Printed Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Dale, Chester, 1883-1962
setName: label: See more items in
content: Chester Dale papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.2 Linear Feet (Boxes 3-4, 8, OV 9)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-circa 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.daleches, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized. For some catalogs, only the covers, title pages, and relevant pages have been digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Catalogs are of exhibitions and of auction sales, many of which are annotated; check marks in some of the auction catalogs may indicate items bought by Dale. Several exhibition catalogs include essays and introductions by Maud Dale, including a 1929 essay on Modigliani and a 1929 essay on the Chester Dale collection, "Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection." 

Many of the Parrish Art Museum catalogs and announcements are for exhibitions arranged by Mary Dale in her capacity as exhibition chairman, as documented in the Parrish Art Museum correspondence in Series 2.

One 1953 folder of catalogs includes notations on "artists seen by Dale on his first visit to Spain that he found good." The series also includes bound catalogs of the Chester Dale collection in Washington, Chicago, and Philadelphia, one of which is inscribed to Mary Bullard.


New clippings consist of articles, primarily about Chester Dale, including obituaries from 1962. They include bound editions of Life Magazine articles about Dale, and a bound volume of Esquire featuring an article about Dale by Murdock Pemberton entitled "Ambassador to Art." Clippings also document people and subjects of interest to Dale.


Of note is a poster for the exhibition Douze Décors de Théâtre par Maud Dale, 1925, at Galerie J. Allard which can be seen in photographs of Dale's country residence in Series 7: Photographs.