Private Art Collection
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jacques Seligmann & Co
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content: Jacques Seligmann & Co. records
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content: Jacques Seligmann & Co. records / Series 12: Germain Seligman's Personal Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1983
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jacqself, Subseries 12.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Overall arrangement is by subject. Arrangement within the Collection Reference Files is alphabetical by Seligmann's topic headings. Material is generally mixed chronologically within folders so as to retain the context of related records of different dates.

This bulk of this series has been scanned. Material not scanned includes negatives of works of art; some photographs of artwork; and some printed material such as publications. Typically only covers and relevant pages of publications have been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries documents the content and the administration of Germain Seligman's personal art collection and includes a copy of The Collection of Germain Seligman: Paintings, Drawings, and Works of Art,published in 1979. The bulk of the material consists of reference files to the collection, which typically contain provenance information, notes, printed material, and photographs of works of art. These files can be cross-referenced with the material in the Inventory Notebooks, which duplicate some of the information found in the Collection Reference Files. Researchers should be aware that there is some confusion in the records about what constitutes Notebooks I, II and III. Headings provided in the Container Listing for "Inventory Notebooks" are contradicted by headings found in the folder titled "Lists."

The remainder of the material comprises invoices chronicling sales and purchases of artwork made by Germain and Ethlyne J. Seligman, inventory notebooks, and consignment and loan records. Material documenting the liquidation of the Seligman Estate and inquiries into the disposition of his business archives can also be found here.