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.

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.

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.

Preferred Citation

[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.

Processing Information

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

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