Artist Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012
label: Collection Creator
content: O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Ivan C. Karp papers and OK Harris Works of Art gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 34 Linear Feet (Boxes 4-38, 80)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-2014
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.okharr, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series retains the order and labeling used by the gallery. Artist files are identified as "Current" (active) or "Past" (no longer represented by OK Harris). Current files are categorized as "Group A," "Group B," and "Photographers." Past files are categorized as "Group A," "Group B," and  "Group C."  According to gallery staff, artists were grouped according to how quickly they could produce enough new work for a show. Some artists are included in both subseries; within each subseries, a few artists are found in more than one group. Over time, it appears that some artists' output changed and filing errors occurred. 

The series is arranged as 6 subseries.

4.1: Current, Group A, 1970-2014

4.2: Current, Group B, 1970-2007 

4.3: Current, Photographers, 1983-2013 

4.4: Past, Group A, 1970-1979 

4.5: Past, Group B, 1967-1979

4.6: Past, Group C, 1968-2012
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artist files consist of business and personal correspondence, biographical information, checklists, contracts, receipts, printed material, photographs, slides and color transparencies in various combinations. The files document arrangements for exhibitions, loans, consignments, shipping, and miscellaneous transactions with OK  Harris Works of Art. The most extensively documented artists are: John Baeder, Muriel Castanis, Don Celender, Ralph Goings, John Kacere, Richard McLean, Robert Rohm and John Salt. Files regarding Don Celender  include many of his surveys that were exhibited at OK Harris. Ephemera from Celender exhibitions consists of three different boxes for "OK Harris Art Crackers" based on the traditional animal cracker box, and two Chinese take out cartons of  "Art Dealers Fortune Cookies" and "Art Curators Fortune Cookies."