Kootz, Samuel Melvin, 1898-1982

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role

Dealer/Gallery

dates

1898-1982

city

New York City

state

NY

other cities

Portsmouth, VA;

sex

M

historical notes

Samuel Melvin Kootz was a lawyer and art dealer who owned and operated the Kootz Gallery in New York City.

Kootz exhibited and sold work by, among others, Romare Bearden, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Arshile Gorky, James Brooks, William Baziotes, Herbert Ferber, Hans Hofmann, Georges Braque, Tony Rosenthal, and David Hare.

Kootz was married to Jane Ogden Kootz,

decades
of activity

1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980

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03/22/2024 12:09:29

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with Samuel M. Kootz, 1960 Mar. 2.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with Samuel M. Kootz, 1964 Apr. 13.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Nathan Halper interviews, 1980 July 8-Aug. 14.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Morris Kantor papers, 1905-1977.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	David Hare interview, 1968 Jan. 17	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Nathan Halper correspondence and gallery records, 1952-1979.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Ludwig Sander papers, 1910-1975.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	James Brooks papers, 1928-1983.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	William and Ethel Baziotes papers, 1916-1992.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Norman Carton papers, 1949-1980.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Rosalind Bengelsdorf Browne papers, 1927-1978.	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	William S. Lieberman Papers, 1948-1984	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers, 1927-1984	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Richard Brown Baker Diaries	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Kootz Gallery records, 1923-1966	see details...