John Button Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Button, John, 1929-1982
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content: John Button papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950-2004
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.buttjohn, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of artist John Button measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1950 to 2004. Correspondence includes two letters to Button from Fairfield Porter, photocopies of six letters and a postcard from Porter, three letters from Button to Zara Cohan, and photocopies of personal and professional letters from Button to various businesses, organizations, elected officials, and friends. Writings consist of a typed poem by Frank O'Hara and copies of poems by Helen Weaver, James Schuyler, and Katherine Porter. Printed material includes exhibition catalogs, announcements, newspaper articles, reviews, publications, and a memorial tribute to the artist Willard Warren Cummings written by Button. Photographs depict Button, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ansen, Peter Orlovsky, Bette Davis, Gerald. L. Fabian, Maxine Groffsky, Harry Matthews, Scott Burton, James Schuyler, Jane Freilicher, Hal Fondren, Joe LeSueur, Frank O'Hara, and a mural by John Button and Mario Dubsky installed at the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse in New York City, circa 1971-1974.