Sister Mary Paulita Kerrigan letter to Charles Henry Alston
Object Details
- Creator
- Kerrigan, Mary Paulita (Helen), Sister, 1921-
- Alston, Charles Henry, 1907-1977
- Subject
- Kerrigan, Mary Paulita (Helen)
- Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 2 letter : handwritten ; 25 x 16 cm. (letter); 22 x 14 cm. (newspaper clipping)
- Summary
- Sister Mary Paulita thanks Alston for his tutelage at the Art Student's League in New York, where she spent the summer.
Letter is written on stationery of Clarke College in Dubuque, where Kerrigan was an artist-in-residence.
Signed: Sister Mary Paulita, B.V.M.
She enclosed a newspaper clipping with a photo of herself sketching the construction site of the CBS building in New York. - Citation
- Mary Paulita (Helen) Kerrigan. Sister Mary Paulita Kerrigan letter to Charles Henry Alston, 1962 Aug. 19. Charles Henry Alston papers, 1924-1980. 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
- 1962 Aug. 19
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)15325
- Type
- Correspondence
- See more items in
- Charles Henry Alston papers, 1924-1980
- Archives of American Art
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_15325
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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