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Summary:
Letters from Marsden Hartley to Matilda Rice and Roy Newman.
REEL 130: Letters to Matilda Rice (later Mrs. Richard Elliott), written from Berlin, Venice, Paris and Aix-en-Provence. Hartley comments on his daily activities, his life as a painter, his plans to return to America, his friends, painter John Blomshield and bookdealer Daniel J. Meig. (Several of the letters were dated according to the postmarks on accompanying envelopes. It is not clear whether these were the original envelopes.)
REEL D10, fr. 1251-1271: Letters to composer Roy Newman, 1938-1941, a note, and a poem.
Citation:
Marsden Hartley letter collection, circa 1930-1941. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reels D10 and 130 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Biography Note:
Painter; New York, N.Y.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Letters to Rice (later Mrs. Richard Elliot) were donated 1966 to the NCFA Library by Mrs. Elliot, and transferred 1971 to AAA. The Newman letters were donated 1956 by Mrs. Newman, through Luther Mansfield, Williams College.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
