Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1949-1971, n.d.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1949-1971, n.d.

Most of their correspondence is about Museum news and collection visited while on McNulty's and Zigrosser's respective vacations. Included in the file are 73 letters to McNulty in response to the curatorial retrospective held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Zigrosser's honor in 1964. Later letters involve the purchase of works from John Marin and other Museum news.

108 items (129 leaves).

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