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Sheldon Ross Gallery records, circa 1970-2007, bulk 1976-1995

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Series 4: Artists' Files , 1967-2007
1.3 Linear feet
Boxes 1-2, 6

The artists' files comprise about half of the Sheldon Ross Gallery records and most of these materials concern Romare Bearden. Also featured are records relating to George Grosz and Michigan artists Sue Lindburg [Browse], Susan Hauptman, Ron Morosan, Leo Mardirosian, Caroline Court, Israel Kaplanski, Gordon Orears and Allie McGhee. The types and quantities of materials vary from one artist to another.
The Romare Bearden materials include correspondence between Romare Bearden and Sheldon Ross spanning almost twenty years as well as correspondence with publishing houses, other galleries, and museums. Biographical material includes a recording of a 1988 National Public Radio program entitled "Collage: From the Life and Art of Romare Bearden," a list of solo exhibitions from 1940-1980, and a selected bibliography concerning the artist and his work. Exhibition files include price lists, drafts of writings, correspondence, and some printed material. There also is a writing by Bearden, "Rectangular Structures in My Montage Paintings" as well as copies of essays about Bearden and his work.
Materials concerning George Grosz include newspaper clippings, price lists and exhibition catalogs in addition to many photographs of works. The Michigan artists file contains some biographical material, newspaper clippings, photographs of artworks, and sketches of "art awards" by an unidentified person.
Additional material concerning Michigan artists is found in a folder titled "Exhibition Lists" folder in Series 3, Exhibition Files.
Description Container Select
Romare Bearden
Biographical Material, 1980-1996
1
7
Letters to Sheldon Ross, 1974-1989
1
8
Letters from Sheldon Ross, 1976-1988
1
9
Correspondence, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1976-1990
6
1
Correspondence, June Kelly and Jerald Melberg Gallery Inc., 1987
6
2
General Correspondence, 1971-2000
6
3
Dealers and Customers, 1982-1992
6
4
Estate Papers, 1980-1988
6
5
Writings by and about Romare Bearden, 1969-1983
1
10
Exhibitions Held at Sheldon Ross Gallery, 1971-1992
6
6
The Mint Museum, 1970-1981
1
11
Exhibition, Romare Bearden, 1970-1980 (1980-1981), Mint Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, 1980-1982
6
7
Exhibition, The Art of Romare Bearden (1984), Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1983-1984
6
8
Exhibition, The Portrayal of the Black Musician in American Art (1986-1987), California Afro-American Museum, 1986-1987
6
9
The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1991-1993
1
12
Exhibition, Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987 (1991), The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1989-1991
6
10
Exhibitions at Sheldon Ross Gallery, 1971-1992
1
13
Group Exhibitions, circa 1970-1996
1
14
Solo Exhibitions, New York, 1968-1986
1
15
Solo Exhibitions, Other, 1986-2007
1
16
Exhibitions Held Elsewhere, 1992, 1996
6
11
Folder, "The Painted Sounds of Romare Bearden", undated
6
12
Invoices, The J. L. Hudson Gallery, 1967-1971
6
13
Clippings, 1971-2001
1
18
Clippings, 1971-2001
1
19
Clippings, 1971-2001
1
20
Photographs, Artwork "Sold" and "Unsold,", after 1970
1
21
Transparencies, after 1970
1
22
Reproductions, after 1970
1
23
Reproductions of Bearden's Work, 1991-1998
6
14-15
George Grosz, 1979-1988
2
1
George Grosz Photographic Material, 1976-1986
2
2
Michigan Artists, 1978-1999
2
3

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