Title
American Art
Gallery
Record
American Art Gallery Records
(1853-1924)
Description
The Kurtz
Gallery, founded by R. E. Moore, was renamed the American Art Gallery. It dealt
in American paintings and Oriental porcelain. In 1883 J. F. Sutton took over the
gallery and formed a partnership with R. Austin Robertson and T. E. Kirby. Two
years later, as the American Art Association, the partners began to carry out
art auctions. It was sold in 1923 to Cortlandt Field Bishop and merged in 1929
with Anderson Auction Company.
The auction sales of 1910-1923 in Series I are documented by sales
correspondence, photographs, art inventories and price lists with buyers' names.
Clippings in Series III include articles about American Art Association auction
sales and staff.
The records include sales records for 1885-1921; a stock
book for the years 1887-1917 and ledgers from the Blakeslees Galleries, thought
to have been acquired in 1914.
Location of
Record
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian
Institution
Washington DC Research Center Suite 2200
750 9th St.
NW
Washington DC
Tel.: +1 202 275 2156 (General queries)
or: +1 202
275 1961 (Reference desk)
http://artarchives.si.edu/
Searchable
catalogue: http://www.siris.si.edu/
Postal Address:
Reference Services/ILL
Archives of American
Art
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Victor Building, Room 2200,
MRC 937
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Opening Hours:
Microfilm Reference Room: 9-5, Monday-Friday; no
appointment necessary, but researchers are advised to contact the archive in
advance.
Oral History Tapes and Transcripts: 9-5, Monday-Friday; by
appointment only.
Manuscript Reading Room - for use of original papers:
9:30-12 and 1-4:30,
Monday-Friday, by appointment only.
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. 215.