Query: *
Archival Materials
Artists' statement
Creators:
Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
Dates:
1947
Size:
2 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
Collection ID:
AAA.soyerapa
Repository:
Archives of American Art
A typed letter from Raphael Soyer to "Dear Fellow Artist," enclosing a statement from a "group of artists" regarding the "status of our profession today." The statement, approved by 31 artists, deplores the growing dominance of art theorists and museum officials who were causing art, particularly abstract art, to become esoteric …