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| title | Oral history interview with Eugene V. Thaw 2007 Oct. 1-2. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Eugene V. Thaw conducted October 1 and 2, 2007 by James McElhinney for the Archives of American Art's Art Dealers Association of America Project at Thaw's residence in New York. Thaw speaks of his childhood in New York City; Mexican art in his home including watercolors by Diego Rivera; beginning classes at the Art Student’s League of New York at age 14; attending St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland; attending Columbia University for graduate courses in art history and studying with Meyer Shapiro and Millard Meiss; an early interest in Old Master, Renaissance, and German Expressionist art; studying in Florence, Italy for four months after World War II; opening The New Bookstore and Gallery with friend Jack Landau above the Algonquin Hotel upon his return to New York City; giving Joan Mitchell and Conrad Marca-Relli their first shows; ending his partnership with Landau, closing the bookstore, and moving the gallery to Madison Avenue; becoming involved in the international art market; the practice of buying and selling works of art in shares with other dealers; showing American and European artists; renaming the gallery E.V. Thaw & Company; operating essentially as a one-man gallery with very limited staff; his relationship with museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art; his personal collections, including extensive ancient Eurasian artifacts and American Indian art; establishing the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; the philanthropic vision of his own foundation, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust; his retirement from dealing; the “hand of the artist” in historical context and its lack of significance in contemporary art; and advice for young and emerging art dealers. Thaw also recalls Richard Offner, Evelyn Sandberg-Vavala, Norbert Ketterer, Günther Franka, Pierre Matisse, Leo Castelli, Julius Held, Theodore Rousseau, Lee Krasner, Norton Simon, and others. |
| extent | Sound recording, master: 2 sound discs (2 hr., 25 min.) digital; 2 5/8 in., Transcript: 33 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Online Transcript Transcript |
| access | Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_274662 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-eugene-v-thaw-13687 |
| 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. Funding Note: Funding for this interview provided by Art Dealers Association of America. |
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| title | Library of Rudolf J. Heinemann. |
| repository | The Frick Collection and Frick Art Research Library |
| description | Library of Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1901-1975, given to the Frick Art Research Library in May of 1997 by the estate of Lore Heinemann, his wife and fellow collector. Consists of 1,927 titles (some multiple copies) and 218 periodical issues. Primarily monographs in the fields of art history and connoisseurship. Some presentation copies and some books annotated by the collector. Biographical/historical note Dr. Heinemann was an author, art collector, and international art dealer instrumental in developing the Thyssen Museum in Lugano, for whom he edited a catalog, published in 1969. He also arranged the loan of Italian art treasures to the Golden Gate international exhibition held in San Francisco in 1939. Dr. Heinemann, who died Feb. 7, 1975, also had a connection with the Frick Collection. He had a role in the Collection's acquisition of Claude Lorrain's "The Sermon on the Mount" and Piero della Francesca's 'St. Simon the Apostle(?)." His widow, Lore, continued to add to the library until her death in 1997. Arrangement Organized into 5 groups: Thyssen catalogs, other art-related titles, auction catalogs, periodicals, and fiction, literature and other non art-related subjects. |
| extent | 2,726 pieces. |
| access | These records are open for research under the conditions of The Frick Collection Archives access policy. Contact the Archives Department for further information at archives@frick.org. |
| record source | https://library.frick.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/1qqhid8/alma991002214489707141 |
| finding aid | Available online. |
| acquisition information | Heinemann gift |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:52 |
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| title | William Suhr papers, ca. 1846-2003, bulk 1928-1982 |
| repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The collection provides fairly comprehensive coverage of Suhr’s activities and achievements as a paintings conservator including documentation on the most notable paintings that Suhr treated. The restoration photographs of many paintings in American museums (especially in Cincinnati, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Toledo) and private collections are frequently annotated with restoration information, and Suhr’s original treatment notes are also integrated with these photographs. The photographs are followed by clippings files. The collection also contains business papers, including correspondence, account ledgers, goods received receipts, date books, and the log of his photographer, Mr. Gray, in New York; articles about Suhr, a sound recording of a biographical interview of Suhr, and a filmed interview with Suhr made for the Detroit Institure of Arts; personal papers including documentation about Suhr’s family, his efforts to formalize his immigration status and his activities during World War II; and documentation of Suhr’s own art work in the form of photographs, transparencies and exhibition notices. Biographical or Historical Notes: An American paintings conservator trained in Berlin, William Suhr was conservator for the Detroit Institute of Arts for seven years, and for the Frick Collection for over 40 years. |
| extent | 97.5 linear ft. (169 boxes) |
| formats | Photographs Correspondence Financial Records Ephemera Notes |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers, except for unreformatted audio visual materials. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa870697 |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21140933590001551 |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid; available in the repository; folder-level control. Preliminary inventory available in the repository; folder-level control. Online inventory, SUHR, available on the repository’s STAR system for item-level access to negatives. |
| acquisition information | Accession Number: 870697 |
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| title | Galerie Heinemann online |
| repository | Deutsches Kunstarchiv im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nurenberg |
| description | The database Galerie Heinemann online facilitates searches of the Munich art dealer Galerie Heinemann (1872-1939), with a focus on the period from 1890 to 1939. It makes information accessible on approximately 43,500 important paintings from all centuries as well as on about 13,000 persons and institutions associated with the acquisition or sale of these paintings. The basis of the database are the business records and the card indexes of the gallery, which are in the Deutsches Kunstarchiv in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, as well as the catalogs and photographs, which are stored in the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. The individual artwork represents the highest hierarchical level in the database. Linked with the information on the artwork are other data on artists, clients as well as purchases and sales. Along with the transcription of the most important contents, all scans of the underlying original documents are also available. The database facilitates a simple search access in a full-text search mode as well as a combined advanced search with selected search fields. |
| extent | See website for details |
| formats | Electronic Resource |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://heinemann.gnm.de/de/willkommen.html |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:52 |
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