As a parent, you’re tasked with the incredible responsibility of making choices for another person that will affect the course of their entire life. You choose everything from what they eat to how they spend their free time. But one of the most important choices of all is with their education. You want to pick […]

This entry is part of an ongoing series highlighting new collections. The Archives of American Art collects primary source materials—original letters, writings, preliminary sketches, scrapbooks, photographs, financial records, and the like—that have significant research value for the study of art in the United States. The following essay was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue […]