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Archives related to: Halper, Nathan
| title | Nathan Halper correspondence and gallery records, 1952-1979. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Nathan Halper was an art dealer, gallery director; Provincetown, Massachusetts. Born 1907. Died 1983. Halper graduated from Columbia University in 1927, and was primarily a writer and James Joyce scholar. Beginning with a partnership with Samuel Kootz, he managed the Samuel Kootz Gallery in Provincetown from 1953-1954. With John Murray Cuddihy, Halper formed the H.C. Gallery (1956) and H.C.E. Gallery (1957-1967), the latter gallery's name being inspired by FINNEGAN'S WAKE. Halper managed the Sun Gallery for a couple of years to aid the younger artists who had started it. Correspondence, 1952-1966, and gallery records, 1952-1979, of the Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, H.C. Gallery, the Sun Gallery, and the H.C.E. Gallery, all in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Gallery records include notes, a poem, subject files on the galleries, printed material, legal material, financial records, and photographs. Correspondence includes letters from Milton Avery, Gandy Brodie, Anthony Caro, G. Alan Chidsey, Wolf Kahn, Samuel M. Kootz, Robert Motherwell, and David Smith, 1952-1966; an exhibition guest register, 1955-1956; an address book; a poem; 11 clippings, 1952-1976; 3 exhibition catalogs, 1962; subject files contain letters and financial material concerning the Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1953-1958, the Sun Gallery, 1961-1963, and the H.C.E. Gallery, 1964-1979. The subject file for the Kootz Gallery contains 2 letters from Hans Hofmann, 1956. Corporate and partnership agreements between Halper and Samuel Kootz, 1955, and between Halper and John Murray Cuddihy, 1955; insurance records, 1953-1970; expense records, 1959-1965; stock books containing price lists, sales and price lists, 1953-1970; 5 cash and sales notebooks, 1954-1967; an account book from the Kootz Gallery; 14 sales books, 1956-1967; checkbook registers, 1953-1968; bank statements and cancelled checks, 1955-1958; invoices and receipts, 1953-1970; photographs of installations and gallery openings with Halper, Henry Botkin, John Murray Cuddihy, Hans Hofmann, Karl Knaths, Samuel Kootz, Blanche Lazzell, and Wallace Putnam, 1955-1956; and 43 slides of works of art. |
| extent | 4.0 linear feet |
| formats | Financial Records Account Books Photographs |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington D.C. storage facility |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/nathan-halper-correspondence-and-gallery-records-9671 |
| record source | http://www.aaa.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated in 1979 by Nathan Halper, and in 1983-1984 by his wife Marjorie. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:46 |
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| title | Nathan Halper interview, 1963 July 17. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Nathan Halper conducted by Dorothy Seckler for the Archives of American Art. |
| extent | Sound recordings: 1 sound tape (45 min.) ; 5 in. Transcript: 21 p. |
| formats | Interview Electronic Resource |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:48 |
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| title | Helen Marjorie Windust Halper interview, 1994 Sept. 27. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Helen Marjorie Windust Halper conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art. Halper talks about her mother and father; childhood summers spent on the northwestern French coast where she got to know Max Bohm and his family; being in France during World War I; and time spent living in England. She discusses going to New York in 1920 with her brother and attending the Veltin School for Girls and the Dalton School; going to Provincetown in 1925 with her mother; and Charles Hawthorne and his teaching methods. She tells about studying color and abstraction with Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League; drawing classes with Thomas Hart Benton; and extreme poverty of Edwin Dickinson and other Provincetown artists. She recounts meeting Nathan Halper in the 1930s and their marriage following World War II, his becoming an art dealer; and the success of his H.C. and H.C.E. Gallery during the 1950s and 1960s. Halper recalls several Provincetown artists, among them Frederick Waugh, Philip Malicoat and Hans Hofmann. |
| extent | 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) : analog. |
| formats | Interview Electronic Resource |
| access | Untranscribed; use requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:48 |
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| title | Nathan Halper interviews, 1980 July 8-Aug. 14. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Interviews of Nathan Halper conducted by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art. Halper speaks of his family background and early interest in art; the beginning of his painting career; getting involved with the Beachcombers; the art scene in Provincetown in the 1930s and 1940s; his circle of artist friends; and Hans Hofmann's influence. Halper also speaks of his experiences with his own gallery, H.C. and H.C.E. Gallery. He recalls Edwin Dickinson, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Sam Kootz, and Robert Motherwell. |
| extent | Sound recording: 1 sound cassette and 1 sound tape reel ; Transcription: 125 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Interview Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:49 |
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