Collection Information
Size: 0.4 Linear feet
Summary: The Louis Alexander Gallery records measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1953 to 1965. The collection contains one exhibition file and artist files for Alfred Copley, Ross Coates, Charles S. DuBack, William Giles, David Packard, Leo Rabkin, and Athos Zagharias. Materials include correspondence, printed material, biographical summaries, photographs of artwork, and some exhibition ephemera.
Biographical/Historical Note
The Louis Alexander Gallery was founded by Louis Alexander Cohn in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of New York, New York. Paul Cummings served as the gallery's co-director in the early 1960s. The dates of the gallery's existence are unknown. In 1962 the gallery held a large exhibition, Recent American Drawings , which included artwork from Willem de Kooning, Milton Avery, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and many others. Additionally, the gallery held solo shows for Leo Rabkin (1962), Alfred Copley (1962), Charles DuBack (1962), Ross Coates (1963), Athos Zacharias (1963), and William Giles (1962).
Provenance
The collection was donated by Paul Cummings, former co-director of Louis Alexander Gallery, in 1971.
Language Note
The collection is mostly in English. Several newspaper clippings are in French.
Funding Note
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.