Tortue Gallery letters
name: label: Creator
content: Tortue Gallery (Santa Monica, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
label: Names
content: Freeman, Mallory, 1938-
label: Names
content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
label: Names
content: Nellis, David L., 1934-
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Mallory Freeman, director of Tortue Gallery, 1978.
creator: label: Creator
content: Tortue Gallery (Santa Monica, Calif.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art gallery; Santa Monica, California.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- California
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971-1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tortgall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3480 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 3 letters to David Nellis, collector, from Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1971-1972. Macdonald-Wright encloses a sketch of the repainting of "Yoku O Hi" which had been scratched, describes his new home in Hawaii, and explains his feelings about the selling price of his work. Also included is a letter to Mallory Freeman, director of the gallery, from Thomas Hart Benton, 1974, regarding 2 Macdonald-Wright paintings owned by Benton.