Correspondence in this series is primarily between Walt Kuhn and his professional and personal contacts and spans his entire career. Correspondents include family members, fellow artists, students, dealers, museum and gallery staff, collectors, friends, fans, critics and colleagues. Copies of outgoing correspondence are often present and are interfiled chronologically. Also included is scattered correspondence of Vera and Brenda Kuhn, and correspondence written after Kuhn died that documents his family's efforts to exhibit, sell, and donate his work.
The content of the correspondence ranges from personal and candid to purely transactional. Artists, collectors, dealers, and critics involved in the creation of significant works of art and collections in the early 20th century are represented. An alphabetical index of selected correspondents in this series is provided in the appendix. Another resource for accessing correspondence are the card files in Series 4.8: Notes and Writings, where correspondence with various contacts was indexed by the Kuhns and filed alphabetically by name.
In 1938, Walt and Vera Kuhn wrote and self-published the pamphlet, "The Story of the Armory Show" and sent it gratis to hundreds of interested parties. Among the correspondence from that year are many heartfelt reponses from fellow artists and other witnesses to the 1913 event, including Charles Sheeler, William Glackens, Stuart Davis, André Derain, Henri Roché, Walter Pach, and J.H. du Bois to name just a few.
Kuhn regularly instructed students through the mail with lengthy letters about painting techniques and methods. San Francisco painter Otis Oldfield is represented by over 100 lengthy letters in this subseries. Kuhn's letters to Oldfield, returned at Kuhn's request in 1945 for a publication project that was never realized, are interfiled. Other correspondence students include Patsy Santo, Frank di Gioia, Watson Bidwell, John Bernhardt, John Laurent, Goldie Paley, and Eric Lundgren. See the appendix for dates.
Types of material include letters (sometimes illustrated), postcards, invitations, announcements, and Christmas cards, which are sometimes made of original artwork. Enclosures are often found, such as photographs, clippings, tracings of art work, writings, receipts, passes and membership cards. Some letters indicate enclosures that were previously separated and can be found in other series.
Significant writings enclosed with correspondence include an early vaudeville script written by Kuhn and his friend, Archibald Macnab (1923); drafts of articles about Kuhn by the poet Genevieve Taggard (1931), critic Alan Burroughs (1930), and patron Eloise Spaeth (1950); and an unpublished history of the 1913 Armory Show by Paul Bird (1938). Photographs and photographic postcards are also found throughout the series. Included are photo postcards from Spain and France (1925), and from Arizona and California (1928); and photographs related to Kuhn's work for the Union Pacific Railroad Company (1936, 1938).
Additional correspondence can be found throughout the collection. See individual series descriptions for details.
See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents in Series 4.3.
Appendix: Selected Correspondents in Series 4.3:
The following is a selective list of correspondents represented in Series 4.3: General Correspondence, with cross-references to correspondence in 4.4: Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and 4.5: Provenance Files. It is not comprehensive. An effort has been made to index regionally and nationally known artists, Kuhn's patrons and students, models, art historians, writers, museum and gallery staff, dealers, and persons known to be well-represented in other collections at the Archives of American Art. Cross-references to existing letters in other parts of the Kuhn papers and Armory Show records are included selectively. Correspondents who have not been indexed include family members, neighbors, business contacts from his theater and vaudeville work of the early 1920s, and from his railroad car design work from 1936 to 1948.
Abeel, Neilson (American-Scandinavian Foundation): 1930 (3 letters)
Abercrombie and Fitch: 1948-1949 (4 letters)
Adair, William Gleason: 1945
Adams, Philip R. (Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts): 1938-1946, 1948-1951 (51 letters; See also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Adams, Ruth Hutchins: 1943-1944 (6 letters)
