General Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Karshan, Donald H.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Donald H. Karshan papers relating to Alexander Archipenko
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 3; 0.25 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.karsdona, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Although many of these letters are addressed to Frances Archipenko, they were answered by Donald Karshan who, in his capacity as Curator of the Archipenko Estate Collection and Director of the Archipenko Archive, handled all art-related business matters. Correspondence concerns loans to exhibitions and museums. "Sculpture Correspondence" consists of reference requests, general information and inquiries regarding exhibitions.

Of particular interest is a file about painter Leopold Survage containing photocopies of a letter from Theodore Doesburg and Archipenko's letters to Survage, printed matter, and photographs compiled by Karshan for reference purposes when attempting to purchase a Survage for Frances Archipenko to donate to the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. The Archives of American Art file which includes transcripts of unidentified lectures-possibly by Karshan-about Archipenko's work. Other correspondence of note is with the Whitney Museum of American Art consists of a telegram from Frances Archipenko objecting to Floating Torso being omitted from the museum's opening exhibition, and letters about the Whitney as a possible venue for the UCLA traveling exhibition; plans of the Ukrainian Institute of America, Inc. to open a memorial room to Archipenko and Dzus; Karshan's donation of Queen of Sheba by Archipenko to UCLA's Sculpture Co urt; and attempts to locate a copy of the Folkwang Museum's catalog of its 1912 Archipenko exhibition.

The files are arranged in alphabetical order according to name and/or subject.