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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-08-26. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Elizabeth Bayley Willis papers Willis, Elizabeth Bayley 2583 4.14 cubic feet 9 boxes, 2 oversized folders approximately 1933-1988 1942-1976 Papers of a museum curator, art collector, and art consultant Collection materials primarily in English with some materials in French.

Elizabeth Bayley Willis was born Elizabeth Palmer Bayley in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1902. She attended Queen Anne High School and spent a year in Boston and West Newton, Massachusetts, at the Misses Allen School. In Boston Willis studied European art history and the Asian collections at the Boston Museum. Willis spent one year of college at Mount Holyoke, continuing to visit Boston and study at the museum. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1923. Willis married Cecil Durand Willis in 1923, and the couple had four daughters before their divorce in 1937.

In 1937 Willis studied painting at Mills College summer session with artists Lyonel Feininger, Helen Chapin, and others. There she met Kenneth Callahan, who brought her into Seattle's art world. Through Callahan she met Morris Graves, Mark Tobey, and other Northwest artists, and she studied painting with Tobey in 1939 and 1940. From 1938 to 1943, Willis taught English and Latin at Garfield High School in Seattle and headed the school's art department.

In 1943 Willis went to New York looking for a gallery to show Mark Tobey's work. She was hired by Marian Willard to show Morris Graves's work at the Willard Gallery, and in 1947 she returned to Seattle to work as curator at the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery. From 1948 to 1950, Willis was curator at the San Francisco Museum of Art and from 1950 to 1951, curator and acting assistant director of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. In charge of exhibits, Willis curated Mark Tobey's first retrospective exhibit and was instrumental in bringing to the United States a series of exhibitions of the decorative arts of Japan, China, and Korea.

While in San Francisco, Willis had helped to show and sell Japanese folk art for Dr. Suetsu Yanagi of the Mingei Kan National Folk Art Museum in Tokyo. In 1951 she went to Japan as a consultant to the Mingei Kan on the quality and marketing of modern folk art. She made her first visit to India on her return trip and collected folk textiles in Bombay. Back in the United States, Willis went to New York to study the Cooper-Union museum's Indian decorative arts collection. On the weekends she went to Boston to study with Georg Swarenski, curator of decorative arts at the Boston Museum.

In 1952 Willis was appointed to the United Nations Technical Assistance Board, having been recommended by the Cooper-Union Museum as a curator and marketer of handcrafts. Her work for the UN focused on stimulating the economic development of handcrafts in India and East Asia through marketing textile and other decorative art products to American and European importers. In November of that year, Willis went to India as an advisor to the government of Uttar Pradesh on the development and preservation of handcrafts.

Willis worked with the All India Handcrafts Board, the Handloom Board, and the Khadi and Village Industries Board to improve and develop crafts production and sales, and in so doing improve the living and working conditions of the craftspeople. Working in Uttar Pradesh, Willis observed many one of a kind techniques and designs in textile creation and helped the local artisans to develop consistent production for export. Willis returned to India several times as a gazetted advisor to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Textile Commissioner, and the All India Handloom Board. Her primary role was to help develop the export business for handloom textiles for all of India, a task that involved visiting hundreds of villages throughout the country, establishing guidelines for quality control, and assisting with technical improvements. Willis also worked on similar missions for the UN in Vietnam, Formosa, and Morocco.

From 1957 to 1965, Willis returned to India many times at her own expense to collect textiles and continue her study of the folk textile industry. Over 1,400 textiles as well as jewelry from Willis's collection were donated to the University of Washington by Willis and her friends Virginia and Prentice Bloedel, who helped to fund several of Willis's later trips to India. This gift started the University's Costume and Textile Study Center, now part of the Henry Art Gallery. Other Willis textiles, artifacts, photographs, and unpublished research are in the National Anthropological Archives and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Willis resided in Bainbridge Island near Seattle for many years and died at the age of 101 in 2003.

