Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bisttram, Emil, 1895-1976
setName: label: See more items in
content: Emil J. Bisttram papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1925-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bistemil, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The correspondence series contains letters of personal and professional nature. Topics include WPA projects, the Treasury Relief Art Program, the New Mexico art committee, The Bisttram School of Art and other art schools such as the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Additional correspondence relates to event invitations, exhibition planning, returning artwork loans, different professional organizations and clubs. Notable correspondence includes Lily and Eero Saarinen, Raymond Jonson and Bisttram's wife Mayrion Bisttram on his behalf. 

The series has been arranged chronologically.