Pemberton, Murdock, 1888-1982
Art critic
Size: 8 items (on 1 partial microfilm reel).
Summary: Two letters to Pemberton from Alexander Calder, September 19, 1947 and September 15, 1955; one letter, dated 5 April, from Arthur Dove; two undated letters from Jean Lurcat; two undated letters from Henry Varnum Poor; and a 1949 exhibition catalog, "Philharmonic-Symphony Painters Club First Annual Exhibition," with an introduction by Pemberton.
Art critic; New York, N.Y.; b. 1888; d. 1982 Wrote for the New Yorker magazine.
Donated 1968 by Murdock Pemberton.
Microfilm reel 3470 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Murdock Pemberton papers, 1947-1955. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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