Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tobias, Abraham Joel, 1913-1996
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content: Abraham Joel Tobias papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tobijoel, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: This series is organized chronologically. Project and exhibition files (Series 3) contain additional correspondence.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: General correspondence contains letters, drafts, and carbon copies of letters sent by Tobias regarding proposed mural commissions with responses from various trade unions and public institutions. There is scattered correspondence with museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Jewish Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, and Seattle Art Museum. Correspondence with the National Museum of American Art concerns the acquisition of Tobias's shaped canvas, Sky Formation (1935); other letters concern the donation of two life drawings to the National Gallery. Also found are letters of recommendation written on Tobias's behalf.