Research material for exhibitions curated by Reynolds at the Grey Art Gallery, for articles, essays, and his graduate studies; and miscellaneous correspondence and subject files.
Files on exhibitions curated by Reynolds at the Grey Art Gallery, including Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Paintings (1979), John James Audubon and His Sons (1982), Samuel F.B. Morse and the Grand Style (1983), Giovannie Boldini and Society Portraiture (1984), and Walter Gay, 1856-1937 (1984), containing correspondence with owners of works of art, galleries, auction houses and museums; issues of the Grey Art Gallery Bulletin containing writings by Reynolds; files relating to published and unpublished writings, including Reynolds' master's thesis on A.D.O. Browere and other writings done as a graduate student at Brooklyn College, articles, essays, and other writings on Theodore Wores, Irving Wiles, Leopold Seyffert, John Singer Sargent, the architecture of the Brooklyn Museum, and other subjects.
Also included are writings by others; miscellaneous correspondence; printed material; photographs of works of art; and files regarding Reynolds' participation in New York State funded art projects, including New York: The State of Art (1977), Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts For Transit (1981-1985), and the New York State Council on the Arts' Museum Aid panel (1983-1986). Some of the Grey Art Gallery exhibition files contain related correspondence added by Reynolds after the exhibition.
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian; New York, N.Y. and Newark, N.J. Born 1949. Died 1990. Curator of painting and sculpture at the Newark Museum, N.J., 1983-1990; the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, 1977-1983, and curatorial assistant at the Brooklyn Museum, 1972-1977. Specialized in 19th and 20th century American painting. Wrote numerous articles on art.
Provenance:
Donated 1991 by the Gary Reynolds estate, via Paul Himmelstein, executor.
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Collection Citation:
Leo Castelli Gallery records, circa 1880-2000, bulk 1957-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the partial digitization of this collection was provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
Portraits in the time of AIDS / Rosalind Solomon ; preface, Thomas W. Sokolowski ; Looking in a mirror, Thomas W. Sokolowski ; artist's statement, Rosalind Solomon
Precious : an American cottage industry of the eighties : Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, March 19-May 4, 1985 / Thomas W. Sokolowski
Suspension of the law : René Santos : a retrospective / introduction by Thomas W. Sokolowski ; Of two minds, by David Deitcher ; Thoughts on René, moderator, Thomas W. Sokolowski, discussants, Brad Baker ... [et al.]
Against nature : Japanese art in the eighties : exhibition organized by Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, MIT List Visual Arts Center, the Japan Foundation / [edited by Eriko Osaka and Katy Kline ; translations by Haruo Ito and Tetsuo Kinoshita]
Viollet-le-Duc, architect, artist, master of historic preservation / by Françoise Bercé and Bruno Foucart ; with contributions by Jean-Jacques Aillagon ... [et al.]
Anyone in New York : an interactive artwork / by Simon Grennan & Christopher Sperandio ; essays by Thomas Sokolowski ... [et al.] ; meetings photographed by James Prince
