Chapellier Galleries collection of artists' papers
name: label: Creator
content: Chapellier Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Blum, Robert Frederick, 1857-1903
label: Names
content: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
label: Names
content: Henri, Robert, 1865-1929
label: Names
content: Kensett, John Frederick, 1816-1872
label: Names
content: Shinn, Everett, 1876-1953
label: Names
content: Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948
topic: label: Topic
content: Muralists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1968 by the Chapellier Galleries.
creator: label: Creator
content: Chapellier Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Galleries founded in 1916 in Brussels and London; in 1923 in New York City. Active as of 1983. Chapellier Galleries collected primarily important American paintings 1840-1940, and represented virtually all significant American painters of the period in their collections. The Chapellier Galleries sometimes acted as sole agents for the works in artists' estates; the Robert Henri estate, a notable example.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- England
label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Belgium
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 300 Items ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1816-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chapgall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel N68-101 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Some of the sketches from the Henri notebook are photocopies.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lender after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Scrapbook of Irving Wiles containing many original letters and sketches glued in place; sketchbook of Robert Henri with loose sketches and one notebook containing some original sketches, also photocopies of sketches already removed, names of pupils, dates and amounts paid; letters, many illustrated, to William Merritt Chase from Robert Blum; a sketchbook of John F. Kensett; a copy of a book, RIP VAN WINKLE, illustrated by Everett Shinn.