Grapestake Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: Grapestake Gallery
label: Names
content: Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
label: Names
content: Cunningham, Imogen, 1883-1976
label: Names
content: Levitt, Helen
label: Names
content: Meyerowitz, Joel, 1938-
label: Names
content: Misrach, Richard, 1949-
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Thomas V. Meyer in 1987.
creator: label: Creator
content: Grapestake Gallery
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content: Grapestake Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Grapestake Gallery records measure 2.8 linear feet and date from 1970-1986. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operation through administrative records and artist files.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Founded in San Francisco, California, by Ursula Gropper, Thomas V. Meyer and their father, Otto Meyer in 1974, the Grapestake Gallery was known for showing contemporary California painters, sculptors, and 20th-century American photographers. Gropper and Thomas Meyer, both artists, were proponents of photography as a fine art medium. 

Artists featured in Grapestake exhibitions included Ansel Adams, whose retrospective was the gallery's inaugural exhibition, Imogen Cunningham, Greg Renfrow, Richard Misrach, Joel Meyerowitz, Leland Rice, and many others. The gallery was over 4,000 square feet, containing a primary exhibition space and three other rooms for exhibiting art, and was known for showing at least two exhibitions at a time.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- California -- San Francisco
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970-1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.grapgall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as two series.

Series 1: Administrative Records, 1974-1986 (Box 1; 1 linear foot)

Series 2: Artist Files, 1970-1985 (Box 2-4; 1.8 linear feet)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Christopher DeMairo in 2021.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Grapestake Gallery records measure 2.8 linear feet and date from 1970-1986. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operation through administrative records and artist files.

Administrative records include correspondence with galleries, museums, collectors, dealers, and some artists, and exhibition records. Artist files include resumes, exhibition announcements and reviews, press releases, price lists, scattered photos of artwork, and scattered correspondence with artists. Artists represented include Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Philippe Halsman, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and others.