Correspondence
odd: label: Appendix: Selected Individuals, Organizations, and Publications in Series 2
content: The following is an index to selected individuals, publications, and organizations represented in the Correspondence in Series 2. This index is not comprehensive.

Additional correspondence is found with Series 4, Organizational Records, and is described in the container listing for that series. Letters which were mass mailings from dozens of political organizations can also be found in Series 5, Printed Materials.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): 1935 (Lucille Milner)

 American Committee Against Fascist Oppression in Germany: 1934 (Louis Gibarti)

 American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born: 1962 (Annette Provinzano)

 American League against War and Fascism: 1937 (Albert Prentis)

American Magazine -- : 1935

 American Russian Institute: 1952 (Irene Miller, Holland Roberts)

 Americans for Democratic Action: 1956 (Edward D. Hollander)

 An American Group: 1940 (to Clifton Woodrum)

 Aptheker, Herbert: 1959

 Arms, John Taylor: 1952 (see also Series 4)

 Artists Conference of the Americas: 1939

 Artists League of America: 1942 (Dan Koerner)

 Artists' Cooperative Group: 1943 (B. Nuno)

 Association des Ecrivants et Artistes Revolutionnaries: 1933 (R. Ginsburger)

 Balch, Earle: 1932

 Bauch, Solomon "Stan": 1941

 Becker, Maurice: 1951-1953, 1961, undated 

 Berkowitz, Harry: 1954

 Bonnett, Clarence E.: 1937

 Bramer, Nan: 1952

 Breines, Simon: 1947, 1971

 Bromsen, Archibald: 1940 (labor lawyer)

 Brook, Alex: 1939

 Buck, Pearl: 1953

 Caswell, Edward: 1960

 Chiostergi, Alessandro L.: 1937

 Citizen's Committee for Constitutional Liberties: 1962 (Miriam Friedlander)

 Citizens Emergency Defence Committee: 1953 (Sam Kanter)

 Civil Rights Congress: 1953 (William L. Patterson)

 Committee for Social Re-Education: 1934 (Jose Vallon)

 Committee to End Sedition Laws: 1955 (Allan D. McNeil)

 d'Harnoncourt, Rene: 1946

 Davidson, Jo: 1944, 1945 (Independent Voters Committee of Artists, Writers, and Scientists)

 Davis, Ben Jr.: 1942, undated

 Decker, W.J.: 1956

 Dell, Floyd: 1930

 Dinnerstein, Harvey: 1960 (catalog)

Direction -- : 1942 (Marguerite Tjader Harris)

 Dorner, Hannah: 1943

 Dos Passos, John: circa 1930s

 Dow, Hume: 1947

 Durus, Alfred (a.k.a. Alfred Kemeny): 1935-1936

 Einhorn, Nat: 1955

 Ellis, Ethel: 1959 (re: Fred Ellis)

 Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: 1957-1958

 Engel, Michael: 1962 (Audobon Artists)

 Evergood, Philip: 1955, 1961 (See also Series 4)

 Fast, Howard: 1951, 1954, 1955

 Fiene, Ernest: 1939

 Fine Arts Federation, NY: 1935

 Fitelson, H. William: 1934 (entertainment lawyer, artists guilds)

 Foreman, Clark: 1958

 Fossum, Sydney: 1943

 Friedlander, Miriam: 1962

 Gainer, Morris: 1955

 Garabedian, John: 1962 (Hudson Guild Theater Workshop)

 Garcia, J. Uriel: 1943

 Garst, Robert: 1951

 Gibarti, Louis: 1934

 Ginsburger, R.: 1933

 Gold, Mike: see Granich, Mike

 Granich, Grace: 1954

 Granich, Mike (a.k.a. Mike Gold, born Irving Granich): 1956

 Greenbaum, Dorothea: 1940 (Sculptor's Guild)

 Gropper, William: 1951

 Gwathmey, Robert: 1959, undated

 Hall, Rob: 1952

 Hardy, Lewis: 1955

 Harris, Marguerite Tjader: 1942

 Hars, Laszlo: 1953, 1955

 Hartley, Paul: 1944 (National Art Foundation)

 Hecht, Rosa: 1955

 Henri Barbusse Memorial Committee: 1937

 Hollander, Edward D.: 1956

 International Bureau of Revolutionary Artists: 1935-1936 (Alfred Durus, a.k.a. Alfred Kemeny)

 Joint Committee to Defend WPA Workers: 1941, 1942 (Ronald Shilen)

 Jones, Alec: 1955, 1958

 Kantor, Sam: 1953

 Karolyi, Michael, Count: 1941, 1946

 Kauffer, Edward McKnight: 1945

 Kent, Rockwell: 1937, 1944, 1952-1953 (See also Series 4)

 Klonsky, Bob: 1955

 Koerner, Dan: 1942

 Kohn, Robert D.: 1935 (architect)

 Kovalski, Stanislaw: 1955 (Polish embassy)

 Ksnyik, Andras: 1978

 Laffitte, Jean: 1955

 Lie, Jonas: 1939

 Lorber, Dr. Herman "Harry": circa 1930s

 Mabry, Thomas D.: 1942 (Graphics Div, Office of War Information)

 Macagy, Jermayne: 1955

Magyar Jövo  -- (Hungarian Daily Journal): 1952 (Alex Rosner), 1953 

Mainstream -- : 1962

 Maldonado, R.: 1978 (Smithsonian Labor History Project)

