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Archives related to: Bareiss, Walter
| title | Archives pamphlet file: Bareiss, Walter : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | The folder may include clippings, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, brochures, announcements, reviews, invitations, obituaries and other ephemeral material relevant to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and its history. Location MoMA Manhattan Archives Pamphlet File Call Number Bareiss, Walter |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991004029499707141 |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:50 |
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| title | Bareiss, Walter. Oral History, 1991 | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | Interview conducted by Sharon Zane for The Museum of Modern Art Oral History Project. Bareiss discusses his life in Europe, his college years at Yale University, and his beginnings as a collector. He focuses on his participation in MoMA activities including his involvement as a member of the Museum’s Junior Council; his role in founding the Art Lending Service; his participation as a member of the Committee on the Museum Collections (1956), the Committee on Painting and Sculpture (1967-72), the Committee on Drawings (1972-89) and the Board of Trustees; the events surrounding the dismissal of Bates Lowry and the Museum’s search for a permanent director; the arrangement for a syndicate to acquire the Gertrude Stein Collection; and developments in the Painting and Sculpture Department in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Parts of the interview describe Alfred H. Barr, Jr., James Thrall Soby, Rene d’Harnoncourt, Dorothy C. Miller, William S. Paley, William C. Seitz, and Peter Selz. Location MoMA Museum Archives |
| extent | 1 transcript. (142 p.) 4 sound cassettes. |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Transcripts available to qualified users by appointment at The Museum of Modern Art Archives and Rockefeller Archive Center. Transcripts with interviewee’s notes are not available. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991009762269707141 |
| acquisition information | Gift of Walter Bareiss, 1992. |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:50 |
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| title | Otto and Ilse Gerson papers, 1933-1980. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Records relating to galleries owned and operated by the Gersons, including Fine Arts Associates, Gerson Gallery, and the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Among the correspondence with clients, museums, dealers and artists are a 1937 letter from Ernst L. Kirchner to dealer Curt Valentin, letters from Gerhard Marcks, a 1962 letter from Otto to Ilse about improving their life together, a letter detailing cash flow of the estate, and congratulatory letters to Ilse on her retirement from Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Also includes estimates and invoices for sales of art works, as well as files on Paul Cezanne, Fernand Leger, Jacques Lipchitz, David Smith, Joseph M. Turner, and Fritz Wotruba containing correspondence, financial and sales records and printed material. The Lipchitz file includes a 1942 letter from Lipschitz to Joseph Hirshhorn. Files on collectors Walter Bareiss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, Ralph F. Colin, Joseph Hirshhorn, Herbert Klotz, the Georg-Kolbe Museum, Alvin S. Lane, John A. MacAulay, May D. Morton, Joseph Pulitzer, and the Uris Brothers Foundation contain correspondence, purchase invoices, market value affidavits, photographs of works, and a list of collectors of Georges Braque bronzes. A file on the Dina Vierny Gallery (Paris) contains correspondence relating to sales of works by Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Leger, Aristide Maillol and others. Additional business records include certificates of authenticity for works by Georges Braque, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and others; purchase and sale records (1948-1963); a sales ledger; balance sheets; audit reports for Fine Arts Associates and Otto Gerson Gallery; merger agreement and related correspondence between Gerson Gallery and Marlborough Gallery; tax return for XYZ Liquidating Corporation; inventories; a stock book; stock lists; and stock cards recording the names of buyers, sellers, and prices. Photographs show the galleries, art works, and the Gersons. Other materials consist of exhibition catalogues, clippings and Ilse Gerson's will. Language Note: Letters from Marcks and Kirchner are in German. Correspondence in the Dina Vierny Gallery file is mainly in French. Co-Creator: Smith, David, 1906-1965 Bareiss, Walter Bradley, Harry Lynde, Mrs Colin, Ralph F., 1900-1985 Hirshhorn, Joseph H. Klotz, Herbert, 1917-1986 Lane, Alvin S. MacAulay, John A., b. 1895 May, Morton D., 1914- Pulitzer, Joseph, 1913- Gerson, Ilse, 1901-1980 |
| extent | 2.8 linear ft. reels 4049-4053 |
| formats | Business Records Photographs Financial Records Exhibition Catalogs |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Laurence Schmeckebier, who appraised Ilse Gerson's estate for Indian Head Bank North, suggested that the papers be given to the Archives of American Art. Some artists' files appear to be missing as only six files have been located. The bank's representative has no knowledge of the whereabouts of any additional material. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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