Clement Greenberg letters to David Cast
name: label: Creator
content: Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
label: Names
content: Cast, David, 1942-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2000 by David Cast.
creator: label: Creator
content: Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Greenberg, was an art critic; Cast, a professor of art history; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penn.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.greeclel
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters to Cast from Clement Greenberg consists of three postcards and two letters between 1981 and 1987. The letters, though brief, reveal Greenberg's characteristic voice and report on the critic's later life as an art celebrity, in which he ruminates on being constantly on the go from lectures to receiving awards. Greenberg also mentions Jules Olitski, Edward Fry, Peter Fuller, and Sydney Freedberg.