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Archives related to: Sonnabend, Ileana
| title | William L. Weiss interviews of artists and dealers, 1993-1995. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Interviews conducted by William Weiss for the American Art Archives (no affiliation with the Archives of American Art), with contemporary painters David Row, Andrew Spence, Jacqueline Humphries, and dealers John Weber and Ileana Sonnabend. |
| extent | 5 sound cassettes (90 min. each) : analog. |
| formats | Interview Sound Recording |
| access | Untranscribed; use requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. office. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated by William L. Weiss, 1993-1995, interviewer. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:53 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Leo Castelli, 1969 May 14 - 1973 June 8. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Interview of Leo Castelli conducted 1969 May 14 - 1973 June 8, by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art. Castelli speaks of his background; fleeing Europe, 1940-1941; his U.S. Army service; The Club; establishing his New York galleries; his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, and her success as an art dealer; galleries in the 1940s and 1950s; his staff; prints; commissioned works; exhibitions and sales of works by Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and others; collectors including Philip Cortelyou Johnson, Vera G. List, Peter Ludwig, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scull, and Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine. Castelli recalls Alfred H. Barr, Richard Bellamy, John Cage, René Drouin, Ivan C. Karp, and Alan Robert Solomon. |
| extent | Sound recordings: 3 sound tape reels ; 7 in. Sound recordings: 5 sound tape reels ; 5 in. Transcript: 266 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript Online Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Online Transcript |
| acquisition information | Part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:53 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Ivan C. Karp, 1969 Mar. 12. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Ivan C. Karp conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art at the Leo Castelli Gallery on 1969 March 12. Karp speaks of growing up in the boroughs of New York City, his reading and writing interests, commercial film making, his work for the Hansa Gallery and Martha Jackson, summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the art scene in New York City in the late 1950s. Karp discusses the invention of the names "O.K. Harris" and "Green Gallery"; his work for Leo Castelli including gallery exhibitions, expenses, collectors, critics and staff; the work of Richard Artschwager, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly, Gerry Vanderweil, Andy Warhol, and others; The Club; "soft art"; and the art market. He recalls Richard Bellamy, Ileana Sonnabend, Robert C. Scull and others. |
| extent | 1 sound tape reel (2 hours 30 min.) ; 7 in. Transcript: 123 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript Online Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-ivan-c-karp-11717#transcript |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Sound Recording and transcript available on the repository's web site. |
| acquisition information | Part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958. |
| updated | 01/09/2015 11:40:54 |
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| title | Galleria dell’Ariete records, 1955-1993. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The Galleria dell’Ariete records contain all of the surviving business papers of the gallery from its foundation by Beatrice Monti della Corte in 1955 to its closure, as a gallery, in 1979, plus papers connected with her continued activities under the Galleria’s name during the following few years. Also included are the business records of the Galleria’s offshoot, Ariete Grafica, from its opening in 1970 to the mid-1980s. These records comprise correspondence (letters received and copies of letters sent) with dealers, collectors, and artists in many countries; business records including accounts and stock cards, which give extensive information on the acquisition, sale and movement of works of art; and business diaries and minute books, the earliest of which include the articles of association and the statutes of the Galleria. The correspondence is arranged by region (Europe, the United States, and Asia) and then chronologically. Artists represented in the collection include: Appel, Arakawa, Cascella, Castellani, Dorazio, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, King, Merlotti, Saura, Sutherland, Takahashi, and Tapies, among others. These materials are supplemented by an extensive file of press clippings, which include notices about specific exhibitions at the Galleria, articles about artists, and some items of general interest about art and culture. There is a complete run of catalogs for the Galleria’s exhibitions from 1955-1979, with related ephemera, and a collection of pages of signatures from visitors’ books put out for some of the exhibitions. A comprehensive photographic archive documents works of art and exhibitions, and includes photographs of artists and other individuals, and of gallery activities. Photographers include Carlo Cisventi, Ugo Mulas, Hans Namuth, and Vicenzo Satta, among others. Additional Authors or Names: Appel, Karel, 1921-2006. Arakawa, Sh saku, 1936-. Castelli, Leo. Cisventi, Carlo. Francis, Sam, 1923-1994. Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-. King, Phillip, 1934-. Monti della Corte von Rezzori, Beatrice. Mulas, Ugo. Namuth, Hans. Parsons, Betty. Satta, Vincenzo, 1937-. Saura, Antonio, 1930-1998. Scordia, Antonio, 1918-. Sonnabend, Ileana. Sutherland, Graham Vivian, 1903-1980. Takahashi, Sh . Tàpies, Antoni, 1923- Betty Parsons Gallery. Kasmin Limited. Leo Castelli Gallery. |
| extent | ca. 40 linear ft. (77 boxes, 2 flat file folders) |
| formats | Clippings Correspondence Financial Records Notebooks Scrapbooks |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat525195 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| finding aid | Inventory available in the repository; folder-level control. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:53 |
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