Artists Solicitations and Gallery Replies
name: label: Collection Creator
content: André Emmerich Gallery
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content: André Emmerich Gallery Records and André Emmerich Papers
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content: André Emmerich Gallery Records and André Emmerich Papers / Series 1: General Correspondence Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962-1968, 1993-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.andremmg, Subseries 1.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries contains letters from artists contacting the gallery looking for representation. Some attach press clippings, exhibition programs and announcements, resumes or curricula vitae, biographies, artists' statements, catalogs, publications, business cards, postcards, or other publicity materials. Most of the letters are written by the artists themselves, but a few are written by someone else recommending the artist. Letters are occasionally accompanied by photographs or slides of artwork. Most of these artists receive a negative form letter in return. In later years, the gallery referred this form letter as the "Sorry Artist Letter" or "SAL."

Some correspondence is in French, Dutch, Italian, and German.

The correspondence is arranged chronologically.