Alphabetical Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
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content: Edward Bruce papers
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content: Edward Bruce papers / Series 2: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1921-1957
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brucedwa, Subseries 2.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Found here is Bruce's correspondence with his family and many prominent friends, including art collector Samuel Lewisohn, art critic Leo Stein, and former Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone. Also found is correspondence documenting Bruce's career as an artist. He corresponded with art associations including the American Association of Museums and the National Academy of Design, art collectors and dealers such as A. W. Bahr and Albert Barnes, and with art museums and galleries concerning the exhibition of his work and as a juror for exhibitions, including the Century Club, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Also included is correspondence regarding the Friedsam Gold Metal Bruce was awarded from the Architectural League of New York in 1938. 

Among the artists Bruce corresponded with are George Biddle, Oscar Bleumner, Adrian Dornbush, Olin Dows, Waldo Peirce, Henry Varnum Poor, Boardman Robinson, Maurice Sterne, Ralph Stackpole, and Victor Hammer. This series also includes Bruce's correspondence with Milch Galleries, which represented his artwork, and correspondence about his Chinese art collection.

The alphabetical correspondence provides extensive documentation of Bruce's career as the Chief of the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. There is correspondence with the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, business correspondence with colleagues in the Section, including Edward Rowan and Inslee Hopper, and correspondence with government officials Archibald MacLeish and Frederic A. Delano. Also included in this series is Bruce's extensive correspondence with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, keeping them informed of the various public art projects. Bruce's professional correspondence with government officials and businessmen about Philippine independence and its economy is also found here.