General Correspondence
odd: label: Appendix: Selected Correspondents in Series 4.3
content: The following is a selective list of correspondents represented in Series 4.3: General Correspondence, with cross-references to correspondence in 4.4: Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and 4.5: Provenance Files. It is not comprehensive. An effort has been made to index regionally and nationally known artists, Kuhn's patrons and students, models, art historians, writers, museum and gallery staff, dealers, and persons known to be well-represented in other collections at the Archives of American Art. Cross-references to existing letters in other parts of the Kuhn papers and Armory Show records are included selectively. Correspondents who have not been indexed include family members, neighbors, business contacts from his theater and vaudeville work of the early 1920s, and from his railroad car design work from 1936 to 1948.

 Abeel, Neilson (American-Scandinavian Foundation): 1930 (3 letters)

 Abercrombie and Fitch: 1948-1949 (4 letters)

 Adair, William Gleason: 1945

 Adams, Philip R. (Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts): 1938-1946, 1948-1951 (51 letters; See also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Adams, Ruth Hutchins: 1943-1944 (6 letters)

 Albany Institute of History and Art (see MacFarlane)

 Aldis, Graham: 1928 

 American Print Makers (see also Goldsmith, B.K.): 1928 (2 letters)

 American Federation of the Arts: 1950 (see also N. Anderson, Messer, Pope, Prior, E. Spaeth)

 Ames, Mary (Mrs. John W.; see Goodyear, Mary)

 Ames, Winslow (Lyman Allyn Museum): 1934 (3 letters) 

 Anderson, Nesta (Mrs. A. Scott; American Federation of Arts): 1951-1952 (3 letters)

 Anderson, Sherwood: 1928, undated (2 letters) 

 Angle, Catherine (Mrs. Everett E.; Nebraska Art Association): 1946

 Anisfeld, Mara: 1932 

 Arden Gallery (see Meigs and Smoluchowska) 

 Arensberg, Walter C.: 1938 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition (Winslow Carlton): 1963 (see also Henry Street Settlement)

 Arnold, Grace (Mrs. Harry Bartley): 1941, 1945 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Art Students League of New York: 1927 

 Arts Club of Chicago: 1927, 1934, 1956 (6 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Asherman, David: 1936, undated (2 letters including Christmas card with original, signed print) 

 Austin, Darrel (see also Perls): 1940, 1941 (4 letters)

 Bahr, A.W. (Billy): 1923, 1938, 1945, 1947-1949 (7 letters)

 Balkan, Edward Duff: 1932 

 Ballin, Hugo: 1937 (2 letters) 

 Bangsbergh, Raymond: 1939 

 Barber, George R.: 1933 

 Barr, Alfred H. Jr. (Museum of Modern Art): 1929, 1934, 1945 (5 letters) 

 Barrie, Erwin S. (Grand Central Art Galleries): 1927, 1951 (5 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Barrington, Lewis: 1932 

 Barry, Bobby (see Provenance Files, "Portrait of Bobby Barry")

 Bartlett, Frederic Clay, Jr.: 1939-1940, 1942-1943, 1945, 1947 (7 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Bartley, Louise: 1931 

 Baur, John I.H. (Brooklyn Museum): 1946 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Beals, Ralph A. (New York Public Library): 1949

 Bear, Donald (Santa Barbara Museum of Art): 1936-1938, 1945, 1948, 1949 (6 items including Christmas cards with original prints; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Beerbohm, Marvin (Detroit School of Art): 1938 

 Bell, Janet M. (John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art): 1952 (4 letters)

 Belmont, Eleanor R.: 1935 Benjamin, Ruth: 1940 

 Bernays, Edward L. (see also Doris E. Fleischman): 1928, 1935-1937 (4 letters) 

 Bernhardt, John: 1948-1950 (4 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1947) 

 Beuf, Carlo: 1928 

 Bidwell, Watson (Denver Art Museum): 1936-1940, 1945, 1947, undated (23 letters) 

 Biesel, C.: 1931-1933, 1935 (5 items including Christmas cards with original prints)

 Biesel, Frances (Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; see Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Bird, Isabel (Mrs. Paul): 1940, 1942, 1944 (4 letters)

 Bird, Paul: 1938, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1949 (5 letters) 

 Bissell, Julia A. (Mrs. Alfred E.; Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts): 1946

 Bjorkman, Edwin: 1931, 1934, 1941 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Blackie, John Haldam (Vanguard Press): 1928 

 Bluemner, Oscar: 1932 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1930, 1936)

 Bliss, Betty: 1931, 1933, 1935 (3 items including Christmas card with original print) 

 Bloch, E. Maurice: 1949 (3 letters)

 Block, Maurice (Huntington Library): 1938 

 Blount, Rose M. (Denver Art Museum): 1934, 1936, 1938-1939, 1941, 1943, 1949 (8 letters) 

 Boas, George: 1928 

 Boissevain, Engen (see Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Bolander, Karl (Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts): 1928

 Botkin, Henry: 1937 

 Bouché, Louis: 1949

 Bowman, Eleanor: 1931 (Christmas card with print) 

