Artists and Exhibitions Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Fischbach Gallery
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content: Fischbach Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 1-18, 28; 18 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fiscgall, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Artists Files are arranged alphabetically by artist and further divided by types of materials. Correspondence is in rough chronological order due to previous arrangements made by the Fischbach Gallery. 

Materials relating to financial transactions including sales and payment are found in Series 4: Financial Records, which are access restrited.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Artists and exhibitions files are found for over one hundred artists either represented by the gallery or exhibiting with the gallery. Files contain a wide variety of materials, and the extent and type vary for each artist. Typically files contain biographical information; correspondence between the artist, museums, and other galleries; scattered consignment and loan information; printed materials including articles, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and press releases; photographs of the artist, installations, constructions, and works of art; and negatives, slides, and transparencies. Substantial artist files are found for John Altoon, Anne Arnold, Ronald Bladen, George Brecht, Wynn Chamberlain, Allan D'Arcangelo, Gene Davis, Robert Grosvenor, Ira Joel Haber, Eva Hesse, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Les Levine, Robert Mangold, Doug Ohlson, Ray Parker, Anne Ryan, Robert Ryman, Tony Smith, and George Sugarman. Of special note are photos of portraits by Alex Katz depicting his friends including Richard Bellamy, Edwin Denby, Al Held, Elaine de Kooning, and Neil Welliver.

Also included are files pertaining to group exhibitions either organized or hosted by the gallery, including "According to the Letter" (1963), "Hard Center" (1963), "Six Women" (1965), "Game Without Rules" (1966), "Direct Representation" (1969), and "Eccentric Abstraction" (1966) which was organized by Lucy Lippard.