Albany Institute of History and Art (see MacFarlane)
Aldis, Graham: 1928
American Print Makers (see also Goldsmith, B.K.): 1928 (2 letters)
American Federation of the Arts: 1950 (see also N. Anderson, Messer, Pope, Prior, E. Spaeth)
Ames, Mary (Mrs. John W.; see Goodyear, Mary)
Ames, Winslow (Lyman Allyn Museum): 1934 (3 letters)
Anderson, Nesta (Mrs. A. Scott; American Federation of Arts): 1951-1952 (3 letters)
Anderson, Sherwood: 1928, undated (2 letters)
Angle, Catherine (Mrs. Everett E.; Nebraska Art Association): 1946
Anisfeld, Mara: 1932
Arden Gallery (see Meigs and Smoluchowska)
Arensberg, Walter C.: 1938 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition (Winslow Carlton): 1963 (see also Henry Street Settlement)
Arnold, Grace (Mrs. Harry Bartley): 1941, 1945 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Art Students League of New York: 1927
Arts Club of Chicago: 1927, 1934, 1956 (6 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Asherman, David: 1936, undated (2 letters including Christmas card with original, signed print)
Austin, Darrel (see also Perls): 1940, 1941 (4 letters)
Bahr, A.W. (Billy): 1923, 1938, 1945, 1947-1949 (7 letters)
Balkan, Edward Duff: 1932
Ballin, Hugo: 1937 (2 letters)
Bangsbergh, Raymond: 1939
Barber, George R.: 1933
Barr, Alfred H. Jr. (Museum of Modern Art): 1929, 1934, 1945 (5 letters)
Barrie, Erwin S. (Grand Central Art Galleries): 1927, 1951 (5 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Barrington, Lewis: 1932
Barry, Bobby (see Provenance Files, "Portrait of Bobby Barry")
Bartlett, Frederic Clay, Jr.: 1939-1940, 1942-1943, 1945, 1947 (7 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Bartley, Louise: 1931
Baur, John I.H. (Brooklyn Museum): 1946 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Beals, Ralph A. (New York Public Library): 1949
Bear, Donald (Santa Barbara Museum of Art): 1936-1938, 1945, 1948, 1949 (6 items including Christmas cards with original prints; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Beerbohm, Marvin (Detroit School of Art): 1938
Bell, Janet M. (John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art): 1952 (4 letters)
Belmont, Eleanor R.: 1935 Benjamin, Ruth: 1940
Bernays, Edward L. (see also Doris E. Fleischman): 1928, 1935-1937 (4 letters)
Bernhardt, John: 1948-1950 (4 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1947)
Beuf, Carlo: 1928
Bidwell, Watson (Denver Art Museum): 1936-1940, 1945, 1947, undated (23 letters)
Biesel, C.: 1931-1933, 1935 (5 items including Christmas cards with original prints)
Biesel, Frances (Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; see Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Bird, Isabel (Mrs. Paul): 1940, 1942, 1944 (4 letters)
Bird, Paul: 1938, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1949 (5 letters)
Bissell, Julia A. (Mrs. Alfred E.; Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts): 1946
Bjorkman, Edwin: 1931, 1934, 1941 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Blackie, John Haldam (Vanguard Press): 1928
Bluemner, Oscar: 1932 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1930, 1936)
Bliss, Betty: 1931, 1933, 1935 (3 items including Christmas card with original print)
Bloch, E. Maurice: 1949 (3 letters)
Block, Maurice (Huntington Library): 1938
Blount, Rose M. (Denver Art Museum): 1934, 1936, 1938-1939, 1941, 1943, 1949 (8 letters)
Boas, George: 1928
Boissevain, Engen (see Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Bolander, Karl (Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts): 1928
Botkin, Henry: 1937
Bouché, Louis: 1949
Bowman, Eleanor: 1931 (Christmas card with print)
Boyce, Ruth: 1930
Boyer, C. Philip (Mellon Galleries): 1933
Bransom, Paul: 1938, 1949 (2 letters)
Bridaham, Lester B. (Strathmont Museum): 1958
Briggs, Berta N.: 1938
Britt, George ( -- New York World-Telegram -- ): 1938
Brodsky, Harold: 1931-1933, 1935-1939, 1943, undated (16 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Brooklyn Museum: 1930, 1957 (4 letters; see also Baur)
Brown, Adele Smith (Mrs. Philip Stoddard Brown; see Smith, Adele; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Brown, Henry Collins (Museum of the City of New York): 1942
Brown, Margaret E. (Grace Horne Galleries): 1943-1944 (5 letters)
Brown, Rollo Walter: 1928
Bruton, Helen: 1930