 Boyce, Ruth: 1930 

 Boyer, C. Philip (Mellon Galleries): 1933 

 Bransom, Paul: 1938, 1949 (2 letters) 

 Bridaham, Lester B. (Strathmont Museum): 1958

 Briggs, Berta N.: 1938 

 Britt, George (  -- New York World-Telegram -- ): 1938 

 Brodsky, Harold: 1931-1933, 1935-1939, 1943, undated (16 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Brooklyn Museum: 1930, 1957 (4 letters; see also Baur) 

 Brown, Adele Smith (Mrs. Philip Stoddard Brown; see Smith, Adele; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Brown, Henry Collins (Museum of the City of New York): 1942 

 Brown, Margaret E. (Grace Horne Galleries): 1943-1944 (5 letters) 

 Brown, Rollo Walter: 1928 

 Bruton, Helen: 1930 

 Bufano, Remo: 1928 

 Burroughs, Alan: 1928, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1941 (13 letters) 

 Burroughs, Clyde (Detroit Institute of Arts): 1928, 1930, 1938, 1943-1944 (11 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Butler, Roland (Ringling Brothers): 1944 

 Call, Mary Bradish and Leigh: 1930, 1932, 1935, 1936 (original Christmas cards) 

 Campbell, Heyworth: 1926 

 Candler, Duncan: 1927, 1928, 1941 (4 letters) 

 Canfield, Cass (Harper and Brothers): 1937, 1947-1948 (5 letters) 

 Cantor, Eddie: 1923 

 Carlton, Mrs. A.E.: 1952

 Carnegie Institute: 1947, 1948 (2 receipts; see also Kepper, O'Connor, Saint-Gaudens; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Carr, Helen Renne (Mrs. Raymond J. Carr): 1946, 1949 (3 letters)

 Carroll, John: 1938, 1939, 1941 (3 items, including Christmas card with print) 

 Carroll, Patricia (Mrs. Anton van Dereck): 1930 

 Cashin, Bonnie (typed copy): 1947 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Catlin, Mimi (Museum of Modern Art): 1948

 Chapin, Louise V.: 1943-1944 (12 letters) 

 Chillman, James (Museum of Fine Arts of Houston): 1928 

 Clapp, Frederick Mortimer (The Frick Collection): 1938 

 Clark, Virginia and Marshall: 1932-1935 (4 Christmas cards with original prints) 

 Clark, Virginia Keep: 1928, 1934 (2 letters) 

 Clark, Walter L. (Grand Central Galleries): 1930 

 Clear, Charles Val (Akron Art Institute): 1946

 Coates, Dorothy: 1925, 1948 (2 letters) 

 Coffin, Robert M. (Art Academy of Cincinnati): 1950-1951 (4 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Cook, Helen Fetter: 1931, 1932, 1936, 1938, 1941-1943 (8 items including Christmas cards) 

 Cooper, Gary and Rocky (Mrs. Gary): 1936-1937 (2 letters)

 Connelly, Marc: 1940 

 Cosgrave, John O'Hara: 1928, 1938 (2 letters) 

 Crocker, Anna B. (Portland Art Association): 1928 

 Crowninshield, Frank (Vogue, Art News): 1928, 1932, 1935-1936, 1940-1943, 1946 (13 letters; see also Graham)

 Cuneo, Mrs. Rinaldo: 1938, 1940 (3 letters)

 Cushing, Lily Emmet (Clark Boyd): 1931, 1942, 1945-1948, 1955 (7 letters)

 Cutler, Ann (Hotel Marguery): 1931

 Cutler, Carl Gordon: 1939

 Cutler, Merritt: 1927, 1928, 1942-1945, 1948, 1963 (10 letters)

 Daniel, Harry M.: 1952-1953 (2 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1946) 

 Davidson, Alfred: 1945

 Davies Orchards (David Davies): 1928, 1929 (3 letters)

 Davis, Stuart: 1938 (2 letters)

 De Bois, J.H. (Kunsthandel en Antiquariaat, Haarlem): 1938, 1939 (3 letters) 

 Dennis, Jan: undated

 Derain, André: 1938 

 Diamond, Harry: 1948

 Di Gioia, Frank: 1931, 1933-1948, 1950, 1953, undated (50 items, including original printed Christmas cards)

 Dirks, Rudolph: 1925

 Dorgan, T.A.: 1927

 Dorl, Theodore: 1929, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1938 (9 letters)

 Downs, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar: 1931-1937 (7 Christmas cards with photographs)

 Downtown Gallery (see Halpert and Goldsmith)

 Duckworth, J. Herbert: 1933, 1934 (6 letters)

 Dudensing Galleries Inc. (Richard Dudensing): 1930, 1931, 1932 (4 letters)

 East West Gallery: 1929

 Eggers, George William (Worcester Art Museum, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm): 1927, 1929 (4 letters)

 Elfers, Herbert (Durand-Ruel, Inc.): 1945, 1947, 1948 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Ellis, Freemont (autograph print, with card from Sally Lewis): [1923]

