Scrapbook, 1952

The Virginia Jeffrey Smith Papers contain newspaper clippings, notes, manuscripts, and other papers documenting Smith's long-running art column. The largest portion of the collection consists of newspaper clippings of the Artists and Craftsmen column, which Smith pasted into a series of scrapbooks from 1950-1959. The collection also includes a small number of photographs, manuscript versions of pieces Smith wrote for publication in the column and elsewhere, and extensive background notes that appear to consist mainly of quotations from published sources on art and criticism. Correspondence in the collection mainly consists of responses from readers to a controversial 1955 column. The collection also includes a small amount of ephemera from Smith's travels to Europe and Asia.