The Willis papers document her work promoting textiles from India and other countries, her interest in Northwest art and artists, and her friendships with the artists. The accession also includes letters and other material sent to Willis by her Garfield High School Japanese American students during World War II. At the time of writing, mainly 1942, most of the students were incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, called Camp Harmony. The letters are filed in the subject series "Nisei Students." These and many other letters and writings are filed in subject series under headings that were established by Willis.

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The papers in this accession were given to the Libraries by Elizabeth Bayley Willis between 1976 and 2000.

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This accession is a merger of 17 accessions and was completed in 2002.

 Willis, Elizabeth Bayley Cashin, Bonnie Goetz, Hermann, 1898-1976 Ross, Nancy Wilson, 1901-1986 Kawai, Hiroshi, potter Feininger, Julia Johnson, Gertrude B Larsen, Jack Lenor Newland, Joseph N Elwin, Verrier, 1902-1964 United Nations. Technical Assistance Board Henry Art Gallery All India Handloom Board Women museum curators--California--Archives Museum curators--California Art, American--Northwest, Pacific Art museums--Washington (State) Art museums--California Decorative arts--India--Marketing Textile crafts--India--Marketing Textile crafts--Collectors and collecting--United States Technical assistance, American--India Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) International Arts and humanities Women exhibition catalogs Photographs Series 1, Personal Papers Biographical Features Biographical Features 1953-1983, undated 2583-019 Box 1 1 Incoming Letters Anderson, Guy undated 2583-019 Box 1 2 Callahan, Kenneth 1977 2583-019 Box 1 3 Cashin, Bonnie 1965-1982, undated 2583-019 Box 1 3 Cunningham, Imogen 1970 2583-019 Box 1 4 Devree, Howard 1947, undated 2583-019 Box 1 5 Goetz, Hermann 1961-1965 2583-019 Box 1 6 Kalman, Lily 1959-1960, undated 2583-019 Box 1 7 Macdonald, Vera 1966-1977 2583-019 Box 1 8 Marriott, McKim 1958-1961 2583-019 Box 1 9 Michener, James 1961-1966 2583-019 Box 1 10 Nehru, (Mrs.) B.K. 1962-1966 2583-019 Box 1 11 Ross, Nancy Wilson (Mrs. Stanley Young) 1951-1978, undated 2583-019 Box 1 12 Willard, Marian 1973-1976 2583-019 Box 1 13 A-Z 1941-1982, undated 2583-019 Box 1 14-16 Outgoing Letters To Family 1956, undated 2583-019 Box 1 17 To Olive Buchanan 1964-1986, undated 2583-019 Box 1 18 Miscellaneous 1967-1982, undated 2583-019 Box 1 19 Re: Nancy Wilson Ross June 30, 1984 2583-019 Box 1 20 General Correspondence Dodge, Marilyn 1978-1980, undated 2583-019 Box 1 21 Hranga, R.K. (Shillong) 1980-1983, undated 2583-019 Box 1 21 Kaimal, Lorraine (Denver Art Museum, Re: Textiles) 1981 2583-019 Box 1 21 Kawai, Hiroshi 1951-1973 2583-019 Box 1 22 Mohrman, Constance K. 1981 2583-019 Box 1 22 Nishi, Jana S. 1984 2583-019 Box 1 22 Ravindran, O.T. 1979-1980, undated 2583-019 Box 1 23 Rossbach, Ed and Katherine Westphal 1967-1981, undated 2583-019 Box 1 23 Wittlin, Thaddeus 1977 2583-019 Box 1 23 Speeches and Writings Re: Autobiographical Information 1979-1988, undated 2583-019 Box 1 24 "Two Englishmen in India" undated 2583-019 Box 1 25 Re: Kanjiro Kawai 1974 2583-019 Box 1 26 Re: Macdonald Family 1972-1975, undated 2583-019 Box 1 26 Re: Jim Thompson 1974 2583-019 Box 1 26 Re: Clifford Wright 1970 2583-019 Box 1 26 Re: Coomaraswamy, Ananda and Robert Allerton Parker 1988 2583-019 Box 1 27 "The Japanese Folk Art Collection" undated 2583-019 Box 1 27 "Willard Gallery Daze" 1987 2583-019 Box 1 27 Miscellaneous 1973-1988, undated 2583-019 Box 1 28 Notes Re: Ambrose and Viola Patterson and Shillong Visits 1963-1975, undated 2583-019 Box 1 29 Miscellaneous 1976-1986, undated 2583-019 Box 1 30 Subject Series Protests Re: Wildlife 1982, undated 2583-019 Box 1 31 Re: Environmental Issues 1969-1982, undated 2583-019 Box 1 32 Re: Nuclear Efforts 1982, undated 2583-019 Box 1 33 Re: Cambodia 1967-1971, undated 2583-019 Box 1 34 Re: ABM/ Sentinel 1969-1987, undated 2583-019 Box 1 35 Miscellaneous 1965-1983, undated 2583-019 Box 1 36 Artists and Art World Bayh, Gibson 1955 2583-019 Box 1 38 Bowen, Betty 1952-1977, undated 2583-019 Box 1 39 Elwin, Verrier 1957-1964 2583-019 Box 2 1 Feininger, Julia and Lyonel Incoming Letters 1945-1961, undated 2583-019 Box 2 2-3 Incoming Letter Oct. 15, 1947 2583-019 Box 2 4

