Terry Dintenfass, Inc. records
name: label: Creator
content: Terry Dintenfass, Inc.
label: Names
content: Art Dealers Association of America
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content: Grace Borgenicht Gallery
label: Names
content: Bloom, Hyman, 1913-
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content: Cober, Alan E.
label: Names
content: Dintenfass, Terry, 1920-
label: Names
content: Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946
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content: Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973
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content: Fleischner, Richard, 1944-
label: Names
content: Frasconi, Antonio
label: Names
content: Goodman, Sidney
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content: King, William, 1925-2015
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content: Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
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content: Merkin, Richard
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content: Pippin, Horace (1888-1946)
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content: Suttman, Paul, 1933-1993
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content: Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 1995 by Terry Dintenfass.
creator: label: Creator
content: Terry Dintenfass, Inc.
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content: Terry Dintenfass, Inc. records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The records of New York art gallery Terry Dintenfass, Inc. date from 1947 to 1987, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1961 to 1983, and measure 22.1 linear feet. The records are comprised of administrative files, correspondence, exhibition files, artists' files, and financial records.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Terry Dintenfass, Inc. is a New York City art gallery founded in 1959 by Terry Dintenfass (1920-2004).  

In 1954, Theresa "Terry" Dintenfass opened D Contemporary Paintings in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  With financial backing from Armand Erpf, she moved the gallery to New York City in 1959 and changed the name to Terry Dintenfass Gallery.  There, she became a protégé of Downtown Gallery owner Edith Halpert. Dintenfass was one of several notable female art dealers in the city during the 1940s-1980s among Edith Halpert, Betty Parsons, Grace Borgenicht, Antoinette Kraushaar, and others.  She showed work on consignment from other dealers, and when Edith Halpert retired, Terry Dintenfass, Inc. began to represent the estate of Arthur Dove.  Other notable artists represented by the gallery included social realists Philip Evergood and Robert Gwathmey, and African American painters Horace Pippin and Jacob Lawrence, whom she represented for 25 years.  The gallery's stable also included William King, Sidney Goodman, Hyman Bloom, Antonio Frasconi, and others. 

After Dintenfass retired in 1999, her son Andrew took over the business and continues to run the gallery today.  Terry Dintenfass died in 2004 in Manhattan.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947-1987
label: Date
content: bulk 1961-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.terrdint
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Visitors' books
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 5 series.

Series 1: Administrative Files, 1961-1983 (1.0 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1961-1981 (1.0 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)

Series 3: Exhibition Files, 1962-1983 (4.5 linear feet; Boxes 2-7, OV 23)

Series 4: Artists' Files, 1947-1987 (8.5 linear feet; Boxes 7-15, OV 23)

Series 5: Financial Records, 1959-1981 (7.0 linear feet; Boxes 16-22, OV 23)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Sarah Mundy in 2016 with funding from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care Pool Fund, using accelerated processing strategies recently implemented by the Archives to increase information about and access to more of our collections. For this collection, accelerated processing included arrangement to the series, subseries and folder levels, adhering to the creator's original arrangement as much as possible. Generally, folder contents were simply verified with the original folder titles, but items within folders were not arranged further. All materials were rehoused in archival folders and boxes for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Visitors' books
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records of New York art gallery Terry Dintenfass, Inc. date from 1947 to 1987, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1961 to 1983, and measure 22.1 linear feet. The records include administrative files, correspondence, exhibition files, artists' files, and financial records.

Administrative files include advertising and membership records, insurance documents, a guest book, resumes, and agreements with other corporations. Correspondence is with artists, galleries, museums, and arts organizations.  There is a significant amount of correspondence regarding the Art Dealers Association of America.  
Exhibition files are found for numerous exhibitions to which Dintenfass either loaned art or helped to organize. There is extensive documentation of the 20 Galleries/20 Years exhibition held at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery and the Terry Dintenfass Gallery in 1982 and the "Machine Themed Shows" in 1974-1975. 

Artists' files comprise the largest group of materials within the collection.  Files for Hyman Bloom, Alan Cober, Arthur Dove, Philip Evergood, Richard Fleischner, Antonio Frasconi, Sidney Goodman, William King, Jacob Lawrence, Richard Merkin, Horace Pippin, Paul Suttman, and Harold Tovish bulk the largest. 

Financial records contain artist expense and sales ledgers, consignment papers, invoices and receipts, as well as records for D Contemporary Paintings.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also found at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Terry Dintenfass conducted by Paul Cummings on December 2, 1974-January 13, 1975 for the Archives of American Art.