Bufano, Remo: 1928
Burroughs, Alan: 1928, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1941 (13 letters)
Burroughs, Clyde (Detroit Institute of Arts): 1928, 1930, 1938, 1943-1944 (11 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Butler, Roland (Ringling Brothers): 1944
Call, Mary Bradish and Leigh: 1930, 1932, 1935, 1936 (original Christmas cards)
Campbell, Heyworth: 1926
Candler, Duncan: 1927, 1928, 1941 (4 letters)
Canfield, Cass (Harper and Brothers): 1937, 1947-1948 (5 letters)
Cantor, Eddie: 1923
Carlton, Mrs. A.E.: 1952
Carnegie Institute: 1947, 1948 (2 receipts; see also Kepper, O'Connor, Saint-Gaudens; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Carr, Helen Renne (Mrs. Raymond J. Carr): 1946, 1949 (3 letters)
Carroll, John: 1938, 1939, 1941 (3 items, including Christmas card with print)
Carroll, Patricia (Mrs. Anton van Dereck): 1930
Cashin, Bonnie (typed copy): 1947 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Catlin, Mimi (Museum of Modern Art): 1948
Chapin, Louise V.: 1943-1944 (12 letters)
Chillman, James (Museum of Fine Arts of Houston): 1928
Clapp, Frederick Mortimer (The Frick Collection): 1938
Clark, Virginia and Marshall: 1932-1935 (4 Christmas cards with original prints)
Clark, Virginia Keep: 1928, 1934 (2 letters)
Clark, Walter L. (Grand Central Galleries): 1930
Clear, Charles Val (Akron Art Institute): 1946
Coates, Dorothy: 1925, 1948 (2 letters)
Coffin, Robert M. (Art Academy of Cincinnati): 1950-1951 (4 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Cook, Helen Fetter: 1931, 1932, 1936, 1938, 1941-1943 (8 items including Christmas cards)
Cooper, Gary and Rocky (Mrs. Gary): 1936-1937 (2 letters)
Connelly, Marc: 1940
Cosgrave, John O'Hara: 1928, 1938 (2 letters)
Crocker, Anna B. (Portland Art Association): 1928
Crowninshield, Frank (Vogue, Art News): 1928, 1932, 1935-1936, 1940-1943, 1946 (13 letters; see also Graham)
Cuneo, Mrs. Rinaldo: 1938, 1940 (3 letters)
Cushing, Lily Emmet (Clark Boyd): 1931, 1942, 1945-1948, 1955 (7 letters)
Cutler, Ann (Hotel Marguery): 1931
Cutler, Carl Gordon: 1939
Cutler, Merritt: 1927, 1928, 1942-1945, 1948, 1963 (10 letters)
Daniel, Harry M.: 1952-1953 (2 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1946)
Davidson, Alfred: 1945
Davies Orchards (David Davies): 1928, 1929 (3 letters)
Davis, Stuart: 1938 (2 letters)
De Bois, J.H. (Kunsthandel en Antiquariaat, Haarlem): 1938, 1939 (3 letters)
Dennis, Jan: undated
Derain, André: 1938
Diamond, Harry: 1948
Di Gioia, Frank: 1931, 1933-1948, 1950, 1953, undated (50 items, including original printed Christmas cards)
Dirks, Rudolph: 1925
Dorgan, T.A.: 1927
Dorl, Theodore: 1929, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1938 (9 letters)
Downs, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar: 1931-1937 (7 Christmas cards with photographs)
Downtown Gallery (see Halpert and Goldsmith)
Duckworth, J. Herbert: 1933, 1934 (6 letters)
Dudensing Galleries Inc. (Richard Dudensing): 1930, 1931, 1932 (4 letters)
East West Gallery: 1929
Eggers, George William (Worcester Art Museum, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm): 1927, 1929 (4 letters)
Elfers, Herbert (Durand-Ruel, Inc.): 1945, 1947, 1948 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Ellis, Freemont (autograph print, with card from Sally Lewis): [1923]
Ellsworth, Mary Louise: undated
Emery, Irene: 1958 (2 letters)
Ester, Ruth (model): 1944-1945 (6 letters)
Etchison, Bruce (Washington County Museum of Fine Arts): 1951-1953 (22 letters)
Evans, Anne (Denver Art Museum): 1933
Evers, Fred: 1939
Ferrand, Charles: 1919, 1934, 1937, 1940 (3 letters)
Findlay, W.C. Jr. (Findlay Galleries): 1939 (2 letters)
Fischkin, Rose Mary: 1928
Fitzgerald, George F. (model): 1927, 1933 (2 letters; 1 signed "Man From Eden")
Fleischman, Doris E.: 1938
Fliesler, Joseph R.: 1935, 1938, 1949 (3 letters)
Forbes, Edward (Fogg Art Museum): 1928
Force, Juliana (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1929, 1932-1937, 1939-1941, 1943 (21 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Fortune -- (magazine; Deborah Calkins): 1956
Fox, William Henry: 1923, 1937 (2 letters)
Francis, Emily O. (Contemporary Arts): 1935
Francis, Henry Sayles (Cleveland Museum of Art): 1932
Fraenkel, John: 1934, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1953 (8 letters)
Frankel, Robert ( -- The Art News -- ): 1939
Frankenstein, Alfred V. ( -- San Francisco Chronicle -- ): 1940 (2 letters)
