Rose Fried Gallery Records
name: label: Creator
content: Rose Fried Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Pinacotheca Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Baertling, Olle, 1911-1981
label: Names
content: Cornell, Joseph
label: Names
content: Cunningham, Ben, 1904-1975
label: Names
content: Delaunay, Sonia
label: Names
content: Etrog, Sorel, 1933-
label: Names
content: Ferren, John, 1905-1970
label: Names
content: Fried, Rose, 1896-1970
label: Names
content: Hendler, Raymond, 1923-
label: Names
content: Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
label: Names
content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
label: Names
content: Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944
label: Names
content: Morgan, Russell
label: Names
content: Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953
label: Names
content: Richter, Hans, 1888-1976
label: Names
content: Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
label: Names
content: Xceron, Jean, 1890-1967
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Hispanic American artists
label: Topic
content: Art, Abstract
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
label: Topic
content: Cubism
label: Topic
content: Dadaism
label: Topic
content: Futurism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Rose Fried Gallery Records were donated by Rose Fried and her brother and executor Paul Fried in multiple accretions between 1968 and 1974.
creator: label: Creator
content: Rose Fried Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Rose Fried Gallery Records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Rose Fried Gallery records measure 8.1 linear feet and date from 1936 to 1972 with the bulk of materials dating from 1945 to 1970. The majority of the collection consists of artists files documenting the gallery's relationship with abstract, modern, and Latin American artists; additional named subject files; and scattered administrative and financial files. Individual artists and subject files contain a wide variety of documentation, such as correspondence, photographs, financial records, and printed materials.
bioghist: label: Historical Note
content: Rose Fried (1896-1970) was an art dealer and gallerist who worked in New York City. In her youth, she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and mingled with New York's artistic and bohemian communities. In 1932, Fried took over the Pinacotheca Gallery, which was previously owned by painter Dan Harris. The gallery's name changed to Rose Fried Gallery in the early 1950s. The gallery specialized in abstract and modern art, and represented cubists, futurists, Dadaists, and masters of Latin American art. The Rose Fried Gallery helped introduce the American public to many abstract and avant-garde artists, including Mondrian, Klee, Duchamp, and Kandinsky. It provided Sonia Delaunay and Joaquín Torres-García with their first exhibitions in New York. The gallery remained operational until Fried's death in 1970.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936-1972
label: Date
content: bulk 1945-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rosefrig
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as two series.

Series 1: General Administrative Records, 1947-1970 (9 folders; Box 1)

Series 2: Artists' and Clients' Files, 1936-1972 (7.9 linear feet; Boxes 1-8, OV 9)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Max Howell in 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund, using accelerated processing strategies implemented by the Archives of American Art to increase information about and facilitate access to more of our collections.  For this ollection, processing included arrangement to the folder level, with retention of the pre-existing arrangement when possible. Some materials were consolidated to eliminate excess bulk but items within folders were not arranged further. Non-archival housing was replaced for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection is available on 35 mm microfilm reels 2200-2209, and N69-37 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.

Some of the sound recordings in this collection have been copied for research access and digital copies are available in the Archives of American Art offices.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Rose Fried Gallery records measure 8.1 linear feet and date from 1936 to 1972 with the bulk of materials dating from 1945 to 1970. The majority of the collection consists of artists files documenting the gallery's relationship with abstract, modern, and Latin American artists; additional named subject files; and scattered administrative and financial files.  Individual artists and subject files contain a wide variety of documentation, such as correspondence, photographs, financial records, and printed materials. 

Scattered administrative records document the founding and history of the Rose Fried Gallery, biographical materials about Rose Fried, as well as scattered administrative correspondence, press releases, and gallery catalogs. There are two sound recordings of interviews with Rose Fried in which she discusses the origins of the Rose Fried Gallery and some of the gallery's shows. 

The bulk of the records consist of alphabetical artists' and clients' files documenting the gallery's dealings with individual artists, clients, other galleries, museums, and universities. Contents of individual files vary but may include correspondence, contractual agreements, financial records, printed material, and photographs.  A few of the artists represented in the files include Olle Baertling, Joseph Cornell, Ben Cunningham, Sonia Delaunay, Sorel Etrog, John Ferren, Raymond Hendler, Wassily Kandinsky, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Piet Mondrian, Russell Morgan, Francis Picabia, Hans Richter, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, and Jean Xceron, among many others.