Sandra Berler Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: Sandra Berler Gallery
label: Creator
content: Berler, Sandra, 1937-
topic: label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Sandra Berler in 2017.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sandra Berler Gallery
label: Creator
content: Berler, Sandra, 1937-
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content: Sandra Berler Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Sandra Berler Gallery records measure 5.5 linear feet and date from the 1970s to 2013. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operations through administrative records, artist files, exhibition files, and photographs.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Sandra Berler Gallery was founded in 1975 by private art dealer Sandra Berler. It was located in Berler's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Berler specialized in twentieth-century photography, exhibiting contemporary and vintage U.S. photographers, including Helen Levitt, Jerome Liebling, Margaretta Mitchell, Nickolas Muray, and Bruce Davidson (Berler's brother-in-law). Berler also exhibited and sold international work by Mexican photographers Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Flor Garduno, Graciela Iturbide, Austrian photographer Inge Morath, and French photographer Jacques Henri-Lartigue. 

Sandra Haas Berler (born 1937) worked as a dealer, photography critic, exhibition curator, researcher, writer, and lecturer. She was an active member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, Inc. and the Washington Print Club.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Washington (D.C.)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970s-2013
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sandberl
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as three series.

Series 1: Administrative Records, 1970s-2011 (Box 1-2; 1.1 linear feet)

Series 2: Artist Files, 1974-2013 (Box 2-5, OV 7; 3.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Exhibition Files, 1970s-2002 (Box 5-6; 0.6 linear feet)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid written by Christopher DeMairo in 2021.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Sandra Berler Gallery records measure 5.5 linear feet and date from the 1970s to 2013. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operations through administrative records, artist files, and exhibition files. Administrative records advertising and publicity files, invoices, receipts, consignment records, papers from Sandra Berler's involvement in the Association of International Photography Dealers, and some newspaper clippings. Artist files consist of correspondence related to the artist's work, biographical summaries, writings, price lists, photographs, negatives, slides, and more. Exhibition files include price lists, catalogs, announcements, loan documents, and some photographs.