Barbara Kulicke papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kulicke, Barbara
label: Names
content: Multiples, Inc.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Publishers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Art consultants -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Barbara Kulicke papers were donated by Barbara Kulicke in 2003.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kulicke, Barbara
setName: label: See more items in
content: Barbara Kulicke papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of New York art consultant, entrepreneur, publisher, and painter, Barbara Kulicke measure 7.4 linear feet and date from 1963 to 2006. The papers document Kulicke's career through personal business records, alphabetical files, and project files.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Barbara Kulicke (circa 1929-2015) was a New York-based art consultant, entrepreneur, publisher, and painter. In 1963, Kulicke founded the Betsy Ross Flag and Banner Co., which made banners based on artists' designs. In 1965, she started the company Multiples, which incorporated Betsy Ross Flag and Banner Co., with Marion Goodman, who later opened the Marion Goodman Gallery in New York. Barbara Kulicke also ran her own art consultant company from 1980-1990. Her art consultant business focused on public art commissions such as installations, sculptures, mosaics, and murals. Some of these projects relied on funding from New York City's Percent for Art law that designated one percent of the budget to art commissions for city facilities, such as schools. Kulicke is also an artist and has had several exhibitions of her work, primarily landscape paintings. She began focusing on her art full-time from 1990 until her death in 2015.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963-2006
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kulibarb
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This collection is arranged as 3 series.

Series 1: Personal Business Records, 1970-2006 (0.3 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Alphabetical Files, 1963-circa 1989, circa 2000 (5.9 linear feet; Boxes 1-7)

Series 3: Project Files, 1977-circa 1988 (1.2 linear feet; Boxes 7-8)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Rihoko Ueno in 2020.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of New York art consultant, entrepreneur, publisher, and painter, Barbara Kulicke measure 7.4 linear feet and date from 1963 to 2006. The papers document Kulicke's career through personal business records, alphabetical files, and project files.

Personal business records include Barbara Kulicke's resumes, art exhibition announcements, letterhead designs, invoices and receipts, a disbound album on project commissions, and miscellaneous legal records.

Alphabetical files include a mixture of artist files and subject files. The artist files include correspondence, photographs, resumes, exhibition catalogs, announcements, clippings, and other material. The subject files mostly contain printed material about topics of interest to Kulicke and a few business records.

Project files are mostly about public art commissions that Kulicke worked on as an art consultant, though some of the material appears to be related to her businesses, Betsy Ross Flag and Banner Co. and Multiples. Files include project proposals, correspondence, photographs, and printed material.