Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Signa Gallery
| title | Signa Gallery records, 1957-1963. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Gallery correspondence; business records and printed material; writings; photographs; and recorded material. Correspondence between gallery managers Alfonso Ossorio, Elizabeth Parker, and John Little and other galleries, business associates, and artists, including Fritz Bultman, Philip Guston, and Jack Tworkov. Miscellaneous notes; a guest book and Gallery attendance records; an address book; artists' resumes; a certificate of incorporation; a lease; insurance records; income tax records; cancelled checks; a petty cash ledger; invoices for gallery expenses; paint sales records; a sales ledger and receipts; consignment records; subject files containing press releases, price lists, clippings, exhibition catalogues, and photographs of Signa Gallery exhibitions and lectures, including a 1959 Buckminster Fuller lecture; miscellaneous exhibition announcements, catalogues, and clippings; six photographs of Gallery openings; two photographs of paintings by Franz Kline; and two untranscribed tape recordings of a Gallery-sponsored "Critics' Panel," 1959. |
| extent | 1.6 linear ft. reels 3983-3984 |
| formats | Correspondence Notes Financial Records Exhibition Catalogs Photographs |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.signgall.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/signa-gallery-records-7397 |
| acquisition information | The donor, Alfonso A. Ossorio, was one of the initial founders and owners of the gallery. |
| updated | 05/11/2023 11:09:28 |
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