilming.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The lender, Mrs. Ewing, is the widow of Hunter. Material on reel NDA 1 lent by Mrs. Ewing.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
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Keywords
Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Art and state -- New Mexico Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Federal aid to the public welfare -- New Mexico Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- New Mexico Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- New Mexico Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Arts administrators -- New Mexico Occupation Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Designers -- New Mexico Occupation Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Painters -- New Mexico Occupation Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mozley, Loren, 1905- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
O'Keeffe, Georgia , 1887-1986 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Blumenschein, Ernest Leonard, 1874-1960 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mozley, Loren, 1905- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
O'Keeffe, Georgia , 1887-1986 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Federal Art Project (N.M.) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Repository Contact
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