Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
label: Collection Creator
content: Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984
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content: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers
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content: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers / Series 1: Jackson Pollock papers and Lee Krasner papers about Jackson Pollock
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1929-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.polljack, Subseries 1.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Files are arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent or subject.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Correspondence prior to 1956 is Jackson Pollock's, and correspondence after 1956 is Lee Krasner's concerning Pollock's artwork and estate. Correspondence is with galleries and museums that exhibited Pollock's work, including several folders concerning exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art. There is fan fan mail, student inquiries, requests for reproductions, and correspondence concerning restoration work. Correspondents of note include Thomas Hart Benton, Tony Smith, Reginald Isaacs, Clyfford Still, and Alfonso Ossorio, gallery owners Betty Parsons, Sidney Janis, and Martha Jackson, and biographers B.H. Friedman, Francis O'Connor, and Bryan Robertson. Also found are condolence letters and flower cards to Lee Krasner after Pollock's death. There is also a 1936 letter to Pollock from David Alfaro Siqueiros and postcards from Helen Frankenthaler and Clement Greenberg.