 Ellsworth, Mary Louise: undated

 Emery, Irene: 1958 (2 letters)

 Ester, Ruth (model): 1944-1945 (6 letters)

 Etchison, Bruce (Washington County Museum of Fine Arts): 1951-1953 (22 letters)

 Evans, Anne (Denver Art Museum): 1933

 Evers, Fred: 1939

 Ferrand, Charles: 1919, 1934, 1937, 1940 (3 letters)

 Findlay, W.C. Jr. (Findlay Galleries): 1939 (2 letters)

 Fischkin, Rose Mary: 1928

 Fitzgerald, George F. (model): 1927, 1933 (2 letters; 1 signed "Man From Eden")

 Fleischman, Doris E.: 1938

 Fliesler, Joseph R.: 1935, 1938, 1949 (3 letters)

 Forbes, Edward (Fogg Art Museum): 1928

 Force, Juliana (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1929, 1932-1937, 1939-1941, 1943 (21 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

Fortune --  (magazine; Deborah Calkins): 1956

 Fox, William Henry: 1923, 1937 (2 letters)

 Francis, Emily O. (Contemporary Arts): 1935

 Francis, Henry Sayles (Cleveland Museum of Art): 1932

 Fraenkel, John: 1934, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1953 (8 letters)

 Frankel, Robert (  -- The Art News -- ): 1939

 Frankenstein, Alfred V. (  -- San Francisco Chronicle -- ): 1940 (2 letters)

 Frankfurter, Alfred M.: 1938, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950 (10 letters)

 Fraser, Joseph T. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts): 1947, 1951 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Free, Karl R.: 1935

 Freeman, Anna (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1938 (2 letters)

 Frey, Erwin F.: 1943, 1945, 1947 (4 letters)

 Frueh, Alfred: 1925, 1953 (2 letters)

 Freund, Frank E.W.: 1932, 1934-1935, 1938 (7 letters)

 Friede, Donald S. (Boni and Liveright Publishers): 1927

 Frink, Angelika W.: 1941 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Gallagher, Edward J.: 1952

 Gallatin, Albert E.: 1927, 1928 (3 letters)

 Gardner, Paul (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art): 1936, 1938-1945, 1947-1950 (26 items including Christmas card with original print; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Gardner, Mrs. William (see Owen)

 Garrett, Garet: 1928

 Garrett, Alice (Mrs. John Work): 1938, 1939 (5 items, including Christmas card with original photograph)

 Gates, Margaret (Studio House, Philips Memorial Gallery): 1935

 Genauer, Emily (New York World Telegram): 1947

 Gest, J.H. (Cincinnati Museum Association): 1928 (3 letters)

 Gise, Margaret (Marie Harriman Gallery): 1938 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and Provenance Files, "Girl in Shako" and "Guide") 

 Glackens, William and Edith: 1938 

 Glackens, Edith: 1938, 1941, 1943, 1949, 1950 (7 items, including outgoing letters of condolence when William Glackens died, and response from Edith with account of his last day)

 Godwin, Black-More (Toledo Museum of Art): 1932 (2 letters)

 Goldsmith, B.K. (American Print Makers, Downtown Gallery): 1928, 1929, 1930 (3 letters)

 Goldsmith, Morton R.: 1936

 Goodrich, Lloyd (Whitney Museum of American Art; see Provenance Files, "Man with Ship Model")

 Goodyear, A. Conger: 1934, 1938, 1941, 1949 (5 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, and Provenance Files, "Dryad" and "Man From Eden")

 Goodyear, Mary (Mrs. A. Conger, also Mrs. John W. Ames): 1936-1942, 1947, 1949, 1954 (44 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Grace Horne Galleries (see M.E. Brown, Littlefield; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Graham, John D.: 1937

 Greason, Donald (Deerfield Academy): 1942 (discussing Harry Whitney)

 Grossman, Ted (Edwin Booth): 1938, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1948, 1951, 1952 (13 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Grumman, Paul H. (Joslyn Memorial Art Museum): 1943

 Hagen, Oskar: 1938, 1939 (2 letters)

 Hagerman, Percy (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center): 1949

 Hale, Dorothea: 1928

 Hale, Robert B. (Metropolitan Museum of Art): 1950-1951 (2 letters)

 Halpert, Edith (Downtown Gallery): 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 (7 letters; New Year card 1928 printed with collage of Walt Kuhn)

 Hall, Porter: 1941, 1942, 1944, 1948 (4 items, including Christmas card)

 Hanna, Mark: 1942-1944, 1946-1949 (17 letters) 

 Hare, Betty (Mrs. Meredith): 1923, 1930-1935, 1939-1941, 1948 (21 letters)

Harper's Bazaar --  (see Kaufman, Snow)

 Harriman, Marie: 1946, 1947, 1949, 1958 (4 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Harriman, Mary W.: 1930

 Harriman, W. Averell: 1936, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1949 (5 letters)

 Harrison, Preston: 1928, 1929, 1930 (to Mrs. Harriman), 1933, 1935 (8 letters)

 Harshe, Robert (Art Institute of Chicago): 1928, 1929, 1932 (4 letters) 

