Galleries/Museums/Clients
name: label: Collection Creator
content: André Emmerich Gallery
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content: André Emmerich Gallery Records and André Emmerich Papers
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content: André Emmerich Gallery Records and André Emmerich Papers / Series 1: General Correspondence Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958-2006
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.andremmg, Subseries 1.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: These files contain correspondence with galleries, museums, and clients as well as with art retoreres and conservators, art warehouses, shipping companies, auction houses, and foundations. Correspondence contains proposals of artwork that might interest clients, client referrals to other galleries, logistical arrangements for shipments of artwork, clippings or brochures that might interest correspondents, and arrangements for visits. These correspondence files occasionally contain reference photographs, transparencies, slides, and inventory cards or photcopies of inventory cards of artwork mentioned in the letters.

The most voluminous correspondence are mostly with other galleries or art organizations. The following is a list of correspondents with the most files in this subseries: Annely Jude Fine Art; Art Dealers Association of America; Galerie Deux; Gimpel Fils, Ltd.; Grounds for Sculpture (correspondence regarding architecture and landscaping for Top Gallant Farm); Kukje Gallery; Munzen und Medaillen, A.G.; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.; Spark Inc.; Strouth, Howard and Penelope; and Wetterling Teo Gallery Pte. Ltd.

Some correspondents in this subseries might overlap with those found in the Authentications and Offers subseries below, as well as in the André EmmerichPersonal Correspondence subseries.

Records are primarily in English, but some correspondence is in German, French, and Spanish.

Most correspondence dates from 1962-1968 and 1992-1998. There is very little correspondence dating from the 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, or 2000s.

For correspondence attaching invoices or agreements regarding specific sales, purchases, or consignments, please see the Sales, Purchases, and Consignments series. For additional correspondence with art publications, please see the Advertising and Publicity subseries of the Administrative Files series.

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically. Each letter of the alphabet concludes with misclleaneous bulk arrangement for correspodnents with fewer than five documents.