Gary A. Reynolds papers
name: label: Creator
content: Reynolds, Gary A.
label: Names
content: Grey Art Gallery & Study Center
label: Names
content: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
label: Names
content: Boldini, Giovanni, 1842-1931
label: Names
content: Browere, A. D. O. (Alburtis Dell Orient), 1814-1887
label: Names
content: Gay, Walter, 1856-1937
label: Names
content: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
label: Names
content: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
label: Names
content: Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933
label: Names
content: Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Occupation
content: Museum curators
label: Occupation
content: Art museum curators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1991 by the Gary Reynolds estate, via Paul Himmelstein, executor.
creator: label: Creator
content: Reynolds, Gary A.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian; New York, N.Y. and Newark, N.J. Born 1949. Died 1990. Curator of painting and sculpture at the Newark Museum, N.J., 1983-1990; the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, 1977-1983, and curatorial assistant at the Brooklyn Museum, 1972-1977. Specialized in 19th and 20th century American painting. Wrote numerous articles on art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.reyngary
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Research material for exhibitions curated by Reynolds at the Grey Art Gallery, for articles, essays, and his graduate studies; and miscellaneous correspondence and subject files.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Files on exhibitions curated by Reynolds at the Grey Art Gallery, including Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Paintings (1979), John James Audubon and His Sons (1982), Samuel F.B. Morse and the Grand Style (1983), Giovannie Boldini and Society Portraiture (1984), and Walter Gay, 1856-1937 (1984), containing correspondence with owners of works of art, galleries, auction houses and museums; issues of the Grey Art Gallery Bulletin containing writings by Reynolds; files relating to published and unpublished writings, including Reynolds' master's thesis on A.D.O. Browere and other writings done as a graduate student at Brooklyn College, articles, essays, and other writings on Theodore Wores, Irving Wiles, Leopold Seyffert, John Singer Sargent, the architecture of the Brooklyn Museum, and other subjects.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are writings by others; miscellaneous correspondence; printed material; photographs of works of art; and files regarding Reynolds' participation in New York State funded art projects, including New York: The State of Art (1977), Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts For Transit (1981-1985), and the New York State Council on the Arts' Museum Aid panel (1983-1986). Some of the Grey Art Gallery exhibition files contain related correspondence added by Reynolds after the exhibition.