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Archives related to: Gertrude Kasle Gallery (Detroit, Mich.)
| title | Gertrude Kasle Gallery records, 1949-1999, bulk 1964-1983 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | REELS 5003-5005: The bulk of the records are artists' files with some additional correspondence from the firm of Kasle/Colby Art Consultants (1976- ). The files contain correspondence with the artists, price lists, printed material, and some photographs and art works. Artists include: Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Fritz Glarner, Brenda Goodman, Robert Goodnough, John Goodyear, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, James Harvey, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Gabriel Kohn, Ibram Lassaw, Alvin Loving, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jim Pallas, Ray Parker, Joseph Raffael, Ad Reinhardt, John Salt, Julius Schmidt, Doni Silver, Kenneth Snelson, Jack Tworkov, and Tatyana Grosman. The remainder of the collection includes correspondence with Sam Hunter, Tom Wolfe, a letter from John Cannaday, and Larry Calcagno; an incomplete run of exhibition catalogs and announcements spanning the Gallery's existence, 1960-1976; a clipping about Gertrude Kasle and the Gallery, 1966; and sound recordings, including one reel of interviews of Tatyana Grosman, Paul Jenkins and Lowell Nesbitt conducted by an unknown interviewer, and another reel containing a lecture by Jack Tworkov, ca. 1966, and an audio portion of a television documentary on Tworkov. ADDITION: Artists files on ca. 85 artists, among them Willem de Kooning, Edward Giobbi, Philip Guston, Ian Hornak, Richard Lippold, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Lowell Nesbitt, Robert Natkin, Larry Rivers, Charles Pollock, May Wilson, Robert Rauschenberg, Bernard Rosenthal, Babe Shapiro, William Schwedler, and Michael Todd; files on publishers, galleries, museums, and others; slides of paintings and sculpture; photographs and transparencies of artists including images of Lowell Nesbit by Jack Mitchell and Lilo Raymond, Larry Rivers by Hans Namuth, and Robert Motherwell by Renate Ponsold Motherwell; audio tapes including interviews of Tatyana Grosman and Lowell Nesbitt and a lecture delivered by Paul Jenkins at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1965. |
| extent | 2.0 linear ft. (on 3 microfilm reels) Addition: 6.0 linear ft. reels 5003-5005 |
| formats | Financial Records Photographs Works of Art Interview |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed addition requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. office. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.gertkasl.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/gertrude-kasle-gallery-records-5704 |
| acquisition information | Donated 1976 and 1982 by Gertrude Kasle. An addition of 6 ft. was transferred in 2002 from the Cincinnati Art Museum via librarian Mona Chapin. The Museum had received the records in 1995 from Kasle. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:28 |
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| title | Gertrude Kasle interview, 1975 July 24. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Gertrude Kasle conducted by Dennis Barrie for the Archives of American Art. Biographical and Historical Note: Art collector, consultant, and dealer; Detroit. Mich. |
| extent | 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in. (42 p. transcript) |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1959 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Ian Hornak papers, 1955-1991. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence, photographs, artwork, and printed material regarding Ian Hornak's career as a representational painter and his involvement with the art world. Correspondence is with friends, family, associates, and galleries including Lowell Nesbitt, Hanna Tillich, Gertrude Kasle, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, the Fischbach Gallery, and the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery. Photographs are of Hornak taken by Jack Mitchell and John Foote, and Hornak's friends and family, including Hanna Tillich and Virgil Thompson. Also included are slides of Hornak's works of art and photo studies for his artwork including studies for a pencil portrait of the Gertrude Kasle family. Artwork includes drawings and sketchbooks. Printed material consists of newspaper and magazine clippings featuring Hornak, exhibition announcements, and catalogs. |
| extent | 2.7 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Artwork Printed Materials Sketchbooks |
| access | Use requires an appointment. |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ian-hornak-papers-13650 |
| finding aid | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/searchimages/images.cfm/filter_type/Collection/filter_key/13650 |
| acquisition information | Donated 2007 by Ian Hornak via executor Eric Ian Spoutz. |
| updated | 04/24/2025 09:08:30 |
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