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titleCarlin Galleries records, 1942-1979.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionArtists' files and 12 scrapbooks.

REELS 1835-1837: Artists' files containing correspondence, sales statements, price lists, exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings, photos, and publicity material. Also included are 12 scrapbooks, 1959-1978, containing clippings, photos, guest lists, exhibition announcements, and invitations.

REEL 2057: A file on Peter Hurd, 1960-1967, containing correspondence between Electra Carlin and Hurd, and others; statements of Hurd's sales; consignment statements; and a receipt from Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.

extent4 microfilm reels. reels 1835-1837 & 2057
formatsScrapbooks Correspondence Financial Records Clippings Photographs
accessPatrons must use microfilm copy.
record linkn/a
record sourcehttps://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/carlin-galleries-records-10505
acquisition informationMicrofilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project. Lent for microfilming 1980 by Electra Carlin.
updated02/14/2025 10:07:27
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titleTerese Tarlton Hershey papers, 1956-1981.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionHershey founded Gallery of Wonderful Things, Fort Worth, Texas in 1956 and turned it over to Electra Carlin in 1958. Carlin moved the gallery and changed the name to Carlin Gallery. Hershey moved to Houston and organized four art shows at the Tall Timbers apartment complex owned by her husband.

Correspondence; files on 42 artists, containing clippings, photos, exhibition catalogs and letters; exhibition files for her gallery, Gallery of Wonderful Things, Fort Worth, Texas, and Tall Timbers, Houston, Texas; a scrapbook containing clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, photos, and letters about the Gallery of Wonderful Things; printed material and loan records for her private collections of ceramics, paintings and sculpture; photographs; and printed miscellany.
Artist files include David Adickes, Ludwig Bemelmans, James Blake, Bill Bomar, Cynthia Brants, David Brownlow, Max Butler, John Chumley, Charles Cobelle, Dorothy Crowley, Montague Dawson, Adolph Dehn, Joseph Domjan, Kelly Fearing, Robert Fowler, Frank Freed, An Furuta, Henry and Leila Gadbois, R.C. Gorman, George Grammer, John Guerin, Dorothy Hood, William A. Kolliker, Richard M. Lincoln, Anthony Martin, Blanche McVeigh, Marc Moldawer, Martha Mood, Charles Pebworth, Margaret Putnam, Dickson Reeder, Andrew Rush, Porfirio Salinas, E.M. (Buck) Schiwetz, Charles Schorre, Mary Ellen Shipnes, Agnes Sims, Emily Guthrie Smith, Trudy Sween, Charles Umlauf, Bror Utter, and Charles T. Williams.
extent1500 items (on 2 microfilm reels) rolls 2341-2342
formatsCorrespondence Clippings Photographs Exhibition Catalogs
accessPatrons must use microfilm copy.
record linkn/a
record sourcehttps://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/terese-tarlton-hershey-papers-7746
acquisition informationLent for microfilming 1981 by Terese Tarlton Hershey.
updated02/14/2025 10:07:28
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titleBill Bristow papers, 1954-1983.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionResume; of 6 letters from Electra Carlin of Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth, Tex., Leonard Baskin and others; copies of letters sent to Sharon King and Carolyn Wade; of Bristow's poems and writings, 1958-1981, "Conversation With a New York Painter," "Dedicated to Alexander Calder," "On Visiting Arlington Cemetery," "The Lincoln Memorial," "Remembered Spring," "Myself," and "Casting Light"; a poem, "Bristow," by David G. Buttrick, 1968;

25 newspaper clippings; 7 exhibition invitations, announcements, and catalogs, printed material about Bristow and Trinity University; 4 photographs of his paintings; and a sketchbook, July 1975, documenting a trip to New England and containing sketches of New York.

Bio / His Notes:
Painter, educator; San Antonio, Texas. Taught at Trinity University 1960- present.




extent59 items (on partial microfilm reel) reel 3100
formatsMicrofilm Correspondence Writings
accessPatrons must use microfilm copy.
record linkn/a
record sourcehttps://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/bill-bristow-papers-10053
acquisition informationDonated and lent 1983 by Bill Bristow. Microfilmed as part of AAA's Texas Arts Documentation Project. Reproduction: Many items are photocopies. Location of Original: Sketchbook: Original returned to Bill Bristow, after microfilming.
updated02/14/2025 10:07:48
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titleChet Harmon La More papers, 1933-1973.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionCorrespondence with Perls Galleries, the National Serigraph Society, Carlebach Gallery, Oscar Krasner Gallery, and the Carlin Gallery; correspondence with the WPA concerning the sale and showing of his work; 2 scrapbooks containing catalogs and brochures, lists of group shows, clippings and photos; a letter from Max Weber, who writes about his own lithographs and his intentions to give them to Frank Schapiro.

Bio / His Notes:
Painter, graphic artist, teacher; Born in Dane County, Wis. Studied at the Colt School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, and Columbia. He taught at the Albright Art School, Buffalo, N.Y., the University of Buffalo and the University of Michigan.
extent188 items (on partial microfilm reel). roll 819
formatsMicrofilm Correspondence Ephemera Clippings Photographs
accessPatrons must use microfilm copy.
record linkhttps://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.lamochet.pdf
record sourcehttps://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/chet-harmon-la-more-papers-7843
acquisition informationLent for microfilming 1974 by Chet Harmon La More. Location of Original: Originals returned to Chet Harmon La More after microfilming.
updated02/14/2025 10:07:48
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