Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964
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content: Alexander Archipenko papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.1 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-5)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.archalex, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series, arranged chronologically, includes both personal and professional correspondence. Among the personal correspondents are relatives and friends in the Ukraine, Archipenko's wife Angelica during her extended stays in California and Mexico, and other women. Professional correspondence is with dealers, curators, scholars, collectors, colleges and universities concerning exhibitions, sales and commissions, loans, teaching, and lecture engagements. Also included are routine requests from prospective students for information about the Archipenko School or summer courses. Correspondence post-dating Archipenko's death concerns exhibitions, sales, and unfinished business.

Additional correspondence is included with Series 3: Subject Files, which includes significant correspondence with the Museum of Modern Art and others concerning "?That is Why I Request to Remove My Art from the Museum of Modern Art by Alexander Archipenko," 1943-1944.