Marie Harriman Gallery exhibition catalogs and announcements
name: label: Creator
content: Marie Harriman Gallery
label: Names
content: Harriman, Marie Norton, 1903-1970
topic: label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
label: Topic
content: Cubism
label: Topic
content: Impressionism (Art)
label: Topic
content: Women art collectors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by W. Averell Harriman, Marie Harriman's husband.
creator: label: Creator
content: Marie Harriman Gallery
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Marie Harriman Gallery (est. 1930, closed 1942) was an art gallery in New York City. It was best-known for exhibiting art by European Post-Impressionists and painters from the School of Paris, as well as American artist Wolf Kahn. The gallery's inaugural exhibition featured paintings by Picasso, Cézanne, Gauguin, and other French masters. The exhibitions at the Marie Harriman Gallery, which sometimes featured works on loan from private collectors, were frequently praised by the press for introducing French masters to American audiences. Many works that passed through the gallery are now in major museum collections. 

Marie Norton Harriman (1903-1970) was born into New York City high society. She married Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the son of sculptor Vanderbilt Whitney; the couple divorced in 1929. In 1930, Marie married the similarly recently-divorced Averell Harriman, who would eventually serve as governor of New York and a foreign policy advisor to several United States presidents. The couple began collecting art, and Harriman turned her hobby into a business when she founded her eponymous gallery on East 57th Street in Manhattan. Harriman worked closely with French art dealer Paul Guillaume, who provided her with paintings by European modernist artists as well as business advice. Harriman closed her gallery in June 1942 in order to fully dedicate herself to the war effort.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1932-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mariharr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm roll 2813 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.