Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pincus-Witten, Robert, 1935-2018
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content: Robert Pincus-Witten papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.6 Linear Feet (Box 1, 2, 4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952-2015
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pincrobe, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence includes letters, post cards, greeting cards, birth announcements, printed emails, and annotated exhibition announcements and invitations from friends, family, artists, galleries, and colleagues. People of note include Mel Boucher, Judy Gantzman, Gary Komarin, David Salle, Sean Scully, and letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pincus-Witten's grandmother, "Oma." There are also letters to and from Pincus-Witten's PhD advisor, Joshua C. Taylor, where they discuss Pincus-Witten's thesis and starting his teaching career at Queens College in the 1960s. There are many enclosures in the correspondence files including clippings, sticky notes, research materials related to Alphonse Osbert, color and black and white photographs, photographs of Pincus-Witten and Leon Hecht at events, slides, contracts, sketches, and small works of art. Also included are several postcards and other items that are considered mail art.