The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
Catalogs of work for sale by dealer Helen L. Card, New York, 1962-1964. Included are: "Gentlemen What'll You Have?"; "Hang on Fellers! We're out on a Limb."; and "To the True American Spirit."
Citation:
Helen L. Card gallery exhibition catalogs, 1962-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reel D177, fr. 322-507 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Loan:
Loan
Biography Note:
Helen Luise Card (ca. 1903-1971) was a dealer and writer who worked mainly in New York City. In her early twenties, while attending university in New Hampshire, Card hitchhiked alone from the East Coast to California and back. In 1931, she published an account of her travels in a book titled Born in Captivity: The Story of a Girl's Escape, under the pseudonym Barbara Starke. In her adult life, she partnered with E. Walter Latendorf, owner of the Mannados Bookshop, later called the Latendorf Bookshop (est. 1940, closed 1964). Latendorf was one of the first New York City dealers to carry illustration art. Card eventually became Latendorf's successor, taking over the book shop. She wrote articles and catalogs on the works of Frederic Remington and other artists of the American West and maintained extensive biographical files on American illustrators. Remington, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schnoover, and Tom Ryan were among the artists with works handled by Card's dealer business. The book N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations & Murals (1972) is dedicated to Card and Latendorf, with author Douglas Allen describing the pair as having "devoted themselves to the advancement of American illustration as a great art."
Language Note:
Undetermined .
Provenance:
Donated 1995 by Seth Mattaingly, the Detroit News, Detroit, Mich.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
