A. E. (Albert Eugene) Gallatin papers (microfilm)
name: label: Creator
content: Gallatin, A. E. (Albert Eugene), 1881-1952
label: Names
content: Gallery of Living Art
label: Names
content: Museum of Living Art
label: Names
content: Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938
label: Names
content: Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
label: Names
content: Dawson, Warrington, 1878-1962
label: Names
content: Delaunay, Robert, 1885-1941
label: Names
content: Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935
label: Names
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Gay, Walter, 1856-1937
label: Names
content: Glackens, William J., 1870-1938
label: Names
content: González, Julio, 1876-1942
label: Names
content: Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935
label: Names
content: McBride, Henry, 1867-1962
label: Names
content: Nevinson, C. R. W. (Christopher Richard Wynne), 1889-1946
label: Names
content: Nicholson, Ben, 1894-
label: Names
content: Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966
label: Names
content: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936
label: Names
content: Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
label: Names
content: Rosenberg, Léonce, 1879-1947
label: Names
content: Rothenstein, Michael, 1908-
label: Names
content: Wade, Allan, 1881-1955
label: Names
content: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Art and war
label: Topic
content: World War, 1914-1918
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels 507-508 lent for microfilming in 1973; reel 1293 lent by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gallatin, A. E. (Albert Eugene), 1881-1952
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art collector; New York, N.Y. Gallatin formed one of America's earliest modern art collections, and displayed it as Gallery of Living Art (later Museum of Living Art) at NYU from 1907-1943, when he moved it to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gallatin was also a painter.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1898-1951
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.galla
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 507-508 and 1293 available for use through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 507-508: Originals and microfilm master negative in New York Historical Society, Manuscript Division.
label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 1293: Originals in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers relating to Gallatin's art collection, the Museum of Living Art, and other museums and activities.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 507-508: Mainly correspondence. Letters pertain to the Museum of Living Art at New York University; Gallatin's work on the New York Mayor's Committee on National Defense, including many letters from artists regarding war work, 1918-1919; research for bibliographies; family matters; and business affairs. Correspondents include: Oscar Bluemner, Alexander Calder, Warrington Dawson, Robert Delaunay, Charles Demuth, Charles Freer, Walter Gay, William Glackens, Julio Gonzalez, Childe Hassam, Henry McBride, C. R. W. Nevinson, Ben Nicholson, Maxfield Parrish, Joseph & Elizabeth Pennell, Leonce Rosenberg, William Rothenstein, Allan Wade and Elizabeth Wharton.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The Bluemner material includes four letters, a sketch, and a note from Oscar Bluemner to Gallatin. Bluemner writes about the 1932 Whitney Museum show, French and American painters, architecture, and painting.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1293: 3 scrapbooks which include official press releases and clippings of artists about the opening of the Gallery of Living Art at NYU, and its subsequent acquisitions, exhibitions, change of name to Museum of Living Art, and discontinuance of the Museum and transfer to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Also included are reproductions of some of the works found in the collection, reproductions of photos taken by Gallatin of artists whose works are in this collection, a 1935 Gallery of Living Art Bulletin, and clippings and a portion of the Catalog of the Gallery of Living Art.