Letter not to be copied or quoted by users.

 Artworks 1951 2583-019 Box 2 5 Exhibit Catalogs 1936-1964 2583-019 Box 2 6 Clippings 1936-1972, undated 2583-019 Box 2 7 Fell, Barry 1976-1979, undated 2583-019 Box 2 8 Ford, Gordon Onslow 1977-1980, undated 2583-019 Box 2 9 Graves, Morris 1947-1982, undated 2583-019 Box 2 11-12 Henry Art Gallery 1967-1986, undated 2583-019 Box 2 13 Johnson, Gertrude 1969-1983, undated 2583-019 Box 3 11 Larsen, Jack Lenor 1966-1978, undated Incoming Letters 1966-1978, undated 2583-019 Box 3 12 Notes undated 2583-019 Box 3 13 Publications -American Fabrics/Fashions, Summer 1978, Volume 113 1978 2583-019 OSVF 55 Calendars - Small Monthly Calendar 1978 2583-019 Box 3 14

With J.L.L. trademark in a tin case.

 Ephemera 1975, undated 2583-019 Box 3 15 Clippings 1974-1978, undated 2583-019 Box 3 16 Liebes, Dorothy 1962-1972, undated 2583-019 Box 3 17 Newland, Joseph (Henry Art Gallery) 1986-1988, undated 2583-019 Box 3 23 Schuster, Carl 1975, undated 2583-019 Box 3 24 Tobey, Mark 1939-1982, undated 2583-019 Box 3 25-26 Wilgress, John 1950-1953, undated 2583-019 Box 3 27 Yanagi, Soetsu 1949-1951 2583-019 Box 3 28 Exhibit Catalogs 1933-1958, 1982, undated 2583-019 Box 3 29-30 Posters - Leo Kenney Retrospective 1973 2583-001 OS Folder 11 Chinese Periodicals -China Reconstructs General Correspondence 1975-1982, undated 2583-019 Box 1 40 Notes 1976 2583-019 Box 1 41 Ephemera 1976-1978, undated 2583-019 Box 1 42 India Incoming Letters - Re: India, Community Development and Co-operation Ministry, Department of Community Development 1963-1964 2583-019 Box 2 14 General Correspondence 1960-1971 2583-019 Box 2 15 Speeches and Writings "In the Footprints of the Raj " 1986 2583-019 Box 2 16-20 Two Sides of the Coin, by Katherine Palmer undated 2583-019 Box 2 21-22 India's Roots of Democracy (annotated) 1965 2583-019 Box 2 23 "A Brief Guide for Visitors to Temples of South India" undated 2583-019 Box 2 24-25 Reminiscences Re: India, Indian Textiles, and Blanchett Rockefeller and Folk Arts 1972-1986, undated 2583-019 Box 3 1 Notes Re: Reference Material for North East Frontier Agency and Dr. Verrier Elwin 1963-1964, undated 2583-019 Box 3 2 Re: Reference Material. India. Andra - Tripura and Uttar Pradesh 1960-1969 2583-019 Box 3 3 Exhibit Catalogs 1982 2583-019 Box 3 4 Subject Series Bhutan 1960-1965, undated 2583-019 Box 3 5 Gandhi, Indira Incoming Letter 1962 2583-019 Box 3 6 Clippings 1976-1977, undated 2583-019 Box 3 7 Mehta, Ved General Correspondence 1976-1977 2583-019 Box 3 8 Clippings - Articles inThe New Yorker undated 2583-019 Box 3 9 Clippings Re: India, Andra - Tripura 1960-1970, undated 2583-019 Box 3 10 Fozdor, Shirin 1951-1954 2583-019 Box 2 10 Nisei Students Incoming Letters Kobayashi, Masao 1942 2583-019 Box 3 18 Unidentified "Ben" 1942-1943 2583-019 Box 3 19 Miscellaneous A-Z 1942-1949 2583-019 Box 3 20 Newsletter - Camp Harmony 1942 2583-019 Box 3 21 Clippings 1940-1950 2583-019 Box 3 22 Exhibit Files Re: "Northwest Artists" Show 1950-1951 2583-019 Box 3 31

