Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smith, Leon Polk, 1906-1996
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content: Leon Polk Smith papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-5, 9, OV 10)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.smitleon, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The bulk of this series has been scanned. Slides of artwork filed with Meyers/Bloom Gallery have not been scanned. The series is arranged as 2 subseries:

Subseries 2.1: Business, 1943-1996

Subseries 2.2: Personal, 1939-1997
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Correspondence is predominantly in the form of business letters and personal letters received from family and friends. This includes correspondence between Smith and his life companion, Robert Jamieson; art critics Arthur C. Danto, Claudine Humblet, and David Galloway; and artists Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) and Ray Johnson.

The bulk of the business correspondence relates to Smith's various gallery and museum exhibitions, loans, and sales. Outgoing correspondence, photographs, slides, and instructions on the installation of exhibitions have been chronologically interfiled within the correspondents' files. There is extensive correspondence between Smith and the Brooklyn Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, Di Laurenti Gallery, Edition and Galerie Hoffmann, Galerie Denise Rene, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Washburn Gallery, and the Wilhelm-Hack Museum. The business subseries also includes correspondence between Smith and his alma mater, East Central University, formerly known as Oklahoma State University.