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| Series VIII comprises letters from curators and faculty members inviting Sandler to
lecture or participate in symposia or serve on juries; from university administrators
regarding appointment, promotion or salary, and sometimes special programs or
committees; from students thanking him for his courses or for help on dissertations or
for writing recommendations; from colleagues or readers praising his books; from editors
regarding submissions; and from publishers regarding book contracts and royalties. At
the back of most files there is a small number of clippings and brochures relevant to
the correspondence. (See also Series IX. Printed Matter)
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1956-1967, undated |
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Correspondence, 1956 |
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2 items. Letter from Sidney Hantman, with whom Sandler is proposing to make a
documentary on De Kooning; letter from Hantman to MOMA.
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1957 |
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27 items. Twenty-three letters concern the De Kooning film projects, and are from
Sandler, Hantman, H.W. Janson, and others. Two letters from artists thanking Sandler
for understanding reviews.
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1958 |
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6 items. Four letters regarding Sandler reviews for aujourd'hui and
one from William Philips inviting Sandler to review for Partisan
Review.
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1959 |
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7 items. Letters arranging for Sandler to review for Konstrevy, a
Swedish journal, and asking him to contribute to a book on younger American
artists.
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1960 |
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14 items. Cards from the editor of Art International, directing
Sandler as to which exhibitions to review; letters regarding Sandler's trip to
Europe, grants that made the trip possible, and a description of what he
accomplished there.
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New York University, 1960-1966 |
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ca. 50 items. Letters regarding courses Sandler taught, salary, and syllabi. |
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1961 |
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22 items. Fourteen letters regarding reviews for Art International;
two regarding reviews for the New York Post; some responses to
reviews from readers; announcement for Martha Jackson Gallery show.
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10 |
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1962 |
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10 items. Letters from readers responding to reviews; letters arranging for
lectures.
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11 |
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1963 |
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14 items. Letters regarding temporary employment as a critic or professor and
application for a Guggenheim.
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1964 |
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26 items. Most letters regard Sandler's Guggenheim award; a few notes thanking
Sandler for lecturing or serving as a panel member.
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1965 |
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22 items. More letters regarding the Guggenheim; letters related to Sandler public
appearances.
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1966 |
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33 items. Notes from Artforum editor regarding Sandler reviews;
request for catalog essays from Los Angeles County Museum and MOMA; letters
regarding public appearances.
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1967 |
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22 items. Letters regarding teaching appointments, public appearances, and
reviews.
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Ca. 50 postcards, greeting cards and invitations from art world friends. |
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1968-1976 |
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1968 |
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25 items. Letters from Howard Conant regarding Sandler's teaching appointment at
NYU; other letters regarding teaching at Pratt, and lecture at Sarah Lawrence.
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1969 |
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15 items. Letters regarding position at NYU and enrollment in the Ph.D. program
there; lecturing engagements.
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Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1969-1975 |
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27 items. Correspondence regarding the publication of The Triumph of
American Painting, including contracts, blurbs, royalty statements, and a
letter of advice from Barbara Rose.
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1970 |
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15 items. Letters of praise for Sandler's book; letters regarding teaching
appointments and lectures.
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1971 |
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30 items. Letters regarding Sandler's resignation from NYU due to the Ph.D.
required for promotion; letters about lecture engagements.
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Harry Abrams, Inc., 1972-1999 |
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Letters regarding publication of Sandler's book on Alex Katz, his essay in the
Hirshhorn catalog, and his book on American art of the '70s and '80s; contracts and
royalty statements.
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1972 |
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25 items. Letters regarding primarily teaching appointments and lectures. |
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1973 |
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ca. 35 items. Letters regarding teaching appointments, lectures, award juries. |
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1974 |
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ca. 40 items. Letters regarding approval of Sandler's dissertation proposal,
arrangements for lectures and for serving as a juror for art competitions.
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1975 |
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ca. 40 items. Letters regarding Sandler's participation in NYU's
Critics-in-Residence Program; arrangements for lectures at various U.S. colleges and
museums.
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1976 |
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ca. 40 items. Letters regarding lectures, catalog essays and teaching
appointments.
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1976-1996 |
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Harper & Row, 1976-1996 |
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ca. 50 items, including letters, contracts, and royalty statements for Sandler's
major books.
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1977 |
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ca. 50 items. Letters asking Sandler to sit on advisory committees, selection
committees, art contest juries, and to lecture; thank you letters from students;
material regarding the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and Wave Hill.
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1978 |
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ca. 50 items. Letters asking Sandler to lecture on Rothko at the Guggenheim and
other institutions, on Impressionism at the Scarsdale Women's Club, to jury the
Hudson River Open II, to act as visiting professor at Barnard, and thanking him for
various public appearances; clippings about his term as Acting Director at the
Neuberger.
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1979 |
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ca. 50 items. Letters asking Sandler to serve as moderator on panel at the New
Museum, to lecture on De Kooning in Cincinnati and on abstract expressionism at
Drew; letter awarding him a full professorship at SUNY Purchase; correspondence with
Amy Newman of Artforum regarding her edits of Sandler article "MOMA
and the American Avant-garde"; clippings and brochures regarding Sandler public
appearances.
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Yale University, 1979-1990 |
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding an art exhibition of the work of Yale MFA
graduates, for which Sandler was guest curator and author of catalog essay and panel
discussion participant; Sandler notes; clipping (review of show).
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1980-1982 |
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1980 |
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ca. 30 items. Letters regarding the installation of Richard Serra sculptures in
Manhattan, Sandler's talk at the Des Moines Art Center, and other public
appearances; brochures and clippings.
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Delaware Art Museum, 1981-1995 |
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ca. 30 items. Correspondence regarding the museum's interview program, for which
Sandler interviewed artists such as Alex Katz and Eric Fischl before an
audience.
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1981 |
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ca. 30 items. Letters from the Center for Advanced Studies, from Roger Berthoud,
from Kathleen Goncharov, Naj Wickoff, Trudie Grace and others; brochures and
announcements.
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1982 |
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ca. 60 items. Letter from Sandler requesting leave to complete book on 1960s art,
with book proposal; many letters regarding public appearances at art institutions
around the country; a lot of clippings and brochures documenting Sandler's
participation in the art world.
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1983-1985 |
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1983 |
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ca. 60 items. Letters regarding a visiting professorship at Columbia, a lecture at
University of Regina, the La Jolla Museum, at Mount Holyoke, and other institutions;
brochures and clippings.
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1983
Jul-Dec
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ca. 60 items. Letters regarding the appointment of Leon Golub to a professorship,
requests to serve on juries, to lecture at UT Austin, to lecture on Philip
Pearlstein at the Carnegie Institute, and from Eliza Rathbone, Anne Edgerton and
others; clippings.
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Whitney Museum, ca. 1983-2000 |
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(1 of 2) Letters from museum staff regarding exhibitions involving Sandler, such as
the Ad Reinhardt and Alex Katz, and regarding lectures, docent tours, and other
musuem activities.
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Whitney Museum, ca. 1983-2000 |
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(2 of 2) Press releases, brochures, announcements, abstracts of papers presented at
sixth annual symposium.
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1984
Jan-Jun
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ca. 60 items. Letters asking Sandler to lecture at Long Beach Museum, Pratt
Institute, and from Dallas Ernst, Paula Baxter, Bess Meyerson (asking Sandler to
serve on Art Selection Panel for NY City); brochures and clippings.
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1984
Jul-Dec
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Letters from various institutions regarding Sandler lectures, such as the Institute
of Contemporary Art at U. of Pennsylvania, the Palm Springs Desert Museum, and from
Bob Smith, Cole Young and others; clippings and brochures.
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1985
Jan-Jun
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ca. 60 items. Letters regarding Sandler's re-appointment from Art History to Visual
Arts at SUNY Purchase, appearances at SFMOMA, Pratt, Skidmore, Cincinnati Art
Museum, Archives of American Art, Robert Gray; letters from colleagues Gilbert
Kinney, Valerie Livingston and others; clippings, brochures, press releases.
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1985
Jul-Dec
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding public lectures at Yale, SFMOMA, Adelphi
University; Exxon newsletter, issue of Art/World Vol. 10, No. 2.
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1986-1990 |
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1986
Jan-Jun
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding appearances at SFMOMA, Adelphi University,
Philadelphia Museum of Art; regarding a catalog essay for the Institute of
Contemporary Culture, U. of Pennsylvania; letter from colleague Steve Ellis;
brochures, clippings.
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1986
Jul-Dec
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding public appearances at The Metropolitan Museum, the
Walters Art Gallery; regarding catalog essay on Fritz Bultman for the New Orleans
Museum of Art; press release, clippings, brochure.
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Sydney Biennial, 1986 |
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ca. 30 items. Notes; letters regarding arrangements for Sandler's travel and
participation; photocopy of program; seminar schedule; press release; some material
from earlier biennials.
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1987
Jan-Jun
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ca. 30 items. Letter from Sandler accepting role of traveling ambassador to the
Costa Rican Art Museum; regarding public appearances at the Metropolitan Museum, the
Tate, the Museum of Costa Rican Art; regarding Sandler's serving as nominator for
the seventh annual Awards in the Visual Arts; posters, clippings, brochures.
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1987
Jul-Dec
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding a visiting professorship at University of Delaware,
public appearances at the Lannan Foundation (Florida), Brown University, Winnipeg
Art Gallery, letters from colleagues Judith Bernstock, Ronald Broekman; brochures,
clippings.
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1988
Jan-Jun
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding public appearances at Tel Aviv University, Yale,
the AICA Congress in Buenos Aires; letter from colleagues Gilbert Kinney; Sandler's
reader's report of a book on American Art by Baur; brochures and clippings.
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1988
Jul-Dec
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding Sandler's public appearances at the Brooklyn
Museum, the Greenwich Library, Lehman College Art Gallery; letters from colleague
Mattie Berhang; brochure, issue of La Cosa Año 1, No. 1.
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1989
Jan-Jun
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ca. 30 items. Letters regarding Sandler's public appearances at the National
Academy of Design, Chapel Hill, Franklin and Marshall College, Illinois State
University; from Florence Rubenfeld; brochures, issue of Art/World
(Vol. 13 No. 7).
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1989
Jul-Dec
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding Sandler's public appearances at Indiana University,
Lowe Art Museum, Loft Artist Association; brochure and clipping.
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MOMA/Shiga Conference, 1989 Jul
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding arrangements for Sandler's visit to Japan, notes
for his talk, conference materials such as programs, schedules.
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1990
Jan-Jun
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ca. 15 items. Letter nominating Sandler for rank of Distinguished Professor at SUNY
Purchase; letter arranging for lecture at University of North Carolina; photocopies
of clippings.
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1990
Jul-Dec
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ca. 15 items. Letters regarding public appearances at CICA, SUNY Albany, Columbia
University; brochures and posters.
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1991-2000 |
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1991
Jan-Jun
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ca. 15 items. Letters regarding public appearances at CICA, and the Lowe Museum and
Sandler's guest curating a sculpture show at Lincoln Plaza; the draft of his essay
on Greenwich Village for the Museum of the City of New York exhibition; college
newsletters.
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1991
Jul-Dec
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ca. 10 items. Letters regarding Sandler's public appearances in Rio de Janeiro, the
Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, his De Kooning
interview from Marie-Anne Siehère, and from colleague Saryu Doshi.
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1992 |
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding an essay on Pearlstein for the Butler Institute, an
essay for a catalog of 20th century American art published by Prestel Verlag and the
Royal Academy, an essay on John Ferren for the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, a talk
given for Napa Contemporary Arts Foundation; brochures and announcements.
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1994 |
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding Sandler's public appearances at the Neuberger and
the Royal Academy, letter from Sandler recounting an experience with Professor
Commager at Columbia, and another expressing his concern over the selection of
paintings at the Royal Academy show; brochures.
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Storm King Art Center, 1993-1999 |
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ca. 10 items. Letters regarding Sandler's editing of an exhibition catalog about
Mark di Suvero, and about his contribution to The Fields of David
Smith; contracts.
