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Series IV. Art Organizations, [1917-1956], undated

Scope and Contents note

Blashfield was an active member and frequently president of many professional art associations. This series includes documents regarding Blashfield's input on a debate amongst the National Academy of Design to build an art center in a park. The American Academy of Arts and Letters folder includes a notice of Mrs. Blashfield's donation to the academy in order to preserve the English language. There is also a letter sent from the Municipal Art Society twenty years after Blashfield's death to a curator, enclosed with the latest copy of that institution's brochure. The last folder contains blank forms form non-art organizations.

The National Academy of Design, undated

Box: 6, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Academy of Arts and Letters, [1917]

Box: 6, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Municipal Art Society of New York, 1956

Box: 6, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Papers from other organizations, 1918-1935

Box: 6, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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