Artists' protest letter to James Johnson Sweeney, New York, N.Y., 1956

Physical Details: Letter : 1 p. : typescript ; 28 x 22 cm.

Sender: unidentified

Recipient: James Johnson Sweeney (1900-1986) (New York, N.Y.)

Description: Letter of protest against Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Signed by Calvin Albert, Milton Avery, Will Barnet, Paul Bodin, Henry Botkin, Byron Browne, Herman Cherry, George Constant, Willem de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Seymour Lipton, Sally Michel, George L.K. Morris, Robert Motherwell, Charles Schucker, John Sennhauser, Leon P. Smith, Jack Tworkov.

Forms part of: Letters and clippings regarding the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1956-1958

Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined

Citation: Artists' protest letter to James Johnson Sweeney, New York, N.Y., 1956. Letters and clippings regarding the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Digital ID: 9963

Subjects:

• Albert, Calvin
• Avery, Milton
• Avery, Sally Michel
• Barnet, Will
• Bodin, Paul
• Botkin, Henry
• Browne, Byron
• Cherry, Herman
• Constant, George
• De Kooning, Willem
• Ferber, Herbert
• Gottlieb, Adolph
• Guston, Philip
• Kline, Franz
• Lipton, Seymour
• Morris, George L. K. (George Lovett Kingsland)
• Motherwell, Robert Burns
• New York, N.Y.
• Protesting
• Schucker, Charles L.
• Sennhauser, John
• Smith, Leon Polk
• Tworkov, Jack
• Wright, Frank Lloyd

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