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| title | Mayor Gallery Records | repository | Mayor Gallery |
| description | The Mayor Gallery, founded by Fred Mayor in 1925, is located on Bury Street, London, and specializes in modern and contemporary art. Under James Mayor's leadership in the 1970s, the gallery focused on contemporary American artists from movements such as Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Abstract Expressionism, featuring names like Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, and Andy Warhol. It has also promoted Minimal Art, Dada, and artists from the international Zero movement, including Heinz Mack and Otto Piene. Initially opening on Sackville Street, the gallery relocated to Cork Street in 1933, introducing major overseas artists like Alexander Calder and Paul Klee to England. The gallery maintains its own records. |
| formats | Business Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://www.mayorgallery.com/ |
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| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:27 |
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| title | Douglas Cooper papers, 1900-1985, bulk 1933-1985. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Douglas Cooper was curator of Mayor Gallery between 1933 and 1938. The collection embraces all papers relating to Cooper’s career as a critic, curator, and collector that remained with his estate at the time of his death. The correspondence reflects Cooper’s wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the art world, his work as an art expert, and his penchant for controversy. All of Cooper’s published books, catalogs, articles and reviews are represented. There is material documenting Cooper’s tenure at the Mayor Gallery and his investigation of Nazi art collections. Photographs, slides and transparencies comprise nearly one-third of the collection. There is comprehensive photograph documentation of the work of Gris and Braque, as of Cooper’s art collection and research. |
| extent | ca. 33 linear ft. |
| formats | Photographs Slides |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers, except the cassette tapes in box 71 that need reformatting. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa860161 |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21126998090001551 |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available in the repository and on the repository's Web site: folder level control. |
| acquisition information | Acquired from William McCarty-Cooper in 1986. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:27 |
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