Godfrey O. Gaston correspondence
name: label: Creator
content: Gaston, Godfrey O., 1928-
label: Names
content: Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964
label: Names
content: Armstrong, Rodney
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content: Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-
label: Names
content: Chamberlain, Elwyn M.
label: Names
content: Curtis, George A.
label: Names
content: Fischer, Katrina Sigsbee.
label: Names
content: Graham, Nan Wood
label: Names
content: Jauss, Anne Marie
label: Names
content: Kuhn, Brenda, 1911-
label: Names
content: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
label: Names
content: Kup, Karl, 1903-1981
label: Names
content: McKibbin, David Milton Kendall, 1906-1978
label: Names
content: Mount, Charles Merrill
label: Names
content: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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content: Wood, Grant, 1891-1942
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Godfrey O. Gaston.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gaston, Godfrey O., 1928-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gallery director, art historian; New York, N.Y. and Los Angeles, Calif. Born 1928. Died 2002.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gastgodf
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence with and/or relating to artists John Singer Sargent, Walt Kuhn, Grant Wood, George A. Curtis, Anne Marie Jauss, and others. Approximately 300 items.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The Sargent related correspondence (77 items) is between Gaston, Director of Research at Kennedy Galleries and Knoedler Gallery, and David McKibbin, art librarian at the Boston Athenaeum and authority on John Singer Sargent. The letters deal with McKibbin's catalogue raisonné on Sargent, specific works, authenticity, and the Charles M. Mount controversy regarding fake Sargent paintings. Four of the letters are from Rodney Armstrong, Director of the Athenaeum, regarding McKibbin's death and his work on Sargent.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Relating to Kuhn are 29 letters from Brenda Kuhn, daughter of Walt Kuhn, 1971-1980, primarily dealing with Gaston's articles on the vandalization of her father's "Little Nugget" club car which he designed and built in 1937 for the streamliner "City of Los Angeles" and which traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles; ca. 50 letters from George A. Curtis and several articles and catalogs about him; ca. 60 letters from Anne Marie Jauss, mostly from N.J., 1971-1989, along with photos of her work, and an obituary, 1991. Other letters include: one from Grant Wood's sister, Nan Wood Graham, referring to Grant Wood's portrait of Henry Wallace for the cover of Time magazine (1940); several from historian Thomas B. Brumbaugh; two from Wynn Chamberlain from the Edwin Hewitt Gallery; two from Alexander Archipenko, one from Vivian Nichols regarding the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation, one from Katrina Fischer, daughter of Anton Otto Fischer, and one from Karl Kup.