Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kienbusch, William, 1914-1980
setName: label: See more items in
content: William Kienbusch papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1-3; 2.3 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-2001
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kienwill, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The series is arranged as 2 subseries:

2.1: Family Correspondence, 1920-1968

2.2: General Correspondence, 1936-2001
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains family correspondence and general correspondence. Family correspondence includes letters from Kienbusch to his parents and other family members regarding school, summer camps, travel, and the army. Also found are a few letters sent to Kienbusch from his parents. General correspondence includes numerous letters Kienbusch sent to his close friend, Stanley Clifford, as well as letters from friends and associates, such as Stuart Davis, Antionette Kraushaar, Walter Maitland, Henry Varnum Poor, Abraham Rattner, Karl Schrag, and Reuben Tam. Other miscellaneous letters are from Isabel Bishop, Charles Scribner's Sons, Cleve Gray, Philip Guston, Joseph Hirsch, Stefan Hirsch, Dorothy Miller, and Anton Refregier.

Also found are over forty letters written by Thomas Barrett to Stanley Clifford. Barrett was Kienbusch's student at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and occasionally mentions him in his letters to Clifford.