Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000
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content: Perry Townsend Rathbone papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet (Box 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rathperr, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order according to surname. Correspondents with fewer than three letters are grouped in general alphabetical folders at the end of the subseries.  The last folder of unidentified correspondence contains letters from individuals whose names were illegible or their surnames were not included in the text.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence is with friends, colleagues, and members of U.S. Army's Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives Section who went on to successful careers in the arts after World War II.  The bulk of the correspondence is related to Rathbone's work as a museum director and dates from after the war.  Correspondents include the German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann, Detroit Institute of the Arts director William R. Valentiner, Harvard professor Paul Sachs, Boston Museum of Fine Arts curator Hanns Swarzenski, and many others.  A letter from Beatrice Connely Rathbone, Rathbone's mother, is the only family correspondence.  Also found here are scattered letters from fellow art historians who served as Monuments Men during World War II, although the bulk of the letters post date the war.