Eleanor Green letters
name: label: Creator
content: Green, Eleanor, 1929-
label: Names
content: Di Suvero, Mark, 1933-
label: Names
content: Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970
label: Names
content: Nordland, Gerald
label: Names
content: Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Curators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Women art historians
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1985 by Eleanor Broome Green.
creator: label: Creator
content: Green, Eleanor, 1929-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gallery owner and art historian; Washington, D.C. During the late 1960s, Eleanor (Sue) Broome Green was curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.greeelea
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3567 and 4391 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Barnett Newman's letter to Herman Warner Williams and seven letters to Green from Mark Di Suvero, Gerald Nordland, and Clyfford Still discuss the progress and exhibition of their work.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 3567: Clyfford Still's 4 letters and a postcard concern plans to visit Green and his views on the state of the art world. Gerald Nordland's letter contains excerpts of his correspondence with Still and his wife regarding a 1967 exhibit of Still's work at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Barnett Newman's letter to Williams, director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, concerns a proposed exhibit of Newman's work at the Corcoran.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 4391: Mark Di Suvero's letter discusses his difficulties in producing work according to a timetable and thanks Green for releasing him from an exhibition deadline.