ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Materials in the exhibition have been drawn primarily from the Yaddo Records in The New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division and from the holdings of The Corporation of Yaddo, amplified by items from other collections and divisions at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. We also gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the following institutions and individuals for lending items from their collections: the Fondation Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, Jane Mayhall, George Rickey Foundation, The Schonberger Family, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and two private collectors. Thanks to Tom and Musa Mayer for permission to reproduce four photographs of Philip Guston and William Gass. Facsimiles of pages from the manuscript of Paterson, from the William Carlos Williams Papers in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, are displayed courtesy of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
For their assistance and support with Yaddo: Making American Culture, the exhibition curator wishes to thank the artists, board, and staff of The Corporation of Yaddo; the curatorial, exhibitions, and digital scholarship teams and leadership of The New York Public Library; colleagues at New York University and Fordham University, especially the team at the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies; and the researchers who pulled the details together, especially François Xavier Alacoque, Stephanie Grace, William J. Levay, and Eileen O’Connor. Thanks, also, to Shelly Silver for creating the remarkable film montage for the exhibition and to Naxos for permission to screen Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke’s film The City.