Grace Borgenicht Gallery Records
name: label: Creator
content: Grace Borgenicht Gallery
label: Names
content: Hokin Gallery
label: Names
content: Library of Congress
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content: Raab Gallery (London, England)
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content: Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
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content: Biederman, Charles Joseph, 1906-2004
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content: Bolotowsky, Ilya, 1907-1981
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content: Brandt, Grace Borgenicht, 1915-2001
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content: Burlin, Paul, 1886-1969
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content: Chirino, Martín, 1925-
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content: Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964
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content: De Rivera, José Ruiz, 1904-1985
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content: Grausman, Philip, 1935-
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content: Gussow, Roy, 1918-2011
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content: Kahn, Wolf, 1927-
topic: label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
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content: Abstract expressionism
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content: Modernism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Owner Grace Borgenicht Brandt originally lent material for microfilming in 1963. She donated additional papers in 1996.
creator: label: Creator
content: Grace Borgenicht Gallery
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content: Grace Borgenicht Gallery Records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The records of New York City Grace Borgenicht Gallery date from circa 1953 to 1996 and measure 18.2 linear feet. The records include administrative files, correspondence, financial and legal records, exhibition files, printed material, two scrapbooks, and photographic negatives of artwork. The majority of the collection consists of artists' files.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Grace Borgenicht Brandt (1915-2001) was an art dealer and artist who worked primarily in New York City. Born into an affluent Jewish family, she attended the short-lived New College for the Education of Teachers at Columbia University. Encouraged by the program to study abroad, she travelled to Paris, where she studied under the Cubist painter André Lhote. When she returned to Manhattan, she studied printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 and earned an M.A. in art education from Columbia. She began painting professionally after graduating, exhibiting her art at galleries in the city before deciding to open her own. 

In May 1951, Brandt founded the Grace Borgenicht Gallery on 57th Street in New York City with an inaugural exhibition of works by Jimmy Ernst. At the time, the gallery was one of a handful that represented contemporary American artists.  Jimmy Ernst, Milton Avery, Ilya Bolotowsky, Edward Corbett, Jose de Rivera, Roy Gussow, Wolf Kahn, and Gabor Peterdi were among the artists represented by the gallery. Brandt also organized individual exhibitions for artists such as Avery, Kahn, Paul Burlin, and Stuart Davis. Although Brandt's main focus was living American artists, the gallery also held several exhibitions featuring artists from Canada, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Mexico. 

The Grace Borgenicht Gallery closed in 1995.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1953-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gracborg
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 8 series.

Series 1: Administrative Records, 1970-1995 (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1950s-1995 (2 linear feet; Boxes 1-3)

Series 3: Exhibition Files, circa 1970-1996 (1.3 linear feet; Boxes 3-4)

Series 4: Artists Files, circa 1950s-1995 (11.2 linear feet; Boxes 4-13, 16-22)

Series 5: Financial and Legal Records, 1953-1995 (1.4 linear feet; Boxes 13-15)

Series 6: Printed Material, circa 1950s-1995 (0.8 linear feet; Box 15)

Series 7: Scrapbooks, circa 1950s-circa 1980s (0.3 linear feet; Box 23)

Series 8: Photographic Materials, circa 1950s-circa 1980s (0.8 linear feet; Boxes 24-25)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed to a minimal level and a finding aid prepared by Sarah Mundy in 2015, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The Archives of American Art has implemented minimal processing tactics when possible to increase information about and access to more of our collections. 

Minimal processing included arrangement to the series, subseries, and folder levels. Generally, items within folders were simply verified with folder titles, but not arranged further. Folders within boxes may not be numbered. The collections was rehoused in archival containers and folders, but not all staples and clips were removed.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records of New York City Grace Borgenicht Gallery date from circa 1953 to 1996 and measure 18.2 linear feet. The records include administrative files, correspondence, financial and legal records, exhibition files, printed material, two scrapbooks, and photographic negatives of artwork. The majority of the collection consists of artists' files.

Administrative files focus on advertising, events, gallery renovation, artists' insurance, and writings about the gallery. Correspondence concerns galleries, artists, works of art, and gallery prints and includes correspondence with the Library of Congress, Hokin Gallery, and Raab Gallery in Berlin.  Exhibition files are found for exhibitions of Milton Avery, Paul Burlin, Stuart Davis, and Wolf Kahn, and several artists from Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and Canada, as well as for international art fairs.  Artists' files mainly contain correspondence with galleries and patrons regarding the artists and their work, and with artists. Files are found for Milton Avery, Charles Biederman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Martin Chirino, Stuart Davis, Jose De Rivera, Roy Gussow, Philip Grausman, and Wolf Kahn, among many others.   Financial and legal records include sales and operations ledgers, artists' contracts, and documents concerning arts organizations. Printed materials consist of exhibition announcements and catalogs. Two scrapbooks include clippings and other printed materials.  Also found are photographic negatives of artwork.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also found at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Grace Borgenicht Brandt conducted by Dorothy Seckler on January 10, 1963.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reel D112) including 72 letters from artists Leonard Baskin, Edward Corbett, Sidney Gordin, Wolf Kahn and Elbert Weinberg. They are addressed to gallery director Grace Borgenicht (Grace Borgenicht Brandt), and regard the artists' their work, travels, exhibition plans, and other activities. Also included is a photograph of Brandt and a resume. Loaned materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
label: Separated Materials
content: Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reel D112 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.