Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Benn, Ben, 1884-
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content: Ben Benn papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1906-1993, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bennben, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The Correspondence series is arranged into five subseries:

2.1: Ben Benn correspondence, 1915-1993, undated

2.2: Ben and Velida Benn correspondence, 1911-1953, undated

2.3: Velida Benn correspondence, 1906-1963, undated

2.4: Postcards, 1910-1969, undated

2.5: Greeting cards, 1918-1967, undated
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains the personal and professional correspondence of Ben Benn and personal correspondence of Velida Benn (neé Gertrude Lopez). Found are several letters from Willard Huntington Wright (the Forum Exhibition Committee) and Juliana Force (Whitney Museum of Art). Also included is correspondence from additional museums and galleries, including the Artists' Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Personal correspondence includes numerous letters, postcards, and greeting cards from colleagues and friends who formed a part of the Benns' social circle, including those from Oscar Bluemner, Sidney Geist, and Kaj Klitgaard, William Baziotes, and a postcard from Marsden Hartley.