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Robert Hughes papers, 1952-2012, bulk 1973-2004

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Series 2: Correspondence, 1952-2012
1.4 Linear feet
Box 1-2, 21

Correspondence includes letters, emails, and postcards from personal and professional contacts, including friends, family, colleagues, and fans. Although Hughes' personal and professional lives often intersected, materials are arranged in their original order, personal and professional correspondence.

2.1

Correspondence, Personal, 1952-2012
0.5 Linear feet
Box 1, 21
Personal correspondence includes letters; emails; and postcards from friends, family, including his sister, Constance Crisp, and his first wife, Danne Emerson, fans, and colleagues. Hughes maintained both personal and professional relationships with authors, journalists, publishers, artists, and other notable figures in the art and literary worlds including Robert Motherwell, John Julius Norwich, Simon Watson Taylor, Avignor Arikha, and Delfina Rattazzi. Also included are letters of support from friends and fans regarding Hughes' 1999 near fatal car crash. Materials in this series are arranged alphabetically and chronologically.
Description Container
A, undated
1
27
Avigdor and Anne Arikha, 1974-1983
1
28
C, 1973, undated
1
29
Car Crash, Letters From Friends [1], 1999-2001
1
30
Car Crash, Letters From Friends [2], 1999-2001
1
31
Car Crash, Letters From Friends [3], 1999-2001
1
32
Car Crash, Letters From Strangers, 1999-2000
1
33
Joe Collard, 1975-1980, undated
1
34
Constance Crisp, 1978-2009, undated
1
35
D, 1969, undated
1
36
Geoff Dutton, 1968, 1987-1995
1
37
E, circa 1976
1
38
F, 1988, undated
1
39
H, 1988-1989, undated
1
40
Robert Hughes, 1969-1996, undated
1
41
J, undated
1
42
K, undated
1
43
Tony (Lark) Larkins, 1952-1989, undated
1
44
M, 1970, undated
1
45
Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant, 1989, 1992, undated
1
46
Robert Motherwell, 1978-1986
1
47
N, undated
1
48
John Julius Norwich, 1987-2003
1
49
O, circa 1969
1
50
P, 1957, 1967, undated
1
51
R, undated
1
52
Delfina Rattazzi, 1981, undated
2
1
Barbara Rose, circa 1970, 1978, undated
2
2
S, 1967-1988, undated
2
3
Robert Storr, 1995, 2001
2
4
T, undated
2
5
Simon Watson Taylor, undated
2
6
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull, 1979, 1989-2002
2
7
Unknown Sender, 1973, undated
2
8
V, 1975, undated
2
9
W, 1968, 1972
2
10
1960s, 1962-1969
2
11
1970s, 1970-1979
2
12
1980s [1], 1980-1984
2
13
1980s [2], 1985-1989
2
14
1990s [1], 1990-1992
2
15
1990s [2], 1993-1999
2
16
2000s, 2000-2009
2
17
2010s, 2011-2012
2
18

2.2

Correspondence, Professional, 1966-2012
0.9 Linear feet
Box 2, 17, 21-22
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Professional correspondence includes letters, emails, and postcards from colleagues, artists, authors, historians, publishers, editors, lawyers, museum curators and directors, and other notable figures in the art and literary worlds. Correspondents of note include Ansel Adams, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, William (Bill) Rubin, Lorna Pegram, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, John Updike, Norman Foster, and Sean Scully. Also included are a sound recording of a letter sent to Hughes in response to one of his publications, and letters sent in response to his writings, "Even the Vicar Hunts," "Art, Morals, and Politics," and "Why Americans Shouldn't Kill Cultural Funding." Materials are arranged alphabetically.
Description Container
A, 1966-1993, undated
2
19
Brian Adams, 1974-1982, undated
2
20
Frank Auerbach, 1985-1992
2
21
B, 1966-1998, undated
2
22
C, 1969-1993, undated
2
23
D, 1990, 2004, undated
2
24
Nuria de Miguel, Museo del Prado, 2010
2
25
E, 1978
2
26
Email Correspondence Re Susan Mitchell, 2000-2003
2
27
F, 1969-1990, undated
2
28
R.H. From K.F., Sound Recording, undated
1 Sound cassette
21
4
Norman Foster, 2004
2
29
Donald Friend, 1965, 1987-1989, 2004
2
30
G, 1974-1997
2
31
Henry Grunwald, 1976-1981, 2003, undated
2
32
H, undated
2
33
Gabrielle Henkel, 1983-1990, undated
2
34
Michael Heyward, 1992, 2003-2004
2
35
Howard Hodgkin and Antony Peattie, 1990-1991, undated
2
36
Robert Hughes, 1970-2004, undated
2
37
J, 1970, 1976, undated
2
38
Julian Jebb, 1968-1969, 1974, 1978
2
39
K, 1987, undated
2
40
R.B. Kitaj, 1979, 1986, 1990, 1995
2
41
L, 1969, 1981, undated
2
42
Letters From Unknonwn Senders, 2006, undated
2
43
Letters Re "Even The Vicar Hunts" Article, 1966-1968
2
44
Letters Re Mapplethorpe Essay and "Art, Morals and Politics" Article, 1992
2
45
M, 1973-2005, undated
2
46
John McDonald, 1990-1991
2
47
N, 1970, undated
2
48
P, 2002-2004, undated
2
49
Lorna Pegram, 1975-1981, undated
2
50
R, 1975, undated
2
51
Responses to "Why America Shouldn't Kill Cultural Funding", 1995
2
52
Norman Rosenthal, 1990-1991
2
53
William (Bill) Rubin, 1986, undated
2
54
John Russell, 1981-1988, undated
2
55
S, 1972-2000, undated
2
56
Sean Scully, 1989
2
57
T, 1980
2
58
V, 1975-2005
2
59
W, 1982, undated
2
60
Y, undated
2
61

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