Spier, LaSalle
Size: 0.2 linear ft.
Summary: Letters from Walt and Vera Kuhn including two with illustrations; letters between Walt Kuhn and Duncan Phillips, and a letter to Kuhn from Thomas Hart Benton; a photograph of a painting by Kuhn and a photograph of a painting by Wyndham Lewis; clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements concerning Kuhn and various exhibitions at the Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Deceased. Spier was the brother of Vera Kuhn, wife of the painter Walt Kuhn.
Virginia Mecklenburg of the National Museum of American Art received these papers from Spier, and then gave them to the Archives of American Art.
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LaSalle Spier papers, 1929-1945. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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