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A list of acquired artists' materials including interviews, papers, and records in the U.S. is presented. They include Joyce Anderson Interview, Miriam Beerman Papers, ca. 1945-2005 donated by Miriam Beerman, Mary Butler Papers, 1995-1946 donated by Rachel Armstrong and Mary Butler, Esther Robles Gallery Records, 1947-1986 donated by Robert Robles.

A list of acquired artists' materials including papers, records, and interviews in the U.S. is presented. They include Anneberg Gallery Records, 1966-1981 donated by Craig Anneberg, Anne Ayres Papers, 1972-2003 donated by Anne Ayers, Tony Berlant Interview by Tony Berlant, and Bowery Gallery Records, 1969-2000 donated by Bowery Gallery.

The article offers information on the additional evidence about the books of Baldassarre Castiglione, a Renaissance author in Italy. The author states that there are three more documents that appeared concerning Castiglione's acquisitions of books. These papers are to be found in Cassetta 6 of the Archivio Castiglioni, in the Archivio di Stato at Mantua. He adds that the documents consist of two letters together with a list of payments and expenditures, which a Mantuan merchant Benedetto Adelardo Da Porto addressed to Castiglione in 1523. Furthermore, the author says that the first of these papers is drafted on September 12, 1523 and the others are written around two months later.

The article describes Walter Pater's distinctive approach to history in some detail by interpreting his book "Marius the Epicurean." The author also examines the sources of some of Pater's ideas, and explores his unusual employment of the imaginary portrait as the form for the work. The paper also discusses the bearing which Pater considered historical writing to have upon the present. It argues that book by Pater is not a concealed autobiography, except in the most trivial sense, but the most extended of his essays in cultural history.

The article presents a discussion of painting and drawing in connection with the study of nature. It is of the biggest significance that the child should not be in awe of materials for painting and drawing, such as pencils, paper, paints, and brushes, but regard their presence as he would that of pen and ink. It states that through painting and drawing, the visible token of the child's attention and observation is produced. It emphasizes that painting and drawing should be taken as a matter of course.

The article offers news briefs. The William Gropper papers which are considered as the largest among the collections in William Gropper papers are included in the different papers that came to the Archives through the New York Office. Arnold Friedman's papers were also given to the Archives. The illustrated envelope and letter written by Alexander Calder to Andrew Gagarin is one of the added acquisitions of the Archives.

This article reports that the West Coast Regional Center has acquired additions to several noteworthy collections which includes the papers of Lucien and Marcelle Labaudt, Peter Selz, Harold Paris, and James Smillie. The Labaudt papers are among the richest dealing with developments in the first half of the century in Northern California and consists of correspondence and photographs. The papers of James Smillie have entered the Archives through several various Archives centers like the San Francisco office.

The article discusses the Archives's additional Abraham Rattner, Lincoln Rothschild and Henry Hitchings's papers provided by their widows. It mentions that Rattner's widow, Esther Gentle Rattner provided the papers wherein cross-country automobile trip with Henry Miller was the main focus which was described in the 1941 book of Miller entitled "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare." On the other hand, Elisabeth Rothschild donated the historically interesting documents of both men wherein different writer career aspects, editor, arts administrator, sculptor as well as the unpublished book "Painters of Democracy," and "The Pragmatist in Art" were the main concern of the materials. In addition, Henry Hitchings had produced several books on art instruction that were now offered at the Archives.

The article offers news briefs. Suspension was given to the Archives program review in the first quarter of 1984. The papers of Louis Demott Bunce, one of Portland's well-known painters, are highlighted by the volominous personal correspondence. The letter to Jackson Pollock is one of the most exciting composition of the Bunce papers.