Art Collection Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Horowitz, Raymond J., 1916-2005
setName: label: See more items in
content: Raymond and Margaret Horowitz papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943-2007
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hororaym, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The series has been maintained in the order it was received. With the exception of American Posters, the series has been arranged in alphabetical order by artist's surname.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection files concern the lending, reproduction, and exhibition of works of art owned by Raymond and Margaret Horowitz.
Some of the artists significantly represented include William Merritt Chase, William Glackens, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Maurice Prendergast, Theodore Robinson, and John Singer Sargent.  

Correspondence reflects Raymond Horowitz's dealings with museums and galleries, private dealers, and collectors.  Among the correspondents are Adelson Galleries, Babcock Galleries, Berry-Hill Galleries, Daniel Fraad, Alfred Frankenstein, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Paul Magriel, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Gallery in London, Newark Museum of Art, Spanierman Gallery, and Yale University Art Gallery.   Letters to Antoinette King, Jean Volkmer, and Simon Parkes provide conservation information.  Miscellaneous art collection files concern the gifting of artwork to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

There are a few letters from Margaret Horowitz.  Correspondence is mainly typescripts of originals.  Files contain information sheets, appraisals, invoices, condition reports, legal documents relating to loans or donations of artwork, and printed material including  exhibition catalogs, invitations, news and magazine clippings of reviews of exhibitions and/or artists.  The majority of photographs of artwork have identifying information on the verso that include date of work and exhibition venues.