{"value"=>"<p>The Correspondence begins in the late 1940s, when Tillim was a student at Syracuse University, and continues throughout his lifetime. Tillim kept three file sets: family letters, an alphabetical file, and a chronological file. Many, though not all files, contain letters from Tillim. Tillim did not carry on extensive correspondence over years with any individual, but the files do show he maintained light correspondence with many friends and colleagues. However, Series III: Exhibition and Painting Records contains extensive correspondence with Uli Bohnen, a critic and writer.</p> <p>The correspondents in the alphabetical and chronological files include critics, art dealers, artists, and scholars, such as James Ackerman, Richard Bellamy, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Michael Fried, Clement Greenberg, Donald Judd, Allan Kaprow, Alex Katz, Max Kozloff, Hilton Kramer, Yayoi Kusama, Gabriel Laderman, June Leaf, Al Leslie, Helen Levitt, Sol LeWitt, Phillip Lopate, Bernard Malamud, Robert Morris, Linda Nochlin, Ken Noland, Jules Olitski, Charles Olson, Philip Pearlstein, Adrian Piper, Larry Poons, Ad Reinhardt, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Rose, Robert Rosenblum, Tom Sachs, Ron Sanders, Peter Saul, Meyer Schapiro, Leo Steinberg, Robert Storr, Mark Tansey, Lionel Trilling, Alan Wallach, Susan Wheeler, Philemona Williamson, and Hilma Wolitzer. Some correspondence with artists contains small works of art. The container list contains more details on correspondents in the chronological file.</p> <p>The family letters include correspondence with Tillim's first wife, Muriel, as well as with his father, cousins, siblings, and an uncle (also named Sidney Tillim). The Muriel Tillim files hold Sidney Tillim's correspondence with doctors, family, and friends regarding her attempted suicide and hospitalization from 1972 to 1973. Letters from 1996 consist of condolence notes to Sidney Tillim following Muriel's death.</p>"}