Family and Friends
name: label: Collection Creator
content: White, Robert, 1921-2002
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content: Robert W. White papers
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content: Robert W. White papers / Series 2: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923-1955
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whiterobe, Subseries 2.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries includes letters, postcards, and greeting cards from family, friends, colleagues, and students. Correspondence provides a detailed account of the routine activities and work of family and friends; letters include references to artists, writers, and other prominent individuals, such as Bernard Berenson, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Carl Milles, and Walter Raemish.

Frequent correspondents include: Gil Franklin, Walker Hancock, Jim Harrison, Susan Hobbes, Bruce Hooten, Willard R. Huntington, Ben LeFarge, Ward Lamb, Suzannah Lessard, John Marquand, Peter Matthiessen, Walker O'Cain, Mark and Katja Oxman, Laura Spencer Pope, Paul and Ellen Resika, Paul Russotto, Sidney Simon, and William Styron. Files also include letters relating to White's activities as an artist and teacher.