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Robert Schoelkopf Gallery records

Title: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery records

The records of the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery comprise 29 linear feet of material from 1851 to 1991, with some items predating the founding of the gallery. The bulk of the records date from 1962 to 1991, providing researchers with fairly comprehensive coverage of the gallery's development and operations from its inception in 1962 until its closure in 1991. Items dated prior to 1962 relate principally to the period of transition during which Robert Schoelkopf ended his partnership with the Zabriskie Gallery and established his own business. There are also some items relating to artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.The collection consists primarily of artist files documenting relations with contemporary artists, representation of deceased artists, and other works of art handled by the gallery. It also chronicles the gallery's exhibition schedule and the day-to-day administration of the business. The types of material that can be found here include correspondence, exhibition inventories, price lists, accounting and consignment records, shipping and insurance records, printed material, and photographs. The collection is a valuable source of information on twentieth-century American art history, focusing primarily on early-twentieth-century modernists as well as an important group of American realist painters and sculptors from the latter half of the century. The collection illuminates, in detail, the developing market for these schools and, in the case of the latter group, provides personal insights from artists on the realist perspective.The records also document the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery's significant contribution to the resurgence of interest in fine art photography during the 1960s and 1970s as reflected in an increase in the value of works by important American photographers such as Walker Evans.Much of the outgoing correspondence from the gallery consists of copies of letters written by Robert Schoelkopf, with additional business being handled by assistant staff and, from the mid-1970s, Schoelkopf's wife, Laura Jane Schoelkopf. The records offer insight into the personalities of the Schoelkopfs and how their congenial and candid management style influenced their relationships with the contemporary artists they represented.

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Freund, Gisele. Papers, 1933-1990.

Title: Papers, 1933-1990.

Chiefly correspondence and reviews relating to photography books published in U.S. between 1980 and 1985.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48036522 View

FREUND, GISELE. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86101113 View

Fromm, Gloria G., 1931-. Gloria and Harold Fromm collection of Dorothy M. Richardson, 1914-1995 (bulk 1936-1977).

Title: Gloria and Harold Fromm collection of Dorothy M. Richardson, 1914-1995 (bulk 1936-1977).

Collection of correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating to Dorothy M. Richardson and her husband Alan Odle. Correspondence consists of letters from Richardson to others, dating from the 1930s and 1940s, and letters between Richardson biographer Gloria Fromm and others, dating from the 1960s and 1970s. Correspondents include Horace Gregory, W. R. Trotter, literary critic Leon Edel, and members of the Richardson and Wadsworth families. There are photographs of Richardson and Odle, the Richardson family, John Cowper Powys, Gisèle Freund, Percy Beaumont Wadsworth, and others, as well as examples of artwork by Odle, Adrian Allinson, and Ivy de Verley, some of which appear in Fromm's 1977 biography. Other materials include printed ephemera and manuscript notes.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702199233 View

Freund, Gisele. Papers, 1933-1990.

Title: Papers, 1933-1990.

Chiefly correspondence and reviews relating to photography books published in U.S. between 1980 and 1985.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet (1 box)

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Reynes-Williams, Agnes L. Agnes L. Reynes-Williams correspondence from Gisele Freund, 1986-1994.

Title: Agnes L. Reynes-Williams correspondence from Gisele Freund, 1986-1994.

This collection consists of 18 letters from photographer Gisele Freund to Dr. Agnes L. Reynes-Williams. The correspondence demonstrates a relationship that began with Reynes-Williams' interest in Freund's work and life, and progressed to a long-distance friendship. In her letters, Freund provided Reynes-Williams with encouragement and advice related to her career, and also discussed her own life and travels. In her 80s at the beginning of the correspondence (she described herself as "over 70"), Freund was still professionally active, and she frequently wrote about her work, including her books, exhibits and public appearances, and a visiting scholar grant she received from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles during the 1980s.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/164911215 View

Freund, Gisele, 1908-2000 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Freund, Gisele, 1908-2000 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199341928 View