The Spanierman Gallery records measure 196.7 linear feet and date from circa 1961-2014. Included are administrative records, collector and institution files, artist files, artwork documentation, and exhibition files. Administrative Records consist of advertising files, financial records, correspondence, mailers, printed material, sales records, and publication files. Collector and Institution files include correspondence with private collectors, museums, and other galleries, sales records, consignment records, photographic materials, and price lists. Artist Files contain contracts, sales records, scant photographic materials, correspondence with collectors and institutions, inventories of artwork, mailing lists, customer inquiries, provenance forms, and notes. Artwork Documentation consist of mostly photographic documentation (transparencies, negatives, photographs—some of which are in poor condition), some reference material, and scant correspondence. Exhibition files include exhibition catalogs, announcements, price lists, sales records, consignment records, agreements, and a small amount of born digital material.
Biographical / Historical:
Spanierman Gallery (1961-2014) was a prominent New York gallery dealing primarily in American Art.
Provenance:
Donated in 2023 by Gerald and Kathleen Peters, who acquired the collection in 2014 as part of a merger between Gerald Peters Gallery and Gavin Spanierman, Ltd. Gavin Spanierman is the son of the late Ira Spanierman (1928-2019), founder and owner of Spanierman Gallery.
Restrictions:
This collection is temporarily closed to researchers due to archival processing.
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Rights:
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Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Raymond J. Horowitz, 2004 Oct. 20-Nov. 5. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews Search this
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Ira Spanierman, 2007 June 6-12. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
With eagle glance : American Indian photographic images, 1868 to 1931 : an exhibition of selected photographs from the collection of Warren Adelson and Ira Spanierman / introduction by N. Scott Momaday
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Collection Citation:
Leroy Ireland research material on George Inness, 1916-2007, bulk 1960-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Ira Spanierman is a gallery owner from New York, New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator from New York, New York.
General:
Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 21 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
An interview of Raymond Horowitz conducted 2004 Oct.20-Nov. 5, by Avis Berman, for the Archives of American Art, in New York, N.Y.
Horowitz speaks of his privileged childhood in New York; the effects of the Depression on his family's finances; attending Columbia University for Law and the anti-Semitism he faced there; his ingratiation into art appreciation through Meyer Shapiro; employment under then-New York City comptroller Joseph McGoldrick; the formation of his law practice; and his marriage to his wife, Margaret Goldenberg. Horowitz also mentions his involvement in left-wing political movements; how he managed relationships with different dealers; his experiences with misattributed artworks and forgeries, particularly his luck in avoiding them; the hobbies of himself and his wife; how he avoids relationships with the artists of his works; sharing information with other collectors; the economics of donating artworks and the subsequent tax breaks; the importance of credit in art purchasing; how he and Margaret conferred on purchases; their affinity for Chase; his habits on lending to exhibitions; the differences between the management of the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery; his summer homes in East Hampton and Provincetown; the problems with contemporary art scholarship; and the importance of dealers in affirming the interest in American art. Horowitz spends most of the interview reflecting upon others in the art world whom he has met. He recalls Ira Spanierman, Dan and Rita Fraad, Charles Merill Mount, Victor Spark, Abraham Adler, Nicolai Cikovsky, Phillipe de Montebello, Theodore Stebbins, Jack Levine, Daniel Terra, Joseph Hirshhorn, Norman Hirschl, John Canaday, Doris and Harry Rubin, Paul Mellon, Bill Gerdts, Paul Magriel, Bernard Meyers, and many others.
Biographical / Historical:
Interviewee Raymond Horowitz (1916-2005) was a collector from New York, N.Y. Avis Berman is an art historian from New York, N.Y.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Occupation:
Lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews Search this
