Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Halper, Nathan
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content: Nathan Halper business records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.halpnath, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Correspondence is with artists, estate executors, gallery partners, collectors, galleries, and museums regarding works of art, potential and finalized sales, account balances, requests for information, and general updates. Correspondents include Milton and Sally Avery, Gandy Brodie, Victor Candell, Anthony Caro, G. Alan Chidsey (estate executor for Marsden Hartley), John Murray Cuddihy, Edwin Dickinson, Noah Goldowsky, Marsden Hartley, Hans Hofmann, Angelo Ippolito, Lester Johnson, Wolf Kahn, William King, Samuel Kootz, Marcia Marcus, Boris Margo, George McNeil, Dolores Muller (estate executor for Jan Muller), Robert W. Munford, Mrs. Elie Nadelman, Merton Simpson, David Smith, Richard Stankiewicz, Tal Streeter, Selina Trieff, William Turnbull, and Anthony Vevers. There is also significant correspondence with collectors Spencer M. Cowan, Heyward Cutting, Mrs. Herbert Lee, Alfred List, Alex B. Stone, and George L. Sturman.

Correspondence with insurance agents, shipping companies, and gallery visitors are also filed in the series. In addition, the correspondence file of Nathan Halper includes requests for loans from his personal art collection and the sale of artwork on the behalf of Dolores Muller after the closing of the HCE Gallery.