Auctions
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American Art Association
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content: American Art Association Records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.9 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2, BV23-24)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1885-1922
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.amerarta, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged as 4 subseries.

1.1 Auction Sales Schedules, circa 1885-1923

1.2 Auction Records, 1885-1922

1.3 Estate Inventory and Appraisals, circa 1908-circa 1921

1.4 Auction Ledgers, 1885-1907
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: American Art Association auctions are documented in named files, estate inventories and appraisal files, and two auction ledgers.   Files often contain correspondence, sales statements, photographs of artwork, appraisal documentation, and inventory lists.  Among the auction sales files of paintings are found sales records for artwork by Andreas Achenbach, George H. Boughton, John George Brown, Emil Carlsen, William Merritt Chase, Charles Gruppe, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Carleton Wiggins, A. H. Wyant, and many others. Auction files can also be found in the Thomas Ellis Kirby personal papers' auction records.