 Hart, George Overbury "Pop": 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932 (6 letters)

 Hart, Jean Overbury: 1948 (2 letters)

 Hartell, John A. (Cornell University College of Architecture): 1941-1942, 1948 (11 letters)

 Hartley, Marsden: 1937 (2 letters)

 Hartmann, Sadakichi: 1938, 1939-1943 (8 letters, 1940 letter accompanied by ink drawing)

 Harvey, Dorothy Dudley: 1933, 1936 (2 letters)

 Hatch, John Davis Jr. (Albany Institute of History and Art): 1938, 1941 (2 letters)

 Hatfield, Dalzell (Dalzell Hatfield Galleries): 1940

 Haven, Ethel (Museum of Modern Art): 1930 (minutes of board meeting), 1932 (list of names; 2 items; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Hawkins, Frances (Museum of Modern Art): 1943

 Hayes, Helen: 1946

 Heicher, Joyce: 1941

 Heil, Walter (M.H. de Young Memorial Museum): 1943

 Hein Antiques: 1931, undated (4 letters)

 Henry Street Settlement: 1963

 Hess, Thomas: 1953 (Christmas card)

 Heun, Arthur: 1930, 1932-1937, undated (9 items, including Christmas cards)

 Hitchcock, Thomas Jr.: 1927, 1930, 1934-1937, 1939 (7 items, including Christmas cards)

 Hodgson, Daphne: 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939 (15 letters)

 Hoffman, Irving: 1947

 Hood, Gretchen: 1928, 1934 (2 letters)

 Hope, Henry R.: 1948, 1951 (3 letters; see also Provenance Files, "Sliced Loaf")

 Howard, Cecil: 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938 (5 letters) 

 Howe, Mrs. Frederic: 1931, 1933 (3 letters)

 Howe, Thomas Carr (California Palace of the Legion of Honor): 1947

 Huggins, Wilfrid: 1932

 Hunter, E.R. (Norton Gallery and School of Art): 1947

 Hutchins, Ruth (see Adams) 

 Hutton, Ruth: 1931

 Ingersoll, R. Sturgis: 1942, 1944, 1951 (4 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and Provenance Files, "Young Girl") 

 Javis, Sidney (Museum of Modern Art): 1939 (2 letters)

 Jeffreys, Lee: 1931

 Jewell, Edward Alden: 1938

 Jewett, Eleanor (  -- Chicago Tribune -- ): 1928

 Johnson, G.M. (to Vera): 1909 (2 letters)

 Johnston, William: 1927

 Jonson, Raymond: 1938

 Joslyn Memorial Art Museum (see Grumman, Kingman; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Kahn, Otto: 1927, 1928 (2 letters)

 Kaltenbach, G.E. (Art Institute of Chicago): 1931

 Kanzler, Josephine (Mrs. Ernest): 1945, 1947 (3 items including Christmas card)

 Kaufman, Beatrice (  -- Harper's Bazaar -- ): 1935 (2 letters)

 Kaufman, George: 1940

 Keezer, Dexter M. (Reed College): 1936, 1937, 1941, 1945 (6 letters)

 Kelekian, Dikran: 1922-1924, 1933, 1937, undated (9 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Keller, Henry: 1936, 1937, 1938 (3 letters)

 Kennedy, Jacqueline: 1961

 Kenefick, Theodore G.: 1956

 Kennerley, Mitchell (Anderson Galleries, Inc.): 1938, 1941 (4 letters)

 Keppel, Frederick P. (Carnegie Corporation): 1938 (2 letters)

 Kerr, George F. (Society of Illustrators): 1930 (2 letters)

 Kimball, Fiske (The Pennsylvania Museum): 1928, 1939 (2 letters)

 Kingman, Eugene (Joslyn Memorial Art Museum): 1951 (4 letters)

 Kirsch, Dwight (University of Nebraska Department of Art): 1941, 1943-1944, 1946, 1950, 1953 (9 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Kirstein, Lincoln (Museum of Modern Art): 1932

 Kissel, Eleanora: 1928

 Kistler, Aline (  -- San Francisco Chronicle -- ,  -- The San Franciscan -- , M.H. de Young Memorial Museum): 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933 (6 letters)

 Klopfer, Donald S. (Random House, Inc.): 1940

 Kohl, Dorothy (Philadelphia Art Alliance): 1945 (3 letters)

 Komroff, Manuel: 1938

 Kravis, Hal: 1936, 1941 (3 letters)

 Kunstverein München E.V.: 1930

 Kurtzworth, Harry Muir (Los Angeles Art Association, California Academy of the Fine Arts): 1938 (2 letters)

 Lahr, Bert: 1948 (see also Provenance Files, "Portrait of Bert Lahr")

 Labaudt, Lucien: 1929, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938 (5 items including Christmas card; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Lamb, James E.: 1928, 1930, 1935, 1937 (4 letters)

 Larcada, Dick: 1963

 Laurent, John: 1947-1950, undated (12 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Laurent, Mimi (Mrs. Robert): 1952

