Art and teaching careers, 1936-2016

The Nelson and Olive Sandgren papers include financial and personal records, family ephemera, and documentation related to Nelson Sandgren’s careers as an artist and professor, from 1936 to 2016. His wife, Olive Sandgren, is responsible for the creation of a large portion of the items in this collection including all of the financial records and much of the documentation regarding sabbatical trips and vacations. She also collected and maintained all documentation related to her husband’s career, including clippings, exhibit fliers, and correspondence. Series I (Art and teaching careers) contains newspaper articles, exhibition fliers, correspondence, photographs and slides, original art, and books concerning Nelson’s careers as an artist and professor. Series II (Sketchbooks) contains Sandgren’s sketchbooks. Series III (Journals and diaries) includes Nelson’s personal journals and pocket notebooks and Olive’s diaries concerning various life events. Series IV (Correspondence) includes letters by Olive to her family during World War II and Nelson’s teaching trip to the University of Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico. Series V (Financial records) contains records maintained by Olive from 1971-2007. Series VI (Family records) includes records created by Olive to document the health and education of her children and daughter-in-law.