Weyhe Gallery records

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Weyhe Gallery records

1921-2014

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The records of New York gallery and bookstore Weyhe Gallery measure 15.3 linear feet and date from 1921 to 2014. The collection is comprised of administrative files that include material related to the daily functions of the gallery; correspondence with curators, dealers, museums, clients, and artists including Ansel Adams, Alexander Brook, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Hilla Rebay, and Marion Willard, among others, and from Lynton Kistler to Carl Zigrosser expressing his desire to exhibit his collection of hand-printed lithographs; artist files that include correspondence and business records; financial records consisting of loan and consignment records, sales invoices, ledgers, and other material that documents the movement of artwork through the gallery and bookstore; printed materials that include photocopies of sales catalogs, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and other material; and photocopies of 8 volumes of scrapbooks containing clippings relating to artists, prints, and the gallery.

15.3 Linear feet

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SNAC Resource ID: 6719268

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Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975

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Curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1941 to 1963; noted expert on print-making; founded in 1919 and directed the Weyhe Gallery in New York; contributed to and edited the Modern School Magazine in the second half of the 1910s. First wife: Florence King; child: Carola (born 1917). Second wife: Laura Canadè€ (married in 1946). Zigrosser died in 1975. From the description of Carl Zigrosser papers, circa 1891-1971. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record...

Weyhe, E.

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Weyhe Gallery

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Carl Zigrosser was the manager of the art gallery section of Erhard Weyhe's New York City book shop from 1918 to 1940. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1916-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155899805 Weyhe Gallery, established in 1919, was one of the first galleries in New York to specialize in prints. Carl Zigrosser (1891-1975) directed Weyhe Gallery from 1919 until 1940 when he left to become Curator of Prints ...

Kistler, Lynton R., 1897-1993

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Lynton Kistler did lithographic print in Los Angeles for artists, including KJean Charlot. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1939-1967. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155901801 Lithographic printer. Kistler began working in the plant of his father, Will A. Kistler, and developed many advances in the use of the offset press. The Kistler Studio of Lithography, Los Angeles, was established to help art...