Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg papers, circa 1890s-2002

Found here is professional and personal correspondence for both Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg. Letters are from artists and friends including Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley, Joseph Hirshhorn, Reuben Kadish, John McLaughlin, Diane Moran, Abraham Rattner, and numerous arts museums, collectors, and galleries. Especially well-documented is Feitelson and Lundeberg's friendship with Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Canning Miller. Other correspondence is related to Feitelson's teaching activities and includes letters with institutions he taught at, such as the Art Center School, and letters with former students such as Jale Durgun. Family correspondence includes letters with Lundeberg's sister Kitty, Feitelson's brother Ben, and Feitelson's grandson Leo Marshall.

There is extensive correspondence between Feitelson and art historian Diane Moran when she was writing her thesis on Feitelson. Their correspondence includes in-depth discussions of Feitelson's career and his ideas about art and art history.

Also found are twelve folders of fan mail for the television show Feitelson on Art, three folders of birthday cards, and nine folders of sympathy cards received by Lundeberg upon Feitelson's death.

Materials are arranged alphabetically by correspondent name. Names represented by scattered letters only are filed in general alphabetical folders.

This series has been scanned in its entirety.