Letters to Percy North
name: label: Creator
content: North, Percy, 1945-
label: Names
content: Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974
label: Names
content: Weber, Max, 1881-1961
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
label: Occupation
content: Art historians
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1993 and 2004 by Percy North.
creator: label: Creator
content: North, Percy, 1945-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian; Washington, DC North's dissertation was on painter Max Weber. Was guest curator at the University of Minnesota Art Gallery in the late 1970s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951-1992
label: Date
content: bulk 1977-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nortperc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 53 Letters to Percy North from friends, family and associates and colleagues. Eleven letters from James Daugherty, April-Dec. 1971, and April 1973, concerning a proposed article by North about his pastels and color theories, the sale of a pastel to North, and his exhibitions; letters from Jack Levine, Kate Steinitz, Abraham Rattner, Edward Laning, and Hunter Ingalls responding to North's request for information about Max Weber; a letter from Norman Rockwell responding to a request for an autographed bookplate, March 2, 1971; a letter from Jerry Ott about the price of a print and the "strange twists and turns" of his career, July 8, 1992; letters from artists in response to North's request for information about works in the permanent collection of the University of Minnesota Art Gallery; letters from Herman Maril and Robert Luck concerning North's exhibition Hudson D. Walker: Patron and Friend at the University of Minnesota Art Gallery, 1977; a Christmas card from Renee and Chaim Gross, ca. 1951; illustrated note from Lila Katzen, 1986 and miscellany.