Description
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.
Background
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).
Restrictions
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.
Availability
Accession 2006-132 is open for research. The following items have been removed for
restriction: