Box 1
Container
Contains 18 Results:
Jim Gerritsen.
File — Box: 1, Folder: x
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection initially focused almost exclusively on the Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project, which resulted in the acquisition of Alexander Calder’s monumental stabile La Grande Vitesse. Additional materials, about Nancy Mulnix continuing and broader activities in support of the arts, have been added to the collection, broadening the scope of the collection. Calder’s La Grande Vitesse continues to be the largest portion and the hallmark of the collection, and perhaps Mulnix's...
Dates:
1969-1974
Correspondence & ephemera.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection initially focused almost exclusively on the Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project, which resulted in the acquisition of Alexander Calder’s monumental stabile La Grande Vitesse. Additional materials, about Nancy Mulnix continuing and broader activities in support of the arts, have been added to the collection, broadening the scope of the collection. Calder’s La Grande Vitesse continues to be the largest portion and the hallmark of the collection, and perhaps Mulnix's...
Dates:
1966 - 2009
1966
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Consists primarily of Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project related correspondence, but also other general correspondence. Consists of letters to and from various people and organizations involved in the acquisition of La Grande Vitesse, including: members of the National Foundation for the Arts; the City of Grand Rapids; the Perls Galleries of New York, and government officials. Also included is correspondence on the dedication of other Calder works such as: “Calder on the Rooftop” and...
Dates:
1966 - 2009
1967 (including Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Mary Gardner Preminger)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Consists primarily of Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project related correspondence, but also other general correspondence. Consists of letters to and from various people and organizations involved in the acquisition of La Grande Vitesse, including: members of the National Foundation for the Arts; the City of Grand Rapids; the Perls Galleries of New York, and government officials. Also included is correspondence on the dedication of other Calder works such as: “Calder on the Rooftop” and...
Dates:
1966 - 2009
1968 (including Adolph Gottlieb and Roger Stevens)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Consists primarily of Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project related correspondence, but also other general correspondence. Consists of letters to and from various people and organizations involved in the acquisition of La Grande Vitesse, including: members of the National Foundation for the Arts; the City of Grand Rapids; the Perls Galleries of New York, and government officials. Also included is correspondence on the dedication of other Calder works such as: “Calder on the Rooftop” and...
Dates:
1966 - 2009
1969, Jan. to June 17th (including Adolph Gottlieb)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Consists primarily of Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project related correspondence, but also other general correspondence. Consists of letters to and from various people and organizations involved in the acquisition of La Grande Vitesse, including: members of the National Foundation for the Arts; the City of Grand Rapids; the Perls Galleries of New York, and government officials. Also included is correspondence on the dedication of other Calder works such as: “Calder on the Rooftop” and...
Dates:
1966 - 2009
1969, June 18th – Dec.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Consists primarily of Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project related correspondence, but also other general correspondence. Consists of letters to and from various people and organizations involved in the acquisition of La Grande Vitesse, including: members of the National Foundation for the Arts; the City of Grand Rapids; the Perls Galleries of New York, and government officials. Also included is correspondence on the dedication of other Calder works such as: “Calder on the Rooftop” and...
Dates:
1966 - 2009
1970 to 1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Consists primarily of Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project related correspondence, but also other general correspondence. Consists of letters to and from various people and organizations involved in the acquisition of La Grande Vitesse, including: members of the National Foundation for the Arts; the City of Grand Rapids; the Perls Galleries of New York, and government officials. Also included is correspondence on the dedication of other Calder works such as: “Calder on the Rooftop” and...
Dates:
1966 - 2009
1976 to 1977 (including Elizabeth Wilson, Ralph Nader)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Consists primarily of Vandenberg Center Sculpture Project related correspondence, but also other general correspondence. Consists of letters to and from various people and organizations involved in the acquisition of La Grande Vitesse, including: members of the National Foundation for the Arts; the City of Grand Rapids; the Perls Galleries of New York, and government officials. Also included is correspondence on the dedication of other Calder works such as: “Calder on the Rooftop” and...
Dates:
1966 - 2009
Subseries B. Gerald & Betty Ford Correspondence.
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Includes eighteen letters from Gerald Ford and one from Betty Ford. The letters reveal Ford’s role in obtaining funds from the National Endowment for the Arts for a public sculpture in Grand Rapids. A few letters detail Mulnix’s efforts to have Calder considered for a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Ford’s support for the Grand Rapids Civic Theater.
Other copies of letters from Ford are included in the 25th Anniversary series.
Dates:
1966 - 2009