Frankfurter, Alfred M.: 1938, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950 (10 letters)
Fraser, Joseph T. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts): 1947, 1951 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Free, Karl R.: 1935
Freeman, Anna (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1938 (2 letters)
Frey, Erwin F.: 1943, 1945, 1947 (4 letters)
Frueh, Alfred: 1925, 1953 (2 letters)
Freund, Frank E.W.: 1932, 1934-1935, 1938 (7 letters)
Friede, Donald S. (Boni and Liveright Publishers): 1927
Frink, Angelika W.: 1941 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Gallagher, Edward J.: 1952
Gallatin, Albert E.: 1927, 1928 (3 letters)
Gardner, Paul (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art): 1936, 1938-1945, 1947-1950 (26 items including Christmas card with original print; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Gardner, Mrs. William (see Owen)
Garrett, Garet: 1928
Garrett, Alice (Mrs. John Work): 1938, 1939 (5 items, including Christmas card with original photograph)
Gates, Margaret (Studio House, Philips Memorial Gallery): 1935
Genauer, Emily (New York World Telegram): 1947
Gest, J.H. (Cincinnati Museum Association): 1928 (3 letters)
Gise, Margaret (Marie Harriman Gallery): 1938 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and Provenance Files, "Girl in Shako" and "Guide")
Glackens, William and Edith: 1938
Glackens, Edith: 1938, 1941, 1943, 1949, 1950 (7 items, including outgoing letters of condolence when William Glackens died, and response from Edith with account of his last day)
Godwin, Black-More (Toledo Museum of Art): 1932 (2 letters)
Goldsmith, B.K. (American Print Makers, Downtown Gallery): 1928, 1929, 1930 (3 letters)
Goldsmith, Morton R.: 1936
Goodrich, Lloyd (Whitney Museum of American Art; see Provenance Files, "Man with Ship Model")
Goodyear, A. Conger: 1934, 1938, 1941, 1949 (5 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, and Provenance Files, "Dryad" and "Man From Eden")
Goodyear, Mary (Mrs. A. Conger, also Mrs. John W. Ames): 1936-1942, 1947, 1949, 1954 (44 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Grace Horne Galleries (see M.E. Brown, Littlefield; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Graham, John D.: 1937
Greason, Donald (Deerfield Academy): 1942 (discussing Harry Whitney)
Grossman, Ted (Edwin Booth): 1938, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1948, 1951, 1952 (13 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Grumman, Paul H. (Joslyn Memorial Art Museum): 1943
Hagen, Oskar: 1938, 1939 (2 letters)
Hagerman, Percy (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center): 1949
Hale, Dorothea: 1928
Hale, Robert B. (Metropolitan Museum of Art): 1950-1951 (2 letters)
Halpert, Edith (Downtown Gallery): 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 (7 letters; New Year card 1928 printed with collage of Walt Kuhn)
Hall, Porter: 1941, 1942, 1944, 1948 (4 items, including Christmas card)
Hanna, Mark: 1942-1944, 1946-1949 (17 letters)
Hare, Betty (Mrs. Meredith): 1923, 1930-1935, 1939-1941, 1948 (21 letters)
Harper's Bazaar -- (see Kaufman, Snow)
Harriman, Marie: 1946, 1947, 1949, 1958 (4 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Harriman, Mary W.: 1930
Harriman, W. Averell: 1936, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1949 (5 letters)
Harrison, Preston: 1928, 1929, 1930 (to Mrs. Harriman), 1933, 1935 (8 letters)
Harshe, Robert (Art Institute of Chicago): 1928, 1929, 1932 (4 letters)
Hart, George Overbury "Pop": 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932 (6 letters)
Hart, Jean Overbury: 1948 (2 letters)
Hartell, John A. (Cornell University College of Architecture): 1941-1942, 1948 (11 letters)
Hartley, Marsden: 1937 (2 letters)
Hartmann, Sadakichi: 1938, 1939-1943 (8 letters, 1940 letter accompanied by ink drawing)
Harvey, Dorothy Dudley: 1933, 1936 (2 letters)
Hatch, John Davis Jr. (Albany Institute of History and Art): 1938, 1941 (2 letters)
Hatfield, Dalzell (Dalzell Hatfield Galleries): 1940
Haven, Ethel (Museum of Modern Art): 1930 (minutes of board meeting), 1932 (list of names; 2 items; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Hawkins, Frances (Museum of Modern Art): 1943
Hayes, Helen: 1946
Heicher, Joyce: 1941
Heil, Walter (M.H. de Young Memorial Museum): 1943
Hein Antiques: 1931, undated (4 letters)
