Personal and Business Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997
setName: label: See more items in
content: Claire Falkenstein papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 14-17, 41, 46-49; 4.2 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.falkclai, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The files are arranged alphabetically by subject and folder contents are arranged chronologically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Personal and business records contain a wide variety of material documenting Falkenstein's business, financial, legal, professional, and personal transactions. Files are found for sales and prices of artwork, artwork inventories, smaller jewelry commissions, speaking engagements, her extensive work as a juror, her business with galleries, legal affairs and contracts, expenses, records of arts organizations to which she belonged, conferences, grants and fellowships, studio and house renovations, her Paris studio and Paris expenses, travel, donations, loans and consignments, conservation, art shipping, insurance, and taxes. The records provide detailed information on her business relationships with several galleries. The renovation files document Falkenstein's conversion of her house into a living space with working studio. Oversized visitor's logs contain comments from visitors to Falkenstein's studio in Venice, California.