Image: Open Letter to Roland Redmond
Description: The statement, entitled OPEN LETTER TO ROLAND L. REDMOND, dated May 20, 1950, appeared on the front page of the Times of May 22, 1950. American abstract artists who put name to an open letter to the president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art were rejecting the museum's exhibition American Painting Today - 1950 and boycotting the competition.
Title: Open Letter to Roland Redmond
Credit: http://www.aaa.si.edu/assets/images/sterhedd/reference/AAA_sterhedd_26194.jpg
Author: Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Richard Pousette-Dart, Theodore Stamos, Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Willem de Kooning, Hedda Sterne, James Brooks, Weldon Kees, Fritz Bultman, Herbert Ferber, David Smith, Ibram Lassaw, Mary Callery, Day Schnabel, Seymour Lipton, Peter Grippe, Theodore Roszak, David Hare, Louise Bourgeois
Permission: This open letter appeared on the front page of the New York Times of May 22, 1950. The authors titled it as an open letter and distributed and republished the content of the letter widely. This version is a copy donated to the Archives of American Art and forms part of the Hedda Sterne papers, 1944-1970. Archives of American Art states that copyright status is undetermined.
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License: Public domain
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