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