Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Guild Art Gallery
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content: Guild Art Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Folders (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.guilart, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Undated correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and dated correspondence is arranged chronologically. Correspondence with Sigmund Menkes and Lloyd Ney is arranged separately in named files.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series has been digitized in entirety.
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content: Correspondence is with business associates, prospective clients, museums, and other art institutions and organizations including Alfred H. Barr, Alfred C. Barnes, Cincinnati Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Julianna Force, Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and others. Artists represented in the correspondence include Saul Baizerman, Emlen Etting, Arshile Gorky, Chaim Gross, Jean Liberte, William Littlefield, Gwen Lux, Philip Reisman, Theodore Roszak, Raphael Soyer, Gilbert Wilson, and others.

Of note are three folders of correspondence with artist Lloyd Ney. In addition to writing of his work and arrangements with the gallery to show his paintings, Ney writes of a disagreement with dealer Bruce Lockwood over ownership of his paintings. Related correspondence with Lockwood and lawyer Arthur Eastburn is also included here. 

Also of note are two folders of letters and related material documenting the gallery's efforts to promote the work of Sigmund Menkes, in particular his painting The Torah. Records include a signed agreement with the gallery to be sole agents for The Torah, name and address lists of prospective clients, outgoing letters sent to them and some responses, two letters from Menkes, biographical notes about Menkes and the history of the painting, and marked up exhibition catalogs with prices of Menkes's work.