Correspondents include Kenneth Callahan, the Henry Gallery, Walter Isaacs, and Richard E. Fuller.

 Miscellaneous 1974, undated 2583-019 Box 3 32 Photographs Washington State International Marketing Conference Committee 1954 2583-019 Box 3 33 E.B. Willis with Indira Gandhi and her son, Sanjay undated 2583-019 Box 3 33 Miscellaneous University of Washington President's Club 1979, undated 2583-019 Box 1 37 Ephemera 1963, undated 2583-019 Box 3 34 Clippings - re: Northwest Artists 1937-1978 2583-019 Box 3 35 Clippings - Biographical 1948-1982, undated 2583-019 Box 3 36 Series 2, United Nations. Technical Assistance Board / All India Handloom Board Incoming Letters Re: Reference Material. India, Andra - Tripura 1957-1960 2583-019 Box 3 37 General Correspondence Correspondence with U.N. Officials 1952-1953, undated 2583-019 Box 3 38 Re: Uttar Pradesh 1952-1953, undated 2583-019 Box 3 39 Miscellaneous 1953-1957, undated 2583-019 Box 3 40

Correspondents include: Sher Singh Rawat, Victor Sanè, All Indian Handloom Board.

 Memoranda Re: All India Handloom Board 1955-1956 2583-019 Box 3 41-42 Notes Reference Materials for All India Handloom Board 1956-1957, undated 2583-019 Box 3 43 Reference Material. India. Andra - Kerala 1951-1957, undated 2583-019 Box 4 1 Reference Material. India. Madras - Tripura 1956, undated 2583-019 Box 4 2 Uttar Pradesh 1953, undated 2583-019 Box 4 3 Publications All India Handloom Board 1955-1956, undated 2583-019 Box 4 4 Miscellaneous 1954-1959 2583-019 Box 4 5 Reports - Re: Indian Weaving 1953, undated 2583-019 Box 4 6 Speeches and Writings Re: Uttar Pradesh 1953-1955, undated 2583-019 Box 4 7 T.T. Krishnamachari 1957-1959 2583-019 Box 4 8 Subject Series Exhibit Files - "Textile Art and Costumes of India," Palazzo Grassi, Venice Aug.-Oct., 1956 2583-019 Box 4 9 Burma 1952-1954 2583-019 Box 4 10 Manipur 1960, undated 2583-019 Box 4 11 Morocco 1959 2583-019 Box 4 12 Taiwan 1955 2583-019 Box 4 13 L'Artisanat au Maroc 1958-1959 2583-019 Box 4 14 Ephemera undated Photographs undated 2583-019 Box 4 15 Reference Materials, India - Madras to Tripura 1956-1960, undated 2583-019 Box 4 16 Clippings - re: All India Handloom Board 1956-1957, undated 2583-019 Box 4 17 Clippings - re: Uttar Pradesh 1953-1958, undated 2583-019 Box 4 18 Series 3, Northwest Artists

