Correspondence and Mail Art
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Truck, Fred
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content: Fred Truck papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974-2017
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.trucfred, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series includes general correspondence received by Truck relating to many aspects of his work and career and documenting his friendships and professional relationships with other artists, art organizations, art institutions, and publishers. Particularly rich and extensive is correspondence from collector Jean Brown whose letters detail her collecting activities, her friendship with Truck, and her professional collaborations with him. Also found is a substantial and significant collection of letters and mail art sent to Truck from many conceptual, performance, and mail artists including Anna Banana, Rimma and Valery Gerlovin, Michael Gibbs, John Held Jr., Richard Kostelanetz, Jürgen Olbrich, Rod Summers, Paul Zelevansky, and many others.