Abstract This collection consists of a diverse range of personal and professional papers from the lives of American artist Marion Greenwood and her partner Robert Plate. Included are correspondence of Greenwood and Plate dating from the early 1930s to the 1970s; looseleaf journal entries, short stories, and other writings by Plate; a small selection of Greenwood’s artwork; sketchbooks, journals, and address books; photographs; and assorted ephemera spanning Greenwood’s career. Also included is a...

Abstract This collection consists of 11 sketch panels done by Marion Greenwood in preparation for her commissioned work for the University of Tennessee University Center in 1955. In 1954, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, hired Greenwood for a year as a visiting professor and artist in residence, to create a mural officially to be called "The History of Tennessee." The sketches depict specific subject sketches of people, to be included in the finished mural, representing Greenwood's idea of the...