Artists' Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institute of Contemporary Arts  (Washington, D.C.)
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content: Institute of Contemporary Arts records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.9 Linear Feet (Boxes 3-8)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943-1967
label: Date
content: 1970-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.instcona, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Folders are arranged alphabetically by artist's last name.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artists' Files contains mostly incoming and outgoing correspondence with artists, authors, poets, musicians, composers, choreographers, and others, regarding arrangements of ICA-sponsored performances, lectures, and visiting professorships. Also found are biographies, exhibition printed materials, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings and scattered portrait photographs. Of interest are files on Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copeland, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Aldous Huxley, as well as lecture tour files for Wojciech Fangor, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Janheinz Jahn, Kathleen Raine, and Sir Herbert Read. The bulk of the materials date from 1943-mid-1960s.