Frank Perls Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Frank Perls Gallery
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content: Frank Perls papers and Frank Perls Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1-2, 28; 1.1 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.perlfran, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The files are arranged alphabetically by subject.
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content: Frank Perls personal papers include scattered correspondence, photographs, writings, and legal and official records, including his military service records. Of particular interest are the records documenting Perls' application for exemption from the curfew restrictions that applied to enemy aliens during World War II. Also found here are extensive files documenting the settlement of his estate and liquidation of the gallery's inventory. Perls was a prolific writer and his short stories about his interactions with Pablo Picasso and his work to uncover fraud, fakes, and corruption in the art world are particularly interesting. His essay, "The Last Time I Saw Pablo", and others were published in art journals. Perls papers include many photographs of Picasso, as well as two original photographs of Perls by Man Ray taken in 1941 on the occasion of Man Ray's exhibition at the Frank Perls Gallery.