General Chronological Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gerson, Otto
label: Collection Creator
content: Gerson, Ilse, 1901-1980
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content: Otto and Ilse Gerson papers
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content: Otto and Ilse Gerson papers / Series 2: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gersotto, Subseries 2.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The bulk of this subseries consists of professional correspondence with clients, museums, galleries, art dealers, and collectors. There are a few scattered personal letters between Otto and Ilse Gerson. Notable correspondence includes a 1937 letter from artist Ernst L. Kirchner to art dealer Curt Valentin, letters from artist Gerhard Marcks  starting around 1960, and congratulatory letters to Ilse Gerson on her retirement from Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Letters from Marcks and Kirchner are in German.