Christopher DeMairo
Scope and Contents
The East Side Gallery records measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1961 to 1970. The small collection sheds light on the gallery through corespondence mostly with artists, museums and galleries, and art publications; exhibition announcements, catalogs, and flyers from solo and group shows held at East Side Gallery; photographs of artwork by Maria Szeni, Lily Shuff, Linda Cross, and more, the East Side Gallery exterior, and one of artist Luis Lujan; newspaper and magazine clippings from exhibition advertisements and reviews; and artist resumes for Jan Gary and Willam D. Gorman. Also found in the collection are printed materials from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York State Council on the Arts, and an exhibition catalog for Mark Freeman's exhibition, Dimension Prints (1963), held at the Parrish Art Museum in New York.
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated in 1976 by gallery founder and director Mark Freeman.
Funding
Sponsor
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
Processing Information
The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Christopher DeMairo in 2022.