Gertrude Kasle Gallery records

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Gertrude Kasle Gallery records

1949-1999

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The records of the Gertrude Kasle Gallery of Detroit measure 8.1 linear feet and date from 1949-1999, with the bulk of the records dating from 1964-1983. The collection documents the establishment and operations of this contemporary American art gallery and consists of artists files, business and administrative files, exhibition files, photographic materials, and interviews and lectures in the form of sound recordings. The bulk of the records consist of Artists' Files that document the professional and personal relationships Kasle fostered with the artists represented by the gallery, including sales and exhibitions. The files contain a wide variety of materials and the amount of documentation for each artist also varies. Typically the files contain personal and business correspondence, sales documentation, exhibition photographs, photographs of works of art, family photographs, photographs of the artist, exhibition announcements and catalogs, other printed materials, greeting cards, and other documents. Some of the artists well-represented in the files include Lee Bontecou, Wilhem De Kooning, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Brenda Goodman, Robert Goodnaugh, John Goodyear, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Ray Johnson, Robert Motherwell, Robert Natkin, Lowell Nesbitt, Claes Oldenburg, Charles Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Julius Schmidt, Babe Shapiro, Michael Todd, and Jack Tworkov. Additional general information about exhibitions is found in Series 3, Exhibition Files and additional photographs are filed in Series 4, Photographic Material. Gallery and personal business and administrative files house documents relating to the founding and incorporation of the gallery and general operations, as well as some of Gertrude Kasle personal business files. Also found in this series are files related to fine art prints and the gallery's business relationship with Universal Limited Art Editions. Scattered exhibition files are found for a few of the gallery's exhibitions and also include general exhibition related files, such as clippings, announcements, guest lists, and schedules. Most of the information about the gallery's exhibitions is found in the Artists Files. Photographs and slides are found throughout the collection, particularly in the Artists Files, but Series 4, Photographic Materials houses an extensive collection of slides documenting art work by artists represented by the gallery. There is also an autographed photograph portrait of Lowell Nesbitt.Sound recordings are of interviews and lectures. Interviews are with Tatyana Grosman, Lowell Nesbitt, Paul Jenkins, and Bill Tall. There are recorded lectures by Paul Jenkins and Jack Tworkov. The sound recordings are on both audio cassette reel to reel tapes. Transcripts are not available.

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Kasle/Colby Art Consultants.

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Tall, Bill.

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Kasle/Colby Art Consultants.

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Nesbitt, Lowell, 1933-1993

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Painter, photographer, and sculptor; New York, N.Y.; d. 1993. From the description of Lowell Nesbitt papers, 1950-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455542 Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) was a painter, photographer, and sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Lowell Nesbitt papers, 1903-1993, bulk 1950-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779476892 ...

Shapiro, Babe (American painter, born 1937)

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Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011

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Painter (New York, N.Y.) Born 1928. From the description of Helen Frankenthaler interview, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220179604 Helen Frankenthaler (1928- 2011) was a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Helen Frankenthaler, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595062 Painters; New York, N.Y. Frankenthaler and Motherwell were married, and subsequently divorced. Were good fri...

Tworkov, Jack

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Jack Tworkov was a painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1900; d. 1982. Bramberger and Tworkov were friends. From the description of Jack Tworkov letters to Troy-Jjohn Bramberger, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81952814 Jack Tworkov, 1900-1982, painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Tworkov, 1981 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007167 Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1900; d. 1982. From the descrip...

Natkin, Robert, 1930-2010

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Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-

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B. 1929, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Claes Oldenburg was born in 1929, in Stockholm. His father was a diplomat, and the family lived in the United States and Norway before settling in Chicago in 1936. Oldenburg studied literature and art history at Yale University, New Haven, from 1946 to 1950. He subsequently studied art under Paul Wieghardt at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1950 to 1954. During the first two years of art school, he also worked as an apprentice reporter at the City News Bureau of Chi...

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980

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xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4">Painter. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip Guston, 1965 Jan. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78587878 Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo...

Motherwell, Robert

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Abstract expressionist painter. Close friend of Baziotes. From the description of Robert Motherwell postcard to William Baziotes, 1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557368 Robert Motherwell, 1915-1991, painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Motherwell, 1981 Feb. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646401238 Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1915; d. 1991. From the description of Robert Motherwell in...

Grosman, Tatyana, 1904-1982

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Tatyana Grosman (1904-1982) was an art patron from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Tatyana Grosman, 1970 Mar. 31 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595179 Art patron. From the description of Tatyana Grosman interview, 1970 Mar. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186291 From the description of Oral history interview with Tatyana Grosman, 1970 Mar. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007033 ...