 Manship, Paul: 1939, undated

 Marceau, Henri: 1946

 Marquardt, Virginia: 1978

 Maruki, Toshiko and Iri: 1960

Masses and Mainstream -- : 1952 (Samuel Sillen), 1954 (Joe)

 McNeil, Alan D: 1955

 Michelson, Herman: 1934

 Milner, Lucile: 1935

 Moore, Sam: 1953

 Nagy, Janos: 1956

 National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors: 1940 (Bianca Todd)

 National Council of American Soviet Friendship: 1943 (Hannah Dorner)

 National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions: 1952 (Nan Bramer)

 National Maritime Union: 1944 (Louis Oguss, M. Hedley Stone)

New Masses -- : 1934 (Sean, Herman Michelson)

New World Review -- : 1952 (Jessica Smith)

 New York Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born: 1955 (Alec Jones)

 Nuno, B.: 1943

 Oguss, Louis: 1944

 Oldham, John and Ray: circa 1930s

 Ottley, Roi: 1943 (National CIO Committee)

 Patrás, Pal: 1955

 Patterson, William L.: 1953-1954

People's World -- : 1956 (W.J. Decker)

 Perlo, Ellen: 1984

 Perrot, Paul: 1960 (Corning Museum)

 Philadelphia Forum of Social Sciences: 1955 (Bob Klonsky)

 Popper, Lilly: 1953-1954

 Prentis, Albert: 1937

 Provisional Workers and People's Committee for May Day: 1955 (Morris Gainer), 1960 (Max Rosen)

 Putnam and Sons: 1935 (Quintin Rossi)

 Reed, Alman: 1955

 Reisman, Philip: 1962, circa 1960s

 Rickey, George: 1937

 Rosen, Max: 1955

 Rosner, A.: 1952, 1959

 Rosner, Deak: 1955

 Rossen, John: 1955

 Rossi, Quintin: 1935

 Royce, Edward: 1955

 Sandburg, Carl: 1942

 Sapiro, Aaron: 1932

 Schappes Defense Committee: 1941 (Morris U. Shappes)

 Schoen, Eugene: 1932, 1934

 Schwartz, Morris: 1951

 Selsam: 1951

 Sequenzia, Sofia: 1983

 Shields, T.A. "Art": 1959

 Shillen, Ronald: 1942

 Siegelbaum, Portia: 1978

 Sillen, Samuel: 1952

 Smith, Jessica: 1952

 Soglow, Otto: 1942

 Solomon: Dave: 1954 (New Talents Gallery), 1956 

 Starobin, Joseph: 1955

 Steffens, Lincoln: 1934 (journalist)

 Stone, M. Hedley: 1944

 Street, Julian Jr.: 1940

 Tandy, W. Lou: 1953

Time -- : 192-

 Todd, Bianca: 1940 (See also Series 4)

 Tresca, Carlo: circa 1930s (anarchist)

 Turner, Jeannette S.: 1957-1960

 Tyler, Hugh: 1939 (WPA)

 Vallon, Jose: 1934

 Van Rensselaer, Sylvia: 1944 ("Portrait of America Competition" report)

 Weber, Max: 1953 (See also Series 4)

 Weyhe Gallery: 1947

 Wilson, Steve: 1959 (Progressive Lithographers)

The Worker -- : 1952 (Rob Hall)

 World Council of Peace: 1955 (Jean Laffitte)

World -- : 1925

 Zigrosser, Carl: 1937

 Zorach, Bill: 1942

 Zundel, Eugenia: 1957, 1959

 Zurier, Rebecca: 1984, circa 1980s
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content: Hugo Gellert papers
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content: circa 1920-1986
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content: Letters received are interfiled with drafts of outgoing letters in chronological order. Undated correspondence that can be estimated within a decade is filed at the end of each decade with "circa" dates. Additional undated correspondence is filed at the end of the series. Outgoing drafts are common in correspondence and often have estimated dates. 

Additional correspondence is found in the Organizational Records series. Additional cards made by Gellert are filed with Artwork. See series description for further details.
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content: This series contains the correspondence of Hugo Gellert. Most of the correspondence is of a professional nature, related to Gellert's activities as an artist, political organizer, and activist. Correspondents include artists, friends, family members, Communist Party and Popular Front leaders, labor union leaders, federal art programs personnel, writers, historians, publishers, Hungarian cultural and political figures, and fellow activists. Significant correspondents in this series include Maurice Becker, William Patterson, Floyd Dell, Philip Evergood, Howard Fast, Mike Gold, Robert Gwathmey, and Rockwell Kent.

Letters from individuals involved in leftist political organizations and activities are common throughout the series. In addition to Gellert's fellow Communists and Socialists, a wide variety of political groups are represented, including those concerned with artists' employment and welfare issues, anti-fascist organizations, organized labor, watchdog groups and defense committees for civil liberties during the McCarthy era, advocates for jailed Mexican artist David Siqueiros, and American civil rights groups. Also found is correspondence with editors of publications for which Gellert supplied illustrations, and letters concerning exhibitions and murals. 

Noteworthy items found in correspondence include a lengthy letter written by John Dos Passos enclosed with a circa 1930s letter from Carlo Tresca, a draft of an essay by Carl Sandburg with a 1942 letter, and an original New Year's card by Gellert for 1951. Drafts of outgoing letters from 1946 contain a number of sketches of Australian landscapes by Gellert. 

See Appendix for names of selected individuals, organizations, and publications found in Series 2.