Business Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Catherine Viviano Gallery
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content: Catherine Viviano Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet (Boxes 10-11)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1949-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cathvivi, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Ledgers and a notebook of sales of artwork to individuals were disbound by the processor. The records are arranged in chronological order.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series documents Catherine Viviano's business transactions as a dealer and after the gallery closed, as a freelance art consultant. Files include ledgers, a notebook of sales and loose pages of sales, check registers, correspondence, notes, and scattered business and legal files.

Ledgers record cash receipts, cash disbursements, accounts receivable, accounts payable, Catherine Viviano's personal expenses, sales by artists, and a general journal. Also found are a notebook and loose ledger pages of sales and payments to artists, including a list of the artwork sold at the gallery's first exhibition. Generally, the titles of artwork are omitted in the sales records.

Included are Catherine Viviano's letters to the managing agent for the 42 East 57th Street building pertaining to the renewal of the lease and requests for routine repairs in the gallery. Miscellaneous business records contain shipping instructions and a receipt for delivery of artwork. Business records can also be found in artists' files, correspondence, and printed material.

Legal files include a suit for non-payment of art brought by Catherine Viviano against a client and an affidavit with respect to character for Peter C. Salerno for his admission to the State Bar of New York.