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Box of Correspondence relating to 1999.0281.1
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Hand-made box by Michael Silver, with his print John Cage - Escaping the Frame, glued to the cover. The box contains correspondence related to the event at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on August 31, 1999. Includes a letter to John Cage about the idea of cooking a drawing. Also includes thank-you notes from invited guests, such as Julia Child, several letters to Anne Hawley, director of the Gardner Museum, requesting permission to stage the event.
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Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift from the Collection of Richard S. Sullivan and Melody Bostick Sullivan
Title: Box of Correspondence relating to 1999.0281.1
Description:
Hand-made box by Michael Silver, with his print John Cage - Escaping the Frame, glued to the cover.
The box contains correspondence related to the event at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on August 31, 1999.
Includes a letter to John Cage about the idea of cooking a drawing.
Also includes thank-you notes from invited guests, such as Julia Child, several letters to Anne Hawley, director of the Gardner Museum, requesting permission to stage the event.
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