Jean Gabriel Lemoine papers relating to Morgan Russell
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lemoine, Jean Gabriel, b. 1891
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content: Jean Gabriel Lemoine papers relating to Morgan Russell
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Folders (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1921-1923, 1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lemojean, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The Jean Gabriel Lemoine papers relating to Morgan Russell are comprised of 20 items dating from 1921-1923, and 1964. Included are 17 letters and letter fragments written by Morgan Russell in 1923 to Jean Gabriel Lemoine, art critic for L'Echo de Paris. One letter fragment includes a typescript in French dating from 1964. In these letters Russell explains his art and the Synchromism style that he developed with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Also found are a one page list naming ten paintings in his studio, written in 1921 in Morgan Russell's hand, a news clipping of article by Lemoine about Russell, and a typed extract about Russell from La Peinture Abstraite by Michel Senghor. Also found are a few notes about the items in each folder, possibly written by Lemoine.