Barbara Swan letters to Rosalind and Edwin Miller

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Barbara Swan letters to Rosalind and Edwin Miller

1961-1991

Swan, writing to her friends Rosalind and Edwin Miller, discusses her husband Alan Fink's positions as an art dealer and owner of the Alpha Gallery in Boston, mentioning artists Milton Avery, Gregory Gillespie, Don Gustin, Ellsworth Kelly, Boris Mirski, and Andy Stevovich. She writes also about her son Aaron's art career and daughter Joanna's career as assistant to Alan, her health problems dealing with lupus, family vacations and activities with Swan's mother and aunt, Peter and Edith Milton, and Bernard and Ninion Chaet, her numerous trips to New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for various art openings; and her friendship with poet Anne Sexton.

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Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974

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Sexton was a poet and playwright. From the description of Poems, 1961-1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78491220 Anne Sexton was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed American poets of the 20th century. Her complex, confessional verse treated such topics as mental illness, sexual liberation, and 1960s Americana with honesty and wit. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Anne Sexton committed suicide in 1974. From the description of Anne Sexton l...

Alpha Gallery (Boston, Mass.)

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Fink, Aaron, 1955-

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Chaet, Bernard

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Bernard Chaet (1924-) is a painter and teacher from New Haven, Conn. and Rockport, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Bernard Chaet, 1997 June 18-Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744434396 Bernard Chaet (1924- ) is a painter and teacher from New Haven, Conn. and Rockport, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Bernard Chaet, 1997 June 18-Aug. 15 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79269823 ...

Milton, Peter, 1930-

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For some biographical information about Peter Milton and background on his work The Jolly Corner, see the article in the Archives and Special Collections Department. From the description of The jolly corner, 1971. (University of Massachusetts at Boston). WorldCat record id: 52778564 Printmaker, educator; New Hampshire. Studied with Josef Albers and Gabor Peterdi at Yale University, where he received a BFA (1954) and an MFA (1962). Taught at the Unive...

Fink, Joanna Elizabeth, 1958-

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Stevovich, Andrew, 1948-

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Miller, Edwin Haviland

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Fink, Alan, 1925-

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Alan Fink (1925- ) is an art dealer in Boston, Mass. and is married to Barbara Swan. From the description of Oral history interview with Alan Fink, 1997 Jan. 22 and Jan. 29 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83609072 ...

Swan, Barbara, 1922-....

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Swan, a painter, draftsman, and lithographer from Boston, Mass., was friends of Rosalind Miller, a professor of psychiatric social work at Columbia University, and Edwin Miller, a Walt Whitman scholar and biographer of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Millers are collectors of American textiles. From the description of Barbara Swan letters to Rosalind and Edwin Miller, 1961-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81488088 Painter, printmaker; Brookline, Mass. ...

GUSTIN, DAN.

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Miller, Rosalind S., 1923-2002

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Rosalind Miller was a professor of social work at Columbia University's School of Social Work. She helped to create the joint degree program in Social Work and Public Health at the University in 1976, and her particular areas of interest were clinical social work and health care policy. She retired from teaching in 1990. Prior to her career in social work she taught English at Penn State University, Simmons College and Tufts University. She received her...