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Archives related to: Ireland, Leroy, 1889-1970
| title | Leroy Ireland research material on George Inness, 1916-2007, bulk 1960-1971. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Art dealer Leroy Ireland's research material on George Inness measures 2.0 linear feet and dates from 1916 to 2007, with the bulk of the material dating from 1960 to 1971. The collection documents Ireland's research for his book, "The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne," through correspondence, research files, and photographs of artwork. Leroy Ireland's correspondence is with museums, galleries, private collectors, universities, and others regarding paintings by George Inness and works attributed to him. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1960 to 1969 during the period that Ireland was working on the catalogue raisonne. Scattered research files include a notebook, notes, and lists of works; photographs, letters, and documents regarding Inness which were received by Mrs. Ireland after Leroy Ireland's death; exhibition catalogs and other printed material. Also found are two copies of letters written by Inness. Photographs depict paintings by George Inness, paintings attributed to Inness but determined to be fakes, and paintings by other artists. Bio / His Notes: Leroy Ireland (1889-1970) was an art historian and painter in Philadelphia, Pa. Leroy Ireland is best know for his work on a catalogue raisonne of the works of George Inness. George Inness (1825-1894) was a landscape painter. Loc. of Assoc. Material: In 1975, additional Leroy Ireland research material regarding George Inness was lent by Chapellier Galleries in New York City (reels 992-996) who had acquired the material from Ireland's estate; included are an extensive photograph file of Inness paintings; correspondence; notes on and descriptions of paintings; sales records of Inness's works; ownership records of Inness paintings; information about questionable attributions; exhibition catalogs and miscellany. Twelve scrapbooks compiled by Ireland were lent by Archer Huntington Art Gallery of the University of Texas at Austin (reels 2824-2825), in 1983, and are currently located at the Fine Arts Library, University of Texas at Austin. These scrapbook contain circa 3,000 photographs of Inness paintings. Cite as: Leroy Ireland research material on George Inness, 1916-2007, bulk 1960-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Additional forms: Materials lent for microfilming on reels 992-996 are available at Archives of Americn Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Materials lent for microfilming on reels 2824-2825 available only at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and through interlibrary loan. |
| extent | 2 linear ft. |
| formats | Research Files Correspondence Photographs Notes Notebooks |
| access | Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/leroy-ireland-research-material-george-inness-9281 |
| record source | http://siris-archives.si.edu |
| finding aid | Finding aid available. |
| acquisition information | Two letters and photographs of artwork were donated in 1963-1964 by Ireland; the remainder of the papers were donated in 1993 by Mrs. Leory Ireland via executor Irene Chapellier Little, and in 2010 by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Penn. who received the collection from John Frisk, a friend of Ireland. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:06 |
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| title | Milch Gallery records, 1911-1980. