Correspondence Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Macbeth Gallery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Macbeth Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 95.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-95, OV 163)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1838-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.macbgall, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The series is arranged into three subseries:

1.1: Correspondence, 1838-1968, n.d.

1.2: Requests for Publications, 1893-1952, n.d.

1.3: Letterpress Books, 1909-1913
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digitization of Series 1.1: Correspondence was initiated in 2017 and is ongoing. Some folders have been identified for further conservation treatment and have not been digitized. Series 1.3: Letterpress Books, has been digitized in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series forms the bulk of the collection and records the day-to-day transactions of the gallery through correspondence with artists, dealers, curators, and collectors. The correspondence found here documents all aspects of the gallery's activities including relationships with artists, arrangements for loans, consignments, and sales; the development of public and private collections; and the involvement of the gallery owners in the art community.

In addition to general correspondence there is a group of correspondence that pertains directly to requests for gallery publications and a series of letterpress books containing five years of copies of the gallery's outgoing letters.