Alberto Beltrán correspondence with Seymour Kaplan
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Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- Creation: 1970s-2007
Creator
- Beltrán, Alberto (Person)
- Kaplan, Seymour (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Extent
3.23 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
Spanish; Castilian
English
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Paul Kaplan and Barbara Kaplan, March 27, 2013.
Processing Information
The collection is unprocessed.
Subject
- Beltrán, Alberto -- Correspondence (Person)
- Kaplan, Seymour -- Archives (Person)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Alberto Beltrán correspondence with Seymour Kaplan
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Diann Benti
- Date
- 2021 September
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu