Professional Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gorelick, Shirley, 1924-2000
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content: Shirley Gorelick papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Folders (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960-1996, 2016
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.goreshir, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series has been digitized in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Professional files include records related to Gorelick's many exhibitions with SOHO 20, her role as a founding member of Central Hall Gallery, and her involvement with The Sister Chapel installation. The SOHO 20 file includes prices lists and other documentation of Gorelick's exhibition history with the gallery. The Central Hall Gallery file includes two lists of Gorelick's work and records documenting the founding and intent of the artist cooperative, such as minutes of the first board of directors meeting and of two membership meetings in 1974 and 1973. The Sister Chapel file includes artist statements by two of the participating artists, Cynthia Mailman and Sharon Wybrants, correspondence and printed material related to the installation, and two photos of participating artists including Gorelick. Also found is the catalog for the 2016 "resurrection" of the installation at the Rowan University Art Gallery West, organized by Andrew Hottle. Gorelick's Frida Kahlo folder includes her artist statement about Kahlo, the draft of an essay, and articles about Kahlo.

Also found in this series are a 1996 appraisal of Gorelick's fine art inventory conducted by a professional appraiser, with an additional marked-up copy, other price lists for Gorelick's artwork, and an inventory sheet for Gorelick's painting Willy, Billy, Joe, and LeRoy (1973).