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Art Historian Coriolan Petranu (1893-1945) and His American Correspondence. The study presents unpublished material from the Coriolan Petranu Manuscript Fund belonging to the old Chair and Seminar of Art History of the University of Cluj in the interwar period. This fund has miraculously survived after 1945, but has not been researched for many decades.The study reconstitutes, based on Petranu’s letters, his relations with American scholars, specialists in museums and intellectuals. The documents are important testimonies to these relations. The 32 letters are signed by John Shapley (1890-1978), art historian, professor in the Universities of New York (1924), Chicago (after 1929), Baghdad (1960-1963), George Washington, who worked at the National Gallery and editor of The Art Bulletin (1921-1939).This collection of letters is completed by those sent by Andrey MacMahon, Alfred Salmony (Salamon), a renowned specialist in Asian art, professor at the Institute of Fine arts of the New York University.

Key words: Coriolan Petranu, American correspondence, John Shapley, Andrey MacMahon, Alfred Salmony.