Gracie Mansion Gallery records

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Gracie Mansion Gallery records

1972-1991

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The records of the New York City contemporary Gracie Mansion Gallery measure 5.3 linear feet and date from 1972-1991. Most of the records date from the gallery's opening in 1982 and later. The bulk of the collection consists of printed material and exhibition loan files that document the activities of the gallery and the East Village art scene. Loan and consignment files are found for numerous artists including Michael Bidlo, Buster Cleveland, Claudia DeMonte, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Stephen Lack, Ed McGowin, David Sandlin, Hope Sandrow, David Wojnarowicz, and Rhonda Zwillinger, among others. Also found are scattered business records.Extensive printed material includes newspaper and magazine clippings, exhibition catalogs, and artists' files. Exhibition loan files are found for artists, exhibitions, and art fairs. These files contain consignment and loan agreement forms, correspondence, exhibition announcements, newspaper and magazine clippings, negatives and slides of artwork and exhibition installations, and a handful of color photographs of artwork or exhibition locales. Scattered business records include correspondence, returned consignment forms from 1982-1987, donation records and materials related to art auctions, artist commissions, various lists, materials related to the Gracie Mansion Museum Store, notes, and a variety of other documents related to gallery operations.

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Mansion, Gracie.

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Lack, Stephen

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Lack, Stephen

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Bidlo, Mike

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B. 1953. From the description of Mike Bidlo artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228433043 ...

Sandrow, Hope, 1951-

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Mansion, Gracie

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Greenblat, Rodney Alan, 1960-

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McGowin, Ed, 1938-

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Painter and sculptor; New York City. McGowin was born in 1938 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and grew up in Mississippi and Alabama, receiving the M.A. from the University of Alabama. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Baltimore Museum; and the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, France. Since 1979, McGowin has executed major outdoor commissions for numerous public and private organizations, often collaborating with his...

Cleveland, Buster, -1998

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Buster Cleveland (1943-1998), born James Trenholm in Chicago in 1943, had studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the San Francisco Art Institute after serving in the Coast Guard. He'd become Buster Cleveland by the time he'd arrived in Northern California in the 1970's, where he settled during the first half of that decade, and became involved with the Mendocino Area Dadaists (M.A.D) and the Bay Area Dadaists (B.A.D.), California organizations of artists whose intent was to recreate the epheme...

Zwillinger, Rhonda

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DeMonte, Claudia, 1947-

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Claudia DeMonte, 1947-, painter, mixed-media artist and instructor of College Park, Md. and New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Claudia DeMonte, 1991 Feb. 13- Apr. 24 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646399423 Painter, mixed-media artist, instructor; College Park, Md. and New York, N.Y. From the description of Claudia DeMonte interview, 1991 Feb. 13 - Apr. 24 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 8278013...

Gracie Mansion Gallery

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Art gallery; East Village, N.Y. Established 1982. Closed 1991. Operated by painter and dealer Gracie Mansion, also known as Joanne Mayhew Young. Gracie Mansion Gallery was one of the best known in the East Village during the art boom of the early 1980s. The gallery specialized in large group exhibitions and theme shows, as well as small affordable art. Initially located in Mansion's apartment, the gallery moved to 15 St. Mark's Place, then to 337 E. 10th St., and in 1987...

Wojnarowicz, David

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David Wojnarowicz (born 1954 in Red Bank, N.J.; died 1992 in New York) was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s. This was his first book. From the description of Sounds in the distance : thirty-five monologues from the road, 1978 / David Wojnarowicz. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 703905008 David Wojnarowicz was a painter, writer, photographer, filmmaker, perf...