Correspondence with Museums, Galleries, and Art-Related Institutions Abroad
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Catherine Viviano Gallery
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content: Catherine Viviano Gallery records
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content: Catherine Viviano Gallery records / Series 2: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cathvivi, Subseries 2.3
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Files are arranged alphabetically by institution, and letters within the folder are in chronological order.
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content: This subseries contains letters between Catherine Viviano and museum directors, gallery owners, curators, publishers, and individuals affiliated with arts organizations in Europe, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico. Included in the correspondence are loan forms, shipping receipts, bank slips, invoices, auction orders, insurance claims, press releases, and printed material. Correspondence concerns sales and appraisals; exhibition itineraries; and requests for biographical information.

Among the artists frequently cited in the correspondence are: Afro Basaldella, Joseph Glasco, Peter Lanyon, Luciano Minguzzi, Bernard Perlin, Bernard Rosenthal, and Kay Sage. Correspondence with Galerie Gunter Franke and Max Beckmann Gesellschaft Archiv provides sales information and detailed exhibition histories for individual works of art by Beckmann.