Waddell Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: Waddell Gallery
label: Names
content: Art Dealers Association of America
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content: Finch College. Museum of Art
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content: Whitney Museum of American Art
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content: Abrams, Harry N.
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content: Barnet, Will, 1911-2012
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content: Baschet, Bernard
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content: Baschet, Francois, 1920-2014
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content: Bergmann-Michel, Ella, 1896-1972
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content: Canaday, John, 1907-1985
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content: Clague, John, 1928-
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content: Costa, Toni, 1935-
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content: Dallègret, François, 1937-
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content: Deutschman, Louise Tolliver, 1916-2009
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content: Franck, Frederick, 1909-
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content: Genauer, Emily, 1910-2002
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content: Giobbi, Edward
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content: Harloff, Guy, 1933-
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content: Healey, John, b. 1894
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content: Hein, Piet, 1905-
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content: Hoeydonck, Paul van, 1925-
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content: Jacquet, Alain, 1939-
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content: Kanovitz, Howard
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content: Kawashima, Takeshi, 1930-
label: Names
content: Liikala, Bob
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content: Lucien, Frank
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content: Machlin, Sheldon M., 1918-1975
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content: Mallory, Ronald
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content: Michel, Robert, 1897-1983
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content: Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
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content: Mueller, George Ludwig, 1929-
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content: Neuberger, Roy R.
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content: Nicola, 1934-
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content: Perry, Charles O., 1929-
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content: Reiback, Earl
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content: Scarfe, Gerald
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content: Schoffer, Nicolas, 1912-
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content: Simons, Vera
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content: Ungerer, Tomi, 1931-
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content: Vansier, Boris
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content: Waddell, Richard H., d. 1974
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content: Wise, Howard
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century
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content: Women art dealers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Waddell Gallery records were donated in 1977 by the Estate of Richard Waddell, through Richard's father, Chauncey L. Waddell and brother, Theodore Waddell and in 1986 by Louise Tolliver Deutschman, former director of the gallery.
creator: label: Creator
content: Waddell Gallery
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content: Waddell Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The records of the Waddell Gallery, a contemporary art gallery that was located in New York City, date from 1961 to 1978 and measure 6.5 linear feet. The records include administrative files, correspondence, artists' files, and sales and stock records.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Waddell Gallery was established in 1963 by Richard Hughes Waddell in New York City, New York. The gallery represented contemporary American and European artists, notably Will Barnet. It was located on 15 East 57th Street and later on 50 West 57th Street until 1973, one year before Waddell's untimely death in 1974. Louise Tolliver Deutschman (1916-2009) was the director of the gallery from 1966 until its closing. The Waddell Gallery focused on representing contemporary American and European artists such as Will Barnet, Francois Dallegret, Edward Giobbi, Sheldon Machlin, and Paul Van Hoeydonck.  Additionally, Waddell held benefits to support civil rights and served as a trustee of the Tuskegee Institute.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6.5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.waddgall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gallery records
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 4 series.

Series 1: Administrative Files, 1966-1973 (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1963-1973 (1.0 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)

Series 3: Artists' Files, 1961-1978 (3.2 linear feet; Boxes 2-5, OV 8)

Series 4: Sales and Stock Records, 1964-1973 (2.1 linear feet; Boxes 5-7)
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
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records of the Waddell Gallery, a contemporary art gallery that was located in New York City, date from 1961 to 1978 and measure 6.5 linear feet. The records include administrative files, correspondence, artists' files, and sales and stock records. 

Administrative files consist of employment applications, event guest lists, leases and agreements, printed materials, publicity, schedules, typography samples, and scattered photographs of Richard Waddell with curator Dorothy Miller, artists Francois Baschet and Will Barnet, and art dealer Howard Wise. 

Correspondence is with art collectors, art critics, art writers, organizations, colleges and museums, publications, and others.  Correspondents include Harry Abrams, Art Dealers Association, John Canaday, Finch College Museum of Art, Frank Lucien, Emily Genauer, Roy Neuberger, Howard Wise, Whitney Museum, among many others. 

Artists' files also include correspondence, in addition to printed materials, shipping and loan information, photographs, exhibition material, and resumes.  Files are found for Will Barnet, Bernard Baschet, John Clague, Toni Costa, Francois Dallegret, Frederick Franck, Edward Giobbi, Guy Harloff, John Healey, Piet Hein, Alain Jacquet, Howard Kanovitz, Aleksandra Kasuba, Takeshi Kawashima, Bob Liikala, Sheldon Machlin, Ronald Mallory, Robert Michel and Ella Bergmann, George Mueller, Nicola, Charles Perry, Earl Reiback, Gerald Scarfe, Nicolas Schöffer, Vera Simons, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Boris Vansier, and Tomi Ungerer, among others.

Sales and stock records include appraisal documentation, inventories, price lists, shipping information and index cards and bound volumes of sales records, including a sales record of Andrew Wyeth's Uprooted Tree.