Kootz, Samuel Melvin, 1898-1982
type Dealer/Gallery
dates 1898-1982
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesPortsmouth, VA;
sex M
history 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,
decades1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
updated 03/22/2024 12:09:29
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Oral history interview with Samuel M. Kootz, 1960 Mar. 2.
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Archives of American Art
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Oral history interview with Samuel M. Kootz, 1964 Apr. 13. see details...
Archives of American Art
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Nathan Halper interviews, 1980 July 8-Aug. 14.
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Archives of American Art
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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
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Nathan Halper correspondence and gallery records, 1952-1979. see details...
Archives of American Art
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Ludwig Sander papers, 1910-1975. see details...
Archives of American Art
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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
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William S. Lieberman Papers, 1948-1984 see details...
The Museum of Modern Art
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Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers, 1927-1984 see details...
The Museum of Modern Art
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Richard Brown Baker Diaries see details...
Archives of American Art
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Kootz Gallery records, 1923-1966 see details...

see alsoKootz Gallery
Halper, Nathan
Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994