East Side Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: East Side Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 1976 by gallery founder and director Mark Freeman.
creator: label: Creator
content: East Side Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
setName: label: See more items in
content: East Side Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The East Side Gallery records measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1961 to 1970. The small collection sheds light on the gallery through correspondence, exhibition announcements, catalogs, and flyers, photographs, press releases, clippings, and two artist resumes.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The East Side Gallery was founded in New York City by Mark Freeman in 1961. Located on 37th Street, the gallery showed a variety of painters, sculptors, and graphic artists. Artists exhibited at the gallery include Jan Gary, Willam D. Gorman, Luis Lujan, Gail Paradise, Maria Szeni, Linda Cross, and the gallery founder himself, Mark Freeman. The gallery was open seven days a week until it closed in 1970.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.eastside
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Christopher DeMairo in 2022.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The East Side Gallery records measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1961 to 1970. The small collection sheds light on the gallery through corespondence mostly with artists, museums and galleries, and art publications; exhibition announcements, catalogs, and flyers from solo and group shows held at East Side Gallery; photographs of artwork by Maria Szeni, Lily Shuff, Linda Cross, and more, the East Side Gallery exterior, and one of artist Luis Lujan; newspaper and magazine clippings from exhibition advertisements and reviews; and artist resumes for Jan Gary and Willam D. Gorman. Also found in the collection are printed materials from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York State Council on the Arts, and an exhibition catalog for Mark Freeman's exhibition, Dimension Prints (1963), held at the Parrish Art Museum in New York.