Letter Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Yamin, Alice
setName: label: See more items in
content: Alice Yamin papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 1-2; 1.5 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927-1998
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.yamialic, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The files are arranged in alphabetical order, except for miscellaneous letters.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Miscellaneous letters from various individuals, galleries, and corporations discuss art-related topics including the purchase of Yamin's work and her participation in fund raising and political events. The files also contain scattered printed material and photographs. Represented are: artists including Ilya Bolotowsky, Ernest Briggs, Fritz Bultman, Elaine DeKooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Buffie Johnson, Alex Katz, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko; curator Henry Ginsburg; writers Barbara Nimri Aziz and Leo Yamin; and galleries including the Ingber Gallery and the Landmark Gallery. The file for Henry Ginsburg contains a photograph of Ginsburg with Queen Elizabeth II. There are also letter files concerning Markus Low of the CIGY-GEIGY Corporation; Alice Yamin's brother, businessman Frank S. Bernard; and the town Chilmark, Massachusetts, where the Yamins spent their summers.