Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Wolff, Theodore F.
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content: Theodore F. Wolff papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.75 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951-2011
label: Date
content: 1920
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wolftheo, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: In general, letters are filed alphabetically by person or corporate name.  Names with five or more letters are filed in their own folders.  Wolff's outgoing letters are filed together in the first eleven folders.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes Theodore F. Wolff's correspondence with artists, editors, publishers, museums, and galleries. Subjects relate to Wolff's book projects, reviews, and other writings as well as his activities as an appraiser and fine arts consultant.  Outgoing letters, mostly carbon copies, are to  friends and family members and are of a personal nature. Types of correspondence include holiday cards, postcards and letters. Some of the letters are annotated and a small portion are illustrated by Wolff.

Found is correspondence with his editors at The Christian Science Monitor Henrietta Buckmaster and Allan Bunce, printmakers, Norman and June Kraeft, and the writer, Tom Wolfe. The signficant portion of correspondence is with artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Alexander Hogue,Ynez Johnston, Armin Landeck, Melissa Miller, Peter Milton, Robert Natkin, Theodoros Stamos, Clyfford Still, Athena Tachna, Stow Wengenroth, Jerome Witkin.  Of interest, is Wolff's correspondence with Morris Graves and his partner, Robert Yarber.  Graves's letters discuss his paintings, exhibitions, Wolff's writings as well as his thoughts on a variety of topics, aging, nature, technology, with allusions to Mayan, Chinese, and Hindu culture.  Also found is a file of holograph letters from John Wilde.