Creating Access to the Knoedler Gallery Archive

FAIN: PW-51670-14

Getty Publications (Los Angeles, CA 90049-1740)
Andra Darlington (Project Director: July 2013 to January 2017)

The arrangement and description, and partial digitization, of an art gallery archive containing 1,400 linear feet of records documenting the acquisition and sale of European and American art in the United States between 1848 and 1971.

This application seeks support to accelerate processing and partial digitization of the recently acquired M. Knoedler & Co. Archive (1848-1971). The Knoedler Archive is one of the most important collections on the formation and history of the American art market, and development of private collections that later formed the central collections of the first American art museums, including the National Gallery of Art, the Frick Collection, the Huntington Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The proposed project will arrange, preserve, and describe the files of the twelve series, and digitize client correspondence, index cards, and 42 volumes of stock and sales books. Once processed, the Knoedler Archive will be freely accessible to scholars, researchers, curators, artists, and the interested public for new research, education, and programming. This 30-month project is scheduled to begin July 1, 2014 and end December 31, 2016.

Associated Products

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Creating Access to the Knoedler Gallery Archive (Web Resource)
Title: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Creating Access to the Knoedler Gallery Archive
Author: Getty Research Institute
Abstract: This public web resource provides descriptive information about the NEH funded project “Creating Access to the Knoedler Gallery Archive” at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). It is a webpage created by the Getty, located within the Research Institute’s website. Imbedded in the webpage are links to: the Knoedler Gallery Archive held in the Special Collections of the GRI Research Library; a related project “Knoedler Archive Stock Books Database Acceleration” that is supported through a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; and, other NEH supported projects at the GRI.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/development_collaborations/2014_neh_knoedler.html
Primary URL Description: This URL is a direct access link to the Getty Research Institute's public webpage, which provides descriptive information about the NEH funded project “Creating Access to the Knoedler Gallery Archive.”

Finding Aid: M. Knoedler & CO. Records, approximately 1848-1971 (Web Resource)
Title: Finding Aid: M. Knoedler & CO. Records, approximately 1848-1971
Author: Getty Research Institute: NEH-Knoedler Archive Access Project
Abstract: This “Finding Aid” for the records of the M. Knoedler & Co. archive is now publically available online for research. As a result of this NEH: HCRR grant, the finding aid was enhanced with series level biographical, scope, and content notes. As stated in the published finding aid abstract, the records of M. Knoedler & Co. document the business of one of the most important American art dealers over more than a century (1848-1971), and trace the development of the once provincial American art market into one of the world's leading art centers. The archive includes stock books, sales books and commission books; extensive correspondence with artists, collectors and other art dealers; photographs of the artworks sold by the gallery; business records from affiliate offices in Paris and London; department records; and research files, catalogs and ephemera. Currently the stock books, sales books, commission books, inventory cards, shipment records, and general correspondence are available for research. The remainder of the archive is still being processed—each series will be made available for use as processing is completed.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2012m54
Primary URL Description: This URL connects users to the Finding Aid for the M. Knoedler & Co. records located on the Getty Research Institute website.

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