John Button letter to Gerald Langston Fabian
Object Details
- Creator
- Button, John, 1929-1982
- Fabian, Gerald Langston
- Subject
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- Letter : 1 p. : handwritten ; 41 x 23 cm
- Summary
- Button writes with updates on movies and other arts and culture he has seen in New York, the activities of mutual friends, giving Marlon Brando a tour of MoMA, and planning for a trip to visit Fabian in California.
Year based on Button's mentions of the "new movie" Some like it hot and Eileen Farrell performing as Ariadne with the San Francisco opera.
Portions of the letter are handwritten and portions are typewritten, cut out and pasted onto the handwritten sheet. - Citation
- John Button. John Button letter to Gerald Langston Fabian, 1959 July 15. John Button letters to Gerald L. Fabian, 1950-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1959 July 15
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)12117
- Type
- Correspondence
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- John Button letters to Gerald L. Fabian, 1950-1982
- Archives of American Art
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_12117
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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