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Archives related to: Lovisco, Neil, 1900-1981

titleNeil Lovisco papers, 1942-1989.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionNeil Lovisco Art dealer; Rockport and Gloucester, Mass. In the 1920s, Lovisco ran "The Catacombs," a combination art gallery-tea room in New York City's Greenwich Village. He later operated the Bearskin Neck Art Gallery, Rockport, Mass. (1946-1949), Art Center Gallery, New York, N.Y. (1950s), and the Lovisco Gallery, New York, N.Y. (1957-1973) and Gloucester, Mass. (1973-1979).

Papers relating to art galleries owned or directed by Niel Lovisco, including the Lovisco Gallery, the Bearskin Neck Gallery, and the Art Center Gallery in New York, including scattered records, correspondence, checklists, announcements, publicity releases and clippings, and a few snapshots, 1946-1978; a file on William and Theresa Bernstein Meyerowitz containing exhibition checklists, clippings, publicity information, 1942-1989, and a letter to Lovisco's wife Sophie from Theresa, 1983; clippings about Lovisco, 1981, 1987; and a carbon copy of the constitution of the organization Art Inview, undated.
extent0.2 linear ft.
formatsCorrespondence Clippings Photographs
accessUnmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility.
record linkhttps://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.loviniel.pdf
bibliographyhttps://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.loviniel.pdf
record sourcehttps://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/niel-lovisco-papers-9946
finding aidaccessible on the Archives of American Art's website.
acquisition informationDonated 1989 by Sophie Lovisco, widow of Niel Lovisco.
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