Henry Street Settlement: 1963
Hess, Thomas: 1953 (Christmas card)
Heun, Arthur: 1930, 1932-1937, undated (9 items, including Christmas cards)
Hitchcock, Thomas Jr.: 1927, 1930, 1934-1937, 1939 (7 items, including Christmas cards)
Hodgson, Daphne: 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939 (15 letters)
Hoffman, Irving: 1947
Hood, Gretchen: 1928, 1934 (2 letters)
Hope, Henry R.: 1948, 1951 (3 letters; see also Provenance Files, "Sliced Loaf")
Howard, Cecil: 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938 (5 letters)
Howe, Mrs. Frederic: 1931, 1933 (3 letters)
Howe, Thomas Carr (California Palace of the Legion of Honor): 1947
Huggins, Wilfrid: 1932
Hunter, E.R. (Norton Gallery and School of Art): 1947
Hutchins, Ruth (see Adams)
Hutton, Ruth: 1931
Ingersoll, R. Sturgis: 1942, 1944, 1951 (4 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and Provenance Files, "Young Girl")
Javis, Sidney (Museum of Modern Art): 1939 (2 letters)
Jeffreys, Lee: 1931
Jewell, Edward Alden: 1938
Jewett, Eleanor ( -- Chicago Tribune -- ): 1928
Johnson, G.M. (to Vera): 1909 (2 letters)
Johnston, William: 1927
Jonson, Raymond: 1938
Joslyn Memorial Art Museum (see Grumman, Kingman; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Kahn, Otto: 1927, 1928 (2 letters)
Kaltenbach, G.E. (Art Institute of Chicago): 1931
Kanzler, Josephine (Mrs. Ernest): 1945, 1947 (3 items including Christmas card)
Kaufman, Beatrice ( -- Harper's Bazaar -- ): 1935 (2 letters)
Kaufman, George: 1940
Keezer, Dexter M. (Reed College): 1936, 1937, 1941, 1945 (6 letters)
Kelekian, Dikran: 1922-1924, 1933, 1937, undated (9 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Keller, Henry: 1936, 1937, 1938 (3 letters)
Kennedy, Jacqueline: 1961
Kenefick, Theodore G.: 1956
Kennerley, Mitchell (Anderson Galleries, Inc.): 1938, 1941 (4 letters)
Keppel, Frederick P. (Carnegie Corporation): 1938 (2 letters)
Kerr, George F. (Society of Illustrators): 1930 (2 letters)
Kimball, Fiske (The Pennsylvania Museum): 1928, 1939 (2 letters)
Kingman, Eugene (Joslyn Memorial Art Museum): 1951 (4 letters)
Kirsch, Dwight (University of Nebraska Department of Art): 1941, 1943-1944, 1946, 1950, 1953 (9 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Kirstein, Lincoln (Museum of Modern Art): 1932
Kissel, Eleanora: 1928
Kistler, Aline ( -- San Francisco Chronicle -- , -- The San Franciscan -- , M.H. de Young Memorial Museum): 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933 (6 letters)
Klopfer, Donald S. (Random House, Inc.): 1940
Kohl, Dorothy (Philadelphia Art Alliance): 1945 (3 letters)
Komroff, Manuel: 1938
Kravis, Hal: 1936, 1941 (3 letters)
Kunstverein München E.V.: 1930
Kurtzworth, Harry Muir (Los Angeles Art Association, California Academy of the Fine Arts): 1938 (2 letters)
Lahr, Bert: 1948 (see also Provenance Files, "Portrait of Bert Lahr")
Labaudt, Lucien: 1929, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938 (5 items including Christmas card; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Lamb, James E.: 1928, 1930, 1935, 1937 (4 letters)
Larcada, Dick: 1963
Laurent, John: 1947-1950, undated (12 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Laurent, Mimi (Mrs. Robert): 1952
Laurent, Robert (Indiana University): 1923, 1949, 1953 (8 letters; see also Provenance Files, "Black Butterfly")
Lea, Lida Gorwin; 1935-1938, 1942 (8 letters, including Christmas card with original print; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Lenssen, Heidi: 1938, 1943, 1947, 1949-1951, 1963, 1964 (9 letters)
Levy, Adele Rosenwald (Mrs. David M.): 1948
Lewis, Agnes Knox: 1945
Lewis, Sally: 1923, 1939 (3 letters, includes signed print by Ellis Freemont; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Lie, Jonas: 1930
Lindsay, Howard: 1940
Littlefield, William (Grace Horne's Galleries): 1929
Liveright, Horace (Boni and Liveright Publishers): 1928
Lovins, Henry (Hollywood Art Center School): 1938
Luce, Molly: undated (Christmas card with print)
Lundgren, Eric: 1947-1953 (61 letters)
Lustgarten, Samuel (see Provenance Files, "Morning")
MacFarlane, Janet R. (Albany Institute of History and Art): 1958
Macnab, Archibald Leavenworth: 1923 (includes typescript of play "The Sculpting of Money"), 1927, 1929 (2 letters)
MacRae, Elmer: 1939
Mager, Gus: 1938, 1941-1943, 1946 (9 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Mangravite, Peppino (Cooper Union Art Schools): 1941
