Collection Information
Size: 35.8 Linear feet
Summary: The Alexander Iolas and Brooks Jackson Gallery records date from 1945-circa 1985 and measure 35.8 linear feet and include the records of multiple galleries operated both collaboratively and independently by Alexander Iolas and Brooks Jackson, including Hugo Gallery, Alexander Iolas Gallery, Brooks Jackson Iolas Gallery, and Brooks Jackson Gallery. The majority of the collection is from the New York galleries, with scattered documents from galleries operated by Iolas in Paris, Milan, Rome, Geneva, Madrid, and Athens. The records were maintained by Jackson following Iolas's death in 1987. After Jackson's death in 2022, the records were maintained by Jackson's longtime partner Kelly King, who donated them to AAA.
Included is correspondence, business and financial records, inventories and price lists, photographic material, exhibition files, artist files, press clippings, and printed material. Correspondence consists of letters to and from prominent 20th century artists including Hans Bellmer, Eugene Berman, Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, William N. Copley, Jean Cocteau, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Wilfriedo Lam, Rene Magritte, Roberto Matta, Takis, Paul Thek, and many others. Correspondence from clients, both institutional and private, includes the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, and a host of smaller institutions. Correspondence from private collectors includes Albert Barnes, Pierre Schlumberger, Peggy Guggenheim, John Paul Getty, Daniel Filipacchi. Correspondence from and business records related to John and Dominique de Menil forms a particularly rich component of the collection. Exhibition files, business records, photographic materials, and printed materials document important exhibitions by Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Cornell, Yves Klein, Les Lalanne, William N. Copley, Nikki de Saint Phalle, Corothea Tanning, Ed Ruscha, Al Ruppersberg, Paul Thek, Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol, Robert Wilson, Scott Burton, and many more. Inventories, price lists, and sales records document the sale and movement of works of art.