Sketchbooks, 1989-2010

The Claudia Cave papers include materials related to her art career during the years 1974 to 2016. The collection includes: mail art, sketchbooks, slides of drawings and paintings, photographs, promotional fliers, newspapers, books, digital files, t-shirts, a cardboard cutout of Cave, and correspondence. The mail art consists of 3D pieces as well as national, international, and collaborative art correspondence between Cave and other artists from 1974 to 2003. The sketchbooks contain graphite, ink, and color drawings and paintings from 1989 to 2004. Box 12 contains published books that use Cave’s works as cover art and compilation books of artists’ works that include Cave’s art. Correspondence can be found throughout all three series and includes letters to Cave from friends and colleagues as well as letters from museums and boards concerning exhibits and awards.