Tall, Bill

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Schmidt, Julius, 1923-

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Goodyear, John, 1930-

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Dine, Jim, 1935-....

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Jim Dine (1935- ) is a painter and sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jim Dine, 1965 Feb. 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 435526893 Painter, sculptor (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Jim Dine interview, 1965 Feb. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181821 ...

Bontecou, Lee, 1931-....

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Lee Bontecou (1931-) is a sculptor and print maker from New York, N.Y. Bontecou studied at the Art Students League of New York and taught at Brooklyn College. From the description of Oral history interview with Lee Bontecou, 2009 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 317592536 ...

Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974

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Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) was a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Adolph Gottlieb, 1967 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646398642 Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Adolph Gottlieb papers, 1929-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545836 From the description of Adolph Gottlieb interview, 1967 Oct. 25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82919384 ...

Nesbitt, Lowell, 1933-

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Shapiro, Babe

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Kasle, Gertrude, 1917-

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Gertrude Kasle (1917- ) is an art collector, consultant, and dealer from Detroit, Mich. From the description of Oral history interview with Gertrude Kasle, 1975 July 24 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596639 Art collector, consultant, and dealer; Detroit, Mich. From the description of Gertrude Kasle interview, 1975 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186973 ...

Todd, Mike, 1935-

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Gertrude Kasle Gallery (Detroit, Mich.)

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Gertrude Kasle Gallery (established 1960; closed 1976) was an art gallery in Detroit, Mich. Kasle, along with Joy Colby, established Kasle/Colby Art Consultants in 1976. From the description of Gertrude Kasle Gallery records, 1949-1999, bulk, 1964-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 301785381 Gertrude Kasle was born in New York City on December 2, 1917, and began her life-long career in the art world very early, taking art classes in h...

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was an abstract artist from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Willem De Kooning and others, 1979 Sept. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art). WorldCat record id: 688855147 Abstract artist; New York. 1904-1997. From the description of Oral history interview with Willem DeKooning and others, 1979 September [sound recording]. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art). WorldCat record id: 123944643 ...

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008

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Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a painter and photographer from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg, 1965 Dec. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646398681 Painter, photographer; New York, N.Y. Born 1925. Died 2008. From the description of Robert Rauschenberg interview, 1965 Dec. 21 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78470377 ...

Pollock, Charles C.

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Painter, mural painter and instructor; Michigan and Paris, France. First wife Elizabeth. Older brother of Jackson Pollock. Studied with Thomas Hart Benton, Art Students League. Art instructor, Michigan State University 1942-1967. From the description of Charles Pollock papers, 1902-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515093 ...

Universal Limited Art Editions (Firm)

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Universal Limited Art Editions, founded by Tatyana and Maurice Grosman, has been credited with the American revival of fine art lithography in the mid-20th century. In the1950s and 1960s, when New York was experiencing intense artistic activity and growth, Tatyana Grosman was an inspired visionary with the ability to choose and attract the best young artists to explore lithography at her home studio. She hired master printers - notably Robert Blackburn, Zigmunds Priede, Donn Steward...

Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995

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Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a painter from Locust Valley, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Ray Johnson, 1968 Apr. 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82223586 Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ray Johnson is frequently referred to as the "father of mail art." He attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina from 1945 to 1948, then moved to New York. Although he worked as an abstract painter for several years, by 1953 Johnson h...

Hartigan, Grace

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Painter; Baltimore, Md. From the description of Grace Hartigan interview, 1979 May 10 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81992713 Painter; b. 1922. From the description of Oral history interview, 1975. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32822067 Grace Hartigan (1922-, painter of Baltimore, Md. From the description of Oral history interview with Grace Hartigan, 1979 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 64639732...

Jenkins, Paul, 1923-2012

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Paul Jenkins (1923- ) is an abstract expressionist, painter, and playwright in New York, N.Y. From the description of Paul Jenkins papers, 1940-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 430380769 Barrault, born in France in 1910, was an esteemed and innovative fixture in French theatre and film for five decades from the 1930s to 1980s. He trained as a mime and an actor, and later directed both screen and stage productions. With Madeleine Renaud, his wife, he founded a theatrical ...

Goodman, Brenda, 1943-

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Goodnough, Robert, 1917-2010

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Robert Goodnough (1917-2010) was a painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Robert Goodnough papers, circa 1960-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744426296 Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Robert Goodnough photographs and printed material, 1965-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122389788 Robert Goodnough (1917-) was an American painter and teacher of art, known for modern, non-objective, and collage pieces. He was...