Title
East and West
Gallery, San Francisco
Record
Leonid and
Ethel Gechtoff papers 1918-1958
Partially microfilmed. Reel 2346
Description
Leonid
Gechtoff (1883-1941) was a Russian émigré to the US in 1922. After his death his
wife, Ethel Gechtoff, set up the East and West Gallery in San Francisco. The
archive includes gallery records of the East and West Gallery, Ethel Gechtoff's
personal papers, photographs of Leonid Gechtoff's landscape paintings, and a
scrapbook (c. 1918-1929).
Location of
Record
Archives of American Art
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Institution
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Source
Smithsonian
Institution Research Information System
<http://www.siris.si.edu/>, accessed 3
January 2003.
N.H. Yeide, K. Akinsha, A.L. Walsh (eds.), AAM Guide to Provenance
Research, Washington 2001, p. 225.