Finding aid for the Alberto Beltrán correspondence with Seymour Kaplan 0597
Diann Benti
USC Libraries Special Collections
2021 September
Doheny Memorial Library 206
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Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Alberto Beltrán correspondence with Seymour Kaplan
Creator:
Beltrán, Alberto
Creator:
Kaplan, Seymour
Identifier/Call Number: 0597
Identifier/Call Number: 2033
Physical Description:
3.23 Linear Feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1970s-2007
Abstract: This collection chiefly contains three decades of letters in Spanish from Mexican artist Albert Beltran (1923-2002) to Seymour
Kaplan (1919-2011), a California printmaker.
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian,English.
This collection chiefly contains three decades of letters in Spanish from Mexican artist Albert Beltran (1923-2002) to Seymour
Kaplan (1919-2011), a California printmaker who met Beltran while a visiting artist at the Taller de Grafica Popular in Mexico
in the late 1940s. The letters span from the early 1970s to the 2000s. Additional material includes ephemera, postcards, clippings,
brochures, photographs, and negatives. Box 2 contains miscellaneous issues of Mexican and Cuban newspapers dated 1979-1980,
1987.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
[Box/folder# or item name], Alberto Beltrán correspondence with Seymour Kaplan, Collection no. 0597, Boeckmann Center for
Latin American and Iberian Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Paul Kaplan and Barbara Kaplan, March 27, 2013.
The collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Artists -- Mexico -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Beltrán, Alberto -- Correspondence
Kaplan, Seymour -- Archives
Box 1
Correspondence
Box 2
Newspapers