Outlines Gallery scrapbooks
name: label: Creator
content: Outlines Gallery (1941-1947)
label: Creator
content: Rockwell, Betty, 1920-1998
topic: label: Topic
content: Modernism (Art)
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 2022 by Catherine Raphael, Betty Rockwell Raphael's daughter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Outlines Gallery (1941-1947)
label: Creator
content: Rockwell, Betty, 1920-1998
setName: label: See more items in
content: Outlines Gallery scrapbooks
abstract: label: Summary
content: Outlines Gallery scrapbooks measure 1.1 linear feet and date from 1941-1947. Included are two scrapbooks containing press clippings, exhibition announcements, and photographs documenting the activities of Outlines Gallery from its inception in 1941 to it closing in 1947.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Outlines Gallery (est. 1941, closed 1947) was a Modernist gallery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania founded by Betty Rockwell Raphael.

Elizabeth (Betty) Thayer Rockwell Raphael (1920-1998) was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and raised in Pittsburgh. While attending Sarah Lawrence College, she became fascinated with the budding world of modern art. She returned to Pittsburgh after graduation, where she founded Outlines at age 21. The gallery showed works by many innovative artists, including Joseph Cornell, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham, and designers Jens Risom, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen. The gallery's avant-garde approach was unappealing to Pittsburgh audiences preoccupied with the war effort, and closed after The gallery was not successful. After closing Outlines, Raphael remained involved in the local arts community. In 1971, she founded the Society for Contemporary Crafts (now known as  Contemporary Craft) in the Verona borough of Pittsburgh to create opportunities for craft artists to promote their work.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Pennsylvania
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1941-1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.outlgall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series. Additional documents that have come loose from the scrapbooks are included have been processed into into folders and placed in a seperate box (Box 1) from the scrapbooks (Boxes 2-4).

Series 1: Outlines Gallery Scrapbooks, 1941-1947 (1.1 linear feet; Boxes 1-4)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Ricky Gomez in 2022.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Outlines Gallery scrapbooks measure 1.1 linear feet and date from 1941-1947. Included are two scrapbooks containing press clippings, exhibition announcements, and photographs documenting the activities of Outlines Gallery from its inception in 1941 to it closing in 1947.