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Collection Citation:
Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries records, 1858-1969 (bulk 1919-1968). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the digitization of the microfilm of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Fragile original scrapbooks are closed to researchers.
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Collection Citation:
Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk 1892 to 1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Grant Program. Digitization of the scrapbooks was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. Correspondence, financial and shipping records, inventory records, and printed material were digitized with funding provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Walton Family Foundation.
The bulk of the correspondence (approximately 75 percent) is written to Frederic Newlin Price, W. Frank Purdy and Ferargil Galleries by artists, dealers, and museums and other art and educational institutions. Artist correspondence is well represented with a significant number of letters from, or relating to, artists represented by the gallery including Bartlett Arkell, Randall Davey, Hunt Diedrich, Ernest Lawson, Agnes Potter Lowrie, Barse Miller, Maxfield Parrish, John Pike, Paul Sample, Wells M. Sawyer, and many others. Some correspondence relating to Price's involvement with Swarthmore College can also be found here.
Found at the end of the incoming correspondence is a folder relating to an exhibition "The Circus Comes to Ferargil Galleries," and a folder of circa 19 letters regarding the authentication and disposition of Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne portrait of George Washington.
Outgoing correspondence consists primarily of copies of letters and memoranda written in response to the incoming material. The bulk of the outgoing correspondence ends in 1956 with one letter each from 1958 and 1963.
See Appendix for a partial list of correspondents in Series 1, noting illustrated letters.
Arrangement note:
Incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent; outgoing correspondence follows, and is arranged chronologically.
Appendix: Partial List of Correspondents in Series 1:
Addision Gallery of American Art
Addison, Walter
Aiken, Charles Avery
American Artists Group, Inc.
Anderson, Karl
Anderson, C. W.
Andrews, Charles Sperry (includes illustrated letter)
Arms, John Taylor
Art Institute of Chicago
Ashe, Edmund Marion
Ashton, Leonard C.
Bassett, Richard
Benton, Thomas Hart and Rita Piacenza Benton
Beresford, Virginia
Bok, Hannes (includes illustrated letters)
Bower, Alexander
Bragdon, Claude
Braun, Edith E.
Brewer, Floyd E.
Brooklyn Museum
Brooks, Alfred Mansfield
Bye, Arthur Edwin
Byerley, Blanche A.
Buell, Alice Standish
Buller, Audrey
Butterlin, Otto
Calder, Alexander Stirling
Campbell, Charles
Cantine, Jo
Carlsen, Emil
Carrigan, William
Cheney, Russell
Clark, Eliot
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts
Comito, Nicholas
Conner, John R.
Cortissoz, Royal
Crane, Bruce
Crowninshield, Frank
Curry, John Steuart
Daingerfield, Elliott
Davenport, Carson
Davey, Randall
Davies, Arthur B.
Julius Delbos
Diederich, Hunt (includes illustrated letters)
Dike, Phil
Dix, John A.
Dodd, Lamar
Dows, Olin
Dyson, Will
Edie, Stuart
Eilshemius, Louis M. (illustrated letter)
Epstein, Jacob
Faulkner, Barry
Folinsbee, John F.
Ford, Julia Ellsworth
Ford, Lauren
Freed, Ernest (includes illustrated letter)
Gantt, James B.
Gill, Sue May
Gramatky, Hardy
Hale, Philip L.
Hamlin, Genevieve
Hartley, Russell
Hartmann, Sadakihi
Haseltine, Herbert
Healy, Arthur K.D.
Heinz, Charles L.
Herpst, Martha
Hesketh, E.
Hills, Laura C.
Hoffman, Malvina
Hollingsworth, Jr., William
Holt, Jr., Henry
Hopkinson, Charles
Hoyt, Edith
Humphrey, Eleanor B.
Hurd, Peter
Jennewein, C. P.
Jones, Amy
Jones, Janet
Jones, J. Pope
Judson, Sylvia Shaw
Katz, A. Raymond
Kellog, Jean
Kent, Rockwell
Kingsbury, Alison Mason
Kreis, Henry (illustrated letter)
Ladd, Anna Coleman
La Montagne, Harry
Lathrop, William L.
Lawless, Carl
Lawson, Ernest
Lebduska, Lawrence
Lechay, James
Lee, Doris
Lever, Hayley
Lillie, John
Lober, Georg
Lowrie, Agnes Potter
Lucioni, Luigi
Macbeth Galleries
MacLeod, Alexander Samuel
Macouillard, Louis
Merritt, Jesse
Miller, Barse
Nichols, Henry Hobart
Oehlschlaeger, Frank J.
O'Malley, Power
Paradise, Phil
Parrish, Maxfield
Paxton, William M.
Pike, John (includes illustrated letters)
Prendergast, Charles E.
Price, M. Elizabeth
Puccinelli, Raymond
Reed, Alma M.
Rockwell, Norman
Sample, Paul
Savage, Eugene Francis
Sawyer, Wells. M.
Schaefer, Carl
Scudder, Janet
Shinn, Everett
Shonnard, Eugenie F.
Simmons, Will
Smith, André
Spencer, Robert and Margaret F. Spencer
Tarbell, Edmund C.
Tolegian, Manuel J.
Townsend, Harry (includes illustrated letter)
Ufer, Walter
van Soelen, Theodore
Whitaker, Frederic
Wiles, Irving
Wood, Grant
Woodruff, James W.
Yandell, Enid
Yeats, Jack Butler
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Ferargil Galleries records, 1900-1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Processing of the collection was funded by the Getty Grant Program; digitization of the collection was funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Processing of the collection was funded by the Getty Grant Program; digitization of the collection was funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
