Marcel Franciscono, Vincent Price, Museum Directors, 1968-1984

Marcel Franciscono, Vincent Price, Museum Directors

Correspondence with Marcel Franciscono, professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Vincent Price, actor and promoter of original art; Michael Wentworth, Smith College; and John Wilmerding, National Gallery of Art. The Taylor correspondence also includes a letter from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Correspondence with Joshua C. Taylor, with whom Bela Petheo studied at the University of Chicago, and who later was director of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

Marcel Franciscono. Letter from Marcel Franciscono, November 11, 1976. Willing to assist with Bela Petheo's grant proposal.

Letter from Marcel Franciscono, November 12, 1974. Thanks for hospitality during visit to St. John's.

Enclosed: "Paul Klees kubistiche Druckgraphik" by Marcel Franciscono, in Paul Klee: Das graphische und plastische Werk. Exhibition catalog, 1974. Photocopy.

Vincent Price. Two postcards from Vincent Price. One undated, the other postmarked March 2, 1974. Tight lecture schedule.

Joshua C. Taylor. Correspondence, April 10, 1979-April or May, 1981.

Letter from Wallace B. Edgerton, National Endowment for the Humanities, March 2, 1971. Declines Bela Petheo's request for summer stipend.

Correspondence with Joshua C. Taylor, September 30, 1968-November 18, 1970. Includes a brief biography of Bela Petheo in an unknown hand.

Michael Wentworth. Letter to Michael Wentworth, May 21, 1971. Reaction to "Painterly Realism" exhibition catalog.

John Wilmerding. Letter from John Wilmerding, April 20, 1984. Thanks for thoughtful remarks.

Enclosed: Winslow Homer's Right and Left, by John Wilmerding. Booklet; "Thomas Eakins' Late Portraits," by John Wilmerding. Article. Larger publication not named. Pages [108]-112.

Letter to John Wilmerding, April 10, 1984. Appreciation of his lecture on Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins.