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Joan Seeman Robinson Collection (258) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 2580000000
Collection
Joan Seeman Robinson Collection
Title
Finding Aid
Linear Feet
1.3
Pages
9
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 07 December 2001
Scope and Contents
Over one linear foot of correspondence, poems, anti-war newspapers and newspaper clippings, periodicals and an anti-war button document aspects of the anti-U.S. involvement perspective of the Vietnam Conflict. Correspondence is between Dr. Joan Robinson and various people in the fine arts world. Materials date from the late 1960s.
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Newspapers
National Guardian: 1967: February 11

New York Element: 1968: June 26; 1969: June-July

The Rag: 1967: October 23; 1968: January 8

Washington Free Press: 1967: October 14; Volume 2 Number 18 (No Date)
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  • Box 1: [Barcode: 1] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D048.2 ]]
  • Box 1000: [Barcode: 1000] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks, D056.3 Individual Oversize Collection Box 16 [D056.3]]
  • Box 1
  • Folder 1
  • Abeles, Sigmund: Letter to JSR, 9/6/88
  • Abeles, Sigmund: Letter to JSR, 10/6/88
  • Acconci, Vito: Interview by JSR, Warwick Hotel, Houston, TX., 11/12/84
  • Anderson, Laurie: "Hanoi, Haiphong Strike Back", 1969
  • Andre, Carl: Postcard to JSR, 7/25/88
  • Andre, Carl: Postcard to JSR, 7/1/88
  • Andre, Carl: Postcard to JSR, No Date -
  • Andrews, Benny: Letter to JSR, 12/9/88
  • Andrews, Benny: Interview by JSR at Andrews' Studio, NYC, 9/29/89
  • Arneson, Robert: Letter to JSR, 1/28/89
  • Arneson, Robert: Letter to JSR in response to her letter, 2/14/89
  • Arneson, Robert: Comments by Arneson, telephone call to JSR, 3/5/89
  • Artschwager, Richard: Statement form Sean Elwood's, No Date
  • Folder 2
  • Baldessari, John: Notes (No Date) in response to her letter, 8/11/88
  • Balsey, John: Telephone Interview, JSR, 7/26/88
  • Balsey, John: Letter to JSR , 9/1/88
  • Baranik, Rudolf: Interview by JSR at Baranik's studio, NYC, 9/10/83
  • Baranik, Rudolf: Letter to JSR, 12/20/88
  • Baranik, Rudolf: Letter to JSR, 3/27/89
  • Baranik, Rudolf: Letter to JSR, 5/8/89
  • Barnes, Tim: Letter to JSR, 1989?
  • Basham, Charles: Letter to JSR, 1/10/89
  • Baskin, Leonard: Letter to JSR, 3/8/89
  • Battenberg, John: Statement, 3/6/88
  • Beal, Jack: Letter to JSR, No Date
  • Belkin, Arnold: Statement , 1976
  • Benglis, Lynda: Letter to JSR, No Date
  • Benglis, Lynda: Telephone Interview JSR, 11/13/89
  • Berlant, Tony: Letter to JSR, 12/14/88
  • Berlant, Tony: Letter to JSR, 1/4/91
  • Berthot, Jake: Letter to JSR, 4/6/89
  • Birmelin, Robert: Letter to JSR, 7/18/88
  • Blaine, Nell: Letter to JSR, 7/20/89
  • Blumberg, Donald: Letter to JSR, 9/19/88
  • Bowman, John: Letter to JSR, 1/20/89
  • Brown, Kay: Letter to JSR, 2/10/90
  • Brown, Roger: Letter to JSR, 7/21/88
  • Burden, Scott: Interview Hotel Cincinnati, 4/26/91
  • Burkhardt, Hans: Excerpt from Article
  • Folder 3
  • Calder, Alexander: Excerpt from article Herbert Mitgang's Dangerous Dossier,s pp. 208-11
  • Camnitzer, Luis: Interview by JRS at Comnitzer's studio, Great Neck, L.I., N.Y., 9/21/89
  • Camnitzer, Luis: Postcard to JRS, 12/2/93
  • Carlson, Cynthia: Postcard, 8/22/88
  • Carlson, Cynthia: Telephone Interview, JSR, 10/3/88
