Art associations in Boulder

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Title: Art associations in Boulder
Date: 1907-1993
Call Number: BHS 260
Contents: 2 boxes.
Description: Documents, advertisements, catalogs, and clippings about the the Boulder Art Association.
Summary: Box 1. 1960-1993. Boulder Art Association documents and a few photographs. This box has not yet been fully organized.
Box 2. 1923-1938. Art Association of Boulder's correspondence with other agencies, organizational records, publicity notices for exhibits and classes, membership lists, and attendance records, as well as archival photocopies of newspaper clippings concerning the Association. Most of the materials date from the 1930s when Francis J. Geck was president.
History: The ART ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER was organized in 1923 to create a center for the art interests of the community by maintaining an art gallery and lecture hall; to stimulate an appreciation and understanding of the arts; and to provide art education facilities for talented children through the summer months.
The BOULDER ARTISTS' GUILD was "organized in 1924 to assemble earnest workers in the creative arts, to advance and encourage the artistic expression of its members." There was an annual exhibition of members' work in May.
The BOULDER ART ASSOCIATION was organized in 1955.
Terms of Use: RIGHTS: The historic photographs and documents, with the Source BHS, belong to the Boulder Historical Society/Museum of Boulder and require attribution when used. These items are on permanent loan to the Carnegie Library for Local History. No duplicated materials may be deposited, or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.
Format: Documents.
Clippings.
Correspondence.
Subjects: Boulder Art Association (Boulder, Colo.)
Boulder Artists Guild (Boulder, Colo.)
Art Association of Boulder (Boulder, Colo.)
Art--Societies, etc--Colorado--Boulder
Art museums--Colorado--Boulder
Art--Exhibitions--Colorado--Boulder
Acquisition Note: Donor: unknown Date unknown
Note: This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

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: Board of trustees records 1924-1938 (bulk 1937-1938)

Call Number 260-2-1

Date 1924-1938

Contents 1 folder.

Description This file contains lists of officers, notices of meetings, President Francis Geck's reports (undated), notes from the minutes of a meeting held to discuss forming a council of civic education, and several other miscellaneous items. It is not a comprehensive record of the board's proceedings.

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: Art Association of Boulder, Legal documents

Call Number 260-2-2

Date 1907-1925

Contents 1 folder.

Description This file contains the articles of incorporation, by-laws, and tax-exempt certifications for the Art Association of Boulder, Inc. Also, a 1907 deed of Clara G. Coulehan for four lots on University Place and a letter regarding her intent to give them to the Association.

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: Art Association of Boulder, Membership cards

Call Number 260-2-3

Date 1931-1937

Contents 3 envelopes (in 1 folder).

Description There are three envelopes containing membership applications cards, receipts for dues, and a list of members' names.

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: Art Association of Boulder, Membership lists

Call Number 260-2-4

Date 1924

Contents 14 p.

Description There are four edited versions of a list of 164 charter members of the Art Association of Boulder, Inc., 1 March 1924. Their names, titles and addresses are given.

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: Art Association of Boulder, Membership lists

Call Number 260-2-5

Date 1936-1938

Contents 25 p.

Description A 1936 membership list, 11 variously edited versions of the 1937 list, 3 lists from 1938, and several miscellaneous papers. Members' names, titles and addresses are given.

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: Art Association of Boulder, Membership information

Call Number 260-2-6

Date 1932-1938

Contents 15 items.

Description Blank membership application forms, form letters sent to prospective and current members of the Association, a sonnet by M. B. Stoner entitled To the new art gallery, a blank 1937 membership card, and tickets to the Association's Ball Masque on 4 June 1938.

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: Jean Sherwood gift list 1937

Call Number 260-2-7

Date 1937

Contents 11 items.

Description List, with cover letter from Art Association board president Francis Geck to University of Colorado Librarian C. Henry Smith, of books that Mrs. Jean Sherwood left the Association.

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: Art Association of Boulder, Bills and receipts

Call Number 260-2-(8-16)

Date 1923-1938

Contents 9 folders.

Description These nine folders contain bills and receipts for goods and services provided to the Association for the preparation of art exhibits and for other activities of the Association.

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: Art Association of Boulder, Correspondence

Call Number 260-2-(17-21)

Date 1932-1943

Contents 5 folders.

Description These five folders contain incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Art Association, most of it concerning travelling art exhibits displayed at the Association.

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: Sherwood Art Gallery bulletins 1937

Call Number 260-2-22

Date 1937

Contents 3 items.

Description Bulletins for the Art Association's art gallery, named in honor of its founder Jean Sherwood, for June and December 1937. They list upcoming educational activities, exhibits and lectures.

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: Art Association of Boulder, Weekly schedules

Call Number 260-2-(23-24)

Date 1937-1939

Contents 2 folders.

Description Typed weekly schedules that list activities at the Association, including exhibits, lectures, classes and meetings.

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: Business men's sketch class information

Call Number 260-2-25

Date 1932-1939

Contents 2 items.

Description Information and sign-in sheets for a class that the Art Association offered to businessmen desiring "an outlet for creative impulses."

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