Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1947.

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Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1947.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182553212

Letter concerns the restoration of a portrait of Mitchell Clark Brooks, Van Wyck's grandfather. The letter's writer, Harry A. Brooks, both worked for Knoedler and was a relation to Van Wyck Brooks.

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Brooks, Harry, 1895-1970

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M. Knoedler & Co

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Founded in 1848 as the New York branch of the French firm Goupil & Cie before the creation of most museums in the United States, the Knoedler Gallery was able to play a central role as a conduit for the masterworks that established American collections. The firm's archive traces the development of the once provincial American art market into one of the world's leading art centers and the formation of the private art collections that would ultimately establish many of the nation's leading art mus...