 Laurent, Robert (Indiana University): 1923, 1949, 1953 (8 letters; see also Provenance Files, "Black Butterfly")

 Lea, Lida Gorwin; 1935-1938, 1942 (8 letters, including Christmas card with original print; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Lenssen, Heidi: 1938, 1943, 1947, 1949-1951, 1963, 1964 (9 letters)

 Levy, Adele Rosenwald (Mrs. David M.): 1948

 Lewis, Agnes Knox: 1945

 Lewis, Sally: 1923, 1939 (3 letters, includes signed print by Ellis Freemont; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Lie, Jonas: 1930

 Lindsay, Howard: 1940

 Littlefield, William (Grace Horne's Galleries): 1929

 Liveright, Horace (Boni and Liveright Publishers): 1928

 Lovins, Henry (Hollywood Art Center School): 1938

 Luce, Molly: undated (Christmas card with print)

 Lundgren, Eric: 1947-1953 (61 letters)

 Lustgarten, Samuel (see Provenance Files, "Morning")

 MacFarlane, Janet R. (Albany Institute of History and Art): 1958

 Macnab, Archibald Leavenworth: 1923 (includes typescript of play "The Sculpting of Money"), 1927, 1929 (2 letters)

 MacRae, Elmer: 1939

 Mager, Gus: 1938, 1941-1943, 1946 (9 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Mangravite, Peppino (Cooper Union Art Schools): 1941

 Mann, Margo (model): 1950

 Marie Harriman Gallery (see Harriman, Sardi, Smoluchowska, or Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Matthews, H. L. (  -- The New York Times -- ): 1928

 Matthias, Blanche: 1923, 1927, 1929, 1931-1937, 1940-1941 (19 items, including Christmas cards; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 McBride, Henry: 1935

 McBride, Mary Margaret (WOR radio): 1940

 McCausland, Elizabeth: 1938, 1948 (2 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 McCormick, Chauncey (Art Institute of Chicago): 1938

 McCurdy, Edward: 1928

 McDaniel, Beatrice (Mrs. Bruce): 1940

 McIntyre, Robert: 1931 (2 letters)

 McKim, William: 1945

 Meigs, Ruth Averell (Arden Gallery): 1929 (2 letters)

 Mencken, H.L.: 1945, 1946, 1947 (3 letters; see also Series 4.8: Notes and Writings)

 Merrick, James Kirk (Philadelphia Art Alliance): 1945

 Messer, Thomas M. (American Federation of Arts): 1952-1954 (5 letters)

 Metcalf, Thomas N. (Boston Museum of Modern Art, Inc.): 1938, 1940 (2 letters)

 Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1949, 1956 (5 letters; see also Hale, F.H. Taylor, Wehle)

 Mellon, Minna (Mrs. Paul): 1946

 Millay, Edna St. Vincent (typed copy): 1947 (see also Engen Boissevain in Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Miller, Dorothy C. (Museum of Modern Art): 1943

 Miller, Lulu F. (The Hackley Gallery of Fine Arts): 1928

 Milliken, William M.: 1936 (2 letters)

 Minnigerode, C. Powell (Corcoran Gallery of Art): 1928 (2 letters)

 Montclair Art Museum: 1928, 1932 (2 letters)

 Montgomery, Gertrude: 1928

 More, Hermon (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1933, 1935, 1943, 1948-1950 (8 letters)

 Morgan, Agnes: 1938

 Morison, David (Hamilton Easter Field Art Foundation): 1930

 Morley, Grace: 1936, 1937-1939, 1943 (11 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Morse, John (see Provenance Files, "Man and Sea Beach")

 Muguruza Otaño, Pedro: 1928

 Museum of Art of Ogonquit: 1953 (see also Strater)

 Museum of Modern Art (see Barr, Catlin, Haven, Hawkins, Kirstein, D. Miller, Pelles, A. Porter)

 Nadelman, Viola M. (Mrs. Elie): 1947

 Nankivell, Frank: 1934-1935 (Christmas cards with signed prints)

 National Arts Club: 1932

 Newhall, Beaumont (Museum of Modern Art): 1938

 Nichols, Hobart (National Academy of Design): 1948

 Nichols, J.C. (William Rockhill Nelson Trust): 1948

 North, Henry Ringling (Ringling Brothers): 1941 (2 letters)

 Norton Gallery and School of Art (see Hunter)

 Norton, Ralph H. (Norton Gallery and School of Art): 1948

 O'Connor, John Jr. (Carnegie Institute): 1943, 1945-1946, 1948 (8 letters)

 Oldfield, Otis: 1928-1946, 1948-1949, 1951-1952, undated (111 letters; 1931, 1941, undated include Chritmas cards with print; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 O'Neil, John (University of Oklahoma): 1946

 Owen, Ronnie (Mrs. William Gardner): 1941-1942, 1944-1946, 1948-1949 (15 letters)

 Owens, Virginia B.(  -- Christian Science Monitor -- ): 1943 (2 letters)

 Paley, Goldie (Mrs. Samuel): 1941-1942 (2 letters)

