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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.23 / Phillips, Tom; Phillips L; Minsky R; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Ackerman M; Ackerman D., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-54391-989908
Scope and Contents

Titled "Dante on Broadway II" this collage has fragmented newspaper clippings from the New York Times of Le Bernadine Restaurant where Phillips writes that he had lunch with Marvin and Ruth Sackner and Martin and Diane Ackerman. Also collaged is the obituary of Dante scholar John Ciardi, a torn portion of the announcement of Phillip's talk at the Center for Book Arts and an announcement of a concert in Boston with Leo Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.24 / Phillips, Tom; Phillips L; Minsky R; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Ackerman D; Ackerman M., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-54392-989909
Scope and Contents

Titled "Dante on Broadway" this collage contains handwritten and collaged additions describing Phillips' opening exhibition at the Center for Book Arts. Collaged elements include a match book cover from the Noho Star, the graphic design logo for Hero Boy, a picture on Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland holding a Broadway sign and the Hebraic calligraphy for 2nd Ave Deli. Phillips comments that there was a "very lively and successful opening on Broadway with lots of people close to me there, Leo and Ruth, the Sackners, the Ackermans and of course Richard [Minsky] who has made such a wonderful job of curating the exhibit ." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986