Alice Yamin papers
name: label: Creator
content: Yamin, Alice
label: Names
content: Landmark Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Aach, Herbert, 1923-1985
label: Names
content: Aziz, Barbara Nimri
label: Names
content: Bernard, Frank S.
label: Names
content: Bolotowsky, Ilya, 1907-
label: Names
content: Briggs, Ernest, 1923-
label: Names
content: Brody, Lily
label: Names
content: Bultman, Fritz, 1919-1985
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Elaine
label: Names
content: Fromboluti, Sideo, 1921-
label: Names
content: Ginsberg, Henry
label: Names
content: Glarner, Fritz, 1899-1972
label: Names
content: Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
label: Names
content: Grillo, John, 1917-
label: Names
content: Johnson, Buffie
label: Names
content: Katz, Alex, 1927-
label: Names
content: Lipkind, Bill
label: Names
content: Lipkind, Maria
label: Names
content: Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969
label: Names
content: Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971
label: Names
content: McFadden, Elizabeth
label: Names
content: Mumford, Daphne, 1934
label: Names
content: Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970
label: Names
content: Oeri, Georgine
label: Names
content: Oeri-Sarasin, Gertrude
label: Names
content: Pavia, Philip, 1915-2005
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
label: Names
content: Schmid, Elsa, 1897-
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content: Siskind, Aaron
label: Names
content: Teller, Jane
label: Names
content: Yamin, Leo
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Consultants -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Painting -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Draftsman -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Alice Yamin papers were donated in 1981 by the artist and in 2002 by Harry Smith, her nephew.
creator: label: Creator
content: Yamin, Alice
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content: Alice Yamin papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of painter, draftsperson, and art consultant Alice Yamin date from 1927-1998, and measure 2.0 linear feet. Found within the papers are letters from artists, writers, galleries, and CIGY-GEIGY Corporation for whom Yamin worked as an art consultant. The collection also contains exhibition files, printed material, and photographs of Yamin, family members, and colleagues.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Alice Bernard was born on April 8, 1905 in Paris, France. She was brought to the United States as a child and spent most of her life in New York City. She married writer Leo Yamin who died on January 20, 1999.

Alice Yamin was a painter and draftsperson influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Beginning in 1950, she worked with a carbon medium, primarily producing dramatic black and white works on paper. She was also an art consultant for the international chemical firm CIBA-GEIGY Corporation that began collecting contemporary art in 1959 when it moved its headquarters from Manhattan to Ardsley, New York, a suburb of New York City.

Alice Yamin died on April 4, 2002.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927-1998
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.yamialic
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into 4 series. Letter files pertaining to specific individuals and organizations are arranged alphabetically; miscellaneous letters, exhibition files, printed material, and photographs are arranged chronologically.

Series 1: Letter Files, 1927-1998 (Boxes 1-2; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Exhibition Files, 1956-1982 (Box 2; 18 folders)

Series 3: Printed Material, 1949-1992 (Box 2; 22 folders)

Series 4: Photographs, 1923-1978 (Box 2; 2 folders)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The Alice Yamin papers were processed to an intermediate level arrangement in April 2008 by Jean Fitzgerald.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: The papers of painter, draftsperson, and art consultant Alice Yamin date from 1927-1998, and measure 2.0 linear feet. Found within the papers are letters from artists, writers, galleries, and CIGY-GEIGY Corporation for whom Yamin worked as an art consultant. The collection also contains exhibition files, printed material, and photographs of Yamin, family members, and colleagues.

The most significant series consists of letter files, which also contain scattered printed material and photographs collected by Yamin, concerning specific individuals and organizations. Represented within the files are artists Herb Aach, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ernest Briggs, Lily Brody, Fritz Bultman, Elaine DeKooning, Sideo Fromboluti, Fritz Glarner, Adolph Gottlieb, John Grillo, Buffie Johnson, Alex Katz, William H. Littlefield, Alice Trumbull Mason, Elizabeth McFadden, Daphne Mumford, Barnett Newman, Philip Pavia, Mark Rothko, Elsa Schmid, and Jane Teller; curator Henry Ginsburg; writers Barbara Nimri Aziz, Georgine Oeri, Gertrud Oeri-Sarasin, and Leo Yamin; and galleries including the Ingber Gallery and the Landmark Gallery. There are also letter files concerning the CIGY-GEIGY Corporation; for Alice Yamin's brother, businessman Frank S. Bernard, and the town of Chilmark, Massachusetts, where the Yamins spent their summers. Even though Yamin's responses to the letters are not included in the collection, this series illustrates the wide range of her friendships and associates in the art business.

Also found are exhibition files containing letters, prospectuses, business records such as loan agreements, clippings, and exhibition announcements and catalogs concerning the inclusion of Yamin's art work primarily in group exhibitions. Printed material consists of miscellaneous clippings, and exhibition announcements and catalogs that do not relate to the exhibition files, as well as miscellaneous booklets, brochures, and a copy of the book American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages published by the Corcoran Gallery of Art which contains a reproduction of Yamin's work. Photographs are of Yamin, family members, and colleagues including Bill and Maria Lipkind, and Aaron Siskind.