 Pandolfini, Giuseppi: 1938

 Pach, Walter: 1938

 Pascin, Jules: 1921

 Passedoit, Georgete: 1930, 1931, 1932 (3 letters)

 Patterson, Augusta Owen (  -- Town and Country -- ): 1930 (2 letters)

 Paxson, Gordon (Syracuse University School of Art; see Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Peat, Wilbur D. (John Herron Art Institute): 1944, 1945 (7 letters)

 Pelles, Geraldine (Museum of Modern Art): 1953 (3 letters)

 Pelton, Agnes: 1938

 Penfield, Louis: 1945, 1947-1949 (5 letters)

 Penrose, Julie: 1937, 1948, 1951 (3 letters)

 Perkins, Frances: 1949

 Perls, Klaus G. (Perls Galleries): 1940

 Perrine, Van: 1938

 Perry, Mitzi: 1942

 Petit, Margaret: 1928, 1931-1933, 1935-1938, undated (13 items including Christmas cards)

 Philadelphia Art Alliance (see Kohl, Merrick, Williamson)

 Phillips, Duncan: 1927, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1944 (15 letters)

 Pinchot, Ruth Pickering: 1932

 Poland, Reginald: 1938, 1947-1948 (12 letters)

 Pope, Annemarie (American Federation of Arts): 1951 (5 letters)

 Porter, Allen (Museum of Modern Art): 1945

 Porter, Bruce: 1938

 Potter, Fuller: 1933, 1934, 1936, 1944 (6 items including Christmas card)

 Pratt, Mrs. Harold Irving; 1934 (2 letters, plus notes from lecture)

 Pratt, Julia D.: 1927, 1928 (2 letters)

 Pressoir, E.E.: 1928 (Guggenheim application), 1932 (2 letters)

 Price, Frederic Newlin (Ferargil Galleries): 1948 (3 letters)

 Prior, Harris K. (American Federation of Arts): 1957

 Purnell, Lewis M.: 1943

 Putnam, Samuel: 1928 (2 letters)

 Quinn, John (see also Watson): 1919, 1920, 1921 (5 letters) 

 Quinton, Cornelia B. Sage (California Legion of Honor): 1928

 Randolph, Lee F. (California School of Fine Arts): 1930, 1942 (2 letters)

 Raseman, Richard P. (Cranbrook Academy of Art): 1940

 Rathbone, Perry T.: 1946

 Reber, Gottlieb Friedrich: 1931, 1932, 1933, undated (3 letters)

 Redmond, Johnston: 1933

 Renne, Otto A.: 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940 (5 letters; see also Carr)

 Renwick, Charles S. Jr.: 1945-1946 (2 letters)

 Rickey, George: 1937

 Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey (see Butler and North)

 Rivière, Nina S. (Toledo Museum of Art): 1932

 Robinson, Edward G.: 1936 (2 letters)

 Roché, H.P.: 1928, 1938, 1939 (7 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Rogers, Christopher H. (regarding Francis Rogers): 1930

 Rogers, Jane: 1932

 Rogers, Meyric (Art Institute of Chicago): 1948 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Rogers, Will: [1926]

 Roosevelt, Jean S. (Mrs. Philip James): 1928

 Rosenberg, Paul (Paul Rosenberg and Co.): 1942, 1946, 1948 (8 letters)

 Ross, Leola: 1928, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1937 (5 items including Christmas cards)

 Rossiter, Henry P.: 1928

 Rothschild, Howard: 1927

 Roullier, Alice F. (Arts Club of Chicago): 1925, 1927, 1933, 1941 (8 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Rousseau, Théodore: 1935

 Rumsey, Mary H. (Mrs. C.C.): 1930, 1934-1936, 1938, 1940, 1945, 1949, undated (11 items including Christmas card and receipts for paintings sold)

 Ryan, Beatrice Judd (Beaux Arts Galerie): 1928, 1929 (4 letters)

 Saint-Gaudens, Homer (Carnegie Institute): 1931, 1933, 1940, 1946-1949 (18 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Saklatwalla, Ann: 1944-1945 (2 letters; see also Provenance Files, "Bareback Rider")

 Saklatwalla, B.D.: 1928, 1930-1936, 1941 (2 letters, 7 Christmas cards containing prints, 1931 print signed Jean Crotti)

 Salinger, Jehanne Bietry: 1928-1930, 1933, 1935, 1946-1948 (includes signed print by Harry Wickey; 17 letters)

 Salons of America: 1923, 1924

 Salpeter, Harry (  -- Esquire -- ): 1936-1938 (6 letters)

 Sanborn, Robert Alden: 1945

 Sands, Mary (Museum of Modern Art): 1930

 Sanger, Helen: 1948-1950, 1953, 1963 (16 letters)

 Sanger, Margaret (American Birth Control League, Inc.): 1928

 Santa Barbara Museum of Art (see Bear, Steele, Story; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Santo, Patsy: 1937-1946, 1948-1949, 1953 (103 letters, some illustrated)

 Sardi Gina, Anne (Marie Harriman Gallery): 1941-1942, 1947, 1949 (6 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and Provenance Files, "Girl in Shako" and "Guide")

