Mac Wells papers
name: label: Creator
content: Wells, Mac, 1925-
label: Names
content: LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2003 and 2005 by Mac Wells.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wells, Mac, 1925-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Orient, N.Y.; New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.7 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951-2002
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wellmac
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material; business and personal correspondence, 1963-2001; lists of paintings sold, 1970 and undated; notes and writings, ca. 1964-1992, undated; printed material; photographs; works of art; exhibition posters and a signed proof poster for Well's exhibition at the Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, 1971; and portfolio prints for the American Abstract Artists' 50th and 60th anniversaries, 1987 and 1997. Correspondence from artists include Alice Adams, Michael Boyd, Bob Huet, Bob Jamieson, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Vincent Longo, Robert Ryman, Diane Vanderlip, among others, 1980s-2001. Also included is a transcript of an interview conducted by John Roach, 1995; Wells's greeting card for the Museum of Modern Art, 1965; sketches by Sol Lewitt; a photo album of Wells's site-specific sculpture,"Valentine Hicks Arc Project" in Greenport, NY, 2001, and snapshots of Wells's stay at Yaddo, ca. 1964-1965.