The Art and Artists Collection consists of correspondence, news clippings, exhibit catalogues, and invitations relating to the arts and specific artists from St. Louis or Missouri. The Artists Series contains correspondence, news clippings, manuscripts, and research notes. Artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Carl Wimar and others who gained prominence in the art world are filed in individual folders. Local artists and information regarding multiple artists are filed in the miscellaneous artists folder. Additional information on selected artists can be found in the collections suggested below in the container list. The General Art Series contains news clippings, art fair programs, exhibit catalogs, invitations, inventories, newsletters, reports, and art gallery literature. Among the items in the General Art Series are proposals for work on the murals of the Cervantes Convention Center, scripts from the 1947 radio program “Art in St. Louis,” programs from St. Louis–area art fairs, and a 1935 listing of the portraits that hang in the state buildings in Jefferson City, Missouri.