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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Howard Thomas Papers, #4000, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Anne Wall Thomas of Carrboro, N.C., 1975; Addition of 1980 (Acc. 080169); Addition of July 2016 (Acc. 102630).

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2011

Updated by: Amelia W. Holmes because of addition, August 2016

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Agnes Scott College--Faculty.
• Albers, Josef.
• Art--Study and teaching--United States--History--20th century.
• Artists--United States--History--20th century.
• Barford, George.
• Boerner, Edmund.
• Bramlette, Edward Wilson.
• Breithaupt, Erwin Millard, 1920-
• College teachers--United States--History--20th century.
• Conant, Howard.
• Diaries.
• Dodd, Lamar.
• Fleming, Berry, 1899-
• Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
• Gress, George.
• Holty, Carl, 1900-1973.
• Lynes, Lamar.
• Minser, Patricia Marie.
• Pattison, Abbott.
• Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-
• Thomas, Howard, 1899-1971.
• University of Georgia--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Faculty.
• Vigtel, Gudmud.
• Von Neumann, Robert.
• Wallace, Betty Abernathy.
• Warren, Ferdinand E., b. 1899.
• Weismann, Donald L.
• Wilderhain, Margeurite.
• Wilke, Ulfert, 1907-1987
• Wisconsin. State Teachers College--Faculty.
• Wood, Emory Rose.

Howard Thomas (1899-1971) of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, was an artist, professor, and administrator at Wisconsin State Teachers College, 1930-1942; the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1942-1943; Agnes Scott College, 1943-1945; and the University of Georgia, 1945-1965.

The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Howard Thomas (1899-1971), including correspondence, exhibition catalogs, notes, lectures, and other materials related to his work and teaching. Correspondents include Josef Albers, George Barford, Edmund Boerner, Edward W. Bramlette, Erwin M. Breithaupt, Howard Conant, George Cress, Lamar Dodd, Berry Fleming, R. Buckminster Fuller, Carl Holty, Morris Knight, Lamar Lynes, Patricia Marie Minser, Robert Von Newmann, Abbott Pattison, James J. Sweeney, Gudmud Vigtel, Betty A. Wallace, Ferdinand E. Warren, Donald L. Weismann, Marguerite Wildenhain, Ulfort Wilke, and Emory Rose Wood. Other items include clippings, photographs of paintings, notebooks of painting records, 1921-1971, and assorted diaries, 1923-1971.

The Addition of 2016 includes correspondence between Howard Thomas's widow Anne Wall Thomas and various art institutions regarding sales and exhibitions of Thomas's work after his death. Correspondence is primarily with Ulfert Wilke, Director of the Museum of Art at the University of Iowa.

• Oversized volume (SV-4000/1)