John Alan Walker papers
name: label: Creator
content: Walker, John Alan, 1942-2003
label: Names
content: Brigante, Nicholas P., 1895-1989
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2003 and 2004 by Big Pine Community United Methodist Church, executor of Walker's estate.
creator: label: Creator
content: Walker, John Alan, 1942-2003
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Book dealer, writer, collector; Panorama City and Big Pine, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.9 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1743-1999
label: Date
content: bulk 1918-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.walkjohn
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, writings, printed material and video regarding John Alan Walker and his research on artists. Included are exhibition catalogs and brochures; magazine and newspaper articles and reviews;issues of John Alan Walker's self-published Fine Art Source Material Newsletter and Walker's handwritten and typewritten essays on art and artists; Walker's writings on William Wendt; material related to Nicholas Brigante including printed material a two-page, handwritten tribute to Symbolist Rex Slinkard, as well as a 30-min. VHS videotape interview with the artist by Suzanne Bravender titled, "Wet Media Imagery of Nick Brigante" in 1978. Also included are miscellaneous letters written by various artists and literary, military, governmental and political figures in the United States, Britain and Germany, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries.