Exhibition Files
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Petlin, Irving, 1934-2018
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- Irving Petlin papers
- Extent
- 0.21 Linear feet (Box 1)
- Date
- 1974-1988
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.peltirvi, Series 3
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents
- Exhibition files include materials documenting two exhibitions that demonstrate Petlin's lifelong work as an artist and activist. Files related to 1984's collaborative exhibition, "Artists' Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America," include notes; draft artists' statements; correspondence; clippings; a mock up donation receipt and final donation receipts; Marcus Ratliff's business card; contact lists; and a 1974 affidavit from Thomas M. Fortuin related to the United States of America vs. Jean avier Van Imschoot aka Jean Toche, who was arrested for threatening to kidnap the Metropoitan Museum of Art's trustees until Tony Shrafazi was released from jail for defacing Picasso's "Guernica." Also included are a hand written list of artists; a 1975 press release from the Jean Toche Defense Committee; exhibition announcements; a 1983 financial report; press releases about the exhibition; draft letters; and Petlin's original, annotated exhibition file folders. Collaborators include Doug Ashford, Coosje van Bruggen, Leon Golub, Kate Linker, Lucy R. Lippard, and others. Files related to the 1988 exhibition, "It's Possible: 24 Israeli and Palestinian Artists Unite for Peace," include the exhibition catalog; correspondence; notes; annotated lists of artists; contact lists; Yesh Gvul There is a Limit stickers; exhibition announcements; protest and event flyers; clippings regarding Palestine and Israel; Larry Ledermean's business card; press releases; an exhibition floor plan; a progress report; an out of pocket expense list and financial report; Shulamith Koenig's artist bio; 1984 open letters to the Israeli government and members of the Israeli government from Leon Golub and Nancy Spero and Leonard and Debora Wolf; and Petlin's original, annotated exhibition file folders. Collaborators include Dore Ashton, Kamal Boullata, Yona Fisher, Nitz Gadish, Shulamith Koenig, Suleiman Mansour, Matti Megged, Jerry Ordover, Grace Paley, and Sam Weiner.
- Collection Restrictions
- This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
- Record ID
- ebl-1630695619607-1630695619635-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0