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UNIQUE ID: 
SFC.S02.B023.F015
Title: 
Ghent, Henri
Creation Date: 
1976-1980
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Creator Name: 
Ghent, Henri
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Patricia Alice Garske
Work Creator Name: 
Harnack, Curtis
Work Material Medium Name: 
ink
Work Material Support Name: 
paper
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
312 Church Street, New Windsor, Maryland
Creation Location: 
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
Creation Location: 
New York, New York
Creation Location: 
San Jose, California
Work Description: 
This file contains correspondence between Henri Ghent and Clyfford Still from 1976 until Still's death in 1980. It includes details on Ghent's moves to find writing work in New York, his efforts to write a book, and his attempts to secure funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and The MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colonies. Specific publications that Ghent discusses are QUEST/77, Politicks magazine, Artforum, and Artweek. The letters also include newspaper and magazine clippings of both Ghent's writings and other articles on art, the art scene, and the writing world he thought would be of interest to Still. There is also mentions of Still's exhibitions including his galleries at SFMOMA and his 1979 show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including Still's interest in having Ghent serve as a guest curator. Ghent's personal struggles are an underlying theme in the letters ranging from his exclusion in the art world to his financial struggles to his 1979 heart attack while staying at Yaddo.
Image Creator Name: 
Alexandra Budding
Image Type Format: 
PDF/A
Image Holding Institution: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Image Collection Name: 
Clyfford Still Archives - Subject Files
Image Rights Statement: 
IN COPYRIGHT
Image Capture Hardware: 
Epson Expression 10000 XL
Image Capture Operating System: 
Mac OS X
Image Cataloger Name: 
Alexandra Budding
Image Cataloger Role: 
Archives Fellow