Ault, Lee |
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role
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Collector Dealer/Gallery |
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dates
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1915-1996 |
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city
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Locust Valley |
| state | NY | | other cities | Cincinnati, OH; Concord, NH; Princeton, NJ; Darien, CT; Camden, ME; New York, NY; |
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sex
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historical notes
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Lee Addison Ault was a reporter (Newsweek), art collector, dealer (Lee Ault & Company, 1969–1978) and publisher (Vision Incorporator, Quadrangle Press, Art in America 1957–1969).
At Quadrangle Press Ault published illustrated monographs and books on or by artists such as, among others, Joan Miró (1893–1983), Alexander Calder (1898–1976), and Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991). Calder.
Ault’s gallery Lee Ault & Company located on Madison Avenue, exhibited works by such contemporary artists (Armando Morales, Elizabeth de Cuevas, Judith Rothschild and Bernard Langlais), West African and Pre-Columbian art.
Ault served as a director of the Skowhegan (Maine) School of Painting and Sculpture, a trustee of both the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art and of the American Federation of the Arts.
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decades
of activity | 1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
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Archives/Repository |
Collection Title |
Collection Details |
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978 (bulk 1913-1974) |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Perls Galleries records, 1935-1997. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Photographs of artwork, 1960-1969 |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Catherine Viviano Gallery records, 1930-1990, bulk 1949-1978 |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
World House Galleries records, [ca. 1953-1986]. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Oral history interview with Larry Aldrich, 1972 Apr. 25 - June 10. |
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Berg Collection of English and American Literature
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building |
635 Madison Ave., New York [City] to Muriel Rukeyser |
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