Administrative Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Leo Castelli Gallery
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content: Leo Castelli Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 24-39, 192-193, OVs 237-238)
label: Extent
content: 0.001 Gigabytes (ER01-ER02)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1941-1999, bulk 1970s-1990s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.leocast, Series 2
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content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Researchers should note that the Administrative Files often overlap and complement the General Correspondence. However, they focus slightly more distinctly on gallery business activities and are arranged mostly by subject or topic, except for the chronological business correspondence. Researchers are encouraged to reference both series. For example, correspondence with and about Jasper Johns may be found in both series, but the administrative files most likely focus on a specific loan, consignment, or business activity or transaction.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Administrative Files document a wide variety of the gallery's activities and business. Essentially, these are files that were arranged by the gallery according to subject or topic and cover almost all activities except specific exhibitions. These files include records and correspondence about buildings and space, advertising, appraisals, auctions, consignments, loans, miscellaneous business correspondence, index cards, business arrangements with artists, information about many artists, interviews with artists (transcripts), history of the gallery, mailings, photograph requests, shipping, and other topics. Few items are in digital format. There are staff notebooks and files and Leo Castelli's notebooks and notes from the late 1950s through the early 1990s. Extensive outgoing chronological correspondence filed in this series dates from 1964-1977. Also found are transcripts of interviews with Leo Castelli, biographical material, and scattered photographs.