 Schlesigner, Louis: 1949

 Schmit, Waldo (Smithsonian Institution): 1936-1949

 Schulte, Antoinette: 1932-1938 (8 items, including Christmas card with original print)

 Seiberling, Frank Jr. (Toledo Museum of Art): 1943, 1946 (3 letters)

 Seymour Halpern Associates: 1945

 Shapiro, Meyer: 1938

 Sharkey, Alice M. (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1944

 Shaw, Marjorie: 1930 (Christmas card with woodblock print)

 Sheeler, Charles: 1938 (See also Series 4.2: Walt Kuhn Letters to Family)

 Shostac, Percy (Labor Division, Greater New York Fund): 1941

 Shyrock, Burnett H.: 1938 (4 letters)

 Siple, Walter H. (Cincinnati Art Museum): 1938, 1942, 1945 (4 letters)

 Skeoch, Mary E.: 1934-1936, 1938 (8 letters)

 Skira, Alfred: 1932 (5 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files, 1933)

 Smith, Adele (Studio House, Philips Memorial Gallery, Museum of Modern Art Gallery of Washington): 1935, 1938, 1939 (5 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Smith, Cecil: 1937-1938 (3 letters)

 Smith, Gordon M. (Currier Gallery of Art): 1950

 Smoluchowska, Donia (Arden Gallery, Marie Harriman Gallery): 1929, 1932 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Snow, Carmel (  -- Harper's Bazaar -- ): 1935, 1941 (2 letters)

 Spaeth, Eloise (Mrs. Otto L.; Dayton Art Institute, American Federation of Arts, The Guild Hall): 1943-1953, 1960, undated (50 letters)

 Spaeth, Otto: 1943 (4 letters)

 Spier, LaSalle (brother of Vera Kuhn): 1914-1963 

 Spingarn, Amy (Mrs. Joel Elias): 1938 (2 letters)

 Sprague, Marshall (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center): 1948 (2 letters)

 Steele, Mary Oldfield (Santa Barbara Museum of Art): 1953-1954 (4 letters)

 Stendahl, E.L. (Stendahl Art Galleries): 1939 (3 letters)

 Stetson, Carroll: 1932

 Stickney, Dorothy (Mrs. Howard Lindsay): 1941

 Stinson, Eugene: 1928

 Story, Ala (Santa Barbara Museum of Art): 1954 (2 letters)

 Stout, George L.: 1952

 Strain, Gertrude: 1935

 Stransky, Joseph: 1927

 Strater, Henry (Museum of Art of Ogonquit): 1953-1954 (4 letters)

 Stroh, Earl W.: 1942 (2 letters)

 Studio House (see Gates, Law, Smith)

 Swartz, Susan (Art Institute of Zanesville, Ohio): 1943-1944 (7 letters)

 Swope, Herbert Bayard: 1949

 Sykes, Maltby (Alabama Polytechnic Institute): 1946

 Taggard, Genevieve: 1930, 1931, 1933, 1941, undated (13 letters)

 Tanner, Ethel: 1930 (Christmas card with woodblock print)

 Taylor, Bertrand: 1945

 Taylor, Francis Henry (Metropolitan Museum of Art): 1949 (see also Provenance Files, "Blue Clown")

 Taylor, Henry White: 1938

 Taylor, Olive (Mrs. Bertrand): 1944-1946, 1948-1949, undated (14 letters)

 Teague, Virginia (Mrs. R.L.): 1951 (2 letters)

 Teigen, Peter (Princeton University School of Architecture): 1928, 1929 (2 letters)

 Thayer, Ellen (  -- The Dial -- ): 1927, 1928 (2 letters)

 Thompson, Mark B.: 1934, 1935, 1937 (3 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Thorp, George G. (American Federation of Arts): 1947

 Toledo Museum of Art (see Godwin, Rivière, Seiberling)

 Toler, Sidney: 1941

 Todd, Bianca: 1929, 1933, 1934 (3 items including Christmas cards with original prints)

 Trovato, Joseph (Munson-Williams-Proctor-Institute): 1946, 1949 (2 letters)

 Tucker, Allen: 1938

 Turney, Winthrop: 1924 

 Tyson, Carroll: 1934

 Underwood, Gilbert Stanley (architect): 1938, 1948 (5 letters)

 Valentiner, Dr. W.R. (Detroit Institute of Arts): 1945

 Valez, Dr. Xavier de: 1934

 Venendi, Mario: 1949 (3 letters)

 Vidar, Frede: 1936

 Vreeland, Mr. and Mrs. Francis (Toby and Marion): 1934-1938 (6 letters)

 Wadsworth, Alice (Mrs. James W.): 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945 (8 letters)

 Waida, Robert: 1928

 Waldron, James M. K. (Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery): 1936, 1937, 1961 (3 letters)

 Walker, Maynard: 1946, 1948-1949, 1951-1952, 1955, 1961 (10 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files and Provenance Files, "Guide" and "Veteran Acrobat") 

 Ward, William: 1949

 Washburn, Gordon B. (Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art): 1945

