Letter from Erle Loran to Richard J. Wattenmaker
name: label: Creator
content: Loran, Erle, 1905-1999
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content: Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 1824-1898
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content: Wattenmaker, Richard J.
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content: Donated 2000 by Richard J. Wattenmaker.
creator: label: Creator
content: Loran, Erle, 1905-1999
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content: Loran (1905-1999) was a painter, writer, teacher at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "Cézanne's Compositions: Analysis of his Form, With Diagrams and Photographs of his Motifs" (1943-1963). In 1976, Richard J. Wattenmaker was Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, where he curated the exhibition "Puvis de Chavannes and the Modern Tradition," October 24-November 30, 1975.
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content: 2 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976 May 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.loraerll
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Letter from Erle Loran, Berkeley, Calif., to "Mr. Wattenmaker," Toronto, thanking him for sending "the magnificent catalogue of your Puvis de Chavannes exhibition. I realize how much we have forgotten about Puvis and how far reaching his influence on modern french painting was." He mentions Puvis' influence on Seurat and Cézanne, and congratulates Wattenmaker on "a very important piece of scholarship."