Correspondence of Crockett Johnson and Harley Flanders
date: label: date made
content: 1970-1975
notes: label: Description
content: Between 1965 and his death in 1975, the American artist and cartoonist David Crockett Johnson prepared a series of mathematical paintings. These initially were based on popular mathematics books and textbooks. Later, Crockett Johnson devised and painted his own geometric constructions, often in consultation with others. This collection includes letters between Crockett Johnson and the mathematician Harley Flanders from the years 1970 through 1974, with an obituary of Crockett Johnson from 1975. Intermixed are manuscripts and calculations of Crockett Johnson and Flanders, as well as materials by Howard Levi, G. Stanley Smith and Murray Klamkin. For related materials, see accession 1979.1093 and non-accession 1979.3083.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Harley Flanders
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.3005.01
label: catalog number
content: 2009.3005.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2009.3005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheets, set of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 15 cm x 36 cm; 13/16 in x 5 7/8 in x 14 3/16 in