Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pollock, Charles C.
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content: Charles Pollock papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927-1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pollchar, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The series is arranged as 2 subseries. Letters are arranged chronologically by recipient.

2.1: Family, 1929-1994

2.2: General, 1927-1988
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence is arranged as two subseries, family and general. Family correspondence includes substantial letters from Charles Pollock to his first wife, Elizabeth Feinberg Pollock, and incoming letters from his mother, Stella Pollock. There are also letters from Charles's brothers, Frank, Sanford, Marvin Jay, and Jackson, as well as from extended aunts and uncles, and his second wife, Sylvia Winter Pollock. Letters to Elizabeth include scholarly inquiries regarding both Charles and Jackson Pollock.

General correspondence consists of letters to Charles Pollock regarding the exhibition, commission, and sales of his artwork, as well as correspondence from friends, colleagues, and scholarly researchers. Correspondents include musicologist Charles Seeger and Thomas Hart Benton, with whom he met during his time at the Resettlement Administration and the Art Students League respectively. 

Correspondence from Jackson Pollock and Thomas Hart Benton were gifted as photocopies only.