Miscellaneous
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Midtown Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Midtown Galleries records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1985, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.midtgall, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Miscellaneous records include Midtown Galleries guest registers complete at 32 volumes except for the first two years of the galleries's existence. This series includes artifacts, mainly samples of artist-designed or inspired silk fabrics produced for the Onandoga Silk Co.; several department stores featured garments made from the fabrics and mounted small exhibitions of the paintings on which the fabrics were based. Also, two brass labels from paintings and a sound recording with a cover designed by a Midtown Galleries artist. Writings by authors other than Alan D. Gruskin are manuscripts about Isabel Bishop and Philip Guston (Gruskin's writings are part of Series 8: Personal Papers of Alan D. and Mary J. Gruskin). Legal documents include items such as the galleries' Act of Incorporation, partnership agreements, and leases.