Subject Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bush, Martin H.
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content: Martin H. Bush papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear feet (Boxes 2-4)
label: Extent
content: 0.705 Gigabytes (ER01)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963-2012
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bushmart, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Files are arranged by subject and thereafter in alphabetical order.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes  files on Martin H. Bush's dealings with individual artists, mostly relating to exhibitions, some organized by Martin H. Bush and sales of  artwork. There are extensive files on Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Goodnough, Ernest Trova, and Isaac Witkin.  Auction files document Bush's consulting projects for art institutions, such as Owensboro Museum of Art and the Ulrich Museum of Art as well as his activities as a collector.  Files may include a variety of material, such as correspondence, drafts, memoranda, proposals, informational sheets, lists of artwork, inventory lists, condition reports, printed and digital material, clippings and reviews, exhibition catalogs, annotated auction catalogs, and photographic materials, including slides and transparencies.  Among the business-related materials are appraisals, price lists, sale sheets, bids, lists of deaccessioned artwork, consignment agreements, condition reports, receipts, and invoices.   There is limited documentation relating to Bush's directorship at ACA Gallery.

Also found are Martin H. Bush's correspondence with Samuel Beckett, including three holograph letters and one typescript letter from Beckett; John Von Wicht's illustrated letters; and an annotated typescript of Bush's account of his initial meeting with Joan Miró.   Other source files  include a list of scholars conducting research for catalogue raisonné projects, obituary notices on friends and acquaintances, and the Ulrich Museum of Art, particularly the museum's twentieth-fifth anniversary celebration. Two videorecordings of an ESPN "Up Close" Interview and and ESPN Hall of Fame induction ceremony reflect Bush's interest in baseball.

Subject files include 11 videocassettes.