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Alphabetical files, consisting mainly of correspondence, 1911-1962; sales records and stock inventories, 1911-1969; financial records, 1914-1969; printed matter; photographs; and miscellaneous items. Alphabetical files contain correspondence with clients, galleries, museums, and artists concerning arrangements for exhibitions, sales and consignments, advice to collectors, and routine business matters; also itemized invoices, receipts, catalogs of private collections, estate inventories, printed matter, ms. checklists and other items enclosed with correspondence. Sales records consist of order forms, receipts, and registers recording the date, name of buyer, and object or service purchased. Inventories are of paintings, prints, frames, and bronzes. Financial records (not microfilmed), include general ledgers, petty cash books, tax returns, and bills and receipts for goods and services excluding works of art purchased by E. & A. Milch, Inc.. Printed matter includes a scrapbook, 1912-1923, of clippings, catalogs, and invitations relating to exhibitions held at Milch Gallery and artists represented by them; Milch Gallery exhibition catalogs and checklists, 1917-1967, and undated, many priced or otherwise annotated; a complete run of MILCH GALLERY NOTES, an occasional publication, 1918-1928/29; clippings, 1921-1956, and undated; "sculpture files" consisting of clippings, photographs, and printed reproductions arranged by sculptor; reproductions of works of art and publicity for Milch Gallery exhibitions, 1947-1964, and undated. Miscellaneous printed matter (not produced by Milch Gallery) includes Catalogue of the Mary J. Morgan Collection, 1886, Catalogue of the Charles M. Kurtz Collection, 1910, and Artists Equity Association ball programs, 1950-1951; a scrapbook of clippings and photographs of the work of Walter Philipps; and a scrapbook containing biographical sketch and clippings about Thomas Moran, 1875-1937 (reel N730). Photographs include works of art, the Dodsworth Collection, L. Ricci album of photographs of antique furniture; views of Milch Gallery interior and exterior; portraits of Edward and Albert Milch, artists, and other individuals; group portraits of Ten American Artists, Associated Dealers in American Paintings, and dinners at Salmagundi Club and National Academy of Design. Miscellaneous items include legal documents, 1917-1970, package receipts, 1916-1968, and shipping receipts, 1955-1963. Among the artists represented in the alphabetical files are: Alice Acheson, Charles L. Adams, Wayman Adams, Charles A. Aiken, Grace Albee, Karl Anderson, Alexander Archipenko, Marianne Appel, John Taylor Arms, Mary Ascher, Faust Azzaretti, Peggy Bacon, Martin Baer, Hugo Ballin, Myron Barlow, Barmore, Charles Barr, Norman Barr, Lionel Barrymore, Gustave Baumann, Reynolds Beal, George Bellows, Frank Benson, George Biddle, Morris Blackburn, Ralph Blakelock, Arnold Blanch, Lucile Blanch, Oscar Bluemner, Ernest Blumenschein, Max Bohm, Aaron Bohrod, Louis Bosa, Hugh Breckenridge, Frederick Bridgman, George Elmer Browne, Edward Bruce, George deForest Brush, Claude Buck, Paul Burlin, George Burr, Howard Russell Butler, A. Stirling Calder, John Carroll, Samuel Chamberlain, Asa Cheffetz, Howard Chandler Christy, Alphaeus P. Cole, William G. Congdon, Bruce Crane, Charles C. Curran, Elliott Daingerfield, Randall Davey, Joseph De Camp, Adelaide De Groot, Adolph Dehn, Louis Paul Dessar, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, William Hunt Diederich, Phil Dike, Ruger Donoho, Guy Pene Du Bois, Charles Duncan, W. Herbert Dunton, Susan Eakins, Stephen M. Etnier, Jerry Farnsworth, Nicholai Fechin, Beatrice Fenton, James Fitzgerald, J. Montgomery Flagg, David Fredenthal, Daniel Chester French, Emil Fuchs, Sears Gallagher, Emil Ganso, Leon Gaspard, Lillian Genth, Xavier Gonzalez, Marion Greenwood, John Gregory, Wayland Gregory, George Grosz, Samuel Halpert, George O. (Pop) Hart, Sadakichi Hartman, Ernest Haskell, Childe Hassam, Norbert Heerman, Charles L. Heinz, E. Martin Hennings, Robert Henri, Charles Hopkinson, Leroy Ireland, Alice Judson, Max Kalish, A. Raymond Katz, Ethel Katz, Dong Kingman, Leon Kroll, Louis Kronberg, Lawrence Kupferman, Sidney Laufman, Ernest Lawson, R. Hayley Lever, Jonas Lie, Ossip Linde, Will H. Low, Luigi Lucioni, Dan Lutz, Emma Fordyce MacRae, Paul Manship, Gari Melchers, Willard Metcalf (Estate), William Meyerowitz, Ross Moffett, F. Luis Mora, Thomas Moran, Herman Dudley Murphy, J. Francis Murphy, Jerome Myers, Edith Nagler, Karl Oberteuffer, Leonard Ochtman, DeWitt Parshall, Ralph Pearson, Van Dearing Perrine, Hobson Pittman, Ogden