  • Castoro, Rosemarie: Letter to JSR, 7/15/88
  • Castoro, Rosemarie: Letter to JSR, 8/8/88 -
  • Cato, Eddia Earl: Cato Deceased. Correspondence from friend Ronnie Carson, 1/18/83
  • Cato, Eddia Earl: Cato Deceased. Correspondence from friend Ronnie Carson, 11/29/83
  • Chafetz, Sidney: Letter to JSR, 12/29/88
  • Chamberlain, Richard: Letter to JSR, No Date
  • Cherry, Herman: Postcard to JSR, No Date
  • Clark, John Clem: Interview in Clark's Studio, NYC, 9/27/89
  • Clarke, Elizabeth: Letter to JSR, 1/12/90
  • Clark, Michael: Letter to JSR, 11/18/88
  • Close, Chuck: Statement, 5/21/70
  • Cober, Alan: Letter to JSR, 9/18/88
  • Colescott, Robert: Letter to JSR, 11/9/-
  • Colescott, Warrington: Letter to JSR, No Date
  • Colescott, Warrington: Letter to JSR, 2/3/90
  • Copley, William: Letter to JSR, 6/27/88
  • Cruz, Emilio: Three Letters to JSR, No Date
  • Cruz, Emilio: Three Letters to JSR, 5/31/89
  • Folder 4
  • D Arcangelo, Allan: Letter to JSR, 2/5/90
  • Dash, Robert: Letter to JSR, 3/10/88
  • Davis, Brad: Telephone interview with JSR, 5/16/88
  • Davis, Brad: Telephone interview with JSR, Feb 1990
  • Davis, Douglas: Interview in Houston, Texas, 1983
  • Dean, Peter: Letter to JSR, 3/23/88
  • Dean, Peter: Response to her letter of 9/3/88, No Date
  • Dehner, Dorothy: Telephone interview, 7/25/88
  • Dellinger, Dewey: Letter to JSR, 3/23/89
  • Diebenkorn, Richard: Letter to JSR, 6/22/88
  • Dobbs, John: Letter to JSR, 5/9/88
  • Dodd, Lois: Letter to JSR, 8/10/89
  • Donahue, Robert: Letter to JSR, 9/18/88
  • Edelson, Mary Beth: Letter to JSR, 1/5/89
  • Edelson, Mary Beth: Letter to JSR, 9/20/90
  • Edwards, Stanley: Letter to JSR, 3/27/89
  • Folder 5
  • Fahlstrom, Oyvind: Statements made in New York, 1973
  • Farman (Full name: Statement
  • Flack, Audrey: Telephone interview, 12/13/88
  • Flack, Audrey: Letter to JSR, 1/2/89
  • Flavin, Dan: Statement signed by Falvin "Art News", Nov. 1968
  • Flavin, Dan: Letter to JSR, 6/1/88
  • Frasconi, Antonio: Letter to JSR, 8/29/88
  • Fried, Howard: Letter to JSR, 3/20/89
  • Friednsohn, Elias: Letter to JSR, 8/4/88
  • Friednsohn, Elias: Letter to JSR, 8/19/88
  • Folder 6
  • Gill, James: Letter to JSR, 8/30/88
  • Gillespie, Gregory: Statement in Hirshhorn Museum exhibition catalog, 1977
  • Golub, Leon: Interview in Golub and Nancy Spero's Studio, NYC, 9/10/83
  • Golub, Leon: Statement , panel discussion, Blaffer Gallery, Univ of Houston: Exhibition of Golub's paintings. Davis Brauer, Leon Golub, Donald Kuspit, Tom McEvilley, 1982
  • Golub, Leon: Letter to JSR, 1/6/84
  • Golub, Leon: Letter to JSR, 11/24/88
  • Golub, Leon: Letter to JSR, 4/19/88
  • Goode, Joe: Letter to JSR, response to her letter of 5/18/88
  • Goonough, Robert: Letter to JSR on her inquiry letter of 9/28/88
  • Gray, Cleve: Letter to JSR, 7/20/88
  • Grayson, Marcin: Letter to JSR, 9/26/88
  • Grayson, Marcin: Letter to JSR, 12/26/88
  • Greene, Balcomb: Letter to JSR, 5/25/88
  • Greene, Stephen: Letter to JSR, 7/10/88
  • Grossman, Nancy: Telephone Message, 5/1/88
  • Grossman, Nancy: Telephone interview, 5/15/88
  • Grossman, Nancy: Letter to JSR, 6/7/88
  • Gordon, Harvery: Response to her letter, 9/25/88
  • Gussow, Alan: Letter to JSR, 3/7/88
  • Guston, Phillip: Statement in Whitechapel Gallery London, exhibition catalog, 1982
  • Folder 7
  • Hacke, Hans: Statement in Jean Siegel interview. "Arts Magazine, , May 1972
