Collection of handwritten and printed documents, recording the establishment and activities of the "Palestine Artists & Sculptors Association" (Jerusalem Chapter). Jerusalem: 1934 (a handful of later items). Hebrew, some German, English and Arabic.
Included:
• Eight drafts and copies of the association's document of regulations, in various stages of completion. One with a small drawing of a Jew blowing the Shofar.
• Twelve protocols of meetings, participated by artists Jakob Steinhardt, Anna Ticho, Ze'ev Raban, Meir Gur Aryeh, and others. Most protocols printed, some handwritten. Three protocols were handwritten by the association's secretary, Meir Gur Aryeh (a small drawing of a dancer and a snake appears in the margin of one of the protocols).
• Hand-signed letters by artists and critics: Mordechai Narkis, Chaim Gliksberg, Leo Fein, and others.
• Bilingual, handwritten draft (Hebrew and German) for an application form.
• Handwritten draft of an invitation for the association's Sukkot exhibition in Bezalel (a list of 33 Jerusalem artists on verso.)
• And more.
Some of the documents are hand-signed with Meir Gur Aryeh's initials; one document (handwritten protocol) hand-signed with Gur-Aryeh's full signature.
Approx. 40 items. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Some half of the documents filed in a binder.
Provenance: the estate of Shlomo Kedmi.