Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the papers of Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman

Archives of American Art's New York Research Center
June 22 - September 30, 2007

On the occasion of John W. Smith's appointment as director of the Archives of American Art, Barbara G. Fleischman, chairman of the Board of Trustees, donated to the Archives an extraordinary collection of letters from artists, curators and critics. These letters to Barbara and her late husband Lawrence A. Fleischman, a founder of the Archives of American Art, show their support of artists and their intellectual engagement in the fledgling field of American art. This gift, among many others, demonstrates their deep commitment to advancing American art history.

Images from the Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman papers

[Thomas Eakins as a child.], ca. 1850.	[Artist Barsabas Cisneros carving], ca. 1940.	[Grace Bailey], ca. 1940.
[Grace Bailey laying out a woodcarving.], ca. 1940.	[Grace Bailey with students], ca. 1940.	[Selecting wood at the Estudio de Artes Manuales.], ca. 1940.
[Truman Bailey], ca. 1940.	[Truman Bailey polishes chess men.], ca. 1940.	[Reginald Marsh, New York, N.Y. letter to Lawrence Arthur Fleischman], 1953 June 10.