John Button letter to Gerald Langston Fabian
Object Details
- Creator
- Button, John, 1929-1982
- Fabian, Gerald Langston
- Subject
- Button, John
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- Letter : 1 p. : typescript, ill. ; 27 x 22 cm.
- Summary
- Button writes of activities with mutual friends, and to say that the panels he is painting for Fabian are in progress. He includes a small sketch of the design with the note "may be regarded as the poet Thamyris singing to the youth Hyacinthus."
- Citation
- John Button. John Button letter to Gerald Langston Fabian, 29 June 1960. 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
- 29 June 1960
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)12118
- Type
- Correspondence
- See more items in
- John Button letters to Gerald L. Fabian, 1950-1982
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Preliminary sketches
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_12118
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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