Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms
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| updated | 01/06/2020 17:49:04 |
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| title | American art auction catalog collection | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Auction catalogs from the holdings of various libraries and auction houses in the United States, borrowed for microfilming for AAA's Auction Catalog Project, 1961-1965. The majority of the catalogs are for auctions held in New York City and Philadelphia, although other locales are represented. Firms with significant numbers of catalogs include: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Associated Auctioneers, Bangs & Co., Barker, Benjamin S. Wise, Birch & Son, Bleecker & Van Dyke, C.F. Wetmore, C.G. Sloan & Co., Charles F. Libbie & Co., Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Clarke's Art Galleries, C.W. Brown, Daniel A. Mathews, Davis & Harvey, E. A. Haaseman Galleries, Elder Coin & Curio Company, Elliott, Blakeslee & Noyes, Field, Morris, Fenner & Co., Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Galton-Orsburn Co., George A. Leavitt & Co., Haseltine Galleries, Henry A. Hartman, Leeds, Miner, Hiram H. Parke, Duveen, Leonard & Co., Hudson's, James P. Silo, J.C. Morgenthau & Co., Kende Galleries, Knickerbocker, Kreiser Gallery, Levy & Spooner, Lewis J. Bird & Co., Lihou Art Gallery, Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, Metropolitian Art Association, Miller & Morris, Monarch, Moore's, M. Thomas & Sons, National Art Galleries, Ortgies & Co., O. Rundle Gilbert, Parke-Bernet, Philadelphia Art Galleries, Plaza Art Auction Galleries, Rains Galleries, Ritter Galleries, Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Savoy, Schenck's Art Gallery, Scott & O'Shaughnessy, Stan V. Henkels, Swann Auction Galleries, Thomas Kirby, Walpole Galleries, William B. Norman, William D. Morley, and Young's Art Gallery; many others were also microfilmed. |
| extent | ca. 30,000 items (on 559 microfilm reels) |
| formats | Auction catalogs |
| access | The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sova.si.edu/search/ark:/65665/mw9139e6f985a38415fb057770b53ee83f1 |
| finding aid | https://sova.si.edu/record/AAA.archaaac?s=0&n=10&t=K&q=*&i=0 |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:03 |
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| title | Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records, 1883-1962, bulk 1885-1962 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The records of the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art measure 265.8 linear feet and date from 1883-1962, with the bulk of the material dating from 1885-1940. The collection includes extensive correspondence between the museum's founding director, John Beatty, and his successor, Homer Saint-Gaudens, with artists, dealers, galleries, collectors, museum directors, representatives abroad, shipping and insurance agents, and museum trustees. The collection also includes Department of Fine Arts interoffice memoranda and reports; loan exhibition files; Carnegie International planning, jury, shipping, and sale records; Department of Fine Arts letterpress copy books, and a copy of the original card catalog index to these records. |
| extent | 265.8 Linear feet |
| finding aid | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/carnegie-institute-museum-art-records-7343 |
| acquisition information | The Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records were loaned for microfilming in 1966 and later donated to the Archives of American Art in 1972. A small addition of corrrespondence was donated in 2017 by Elizabeth Tufts Brown. |
| updated | 03/02/2023 11:28:49 |
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| title | Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries Records | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries records measure 21.8 linear feet and are dated 1858-1969 (bulk 1919-1968). The records consist mainly of business correspondence with collectors, artists, museums and arts organizations, colleagues, and others. A small amount of Frank K. M. Rehns personal correspondence and a few stray personal papers of individual artists are interfiled. Also included are financial records, scrapbooks, printed matter, miscellaneous records, and photographs documenting most of the history of a highly regarded New York City art gallery devoted to American painting. |
| extent | 21.8 Linear feet |
| access | The collection has been digitized and is available online via AAA's website. |
| record link | https://sova.si.edu/search/ark:/65665/mw9b5275f6de2b74f51a51553b316671902 |
| finding aid | https://sova.si.edu/record/AAA.franrehg?s=0&n=10&t=K&q=*&i=0 |
| acquisition information | The Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries records were loaned by John Clancy for microfilming in 1959; in 1966, this same material was donated to the Archives. Mr. Clancy made subsequent gifts of additional gallery records in 1978 and 1981. In 1985, the Whitney Museum of American Art donated to the Archives correspondence with Edward Hopper that John Clancy had loaned the museum many years earlier. A death mask of George Luks received with the collection is on extended loan to the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. |
| updated | 03/02/2023 11:30:26 |
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