Leonid and Ethel Gechtoff papers
name: label: Creator
content: Gechtoff, Leonid, 1883-1941
label: Creator
content: Gechtoff, Ethel
label: Names
content: East & West Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Soviet Union
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania
label: Occupation
content: Gallery directors -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Expatriate painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers -- California -- San Francisco
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The donor, Sonia Gechtoff, is the daughter of Leonid and Ethel Gechtoff, and also a painter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gechtoff, Leonid, 1883-1941
label: Creator
content: Gechtoff, Ethel
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Leonid Gechtoff was a Russian landscape painter who emigrated to this country in 1922; settling in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1923, where he remained until his death in 1941. His wife Ethel Gechtoff ran a Gallery in San Francisco 1956-1958.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: .2 Items (linear ft. (on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1918-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gechleon
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2346 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters recieved, including several from J. Edgar Hoover concerning a painting by Leonid Gechtoff, 1935-1938; two autographed photographs of Hoover; photographs of Leonid Gechtoff and his work; a scrapbook, ca. 1918-1929, containing letters, photographs, exhibition catalogs, clippings and printed miscellany; naturalization papers for Ethel Gechtoff; and material concerning her East & West Gallery in San Francisco, 1956-1958, including leases, exhibition announcements, clippings, and a price list for works of art.