Meyer P. and Vivian O. Potamkin papers
name: label: Creator
content: Potamkin, Meyer, 1909-2001
label: Creator
content: Potamkin, Vivian, 1915-2002
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2006 by Marshall Potamkin and Marcy Lasky.
creator: label: Creator
content: Potamkin, Meyer, 1909-2001
label: Creator
content: Potamkin, Vivian, 1915-2002
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Meyer P. (1909-2001) and Vivian O. (1915-2002) Potamkin were art collectors in Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1950-2002]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.potameye
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; files on works of art; photographs; writings; printed material; audio-visual material; and miscellany regarding the Potmakin's collection of 19th and 20th century American art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are appraisals; correspondence; published writings about the Potamkins; published catalogs of the Potamkin collection; letters from museum professionals and visitors to the collection; photographs of Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin and their home; files concerning works of art in the Potamkin collection containing correspondence, invoices, reproductions, loan agreements and requests; certificates of insurance, exhibition proposals, and conservation records; files on objects sold from the Potmakin collection; files concerning gifts to museums and outgoing loans; ten binders contaning cataloging data and photographs of works in the Potmakin collection (6 arranged by artist, 1 prints, 1 decorative arts, 1 folk art, and 1 American Indian); letters from author Christine Weston, Eugene Prendergast (wife of Charles Prendergast), Helen Sloan (wife of John Sloan), actors Jeffrey Hayden and Eva Marie Saint, screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz, Violette de Mazia (director of education, Barnes Foundation), and others; and a 19990 videorecording, 27 minutes, Collector's love story: conversatioon with Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin produced for WHHY Television, 1990.