Folders include personal correspondence between the artists and Ms. Willis related to works and exhibitions, as well as notes, journals, catalogs, letters of other individuals, writings, and clippings.

 Graves, Morris

Includes correspondence, notes, biographical material, miscellaneous autographed materials, clippings, ephemera, lists, and other materials.

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1942-1943 2583-019 OSVF 55

Graves's letters from stockade where he was held for being a conscientious objector

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1943-1944 2583-019 Box 5 1

Topics mentioned: paintings "Bird in the Spirit," "Ice Blue," "In the Night"; moving to Berkeley, Seattle Art Museum show, Charles Laughton, Alfred Shaw, Morgan Padelford, Northwest Annual, "Bird Searching for the Cliffs," "Bird in the Moonlight," Edith Little, Wallace Graves, Marian Willard, 96 paintings left for Willis at SAM; philosophy, winter leaves

 Graves's letter re: Willis marrying Tobey 1944 2583-019 Box 5 2

original letter plus typed transcribed copy

Willis notes: "Morris said later, 'I saved you from a fate worse than death'"

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1945 2583-019 Box 5 3

Topics mentioned: Willis as inspiration; recent artist photo, "Robe Ranch," "Bird Standing on a Cliff," Dorothy Mills, philosophy of art, forest trees of the Pacific; sketch of broken chalice

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1946 2583-019 Box 5 4

Topics mentioned: Mark Tobey, living on "The Rock," needing money, Oregon, Guggenheim fellowship in Japan, musings on nature

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1947-1948 2583-019 Box 5 5

Topics mentioned: high emotions, Dr. Richard Fuller's payment, Charles Laughton, "Non Essential," Oregon painting, Yone Arashiro, learning Japanese in Hawaii, high emotions

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1949-1950 2583-019 Box 5 6

Includes 3 letters from Helen Graves

Topics mentioned: leaving Europe, "Bird and Wave," Willis's Monterey gallery, Guggenheim, Japanese pottery, Dr. Richard Fuller, Charles Laughton, Carl Gould, Haubergs, Mrs. D.E. Frederick

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1951 2583-019 Box 5 7

Topics mentioned: "The Pine," "Inner Eye Bird," winter leaves, George Morley

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1956 2583-019 Box 5 8

Topics mentioned: Ireland

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1958-1959 2583-019 Box 5 9

Topics mentioned: "Bird in the Surf in the Moonlight," "Gander Drinking Moonlight," Mary Randlett, Dr. Richard Fuller, Richard Svare; loose sketch

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1961 2583-019 Box 5 10

Topics include: Morris Graves illness, Lyman Graves, "Gander Drinking Moonlight," James Michener

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1962-1963 2583-019 Box 5 11

Topics mentioned: Graves's and Willis's friendship, walking in Dublin, Willis's India travel; travel plans; missed connections

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1967 2583-019 Box 5 12

Topics mentioned: Graves staying with Lyman, "Inner Eye" damage

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1970 2583-019 Box 5 12

Topics mentioned: Graves thanking Willis for money; Willis's malaria, Chinese imports

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis undated 2583-019 Box 5 13

Letter from Graves writing from "The Rock"

Topics mentioned: magnolia seeds, cranes, Mrs. Frederick

 Transcribed copies of letters from Morris Graves to Mrs. D.E. Frederick 1948 2583-019 Box 5 14

Willis inserts her commentary between letters in the transcript

Topics mentioned: Mrs. Frederick's ill health; description of a painting for Mrs. Frederick; gratitude for money from Mrs. Frederick; painting in Chartres; Gothic architecture inspiration, Ed Thomas, Evan Phoutrides; England travel plans

