Series 1 : Correspondence , 1935-1937
10 Folders
Box 1
Correspondence is with business associates, prospective clients, museums, and other art institutions and organizations including Alfred H. Barr, Alfred C. Barnes, Cincinnati Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Julianna Force, Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and others. Artists represented in the correspondence include Saul Baizerman, Emlen Etting, Arshile Gorky, Chaim Gross, Jean Liberte, William Littlefield, Gwen Lux, Philip Reisman, Theodore Roszak, Raphael Soyer, Gilbert Wilson, and others.
Of note are three folders of correspondence with artist Lloyd Ney. In addition to writing of his work and arrangements with the gallery to show his paintings, Ney writes of a disagreement with dealer Bruce Lockwood over ownership of his paintings. Related correspondence with Lockwood and lawyer Arthur Eastburn is also included here.
Also of note are two folders of letters and related material documenting the gallery's efforts to promote the work of Sigmund Menkes, in particular his painting The Torah . Records include a signed agreement with the gallery to be sole agents for The Torah , name and address lists of prospective clients, outgoing letters sent to them and some responses, two letters from Menkes, biographical notes about Menkes and the history of the painting, and marked up exhibition catalogs with prices of Menkes's work.
Undated correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and dated correspondence is arranged chronologically. Correspondence with Sigmund Menkes and Lloyd Ney is arranged separately in named files.
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Correspondence, B-W, circa 1935-1937
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Correspondence, Chronological, 1935
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Correspondence, Chronological, 1936 January-May
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Correspondence, Chronological, 1936 June-December
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Correspondence, Chronological, 1937
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Correspondence, Sigmund Menkes, 1935-1936
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Correspondence, Sigmund Menkes, 1936
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Correspondence, Lloyd Ney, 1935-1936 January
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Correspondence, Lloyd Ney, 1936 February-1937 March
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Correspondence, Lloyd Ney, Dispute with Bruce Lockwood, 1935-1936
Select: Correspondence, Lloyd Ney, Dispute with Bruce Lockwood, 1935-1936
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