B.R. Kornblatt Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: B. R. Kornblatt Gallery
label: Names
content: Chicago International Art Exposition
label: Names
content: Chin, Mel, 1951-
label: Names
content: Clapsaddle, Jerry, 1941-
label: Names
content: Davis, Gene, 1920-1985
label: Names
content: De Looper, Willem
label: Names
content: Ferguson, John, 1939-
label: Names
content: Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
label: Names
content: Kahn, Wolf, 1927-
label: Names
content: Kornblatt, Barbara R. (Barbara Rodbell), 1931-
label: Names
content: Landfield, Ronnie, 1947-
label: Names
content: LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
label: Names
content: Motherwell, Robert
label: Names
content: Neri, Manuel, 1930-
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Rosenberg, Karl
label: Names
content: Rothschild, Amalie, 1916-
label: Names
content: Stella, Frank
label: Names
content: Todd, Mike, 1935-
label: Names
content: Van Alstine, John, 1952-
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Art, African -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Washington Color School (Group of artists)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The B.R. Kornblatt Gallery records were donated by Barbara R. Kornblatt in 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: B. R. Kornblatt Gallery
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content: B.R. Kornblatt Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The records of the B. R. Kornblatt Gallery of Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. measure 4.1 linear feet and date from 1971 to 1992. The collection consists primarily of artists' files along with a few exhibition files and sales records.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Barbara R. Kornblatt (born 1931) established the B. R. Kornblatt Gallery in 1975 on 326 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The gallery specialized in American painting, sculpture, and works on paper. In 1980, Kornblatt moved the gallery to 406 Seventh Street, N.W. in Washington, D. C. where it became the mainstay of downtown commercial art galleries. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the gallery began feeling the effects of the economic recession, and then suffered a fire in the building.  Kornblatt closed the gallery in 1991.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Maryland
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brkornbl
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gallery records
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 3 series.

Series 1: Exhibition Files, 1981-1990 (0.5 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Artists' Files, 1971-1992 (3.0 linear feet; Box 1-4, OV 5)

Series 3: Sales Records, 1988-1992 (0.5 linear feet; Box 4)
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 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: Gallery records
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records of the B. R. Kornblatt Gallery of Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. measure 4.1 linear feet and date from 1971 to 1992. The collection consists primarily of artists' files along with a few exhibition files and sales records.

Exhibition files are found for the Chicago International Art Exposition (1983-1988), the International Sculpture '90 (1990) exhibition, and exhibitions of African art. Artists' files contain correspondence, photographs and slides, resumes, and financial and printed material for numerous artists associated with the gallery or of interest to the gallery, including  Mel Chin, Jerry Clapsaddle, Gene Davis, John Ferguson, Wolf Kahn, Willem de Looper, Helen Frankenthaler, Ronnie Landfield,  Manuel Neri, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Karl Rosenberg, Amalie Rothschild, Frank Stella, Michael Todd, John Van Alstine, and others. The collection also contains sales records.