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The Archives of American Art at 50.
At the end of a long letter to his favorite ex-wife, Elinor, the painter John D. Graham (1881-1961) closed with a P.P.S.: "Letter writing is probably the most beautiful manifestation in human relations, in fact, it is its finest residue." (1) For the past fifty years the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art has been collecting, preserving, and making available to scholars the residue of art world relations in the form of letters, diaries, financial records, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, and other primary sources.
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