M. Pleissner, Joseph Pollet, Nathaniel Pousette- Dart, Mabel Pugh, Edward W. Redfield, William Ritschel, Umberto Romano, Carl Rungius, Chauncey F. Ryder, Margery Ryerson, (cont.) Paul Sample, Wells Sawyer, W. Elmer Schofield, Will Shuster, David Shapiro, Joseph Henry Sharp, Millard Sheets, Eugene Speicher, Francis Speight, Maurice Sterne, Albert Sterner, Henry O. Tanner, Abbott H. Thayer, Paul Trebilcock, Dwight Tryon, John H. Twachtman, Walter Ufer, Dorothy Varian, Robert Vonnoh, Heinz Warneke, Franklin C. Watkins, Frederick J. Waugh, J. Alden Weir, John F. Weir, Henry C. White, Harry Wickey, Carleton Wiggins, Irving R. Wiles, Robert Strong Woodward, Stanley Woodward, Andrew Wyeth, Jacques Zucker, and many others. ADDITION (0.6 ft.): Business correspondence; photographs of the interior of Milch Galleries, June 1959; inventory of documents concerning the Armory Show, with related correspondence, found in the Bush-Holley House; and artists' files consisting of correspondence, clippings, photographs, sales records, and printed matter for: Ralph Blakelock, Aaron Bohrod, Mary Cassatt, Arthur B. Davies, Frank Duveneck, Walt Kuhn, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and John Twachtman. I. Alphabetical files (mainly correspondence); reels 4410-4435. II. Sales records and inventories; reels 4436-4454. III. Financial records; not microfilmed. IV. Printed matter; reels 4454-4457 and N730. V. Photographs; reels 4457-4458. VI. Miscellaneous; reels 4458-4465; with the exception of Series I., arrangement is chronological Co-Creator: Acheson, Alice Adams, Charles L., 19th cent Adams, Wayman, 1883-1959 Aiken, Charles Avery, 1872-1965 Albee, Grace Anderson, Karl, 1874-1956 Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964 Appel, Marianne, 1913- Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953 Ascher, Mary G. (Mary Goldman), b. 1900 Azzaretti, Faust Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987 Baer, Martin, 1895-1961 Ballin, Hugo, 1879-1956 Barlow, Myron, 1873-1937 Barmore, Charles Barr, Charles H. Barr, Norman, 1908- Barrymore, Lionel, 1878-1954 Baumann, Gustave, 1881-1971 Beal, Reynolds, 1866-1951 Bellows, George, 1882-1925 Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951 Biddle, George, 1885- Blackburn, Morris, 1902-1979 Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919 Blanch, Arnold, 1896-1968 Blanch, Lucile, 1895-1981 Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938 Blumenschein, Ernest Leonard, 1874-1960 Bohm, Max, 1868-1923 Bohrod, Aaron Bosa, Louis, 1905- Breckenridge, Hugh H. (Hugh Henry), 1870-1937 Bridgman, Frederick Arthur, 1847-1928 Browne, George Elmer, 1871-1946 Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943 Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941 Buck, Claude, 1890-1974 Burlin, Paul, 1886-1969 Burr, George Elbert, 1859-1939 Butler, Howard Russell, 1856-1934 Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945 Carroll, John, 1892-1959 Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-1975 Cheffetz, Asa, 1896-1965 Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952 Cole, Alphaeus Philemon, 1876-1988 Congdon, William, 1912- Crane, Bruce, 1857-1937 Curran, Charles C. (Charles Courtney), 1861-1942 Daingerfield, Elliott, 1859-1932 Davey, Randall, 1887-1964 DeCamp, Joseph, 1858-1923 De Groot, Adelaide Milton, b. 1876 Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968 Dessar, Louis Paul, 1867-1952 Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938 Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953 Dike, Phil, 1906-1990 Donoho, Gaines Ruger, 1857-1916 Du Bois, Guy Pène, 1884-1958 Duncan, Charles, b. 1892 Eakins, Susan Macdowell Etnier, Stephen, 1903-1984 Farnsworth, Jerry, 1895-1982 Fechin, Nikolai Ivanovich, 1881-1955 Fenton, Beatrice, 1887-1983 Fitzgerald, James, 1899-1971 Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960 Fredenthal, David, 1914-1958 French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 Fuchs, Emil, 1866-1929 Gallagher, Sears, 1869-1955 Ganso, Emil, 1895-1941 Gaspard, Leon, 1882-1964 Genth, Lillian Mathilde, 1876-1953 Gonzalez, Xavier, 