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Summary:
Two letters from Gari Melchers to Donaldson. Melchers discusses the "problems of the placing of the large historical picture in the Clements Library (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)."
Citation:
Bruce M. Donaldson letters from Gari Melchers, 1928 May 9 and May 22. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reel 3134 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Biography Note:
Donaldson was the chairman of the Art History Department at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His father, John Donaldson (1854-1941) was a Detroit architect, who was a friend of - and painted by - Gari Melchers.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Donated 1969 by Mrs. Cameron Haight, relationship to Bruce M. Donaldson is not known.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
