Artist Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rosa Esman Gallery
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content: Rosa Esman Gallery and Tanglewood Press Inc. records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.7 Linear Feet (Box 2-8, 16)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920s, 1953-2011
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rosaesmg, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Folders might include correspondence with artists or their representatives, museums, galleries, collectors, and others pertaining to the sale, commission, and exhibition of artwork; newspaper clippings, exhibition ephemera, and other reference material; photographic materials depicting artists and artwork; and scattered financial papers. For artists who exhibited at the Esman Gallery, price lists, press packets, and some installation photos are also present. Mixed files located at the end of the series include artist resumes as well as some correspondence, clippings, and photographic materials.

Of particular note are files for Eileen Gray, Irish architect and furniture designer, comprised of invitations, monograms, and stationery from her furniture and design shop, Jean Desert; inventories, correspondence, and photographic materials on the collection of Russian artworks that belonged to Russian painter, Lev Nussberg; painted letters from Edward Henderson; and inventories illustrated by Pascal Verbena.