  • Hammond, Harmony: Letter to JSR, 3/3/89
  • Hamrol, Lloyd: Telephone interview with JSR, 9/20/88
  • Hanson, Duane: Letter to JSR, 9/17/88
  • Haines, Richard: Letter from Nona Haines regarding work of deceased 2 letters 1 undated, 9/19/88
  • Harris, Paul: Telephone interview with JRS, 12/28/88
  • Hasen, Burt: Letter to JSR, 12/27/88
  • Hasen, Burt: Letter to JSR (1988 or 1989), No Date
  • Headley, David: Statement unpublished, 4/19/81
  • Headley, David: Letter to JSR, 8/18/88
  • Headley, David: Letter to JSR, 6/24/88
  • Headley, David: Statement unpublished, 9/27/88
  • Headley, David: Letter to JSR, 9/11/90
  • Hedrick, Wally: Letter to JSR, 11/15/89
  • Hedrick, Wally: Letter to JSR, 11/21/89
  • Hedrick, Wally: Letter to JSR, 12/12/89
  • Heinecken, Robert: Letter to JSR, 9/28/88
  • Heinecken, Robert: Letter to JSR, 7/31/89
  • Heinecken, Robert: Letter to JSR
  • Heinecken, Robert: Letter to JSR, 10/16/88
  • Heinecken, Robert: Letter to JSR, 3/27/90
  • Helman, Phoebe: Letter to JSR, 5/2/88
  • Helman, Phoebe: Telephone Comments added to bottom of above letter, 5/8/88
  • Helman, Phoebe: Letter to JSR, 5/19/88
  • Hendricks, Jon: Telephone interview, ?/?/88
  • Holland, Tom: Letter to JSR, 4/4/89
  • Huytberg, John: Letter to JSR, 4/8/84
  • Huot, Robert: Postcard to JSR, 9/12/88
  • Huot, Robert: Telephone interview with JSR, (n.d. followed the postcard), No Date
  • Folder 8
  • Iverson, Peter: Letter to JSR, 3/7/89
  • Folder 9
  • Jacobs, David: Letter to JSR, 9/20/88
  • Jacquette, Yvonne: Letter to JSR, ?/?/88
  • Jamieson, Mitchell: (deceased) Interview with Lucy Jamieson (widow) in Alexandria, Va., 9/25/89
  • Jamieson, Mitchell: Letter from Lucy Jamieson, 10/2/90
  • Jamieson, Mitchell: Statement by MJ sent by LJ
  • Jenney, Neil: Telephone Interview, 5/8/88
  • Jimenez, Luis: Interview with JSR, Galveston Texas, 5/18/85
  • Jones, Charles: Letter to JSR, 3/27/89
  • Jones, Kim: Letter to JSR
  • Judd, Donald: Interview in his studio, NYC, 9/13/83
  • Judd, Donald: Statement which appeared in "La Sfida del Sistema," Metro, June 1968
  • Folder 10
  • Kauffman, Craig: Responses to Sean Elwood questionnaire
  • Kienholz, Ed: Typescript of his comments, International Sculpture Conference, Washington, D.C., 1980
  • Kienholz, Ed: Interview with JSR, Hotel Warwick, Houston, TX.,, 11/17/84
  • Kitaj, R.B: Postcard to JSR
  • Knecht, John: Letter to JSR, 12/12/88
  • Kola, Vaino: Letter to JSR, 2/17/89
  • Komodore, Bill: Letter to JSR, 9/28/90
  • Komodore, Bill: Telephone interview with JSR, 11/29/90
  • Koppleman, Chaim: Statement about his Vietnam Work
  • Kos, Paul: Telephone Interview, 7/12/88
  • Kowalski, Dennis: Letter to JSR, 12/30/88
  • Kriesberg, Irving: Interview with JSR in Artist's studio, NYC, 9/20/89
  • Kriesberg, Irving: Letter to JSR, 11/4/88
  • Kriesberg, Irving: Letter to JSR, 9/14/91
  • Folder 11
  • Lanyon, Ellen: Telephone interview, 1/5/89
  • Lawernce, Jacob: Letter to JSR, 8/18/88
  • Lerman, Ora: Letter to JSR, 2/13/89
  • Levine, Le: Interview in Levine's Studio, NYC, 9/30/89
  • Levinson, Mon: Letter to JSR, 1/18/89
  • Levinthal, David: Letter to JSR, 10/17/88
  • Levinthal, David: Letter to JSR, 11/3/88
  • Lewitt, Sol: Letter to JSR, 8/11/88
  • Lichtenstein, Roy: Letter to JSR, 7/2/88
  • Lichtenstein, Roy: Statement
  • Folder 12
  • McCracken, Phillip: Letter to JSR, 7/13/91
  • Marcus, Marcia: Letter to JSR
  • Marisol, Escobar: Comments in News Article
