MS01.01.01 - Box 03 - Folder 07 - General Correspondencce, 1985

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Also I'm trying to get WhateveR Art supples that I CAN, such AS paints, Oil and WateRColoRs, ARt pApeR, CANVAS pANels, paint BRushs, PAStel Sticks, soft, and Oil pAstel, DRAWiNg pencils, ChARcCOAl, Fizative spray,

Dr. Driskell If you may be able to help with any of the listed please let me KNow first FoR I'd let you KNOW how to meet with Ms. MiA ChoumeNkovitch ARt INstRuctor.

This LAdy is honestly A very wonderful peRsoN whom has really been trying to hold heR class together here within the jail but just don't have any help OR the things Needed to do such. I PRay that you may be able to help or tell us of someone

[image alt text: photo of maybe a Piccaso (?)] Believe this is an image of a couple facing each other without a shirt or top on. Also, Egyptian-style head garments may symbolize royalty. Also, they could be holding each other, showing love.

F.Y.I

May 14, 1985

[redacted] Silver Spring, MD 20903

Dr. Rae Alexander-Minter [redacted] Riverdale, New York 10471

Dear Dr. Alexander-Minter:

I was informed by Ms. Lynda Hartigan of the Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. that you are compiling information on Henry O. Tanner for his biography.

I am in possession of an original landscape painting by Mr. Tanner, which he personally gave to my grandmother, Mary Fransisca Durham-Randolph in the 1890's or early 1900's. The painting, entitled "Concarneau", I believe was painted in 1891, as per the inscrip tion (photograph enclosed) in northern France. The painting is approximately 17 1/2" X 10 1/2".

In going through some of my grandmother's memorabelia, I found a letter written to my grandmother's brother, John Stevens Durham, from Mr. Tanner, dated 23 March 1895 (photo copy enclosed). I also found the bottom half of a letter signed by Mr. Tanner and a program for a Memorial Meeting honoring Frederick Douglass with the Rt. Rev. Benjamin T. Tanner providing the Invocation; my uncle, John Durham, was one of the addressors (photocopies enclosed) .

You may be able to get additional information regarding Mr. Tanner's relationship to our family from Dr. William S. Randolph, 165 Lorraine Ave., Mount Vernon, N.Y. 10553; telephone number (914)667-5858.

If I uncover any additional information in my grandmother's memorabelia, I will forward it to you.

Yours truly,

WR dorsey [signature] William Randolph Dorsey

WRD/led

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY DALLAS, TEXAS

4 August 1985

Professor David Driskell Department of Art University of Maryland College Park 20742

Dear David,

On my return to Dallas, as I was going through my stacks of mail, I noticed that you had spoken at the DMA in my absence. Of course, the reason I noticed was because my attention was caught by that handsome photo of you in the DMA newsletter. Sorry I missed you.

I have had to plunge into a new project, which is curating the Inaugural Exhibition for the National Museum of Women in the Arts: American Women Artists, 1830 to 1930--scheduled to open April 18, 1987. I am trying for the best paintings and sculptures possible and already have some exciting loans lined up, thanks to some cooperative museums, dealers, and collectors. Naturally I am trying to include some good pieces by Edmonia Lewis, but I do not want her to be my only black artist. It occurred to me that you might recommend to me a favorite painting or two as well as sculpture in this one-hundred-year span. If the 1930 cut-off date is difficult, slip on into the 1930s because I may stretch into that decade.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Very sincerely yours,

Eleanor [signature] Eleanor Tufts Professor of Art History

P.S. I have your Two Centuries of Black American Art but most of the best works by women in it are after my span or have I missed something? I'll be organizing the show according to four subject areas: portraiture genre landscape still life

DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY / 214 692-2698 SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY / DALLAS, TEXAS 75275

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September 12, 1985

Dr. David C. Driskell [redacted] Dear Dr. Driskell:

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