Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Weatherwax, John M. (John Martin), 1900-1984
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content: John Weatherwax papers relating to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1; 5 folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.weatjohn, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series includes scattered correspondence between Weatherwax and several publishing houses regarding the possible publication of his English translation of the Mayan codex, Popol Vuh, as well a copy of the contract between Diego Rivera and Weatherwax for the illustrations. Also found are letters from painter, printmaker, and muralist Emmy Lou Packard concerning Diego and Frida, two telegrams from American novelist Upton Sinclair to John Weatherwax, and a letter from the Russian filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein, to Rivera introducing Weatherwax. A copy of a letter written by Frida Kahlo to Clara and Gerald Strang, Weatherwax's sister and brother-in-law is also housed in this series.