Personal Business Records and Howard Griffin Estate Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Blaine, Nell, 1922-1996
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content: Nell Blaine papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1949-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.blainell, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Many of the letters in the Howard Griffin Estate files are photocopies. The bulk of this series has been digitized. Letters from Clifford Wright to Howard Griffin have not been digitized due to privacy concerns.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Found are scattered business records including a gallery file and a sales receipt. Proposals are for books written by Daisy Alden and Robert Wilson to include illustrations by Blaine.

Files originating from the estate of Howard Griffin include the following: research material on Joseph Cornell gathered by Griffin including 2 photographs of a Cornell artwork from Stable Gallery files and 3 items of printed material; Kit Barker material including postcards, sketches, handmade cards, and a price list of works of art at Waddington Galleries; letters to Griffin from W. H. Auden, Kit Barker, Jean Garrigue, Clarence John Laughlin, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Mark Tobey, Clifford Wright (over 100), and others; and 3 etchings with transmittal notes from Alvin Ross and photocopies of letters from Ross to Griffin. Publications and writings from the Griffin estate includes two books by Griffin, Overseen Objects and Other Fears (1972: The Druck Press) which is dedicated to Blaine, and Howard Griffin: Four Poems (1976: Eudora Press) with illustrations by Blaine; and copies of notes for Griffin's article on Blaine's 1959 Greek pictures.