1898-1993 Greenwood, Marion, 1909-1970 Gregory, John, 1879-1958 Gregory, Waylande, 1905-1971 Grosz, George, 1893-1959 Halpert, Samuel, 1884-1930 Hart, George Overbury, 1868-1933 Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944 Haskell, Ernest, 1876-1925 Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935 Heerman, Norbert Leo, b. 1891 Heinz, Charles, 1885-1955 Hennings, E. Martin, 1886-1956 Henri, Robert, 1865-1929 Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962 Ireland, Leroy, 1889-1970 Judson, Alice, d. 1948 Kalish, Max, 1891-1945 Katz, A. Raymond (Alexander Raymond), 1895-1974 Kingman, Dong, 1911- Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974 Kronberg, Louis, 1872-1965 Kupferman, Lawrence, 1909-1982 Laufman, Sidney, 1891- Lawson, Ernest, 1873-1939 Lever, Hayley, 1876-1958 Lie, Jonas, 1880-1940 Linde, Ossip L. Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932 Lucioni, Luigi, 1900- Lutz, Dan, 1906- MacRae, Emma Fordyce, 1887-1974 Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932 Metcalf, Willard Leroy, 1858-1925 Meyerowitz, William, 1887-1981 Milch, Albert, 1881-1951 Milch, Edward, 1865-1954 Moffett, Ross Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940 Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926 Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945 Murphy, John Francis, 1853-1921 Myers, Jerome, 1867-1940 Nagler, Edith, b. 1890 Oberteuffer, Karl, 1908- Ochtman, Leonard, 1854-1934 Parshall, DeWitt, 1864-1956 Pearson, Ralph M., 1883-1958 Perrine, Van Dearing, 1868 or 9-1955 Pittman, Hobson, 1900-1972 Pleissner, Ogden M. Pollet, Joseph, 1897-1979 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel, 1886-1965 Pugh, Mabel, b. 1891 Redfield, Edward Willis, 1869-1965 Ritschel, William, 1864-1949 Romano, Umberto, 1906- Rungius, Carl, 1869-1959 Ryder, Chauncey F., 1868-1949 Ryerson, Margery Sample, Paul, 1896-1974 Sawyer, Wells, 1863-1960 Schofield, Walter Elmer, 1867-1944 Shuster, Will Shapiro, David, 1916- Sharp, Joseph Henry, 1859-1953 Sheets, Millard, 1907- Speicher, Eugene E. (Eugene Edward), 1883-1962 Speight, Francis, 1896- Sterne, Maurice, 1878-1957 Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946 Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937 Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921 Trebilcock, Paul, 1902-1981 Tryon, Dwight William, 1849-1925 Twachtman, John Henry, 1853-1902 Ufer, Walter, 1876-1936 Varian, Dorothy, 1895-1987 Vonnoh, Robert William, 1858-1933 Warneke, Heinz (Heinrich), 1895-1983 Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972 Waugh, Frederick Judd, 1861-1940 Weir, John F. (John Ferguson), b. 1841 Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919 White, Henry Cooke, 1861-1952 Wickey, Harry Wiggins, Carleton, 1848-1932 Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948 Woodward, Robert Strong, 1885-1957 Woodward, Stanley Wingate, b. 1890 Wyeth, Andrew, 1917- Zucker, Jacques, 1900- Milch Galleries. E.& A. Milch, Inc |
| extent | 37.75 linear ft. (on 57 microfilm reels) Addition: 0.6 linear ft. reels N730 and 4410-4465 |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records Photographs Inventories Scrapbooks |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.milcgall.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/milch-gallery-records-8207 |
| finding aid | Electronic finding aid available at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/milcgall.htm |
| acquisition information | Donated 1986 by the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, who acquired them from Elliott Galleries of New York City. Elliott Galleries purchased the records from the estate of Harold Milch. With the exception of the scrapbook on Thomas Moran (reel N730), the small amount of material which had previously been lent for microfilming by the Milch Galleries (reels D285 and NM1-2), was incorporated and remicrofilmed with the records in 1991 (reels 4410-4465). In 1995, an additional 0.6 ft. of records were donated via Hirschl & Adler Galleries. |
| updated | 06/09/2023 15:39:52 |
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