Mann, Margo (model): 1950
Marie Harriman Gallery (see Harriman, Sardi, Smoluchowska, or Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Matthews, H. L. ( -- The New York Times -- ): 1928
Matthias, Blanche: 1923, 1927, 1929, 1931-1937, 1940-1941 (19 items, including Christmas cards; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
McBride, Henry: 1935
McBride, Mary Margaret (WOR radio): 1940
McCausland, Elizabeth: 1938, 1948 (2 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
McCormick, Chauncey (Art Institute of Chicago): 1938
McCurdy, Edward: 1928
McDaniel, Beatrice (Mrs. Bruce): 1940
McIntyre, Robert: 1931 (2 letters)
McKim, William: 1945
Meigs, Ruth Averell (Arden Gallery): 1929 (2 letters)
Mencken, H.L.: 1945, 1946, 1947 (3 letters; see also Series 4.8: Notes and Writings)
Merrick, James Kirk (Philadelphia Art Alliance): 1945
Messer, Thomas M. (American Federation of Arts): 1952-1954 (5 letters)
Metcalf, Thomas N. (Boston Museum of Modern Art, Inc.): 1938, 1940 (2 letters)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1949, 1956 (5 letters; see also Hale, F.H. Taylor, Wehle)
Mellon, Minna (Mrs. Paul): 1946
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (typed copy): 1947 (see also Engen Boissevain in Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Miller, Dorothy C. (Museum of Modern Art): 1943
Miller, Lulu F. (The Hackley Gallery of Fine Arts): 1928
Milliken, William M.: 1936 (2 letters)
Minnigerode, C. Powell (Corcoran Gallery of Art): 1928 (2 letters)
Montclair Art Museum: 1928, 1932 (2 letters)
Montgomery, Gertrude: 1928
More, Hermon (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1933, 1935, 1943, 1948-1950 (8 letters)
Morgan, Agnes: 1938
Morison, David (Hamilton Easter Field Art Foundation): 1930
Morley, Grace: 1936, 1937-1939, 1943 (11 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Morse, John (see Provenance Files, "Man and Sea Beach")
Muguruza Otaño, Pedro: 1928
Museum of Art of Ogonquit: 1953 (see also Strater)
Museum of Modern Art (see Barr, Catlin, Haven, Hawkins, Kirstein, D. Miller, Pelles, A. Porter)
Nadelman, Viola M. (Mrs. Elie): 1947
Nankivell, Frank: 1934-1935 (Christmas cards with signed prints)
National Arts Club: 1932
Newhall, Beaumont (Museum of Modern Art): 1938
Nichols, Hobart (National Academy of Design): 1948
Nichols, J.C. (William Rockhill Nelson Trust): 1948
North, Henry Ringling (Ringling Brothers): 1941 (2 letters)
Norton Gallery and School of Art (see Hunter)
Norton, Ralph H. (Norton Gallery and School of Art): 1948
O'Connor, John Jr. (Carnegie Institute): 1943, 1945-1946, 1948 (8 letters)
Oldfield, Otis: 1928-1946, 1948-1949, 1951-1952, undated (111 letters; 1931, 1941, undated include Chritmas cards with print; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
O'Neil, John (University of Oklahoma): 1946
Owen, Ronnie (Mrs. William Gardner): 1941-1942, 1944-1946, 1948-1949 (15 letters)
Owens, Virginia B.( -- Christian Science Monitor -- ): 1943 (2 letters)
Paley, Goldie (Mrs. Samuel): 1941-1942 (2 letters)
Pandolfini, Giuseppi: 1938
Pach, Walter: 1938
Pascin, Jules: 1921
Passedoit, Georgete: 1930, 1931, 1932 (3 letters)
Patterson, Augusta Owen ( -- Town and Country -- ): 1930 (2 letters)
Paxson, Gordon (Syracuse University School of Art; see Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Peat, Wilbur D. (John Herron Art Institute): 1944, 1945 (7 letters)
Pelles, Geraldine (Museum of Modern Art): 1953 (3 letters)
Pelton, Agnes: 1938
Penfield, Louis: 1945, 1947-1949 (5 letters)
Penrose, Julie: 1937, 1948, 1951 (3 letters)
Perkins, Frances: 1949
Perls, Klaus G. (Perls Galleries): 1940
Perrine, Van: 1938
Perry, Mitzi: 1942
Petit, Margaret: 1928, 1931-1933, 1935-1938, undated (13 items including Christmas cards)
Philadelphia Art Alliance (see Kohl, Merrick, Williamson)
Phillips, Duncan: 1927, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1944 (15 letters)
Pinchot, Ruth Pickering: 1932
Poland, Reginald: 1938, 1947-1948 (12 letters)
Pope, Annemarie (American Federation of Arts): 1951 (5 letters)
Porter, Allen (Museum of Modern Art): 1945
Porter, Bruce: 1938
Potter, Fuller: 1933, 1934, 1936, 1944 (6 items including Christmas card)
Pratt, Mrs. Harold Irving; 1934 (2 letters, plus notes from lecture)
Pratt, Julia D.: 1927, 1928 (2 letters)
Pressoir, E.E.: 1928 (Guggenheim application), 1932 (2 letters)
Price, Frederic Newlin (Ferargil Galleries): 1948 (3 letters)
