Object Details
Collection Creator
Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
Collection Citation
Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records, 1859-1984, bulk 1900-1949. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents note
Organizers' Letters include letters written by Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn. Recipients include Walter Pach, Walt Kuhn, and Vera Kuhn. Letters describe Kuhn's and Davies' travel to Europe to collect works to exhibit, preparations in New York, and the traveling exhibitions in Chicago and Boston. Several letters from Walt Kuhn are illustrated, and a floor plan of a proposed installation in the Armory is among Davies' letters. One postcard to Vera Kuhn from Boston is signed by Maurice and Charles Prendergast and Frederick James Gregg, as well as by Walt Kuhn.
Additional letters from Walt Kuhn to his wife before and after his Armory Show activities can be found in Series 4.2: Walt Kuhn Letters to Family.
Letters are separated by author and arranged chronologically.
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Sponsor
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Getty Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Date
1912-1913
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.kuhnwalt, Subseries 1.1.1
Type
Archival materials
Collection Rights
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Collection Restrictions
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Record ID
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