Richard Florsheim Art Fund
Size: 15.0 linear ft.
Summary: Files concerning more than 300 grant recipients of the Richard Florsheim Art Fund, arranged alphabetically, containing correspondence, grant proposals, biographies, sildes or reproductions of works of art, catalogs, and miscellany.
Art organization; Tampa, Fla. Established 1989 in the will of artist Richard Floresheim (1916-1979), to support living American artists, age 60 or older, by funding exhibitions that included the publication of a substansive catalogs and by purchasing works for the collections of nonprofit institutuions.
Donated 2004 by the Richard Florsheim Art Fund via August L. Freundlich, president of the Richard Florsheim Art Fund.
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Richard Florsheim Art Fund records, 1990-2003. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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