Prior, Harris K. (American Federation of Arts): 1957
Purnell, Lewis M.: 1943
Putnam, Samuel: 1928 (2 letters)
Quinn, John (see also Watson): 1919, 1920, 1921 (5 letters)
Quinton, Cornelia B. Sage (California Legion of Honor): 1928
Randolph, Lee F. (California School of Fine Arts): 1930, 1942 (2 letters)
Raseman, Richard P. (Cranbrook Academy of Art): 1940
Rathbone, Perry T.: 1946
Reber, Gottlieb Friedrich: 1931, 1932, 1933, undated (3 letters)
Redmond, Johnston: 1933
Renne, Otto A.: 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940 (5 letters; see also Carr)
Renwick, Charles S. Jr.: 1945-1946 (2 letters)
Rickey, George: 1937
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey (see Butler and North)
Rivière, Nina S. (Toledo Museum of Art): 1932
Robinson, Edward G.: 1936 (2 letters)
Roché, H.P.: 1928, 1938, 1939 (7 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Rogers, Christopher H. (regarding Francis Rogers): 1930
Rogers, Jane: 1932
Rogers, Meyric (Art Institute of Chicago): 1948 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Rogers, Will: [1926]
Roosevelt, Jean S. (Mrs. Philip James): 1928
Rosenberg, Paul (Paul Rosenberg and Co.): 1942, 1946, 1948 (8 letters)
Ross, Leola: 1928, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1937 (5 items including Christmas cards)
Rossiter, Henry P.: 1928
Rothschild, Howard: 1927
Roullier, Alice F. (Arts Club of Chicago): 1925, 1927, 1933, 1941 (8 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Rousseau, Théodore: 1935
Rumsey, Mary H. (Mrs. C.C.): 1930, 1934-1936, 1938, 1940, 1945, 1949, undated (11 items including Christmas card and receipts for paintings sold)
Ryan, Beatrice Judd (Beaux Arts Galerie): 1928, 1929 (4 letters)
Saint-Gaudens, Homer (Carnegie Institute): 1931, 1933, 1940, 1946-1949 (18 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Saklatwalla, Ann: 1944-1945 (2 letters; see also Provenance Files, "Bareback Rider")
Saklatwalla, B.D.: 1928, 1930-1936, 1941 (2 letters, 7 Christmas cards containing prints, 1931 print signed Jean Crotti)
Salinger, Jehanne Bietry: 1928-1930, 1933, 1935, 1946-1948 (includes signed print by Harry Wickey; 17 letters)
Salons of America: 1923, 1924
Salpeter, Harry ( -- Esquire -- ): 1936-1938 (6 letters)
Sanborn, Robert Alden: 1945
Sands, Mary (Museum of Modern Art): 1930
Sanger, Helen: 1948-1950, 1953, 1963 (16 letters)
Sanger, Margaret (American Birth Control League, Inc.): 1928
Santa Barbara Museum of Art (see Bear, Steele, Story; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Santo, Patsy: 1937-1946, 1948-1949, 1953 (103 letters, some illustrated)
Sardi Gina, Anne (Marie Harriman Gallery): 1941-1942, 1947, 1949 (6 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and Provenance Files, "Girl in Shako" and "Guide")
Schlesigner, Louis: 1949
Schmit, Waldo (Smithsonian Institution): 1936-1949
Schulte, Antoinette: 1932-1938 (8 items, including Christmas card with original print)
Seiberling, Frank Jr. (Toledo Museum of Art): 1943, 1946 (3 letters)
Seymour Halpern Associates: 1945
Shapiro, Meyer: 1938
Sharkey, Alice M. (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1944
Shaw, Marjorie: 1930 (Christmas card with woodblock print)
Sheeler, Charles: 1938 (See also Series 4.2: Walt Kuhn Letters to Family)
Shostac, Percy (Labor Division, Greater New York Fund): 1941
Shyrock, Burnett H.: 1938 (4 letters)
Siple, Walter H. (Cincinnati Art Museum): 1938, 1942, 1945 (4 letters)
Skeoch, Mary E.: 1934-1936, 1938 (8 letters)
Skira, Alfred: 1932 (5 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1933)
Smith, Adele (Studio House, Philips Memorial Gallery, Museum of Modern Art Gallery of Washington): 1935, 1938, 1939 (5 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Smith, Cecil: 1937-1938 (3 letters)
Smith, Gordon M. (Currier Gallery of Art): 1950
Smoluchowska, Donia (Arden Gallery, Marie Harriman Gallery): 1929, 1932 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Snow, Carmel ( -- Harper's Bazaar -- ): 1935, 1941 (2 letters)
Spaeth, Eloise (Mrs. Otto L.; Dayton Art Institute, American Federation of Arts, The Guild Hall): 1943-1953, 1960, undated (50 letters)
Spaeth, Otto: 1943 (4 letters)
Spier, LaSalle (brother of Vera Kuhn): 1914-1963
Spingarn, Amy (Mrs. Joel Elias): 1938 (2 letters)
Sprague, Marshall (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center): 1948 (2 letters)
