John Loughery letters
name: label: Creator
content: Loughery, John
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Historians -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 2020 by John Loughery.
creator: label: Creator
content: Loughery, John
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John Loughery is an art critic and historian in Bronx, New York. Loughery wrote many articles and essays on artists and art critics including the biography John Sloan: Painter and Rebel, 1995. Loughery bought one of Elsie Driggs' paintings and also wrote an article about Driggs' life and career for Woman's Art Journal in 1986 and an article about Lee Gatch, for Arts Magazine in 1988.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lougjohn
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The John Loughery letters measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1985-1990. Letters relate to John Loughery's writings about artists and art critics.

Approximately one half of the collection consists of letters from Elsie Driggs to John Loughery from 1985 through 1990. Letters relate to Driggs' works of art, her husband, Lee Gatch, her relationships with other artists, her works of art, Loughery's writings about Driggs, and their friendship, in general.  

Additional letters concern various research and writing by Loughery. Included is a letter from Emily Farnham, Charles Demuth's biographer, and a letter from Julie Mellby, Associate Librarian at the Whitney Museum of American Art, regarding Loughery's interest in Charles Daniel. Included with Farnham's letter is a 1956 transcript interview excerpt with Daniel; letters from artist Sean Scully, Helen Farr Sloan, Ira Glackens and a letter and exhibition catalog from Sonia Gechtoff regarding an article Loughery wrote about her. There is an additional letter to Loughery from Lincoln Kirstein, President of The School of American Ballet, in which he writes about his disgust for Modern art.