Sidney C. Woodward papers, 1823-1963, bulk 1915-1932

Found here is Sidney C. Woodward's personal and professional correspondence and collected letters pertaining to Woodward's relationships with various artists, galleries, and arts organizations.

Included are many letters sent by Sidney's twin brother, Stanley, while he was serving as a Corporal in Field Artillery during World War I and later as an Air Corps captain during World War II. Correspondence with Stanley primarily concerned his painting career, including some post card representations of his work.

Artists that Woodward corresponded with and collected letters include Ernest L. Blumenschein, Harrison Cady, Robert Henri, C. Lewis Hind, Rockwell Kent, John La Farge, Hermann Dudley Murphy, Violet Oakley, Water Pach, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, and Chauncey Foster Ryder, among many others. Notable 19th century letters are written by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, John White Alexander, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Francis Davis Millet, Thomas Moran, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, William Trost Richards, John Singer Sargent, and Thomas Sully.

Also found here is correspondence with arts organizations, schools, and news organizations. This includes the Christian Science Publishing Society, the Erskine School, Frost & Reed, Knoedler & Co., and Robert C. Vose Galleries.

Some photographs of artists are also included in folders of correspondence, including a portrait of Johannes Adam S. Oertel.

See the Printed Material series for additional correspondence pasted into two books, Color and Method in Painting and The Etched Work of Franics Seymour Haden, which also include photographs and added annotations.

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by person or organization name. Names with two or more letters are filed in their own folders, and the remainder of correspondence is filed in miscellaneous alphabetical files. Selected correspondents whose names do not appear in headings are indicated in a note following the folder heading.

Biographical material consists of two military records of Woodward's appointment from Private First Class to second lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the Signal Reserve Corps, as well as an honorable discharge certificate from the Army of the United States.

Found here are manuscripts written by C. Lewis Hind and Elizabeth Robins Pennell, as well as a list of artist letters and miscellaneous writings by Woodward including lecture notes.

Printed material consists of exhibition catalogs featuring Stanley Woodward and Casson Galleries exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings of news stories regarding Sidney and Stanley, a World War I Navy recruiting poster catalog, as well as various books relating to the topic of art. Miscellaneous printed material consists of a lecture announcement, a catalog of etching artworks, a high school graduation brochure, and a playbill. Two books, Color and Method in Painting and The Etched Work of Franics Seymour Haden, within this series include inserted letters, photos, and added annotations. See the Correspondence and Collected Letters series for additional letters relating to these works.

Found here are reference photographs of various artworks as well as personal photographs, which include photos of a portrait relief of Augustus Saint Gaudens, Stanley Woodward in a theater production, a Russell Hyde painting class, and a portrait of J. F. Bouchor.

Found here are three bound scrapbooks and one folder of loose scrapbook pages. Two scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings of Woodward's column in The Christian Science Monitor; one scrapbook contains exhibition catalogs and announcements from the Casson Galleries as well as news clippings of art reviews, most of which were written by Woodward; and one scrapbook purchased by Woodward contains letters, autographs, photos, and art reproductions from 78 artists.