New Britain Museum of American Art records
name: label: Creator
content: New Britain Museum of American Art
label: Creator
content: New Britain Institute. Art Museum
label: Names
content: Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953
label: Names
content: Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
label: Names
content: Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000
label: Names
content: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
label: Names
content: Boghosian, Varujan
label: Names
content: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967
label: Names
content: Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968
label: Names
content: Kappel, Philip
label: Names
content: LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
label: Names
content: Low, Sanford B. D. (Sanford Ballard Dole), 1905-1964
label: Names
content: Meyer, Herbert W. (Herbert William), 1882-1960
label: Names
content: Pleissner, Ogden M.
label: Names
content: Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest), 1892-1970
label: Names
content: Vose, Robert C. (Robert Churchill), 1911-1998
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum directors -- Connecticut -- New Britain
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1979 by the New Britain Museum of American Art.
creator: label: Creator
content: New Britain Museum of American Art
label: Creator
content: New Britain Institute. Art Museum
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Known as the Art Museum of the New Britain Institute prior to 1961.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Connecticut -- New Britain
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1907-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.newbrit
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 1710 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters from artists, art dealers, and art collectors, mostly addressed to Sanford Low, Director of the Museum, 1940-1964. Some letters contain price lists of works of art, photographs and printed matter. Correspondents include John Taylor Arms, Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Leonard Baskin, Varujan Boghosian, Charles Burchfield, Adolf Dehn, Philip Kappel, Sol LeWitt, Herbert Meyer, Ogden Pleissner, Henry Schnakenberg, Robert Vose and others. Also included are writings by Low and others about the Musuem.