Roger Crossgrove papers, 1888-2012, bulk 1950-2006

Biographical materials include eighteen annotated calendars, five appointment notebooks, and nine daily planners. Also included are awards and medals from various arts organizations and competitions. Crossgrove's marriage announcement, membership cards, receipts and payments, and files related to his M.F.A. coursework at the University of Illinois are also found in this series.

Correspondence is with friends, family, organizations, museums and galleries, colleagues, and artists. Correspondence is with American Artists Group, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, and for artists such as Eric Carle, Joseph A. Smith, John Schoenherr, Antonia Torres, and Alfredo Zalce, among others.

Writings by Crossgrove include a report on Tarascan, Mexico, a master of fine art thesis report, and a student paper titled "Some Observations on the Graphic Arts of Modern Mexico". There are notes and notebooks, a music writing book, and a manuscript draft written by Dr. Justino Fernández for a Mexican prints exhibition catalog. Some of the notebooks are also illustrated.

Professional files document Crossgrove's involvement in several arts organizations including the American Artists Group, American Watercolor Society, Artworks Gallery, Atrium Gallery, Brooklyn Society of Artists, Children's Book Council, Greater Mansfield Council for the Arts, Mystic Art Association, and the Windham Regional Arts Council. There are also files relating to the Yaddo Fellowship. Files typically contain administrative documents, correspondence, expense records, membership records, and printed materials.

Teaching files consist of correspondence, campus information, faculty memos and procedures, and student coursework compiled during Crossgrove's professorship at the Pratt Institute, where he taught under Albert Christ-Janer, and the University of Connecticut. Also included are letters regarding Crossgrove's independent study in Mexico and his sabbatical from the University of Connecticut, a collage in honor of Crossgrove's retirement, research questionnaire materials, and Crossgrove's statements on his career while at the University of Connecticut.

Subject files were compiled by Crossgrove on artists and art related topics of interest, such as Mexico. Mexican art, city redevelopment projects, and artists Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Edgar Degas, Tomie de Paola, and Rufino Tamayo. Files typically contain printed materials.

Extensive exhibition files cover numerous exhibitions of Crossgrove's artwork, including Roger Crossgrove Selected Works: Photographs 1978-1993 (1993), Three Decades (1961-1990): Works on Paper and Photographs (1991), Monotypes Today (1976-1977), Monotypes Today II (1978), Monotypes Today III (1979), Monotypes Today IV (1980), Impressions Gallery and Slater Museum monotype exhibitions, and a traveling monotypes exhibition. Other files include faculty and alumni exhibitions, exhibitions in Mexico, and Original Art from Contemporary Children's Books (1987-1988). Files typically contain a wide variety of materials, such as correspondence, catalogs and announcements, information about individual works of art, and notes.

Business records include seven personal budget ledgers, records of artwork sales and purchases, and expense documentation for art supplies and professional memberships.

This series consists of event invitations, exhibition announcements, exhibition catalogs, flyers, gallery and museum publications, newspapers, periodicals, and posters. The Art of Childhood auction preview book contain annotations by Crossgrove.

Included in this series are drawings, illustrations, monotype prints, and sketches for a Unitarian church bulletin by Crossgrove; artwork by Crossgrove's children, Louis Owens, Warner Pfeiffer, and Vincent and Bette Perez; and various collages, doodles, and sketches.

Eighteen sketchbooks contain mainly figure drawings, still life drawings, and occasional notes written by Crossgrove and others.

Photographic materials includes photographs and negatives taken by and of Crossgrove, his artwork, and the artwork of others including Doreen Elizabeth, Helene Rechovsky, and Alfredo Zalce. Also included are travel photographs.