 Letter from Celia Leary (Morris Graves's sister) to Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1945 2583-019 Box 5 15 Jacqueline (Johnson) Onslow-Ford letters to Elizabeth Bayley Willis re: Morris Graves 1951-1975 2583-019 Box 5 16

Includes Gordon Onslow-Ford exhibit ephemera

 Morris Graves lists of works 2583-019 Box 5 17 Seattle Art Museum Loan paperwork 1956-1958 2583-019 Box 5 18 Morris Graves Retrospective Exhibit at California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1947-1948 2583-019 Box 5 19 "Paintings of the War Years" 1950 2583-019 Box 5 20

Exhibit curated by Willis for the DeYoung Museum (San Francisco)

 Morris Graves exhibit at the Roswell Museum and Art Center 1961 2583-019 Box 5 21 Morris Graves - Gallery and Exhibit ephemera 1935-1975 2583-019 Box 5 22 Graves Correspondence with Patrons and Art Sale records 1942-1950 2583-019 Box 5 23 Marian Willard (gallery) Correspondence 1944-1961 2583-019 Box 6 1 Charles Laughton Correspondence 1945-1949 2583-019 Box 6 2

Laughton was a collector of Graves's work

 Vincent Price Correspondence 1940s 2583-019 Box 6 3 Morris Graves Biographies - written by Willis 2583-019 Box 6 4 Willis's Notes on Morris Graves 2583-019 Box 6 5-6 "Morris Graves (sense of humor)" ephemera 2583-019 Box 6 7 Morris Graves clippings 1942-1971 2583-019 Box 6 8-9 Tobey, Mark 1940-1976

Includes notes, clippings, correspondence, catalogs, postcards, written explanation of paintings, lists and data, magazines, exhibit announcements, and other materials.

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1942-1973 2583-019 Box 6 10

Topics mentioned: teaching; sending daughter to Mills College; Zoë Kincaid; Baha'i meetings; musings on art; Morris Graves; Pikes Peak

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1944 2583-019 Box 6 11

Topics mentioned: Bill Cummings; Baha'i philosophy; Pepsi-Cola exhibit; Portland Museum prize; shipping art; critics; Marian Willard; Zoë Kincaid; Kenneth Callahan; Clifford Wright; Willard Gallery show

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1945 2583-019 Box 6 12

Topics mentioned: art ideas; weather; Lyonel Feininger; shipping paintings for exhibit with frames; "Remote Field"; "City Radiance"; Morris Graves; Guy Anderson; friendship with Willis; Indian landscapes; "Partitions of the City"

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1946 2583-019 Box 6 13

Topics mentioned: Marshall Hutch; Kenneth Callahan; Clifford Wright; Guy Anderson; Marian Willard; teaching; Detroit catalogs; working

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1948-1949 2583-019 Box 7 1

Includes sketches of moose/elk

Topics mentioned: Marian Willard; "Remote Field"; "City Radiance"; "La Via"; El Greco, art techniques; "Day of the Martyr" (Baha'i book); Zoë Dausanne; Monday talks at the Public library; Lyonel Feininger; learning Japanese

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1950-1951 2583-019 Box 7 2

Topics mentioned: Portland; not wanting to exhibit with other Northwest artists; Kenneth Callahan; Morris Graves; Lyonel Reisinger; art sales; Bernard Leach; Windsor Utley; "Plant People"; "Continuous Worlds"; Henry Art Gallery

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1952 2583-019 Box 7 3

Letter regarding Rudolph Ray, D. Suzuki, U.N. Head of Mission of India, FSC Northrup

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1953-1954 2583-019 Box 7 4

Topics mentioned: New York City weather; visit to Long Island; Marian Willard; show in London Contemporary Arts; Otto Seligman; Georgette Passedoit; Modern Museum Salute de France; Baha'i; living in Paris (1954)