  • Matheny, Virgil: Letter to JSR, 2/17/84
  • Mazur, Michael: Letter to JSR, 8/25/88
  • Mazur, Michael: Interview with JSR in Menil Office, Houston, TX., 9/13/88
  • Mazur, Michael: Letter to JSR, 12/3/88
  • McFarlin, Patrick: Letter to JSR, 5/5/89
  • Merklin, Richard: Letter to JSR, 2/1/91
  • Mesches, Arnold: Telephone interview with JSR, 5/21/88
  • Mesches, Arnold: Postcard to JSR, 7/12/89
  • Mesches, Arnold: Letter to JSR, 9/12/89
  • Folder 13
  • Nauman, Bruce: Letter to JSR, 5/4/88
  • Noland, Kenneth: Telephone interview with JSR, 10/3/88
  • Folder 14
  • Ortman, Whidden: Letter to JSR, 10/1/88
  • Ortman, Whidden: Letter to JSR, 8/8/89
  • Osborn, Robert: Letter to JSR, 9/2/88
  • Osborn, Robert: Letter to JSR, 9/28/88
  • Osborn, Robert: Letter to JSR, 4/9/90
  • Folder 15
  • Parker, Robert Alan: Letter to JSR, 5/31/88
  • Passuntino, Peter: Telephone interview with JSR, 9/12/88
  • Passuntino, Peter: Letter to JSR
  • Petlin, Irving: Interview in Artist's studio, JSR, 2/26/84
  • Pinkerton, Clayton: Letter to JSR, 5/4/88
  • Pinkerton, Clayton: Letter to JSR, 5/26/88
  • Pinkerton, Clayton: Letter to JSR, 6/18/88
  • Pinkerton, Clayton: Letter to JSR, 7/29/88
  • Pinkerton, Clayton: Letter to JSR, 8/4/90
  • Porter, Katherine: Letter to JSR, 3/2/89
  • Pousette-Dart, Richard: Telephone notes from his wife, Evelyn, 7/20/88
  • Pousette-Dart, Richard: Letter Evelyn, 5/8/89
  • Pousette-Dart, Richard: Letter Evelyn, 5/28/89
  • Pozzi, Lucio: Letter to JSR, 11/7/89
  • Pozzi, Lucio: Letter to JSR, 12/21/89
  • Pozzi, Lucio: Letter to JSR, 12/26/89
  • Pozzi, Lucio: Letter to JSR, 1/2/90
  • Pozzi, Lucio: Letter to JSR, 3/10/90
  • Folder 16
  • Racz, Andre: Letter to JSR, 1/6/89
  • Raffael, Joseph: Letter to JSR, 3/7/89
  • Raffael, Joseph: Statement
  • Rauchenberg, Robert: Letter to JSR, 5/23/89
  • Reichek, Jesse: Letter to JSR, 1/17/89
  • Von Ringleheim, Paul: Telephone interview, 8/18/88
  • Rivers, Larry: Letter to JSR, 4/2/88
  • Rivers, Larry: Letter to JSR
  • Rockwell, Norman: Statement
  • Ruda, Ed: Letter to JSR, 11/6/83
  • Ruda, Ed: Letter to JSR, 9/13/88
  • Rupersberg, Alan: Letter to JSR
  • Ruscha, Peter: Letter to JSR, 3/27/89
  • Folder 17
  • Saul, Peter: Interview with JSR in Austin, TX., 11/3/83
  • Saul, Peter: Letter to JSR, 11/6/93
  • Saul, Peter: Letter to JSR, 1/11/83
  • Scagna, Italo: Letter to JSR, 10/30/88
  • Scagna, Italo: Telephone Interview, 2/22/90
  • Schmidt, Ed: Letter to JSR, 10/10/88
  • Schneemann, Carolee: Letter to JSR, 10/23/88
  • Schneemann, Carolee: Interview with JSR in Austin, TX. , 4/4/89
  • Schneemann, Carolee: Letter to JSR, 4/8/89
  • Sherman, Sarai: Letter to JSR, 8/31/88
  • Short, William: Letter to JSR
  • Shostak, Ed: Letter to JSR, 1/4/89
  • Shostak, Ed: Telephone conversation with JSR, 3/24/89
  • Silverman, Burt: Telephone interview, 3/23/89
  • Simon, Sydney: Letter to JSR, 9/19/88
  • Smith, Hassel: Letter to JSR, 9/4/88
  • Snyder, Joan: Telephone Interview, 2/28/89
  • Sonenberg, Jack: Letter to JSR, 5/10/88
  • Sonenberg, Jack: Letter to JSR, 6/6/88
  • Sonenberg, Jack: Letter to JSR, 1/6/89
  • Sonenberg, Jack: Letter to JSR, 4/25/89
  • Sonfist,Alan: Letter to JSR, 1988
  • Spero, Nancy: Letter to JSR
  • Spero, Nancy: Statement
  • Spero, Nancy: Interview with Leon Golub and Spero in their Studio, NYC, 9/10/83
  • Starrett, Jim: Postcard to JSR, 10/21/88
  • Starrett, Jim: Letter to JSR, 10/29/88
