Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tam, Reuben
setName: label: See more items in
content: Reuben Tam papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931-2006
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tamreub, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Family and outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically followed by general correspondence which is arranged alphabetically.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for duplicates.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains Tam's correspondence with his wife Geraldine, family, friends, colleagues, art associations, schools, museums, and galleries. Also found are copies of Tam's outgoing correspondence and letters sent to Geraldine Tam after Reuben's death. Researchers should note that additional letters of significance are located within the scrapbooks in Series 8.

 Of note is correspondence with friends and fellow artists Alan Gussow, William Kienbusch, Frances Kornbluth, Carl Nesjar, Ben Norris, and Hyde Solomon, as well as art organizations, schools, and museums, such as Artists Equity Association, Brooklyn Museum of Art School, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Maine Coast Artists group, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Also found is correspondence with the three galleries which represented his work: Downtown Gallery, Alan Gallery, and Coe Kerr Gallery.