Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tacha, Athena, 1936-
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content: Athena Tacha papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-6)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-2016
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tachathe, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Researchers should note additional correspondence concerning commissions, projects, and exhibitions may be found in Series 5 and 6.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The bulk of Athena Tacha's correspondence includes letters from artists, art historians, colleagues, and institutions concerning her career as a working sculptor and educator. Notable correspondents include Nimai Chatterji, Jean Cocteau, Jim Dine, Henri Dorra, Marcel Duchamp, Dan Flavin, Franklin Furnace, Ellen H. Johnson, Ray Johnson, György Kepes, Lincoln Kerstein, Les Levine, Jacques Lipchitz, Lucy Lippard, Madame X, Despo Magoni, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Smithson, Edward Steichen, Tom Sudato, Roman Vishniac, Chuck Welch (Cracker Jack King), and Theodore Wolfe. Some letters may include small illustrations, including a letter from Jean Cocteau. 

Also, there are letters written in Greek between Tacha, her parents, and friends in Greece.