Helene Baltrusaitis., 06/20/1968-06/29/1968

File — Box: 1, Folder: 17

Identifier: 59055

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

From the Collection:

The John L. Brown Papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques Maritain, Carson McCullers, Darius Milhaud, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Edmee Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stegner, Gerald Sykes, Allen Tate, Virgil Thompson, Richard Wright, and 'Zev' (Daniel A. Harris).

Dates

06/20/1968-06/29/1968

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Extent

From the Collection: 1.3 Linear Feet (3 Hollinger Document Cases)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

ALS (6/20/1968 w/ envelope, 2 pages/1 leaf) from Helen Baltrusaitis, daughter of art historian H. Focillon, wife of Jurgis Baltrusaitis, art critic and president of Lithuania in exile. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (6/29/1968). References to De Gaulle and political situation in France and internationally. Baltrusaitis also mentions temporary closing of an exhibition in Paris by Loren Frankenberg due to strikes at the museum/gallery. Brown mentions meeting Martha Graham at the International Festival of the Dance held as part of the Olympic Cultural Program in Mexico.

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

FRANKENBERG, LOREN - REFERENCE BY BALTRUSAITIS, HELENE 1968: Autographed Letter

GRAHAM, MARTHA - REFERENCE BY BROWN, JOHN L. 1968: Autographed Letter

BALTRUSAITIS, HELENE - CORRES. TO/FROM BROWN, JOHN L. 1968: Autographed Letter

BROWN, JOHN L. - CORRES. TO/FROM BALTRUSAITIS, HELENE 1968: Typed Letter Signed