A Guide to the John Canaday Papers, 1972-1973 Canaday, John, Papers 8920-c

A Guide to the John Canaday Papers, 1972-1973

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Accession Number 8920-c

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

8920-c

Title

John Canaday Papers, 1972-1973

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of 2 items.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

John Canaday Papers, 1972-1973,Accession #8920-c , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This material was purchased by the Library from the Argosy Book Store, New York, New York, on March 29, 1990.

Scope and Content Information

This collection of two items, 1972-1973, consists of a letter and a folder of drawings by John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985). Canaday was an art critic on The New York Times beginning in 1959, and wrote several books, including Metropolitan Seminars in Art and Lives of the Painters . He also wrote Keys to Art with his wife, Katherine Sarah Hoover. On February 4, 1973, he wrote to Marie Appleton expressing sentiments on her retirement from the Whitney Museum. He also sends to her an inscribed copy of "My Best Girls," a series of 8 of his drawings with a holograph introduction by himself, produced by the Archives of American Art.