• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH000352

Papers of Judy Cassab, 1944-2006 [manuscript]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
  • Reference MS 1541
  • Date Range 1944 - 2006
  • Description

    MS 1541 comprises correspondence, 1959-1999, nine diaries, newspaper cuttings and 24 scrapbooks and photograph albums. The correspondence series includes letters from her husband, readers of her Diaries, publishers, art galleries, portrait sitters and owners of her artworks. There is a series of diaries documenting Judy Cassab’s personal and family life and details of her professional career spanning the years 1944-1997. There are copies of newspaper cuttings, and albums containing photographs and articles that describe her artistist achievements and exhibitions held between 1951 and 1997. The collection provides a comprehensive record of Cassab’s artistic activities, her contacts with the Australian art world and her personal life (8 boxes, 12 fol. Boxes). The Acc01.017 instalment comprises volume 10 of Cassab’s diary, December 1997-April 2000 (1 box). The Acc02.072 instalment comprises correspondence, some dating from 2002 (1 box). The Acc04.055 instalment comprises correspondence, cards, postcards, emails and enclosures (1 box). The Acc06.020 instalment comprises seven volumes of cutting books, 1955-1957, 1961, 1968-1976, 1982-1988, 1994-1995; four albums of original photographs, cuttings and documents, 1994-1995 and 1997-2001; an album of photographs of portraits; and, letters, 2004-2006. The cutting books are copies (1 box, 3 fol. Boxes)

  • Quantity 0 7.2 m
  • Access Part available for research; part requires permission for research. Not for loan.
  • Finding Aid http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-229723724/findingaid

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  • Primary Creator
    • Cassab, Judy (1920 - 2015)