Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)

Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about the sale of Schwitters’ work, ‘Paper Clouds’ and interest from the Pinacotheca Gallery in obtaining some of Schwitters’ work

8 February 1949

Kurt Schwitters, ‘Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about the sale of Schwitters’ work, ‘Paper Clouds’’ 8 February 1949 — © Museum of Modern Art

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)
Title: Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about the sale of Schwitters’ work, ‘Paper Clouds’ and interest from the Pinacotheca Gallery in obtaining some of Schwitters’ work
Date: 8 February 1949
Description: A copy of this letter was forwarded on to Edith Thomas by the Museum of Modern Art with an attached letter discussing the interest of Miss Rose Fried of the Pinacotheca Gallery in obtaining Schwitters' collage work held at the Museum.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by Edith Thomas's son, Geoff Thomas, in 1995.
Reference: TGA 9510/3/1/34

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Material relating to Kurt Schwitters compiled by his English companion, Mrs Edith 'Wantee' Thomas mostly after the artist's death in 1948 TGA 9510 (139)

Correspondence and documents relating to the Ernst Schwitters v Edith Thomas court case, 1963 TGA 9510/3 (100)

Correspondence and documents, numbered sequentially, from various correspondents relating to Kurt Schwitters and his works TGA 9510/3/1 (68)

Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about the sale of Schwitters' work, 'Paper Clouds' and interest from the Pinacotheca Gallery in obtaining some of Schwitters' work TGA 9510/3/1/34

Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)

Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about the sale of Schwitters’ work, ‘Paper Clouds’ and interest from the Pinacotheca Gallery in obtaining some of Schwitters’ work

8 February 1949

Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about the sale of Schwitters’ work, ‘Paper Clouds’

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