Edwin Avery Park Collection

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    Letter from Edwin Avery Park to Professor Theodore Sizer
    (Bennington College, 1935-10-29) Park, Edwin Avery
    "Thanks for the much contained in your letter of October 25. I am not so disappointed at not hearing Wright as I am at having to miss Corbusier, which I am about to explain to you. Wright attempted to start a typical revolution here at Bennington almost before we had gotten under way--a sport somewhat like kicking a baby. I am just a little fed up. Now about Corbusier:...."
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    Letter from Fred Whiting to Edwin Avery Park
    (Bennington College, 1933-09-22) Whiting, Frederick
    "There is one thing that I intended to suggest to you, and that is the desirability of your patenting the drawing chair which you have designed for your pupils. It seems to me that this is an admirable idea and one that would have very wide use, and there is no reason why you should not benefit by it, getting some supply house to handle· the chairs on a royalty basis."
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    Letter from Paul Cushing Child to Edwin Avery Park
    (Bennington College, 1933) Child, Paul Cushing
    Paul Cushing Child was married to Julia Child. Year on this record is an estimate.
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    Letter from Ralph Steiner to Edwin Avery Park
    (Bennington College, 1933-03-08) Steiner, Ralph
    Letter in a folder labeled 1932-1933. There is no year on the letter. Header on original letter is cut off.
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    Letter from Sheldon Cheney to Edwin Avery Park
    (Bennington College, 1935-09-28) Cheney, Sheldon
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    Letter from Stefan Hirsch to Edwin Avery Park Regarding a Studio on Campus
    (Bennington College, 1934-08-25) Hirsch, Stefan
    "Thank you for the news about the studio. It sounds good indeed. There is not much that I have to suggest...the sink and work table arrangement ought to be along the wall opposite the windows to allow an [unimpeded] background for the easel and a place to step back from the easel. The sink should be of the kitchen variety rather than the bathroom kind. A work table should come right up to the sink and be on a level with its rim..."
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    Letter to Fred Whiting from Edwin Avery Park
    (Bennington College, 1933-10-03) Park, Edwin Avery
    "I may be sending a· hurry-call to Rene d d'Harnincourt in a day or so because, although Orozco at first accepted tor October 12, he has written declining the invitation. Mr. Herring is now trying to induce Rivera to come in Orozco's place and I am standing ready to make at least an effort to get d'Harnincourt in oaae thie second alternative falls through."
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    Letter to Henry Varnum Poor from Edwin Avery Park
    (Bennington College, 1935-04-04) Park, Edwin Avery
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    Series of Correspondence Between Carl Eric Linden and Gladys Ogden Regarding Alfeo Faggi Exhibition
    (Bennington College, 1934-01) Ogden, Gladys; Linden, Eric Carl
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    Series of Correspondence Between J.J. Lankes and Edwin Avery Park
    (Bennington College, 1932-1933) Lankes, J.J.; Park, Edwin Avery
    The original Lankes note is cut off at the top.
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    Series of Correspondence Between Jose Clemente Orozco and Edwin Avery Park
    (Bennington College, 1933-1934) Orozco, José Clemente
    This series of correspondence between the artist José Clemente Orozco and Edwin Avery Park, Director of Art at Bennington College, demonstrates the attempts to persuade Orozco to come to Bennington during the time he is painting the murals at Dartmouth College.
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    Series of Correspondence Between Nathalie Swan and Robert Leigh Regarding Josef Albers
    (Bennington College, 1934-01) Swan, Nathalie; Leigh, Robert
    "Park was serious about the Bauhaus approach and tried to enlist one of the Bauhaus founders, Josef Albers. Herta Moselsio recalled writing the letter that was meant to interest Albers in Bennington but by that time he had already accepted an appointment to Black Mountain College. Nevertheless teaching in the Bauhaus mode began at Bennington in February, 1935, with the arrival of Lila Ulrich who had studied with Albers, Mies van der Rohe and Kandinsky, and by the end of the Leigh era Park was convinced that art teaching at Bennington accepted the Bauhaus dictum that form in the modern world emerges from 'material and function rather than from a borrowed historical source'." Bennington in the Beginning by Thomas Brockway