Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Reis, Bernard J.
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content: Bernard J. Reis papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Box 1, OV 3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1935-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.reisbern, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by last name.  Persons with three or fewer pieces of correspondence are filed in the miscellaneous folders, which are also arranged alphabetically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Reis's correspondence is with friends, colleagues, art associations, museums, and galleries. Also found are letters sent to Rebecca Reis after Bernard's death. Researchers should note that additional letters of significance are located in Art of This Century and Peggy Guggenheim Foundation records, Mark Rothko Estate papers, and the "Letters from Artists" scrapbook.

Of note is correspondence with friends and artists, including Marc Chagall, William Congdon, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, and Laurence Vail, as well as other notable members of the art world, such as Sir Herbert Read. This series also contains correspondence from art organizations, art associations, museums, and galleries, including the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Fogg Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and  Walters Art Gallery.