Artists' Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: Artists' Gallery (New York, N.Y)
label: Names
content: Albers, Josef
label: Names
content: Altoon, John, 1925-
label: Names
content: Baizerman, Eugenie, 1899-1949
label: Names
content: Baizerman, Saul, 1889-1957
label: Names
content: Barrer-Russell, Gertrude
label: Names
content: Beer-Monti, Friederike, 1891-1980
label: Names
content: Bowden, Harry, 1907-1965
label: Names
content: Chafetz, Sidney
label: Names
content: Feldman, Walter, 1925-2017
label: Names
content: Fromboluti, Sideo, 1921-
label: Names
content: Giobbi, Edward
label: Names
content: Golub, Leon, 1922-2004
label: Names
content: Grillo, John, 1917-
label: Names
content: Johnson, Lester, 1919-2010
label: Names
content: Kaldis, Aristodimos, 1899-1979
label: Names
content: Kruger, Louise, 1924-
label: Names
content: Leepa, Allen, 1919-2009
label: Names
content: Loberg, Robert Warren, 1927-1999
label: Names
content: Margo, Boris, 1902-1995
label: Names
content: Margules, De Hirsh, 1899-1965
label: Names
content: Meert, Joseph, 1905-1989
label: Names
content: Smithson, Robert
label: Names
content: Stix, Hugh
label: Names
content: Tofel, Jennings, 1891-1959
label: Names
content: Weissauer, Rudolf, 1924-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
label: Occupation
content: Gallery directors
label: Topic
content: Art -- United States -- Exhibitions
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
label: Topic
content: Women art patrons
label: Topic
content: Harlem Renaissance
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Artists' Gallery records were donated and lent for microfilming in several installments from 1967 to 1998.  Material on reels D313 and 79 were donated from 1967 to 1968 by Federica Beer-Monti; and she lent the Louis M. Eilshemius letters on reel N737 in 1968. The unmicrofilmed portion was donated in 1974 by Beer-Monti's niece, Greta Shapiro, who also lent the logbooks on reel 1042 for microfilming in 1976. In 1998, Shapiro's widower, Aaron, donated the material lent on reel 1042.
creator: label: Creator
content: Artists' Gallery (New York, N.Y)
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content: Artists' Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Artists' Gallery records measure 6.6 linear feet and date from 1929 to 1967. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operations through adminstrative records, artist files,  exhibition files, and printed material.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Artists' Gallery was established by Hugh Stix (1907-1992) in 1936 in New York City. The goal of this non-profit gallery was to provide unknown or little-known artists a space to exhibit their work to gain public notoriety or be taken up by a commercial gallery. The painters and sculptors exhibited by the Artists' Gallery were voted on and selected by a rotating committee. Exhibitions were given without charge to the artist, and artists received the entire sale price of their work if sold.

Stix hired Friederike (Federica) Maria Beer-Monti (1891-1980), an Austrian socialite who was friends and acquaintances with many European artists, as director of the Artists' Gallery. Beer-Monti managed the gallery's day-to-day operations and often developed close personal relationships with the artists she worked with. Beer-Monti is also known as the subject of full-length portraits by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. 

Some notable artists who exhibited at the Artists' Gallery include Josef Albers, Saul and Eugenie Baizerman, Byron Browne, Selma Burke, Louis Eilshemius, William H. Johnson, Ben-Zion, Aristodimos Kaldis, De Hirsh Margules, and Hans Boehler. The gallery discontinued operations in the summer of 1962.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries -- New York (State) -- New York
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.artigall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as four series.

Series 1: Administrative Records, 1936-1965 (Box 1-2, 7; 1.6 linear feet)

Series 2: Artist Files, 1929-1967, bulk 1936-1962 (Box 2-4, 7-8; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Exhibition Files, 1936-1962 (Box 4, 7, OV 9; 1.1 linear feet)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1931-1967 (Box 5-7; 2.1 linear feet)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Christopher DeMairo in 2021.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Portions of the collection are available on 35mm microfilm reels D313, 79, 1042, and N737 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Artists' Gallery records measure 6.6 linear feet and date from 1929 to 1967. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operations through adminstrative records, artist files,  exhibition files, and printed material.

Administrative records include correspondence, gallery daybooks, inventories, meeting minutes of the gallery's board of directors, and two essay drafts;  financial records consist of accounting books, sales records, receipts, invoices, payments, and a ledger; and museum and gallery files include papers and correspondence related to exhibitions, loans of artwork, and shipments of artwork. Several photographs of staff, artists, and the gallery interior are found here as well. 

Artist files include biographical information and correspondence between artists, Federica Beer-Monti, and Hugh Stix concerning exhibitions, artwork shipments, prices, and some personal matters. Some files also include photographs, exhibition catalogs and announcements, newspaper clippings, artist books, and price lists.

Exhibition files include price lists, correspondence, drafts of publicity material, visitor guestbooks, and lists of exhibitions and exhibiting artists. Printed material includes Artists' Gallery's brochures, flyers, and other mailings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, as well as gallery scrapbooks comprised of exhibition ephemera, newspaper clippings, and some photographs; an essay published by gallery founder Hugh Stix; exhibition material, newsletters, and miscellaneous publications from other museums and galleries; and books on artists Henri Gaudier and Beauford Delaney.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming on reel N737. Included are six letters, 1938-1939, from artist Louis M. Eilshemius to gallery director Federica Beer-Monti. Loaned materials were returned to the donor and are not described in the collection container inventory.