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1955-1957 2583-019 Box 7 5

Topics mentioned: New York City; Radio City Music Hall; 65th birthday; Baha'i; Henry Art Gallery; an apology; Helmi Juvonen; preparing for 1956 show; Morris Graves

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1958-1960 2583-019 Box 7 6

Topics mentioned: New York weather; Marian Willard; sumi prints; Berne show opening (1958); studying French language; Paris; Baha'i; Morris Graves; Bernard Leach

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1961 2583-019 Box 7 7

Includes letters from Willis

Topics mentioned: Louvre show; Baha'i; Modern Museum show; Morris Graves; London/Paris travel; Willis's travels to India and Greece; Kenneth Callahan

 Correspondence with Elizabeth Bayley Willis 1963-1966 2583-019 Box 7 8

Topics mentioned: rheumatism; Tobey's weak heart; "Unknown Journey"; shows in Amsterdam/Berne/Dusseldorf; John Hauberg

 California Palace of the Legion of Honor - Northwest Artists Show 1950-1951 2583-019 Box 7 9 Seattle Art Museum Exhibit 1961 2583-019 Box 7 10 Mark Tobey exhibit catalog by Musée des Arts Décoratifs 1961 2583-019 Box 7 11

Inscribed to Willis by Tobey

 Marian Willard (gallery) Correspondence re: Mark Tobey 1949 2583-019 Box 7 12 San Francisco Art Association Western Round Table on Modern Art 1949 2583-019 Box 7 13 Exhibit Ephemera 1944-1971 2583-019 Box 7 14-15 Clippings 1940-1970s 2583-019 Box 7 16-18 Otto Seligman Gallery 2583-019 Box 8 1 Lists of Tobey Paintings for Exhibits 2583-019 Box 8 2 Tobey's notes on art 2583-019 Box 8 3 Tobey Biographies and Willis's Rough Notes 2583-019 Box 8 4 Willis's Notes on Mark Tobey 2583-019 Box 8 5-6 Miscellaneous Ephemera 2583-019 Box 8 7 Clippings re: Influences on Tobey's Work 2583-019 Box 8 8 Willis's Journal (typed transcript) 1937 2583-019 Box 8 9

Topics mentioned: Mills College; meeting Lyonel Feininger; Morris Graves; Kenneth and Margaret Callahan; Dr. Grace Morley; recent divorce; Mark Tobey; Guy Anderson

 Tobey and Graves joint exhibition 1973 2583-019 Box 8 10 Other Northwest Artists, "Group of Twelve" Willis's loose notes on Northwest artists 2583-019 Box 8 11 Anderson, Guy 2583-019 Box 9 1 Banner, Al 1982 2583-019 Box 9 2 Banett, Virginia 2583-019 Box 9 3 Callahan, Kenneth 1980-1982 2583-019 Box 9 4 Chong, Fay and Priscilla 2583-019 Box 9 5 Cooper, Jack 1982 2583-019 Box 9 6 Cumming, Bill 2583-019 Box 9 7 Cunningham, Merce 2583-019 Box 9 8 Farwell, Denise and Hollis 2583-019 Box 9 9 Gowen, Mary Trimble 2583-019 Box 9 10 Hill, Warren 2583-019 Box 9 11 James, Barbara and Clayton 1982 2583-019 Box 9 12 Morris, Ruby 2583-019 Box 9 13 Nomura, Ruth 2583-019 Box 9 13 Park, Helen Graham 2583-019 Box 9 14 Patterson, Viola 1972-1979 2583-019 Box 9 15 Penington, Ruth 2583-019 Box 9 16 Ross, Nancy Wilson 2583-019 Box 9 17 Tsutakawa, George 2583-019 Box 9 18 Wehr, Wesley 2583-019 Box 9 189 Wright, Clifford 1945 2583-019 Box 9 20 Northwest History 2583-019 Box 9 21 The Art World in 1945 1945 2583-019 Box 9 22 "People I should have called or should have written about" 2583-019 Box 9 23