Steele, Mary Oldfield (Santa Barbara Museum of Art): 1953-1954 (4 letters)
Stendahl, E.L. (Stendahl Art Galleries): 1939 (3 letters)
Stetson, Carroll: 1932
Stickney, Dorothy (Mrs. Howard Lindsay): 1941
Stinson, Eugene: 1928
Story, Ala (Santa Barbara Museum of Art): 1954 (2 letters)
Stout, George L.: 1952
Strain, Gertrude: 1935
Stransky, Joseph: 1927
Strater, Henry (Museum of Art of Ogonquit): 1953-1954 (4 letters)
Stroh, Earl W.: 1942 (2 letters)
Studio House (see Gates, Law, Smith)
Swartz, Susan (Art Institute of Zanesville, Ohio): 1943-1944 (7 letters)
Swope, Herbert Bayard: 1949
Sykes, Maltby (Alabama Polytechnic Institute): 1946
Taggard, Genevieve: 1930, 1931, 1933, 1941, undated (13 letters)
Tanner, Ethel: 1930 (Christmas card with woodblock print)
Taylor, Bertrand: 1945
Taylor, Francis Henry (Metropolitan Museum of Art): 1949 (see also Provenance Files, "Blue Clown")
Taylor, Henry White: 1938
Taylor, Olive (Mrs. Bertrand): 1944-1946, 1948-1949, undated (14 letters)
Teague, Virginia (Mrs. R.L.): 1951 (2 letters)
Teigen, Peter (Princeton University School of Architecture): 1928, 1929 (2 letters)
Thayer, Ellen ( -- The Dial -- ): 1927, 1928 (2 letters)
Thompson, Mark B.: 1934, 1935, 1937 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Thorp, George G. (American Federation of Arts): 1947
Toledo Museum of Art (see Godwin, Rivière, Seiberling)
Toler, Sidney: 1941
Todd, Bianca: 1929, 1933, 1934 (3 items including Christmas cards with original prints)
Trovato, Joseph (Munson-Williams-Proctor-Institute): 1946, 1949 (2 letters)
Tucker, Allen: 1938
Turney, Winthrop: 1924
Tyson, Carroll: 1934
Underwood, Gilbert Stanley (architect): 1938, 1948 (5 letters)
Valentiner, Dr. W.R. (Detroit Institute of Arts): 1945
Valez, Dr. Xavier de: 1934
Venendi, Mario: 1949 (3 letters)
Vidar, Frede: 1936
Vreeland, Mr. and Mrs. Francis (Toby and Marion): 1934-1938 (6 letters)
Wadsworth, Alice (Mrs. James W.): 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945 (8 letters)
Waida, Robert: 1928
Waldron, James M. K. (Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery): 1936, 1937, 1961 (3 letters)
Walker, Maynard: 1946, 1948-1949, 1951-1952, 1955, 1961 (10 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and Provenance Files, "Guide" and "Veteran Acrobat")
Ward, William: 1949
Washburn, Gordon B. (Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art): 1945
Watkins, C. Law (Studio House, Phillips Memorial Gallery): 1933 (2 letters)
Watson, John (for John Quinn): 1914, 1921 (2 letters), 1938
Watson, Nan: 1928, undated
Wear, Verna (Mortimer Brandt Gallery): 1943 (2 letters)
Weber, Max: 1938
Weber, W.: 1928
Wehle, Harry B. (Metropolitan Museum of Art; see Provenance Files, "Girl in Uniform")
Weibel, Adèle (Detroit Institute of Arts): 1938
Weigel, Paul: 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937 (4 letters)
Weinberger, Alfred: 1931
Weir, Ernest and Mary: 1945 (2 letters)
Weng, Siegfried R. (Dayton Art Institute): 1943 (2 letters)
Werner, M.R.: 1928
Weston, Edward: 1928-1930, 1932-1933, 1935, 1937-1938, 1941 (9 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Wetmore, Edith: 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932-1936 (16 items including Christmas cards)
White, Frances M.: 1945
Whiting, F.A. Jr. ( -- Magazine of Art -- ): 1938
Whitney, Harry: 1942 (see also Greason and Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Whitney Studio Galleries (see also Force): 1929
Whitney Museum of American Art (see Force, Free, More, Freeman, Sharkey, Goodrich)
Wilder, Mitchell A. (Colorado Springs): 1946-1953 (75 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Wilenski, R.H.: 1938, 1939, 1945-1946 (8 letters)
Williams, Adele (Women's club of Richmond): 1930
Williamson, Ada (Philadelphia Art Alliance): 1927, 1928, 1945, 1949 (19 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts (see Bissell)
Wilson, Henry J.: 1950
Winser, Beatrice: 1935, 1940 (7 letters)
Woelfle, Arthur M.: 1914 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)
Woelfle, Georgiana: 1936, 1937, 1963 (3 letters)
Wood, Stanley: 1928
Zayas, Marius de: 1934, 1939, 1947, 1948 (10 letters)
Zügel, Heinrich von: 1904
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Collection Citation:
Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records, 1859-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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