Origins Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: Origins Gallery
label: Names
content: Shulman, Edythe, 1910-1996
topic: label: Topic
content: Inuit art
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1994 by Robert Vose, who received the records from the family of Edythe Shulman.
creator: label: Creator
content: Origins Gallery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Origins Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The records of the Origin Gallery measure 1.5 linear feet and date from 1961 to 1982. The records primarily consist of sales records cards and either business cards or index cards for galleries and dealers, and for experts in specific subject matter such as woodworking, Egyptian jewelry, and Japanese masks. The sales records cards contain information including buyer contact information, invoice number, description of item purchased, price, and whether item was purchased in full or in installments.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Origins Gallery was a commercial art gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, directed and owned by Edythe Shulman. Origins Gallery specialized in Indigenous and tribal art, especially Inuit art, much of it contemporary carving and printmaking fostered by the government beginning in the 1950s. It was located on 159 Newbury St., ca. 1960-1974, and in Cambridge, ca. 1974-1978.

Edythe Kumin Shulman (1910-1996) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1932. In 1960, in Boston, she met the artist Kahlil G. Gibran (1922-2008) and became his partner in opening Origins Gallery. Shulman became the gallery's sole owner in 1966. Later in life, she donated 289 objects to the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Massachusetts -- Boston
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.origgall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to its small size the collection is arranged into one series.

Series 1: Sales Records Index Cards, 1961-1982 (1.2 linear feet; Boxes 1-3)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Ricky Gomez in 2021.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records of the Origin Gallery measure 1.5 linear feet and date from 1961 to 1982. The records primarily consist of sales records cards and either business cards or index cards for galleries and dealers, and for experts in specific subject matter such as woodworking, Egyptian jewelry, and Japanese masks. The sales records cards contain information including buyer contact information, invoice number, description of item purchased, price, and whether item was purchased in full or in installments.