MS01.05.00 - Box 07 - Folder 12 - Clark, Claude - Correspondence, 1970-1979

Dear David Driskell: I was please to recieve both of your letters. The one of Nov. 24, 1969 addressed to the editor of New Tody magazine and your letter to me of the same date addressed to me. I know that you are busy enough at the moment for any dozen men, but I hope that we can still get most of the slides of any more or all of the order that our library placed with you over a year ago. There ought

to be at last one or two other slide collections similiar to the basic Harmon Foundation group, and we desperately need one here at Merritt College. I am glad that you will get to the University of (?), and I would like a brief note as soon as you return. You see we are hopeful that a group teaching Black Studies here in the Bay Area will be going to Africa. Of so they seem to want to make their base on the West Coast in Ghana as they are fearful of the political climate in Nigeria. Please enlighten us! I've included some of the slides that I took when you were at our home. A couple, I feel are O.K. but you will recall that when the one's of my son and I were added, that (over).

It was almost twilight We're happy to have Jacob and Gwen Lawrence here in the Bay Area for a few weeks. I took some interesting, photographs of them, but they have been temporarily misplaced. If I can't locate them, there is still time to take some other ones. Best wishes to you and yours for 1970. Sincerely, Claude Clark

March 30, 1971

Mr. David Driskell Department of Art Fisk University Nashville, Tenn. 37203

Dear David: I am looking at your letter of Feb. 15th and I suddenly realized why I haven't heard rom you. I believe that it was Ellis Wilson who wrote that he was excited about the coming show. Give both William Artis and Ellis Wilson my regards when you see them. I haven't see William Artis in almost 25 years! I would like to get to the Spring Festival and I'd certainly like to see the Aaron Douglas restrospective. How did it go? When the smoke clears, please don't forget that you promised catalogs. I have one for Jake? but not for Elton Fox. We expect Elto here in the Bay Area before the end of April. If that Sargent Johnson show comes within strik -ing distance of Nashville -- please see it. Obviously Sargent Johnson was dealing with African Heritage during the Negro Renaissance. A decent catalog appeared before the show closed and it seems that the show will travel to key points. Best wishes for the Easter Holidays Sincerely Claude Clark

May 31, 1971

Dear David Driskell, Just a hurried note to let you know that I appreciated your recent catague of the Ellis Wilson and the William Artis Show. Since Elton Fax was recently here, and now his manager Betty Murrell is here in the Bay Area I am reminded that I never did get the catalogue from the Elton Fax show. If you have an extra one please send it along before you leave the campus for the summer. If it isn't too far out of your way you may want to come by Oakland some where in the next few months to see the type of show that you'll be recieving from me next year. I hope to get a few more canvases done during the summer. Are you going to Maine this year. Regards to any of our friends. Best wishes. Sincerely, Claude Clark