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Collection Creator:
Roberts, Colette, 1910-  Search this
Extent:
(Box 2-3, 11; 0.7 linear feet)
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1952-1970
Scope and Contents note:
This series contains records related to Roberts' work as the Gallery Director of the Grand Central Moderns Gallery, which represented and exhibited contemporary artists in New York City 1952 and 1968, when the gallery was closed. Records in this series include reference files such as curricula vitae, biographies, and résumés of artists and a card file for artworks noting loan, sale, price, exhibition, and sometimes creation date and dimensions of artworks. This series also contains exhibition catalogs and announcements, published exhibition listings, and press releases for Grand Central Moderns Exhibitions. Exhibition checklists are mainly annotated typescript lists of artworks for a few of the exhibitions of 1967 and 1968. Other business records in this series include loan agreements for both French and American artists involved in the 1953 exhibition exchange held by Grand Central Moderns Gallery and Galerie Jeanne Bucher in Paris. Also found are receipts for loans, membership lists, price quotes, and sales records. An open letter of support for the Gallery, written when it closed and signed by ten artists, is also found. Announcements, catalogs, and press releases for exhibitions at other galleries are found in Series 5: Printed Materials. For correspondence with artists and Grand Central Galleries Manager Erwin Barrie, see Series 1: Correspondence. See Series 4: Personal Records for records from Roberts' work with A.M. Sachs Gallery and the Argent Gallery of the National Association of Women Artists.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Colette Roberts papers and interviews with artists, circa 1930-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.robecoli, Series 4
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Colette Roberts Papers and Interviews with Artists
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f15d0301-00bf-4598-b9d7-130a576dd972
EDAN-URL:
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