 Watkins, C. Law (Studio House, Phillips Memorial Gallery): 1933 (2 letters)

 Watson, John (for John Quinn): 1914, 1921 (2 letters), 1938

 Watson, Nan: 1928, undated

 Wear, Verna (Mortimer Brandt Gallery): 1943 (2 letters)

 Weber, Max: 1938

 Weber, W.: 1928

 Wehle, Harry B. (Metropolitan Museum of Art; see Provenance Files, "Girl in Uniform")

 Weibel, Adèle (Detroit Institute of Arts): 1938

 Weigel, Paul: 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937 (4 letters)

 Weinberger, Alfred: 1931

 Weir, Ernest and Mary: 1945 (2 letters)

 Weng, Siegfried R. (Dayton Art Institute): 1943 (2 letters)

 Werner, M.R.: 1928

 Weston, Edward: 1928-1930, 1932-1933, 1935, 1937-1938, 1941 (9 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Wetmore, Edith: 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932-1936 (16 items including Christmas cards) 

 White, Frances M.: 1945

 Whiting, F.A. Jr. (  -- Magazine of Art --  ): 1938

 Whitney, Harry: 1942 (see also Greason and Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files)

 Whitney Studio Galleries (see also Force): 1929 

 Whitney Museum of American Art (see Force, Free, More, Freeman, Sharkey, Goodrich)

 Wilder, Mitchell A. (Colorado Springs): 1946-1953 (75 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Wilenski, R.H.: 1938, 1939, 1945-1946 (8 letters)

 Williams, Adele (Women's club of Richmond): 1930

 Williamson, Ada (Philadelphia Art Alliance): 1927, 1928, 1945, 1949 (19 letters; see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts (see Bissell)

 Wilson, Henry J.: 1950

 Winser, Beatrice: 1935, 1940 (7 letters)

 Woelfle, Arthur M.: 1914 (see also Selected Gallery and Exhibition Files) 

 Woelfle, Georgiana: 1936, 1937, 1963 (3 letters)

 Wood, Stanley: 1928

 Zayas, Marius de: 1934, 1939, 1947, 1948 (10 letters)

 Zügel, Heinrich von: 1904
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content: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
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content: Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records
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content: Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records / Series 4: Walt Kuhn Family Papers
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content: 4 Linear Feet (Box 5-9, 32, 56, OV 40)
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content: 1890-1966
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: Correspondence in this series is primarily between Walt Kuhn and his professional and personal contacts and spans his entire career. Correspondents include family members, fellow artists, students, dealers, museum and gallery staff, collectors, friends, fans, critics and colleagues. Copies of outgoing correspondence are often present and are interfiled chronologically. Also included is scattered correspondence of Vera and Brenda Kuhn, and correspondence written after Kuhn died that documents his family's efforts to exhibit, sell, and donate his work.

The content of the correspondence ranges from personal and candid to purely transactional. Artists, collectors, dealers, and critics involved in the creation of significant works of art and collections in the early 20th century are represented. An alphabetical index of selected correspondents in this series is provided in the appendix. Another resource for accessing correspondence are the card files in Series 4.8: Notes and Writings, where correspondence with various contacts was indexed by the Kuhns and filed alphabetically by name.

In 1938, Walt and Vera Kuhn wrote and self-published the pamphlet, "The Story of the Armory Show" and sent it gratis to hundreds of interested parties. Among the correspondence from that year are many heartfelt reponses from fellow artists and other witnesses to the 1913 event, including Charles Sheeler, William Glackens, Stuart Davis, André Derain, Henri Roché, Walter Pach, and J.H. du Bois to name just a few.

Kuhn regularly instructed students through the mail with lengthy letters about painting techniques and methods. San Francisco painter Otis Oldfield is represented by over 100 lengthy letters in this subseries. Kuhn's letters to Oldfield, returned at Kuhn's request in 1945 for a publication project that was never realized, are interfiled. Other correspondence students include Patsy Santo, Frank di Gioia, Watson Bidwell, John Bernhardt, John Laurent, Goldie Paley, and Eric Lundgren. See the appendix for dates.

Types of material include letters (sometimes illustrated), postcards, invitations, announcements, and Christmas cards, which are sometimes made of original artwork. Enclosures are often found, such as photographs, clippings, tracings of art work, writings, receipts, passes and membership cards. Some letters indicate enclosures that were previously separated and can be found in other series.

Significant writings enclosed with correspondence include an early vaudeville script written by Kuhn and his friend, Archibald Macnab (1923); drafts of articles about Kuhn by the poet Genevieve Taggard (1931), critic Alan Burroughs (1930), and patron Eloise Spaeth (1950); and an unpublished history of the 1913 Armory Show by Paul Bird (1938). Photographs and photographic postcards are also found throughout the series. Included are photo postcards from Spain and France (1925), and from Arizona and California (1928); and photographs related to Kuhn's work for the Union Pacific Railroad Company (1936, 1938).

Additional correspondence can be found throughout the collection. See individual series descriptions for details.

See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents in Series 4.3.