Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Swan, Barbara, 1922-
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content: Barbara Swan papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2)
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content: 2 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.swanbarp, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
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content: Swan's correspondence is with family, friends, colleagues, and museums and institutions. Generally, early correspondence is personal and includes letters between Swan and her parents, and her husband, Alan Fink. In the early 1950s, Swan writes from France and Italy. 

Professional correspondence concerns Swan's art career and her work with various writers (and friends), including poets Maxine Kumin and Anne Sexton. Other correspondents include Bernard Chaet, Boston Public Library, Cober Gallery, Dan Gerstin, Gregory Gillespie, Philip Grausman, Nancy Hagin, Edwin and Rosalind Miller, Edith Milton, Katherine Porter, Beverly Quint, Anita Shreve, Claudio Spies, Kathleen Spivak, and Anne Wilder.