Kathleen Ewing Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: Kathleen Ewing Gallery
label: Names
content: Abell, Sam
label: Names
content: Appel, Allen
label: Names
content: Bubley, Esther
label: Names
content: Cook, Diane
label: Names
content: DiPerna, Frank, 1947-
label: Names
content: Everton, Macduff
label: Names
content: Ewing, Kathleen, 1947-
label: Names
content: Heisey, Adriel
label: Names
content: Jenshel, Len
label: Names
content: Lavelle, Frank
label: Names
content: Lawson, Stephen
label: Names
content: MacLean, Alex S.
label: Names
content: McKaig, Bruce
label: Names
content: Power, Mark, 1959-
label: Names
content: Purcell, Rosamond Wolff
label: Names
content: Simgrod, Claudia
label: Names
content: Szabo, Steve, 1940-
label: Names
content: Vazquez, Claudio
topic: label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 2015 by Kathleen Ewing, gallery director.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kathleen Ewing Gallery
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content: Kathleen Ewing Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The records of Kathleen Ewing Gallery, a Washington, D.C. gallery that specialized in the work of photographers, measure 3.8 linear feet and 0.475 GB and date from 1946 to 2009, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1975 to 2009. Artists' files make up the bulk of the collection and include exhibition planning documents, correspondence, price lists, publicity, artist statements, and photographs of artwork. Also found are one file of gallery history, two letters, and printed material. Printed material consists of press clippings and a complete set of gallery exhibition announcements. Some of the materials are in digital format.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Kathleen Ewing Gallery (est. 1976, closed 2009) was a commercial gallery in Washington, D.C. that primarily exhibited photographers. Kathleen Ewing worked at the National Gallery of Art before becoming a private art dealer specializing in contemporary photography. She initially worked out of her home, and opened a brick-and-mortar gallery on the Georgetown waterfront in 1978. In 1983, the Kathleen Ewing Gallery moved to Dupont Circle. Ewing regularly exhibited the work of Washington, DC, photographers and was also the executive director of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Washington (D.C.)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.8 Linear Feet
label: Extent
content: 0.475 Gigabytes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946-2009
label: Date
content: bulk 1975-2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kathewig
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gigabytes
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 3 series.

Series 1: Administrative Files, 1981-2000s (2 folders; Box 1)

Series 2: Artists' Files, 1946, 1975-2009 (2.6 Linear feet; Boxes 1-3, 0.475 GB; ER01-ER04)

Series 3: Printed Material, 1976-2007 (1.2 Linear feet; Boxes 3-5)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Erin Kinhart in 2016. Born-digital materials were processed by Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner in 2019 with funding provided by Smithsonian Collection Care and Preservation Fund.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records of Kathleen Ewing Gallery, a Washington, D.C. gallery that specialized in the work of photographers, measure 3.8 linear feet and 0.475 GB and date from 1946 to 2009, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1975 to 2009. Artists' files make up the bulk of the collection and include exhibition planning documents, correspondence, price lists, publicity, artist statements, and photographs of artwork. Also found are one file of gallery history, two letters, and printed material. Printed material consists of press clippings and a complete set of gallery exhibition announcements. Some of the materials are in digital format.

Artists documented within the artists' files include Sam Abell, Allen Appel, Esther Bubley, Frank Di Perna, Macduff Everton, Adriel Heisey, Len Jenshel and Diane Cook, Frank Lavelle, Stephen Lawson, Alex MacLean, Bruce McKaig, Mark Power, Rosamond Purcell, Claudia Smigrod, Steve Szabo, and Claudio Vazquez among many others.