  • Strider, Marjorie: Letter to JSR, 1/18/89
  • Strider, Marjorie: Letter to JSR, 2/13/90
  • Strider, Marjorie: Postcard to JSR, 10/8/90
  • Stuart, Michelle: Letter to JSR, 1/8/89
  • Stuart, Michelle: Interview with JSR in artist's studio, NYC, 10/3/89
  • Summers, Carol: Letter to JSR, 8/7/88
  • Folder 18
  • Tacha, Athena: Statement
  • Thek, Paul: Letter to JSR, 7/14/88
  • Tillim, Sidney: Letter, 1/2/84
  • Tillim, Sidney: Letter to JSR, 2/7 to JSR /86
  • Tobias, Julius: Letter to JSR, 8/9/88
  • Tovish, Harold: Notes
  • Trachtnam, Arnold: Letter to JSR, 9/20/88
  • Folder 19
  • Vicente, Esteban: Letter to JSR from Mrs. Vicente, 6?/20/88
  • Folder 20
  • Weege, William: Telephone Interview, 9/21/88
  • Wesselman, Tom: Response to inquiry of 7/16/88
  • Whitely, Bret: Information about David McKee, 4/26/89
  • Wiener, Sam: Telephone interview, late August, early September 1988
  • Wiener, Sam: Letter to JSR, 9/9/88
  • Willenbecher, John: Letter to JSR, 7/21/88
  • Wilke, Hannah: Letter to JSR, 2/24/89
  • Wines, James: Letter to JSR, 8/11/88
  • Wines, James: Letter to JSR, 2/6/90
  • Witkin, Joel-Peter: Letter to JSR, 1/17/89
  • Folder 21
  • Newsletter announcing, "Read in for Peace," Committee of the Professions, 1/24/66
  • Clip, Unknown source, photo napalmed child, captioned "US Napalm did this in Vietnam. 200,000 Children have been Killed
  • Performance Schedule for Angry Arts Week, 18 pp. Includes Kopplemen's handwritten notes, 1967
  • Original paste-up for angry arts week poster. "Angry Arts Against the Vietnam War. Week of the Angry Arts from January 29 through February.", 1967
  • "Genocide" 4,623,926" An exhibition sponsored by members of the Society of Illustrators against the war. Includes a letter of protest from Norman Rockwell
  • "The Vietnam Experience" 1981 sponsored by the SCM Corporation, Vietnam in the Arts (VITA), and the Vietnam Veterans Foundation
  • "War and Memory in the Aftermath of Vietnam" Washington Project for the Arts. 1987
  • Folder 22
  • "Mankind: The Magazine of Popular History, 2/3 October, 1969. See "Vietnam: An Artist's View of War," Leonard Cutrow's paintings. Written by Edward Biberman.
  • "Shift," 3/1, 1988. "The New Activism," Mary Anne Staniszewski, on the Los Angles Tower of Peace, 1966.
  • Joan Robinson's original finding aid for this collection
  • Box 1000
  • Oversize material
  • Folder 1
  • Poems: Artists and Writers Protest, Artists and Writers Protest, Inc., 1967
  • Skyline: Violence in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 8, 1968-January 12, 1969
  • Short news clippings concerning "All Art is for Life and Against the War in Vietnam" exhibit
  • Since Vietnam: The War and Its Aftermath; Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA, September 10 - October 25, 1984
  • Button, "I ashamed of what our country is doing in Vietnam."
  • Clips from the New York Times, 6/5/66 on teach-ins, "End Your Silence," academic communities nationwide (a section is cut out of this clipping)
  • Washington Square News," 3/10/82. Section on Vietnam Vet Artist
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Joan Seeman Robinson Collection (258) Finding Aid, Joan Seeman Robinson Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=2580000000, Accessed 09 May 2026.
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Added: 06 Dec 2001 [Updated: 28 Oct 2019]

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