American Folk Art Gallery notebooks contain information about folk art handled by the Downtown Gallery and its American Folk Art Gallery, as well as general information on the subject.
Arrangement note:
The records are arranged by medium: oil paintings; watercolors; drawings; lithographs; fraktur; miscellaneous; paintings on velvet; embroideries; paintings on glass; tinsels; shaker furniture; and sculpture. Those media with extensive files are further subdivided by more specific media type or by subject. The series ends with subject files including notes and photographs of American folk art and other records which were possibly research material for a book.
Collection Restrictions:
The microfilm of this collection has been digitized and is available online via the Archives of American Art website.
Collection Rights:
The Downtown Gallery records are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws. Prior to publishing information regarding sales transactions, researchers are responsible for obtaining written permission from both artist and purchaser involved. If it cannot be established after a reasonable search whether an artist or purchaser is living, it can be assumed that the information may be published sixty years after the date of sale.
Collection Citation:
Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974, bulk 1926-1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing, microfilming and digitization of the microfilm of this collection was provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
