Kootz Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
This site provides access to the papers of Kootz Gallery (N.Y.) in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2025. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 5,886 images.
Processing and digitization of this collection was funded in part by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
Size: 11.5 Linear feet
Summary: The records of New York City's modernist Kootz Gallery measure 11.5 linear feet and date from 1923-1966. They consist of scattered correspondence and exhibition files; photograph files of artists, including files for Picasso, William Baziotes, and Hans Hofmann, among many others; 23 scrapbooks documenting the gallery's history; photographs and slides of the gallery and exhibitions; and scattered personal papers of Samuel M. Kootz.
One of the premier art galleries in mid-century New York, Kootz Gallery was established by Samuel Kootz in 1944. The gallery was known for supporting emerging modernist and abstract expressionist artists, and hosted Picasso's first post war retrospective in 1947. In 1953 Kootz opened a satellite gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts that closed one year later. Read More
Samuel M. Kootz donated the gallery records in two increments in 1971. Nearly all of the same records had been loaned in 1965 for microfilming.
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This site provides access to the papers of Kootz Gallery (N.Y.) in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2025. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 5,886 images.
Processing and digitization of this collection was funded in part by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
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