Stendahl Art Galleries records, circa 1913-2017, bulk 1930-2000
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Arensberg, Louise, 1879-1953
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Louise Arensberg (1879-1953) was born Mary Louise Stevens in Dresden, Germany, to John Edward Stevens and his wife, Harriet Louisa. In 1882, the family relocated to Ludlow, Massachusetts, where Louise's father worked in his in-law's textile manufacturing business, eventually amassing the fortune Louise would use to finance the Arensbergs' art collection. Louise studied music and attended finishing school in Dresden. On June 26, 1907, she married Walter, a Harvard classmate of her brother Sidney....
Nierendorf, Karl, 1889-1947
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Karl Nierendorf (1889–1947) was a prominent German art dealer who specialized in expressionist and abstract paintings, first running galleries with his brother, Josef, out of Cologne and Berlin. The rise of Nazism and the march toward war, with its accompanying attacks on art and artists, prompted Nierendorf to visit and then resettle in the United States, establishing his own gallery in New York City (1937–1947). This new iteration of the Nierendorf Gallery quickly gained prestige by promoting ...
Hale, Salomón, 1897-1964
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Salomón Hale (1897–1964) was a prominent art collector who ran a fine leather import business in Mexico City. Born in Lipno, Poland, Hale immigrated to Mexico in 1921, and subsequently helped many of his relatives (and others) emigrate from Poland and settle in Mexico, thus saving most of his family from the Holocaust. He became an active member of the Jewish community in Mexico City and was involved in several Jewish transnational organizations. He was married to Anna Penansky, an American-Jewi...
Caso, Alfonso, 1896-1970
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Alfonso Caso (1896–1970), famed for his 1932 discovery of Tomb 7 at Monte Albán in Oaxaca, was an attorney-turned-archaeologist from the intellectual elite of Mexico City, and the first director of both the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, established in 1939, and the Instituto Nacional Indigenista, established in 1948. He produced more than 300 publications on Mexican history and archaeology, including such well-known titles as La religión de los aztecas (1945), Urnas de Oaxaca (...
Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954
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Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954) was an American author and Francis Bacon scholar. Walter and his wife Louise (1879–1953) were among the most notable U.S.-based art collectors of the first half of the 20th century. While Walter was born into Pittsburgh steel wealth, it was the family fortune of his wife Louise, made in Massachusetts textile manufacturing, that would allow the couple to rise to prominence in the world of avant-garde art collecting, and place their homes, first in New York C...
Aguirre, Porfirio
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Porfirio Aguirre (1889–1951?) was a Mexican archaeologist, professor, and polyglot best known for his discovery of the iconic Máscara de Malinaltepec and his translations from Nahuatl and German to Spanish. Aguirre was born into a family of artists in Copanatoyac, Guerrero, and was educated in Mexico City at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and the Academia de San Carlos, where he forged a lifelong friendship with Diego Rivera. Aguirre then joined the first generation of students trained at th...
Echániz, Guillermo M., 1900–1965
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Guillermo M. Echániz (1900–1965) was a bookseller and antiquarian based in Mexico City, and one of Earl Stendahl’s first major suppliers of pre-Hispanic art. Echániz married Juliette (“Julieta”) Latremouille (1905–1985) in Detroit in 1924, and both of their children were born there before the close of the decade. While Echániz’s own expansive collection of pre-Hispanic objects elicited both admiration and condemnation during his lifetime, today he is best known internationally for the facsi...
Stendahl Art Galleries
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The roots of the Stendahl Art Galleries were laid in 1911, when Earl Stendahl (1887-1966) began exhibiting the work of young Los Angeles artists at his downtown restaurant The Black Cat Café. He then worked at the Cannell and Chaffin Gallery from 1917 to 1918, first as a sales associate, then as a manager, and briefly trained to serve the U.S. Military in World War I in 1918, although he was never deployed. After completing his service, he opened Stendahl Art Galleries at The Ambassador Hotel on...
