Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0822
Creator:
Corn, Wanda M.
Title: Wanda M. Corn papers
Dates: 1970-2006
Physical Description:
7 Linear feet
Summary: Papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications,
newsletters, minutes, and other materials pertaining to her teaching and administrative
duties in the art department, her involvement with the Stanford Humanities Center, and
other aspects of her professional life, 1970-2006; and as acting director of the
Stanford Museum, 1987-92. Other items of note include newsletters and other records from
the College Art Association of America, 1970-91; and newsletters and other materials
from the Women's Caucus for Art, 1972-90.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Removed for restriction:
Box 7 1996-97: Search for Early 20th C. Europeanist.
Box 7 SHC Director Search Committee - 1984
Box 7 Museum: Hilarie Faberman
Box 7 Museum: Assistant Curator Search
Box 7 Museum: Staff
Box 7 Search Associate Director - SHC
Box 7 Charles Junkerman
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Cite As
Wanda M. Corn Papers (SC0822). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Wanda M. Corn, a scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century painting and photography,
joined the faculty of Stanford's Department of Art and Art History in 1980. She is the
author of THE GREAT AMERICAN THING: MODERN ART AND NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1915-1935 (1999)
and several exhibit catalogs including GRANT WOOD, THE REGIONALIST VISION (1983) and THE
ART OF ANDREW WYETH (1973).
Description of the Collection
Papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, newsletters, minutes,
and other materials pertaining to her teaching and administrative duties in the art
department, her involvement with the Stanford Humanities Center, and other aspects of
her professional life, 1970-2006; and as acting director of the Stanford Museum,
1987-92. Other items of note include newsletters and other records from the College Art
Association of America, 1970-91; and newsletters and other materials from the Women's
Caucus for Art, 1972-90.
Box 1 = Departmental files
Box 2 = Museum files
Box 3 = professional files
Boxes 4-6 = Departmental files/teaching files
Access Terms
College Art Association of America.
Corn, Wanda M.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University. Dept. of Art and Art
History.
Stanford University. Humanities Center.
Stanford University. Museum.
Women's Caucus for Art.
Art--History--Study and teaching.