Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Challis Galleries (Laguna Beach, Calif.)
| title | Challis Galleries records, 1946-1981. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Mainly artists' files and sales records. Files may contain correspondence, exhibition announcements, sales receipts, photographs, price lists, articles. Among the artists represented are Ben Abril, Bennett Bradbury, Sergie Bongart, Rex Brandt, Gerald F. Brommer, Mark Coomer, Virginia Dan, Italo D'Andrea, Paul di Bert, Gilbert E. DiCicco, Phil Dike, Paul Farron, Sir WIlliam Russel Flint, Leon Franks, Frank Hamilton, Paul Blaine Henri, Leonard Kaplan, Roger Kuntz, Ken Knutson, Charles McGrath, Eliot O'Hara, Erika Oller, Polia Pillin, and Burt Proctor, Paul M. Souza, and many others. Also found is a file on Adele Bednarz Galleries, which Richard Challis ran for two years, containing information on artists it represented. |
| extent | 2.0 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records Photographs |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/challis-galleries-records-6521 |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1994 by Richard Challis. Additions of business records and artists' files are expected. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:44 |
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| title | John Quinn ledgers, 1909-1924. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Ledgers detailing the art purchases of John Quinn. Entries include the Association of American Painters and Sculptors listing purchases from the Armory Show, February to June 1913, of works by Cezanne, Renoir, Raymond Villon-Duchamp, Andre Derain, Jules Pascin, Odilon Redon, Walt Kuhn, Jacques Villon and others. Also entered are purchases from Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession Gallery for paintings by Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Severini and Stanton Macdonald-Wright. Purchases from art dealers include M. Knoedler & Co. (for works by Morton Schamberg), Montross Gallery (for works by Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Pendergast, Walt Kuhn, Charles Sheeler, Max Weber), William Macbeth Gallery, Durand Ruel & Sons, and Ambroise Vollard. Other entries of note include those for Jacob Epstein, one for Tiffany Studios detailing extensive refurbishing and refinishing of numerous items of furniture, and one for the Penguin Club enumerating the cost incurred for the installation of the VORTICIST EXHIBITION. |
| extent | 2 v. (ca. 390 p. on 1 microfilm reel) |
| formats | Microfilm |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | None |
| acquisition information | Lent for microfilming 1986 by Thomas F. Conroy, Quinn's nephew by marriage. Mr. Conroy intends to donate these papers to the New York Public Library where the John Quinn Memorial Collection is housed. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:52 |
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