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Christie's, 1994-2000 |
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding courses Sandler taught at Christie's, public
appearances there, course descriptions, thank you notes.
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1994 |
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ca. 20 items. Letter from Sandler offering his services to the NY City Commissioner
of Public Affairs; regarding public appearances at the National Gallery, the Art
Museum of Western Virginia, the Walters Art Gallery; from colleague Susan Platt;
brochures and clippings.
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1995
Jan-Jun
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ca. 20 items. Letter regarding a public appearance at Brigham Young University;
letter from Brooklyn Museum consulting Sandler about an American art exhibition;
brochures and announcements.
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1995
Jul-Dec
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ca. 10 items. Letter agreeing to be a consultant for a documentary on Pop Art,
regarding essay for Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, regarding review of Professor
Omer; offprint and clipping.
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1996 |
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding Sandler's contribution to Weldon Kees book for
Iowa, regarding lectures at the Woldenburg Art Center and the Hoffberger School of
Painting; copy of US Court of Appeals decision on a case requiring licensing of
artists who sell their work on the street.
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1997 |
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ca. 30 items. Letters regarding a book by Baykam, a catalog about Stamos, a BBC
interview with Sandler, a public appearance at MOMA, a SUNY Purchase reception for
Sandler; letter from Gail Stavitsky requesting information about Steve Wheeler;
letters from Sandler requesting leave with pay from SUNY Purchase, agreeing to write
an essay on Bryan, thanking Dr. Christoph Eggenberger for arranging the Meret
Oppenheim exhibition at MOMA; brochures, clippings, announcements.
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1998-2000 |
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1998
Jan-Jun
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ca. 30 items. Letters regarding Sandler's essay for the Israel Museum,
Artforum's Q & A column, Sandler's talk on Patrick Heron at the
Tate, an essay for a Seymour Lipton catalog; from colleagues Marilynn Tuma, Gilbert
Edelson, Geroge Neubert; clippings and brochures.
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1998
Jul-Dec
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ca. 40 items. Letters from the Modern Art Museum in Vienna requesting Sandler's
advice, regarding public appearances at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, New York
Studio School, MOMA, Syracuse, Cincinnati Art Museum, Sandler's endorsement for the
book Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-garde, request for
Sandler to write an essay for Crossroads of American Sculpture, and an essay for a
George McNeil catalog; brochures and clippings.
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Regarding trip to Russia, 1999 |
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ca. 10 items. Materials regarding an international seminar on Contemporary
Education for Contemporary Art, in St. Petersburg, including notes, itinerary and
lists of participants.
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Regarding trip to Rio, 1999 |
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ca. 20 items. Materials regarding Sandler's participation in an international
seminar "De Baudelaire à Critica Contemporanea," including letters, itineraries, and
clippings.
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Regarding trip to Barcelona, 1999 |
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Materials regarding Sandler's participation in a conference organized in
conjunction with the exhibition "Made in USA: Post-War North American Art"; poster
and clippings.
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Regarding trip to Frankfurt, 1999 |
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Materials regarding Sandler's visit in conjunction with the exhibition "Between
Life and Art," including typescript of his talk, notes, letters, itinerary and
schedule, clippings.
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1999
Jan-Jun
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ca. 50 items. Letters regarding Sandler essay for Allgemeines
Kunstlerlexikon, about interview with Barbara Michaels, public appearance
at Brooklyn College, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, regarding Antonakos essay
for Hudson Hills; brochures.
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1999
Jul-Dec
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ca. 20 items. Letters regarding recommendation for Gerald Silk, requesting
nominations of artists for awards; letters from former students and artist; brochure
and clipping.
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2000 |
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ca. 20 items. Letter requesting interview about Elaine De Kooning, a talk on
Antonakos at Rose Art Museum, about Rosenberg panel at CAA, regarding Sandler essay
on Andy Warhol and the Brillo box, Sandler being guest speaker at dinner honoring
Andre Emmerich; brochures.
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1966-1995 |
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Permissions for Abstract Expressionism,
1966-1970
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Permissions for The New York School,
1977-1978
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Permissions for Art of the 1970s and 1980s, 1994-1995
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